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New insights on Dennis Rader, the BTK killer who lived in plain sight in Wichita when he killed ten residents in 20 years, are revealed in a new docuseries Rader is sometimes remorseful, 'depending on the day,' says forensic psychologist Kathryn Ramsland, who spoke to him from jail for nearly a decade Ramsland said that Rader simultaneously views himself as a 'monster' and a 'good person who did some bad things' Exclusive conversations between Ramsland and Rader were aired on the A&E docuseries 'BTK: Confession of a Serial Killer,' which aired on January 8 SNIP

State court turns down Lantana’s attempt to dismiss suit over whether sky-high fines for minor violations violate the Florida Constitution.. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.—This morning, a Florida court rejected the town of Lantana’s attempt to end a lawsuit filed by resident Sandy Martinez, who is contesting sky-high fines she was assessed for minor infractions on her own property. One parking violation, assessed daily for over a year, totals more than $100,000. The total amount the town fined her, which includes two other infractions, comes to an astounding $165,000, more than half what her home is worth. In February, Sandy teamed...

He was one of this country's most notorious serial killers, tying up, torturing, and murdering 10 people in the city of Wichita from 1974 until he was arrested in 2004. And now it has been revealed that Dennis Rader, who dubbed himself the BTK killer for his method of 'bind, torture, kill', had planned an 11th killing but was caught before he could carry it out. Rader says he had picked out a woman to be his 'magnum opus' and planned to mutilate her in her own home before hanging her upside down and burning the place to the ground.

Ms McGath has been studying links between the two killers for two years, especially the letters they both wrote, and she told Daily Star Online : "There are just so many similarities between Zodiac and BTK." She said the authorities ruled out a link because of a "general alibi" assuming Rader was serving in the US air force in Japan at the time of Zodiac's crimes. But she said he could easily have travelled back to California to carry out the killings and she points out in her book how close many of the killings were to air force bases....

Dennis Rader, the Kansas serial killer known as the "BTK killer," told a Wichita newspaper that he's cooperating with Katherine Ramsland, an author writing a book about his crimes. Rader murdered 10 people in the Wichita area from 1974 to 1991, and his victims ranged in ages from 9 to 62. He gave himself the nickname "BTK," which he said stood for "bind, torture, kill." Rader is serving 10 consecutive life sentences for the slayings, and won't be eligible for parole until 2180. In a letter to Wichita reporter Roy Wenzl, Rader claims he's cooperating with the book project in...

After a day of uncertainty, Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas said Tuesday he would vote to confirm Gov. Kathleen Sebelius for secretary of health and human services. “The president won the election and has nominated a Kansan to the Cabinet,” Brownback said in a statement. “Despite our profound policy differences, I will support my fellow Kansan.” Brownback joined Sen. Pat Roberts, who also made his intentions known Tuesday. Earlier Tuesday, Brownback had deferred. “He doesn’t plan to say anything either way at this point,” said a spokesman. Some questioned how Brownback would decide, considering how abortion opponents — who have...

Dennis Rader’s pastor sought permission to perform a jailhouse exorcism on the BTK killer but authorities wouldn’t allow it, the Rev. Michael Clark told an Overland Park audience Sunday. Clark believes demonic forces drove Rader to murder 10 victims in the Wichita area, he said at Holy Cross Lutheran Church. In response to an audience member’s question, the Lutheran pastor said he spoke at length with the Sedgwick County sheriff about performing the exorcism. The sheriff politely refused to allow it, Clark said. “Dennis was influenced, I believe, by some kind of demonic force and that played a role in...

CBS Shame: Network Helps BTK Killer By Debbie Schlussel Tonight's CBS TV Movie is a two-hour Lifetime-style waste of time on the BTK killer. Besides being the usual brain-addled damsel-in-distress "movie of the week" crap, this movie is exactly what the BTK killer wanted. BTK wanted fame--even wrote notes to police and the press asking what he needed to do to get noticed, to get more publicity. He craved this notoriety, and tortured and murdered ten innocent women to attain it. By doing this two-hour movie, CBS is playing right into his hands--rewarding this cretin on network prime-time. And making...

