Overview
- Netflix released the single-episode documentary My Father, the BTK Killer, highlighting Kerri Rawson’s perspective on her father’s crimes.
- Dennis Rader murdered 10 people between 1974 and 1991, was arrested in 2005, and at age 80 is serving 10 consecutive life sentences at El Dorado Correctional Facility.
- Rawson met Rader in 2023 to aid the Osage County Sheriff’s Department on potential cold-case links and continues to cooperate with investigators.
- No new charges have been announced, but renewed attention has prompted fresh expert commentary and public scrutiny of Rader’s history and methods.
- A forensic psychologist told The Mirror US that records depict Rader as a sexual sadist with early psychopathic traits and argued his male and child victims reflected a drive for control, while Stephen King has said A Good Marriage drew inspiration from reading about Rader.