About Me
Jan. 15, 1974
Joseph and Julie Otero are strangled in their Wichita, Kansas, home along with two of their children, Josephine, 11, and Joseph II, 9. The crime is discovered by the couple’s oldest son, Charlie, when he returned home from school.April 4, 1974
Kathryn Bright, 21, is found stabbed to death in her Wichita home. Police later link her slaying to that of the OterosMarch 17, 1977
Shirley Vian, 24, is found bound and strangled in her Wichita house. Her young children, also present in the home, are unharmed.Dec. 8, 1977
Nancy Fox, 25, is found tied up and strangled in her home in Wichita. The killer’s voice is heard for the first time when he calls a dispatcher to report the homicide.April 28, 1979
Anna Williams, 63, returns home to find signs of an intruder. On June 15, 1979, she receives a letter letting her know that the killer had planned to kill her but had gotten tired of waiting. Police believed the killer was targeting her daughter.April 27, 1985
In a case that wasn’t attributed to the BTK Killer until police arrested a suspect, Marine Hedge, 53, is abducted from her home in the Wichita suburb of Park City, Kansas. Her body is found eight days later along a nearby dirt road, a knotted pair of pantyhose nearby. An autopsy determines she had been strangled.Sept. 16, 1986
The husband of Vicki Wegerle, 28, finds her body in their Wichita home, strangled to death. The family car is later recovered two blocks away.Jan. 19, 1991
In the last known killing attributed to the BTK Killer, Delores "Dee" Davis, 62, is abducted from her home east of Park City, Kansas, by an intruder who threw a brick through the glass door at the back of her home to gain entry. Her body is found 13 days later under a bridge in northern Sedgwick County, hands and knees bound with pantyhose. An autopsy determines that she was strangled. The case is not linked to the BTK case until a suspect is arrested in February 2005.Feb. 26, 2005
Wichita police announce they have arrested Dennis Rader, 59, a city worker in Park City, Kansas, as a suspect in the case.May 3, 2005
Dennis Rader pleads not guilty to 10 counts of murder. A jury trial is set for June 27, 2005.June 27, 2005
Dennis Rader waives his right to a jury trial and pleads guilty to 10 counts of first degree murder. In court, he describes each murder in detail.
With a minimum sentence of 175 years, Rader, will spend the rest of his life at the maximum-security El Dorado Correctional Facility near Wichita.
