The notorious BTK killer’s convoluted journal entries may link him to the decades-long unsolved disappearance of an Oklahoma teenager, according to law enforcement.
“Laundry mat earlier [sic] a good place to watch victims and dream,” Dennis Rader wrote in a 1976 journal entry titled “PJ-Bad Wash Day,” excerpts shared by the Osage County Sheriff’s Office last week show.
“The Brunette was targeted,” he added, noting that she was “out of town until things calmed down.”
Rader, 78, was sentenced to life in prison in 2005 for a series of 10 brutal murders that terrorized the Wichita, Kansas, area over 20 years. He is known for seeing his criminal behavior as a project, CNN reported.
He also linked the laundry incident to a chapter in his unfinished manuscript, which is believed to describe all murders or attacks he saw as successful, Osage County Undersheriff Gary Upton told the outlet.
Dennis Rader was arrested and convicted of 10 murders in 2005.Getty Images
Authorities now believe that Rader’s strange writing may refer to the June 1976 disappearance of Cynthia Dawn Kinney, who was last seen at her family’s laundromat in Pawhuska, CNN explained.
Rader, who was 31 at the time, was allegedly seen leaving the laundromat with two women around the time the high school cheerleader went missing, Sheriff Eddie Virden told KOCO earlier this month.
Pawhuska is about two hours from Park City, the Wichita suburb where the suburban father of two lives and owns a home.
Cynthia Dawn Kinney, 16, last seen June 1976. Osage County Sheriff’s Office
Rader’s journal entries and manuscripts were seized by investigators when he was arrested in 2005, CNN said.
For nearly two decades, detectives have pored over entries for possible clues to unsolved crimes in the area.
The Osage County Sheriff’s Office obtained the material from Wichita police in January, Upton said.
Rader is a sexual sadist who often restrains his victims and keeps sick souvenirs from his crimes.REUTERS
For the past several months, local investigators have been poring over materials looking for possible links to cold cases that match Rader’s modus operandi, he continued.
Rader – who calls himself “BTK” for binding, torturing, killing – is a sexual sadist who regularly stalks, binds, and sexually assaults his victims before killing them.
Journal entries and other evidence prompted Osage authorities last week to excavate the site of Rader’s former home, where they found several “trophies” from at least one woman in a “hiding hole,” Upton confirmed.
Rader’s daughter, Kerri Rawson, said she supports a new investigation into her father’s possible crimes.TNS via Getty Images
Investigators also found chains and C-clips that could be used to hold a person’s limbs, he added.
There were also findings that the team did not share publicly, he explained.
A previous search earlier this year found a troubling “pantyhose string”.
Rader’s last known victim, Dolores Davis, was strangled with pantyhose.
The body of one of the Otero family members – Rader’s first known victims – was removed from the home in 1974.AP
Last week, Rader’s daughter, Kerri Rawson, said her father refused to cooperate with efforts to uncover any other possible crimes, including the Kinney kidnapping.
“It was the first time he took off his mask and became BTK in front of me,” he told Ashleigh Banfield about Rader’s visit to El Dorado Correctional Facility this summer.
“He was very unhappy with what happened,” he said of the new investigation.
“My father didn’t want to be put in a van and woken up in Oklahoma in a holding cell for, you know, the kidnapping of Cynthia Kinney. He wants to live his life in the prison where he belongs.”
Investigators recently excavated the site of Rader’s former home.KSNW
Rawson told CNN that he has “offered to help” investigators as they continue to look into his father’s crimes.
“I will continue to work closely with and support all (law enforcement) agencies and offer my voluntary assistance,” he wrote.
“Let’s continue to work together to solve these cases for these families. They deserve everything we can give them. We can join together to put our stamp on modern interagency collaboration and modern forensics.”
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