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The BTK Floppy Disk

October 3, 2026  ·  Cory

The BTK Floppy Disk
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Welcome back to CrimeTimeSnacks, I'm Cory. Today we're looking at one of the most infamous cold cases in American history, the BTK killer. For decades, a phantom haunted Wichita, Kansas, binding and suffocating victims while sending taunting letters to the police and media. But after going completely silent for thirteen years, the killer made a fatal mistake. He decided to reach out one more time, mailing items to law enforcement that would finally unravel his double life as a family man and security alarm installer. We'll trace the timeline from his chilling childhood fantasies to the digital footprint that brought him down.

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0:05 What's up guys, welcome back to CrimeTimeSnacks. The man who terrorized Wichita for decades was finally caught because of a metadata slip on a church computer. For thirty-one years, law enforcement hunted a ghost who seemed to vanish without a trace. The case grew into one of the most infamous cold cases in American history. But in the end, it was a purple floppy disk that broke it wide open. His name is Dennis Rader. Between 1974 and 1991, he murdered at least ten people across Wichita and Park City, Kansas.

0:32 He actually named himself in his very first communication to the media. In a 1974 letter to The Wichita Eagle, he laid out his method and called himself BTK, which stood for bind, torture, kill. The scale of his crimes paralyzed the community. Rader was methodical. He stalked his victims and learned their daily routines before breaking into their homes. He targeted men, women, and children, though he mostly focused on women. Once inside, he bound them and strangled them, sometimes using objects he found lying around their own houses.

1:02 He did not just commit the murders and disappear. He actively taunted the police and local news outlets. Rader sent letters bragging about his crimes and complaining that he was not getting enough national attention. He also stole keepsakes from his female victims, including underwear, driver's licenses and personal items. Then he suddenly went quiet. Rader took long breaks between his attacks, sometimes waiting up to eight years before striking again. While the city lived in fear, he was living an intensely ordinary life.

1:30 He was a married father, a Boy Scout leader, and ironically, an installer for ADT security systems. In early 2004, the local paper ran a story on the thirtieth anniversary of his first murders. Rader later admitted that the coverage stirred him up. After a thirteen-year hiatus, he resumed sending letters and packages to the police and media. He dropped off word puzzles, fictitious autobiography chapters, and actual mementos from the crime scenes. Eventually, his need to brag overrode his caution.

1:56 He asked the police in a message if a floppy disk could be traced back to a specific computer. The police lied and placed a newspaper ad telling him it was safe. When Rader mailed a disk to a local TV station, forensic investigators immediately pulled up the deleted files and found the metadata that would finally end his run. Dennis Lynn Rader was born on March 9, 1945, in Pittsburg, Kansas. He was the oldest of four boys. His family belonged to the Zion Lutheran Church in Pittsburg, where Rader was baptized.

2:22 Eventually, the family moved to a modest house on North Seneca Street in Wichita. His parents were busy people. His mother, Dorothea, worked as a bookkeeper. His father, William, was a former Marine who worked for the Kansas Gas Service and a local electric utility. They worked long hours and were often distracted. Rader later claimed he felt completely ignored and neglected at home. His father ran a strict, God-fearing household, though investigators never found any definitive evidence of physical abuse.

2:49 To the outside world, Rader looked like a perfectly normal kid. He read novels and comic books. He went fishing and was active in the Cub Scouts and church youth groups. His classmates just thought of him as a quiet, studious boy who lacked a sense of humor and preferred to be left alone. But the case file shows a much darker reality beneath the surface. From a very young age, Rader harbored sadistic fantasies. He obsessed over the idea of keeping women trapped and helpless. He needed to feel totally in control.

3:15 He started acting out these violent impulses by torturing and hanging small animals, including cats and dogs. As he grew up, those fantasies escalated into voyeurism. He spied on his female neighbors and stole women's underwear. Forensic psychologist Dr. Tony Ruark later suggested that some childhood event must have permanently linked pleasure with suffering in Rader's mind. Another researcher theorized he might have suffered abuse at home, but we have no actual evidence to prove that.

3:42 During high school, Rader largely kept his head down. He spent his free time working as a bag boy and shelf stocker at a local grocery store, just trying to save up enough money for a car. After graduating from Wichita Heights High School in 1963, he briefly attended Kansas Wesleyan University. He pulled in mediocre grades and dropped out after a single year. You have to wonder how a kid at Riverview Elementary hides that kind of darkness. We already talked about the stolen clothing and the animal cruelty.

