Episode 34: The Wichita Nightmare
The Wichita Nightmare
Dennis Lynn Rader
Photo Credit: Jeb Buchman @jebbuchman at Unsplash
For 30 years, the people of Wichita, Kansas lived in fear. Their town had a serial killer with the self-delegated name of BTK, Bind Torture Kill. But who was this man who had already killed 10 people, mostly women? DNA held the answer. It was a well-known and respected member of the community, president of his church leadership, Dennis Lynn Rader.
In this episode, with our guest Bobbi, we discuss the murders of the BTK and how the police used forensics and DNA to identify the killer who started in 1974 but wasn’t caught until 2005. Then we delve into a confusing family tree with a few shocks of it’s own.