BTK killer Dennis Rader is in a wheelchair and ‘rotting to his core’ in prison, his daughter says
BTK serial killer Dennis Rader is painfully “rotting” in prison — and is seething at cops searching his old home for possible links to other sick crimes, his daughter has revealed.
“He’s lost like seven inches, and he’s in a wheelchair,” Kerri Rawson told NewsNation Wednesday of her 78-year-old dad’s nearly 20 years in prison for killing 10 people.
“He’s pretty much rotting, like, to his core.”
Rawson had long refused to visit her dad, whose sick BTK moniker stands for “Bind, torture, kill.”
But she finally visited him at the El Dorado Correctional Facility in Kansas this summer, for a total of three hours — telling her dad she was visiting to help investigators determine if he was responsible for other missing people.
“It was the first time he ever dropped his mask and became BTK in front of me,” she told Ashleigh Banfield.
“He didn’t even necessarily recognize me. So, we had to have a family reunion” first, she said.
Rader — who has been locked up since 2005 — refused to cooperate, even when offered an immunity deal.
“My dad basically said maybe he would like to go out like a Roman candle,” Rawson said.
“He’s very unhappy with what’s going on,” she said a day after investigators were spotted combing through the site of the Park City home Rader once shared with his family.
“And we’re coming up against a man that’s playing lots of games,” she noted of her devious, devilish dad.
Authorities are looking for “trophies” that could tie the suburban dad to the June 1976 disappearance of high school cheerleader Cynthia Dawn Kinney, 16, as well as other unsolved cases.
Rader, who was 31 at the time, was allegedly spotted leaving Kinney’s family’s laundromat with two women around the time the teen vanished, Sheriff Eddie Virden told KOCO.
A “pantyhose ligature” was unearthed at the Park City property in April, and other, unspecified “items of interest” turned up this week, authorities have said.
Rader’s last known victim, Dolores Davis, was strangled with pantyhose.
The ligature and other objects were allegedly found under a concrete slab where Rader once boasted he kept sick keepsakes from his crimes.
“Binding type items’ found underground in my old yard. Where I grew up. Not far from where the swing set used to be,” Rawson tweeted about the disturbing finds early Thursday.
Almost 20 years after Rader’s arrest, he is wary of giving up more information, Rawson explained to NewsNation.
“My father does not want to be put in a van and woken up in Oklahoma in a holding cell for, you know, the kidnapping of Cynthia Kinney. He wants to live his life out at the prison that he’s at,” Rawson stated.
“So that’s one pressing point, that if he’s not going to cooperate, then we’re going to do this the legit hard way and he’s going to wake up some morning somewhere he doesn’t want to be.”