4:09 Those were not just passing phases. The case file shows that his obsession with bondage started right there in grade school. It was never just about the physical acts. It was entirely about dominance. He built a solid wall between his public face and his private reality. On one side, he was the reserved student who stocked grocery shelves. On the other, he was feeding a compulsion that would eventually terrorize an entire city. That terror officially started in 1974. Police first became aware of this killer after the brutal quadruple homicide of the Otero family.

4:39 He murdered thirty-eight-year-old Joseph and thirty-three-year-old Julie. He also killed two of their five children, nine-year-old Joseph Jr. and eleven-year-old Josephine. He struck again that April. He killed twenty-one-year-old Kathryn Bright and shot her brother, who actually survived. For months, the police had no idea who they were looking for. Then, about ten months after his first murders, Rader made an anonymous phone call to The Wichita Eagle. He told them a letter was hidden inside a book at the Wichita Public Library.

5:07 Investigators found the note describing the Otero murders. He signed it, YOURS, TRULY GUILTILY. The paper and the Wichita Police Department decided to sit on the letter to avoid a panic. But a reporter for the rival Wichita Sun received a copy and broke the story. That is how the city found out a serial killer was on the loose. For decades, he left no fingerprints. There were no eyewitnesses. There were zero solid leads. Rader blended right in. He was an Air Force veteran. He was a church council president.

5:34 But when he resumed communication in 2004, he made mistakes. Over the course of eleven letters and packages sent during 2004 and 2005, law enforcement slowly filled in the blanks. His first new message went to The Wichita Eagle. It included crime scene photos and a driver's license belonging to a victim from 1986. That specific victim had never been definitively linked to him before. Armed with that new connection, police collected DNA from under the 1986 victim's fingernails.

6:00 They launched a massive campaign and tested hundreds of local men looking for a match. Then his need for attention pushed him further out of the shadows. In January 2005, Rader left a package for the KAKE-TV station inside a cereal box. He dropped it in the back of a pickup truck in the parking lot of a local Home Depot. The truck owner thought it was just garbage and threw it out. Rader actually contacted the station to ask if they received it. Police found it in the trash. More importantly, they pulled security camera footage from the store.

6:29 The grainy video showed a blurry figure driving a black Jeep Cherokee. Then came the floppy disk. He asked police if he could communicate with a disk and not be traced. He told them to place an ad in the paper saying, Rex, it will be OK, if it was safe. The police ran the ad. Two weeks later, a package arrived at KSAS-TV containing a purple disk. Officer Randy Stone used a forensic software program to call up the deleted files. The metadata showed the disk was last modified at Christ Lutheran Church by a user named Dennis.

6:57 Investigators looked up the church website and found Dennis Rader listed as the congregation president. They drove by his house. A black Jeep Cherokee was sitting right in the driveway. Strong circumstantial evidence is one thing, but they needed a lock. Investigators got a warrant to test the DNA of Rader's daughter. She had a pap smear done at the Kansas State University medical clinic. A lab in Topeka tested the sample. It was a familial match to the DNA found under the fingernails of the 1986 victim.

7:25 The chain of evidence was complete. Police arrested Dennis Rader on February 25, 2005. During his interrogation, he confessed to all ten murders. He was furious that the police had lied to him. He looked at Lieutenant Ken Landwehr and asked, How come you lied to me? He told detectives, The floppy did me in. Dennis Rader was given ten consecutive life sentences. After dropping out of college, Rader needed a new direction. In June 1966, he enlisted in the United States Air Force.

7:51 He packed up and headed to Texas to complete his basic training and technical school. From there, the military sent him to Brookley Air Force Base in Mobile, Alabama, where he worked as an antenna installer and maintenance specialist. His service eventually took him far away from his quiet life in the Midwest. The Air Force deployed him on assignments across Turkey, Greece, and South Korea. In January 1968, he was transferred to Japan. He spent six months at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa before moving to Tachikawa Airfield in Tokyo for twenty-five months.

8:23 To his commanding officers, he was just a reliable airman. His military record was completely unremarkable. He earned a medal for good conduct and a ribbon for marksmanship. He also received a National Defense Service Medal because his enlistment coincided with the Vietnam War. But the case file shows that his time overseas actively shaped his darker compulsions. Rader later admitted that he engaged with prostitutes during his deployments, crediting the military with teaching him about sex.

