Did BTK Killer Dennis Rader Ask If The Disk Was Traceable Before Mailing It?
About this episode
The episode explores Dennis Rader's communications with the Wichita Police and the investigation leading to his arrest.
In a typewritten question left for the Wichita Police Department in January of 2005, Dennis Rader asked the cops, in writing, whether a floppy disk could be traced back to him. The question was inside an empty cereal box he had left for them in the bed of a pickup truck at a Home Depot parking lot. He signed it with his self-given initials. He asked them to be honest. The Wichita Police Department answered through a small classified ad in the Wichita Eagle. They told him no. A floppy disk could not be traced. That was not true. In the fifth and final chapter of True Crime Today's BTK investigation, host Tony Brueski walks through the trap Lieutenant Ken Landwehr had been building since March of 2004. The thirteen-year silence Rader broke when he could no longer tolerate being ignored. The eleven separate communications that followed. The eleven months of polite, formal responses through classified ads that fed Rader's hunger for attention while the task force quietly built its case. The episode covers the February 16, 2005, arrival of a purple Memorex floppy disk at KSAS-TV in Wichita. The Microsoft Word file metadata that named Christ Lutheran Church in Park City and a user…
People in this episode
Host: Tony Brueski
Topics covered
- BTK Killer
- Dennis Rader
- Wichita Police
- floppy disk
- true crime
- investigation
- DNA evidence
Keywords
- BTK Killer
- Dennis Rader
- Wichita Police
- floppy disk
- arrest
- DNA evidence
- true crime
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Wichita Police Department
Places: Wichita, Park City
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