Confession of a serial killer : the untold story of Dennis Rader, the BTK killer /
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| Author / Creator: | Ramsland, Katherine M., 1953- author. |
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| Imprint: | Lebanon, NH : ForeEdge, an imprint of University Press of New England, [2016] |
| Description: | 1 online resource (x, 262 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12869845 |
| Summary: | In 1974, Dennis Lynn Rader stalked and murdered a family of four in Wichita, Kansas. Since adolescence, he had read about serial killers and imagined becoming one. Soon after killing the family, he murdered a young woman and then another, until he had ten victims. He named himself "B.T.K." (bind, torture, kill) and wrote notes that terrorized the city. He remained on the loose for thirty years. No one who knew him guessed his dark secret. He nearly got away with his crimes, but in 2004, he began to play risky games with the police. He made a mistake. When he was arrested, Rader's family, friends, and coworkers were shocked to discover that B.T.K. had been among them, going to work, raising his children, and acting normal. This case stands out both for the brutal treatment of victims and for the ordinary public face that Rader, a church council president, had shown to the outside world. Through jailhouse visits, telephone calls, and written correspondence, Katherine Ramsland worked with Rader himself to analyze the layers of his psyche. Using his drawings, letters, interviews, and Rader's unique codes, she presents in meticulous detail the childhood roots and development of one man's motivation to stalk, torture, and kill. She reveals aspects of the dark motivations of this most famous of living serial killers that have never before been revealed. In this book Katherine Ramsland presents an intelligent, original, and rare glimpse into the making of a serial killer and the potential darkness that lives next door. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 262 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781611689730 1611689732 9781611688412 1611688418 9781512601527 1512601527 |