BTK' Busted, Wichita Paper Linked to Case Plans Special Coverage

Editor and Publisher ^ | 2.26.05 | associated press

[gopwinsin04]

Police have uncovered new evidence in the decades old BTK Wichita serial killer case and are questioning a person of interest, according to sources close to the investigation.

Authorities scheduled a news conferece for 11AM Eastern Saturday to make an announcement in the case, and relatives of the killers victims would be briefed beforehand.

Some police sources have said that a 59 year old man was arrested Friday and linked to the case by a DNA sample.

Surveillance activites gave police 'their first big piece' of recent evidence, leading authorities to a vehicle and the person of interest.

Investigators also searched a house in the Wichita suburb of Park City Friday, siezing computer equipment.

[TexKat]

PDF of the Meeting of the Board of County Commisioners June 10, 1998

Includes Resignation of Dennis Rader From The Sedgewick County Animal Control Advisory Board.

[gopwinsin04]

Did anyone catch the reporter's question about the CD-ROM linked back to the Park City public library in the press conference?

KSN-TV now reporting the traced that back from a BTK communique to KSAS-TV..

[Jrabbit]

Not the same. There is a pic of the Panama City Dennis Rader on that site. And he was married to Carla. The Wichita Dennis Rader arrested yesterday is married to Paula.

Unless he remarried....how old is the info on that site?

[jude24]

and collect a discarded cigarette or coffee cup from a person without them knowing.

That took a relatively new technology - the polymerase chain reaction -- to be able to jump start it.

Think of the PCR as being like a photocopier. It makes thousands of exact copies of any strand of DNA. Theoretically, with PCR, you could take a single strand of DNA and make enough to test for a match. In reality, I think they need 20 or so now for it to reliably "take." Before PCR, when the major technology for testing DNA was restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLP's, which was current when I was in high school in 1999, I think), you needed a lot more DNA to test. Now, with modern PCR-analyisis, they only need a little bit.

[MEG33]

http://forums.prospero.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=kr-kansas_news&msg=6365.1
e n n i s L y n n R a i d e r

1. Born March 9, 1945

2. Married May 22, 1971 z

3. Has 2 children, boy(born June 1975) and girl (born June 1978)

4. Worked as C o m p l i a n c e O f f i c e r in Park City

5. President of L u t h e r a n Church

6. Had a degree in Criminology Admin from WSU, graduated 1979. Student from 1974 to 1979.

7. Former Boy Scout Leader ????

8. He made $16.02 per hour in 2004 as a C o m p l i a n c e O f f i c e r.

9. Served in Korea ????

10. On Animal Control Advisory Board from April 10, 1996 to June 10, 1998.

11. Delores "Dee" Davis (62) and Marine Hedge (53) are considered victims of BTK.

12. Received an award in September 2004 for 10 years of service as a Park City Comp. Off.


Two people say they moved out of Park City neighborhood because of him. Some have said that he had a "holier than thou" attitude and was harassing. He used library computers.

Can anyone detract from, confirm, or add to this information?

edited to remove names of suspect's family

[gopwinsin04]

America's Most Wanted boards now theorizing that Rader was hiding out in Panama City, FL with an Opry Troupe for the last 25 or so years..

http://www.oceanopryshow.com/history.html

[MEG33]

Well , he received a 10 year recognition of serving at the Compliance dept according to the post above..he must have lived in Kansas for the last ten years.

[TexKat]

Meeting of the Board of County Commissioners Regular Meeting 4/10/1996, pdf

Resolution Appointing Dennis Rader to the Sedgewick County Animal Control Advisory Board.

Dennis Rader sworn in to the position.

[deport]

Dennis Rader

Posted on Sat, Feb. 26, 2005

Who is Dennis Rader?

Dennis L. Rader, 59, has worked as a compliance supervisor for Park City in charge of animal control, nuisances, inoperable vehicles and general code compliance since about 1990.

He grew up in the Park City area and has lived there ever since.

He worked for Coleman in the early 1970s -- as did two of BTK's early victims.

He served in the military during the Vietnam era and worked for years at a home security company in Wichita.

He attended WSU -- long linked to the BTK case -- where he graduated in 1979 with a major in Administration of Justice.

He is married and has grown children.

[gopwinsin04]

Good job MEG!

That 10 year certificate of achievement would put him as the dogcatcher at least starting around 1985..

[deport]

Bios and pictures/family etc. don't compare

[maggief]

Kansas board poster says DR's wife arrested last night.

[TexKat]

http://www.oceanopryshow.com/history.html

I think that connection should be dropped. It has been reported today that Dennis Rader's father served in Viet Nam and is now deceased.

[gopwinsin04]

Still maintaining radio silence on the Drudge Report about this case ..Matt must have had a late night in the Miami clubs--lol!

[SuzyQue]

Is Drudge observant? Does he usually not post on Saturday?

[maggief]

Interesting thread:

http://forums.prospero.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=kr-kansas_news&msg=6372.1&ctx=1

[MEG33]

Do you say no murderer, rapist has ever come from a congregation that taught your faith?

The man is a narcissistic psychopath..he lived in a mask.

He also studied law enforcement in college..Are all people who studied law enforcement tainted? He is reported to have served in the Air Force..does that taint the military?

[MaxMax]

Post a pic of this guy?

[MEG33]

I agree.

[Bring Back Old Sparky]

Leavenworth is a federal prison, and the military's death row is there. In Kansas, death row is located at the state prison at El Dorado.