by Brandon Peace
The Confession
June 27th 2005 ...
Dennis Rader pleads guilty to the BTK murders. There was no plea
bargain made. The evidence against him was too overwhelming
including a confession, DNA evidence and many "trophies"
that he had taken from the crime scenes found in his garage.
In the courtroom, he admitted to killing 10 victims in a
very matter of fact confession before the judge.
Here is a portion of the transcript:
Otero family
Waller: In regards to count one, please
tell me in your own words what you did on the 15th day of January 1974, in
Sedgwick County, Kansas, that makes you believe you are guilty of murder in the
first degree.
Rader: Well, on January 15th, 1974, I
maliciously...
Waller: All right, Mr. Rader, I need to
find out more information, on that particular day, on the 15th day of January
1974, can you tell me where you went to kill Joseph Otero?
Rader: Um... I think it was 1834 Edgemoor.
Waller: All right, can you tell me
approximately what time of day you went there?
Rader: Somewhere between 7 and 7:30.
Waller: At this particular location, did
you know these people?
Rader: No, that was part of what... I guess
what you call my fantasy. These people were selected.
Waller: So you were engaged in some kind of
fantasy during this period of time?
Rader: Yes, sir.
Waller: Now, when you use the term fantasy,
is this something you were doing for your personal pleasure?
Rader: Sexual fantasy, sir.
Waller: I see. So you went to this
residence and what occurred then?
Rader: I had did some thinking on what I
was going to do to either Mrs. Otero or Josephine and basically broke into the
house, or didn't break into the house... but when they came out of the house I
came in and confronted the family and then we went from there.
Waller: Had you planned this beforehand?
Rader: To some degree, yes. After I got in
the house I lost control. It was, you know, in the back of my mind, I had some
ideas of what I was going to do. I basically panicked that first day, so...
Waller: Beforehand, did you know who was
there in the house?
Rader: I thought Mrs. Otero and the two
kids, the two younger kids, were in the house . I didn't realize Mr. Otero was
going to be there.
Waller: How did you get into the house?
Rader: I came through the back door. I cut
the phone lines. I waited at the back door... I had reservations about even
going or just walking away, but pretty soon the door opened and I was in.
Waller: So the door opened for you, or...
Rader: I think one of the kids, I think
Jr., the younger Joseph, opened the door cause he let the dog out, cause the dog
was in the house at that time.
Waller: Now when you went into the house.
What happened then?
Rader: Well, I confronted the family...
pulled a pistol, confronted Mr. Otero and asked him to, you know, that I was
there, that basically I was wanted... to get the car... hungry, food... I was
wanted, asked them to lie down in the living room... and at that time I realized
that was not a good idea. So I finally, the dog was a real problem, so I asked
Mr. Otero if he could get the dog out. He had one of the kids put it out. I took
them back to the bedroom.
Waller: You took who back to the bedroom?
Rader: The family... the four members. At
that time I tied them up.
Waller: While still holding them at
gunpoint?
Rader: In between tying, I guess.
Waller: After you tied them up, what
happened?
Rader: Well, they started complaining about
being tied up, and I reloosened the bonds, tried to make Mr. Otero as
comfortable as I could. Apparently he had a cracked rib from a car accident. So
I had him put a pillow down for his head. I think he had a parka or a coat
underneath him. He talked to me about giving me a car ... I guess he didn't have
very much money. There I realized that, you know, I didn't have a mask on or
anything, that they could ID me, so I made a decision to go ahead and put 'em
down, I guess, or strangle them.
Waller: All right, what did you do to
Joseph Otero?
Rader: Joseph Otero?
Waller: J. Joseph Otero Sr., Mr. Otero, the
father.
Rader: I put a plastic bag over his head
and then some cords and tightened it.
Waller: This was in the bedroom?
Rader: Yes sir.
Waller: Did he in fact, suffocate and die
as a result of this?
Rader: Not right away, no sir, he didn't.
Waller: What happened?
Rader: After that I did Mrs. Otero... I had
never strangled anyone before, so I really didn't know how much pressure you
have to put on a person or how long it would take...
Waller: Was she also tied up there in the
bedroom?
Rader: Yes, both their hands and feet were
tied up She was on the bed.
Waller: Where were the children?
Rader: Josephine was on the bed and Jr. was
on the floor at this time.