8:49 This period is also when he started what he called trolling. He would stalk women in these foreign cities, watching them without acting on his violent impulses just yet. He kept those urges entirely hidden while in uniform. On August 12, 1970, Rader earned an honorable discharge. He left the active duty military at the rank of staff sergeant. He returned to Wichita and officially joined the Air Force Reserve Command, where he served until the summer of 1972. Back in Kansas, he tried to build a normal adult life.

9:17 He married Paula Dietz in 1971 and bought a house in the suburb of Park City. He also went back to school. He enrolled at Butler County Community College and earned an associate degree in electronics engineering in 1973. He bounced around a few different jobs during this time. He initially worked in the meat department of an IGA supermarket where his mother was a bookkeeper. Then, from mid-1972 to mid-1973, he took a job as an assembler for the Coleman Company. The pressure of civilian life started to crack his facade.

9:45 He lost a job at Cessna in late 1973. Investigators believe his sudden unemployment pushed him much deeper into his violent fantasies. He began actively trolling for victims in his own city, fixating on Julie Otero and setting the stage for that brutal first strike we discussed earlier. You already know he married Paula Dietz in 1971. The case file gives us the exact date as May 22. Paula worked as a secretary for the American Legion, and they held the ceremony at Christ Lutheran Church.

10:12 That is the exact same church where his digital footprint would eventually give him away decades later. They moved into that house in Park City and started a family. Their son Brian was born in 1975, and their daughter Kerri followed in 1978. To the outside world, they were a perfectly quiet, ordinary family. But the timeline shows that every single one of his murders took place while he was married. Neither Paula nor the children ever suspected his involvement in the killings.

10:39 The facade was completely solid. He was just a husband and a father who went to work and tried to further his education. After getting his associate degree from Butler County Community College, he enrolled at Wichita State University. But the record shows he struggled academically once he got to the university level. He kept his family entirely in the dark, even when the violence crept right up to their front door. In April 1985, he murdered Marine Hedge. She was a neighbor who lived near their Park City home.

11:03 Kerri was just six years old at the time. She later said she started having night terrors, telling her mother there was a bad man in the house. When the family talked about the murder, Rader calmly blamed Hedge's boyfriend. He integrated his crimes into their daily routine without them ever knowing. When Kerri was in high school, he gave her his car to drive to class. It was only after his arrest that she learned the truth about that vehicle. He had used the trunk of that exact car to hide the body of his last known victim, sixty-two-year-old Dolores Davis.

11:33 The deception was absolute. Paula eventually filed for an emergency divorce in July 2005, and the judge waived the normal sixty-day waiting period. In March 2007, the family's former Park City residence was completely demolished. We already established his stint in the IGA supermarket meat department. It was just another clock-punching job to pay the bills while he tried to figure out his civilian life. He was working right under the same roof as his mother, blending into the background of a totally normal routine.

12:00 Then there is the Coleman Company. You know he took an assembler job there in 1972. Two of his victims, Julie Otero and Kathryn Bright, also worked at Coleman. They were just people trying to earn a living and go home to their families. Less than three months after the Otero murders, he focused entirely on twenty-one-year-old Kathryn Bright. He actually referred to this planned attack as Project Lights Out. He spotted her entering her house with a friend and decided to make his move.

12:25 On April 4, 1974, he broke in through a rear sliding glass door. He even swept up the broken glass to avoid raising any immediate suspicion. But he made a mistake right away. His pistol accidentally discharged inside the empty house, and he panicked that the smell of gunpowder would give him away. He also missed a crucial detail during his planning phase. He had no idea Kathryn's nineteen-year-old brother, Kevin, was staying over. Rader later admitted he specifically wanted to avoid males to make the killings easier.

12:54 When Kathryn and Kevin walked in, he confronted them at gunpoint. He spun a lie, claiming he was a wanted man from California who just needed money and a vehicle. He forced the siblings into the southeast bedroom. He made Kevin tie up Kathryn first, and then he bound Kevin himself. He used household supplies like bandanas as restraints. He did this intentionally to make the crime scene look different from the Otero house. He separated the siblings into different rooms. He tied Kevin's feet to a bedpost and secured Kathryn to a chair.

