What is Dennis Rader?
{{Infobox Serial Killer | name=Dennis Rader | image= | caption= | birthname=Dennis Lynn Rader | alias=Bill Thomas Killman | birth_date={{birthdateandage|1945|03|09}} | birth_place=[[Pittsburg, Kansas]]<ref name=bio/> | death_date= | cause= | victims=10 | country=[[United States]] | states=[[Kansas]] | beginyear=1974 | endyear=1991 | apprehended=February 25, 2005 | penalty=[[Life imprisonment]] }} '''Dennis Lynn Rader''' (born March 9, 1945<ref name=bio /> ) is an [[Americans|American]] [[serial killer]]. He [[murder]]ed 10 people near [[Wichita, Kansas]] between 1974 and 1991.<ref name=bio /> He was known as the '''BTK killer''' (or the '''BTK strangler'''). ''BTK'' stands for [[Bind]], [[Torture]], [[Kill]].<ref name=bio /> He was named this because that was what he did to the people he killed. [[Letter]]s were written soon after the killings and sent to [[police]] and to local [[media|news outlets]]. They talked about the [[crime]]s. The letters had [[information]] which only the killer and police knew about the crimes. The letters stopped being sent for a long time. In 2004, they started being sent again. This led to him being located in 2005 and found [[guilty]] of the murders. Rader was sentenced to at least 175 years imprisonment.<ref name=NBC/> ==References== {{reflist|refs= <ref name=bio>{{cite web|title=Dennis Rader Biography|url=http://www.biography.com/people/dennis-rader-241487|publisher=Biography.com|accessdate=24 June 2013}}</ref> <ref name=NBC>{{cite web|title=BTK killer gets maxmum life sentence|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/8996967/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/btk-killer-gets-maximum-life-sentence/#.UciglzusiSo|publisher=NBC News}}</ref> }} {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Rader, Dennis}} [[Category:1945 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:American prisoners]] [[Category:American serial killers]] [[Category:People from Kansas]]