Waller: We are talking first of all about
Joseph Otero... so you put the bag over his head and tied it and he did not die
right away. Can you tell me what happened in regards to Joseph Otero?
Rader: He moved over real quick like and I
think tore a hole in the bag. I could tell that he was having some problems
there, but at that time the whole family just went panicked on me, so I worked
pretty quick.
Waller: You worked pretty quick. What did
you do?
Rader: Well, I mean I strangled Mrs.
Otero... she went out, passed out and I thought she was dead. I strangled
Josephine and she passed out... I thought she was dead and then I went over and
put a bag on Jr.' s head and then if I remember right, Mrs. Otero came back...
she came back, and...
Waller: Sir, let me ask you about Joseph
Otero Sr. He tore a hole in the bag. What did you do with him then?
Rader: I put another bag either that... I
recollect, I think I put either a cloth or a T-shirt or something over his head
and then another bag, and then tightened it up.
Waller: Did he subsequently die?
Rader: Well, yes, I mean I was... didn't
stay there and watch him. I was moving around the room.
Waller: So you indicated that you strangled
Mrs. Otero after you had done this, is that correct?
Rader: I went back and strangled her again,
it finally killed her at that time.
Waller: So this is in regards to count 2.
You first of all put the bag over Joseph Otero's head and he tore a hole in the
bag, then you went ahead... did you strangle Mrs. Otero then?
Rader: First of all, Mr. Otero was
strangled ... a bag put over his head and strangled him. Then, I thought he was
going down. Then I went over and strangled Mrs. Otero, and I thought she was
down. Then I strangled Josephine and she was down and then I went over to Jr.
and put the bag on his head. After that, Mrs. Otero woke back up and you know,
she was pretty upset with what's going on and at that point in time, I strangled
her... the death strangle at that time.
Waller: With your hands?
Rader: No, with a cord, with a rope. Then I
think at that point in time, I redid Mr. Otero and put the bag over his head,
and then Jr.... oh, before that she asked me to save her son, so I actually had
taken the bag off. I was really upset at that point in time. So basically, Mr.
Otero was down, Mrs. Otero was down, then I went ahead and took Junior, I put
another bag over his head and took him into the other bedroom.
Waller: What did you do then?
Rader: Put a bag over his head, put a cloth
over his head, a T-shirt and bag so he couldn't tear a hole in it. He
subsequently died from that. I went back up, Josephine had woke back up.
Waller: What did you do then?
Rader: I took her to the basement and hung
her.
Waller: You hung her in the basement?
Rader: Yes, sir
Waller: Did you do anything else at that
time?
Rader: Yes, I had some sexual fantasies,
but that was after she was hung.
Waller: All right, what did you do then?
Rader: I went through the house, kinda
cleaned it up: It's called the right-hand rule, you go from room to room clean
things up. I think I took Mr. Otero's watch. I guess I took a radio. I had
forgot about that but apparently took a radio.
Waller: Why did you take these things?
Rader: I don't know... I have no idea.
Waller: What happened then?
Rader: I got the keys to the car... in fact
I had the keys, I think earlier before that, a way of getting out of the house,
and cleaned the house a little bit, make sure everything was packed up and left
through the front door. Then went over to their car and drove over to Dillons
and left the car there. I eventually walked back to my car.
Waller: All right, sir, from what you have
just said I take it that the facts you told me apply to all of counts l, 2, 3
and 4, is that correct?
Rader: Yes, sir.
Kathryn Bright
Waller: All right, Mr. Rader, we will now
turn to count 5: April 4, 1974. Can you tell me what occurred on that day?
Rader: Well, off hand, I don't know exactly
how to say it. I had many, what I call them, "projects," different people I
followed, watched. Kathryn Bright was one of the next targets I guess I would
indicate.
Waller: How did you select her?
Rader: Well, I was just driving by one day
and saw her go into the house with somebody else and I thought that was a
possibility -- there was many places in the area, College Hill, they are all
over Wichita -- but anyway, it was just basically a selection process, work
toward it, if it didn't work, I just move on to something else. But in my kind
of person -- stalking and trolling -- you go through the trolling stage and then
stalking stage. She was in the stalking stage when this happened.
Waller: All right, sir, so you identified
Kathryn Bright as a potential victim?
Rader: Yes, sir.
Waller: What did you do then here in
Sedgwick County?
