BTK killer’s daughter confronts him behind bars for abusing her when she was too younger to recollect | EUROtoday

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Kerri Rawson, daughter of the notorious BTK serial killer, confronted her dad in jail after a newly uncovered journal entry reveals he could have abused her.

Dennis Rader, 78, is serving 10 consecutive life sentences after pleading responsible to 10 murders in 2005. He calls himself the BTK killer, which stands for “bind, torture, kill.” Oklahoma chilly case investigators lately uncovered a diary entry from Rader suggesting he could have abused his daughter when she was too younger to recollect.

Ms Rawson confronted him in jail in October, she instructed viewers members at CrimeCon 2024, based on Fox News. She mentioned it was the fifth time she had spoken to her father since he went to jail.

“I sat feet across from you; you crumbled up, rotting away in a wheelchair, me standing tall and brave, and confronted you with the hard bare truth you had kept hidden from me for over four decades,” she mentioned on the crime conference, giving a sufferer influence assertion as if chatting with her imprisoned father.

“You denied it, gas-lit me, emotionally and verbally abused me, asked me what PTSD is; and then when I explained, told me, I had brought this all on myself,” she continued.

The journal entry was uncovered as Oklahoma investigators appeared into the chilly case disappearance of Cynthia Dawn Kinney in 1976. They imagine Rader might be answerable for the teenager woman’s mysterious disappearance.

Ms Rawson, who helped police decipher her father’s journal the place he recorded the torture he inflicted on his victims, discovered a passage that learn: “KERRI/BND/GAME 1981,” based on Fox News. BND was Rader’s shorthand for “bondage.”

“My stomach twisted into white hot lightning,” Ms Rawson mentioned of the invention, per Fox News. “There it was, after four decades, hard proof that you, my father, had sexually abused me when I was a toddler.”

Meanwhile, police have tried to hyperlink Rader to different chilly circumstances.

In January 2023, the Osage County Sheriff’s Office launched a brand new investigation into a whole bunch of Rader’s drawings and writings that have been recovered after his 2005 arrest.

“We’re hoping that releasing these, someone might recognize one of these barns or the unique features in them, or the closeness of the silo to the barn or possibly might have even found items that they didn’t know why were there that could be very important in this case,” Sheriff Virden instructed CNN on the time.

Earlier this 12 months, Rader was additionally absolved of one more chilly case initially believed to be linked to him: the 1990 homicide of Shawna Garber.