Digging deeper, we find Dennis Rader, a Lutheran church deacon and president of the church council, living in suburban Wichita and 60 years old at the time of his arrest.
Rader got his nom de guerre courtesy of himself, as he had suggested several possible names for him to be called in messages left for the police and the media. In spite of the audacity of taunting police with messages, Rader went uncaught from 1974 to 1991 in which time he committed 10 known murders.
Rader might never have been caught, except he apparently missed the notoriety so much that he began sending messages to the police again in 2004! He also claimed he was going to start killing again, but this time police had new technology to help them capture BTK.
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