Rader: Oh, on this particular day, I broke
into the house and waited for her to come home.
Waller: How did you break into the house?
Rader: Through the back door on the east
side.
Waller: And you waited for her to come
home. Where did you wait?
Rader: In the house, there. Probably close
to the bedroom. I walked through the house, kind of figured out where I'd be if
they came through.
Waller: What happened then?
Rader: She and Kevin Bright came in; I
wasn't expecting him to be there. Come to find out, I guess, they were related.
At that time I approached them and told them I was wanted in California, needed
a car, basically the same thing I told the Oteros. Kind of ease them... make
them feel better, and proceeded to... I think I had him tie her up first and
then I tied him up or vice versa, I don't remember right now.
Waller: Let me ask: You indicated you had
some items to tie these people with? Did you bring these items to both the
Oteros and this location?
Rader: The Oteros I did, I am not really
sure on the Brights. When I was working with the police, there was some
controversy on that. Probably, more than likely I did... if I had brought my
stuff and used my stuff, Kevin would probably be dead today. I am not bragging
on that, it is just a matter of fact, but the bonds I tied him up with he broke
them, and same with Kathryn, they got out of hand.
Waller: Now you indicated you believe you
had Kevin tie Kathryn up. Tell me what happened then.
Rader: Well, after, basically, I moved her
to another bedroom; he was already secure there by the bed, I tied his feet to
the bedpost so he couldn't run. Kind of tied her in the other bedroom and came
back to strangle him and at that time we had a fight.
Waller: Were you armed with a handgun at
that time also?
Rader: Yes, I had a handgun. Actually I had
two handguns. Well, I started to strangle him, either the garrote broke or he
broke his bonds and he jumped up real quick like. I pulled my gun and quickly
shot him. I hit him in the head. He fell over. I could see the blood. And as far
as I was concerned, I thought he was down and was out. I started to strangle
Kathryn, then we started fighting. Her bonds weren't very good, back and forth
we fought.
Waller: You and Kathryn?
Rader: Yeah, we fought. And I got the best
of her and I thought she was going down and I could hear some movement in the
other room so I went back and... no, I thought she was going down and I went
back to the other bedroom where Kevin was at and I tried to restrangle him at
that time and he jumped up and we fought and he, at that time, about shot me. My
pistol that was in my shoulder here, I had my Magnum in my shoulder.
Waller: Did you have it in a shoulder
holster?
Rader: Yes, uh huh. I had the Magnum in my
shoulder holster. The other one was a .22. We fought... at that point in time, I
thought it was going to go off. I jammed the gun, I stuck my finger in there,
jammed it. I think he thought that was the only gun I had. Once I either bit his
finger or hit him, or something, got away. I used the .22 and shot him one more
time. And I thought he was down for good that time.
Waller: So you shot him a second time?
Rader: Yes, sir.
Waller: What happened then?
Rader: I went back to... finish the job on
Kathryn. She was fighting, at that point in time it was, and then I heard some,
I don't know whether I was basically losing control and the strangulation wasn't
working and I used a knife on her.
Waller: You say you used a knife on her?
What did you do with the knife?
Rader: I stabbed her two or three -- either
here or here -- (pointed to lower back and abdomen) under the ribs.
Waller: Lower abdomen?
Rader: Underneath the ribs.
Waller: So after you stabbed her, what
happened?
Rader: Well, actually I think at that point
in time it was a total mess, I didn't have control on it. She went down. I think
I just went back to check on Kevin, or at that basically same time I heard him
escape, it could be one of the two or... all of a sudden the front door of the
house was open and he was gone, and oh, I tell you what I thought: I thought the
police were coming at that time, that was it. I stepped out there; I could see
him running down the street, so I quickly cleaned up everything that I could and
left.
Waller: Mr. Rader, you indicated that at
the Oteros' you did not have a mask on. Did you have a mask on at the Brights'?
Rader: No, I didn't, huh uh.
Waller: All right, so what happened then?
Rader: I already had the keys to the cars.
I thought I had the right keys to the right car. I ran out to their car. I think
it was a pickup out there, I tried it... it didn't work. At that point in time
he was gone, running down the street and I thought, 'Well, I am in trouble,' so
I tried it, it didn't work, so I just took off, ran, went east, and worked back
towards the WSU campus where my car was parked.
