He earnt his wages installing security systems in local homes for a company called ADT Security Systems, and lived with his wife and two children, a son and a daughter. Dennis Rader – AKA The BTK Killer īorn 1974 in Wichita, Kansas, Dennis Rader – alias BTK Killer (standing for Bind, Torture, Kill) – seemed like your every day family man. With ridiculously witless moves and an over-the-top ego to boot, the BTK Killer proved to be hilariously dumb.
In fact, some prove to be pretty much the opposite. Because how could a killer possibly get away with their gruesome crimes for so long unless they knew exactly what they were doing, right? Unless they really were undetected geniuses? We constantly hear them described as masterminds – as geniuses who play people like a pack of cards, manipulating them into their lairs before tearing them to pieces. We want to know how these people tick why they choose to do the things that most people wouldn’t even consider. And it’s understandable, right? Human kind has always been drawn to the things it doesn’t understand. Shows such as MindHunter, The Ted Bundy Tapes and the most recent drop Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez have really been putting violent criminals in the forefront of public interest.
Thanks to original streaming channels like Netflix, serial killers have been all the rage lately.
