Is Dennis Rader OK? BTK serial killer's daughter says he failed to recognize her in prison
EL DORADO, KANSAS: Kerri Rawson, the daughter of BTK serial killer Dennis Rader, has revealed that her father is “rotting” in prison and is angry at the police for searching his former home for clues to other possible crimes.
She told News Nation on Wednesday that her 78-year-old father, who killed 10 people, has shrunk seven inches and uses a wheelchair. “He’s pretty much rotting, like, to his core,” she said.
Why did Kerri Rawson visit her father after so long?
Rawson had not visited her father for a long time at El Dorado Correctional Facility in Kansas because he was known as BTK which stands for “bind, torture, kill.”
But she decided to see him this summer at the El Dorado Correctional Facility in Kansas, where he has been since 2005.
She said she wanted to help the investigators find out if he was involved in other cases of missing people.
“It was the first time he ever dropped his mask and became BTK in front of me,” she said. “He didn’t even necessarily recognize me. So, we had to have a family reunion” first.
Why isn't Dennis Rader cooperating with the police?
Rader did not cooperate with the authorities even when they offered him immunity.
“My dad basically said maybe he would like to go out like a Roman candle,” Rawson said.
“He’s very unhappy with what’s going on,” she added, referring to the police digging up the Park City home where Rader and his family used to live.
“And we’re coming up against a man that’s playing lots of games,” she said about her cunning and evil father.
What are the police looking for in Dennis Rader’s former home?
The police are looking for “trophies” that could link Rader to the disappearance of Cynthia Dawn Kinney, a 16-year-old cheerleader who went missing in June 1976, as well as other unsolved cases.
Sheriff Eddie Virden said that Rader, who was 31 at the time, was seen leaving Kinney’s family’s laundromat with two women around the time she vanished.
The police found a “pantyhose ligature” under a concrete slab in April, and some other “items of interest” this week.
Rader had used pantyhose to strangle his last victim Dolores Davis. He had also bragged that he kept some souvenirs from his crimes under the slab.
“Binding type items’ found underground in my old yard. Where I grew up. Not far from where the swing set used to be,” Rawson tweeted early Thursday about the disturbing discoveries.
Binding type items’ found under ground in my old yard. Where I grew up. Not far from where the swing set used to be.
— Kerri Rawson (@KerriRawson) August 24, 2023
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Does Dennis Rader want to live life out of prison?
Rawson explained to NewsNation that Rader does not want to give more information after almost 20 years of his arrest.
“My father does not want to be put in a van and woken up in Oklahoma in a holding cell for, you know, the kidnapping of Cynthia Kinney. He wants to live his life out at the prison that he’s at,” she said.
“So that’s one pressing point, that if he’s not going to cooperate, then we’re going to do this the legit hard way and he’s going to wake up some morning somewhere he doesn’t want to be.”