On this day, Jan. 25, 2005, a Wichita, Kan., television station received a postcard from the serial killer known as BTK, revealing himself once again after a nearly 15-year hiatus of terrorizing the community. The card revealed the location of a cereal box that contained a bound doll representing one of his 10 victims from nearly two decades earlier.
Several weeks later, BTK (which stands for “bind, torture, kill”) sent another TV station a packet containing a floppy disk and a gold necklace.
On the disk, detectives found hidden data on a deleted church document last modified by “Dennis.”
On Feb. 25, 2005, police arrested Dennis Lynn Rader, who admitted to the killings and said he decided to resurface because his children were grown and he was bored.
Rader was sentenced to 10 consecutive life terms. – Scott McCabe
Scott McCabe