Waller: All right, so you had parked your
car at the Wichita State University campus? How far away was the Brights'
residence?
Rader: Oh, I parked... what is that? 13th
and... they were on, what is it 17th? I was just about one block south of 17th,
where the car was. There is a park there, I parked in that park, then I walked
to 13th to the Brights' residence. So I basically ran back.
Waller: So you were able to get to your car
and get away?
Rader: Yes, sir.
Shirley Vian Relford
Waller: Can you tell me what you did on
that day?
Rader: Actually on that one, she was
completely random. There was actually someone across from Dillons that was a
potential target. It was called project Green, I think... I had project numbers.
That particular day I drove over to Dillons and parked in the parking lot and
watched this particular residence and then got out of the car and walked over to
it. It is probably in the police report, the address. I don't remember the
address now. I knocked and no one answered it.
So I was all keyed up, so I just started
going through the neighborhood. I had been through the neighborhood before so I
kinda knew a little bit of the layout of the neighborhood. I had been through
the back alleys, etc., knew where certain people lived. While I was walking down
Hydraulic, I met a young boy and asked him if he'd ID some pictures. Kind of as
a... ruse as you call it... feel him out... saw where he went... went to another
address and knocked on the door and nobody opened the door, so just noticed
where he went and went from there.
Waller: You call these projects. Are these
sexual fantasies also?
Rader: Potential hits. In my world, that is
what I call them. Project -- hits.
Waller: And why did you have these
potential hits? Was this to gratify some sexual interest?
Rader: Yes sir. I had a lot of them, so
it's just... if one didn't work out, I just moved to another one.
Waller: So as I am to understand it, on the
17th of March, l977, you saw this little boy go into a residence and you tried
another residence. No one was there so you went to the residence where the
little boy was.
Rader: And I watched where he went. After I
tried the one residence, no one came to the door, I went to the house where he
went in, knocked on the door told him I was a private detective... showed him a
picture that I had just showed the boy, and asked if they could ID the picture.
At that time I had the gun here and I just kind of forced myself in... just
opened the door and walked in. I pulled a pistol.
Waller: What gun? What pistol?
Rader: 357 Magnum
Waller: So you only had one gun?
Rader: Yes sir.
Waller: So what happened then?
Rader: I told Ms. Vian that I had a problem
with sexual fantasies... that I was going to tie her up and that I might have to
tie the kids up and if she would cooperate with us... We went back. She was
extremely nervous. I think she was smoking a cigarette at the time. We went back
to one of the back areas of the porch. I explained that I had done this before
and at that point in time, I think she was sick. She had her night robe on. If I
can remember right, she had been sick and I think she came out of the bedroom
when I went in the house. So we went to back to her bedroom and I proceeded to
tie the kids up. They started crying and got real upset. So I knew this was not
going to work. So we moved them to the bathroom -- she helped me -- and I tied
the doors shut. We put some toys and blankets, odds and ends, in there for the
kids, make them as comfortable as we could. We tied one of the bathroom doors
shut so they couldn't open it, and she went back and helped me shove the bed
against the other bathroom door. I proceed to tie her up. She got sick, threw
up. I got her a glass of water, comforted her a little bit and then went ahead
and tied her up and put a bag over her head and strangled her.
Waller: Was this a plastic bag also?
Rader: Yes, sir, I think it was but I could
be wrong on that. It was something. I am sure it was a plastic bag, yes.
Waller: You say you had a bag over her head
and strangled her. What did you strangle her with?
Rader: Actually, on that, I had tied her
legs to the bedpost and worked my way up and what I had left over and I think I
looped it over her neck.
Waller: So you used this rope to strangle
her?
Rader: Yes, I think it is the same one I
tied her body with.
Waller: What happened then?
Rader: Well, the kids were really banging
on the door and hollering, screaming and then the telephone rang. And they had
talked about earlier that the neighbor was going to check on them, so I cleaned
up real quick like and got out of there and left and went back into my car.
Waller: When you say, cleaned up, what do
you mean?
Rader: Well, I mean, I had a briefcase,
whatever I had laying around, tape, cords, whatever I had brought into the
house.
Waller: Had you brought that to the Bright
residence also?
Rader: I think it was some basic stuff, but
I don't remember total stuff like I did with some of the others.
Waller: Was this a kit you had prepared?
Rader: Yes, I call it my hit kit.
