Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer (60 page)

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Kris Casarona, who began meeting with Dennis Rader shortly after his arrest in 2005 in an effort to write a book about him, seated with John Douglas (right) and coauthor Johnny Dodd (left) in Wichita.
 
CREDIT: Johnny Dodd
 
John Douglas, with coauthor Johnny Dodd, pictured below a guard tower in the parking lot of the El Dorado Correctional Facility, shorthly after interviewing serial killer Dennis Rader.
 
CREDIT: Johnny Dodd
 
John Douglas at the entrance to the prison where Rader began serving his ten life sentences in August 2005. Because the state of Kansas did not have the death penalty when Rader committed his ten murders, he escaped lethal injection.
 
CREDIT: Johnny Dodd
 
Index
A
 
ABC
 
ADT Security
 
Alaska
 
Allen, Jake
 
Amelia fantasy
 
America’s Most Wanted
(television show)
 
Animals, torture of
 
Argonia, Kansas
 
Arkansas
 
Arkansas River
 
Asphyxiation; autoerotic
 
Atlanta child murderer
 
Attica Correctional Facility
 
Austin, Texas
 
Autoeroticism
 
B
 
Bad Seed
(film)
 
Barbie doll.
See also
Dolls
 
Barns
 
Bavaria
 
Beacon
(Wichita newspaper)
 
Beattie, Robert
 
Belleville, Kansas
 
Berkowitz, David ; interview with Biological evidence
 
Bittaker, Lawrence
 
Blackout tavern
 
Bondage
 
Borrelli, Joseph
 
Boston Strangler
 
Boundaries
 
Boy Scouts
 
Bremer, Arthur
 
Bright case; Rader journal account of
 
Bright, Kathryn (BTK victim)
 
Bright, Kevin (BTK survivor)
 
Brookley Air Force Base (Mobile, Alabama)
 
Brooks, Pierce
 
“BTK Case UnsolvedYears Later”
(Wichita Eagle)
 
BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) killer ; “BTK Story,”; childhood reflections of; Communication #; Communication #; communiqués with police ; early profile on; evolving method of; Field Grams; first linking of crimes of; journal account of Bright murder ; journal account of Davis murder; journal account of Hedge murder; journal account of Otero murders; journal account of Wegerle murder ; Kevin Bright description of; killings; letter of, on Otero case; obsession with strings and cords; poems of ; question of lapsed time between murders by; signature of ; visual orientation of; visual statements of
 
“Bucar,”
 
Buffalo Bill (fictional serial killer)
 
Bulla, Robert
 
Bundy, Ted
 
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad
 
Butell’s Menswear
 
C
 
California
 
California Men’s Colony (San Luis Obispo, California)
 
Capote, Truman
 
Casarona, Kris
 
Cessna Aircraft Company
 
Chicago, Illinois
 
“Children Without a Conscience Dangerous But Can Be Helped”
(Wichita Eagle)
 
Christ Lutheran Church (Park City, Kansas)
 
Cibola
 
Clark, Michael
 
Clove hitch.
See also
Knots
 
Clutter family murders
 
Code
 
Coleman Company “Collectors,”
 
Colorado
 
Columbus, Kansas
 
Comer, Kimmie
 
Compliance supervisor job
 
Conscience, lack of
 
Control, need for
 
Cornwell, Bill
 
Coronado, Francisco Vasquez de
 
Criminology interest
 
Cross-dressing
 
CSI
(television show)
 
“Curley Locks” (Mother Goose rhyme)
 
Cyanoacrylate
 
D
 
Dark skin, fascination with
 
Davis, Delores “Dee” (BTK victim)
 
Davis, Wayne
 
Dawson, Liza
 
Death penalty
 
Delaware
 
Detective magazines
 
Detroit, Michigan
 
Devil’s delight project
 
Dilantin
 
Dillon’s grocery
 
DNA
 
Dolls.
See also
Barbie doll
 
Dotson, Paul
 
Douglas, Erika
 
Douglas, Jed
 
Douglas, John
 
Douglas, Lauren
 
Douglas, Pam
 
Drowatzky, Bernie
 
DTPG (Death To Pretty Girls) signature
 
E
 
Eagle Scout
 
Easth Street North murder site (Kathryn Bright)
 
Ego, serial killer’s
 
El Dorado Correctional Facility
 
El Turco
 
Empathy
 
Encase (software)
 
Epic Center
 
Eyeglasses, fixation with
 
F
 
Factor
 
Fantasies, sadistic.
See also
Sadism, sexual
 
Farmington, Michigan
 
FBI Academy (Quantico, Virginia)
 
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) ; Behavioral Science Unit (BSU); Headquarters; Investigative Support Unit (ISU); Violent Criminal Apprehension Program
 
Fischer, Joseph
 
Fletcher, Raymond
 
Fox, Nancy (BTK victim) ; Rader journal account of murder of
 
Front Page Detective
 
Funicello, Annette
 
G
 
Gacy, John Wayne
 
Gags
 
Garroting
 
Genetics
 
Ghostbuster task force (Wichita Police Department)
 
Gilmore, Cheryl
 
“Girl trap,”
 
Glatman, Harvey
 
Good Samaritan
 
Google
 
Granger, Dan
 
Greece
 
Green River killer
 
Groton, Connecticut
 
H
 
Hadon, Mrs. (sixth-grade teacher)
 
Halsig, Ernie
 
Handcuffs
 
Hanging
 
Hannon, Floyd
 
Harris, Robert
 
Hayes, Kansas
 
Hazelwood, Roy
 
Hedge, Marine (BTK victim)
 
Heidnik, Gary
 
Helzberg’s Jewelry Store
 
Hillside Strangler
 
“Hit kit,”.
See also
Murder kit
 
Hit plan
 
Holcomb, Kansas
 
Holiday Inn Plaza
 
Holmes, H. H.
 
Home Depot
 
Hunt, rituals of.
See also
Stalking
 
I
 
Identi-Kit
BOOK: Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer
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