Overview

• The feature-length film, directed by Skye Borgman, premiered on Oct. 10 on Netflix.
• It builds on Kerri Rawson’s 2019 memoir and centers her account of growing up with Dennis Rader and rebuilding a life after his arrest.
• Rawson visited Rader in prison in 2023 to ask about possible additional victims, then set firm boundaries and has kept her distance.
• Rader murdered 10 people in Kansas between 1974 and 1991, was identified in 2005 via a floppy-disk metadata link to his church and familial DNA, and is serving 10 consecutive life terms at El Dorado Correctional Facility.
• BTK stands for “bind, torture, kill,” and no additional murder charges have been filed to date despite continued cold-case inquiries.