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Netflix Doc 'My Father, the BTK Killer' Spotlights Daughter's Push on Cold Cases

Dennis Rader remains incarcerated at age 80 on ten life sentences at El Dorado.

Overview

  • The documentary follows Kerri Rawson as she works with law enforcement to examine whether her father committed additional crimes.
  • Rawson describes a 2023 prison visit arranged to gather information for the Osage County Sheriff's Department.
  • She says Rader appeared frail and in a wheelchair, grew angry after hours discussing possible matching cases, and asked, “Can’t we just reminisce?”
  • Rader confessed to 10 murders carried out between 1974 and 1991 in Wichita and Park City after evading capture for roughly three decades and taunting police and media.
  • Rawson says she chose to speak publicly after learning Stephen King’s A Good Marriage was inspired by the case and later published her 2019 memoir A Serial Killer’s Daughter.