He Gave Himself The BTK Nickname
For those unfamiliar with Dennis Rader is, he is more famously known as the notorious ‘BTK killer,’ BTK is the abbreviation for ‘bind, torture, kill.’ He also loved taunting the police. Rader placed a letter in a public library book in October 1974 after he committed his very first murder in January.
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In it, he wrote that “It’s hard to control myself. You probably call me ‘psychotic with sexual perversion hang-up.’ The code words for me will be bind them, torture them, kill them, B.T.K.” Rader’s actions were deliberate, and his words were prophetic. He anointed himself with a serial killer nickname and told the world about it.