Confessions of A Serial Killer
My special guest is Katherine Ramsland here to discuss details of the book she co-wrote with serial killer Dennis Rader about his murderous life.
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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Start your free seven-day trial and unlock this episode plus hundreds more all ad-free when you become a Mysterian on Patreon. Part of the trajectory that he begins to develop toward the end of becoming a killer.
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Okay, so, um, now you mentioned one serial killer that he was looking at. Was there any one in particular that was his maybe favorite that he liked to- Well, there, there wasn't one.
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There were, there were a few that had different influences on him. Glatman obviously because of the binding, um, but also H.H.
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Holmes because he heard some stories from relatives of his in Chicago, and he also found a magazine that had the H.H.
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Holmes Murder Castle, which gave him fantasies that he placed into barns of all the different torture devices and stuff that he could, could use like H.H.
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Holmes did in Chicago, but into his, his torture barn he would put- Unlock this episode right now by clicking on the link for your free seven-day trial in the show notes or by visiting mysteriousradio.com.
