Dennis Rader stands for a mug shot released February 27, 2005 in Sedgwick County, Kansas.Photo:Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office via Getty Images
Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office via Getty Images
Oklahoma police are digging up the former Kansas property of Dennis Rader, the notorious serial killer nicknamedBTK— short for “bind, torture, kill” — who confessed to murdering 10 people between 1974 and 1991, according to multiple reports.
“The Osage County Sheriff’s Office is continuing to follow leads in unsolved missing persons and murder cases possibly related to BTK,” Osage County Undersheriff Gary Upton toldCNNon Tuesday, declining to comment further due to the ongoing investigation.
A reporter at the scene observed two concrete blocks that were moved aside to let investigators search the vacant lot in a Park City neighborhood, per theWichita Eagle.
Rader has been on the radar of authorities once again this year. Sheriff Eddie Virden toldFOX 23that he and investigators visited the Kansas prison where Rader is currently serving multiple life sentences. They spoke to the convicted killer for over three hours, hoping to find new clues in a 1976 missing persons case.
“We never close the door on a case just because it goes cold,” Virden said, the outlet reports. “And we didn’t want to rule him out, and we’re still not ruling him out.”
“We know this is how he likes to reveal information,” Virden added. “We can’t help but think he’s possibly up to his old way of doing things again of revealing information to law enforcement through reporters.”
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Rader’s daughter, Kerri Rawson, previously spoke toPEOPLEabout her father’s arrest in 2005.
“It took more than 10 years before I could even sit across from someone and even talk about this,” Rawson said at the time. “Nobody wants to believe their father could be capable of such monstrous things.”
“I was just trying to stay alive and breathe,” Rawson added. “Trying to recover from the shock, telling myself over and over that I’d do anything not to be the daughter of a serial killer.”
source: people.com
