in fact loewen, who took a look at rader s interview with the psychologist, says the serial killer is even more ordinary than he imagined. his family is so wonderfully kansas. his daughter was a high school golf champion. his son is, i think, in the navy. his wife sings in a church choir, has a job in a convenience store. they re average people making a simple good life together. boy, you would never pick him out of a crowd. i thought there would be something that would be more evident, but he was just as beige as beige could be. mike fitch knew rader when they were both employees at adt, where rader worked for nearly 15 years installing home security systems. he remembers rader as a stickler for perfection. making his customers happy was rader s top priority, even if he could be cranky and critical of others.
even further in his bid for publicity, comparing himself to son of sam in new york, jack the ripper in london, and the hillside strangler in los angeles, claiming they were all driven to kill by what he called factor x. it seems senseless but we cannot help it, he wrote. there is no help, no cure except death or being caught and put away. he was making it clear that he wanted to be elevated to be serial killer hall of fame. this is the league that he said he should be in. he listed 15 to 17 additional serial killers, infamous serial killers. through the ages? through the ages. btk is a student, was the first thing that flashed through my mind, of serial murders. along with a lurid description of the otero killings, loewen says the killer was literally begging for ink. a little paragraph in the newspaper would have been enough. how many people do i have to
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the intended victim, a 63-year-old woman rader had been stalking unexpectedly spent the night out, which saved her life. but rader made sure everybody knew he was still primed to commit murder, sending the media that package containing some personal items he d stolen from her home, and including one of his trademark poems. which was a poem of death. he said that he was disappointed that she didn t come home. that he intended to kill her. rader now claims in this interview with a psychologist that this woman wasn t the only one that got away. is it safe to say that there are at least a few lucky people out there? there s a lot of lucky people out there. who you didn t kill? i didn t make it into the house, they didn t come home or for some reason i didn t go. there s a lot of lucky people out there, yes. there would have been more, probably, if i would have succeeded. yeah. i can almost guarantee it. after that failed murder attempt, wichita s most famous
would he kill again? that was the question consuming much of wichita, kansas, in the weeks after serial killer btk announced himself in 2004, following years of silence. i definitely lock my doors at night until i find out more. here in the heartland, fear of the unknown monster among them penetrated yet a new generation. my mom is going to watch out for my sister more. people were learning karate, buying guns, beefing up security systems and looking at strangers with a suspicion not felt in years. in his jailhouse interview, rader now claims he didn t know he was having this effect. i didn t realize the city really lived in fear that bad. i saw spurts of it on the news. people came home, looked under doors, under the beds and just really lived in fear. i didn t realize i had that potential. i dropped my jaw and i had a pad of paper and i made a note and i just scrawled, liar.