Tuesday, March 01, 2005
BTK caught in Wichita on Friday. Bush Administration denies reports BTK is being considered for a prison guard position at Abu Ghraib.
WICHITA, Kansas – Dennis Rader, the man suspected of being the notorious BTK serial killer was arrested Friday afternoon in Park City, Kansas, just north of Wichita, during a routine traffic stop.
Dennis Rader will be charged with 10 murders over three decades, authorities said. Authorities say they are certain that Rader -- a 59-year-old city employee with a degree in administration of justice -- is the man who terrorized the region with a series of killings beginning in 1974. The killer taunted authorities as well as the media through letters and packages he sent over several years. Some of those packages included before and after photos of victims.
Sources close to the investigation say that some members of the Bush Administration are considering Dennis Rader for an opening in the newly created Homeland Security department. One source, speaking on condition of anonymity said Rader is "our kind of guy."
White House press secretary Scott McClellan, however, flatly denied reports that BTK is being considered for a prison guard job at Abu Ghraib, adding that "our boys at Abu Ghraib our doing a fine job without BTK." "BTK couldn’t teach them anything they don’t already know." When asked if BTK would be considered for any other position within the Bush Administration, McClellan smiled wryly and said "We have no comment."
The killer named himself BTK after a pattern he followed with most of his victims: bind, torture and kill. The last slaying blamed on BTK was committed in 1991.
Rader faces eight counts of first-degree murder and two other homicide charges. Initially, eight killings were linked to the BTK killer. But Sedgwick County Sheriff Gary Steed said over the weekend that police also would file homicide charges with the district attorney for two previously unsolved killings in Park City.
Rader worked as a compliance supervisor for Park City in charge of animal control, nuisances, inoperable vehicles and general code compliance. He is married with two grown children. He recently became president of his Lutheran church council and was also a boy scout troop leader.
Dennis Rader will be charged with 10 murders over three decades, authorities said. Authorities say they are certain that Rader -- a 59-year-old city employee with a degree in administration of justice -- is the man who terrorized the region with a series of killings beginning in 1974. The killer taunted authorities as well as the media through letters and packages he sent over several years. Some of those packages included before and after photos of victims.
Sources close to the investigation say that some members of the Bush Administration are considering Dennis Rader for an opening in the newly created Homeland Security department. One source, speaking on condition of anonymity said Rader is "our kind of guy."
White House press secretary Scott McClellan, however, flatly denied reports that BTK is being considered for a prison guard job at Abu Ghraib, adding that "our boys at Abu Ghraib our doing a fine job without BTK." "BTK couldn’t teach them anything they don’t already know." When asked if BTK would be considered for any other position within the Bush Administration, McClellan smiled wryly and said "We have no comment."
The killer named himself BTK after a pattern he followed with most of his victims: bind, torture and kill. The last slaying blamed on BTK was committed in 1991.
Rader faces eight counts of first-degree murder and two other homicide charges. Initially, eight killings were linked to the BTK killer. But Sedgwick County Sheriff Gary Steed said over the weekend that police also would file homicide charges with the district attorney for two previously unsolved killings in Park City.
Rader worked as a compliance supervisor for Park City in charge of animal control, nuisances, inoperable vehicles and general code compliance. He is married with two grown children. He recently became president of his Lutheran church council and was also a boy scout troop leader.
# posted by The Punisher @ Tuesday, March 01, 2005 