Waller: All right, sir. You left the Vian
residence. Had you parked your vehicle near there?
Rader: It was still in the same parking lot
there at Dillons... at Lincoln and Hydraulic.
Nancy Fox
Rader: Nancy Fox was another one of the
projects. When I was trolling the area, I noticed her go into the house one
night and anyway put her down as a potential.
Waller: Let me ask you, you say you are
patrolling the area?
Rader: It is called stalking, or trolling.
Waller: So you were not working in any form
or fashion?
Rader: If you read much about serial
killers, they go through what they call different phases. That's one of the
phases they go through, is a trolling stage. Basically, you are looking for a
victim at that time. You could be trolling for months or years, but once you
lock in on a certain person, then you become stalking. That might be several of
them, but you really hone in that person, they basically become the -- that's
the victim.
(Judge thought he said patrolling.)
Rader: No, I wasn't working, sir. This was
off my hours.
Waller: All right. So you basically
identified Nancy Fox as one of your projects? What happened then?
Rader: First, she was spotted. I did a
little homework. I dropped by once to check her mailbox, to see what her name
was. Found out where she worked, stopped by there once, Helzbergs. Sized her up.
The more I knew about a person, the more I felt comfortable. So I did that a
couple of times. Then, I just selected a night, which was this particular night,
to try it and it worked out.
Waller: So tell me what you did on the
night of 12/8/77.
Rader: About two or three blocks away, I
parked my car and I walked to that residence. I knocked at the door first to see
if anybody was in there because I knew she arrived home at a particular time
from where she worked. Nobody answered the door so I went to the back of the
house, cut the phone lines, there wasn't anybody in the north apartment, broke
in and waited for her to come home in the kitchen.
Waller: And did she come home?
Rader: Yes, she did.
Waller: What happened?
Rader: I confronted her, told her I had a
problem, sexual problem, that I would have to tie her up and have sex with her.
She was a little upset and we talked awhile and she smoked a cigarette. While we
smoked a cigarette, I went through her purse identifying some stuff, and she
finally said, well let's get this over with so I can call the police. So I said
OK. She said, can I go to the bathroom. I said yes. She went to the bathroom.
And I told her when she came out, make sure she was undressed. When she came out
I handcuffed her.
Waller: You handcuffed her? You had a pair
of handcuffs?
Rader: Yes, sir.
Waller: Then what happened next?
Rader: Anyway, I handcuffed her, had her
lay on the bed and I tied her feet. I was also undressed to a certain degree and
then I got on top of her and I reached over, took either her feet were tied or
not tied but I think I had a belt. Anyway, I took the belt and strangled her at
that time.
Waller: All right, after you had strangled
her, what happened next?
Rader: After I strangled her with the belt,
I took the belt off and retied that with panty hose, real tight, removed the
handcuffs and tied those with pantyhose. I can't remember the colors right now.
I think I may have retied her feet. They were probably already tied, her feet
were. And then at that time, I masturbated sir.
Waller: Had you had sexual relations with
her?
Rader: No, I told her I was, but I did not.
Waller: So you masturbated, then what did
you do?
Rader: Dressed, then went through the
house, took some of her personal items, then I cleaned the house up, went
through and checked everything.
Marine Hedge
Rader: Well, actually, kind of like the
others, she was chosen. I went through the different phases, stalking phase, and
since she lived down the street from me I could watch the comings and goings
quite easily. On that particular day, I had another commitment. I came back from
that commitment, and parked my car over at Woodlawn and 21st Street at the
bowling alley there at that time. Before that, I had some other clothes on,
changed clothes. I went to the bowling alley, went in there under the pretense
of bowling. Called a taxi. Had a taxi take me out to Park City. Had my kit in
the bowling bag.
Waller: Is that Park City in Sedgwick
County, Kansas?
Rader: Yes, sir.
Waller: All right, you had a taxi take you
to Park City. What happened then?
Rader: There I asked, I pretended that I
was a little drunk. I just took some beer and washed it around in my mouth and
the guy could probably smell the alcohol on me. I told him to let me out so I
could get some fresh air. I had the taxi let me out over at her house.
Waller: Where did she live?
Rader: 6254 Independence.
Waller: When you walked over there what
happened next?
