Part of Rader’s twisted game was the sexual thrill he got from striking terror. You know, at some point in time, someone should have picked something up from me and identified it.” “I knew somewhere along the line of eighth grade or freshman in high school that I had some abnormal tendencies at that point in time. It was Factor X that pushed him that fateful day, he claimed. He’s even drawn it-depicting it in varying ways as a frog or as a more traditional-looking demon. In 2007, he described it being as something that “controls” his desire to kill. Rader fancied himself as an aficionado of serial killers and said that everyone from Jack The Ripper to Ted Bundy to the Son of Sam had the same Factor X.Īfter his arrest, he narrowed down what Factor X was: a demon. In an early letter, he blamed “ Factor X” as the motivation behind his murders. One of the unique aspects of Rader’s crime spree was his enormous ego he kept in contact with the press in the 1970s in an effort to spread fear throughout Wichita. Rader had a reasoning behind his killing. It was that action that ultimately led to his arrest, as DNA matched a sample taken from Rader’s daughter in 2005 (more on her later), linking him to the crime. Rader focused on Josephine, taking her into the basement, hanging her, and then ejaculating on her. He didn’t know how much strength it took to take a human life, so his first attempt at strangling Julie Otero failed she awoke while he was killing her son Joseph. Rader admitted that he was woefully unprepared for his crime. What his confession did, however, was provide a unique look into the mind of a serial killer. He managed to gain control of the situation, and in his settlement plea 31 years later, described in incredibly graphic detail how he bound, tortured, and killed the Otero family. Rader was caught by surprise when he entered and found Joseph Otero, the family patriarch, still home. Rader hatched a plan to attack on the morning of Januwhen only Julie, Josephine, and youngest son Joseph Jr. His main focus was on mom Julie Otero and her 11-year-old daughter, Josephine. When Dennis Rader first saw the Puerto Rican Otero family, he became transfixed. How he became such a monster is an important case study to prevent others from taking his dark passage. His desire for attention was a fascinating look inside the mind of a serial killer. In 2004, he reemerged from his self-exile, and a year later he was behind bars for crimes that were barely remembered outside longtime Wichita residents. In the 1970s, Dennis Rader, the self-titled BTK (Bind ’em, Torture ’em, Kill ’em), terrified Wichita, Kansas with his horrifying murders. One of the most diabolical serial killers in American history was forgotten to the ages.
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