BTK pastor believes serial killer possessed Lutheran minister’s theology of evil altered by events Posted: August 28, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Mark Ellis © 2005 ASSIST News Service WICHITA, Kansas – He's faithfully visited notorious serial killer Dennis Rader every week at the county jail and still sees himself as his pastor. But the Dennis Rader he saw make a rambling final statement in court is not the same person he knows. "The person I heard in the courtroom was not the real Dennis," says Michael Clark, pastor of Christ Lutheran Church in Wichita. "There was someone else speaking...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - As Dennis Rader begins serving his sentence, questions remain whether there are other unsolved murders he could have committed to which he never confessed - perhaps after the death penalty was reinstated in Kansas in 1994. Authorities said Friday they can connect 10 murders to the BTK killer, although they have evidence that Rader was involved in other burglaries. But they also acknowledged they never linked Rader to two Park City murders until he confessed to them after his capture. Rader had planned to kill again, and had even set a date: Oct. 22, 2004, Police...

Go to the link -- after the opening advertisements is the statement of the son of one of the victims, a Mr. Davis. His statement will make the hair stand up on your neck as he pronounces a nearly biblical condemnation on Dennis Rader.

Thanking the folks who "helped" him, including a woman who cut his hair. You'd think this sleaze had won an Oscar.Disgusting. Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

A company run by Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, the former contestant who liked to sabotage her colleagues on the NBC reality show "The Apprentice," taped the Dennis Rader interview that ran on national television and turned the defense of BTK upside down. Psychologist Robert Mendoza told the Kansas State Board of Indigent Defense Services that Omarosa, as she is known, runs the production company he hired to videotape an interview of Rader in a holding cell in the Sedgwick County Courthouse. Portions of the tape aired Friday on "Dateline NBC." "Mendoza told me he hired Omarosa's Productions to tape the video," Pat...

'Bind, Torture and Kill' serial killer Dennis Rader was ordered to serve 10 consecutive life terms Thursday during a tear filled hearing in which his victims called him a monster and said he should be 'thrown into a deep hole and left to rot.' The sentence of a minimum of 175 years without chance of parole was the longest possible that Judge Gregory Waller could deliver.The state of Kansas had no death penalty at the time the killings were committed.Earlier Rader stood in front of a courtroom filled with his victim's family members, tell the court he believes he is...

What the heck is wrong with the news media and the audience that laps this stuff up? We have become voyeurs...

WICHITA, Kan. -- It's been 31 years since Kevin Bright surprised the BTK serial killer when he accompanied his sister home in 1974. Dennis Rader bound the siblings, but Kevin loosened his bonds and ran for help, despite being shot in the head. His sister, Kathryn, was strangled and stabbed and died later at a hospital. At their Goodrich, Texas, home, Sharon Bright has watched her husband struggle to decide what, if anything, to say when he finally gets his chance. Rader's sentencing hearing, which begins Wednesday, will allow the families of his victims to confront him in court for...

On O'Reilly tonight, they wree talking about the BTK killer. He was described as a sociopath, someone who has no concern for anyone but himself, a person capable of doing harm with no remorse at all. By that standards, aren't most politicians sociopaths?

A Times Leader reporter was arrested for attempting to set up a sexual encounter with an apparent 13-year-old girl and authorities want to know if there are other victims. Stephen Sembrat, 48, used the Internet to lure a potential victim to a Sunday meeting in the Philadelphia area, Delaware County authorities said. The Edwardsville man faces several felony charges. Sembrat's position as a former sports reporter and his affiliation with the Pocono Field Hockey Club gave him the opportunity to have contact with girls ranging from 14 to 18 years old, said State Police at Wyoming. Sembrat was longtime field...

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