Rader: As before, I was going to have
sexual fantasies so I brought my hit kit. But lo and behold her car was there. I
thought gee, she's not supposed to be home so I very carefully snuck into the
house, kind of like a cat burglar. After checking the house, she wasn't there.
So about that time the door rattled, so I went back in one of the bedrooms and
hid back there in one of the bedrooms. She came in with a male visitor. They
were there for maybe an hour or so. He left, I waited until the wee hours of the
morning and then proceeded to sneak into her bedroom and flip the lights on real
quick like, I think the bathroom lights. I didn't want to flip her lights on.
She screamed. I jumped on the bed and strangled her manually.
Waller: Now, were you wearing any kind of
disguise or mask at this time:?
Rader: No.
Waller: You indicated this woman lived down
the street from you. Did she know you?
Rader: Well, casually, we would walk by,
wave. She liked to work in her yard as well as I. It was just a neighborly type
thing. It wasn't anything personal, just a neighbor.
Waller: All right, so she was in her bed
when you turned on the light in the bathroom?
Rader: Yeah, the bathroom, so I could get
some light in there.
Waller: What did you do?
Rader: I manually strangled her when she
started to scream.
Waller: You used your hand?
Rader: Yes.
Waller: And you strangled her. Did she die?
Rader: Yes
Waller: What did you do then?
Rader: After that, since I was still in the
sexual fantasy, I went ahead and stripped her. I am not sure if I tied her up at
that point in time, but she was nude. I put her on a blanket, went through her
purse, and personal items in the house. I figured out how I was going to get her
out of there. Eventually, I moved her to the trunk of the car--the trunk of her
car--and took the car over to Christ Lutheran Church, this was the older church,
and took some pictures of her.
Waller: All right, you took some
photographs of her. What kind of camera did you use?
Rader: Polaroid.
Waller: Did you keep those photographs?
Rader: I think the police probably have
them.
Waller: What happened then?
Rader: Well, that was it. She was already
dead, so I took the pictures of her in different forms of bondage and that is
what probably got me in trouble is the bondage thing. But anyway then I moved
her back out to her car. Then we went east on 53rd.
Waller: What happened then?
Rader: Trying to find a place to hide her,
hide the body.
Waller: Did you find a place?
Rader: Yes, yes I did. I couldn't tell you
without looking at a map but it was on 53rd, between Greenwich maybe. What is
that I think between Webb and Greenwich I found a ditch, a low place on the
north side of the road and hid her there.
Waller: You say you hid her there?
Rader: Well there were some trees, some
brush and I laid it over the top of her body.
Vicki Wegerle
Rader: Again, Vicki Wegerle was another
potential victim. I went through those different phases, I locked in on her as I
would call it, and decided I would try that day. I used a ruse as a telephone
repairman to get into her house. I drove over there in my own personal car
around lunchtime, or it was earlier in the morning than that. I actually went
somewhere else and changed my clothes, what I call my "hit" clothes.
Waller: Hit clothes?
Rader: Basically different, things I would
need to get rid of later. Not the same kind of clothes I had on. I don't know
what better word to use, crime clothes, I just call them hit clothes. I walked
from my car as a telephone repairman. As I walked there, I donned a telephone
helmet, I had a briefcase -- I went to one other address just to kind of size up
the house. I had walked by it a couple of times, but I wanted to size it up
more. As I approached it, I could hear a piano sound and I went to this other
door and knocked on it and told them that we were recently working on telephone
repairs in the area. Went to hers, knocked on the door, asked her if I could
come check her telephone lines inside.
Waller: did she allow you in?
Rader: Yes, she did. I went over and found
out where the telephone was and simulated that I was checking the telephone. I
had a make-believe instrument. And after she was looking away, I drew a pistol
on her.
Waller: Is this the same .357 Magnum?
Rader: This was a different one.
Waller: You asked her to go back to the
bedroom with you after drawing the pistol on her?
Rader: Yes, sir.
Waller: What happened then?
Rader: I told her I was going to have to
tie her up. She was very upset. I think I used some material. That's another
thing -- I think I used some material that was in their bedroom, and after I
tied her hands, she broke that. We started fighting. And we fought quite a bit
back and forth.
Waller: She was physically fighting you?
Rader: Oh, yes sir.
Waller: What happened then?
Rader: I finally got the hand on her and
got a nylon sock and started strangling her.
Waller: So you wrapped the stocking around
her neck? What happened then?
