to use a technical term, it s poppycock. it s just an excuse. it was dennis rader making the decisions, not factor x. he speculates at one point that he was dropped on his head. yeah. that might have done something. everybody could believe that, too. it s someone else s fault. there are lots of kids that fall off tricycles and fall out of cribs and they bang their heads and they don t have factor x or go on killing sprees. it s a way to deflect blame. dennis rader is someone who is selfish, narcissistic, committed to his own pleasures. committed to fulfilling his sexual fantasies, no matter who he hurts in the process. in 1978, of course, nobody new what rader s excuses were. all they knew was that btk was out there, a seven-time murderer who was promising in his factor x manifesto that he was about to take another innocent life.
he speculates at one point that he was dropped on his head. yeah. that might have done something. everybody could believe that, too. it s someone else s fault. there are lots of kids that fall off tricycles and fall out of cribs and they bang their heads and they don t have factor x or go on killing sprees. it s a way to deflect blame. dennis rader is someone who is selfish, narcissistic, committed to his own pleasures. committed to fulfilling his sexual fantasies, no matter who he hurts in the process. in 1978, of course, nobody new what rader s excuses were. all they knew was that btk was out there, a seven-time murderer who was promising in his factor x manifesto that he was about to take another innocent life. the investigation went into high gear. unprecedented. and yet unsuccessful for many years. even though he was right under their noses.