wichita police department arrested dennis rader 59 white male. but it wasn t until late june when radar appeared in court for what was supposed to be the first day of his trial that people got a good look at and earful from someone who killed so many people over so many years. instead of the not guilty plea he entertained earlier, there was a surprise. mr. rader, would you please stand with counsel? sir, i have been advised it is your desire to enter a plea of guilty in this case. is that correct? yes, sir. people in and out of court listened agast to rader as he detailed each murder in his cold, chilling emotionless manner. i manually strangled her when she started to scream. rosh ron lowen watched the court appearance on tv. people make a lost point he didn t show emotion. he was showing incredible emotion. the detail that he used.
photograph, a driver s license of the victim, say i m still here. you never caught me. i have been here all along. his need for attention in apparently unquenched. i absolutely thought that this was the tip of the iceberg. former wichita tv director ron lowen made that prediction almost a year before dennis rader was caught. sadly when it was all over he d been proven right. there were two more murders never before connected to btk that brought the total number of his victims to ten. in 2004, rader was still hiding evidence about his murder of maureen hedge. she lived on his block and they knew each other. in court, rader described how after bowling one evening in 1985, he broke into her house and waited for her to come home. she screamed and i jumped on the bed and strangled her manually. rather than leaving her body, rader changed his m-o, confusing police at the time.