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Dennis Rader’s pastor sought permission to perform a jailhouse exorcism on the BTK killer but authorities wouldn’t allow it, the Rev. Michael Clark told an Overland Park audience Sunday. Clark believes demonic forces drove Rader to murder 10 victims in the Wichita area, he said at Holy Cross Lutheran Church. In response to an audience member’s question, the Lutheran pastor said he spoke at length with the Sedgwick County sheriff about performing the exorcism. The sheriff politely refused to allow it, Clark said. “Dennis was influenced, I believe, by some kind of demonic force and that played a role in...

BTK pastor believes serial killer possessed Lutheran minister’s theology of evil altered by events Posted: August 28, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Mark Ellis © 2005 ASSIST News Service WICHITA, Kansas – He's faithfully visited notorious serial killer Dennis Rader every week at the county jail and still sees himself as his pastor. But the Dennis Rader he saw make a rambling final statement in court is not the same person he knows. "The person I heard in the courtroom was not the real Dennis," says Michael Clark, pastor of Christ Lutheran Church in Wichita. "There was someone else speaking...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - As Dennis Rader begins serving his sentence, questions remain whether there are other unsolved murders he could have committed to which he never confessed - perhaps after the death penalty was reinstated in Kansas in 1994. Authorities said Friday they can connect 10 murders to the BTK killer, although they have evidence that Rader was involved in other burglaries. But they also acknowledged they never linked Rader to two Park City murders until he confessed to them after his capture. Rader had planned to kill again, and had even set a date: Oct. 22, 2004, Police...

Go to the link -- after the opening advertisements is the statement of the son of one of the victims, a Mr. Davis. His statement will make the hair stand up on your neck as he pronounces a nearly biblical condemnation on Dennis Rader.

Thanking the folks who "helped" him, including a woman who cut his hair. You'd think this sleaze had won an Oscar.Disgusting. Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

A company run by Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, the former contestant who liked to sabotage her colleagues on the NBC reality show "The Apprentice," taped the Dennis Rader interview that ran on national television and turned the defense of BTK upside down. Psychologist Robert Mendoza told the Kansas State Board of Indigent Defense Services that Omarosa, as she is known, runs the production company he hired to videotape an interview of Rader in a holding cell in the Sedgwick County Courthouse. Portions of the tape aired Friday on "Dateline NBC." "Mendoza told me he hired Omarosa's Productions to tape the video," Pat...

'Bind, Torture and Kill' serial killer Dennis Rader was ordered to serve 10 consecutive life terms Thursday during a tear filled hearing in which his victims called him a monster and said he should be 'thrown into a deep hole and left to rot.' The sentence of a minimum of 175 years without chance of parole was the longest possible that Judge Gregory Waller could deliver.The state of Kansas had no death penalty at the time the killings were committed.Earlier Rader stood in front of a courtroom filled with his victim's family members, tell the court he believes he is...

WICHITA, Kan. -- It's been 31 years since Kevin Bright surprised the BTK serial killer when he accompanied his sister home in 1974. Dennis Rader bound the siblings, but Kevin loosened his bonds and ran for help, despite being shot in the head. His sister, Kathryn, was strangled and stabbed and died later at a hospital. At their Goodrich, Texas, home, Sharon Bright has watched her husband struggle to decide what, if anything, to say when he finally gets his chance. Rader's sentencing hearing, which begins Wednesday, will allow the families of his victims to confront him in court for...

My opposition to the death penalty is weakening. I have opposed the death penalty after being persuaded that it contributes to the culture of death that leaves many aspects of our wondrously free and prosperous society quite grim. Nihilism informs our arts. It is a large element in popular culture. It makes fugitive appearances in our discussions of the beginnings and the ends of life. By opposing capital punishment, I have hoped to highlight the glory of life and the vast possibilities for human beings to grow and develop in a civilized way. Now that I have heard the testimony...

By ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press Writer 6 minutes ago BTK suspect Dennis Rader pleaded guilty Monday to 10 counts of first-degree murder, admitting in a chillingly matter-of-fact voice to a series of slayings that terrorized the city beginning in the 1970s. Rader, 60, of Park City, entered the guilty pleas as his trial was scheduled to begin Monday. Referring to his victims as "projects," Rader laid out for the court how he would "troll" for victims on his off-time, then stalk them and kill them. "I had never strangled anyone before, so I really didn't know how much pressure you...

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For decades, Wichita, Kan., police received communications from the BTK killer (search), including letters and poems. Now the man charged with those murders has been spending long hours in his jail cell writing to people he knows. "His public defender is probably pouring his heart and soul into this case," said Denver criminal defense attorney Daniel Recht (search), "only to be sabotaged by his client." FOX News has obtained two poems said to have been written by Dennis Rader (search). A fellow inmate said Rader gave them to him after they became friends in jail. There's one about the springtime...

Not-Guilty Plea Entered for BTK Suspect By ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press Writer 10 minutes ago WICHITA, Kan. - A judge entered a plea of not guilty Tuesday for Dennis Rader, the former church leader and city employee who is charged with 10 counts of murder in the BTK serial killings that terrorized Wichita since the 1970s. Rader chose to stand mute during the brief arraignment and asked District Court Judge Gregory Waller to enter the plea for him. Waller entered the not guilty plea and set a trial date for June 27, although most expect the trial date to eventually...

"Smiling faces show no traces of the evil that lurks within." — from a song by the Undisputed Truth Did you search for murder in Dennis Rader's eyes? I certainly did. He looked disheveled and disgruntled, as anyone might in his or her mug shot. But did you see anything else? An unsettling gleam like the one in Charles Manson's eyes? The remote coldness that lurks in Theodore Kaczynski's? Did you see murder in Rader's eyes? ....It's a judgment call, of course, but I didn't. He looked like Joe Blow's cousin, a fat, balding white guy of late middle age,...

WICHITA, Kan. - On the same day he was fired from his job, the suspect in the BTK serial killings got assurances he will continue to be a member of the church where he is a leader. Dennis Rader, charged with 10 killings over the past three decades, was let go from his job as a compliance supervisor in the Wichita suburb of Park City. The City Council took the action on an unanimous vote Wednesday evening, giving failure to report to work or call in as the reason for Rader’s dismissal. Earlier in the day, Rader was visited in...

WICHITA -- The signs that he was tightly wound were there for many to see. He signaled his powerful need for control again and again, but even the people who say he bullied them had no inkling that he could be the man police are now calling a serial killer. Dennis L. Rader, the government inspector charged with killing 10 people between 1974 and 1991, may have been a Boy Scout volunteer and active church leader. But he was also known as an arrogant and harassing neighbor who bullied single women on his street, and an unforgiving supervisor who made...

Rita Cosby says that Dennis Rader is still talking to authorities and some of the evidence taken from his home indicates that there may be more murders besides the 10 charged.Police now do not believe that the killings were limited to the ones on the arrest warrant, are looking into dozens of cold case murder cases hoping to match DNA.Authorities are in contact with police in Okinawa, Japan where BTK was stationed in 1969 and 1970, Rita has learned that there were a series of murders of young girls there during those years, although she was quick to note that...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - The man accused of being the BTK serial killer has complained about depression and asked about his family, who have not talked to him since he entered prison, his lawyers say. Dennis Rader, 60, is charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder in deaths that have haunted Wichita since 1974, when investigators began looking for a man who called himself the "Bind, Torture, Kill" strangler and taunted police with letters and packages sent to media outlets. In an interview with Time magazine, Rader's public defenders would not confirm reports that he has confessed to six of...

The allegations that a churchgoing, married father of two was Kansas' infamous BTK murderer have shaken the Hollywood image of the serial killer as disenfranchised loner. And it has people wondering just how many of their mild-mannered colleagues, spouses and fellow parishioners might secretly be monsters. Estimates of how many serial killers are operating in the United States at any given time are, like the killers themselves, all over the map. Jack Levin, who studies violence at Boston's Northeastern University, estimates conservatively that there are about 20 serial killers operating nationwide, accounting for about 200 victims a year. Ann Rule,...

