His name is Dennis Rader, wife, Paula. He is a compliance officer for Wichita and Park City, where he lives in the 2600 block of Independence Street. His job deals with dogcatching, animal control, and codes violations.
His neighbors say he was always real nasty to them about barking dogs or letting their grass grow too high.
A female neighbor two doors down was murdered in 1985. Her name was Marine hedge. Another woman in Park City, a coule of miles from his house, was murdered in 1991. She was Dee Davis. These are in addition to the 8 known BTK killings.
His DNA was obtained by WPD and FBI and sent for testing. The preliminary test shows it is BTK. They are waiting for a second test, coming back late tonight, to make doubly sure. There will be a police news conference tomorrow at 10 am. There will be present: WPD Chief of Police; FBI agent from the Wichita Ofice; DA Foulston; and a Kansas Congressman.
Articles taken from the victims as souvenirs were found and removed from his house.
Computers were taken from the Park City Library, which was closed all day today.
Rader was a student at WSU in 1979 and studied Law Enforcement.
He is president of the Parish Council at Christ the King Lutheran Church.
Married with grown children.
His in-laws live on the same street as he and his wife.
Any questions?
How did you get all this info?
Well the cat is out of the bag now. Palladin do you have a link?
Im guessing the LE is trying to link him to the other two murders....
yes....how ya do that?
"Any questions?"
Thank you! One question only: why wasn't this covered in today's press conference? It was the silliest "news" conference I think I've even seen.