Rader: I gained on her and put her down and
I thought she was dead, but after she was down and not moving any more, I
rearranged her clothes a little bit and took some quick photos, three of them,
if I remember.
After that, there was a lot of commotion.
She had mentioned something about her husband coming home, so I got out of there
pretty quick. The dogs were raising a lot of Cain in the back, the doors and
windows were all open in the house, and a lot of noise when we were fighting. So
I left pretty quick after that, put everything in the briefcase, and I had
already gone through her purse and got the keys to the car and used her car for
my getaway car.
Waller: You indicate that you thought that
she was dead. Did you discover later that she was not dead?
Rader: Yes. I guess the paramedics arrived
and tried to attempt to revive her and that failed. I don't know if she died
there or at the hospital. I don't recollect.
Waller: But you later found out she did die
as a result of your strangulation?
Rader: Yes
Dolores Davis
Rader: That particular day I had some
commitments. I left those, went to one place, changed my clothes, went to
another place, parked my car, finally made arrangements on my hit kit, my
clothes, and walked to that residence. After spending some time at that
residence, it was very cold that night and I had some reservations about going
in. I had cased the place before and she was in the house, so I finally just
selected a concrete block and threw it through the plate glass window on the
east and came on in.
Waller: Where is this residence located?
Rader: On Hillside, but I couldn't give you
the address. It is probably 61... uh, 62 something.
Waller: North or south?
Rader: North Hillside.
Waller: All right, so you used a concrete
block to break a window?
Rader: Plate glass window, patio door.
Waller: What happened then?
Rader: Noise. I just went in. She came out
of the bedroom and thought a car had hit her house. I told her that I was, uh, I
used the ruse of that I was wanted, on the run. That I needed food, car, warmth
and I asked her, I handcuffed her, I told her I would like to get some food, the
keys to her car, talked with her a little bit, calmed her down a little bit, and
eventually I checked... I think she was still handcuffed. I went back and
checked out where the car was, simulated getting some food, odds and ends in the
house like I was leaving, went back, removed her handcuffs, then tied her up,
and then eventually strangled her.
Waller: You say eventually strangled her?
Rader: Well, after I tied her up I went
through some things in the room.
Waller: You say you went through... were
you looking for something?
Rader: Personal items.
Waller: Do you take personal items from
every one of these incidents?
Rader: I did on the Hedge; don't remember
anything on Vicki's place; the Oteros I got the watch and radio; Vian's, no, I
don't think so; Fox, yes, I took some things from Fox. It was hit and miss. If
it was a controlled situation, where I had more time, I took something, but if
it was a confusion and other things, I didn't 'cause I was trying to get out of
there.
Waller: All right, so in regard to the
Davis matter, you went around, took some things; what did you do then?
Rader: I strangled her.
Waller: What did you strangle her with?
Rader: Panty hose. Kind of like Mrs. Hedge.
I already figured out, I had a plan on leaving. I put her a blanket and drug her
to the car, put her in the trunk of her car.
Waller: So you were able to strangle her to
death with these panty hose?
Rader: Yes, sir.
Waller: So you put her in your car?
Rader: Her car... the trunk of her car.
Waller: What happened then?
Rader: I really had a commitment I needed
to go to, so I moved her to one spot, I took her out of her car... this gets
complicated, then the stuff I had -- clothes, guns, whatever -- I took that to
another spot in her car, dumped that off. OK, then took her car back to her
house, left that... let me think, now (makes popping noise with his mouth
several times). OK, in the interim, I took her car back to her house. In the
interim I realized I had lost one of my guns, dropped it somewhere. So I was
trying to figure out where my gun was. So I went back in the house, realized I
had dropped it. When I broke the plate glass window it dropped and fell on the
floor right there. And I found it right there. So that solved that problem.
Anyway, I went back out, threw the keys, checked the car real quick like, threw
the keys on top of the roof. Walked from her car back to my car. Took my car,
drove it back and I either dropped more stuff off or I picked her up and put
them in my car. And then I drove up northeast of Sedgwick County, dropped her
off underneath a bridge.
Waller: So, all of these incidents, these
10 counts occurred because you wanted to satisfy sexual fantasies. Is that
correct?
Rader: Yes. Um hum
Dennis Rader was sentenced to 10 life terms in prison.
Dennis Rader is attempting
to write a book of his life using an outside source.
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