Investigators -- trying to hide from Dennis Rader that they were zeroing in on him as a BTK suspect -- obtained DNA before his arrest through a tissue sample linked to his daughter's medical records, sources say. That sample was obtained for testing without her knowledge, the sources said. Sources familiar with the investigation also say that after Rader's arrest Friday, the FBI took a DNA sample from his daughter at her Michigan home to help confirm an earlier finding. Before the arrest, Kansas Bureau of Investigation agents on the BTK task force were concerned that the suspect could flee...

BTK Suspect Charged With 10 Murder Counts By DAVID TWIDDY, Associated Press Writer WICHITA, Kan. - Dennis Rader, the churchgoing family man and Cub Scout leader accused of leading a double life as the BTK serial killer, was charged Tuesday with 10 counts of first-degree murder. Rader made his first court appearance since his Friday arrest by videoconference from his cell at the Sedgwick County detention center. During the brief hearing, Rader sat with his hands folded behind a small desk. The BTK killer, whose nickname stands for "Bind, Torture, Kill," was suspected of eight deaths beginning in 1974, but...

BTK Suspect's Arrest Upsets Kan. Church By ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press Writer Sunday, February 27, 2005 (02-27) 17:40 PST Wichita, Kan. (AP) -- They worshipped next to Dennis L. Rader for years, sharing the same pews and singing from the same hymnals. They knew him as a Cub Scout leader, a respected church official, a kind friend. Now, members of Christ Lutheran Church must confront the possibility that 59-year-old Rader is something else: The BTK serial killer, blamed for 10 deaths in the Wichita area from 1974 to 1991. "We feel dismay, anger, devastation, utter shock and disbelief. The very...

Is is just me or will Jack Nicholson be the logical choice to play this guy in the inevitable movie? Can someone post pictures of the two side by side?

Donna Barry, a neighbor of supected Wichita serial killer Dennis Rader who has known him and his family since he was a child, told 'Good Morning America' she was suprised at his arrest, but said she had seen a darker side of Rader as well.'If he didnt like what was going on in the neighborhood with the way animals were being treated, he was right there to push the law on making it go his way, Berry told 'GMA' this morning. Berry said she was outside with her kids one day on her front lawn, and a neighbor from across...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - The man suspected in a string of 10 slayings that terrorized Wichita residents for more than three decades has confessed to at least six of those killings, according to a source with direct knowledge of the investigation. Investigators now suspect Dennis L. Rader may have been responsible for as many 13 slayings - including at least one that occurred after the death penalty was enacted in Kansas, a source with direct knowledge of the investigation told The Associated Press on Sunday on condition of anonymity. Rader was being held on a $10 million bond in the...

BTK Update HEREHere is the latest update on the BTK killer. Including the most heinous crime of all taking place in Kansas. Also more pics and details on his innocent victims. Who will NEVER be avenged.

Police have uncovered new evidence in the decades old BTK Wichita serial killer case and are questioning a person of interest, according to sources close to the investigation.Authorities scheduled a news conferece for 11AM Eastern Saturday to make an announcement in the case, and relatives of the killers victims would be briefed beforehand.Some police sources have said that a 59 year old man was arrested Friday and linked to the case by a DNA sample.Surveillance activites gave police 'their first big piece' of recent evidence, leading authorities to a vehicle and the person of interest.Investigators also searched a house in...

WICHITA, Kan. - A 31-year manhunt for a serial killer who taunted police with letters about his crimes ended Saturday when authorities said they finally caught up with the man who called himself BTK and linked him to at least 10 murders. The suspect was identified as Dennis L. Rader, a 59-year-old city worker in nearby Park City, who was arrested Friday. Police did not say how they identified Rader as a suspect or whether he has said anything since his arrest. "The bottom line: BTK is arrested," Wichita Police Chief Norman Williams said Saturday, setting off applause from a...