13:21 Then he went out to the living room and turned on the stereo system. He wanted the music to drown out any sounds of a struggle. He later claimed he picked up that specific trick from reading detective magazines. When he went back to strangle Kevin, the teenager had managed to free himself. A struggle broke out, and Rader shot Kevin in the forehead. He tried to strangle him again, but Kevin kept fighting. Rader fired two more shots. One hit just above Kevin's mouth, and the other grazed him.

13:46 Kevin smartly played dead until Rader left the room. Then he managed to run from the house and flag down neighbors for help. Rader went back into Kathryn's room. She asked him about the gunshots, and he bluntly told her he had shot her brother. She immediately fought back. The record shows her resistance was too strong for him to strangle her as he originally planned. Instead, he stabbed her two or three times just under her ribcage. He heard Kevin yelling for help outside. Rader grabbed Kathryn's keys, ran out, and tried to steal her truck.

14:14 When the engine would not turn over, he fled on foot to his own car parked over at the Wichita State University campus. Kathryn was still alive when police arrived. She was holding a telephone but could barely speak. She died later during emergency surgery. After fleeing the Bright house, Rader went right back to his daily routine. The case file shows he found a new way to hide in plain sight. He took a job installing security systems for ADT. It is one of the darkest ironies of this entire investigation.

14:40 The city was absolutely paralyzed by the BTK murders. People were terrified, so they bought alarms to protect their families. And the man they paid to install those alarms was Dennis Rader. He spent his days walking through the houses of people who were actively hiding from him. It gave him the perfect cover. To his clients, he was just a helpful security technician keeping them safe. Later on, he transitioned into a role as a compliance officer and a city dogcatcher. He used these jobs to maintain a feeling of authority over his neighbors.

15:08 As a compliance officer, he enforced the rules overzealously. The New York Times actually described his daily life as intensely ordinary. He was even a Scout Leader for his son's Boy Scout troop. Nobody looked twice at the local compliance officer. Nobody suspected the ADT guy. He built a solid wall between his brutal crimes and his public persona. He used complex knots to bind his victims, torturing them mentally and physically, then went right back to his day job. The record shows he continued this balancing act for years.

15:37 In 1977, he murdered Shirley Vian and Nancy Fox. He followed those killings with more letters to the press in 1978. He was furious that he was not getting enough recognition. One of those letters flatly asked, How many do I have to kill before I get my name in the paper or some national attention? That desperate need for validation never went away. When he resumed his taunts in 2004, he introduced new aliases. In March of that year, the newspaper received a letter from a Bill Thomas Killman.

16:04 The initials spelled out BTK. Throughout the rest of 2004, he sent packages to the police and local media almost every single month. The case file details exactly what was inside. He mailed dolls that were bound up in manners similar to his real victims. He wanted to prove he was still in control. He was completely convinced he could keep playing this game forever. We know his active timeline stretched from 1974 all the way to 1991. While he killed men and children too, like Joseph Otero and two of his children, the case file shows his primary targets were almost always women.

16:34 He did not snatch them off the street. He attacked them right inside their own homes. After 1979, his known attacks seemed to stop, and the trail went cold. But the record shows he murdered three more women between 1985 and 1991. Those later cases were not initially linked to him at all. It was only after his arrest that investigators confirmed he was responsible, using DNA and the stolen items they found in his possession. We already talked about his use of complex knots and household restraints.

17:01 But the official record gets much more specific about his methods. He typically suffocated his victims using a plastic bag, or he manually strangled them with a ligature. It was a deliberate, hands-on approach designed to maximize their terror. The case file notes that he targeted women and families with a brutal mix of strangulation and stabbing. He made sure to torture them mentally as well as physically. He wanted them to know exactly what was happening. Sometimes, he even left notes or poems behind at the crime scenes.

17:28 It was just another way to taunt the police and show he was the one in control. He followed up these attacks by contacting authorities directly. When he sent his first letter to the newspaper in October 1974 claiming the Otero murders, the police had to verify it. They confirmed that the specific details in his poorly typed, misspelled letter could only have come from the person standing inside that house. He also made sure to take souvenirs. During these attacks, Rader stole personal items directly from his female victims.

17:54 We already mentioned the driver's licenses, but he also took their underwear and other small keepsakes. He treated these objects as physical proof of his dominance over the people he terrorized. Most serial killers accelerate their timelines. They kill more frequently as time goes on because the urge becomes impossible to ignore. Rader was different. He maintained those long, quiet periods between his victims. After he murdered Dolores Davis in 1991, he went completely silent for thirteen years.

