| BTK Update 8-17-05 Prosecutors offered chilling details into the BTK serial killer's reign of terror Wednesday, outlining his fascination with bondage, his desire to strengthen his hand muscles when he found it hard to choke victims, and a terrifying conversation he had with an 11-year-old girl before he killed her. During the first day of Dennis Rader's sentencing hearing, Detective Clint Snyder testified the serial killer told investigators he used a squeeze ball to strengthen his grip after finding his hands numbed during strangulations. In describing one killing, Rader told Snyder: "I'm sorry. I know this is a human being, but I'm a monster." Rader, a 60-year-old former church congregation president and Boy Scout leader, pleaded guilty in June to 10 murders between 1974 and 1991. The slayings terrorized the Wichita area until Rader was arrested in February. The sentencing in many ways is a formality, with the only issue before the judge whether Rader will serve his 10 life sentences consecutively or concurrently. Kansas had no death penalty at the time the killings were committed. Rader's long fascination with bondage was shown to the court in a photo he apparently took of himself wearing pantyhose and a bra and hanging from a pipe in the basement of his mother's home. Kansas Bureau of Investigation special agent Larry Thomas testified that after Rader killed Josephine Otero's parents and brother, he took the 11-year-old girl to the basement. Prosecutors projected to a screen Rader's recollection of the exchange he had with Josephine before he killed her. "What's going to happen to me?" she asks. Rader: "Well, honey, you're going to be in heaven with the rest of your family." Rader then hanged the girl and masturbated over her body. "I remember problems with Josephine because her hair was in the way," Rader told investigators. Rader looked away briefly as crime scene photos were projected on the courtroom screen. But he otherwise appeared calm throughout the hearing, sipping water or occasionally taking notes on a legal pad. According to testimony, Rader at times used his connections to scouting and local churches to facilitate his crimes and provide him an alibi. For the killing of Dolores Davis on Jan. 13, 1991, Rader left a Scout camp under the guise of going home for something he forgot, Sedgwick County Sheriff Capt. Sam Houston said. Instead, Rader went to his parent's home to change out of his scouting uniform and into his dark "hit clothes." Rader also used his access to Park City Baptist Church, which sponsored his Scout troop, to make final preparations for Davis' killing. He took the body of another of his victims, Marine Hedge, to the church he attended, Christ Lutheran Church in Wichita, where he put black plastic over the windows to give him privacy while he took bondage pictures for his sexual satisfaction. The hearing is expected to extend into Thursday, and feature statements from victims' relatives before Judge Gregory Waller imposes the sentence. Prosecutors want Rader to get the longest possible sentence _ a minimum of 175 years without a chance of parole. Wednesday's details were wrenching for the surviving Otero children, who found their parents dead when they came home from school in January 1974. They would learn later that their brother and sister were also dead. Carmen Otero Montoya clutched an afghan in the courtroom and nervously tapped her foot on the floor through much of the testimony. She was just 13 when she used a fingernail clipper to try to cut the gag off her dead mother's face. The two brothers, Charlie and Danny, mostly crossed their arms through the testimony, occasionally wiping away a tear. But when prosecutors projected a close-up photo of Josephine on the screen, Charlie Otero became visibly flushed, buried his face on his lap and cried. Rader looked on as KBI special agent Raymond Lundin said the killer told authorities in an interview after his Feb. 25 arrest that he targeted Josephine because he was attracted to Hispanics. "He said that he has always been attracted to Hispanic looking people dark eyes, dark hair, dark skin. He said Josey was the one who caught his eye and she was his target," Lundin said. Editorial comment: Let's hope old Denny gets a little S&M, lots of bondage from "Bubba" in the big house!! 8-18-05 BTK serial killer Dennis Rader was ordered to serve 10 consecutive life terms Thursday during a tear-filled hearing in which relatives of his victims called him a monster and said he should be "thrown in a deep, dark hole and left to rot."The sentence _ a minimum of 175 years without a chance of parole _ was the longest possible that Judge Gregory Waller could deliver. Kansas had no death penalty at the time the killings were committed.The two-day hearing featured graphic testimony from detectives and sobbing relatives. It culminated with rambling testimony from Rader, who said he had been dishonest to his family and victims and at times wiped his eyes."Nancy's death is a like a deep wound that will never, ever heal," Beverly Plapp, sister of victim Nancy Fox, testified. "As far as I'm concerned, Dennis Rader does not deserve to live. I want him to suffer as much as he made his victims suffer.""This man needs to be thrown in a deep, dark hole and left to rot," she said. "He should never, ever see the light of day."Rader offered Biblical quotes, thanks to police and an apology to victims' relatives before he was sentenced."A dark side is there, but now I think light is beginning to shine," Rader said. "Hopefully someday God will accept me."Rader, 60, a former church congregation president and Boy Scout leader, led a double life, calling himself BTK for "bind, torture and kill." He was arrested in February and pleaded guilty in June to 10 murders from 1974 to 1991."No remorse, no compassion _ he had no mercy," said Kevin Bright, the brother of victim Kathryn Bright, who himself was shot but managed to flee. "I think that's what he ought to receive."Rader's voice choked as he made his half-hour address to the courtroom, saying he had been dishonest to his family and victims and selfish."I know the victim's families will never be able to forgive me. I hope somewhere deep down, eventually that will happen," he said.He also admitted he tracked his victims "like a predator." Nola Foulston, Sedgwick County District Attorney, asked the judge that Rader be refused anything in prison, such as markers or crayons, that could be used to draw or write about human or animal forms, or anything that might be used to further his sexual fantasies.Prosecutors earlier flashed a photograph of Rader wearing a mask, tied to a chair and donning a woman's blond wig. They also showed other pictures the killer took in which he had bound himself and was wearing a dress he had taken from a victim's house _ apparently reliving the ecstasy of the murder.Investigators testified that Rader kept hundreds of pictures from magazines and circulars mounted on index cards, with details of the warped sexual fantasies he dreamed of carrying out.Lt. Ken Landwehr, who coordinated the Wichita police department's investigation into BTK, said the index cards were some of the evidence of Rader's long history of terror that was found at the defendant's office, camper and small suburban home.Landwehr said the cutouts ranged from a little girl posing in a swimsuit to actress Meg Ryan.Rader's files also included copies of nearly all his messages to police and the media, documents Landwehr said the killer had planned to eventually scan and digitally store, Landwehr said.Containers kept in a closet and elsewhere at his home also held what Rader called "hit kits" _ bags with rubber gloves, rope, tape, handcuffs and bandanas.Rader, sitting through his second day of a sentencing hearing, appeared angry and mumbled at one point during Landwehr's testimony, although Rader's words couldn't be heard.Capt. Sam Houston of the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office testified about Rader's last known killing _ the strangulation of 63-year-old Dolores Davis in 1991. Rader, who handcuffed Davis and tied her with pantyhose, told police it took two or three minutes for her to die and that fueled his torturous fantasies for years."It was this moment that victim was tied and bound," Rader wrote in a journal, according to testimony Thursday morning by Houston. "He could live in that moment for years." After Davis was dead, Rader tossed her body under a bridge where it decomposed and apparently was fed on by animals. The defendant returned later to take Polaroid photographs of her wearing a feminine mask Rader himself had worn for his own bondage fantasies.The sentencing hearing was in many ways is a formality, with the only issue before the judge whether Rader would serve his life sentences consecutively or concurrently. |
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