I am not trying to make any links but just listening to the news. The BTK killer was president of his church and described as a "holier than thou" type of person.
As a married father of two, devout official in his Lutheran congregation, one-time Cub Scout leader, and by-the-book code enforcement officer in his hometown of Park City, Kan., Dennis L. Rader appears from the outside to be the least likely candidate for serial killer."I never would have guessed in a million years," said Carole Nelson, a member of the Christ Lutheran Church, where Rader served as an usher and head of the church council.
But the respectable profile that emerged after Rader was named Saturday by police as Wichita's notorious "BTK" killer, responsible for at least 10 murders since the 1970s, was no shock at all to experts who track the diverse collection of psychopaths and psychotics who have written their names in blood across the American crime landscape.
"Nothing about this surprises me," said Katherine Ramsland, a professor of forensic psychology at DeSales University in Pennsylvania. "A person diagnosed as psychopathic would be chameleonic. They know the right behavior, the right words, but they don't feel anything. They are able to compartmentalize. They can live their lives sincerely, and also be out there killing, because they set those parts apart."
Indeed, some noted, the roles he played in his life may have helped him escape attention by blending in, and also let him exercise on a small scale the appetite for power and attention he allegedly indulged in his killings.
"Being a Cub Scout leader and a church leader would have been enjoyable," said James Alan Fox, a criminal justice professor at Northeastern University in Boston and author of "Extreme Killing," a book on serial killers. "He was the center of attention. He had authority."
Devolution... LOL