18:18 The investigation was exhaustive, but the case still grew into one of the most infamous cold cases in American history. Because of that massive gap, many people in law enforcement believed he had either permanently stopped killing or had died. Those stolen items explain how he managed his urges during the gaps. To Rader, they were trophies. The case file notes that these items fed his sexual fantasies between killings. They allowed him to safely relive the murders in his own mind while he played the role of a normal suburban dad.

18:45 You remember his desperate letters to the media in 1978. He was practically begging for national attention. In those communications, he actually claimed to be driven by the exact same dark energy that guided Jack the Ripper, the Son of Sam, and the Hillside Strangler. He wanted to be viewed on that exact same level of infamy. Then, in 1979, the taunts suddenly ceased. The Wichita police were left completely empty-handed. The case file shows they had no usable fingerprints and zero eyewitnesses.

19:12 The trail just vanished. The authorities were dealing with an offender who took a lot of time off between his attacks. Sometimes he would wait as long as eight years before he decided to strike again. He was a deliberate and methodical killer who stalked his victims and learned their daily routines before gaining entrance to their homes. Years passed without a single solid lead. The investigation stalled out, turning the hunt into an infamous American cold case. It left a jagged rip of loss and fear across the entire metropolitan area.

19:38 This would eventually become one of the longest manhunts in American history. For over three decades, the police waited doggedly for a break that just never seemed to come. Many people in law enforcement assumed the killer had either died or been locked up for an unrelated crime. The city slowly started to believe the nightmare was over. Between his crimes, he just hid in plain sight. He was living that intensely ordinary life we discussed, working as a compliance officer and serving as a church leader while the police chased shadows.

20:05 He successfully evaded law enforcement by simply blending into the background of the Kansas suburbs. But the record shows he was still out there. We already talked about his victims between 1985 and 1991. He committed those three murders while flying completely under the radar. His last known victim was Dolores Davis, in January 1991. After he murdered her, he went completely silent for thirteen years. Because he stopped bragging to the press, nobody connected those new crimes to his earlier timeline.

20:33 He managed to keep his violent double life entirely undetected. He just let his stolen trophies feed his fantasies during those quiet periods. It was not until 2004 that his egotistical need to gloat finally drew him back out of the shadows. When he resurfaced, he introduced digital evidence into the investigation for the very first time. He would eventually send a one point four four megabyte floppy disk to a local Fox TV affiliate. He was totally convinced it was untraceable.

20:58 But digital forensic experts used specialized tools to extract hidden information. They analyzed the metadata, which is often called data about data. Even though he tried to remain anonymous, he completely overlooked the fact that digital files automatically store identifying details. From the moment investigators received that disk, it took them just nine days to put the entire case together. You know he went completely dark after his last known murder in 1991. For thirteen long years, the police and the public assumed he was either dead or locked up for something else.

21:28 But that 2004 newspaper anniversary article woke something up inside him. In a 2005 interview, Rader said he saw the story and was kind of bored, so he decided to resurface as BTK. He broke his silence because he desperately needed attention and validation. He reached out to the local media and the police to remind everyone exactly who was in charge. The new letters did not just brag about the cold cases. He actively hinted that he was preparing to commit further crimes. Over the course of 2004 and 2005, he initiated a massive wave of communication.

21:57 He mailed physical items directly to law enforcement and news stations practically every single month. These were not just quick notes. He was sending packages designed to prove his identity and mock the ongoing investigation. The psychological dimension here is gripping. He was interacting with law enforcement as if they were playing a game that only he could win. His need for recognition completely blinded him. He was so focused on taunting the authorities that he forgot he was dealing with modern forensic science.

22:26 That constant stream of physical mail was entirely driven by his own egomania. It pushed him right out of the shadows and set the stage for the digital mistake that would finally bring him down. We already know the purple floppy disk ended his thirty-year run. But the case file reveals exactly what investigators found buried in that digital space. The forensic software pulled up a deleted Microsoft Word document. It was not a manifesto or a hit list. It was just a church meeting agenda.

22:51 Rader had written and edited it himself. That completely mundane file held the hidden metadata pointing straight to the Christ Lutheran Church. Once that familial DNA match came back, law enforcement did not wait. They moved in on February 25, 2005. The record shows they intercepted him shortly after noon. He was just driving in his car near his Park City home. An officer walked up and asked, Mr. Rader, do you know why you are going downtown? Rader calmly replied, Oh, I have suspicions why.

