Dennis Rader
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Dennis Lynn Rader, better known by his pseudonym BTK, is an American serial killer and mass murderer who killed at least ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. Although he
Rader in 1966
Rader's first four victims (clockwise from top left): Joseph Sr., Julie, Josephine, and Joseph II Otero
Photocopy of Vicki Wegerle's driver's license that Rader stole and would later mail to police in 2004
Rader's letter to The Wichita Eagle under the name "Bill Thomas Killman"
Strangling
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Strangling or strangulation is the compression of the neck leading to an increasingly hypoxic state in the brain, which can lead to unconsciousness or even death. Fatal strangulation typically occurs
Dennis Rader
…victims were often attacked in their homes and then bound, sometimes with objects from their homes, and either suffocated with a plastic bag or manually strangled with a ligature. In a series of crimes that terrorized Wichita in the mid-to-late 1970s, Rader also initiated a series of taunting letters sent to police and media…
A cheetah strangling an impala, Timbavati Game Reserve, South Africa
Illustration depicting the ligature strangulation of Saint Godelieve