Overview

• Netflix released My Father, the BTK Killer on Oct. 10, spotlighting Kerri Rawson’s perspective on Dennis Rader’s crimes and capture.
• Investigators tied Rader to BTK after metadata on a floppy disk led to Christ Lutheran Church and a familial DNA match obtained from Rawson’s prior Pap smear via warrant.
• Dennis Rader confessed to 10 murders committed from 1974 to 1991 and is serving 10 consecutive life terms at Kansas’ El Dorado Correctional Facility.
• Rader was named a suspect in two cold cases in 2023; investigators later ruled him out in the Missouri case in 2024, and he remains a suspect in an Oklahoma disappearance with no new charges filed.
• Rawson recounts a 2023 prison visit and her work assisting investigators, while the film surfaces the personal toll and privacy questions surrounding the use of her medical records.