23:21 A massive coordinated search kicked off immediately. The Wichita Police Department teamed up with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the FBI, and the ATF. They tore through his house and his vehicle. They seized his computer equipment and a cylindrical container. Out in a shed on the property, they also retrieved a pair of black pantyhose. The dragnet extended across his entire daily routine. Agents searched his office and the main branch of the Park City library. They even went through the church where he served as congregation president.

23:49 The city had been holding its breath for decades. The very next morning, Wichita Police Chief Norman Williams stepped up to a podium. He delivered one simple sentence to the public. He said, The bottom line: BTK is arrested. We talked about his confession and how furious he was that the police lied about tracing the disk. But the interrogation transcripts show he never dropped his arrogant facade. He casually asked detectives about the death penalty in Kansas. He repeatedly inquired about what his potential sentence would be.

24:16 He wanted to know if he would get a special section in prison, or if he would be housed among the loonies in the general population. He was still completely obsessed with his own twisted celebrity. At one point during the interview, he asked an officer to put his drink in the refrigerator. He explicitly told the cop not to write his real name on it. He wanted the lid to say BTK. You already know the police and the local paper initially tried to sit on that first communication.

24:39 They wanted to avoid a mass hysteria. But once the rival paper broke the story, the whole city knew. Residents were terrified because the killer was attacking families right inside their own homes. The media outlets were caught in a twisted feedback loop. Papers and local TV stations were receiving direct, taunting letters from the killer, making them reluctant participants in his game. The public demanded answers that law enforcement simply did not have. At a lecture at Wichita State University, former FBI agent Robert Ressler assumed the killer was a graduate student in the criminal justice field.

25:10 When the arrest finally happened in 2005, the public shock was entirely about how normal he appeared. People expected a monster who lived in the shadows. Instead, the news coverage revealed a suburban dad, a Cub Scout leader, and a church council president. The national media pointed out just how intensely ordinary his daily life had been. The community had to grapple with the fact that the man who terrorized them was hiding in plain sight. He was the guy installing their security systems and enforcing local compliance rules.

25:38 The reaction was a mix of profound relief and total disbelief. The coverage highlighted the terrifying reality of his double life. The monster was not a phantom after all. He was just a regular guy who lived right down the street, completely undetected for decades. When his scheduled trial date arrived on June 27, Rader changed his plea to guilty. He stood in the courtroom and coldly described his crimes in detail. He actually referred to the murders as projects. He laid out exactly how he stalked the Otero family for two to three weeks just because he saw Julie taking her kids to school.

26:09 He told the court how he scaled their fence and cut the telephone lines before forcing his way inside. He admitted he carried a point-two-two caliber pistol loaded with hollow-point bullets. He even noted that when Joseph Otero complained about a cracked rib from a previous car accident, he placed a pillow under him before killing him. He explained how he drove the stolen family car to a Dillons grocery store, then went all the way back to the crime scene just to retrieve a knife he dropped in the yard.

26:34 He offered absolutely no apologies for what he had done. The sentencing hearing took place a few weeks later on August 18. The victims' families finally got their chance to make statements in court. After they finished, Rader launched into a rambling thirty-minute monologue. The prosecutor actually likened the bizarre speech to an Academy Awards acceptance. The case file notes that his statement perfectly illustrated a specific psychological phenomenon. Experts described it as the inability of a psychopath to understand the emotional content of language.

27:04 You already know he was handed ten consecutive life sentences. The judge ordered that he serve at least one hundred and seventy-five years, because Kansas did not enforce the death penalty when the murders occurred. We talked earlier about how his wife Paula secured an emergency divorce right after his arrest. You also know their former Park City home was demolished in March 2007. His daughter Kerri had to reconcile the monster in the courtroom with the man who raised her. She had gone on to earn two degrees from Kansas State University, including one in education.

27:33 When she married in 2003, Rader actually walked her down the aisle at the church ceremony. She eventually moved to Michigan. She had to process the fact that her father maintained frequent contact with her family while hiding a brutal reality. The day after his sentencing, the state permanently removed him from Wichita. On August 19, authorities transferred him to the El Dorado Correctional Facility. The prison is located in Prospect Township within Butler County, Kansas. That is where he remains incarcerated today.

28:00 Read the file. Form your own conclusion. That's it for this one. Thanks for hanging out with me. This has been CrimeTimeSnacks, and I'll catch you next time.

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