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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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

My opposition to the death penalty is weakening. I have opposed the death penalty after being persuaded that it contributes to the culture of death that leaves many aspects of our wondrously free and prosperous society quite grim. Nihilism informs our arts. It is a large element in popular culture. It makes fugitive appearances in our discussions of the beginnings and the ends of life. By opposing capital punishment, I have hoped to highlight the glory of life and the vast possibilities for human beings to grow and develop in a civilized way. Now that I have heard the testimony...

By ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press Writer 6 minutes ago BTK suspect Dennis Rader pleaded guilty Monday to 10 counts of first-degree murder, admitting in a chillingly matter-of-fact voice to a series of slayings that terrorized the city beginning in the 1970s. Rader, 60, of Park City, entered the guilty pleas as his trial was scheduled to begin Monday. Referring to his victims as "projects," Rader laid out for the court how he would "troll" for victims on his off-time, then stalk them and kill them. "I had never strangled anyone before, so I really didn't know how much pressure you...

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For decades, Wichita, Kan., police received communications from the BTK killer (search), including letters and poems. Now the man charged with those murders has been spending long hours in his jail cell writing to people he knows. "His public defender is probably pouring his heart and soul into this case," said Denver criminal defense attorney Daniel Recht (search), "only to be sabotaged by his client." FOX News has obtained two poems said to have been written by Dennis Rader (search). A fellow inmate said Rader gave them to him after they became friends in jail. There's one about the springtime...

Not-Guilty Plea Entered for BTK Suspect By ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press Writer 10 minutes ago WICHITA, Kan. - A judge entered a plea of not guilty Tuesday for Dennis Rader, the former church leader and city employee who is charged with 10 counts of murder in the BTK serial killings that terrorized Wichita since the 1970s. Rader chose to stand mute during the brief arraignment and asked District Court Judge Gregory Waller to enter the plea for him. Waller entered the not guilty plea and set a trial date for June 27, although most expect the trial date to eventually...

"Smiling faces show no traces of the evil that lurks within." — from a song by the Undisputed Truth Did you search for murder in Dennis Rader's eyes? I certainly did. He looked disheveled and disgruntled, as anyone might in his or her mug shot. But did you see anything else? An unsettling gleam like the one in Charles Manson's eyes? The remote coldness that lurks in Theodore Kaczynski's? Did you see murder in Rader's eyes? ....It's a judgment call, of course, but I didn't. He looked like Joe Blow's cousin, a fat, balding white guy of late middle age,...

WICHITA, Kan. - On the same day he was fired from his job, the suspect in the BTK serial killings got assurances he will continue to be a member of the church where he is a leader. Dennis Rader, charged with 10 killings over the past three decades, was let go from his job as a compliance supervisor in the Wichita suburb of Park City. The City Council took the action on an unanimous vote Wednesday evening, giving failure to report to work or call in as the reason for Rader’s dismissal. Earlier in the day, Rader was visited in...

WICHITA -- The signs that he was tightly wound were there for many to see. He signaled his powerful need for control again and again, but even the people who say he bullied them had no inkling that he could be the man police are now calling a serial killer. Dennis L. Rader, the government inspector charged with killing 10 people between 1974 and 1991, may have been a Boy Scout volunteer and active church leader. But he was also known as an arrogant and harassing neighbor who bullied single women on his street, and an unforgiving supervisor who made...