Kerri Rawson, the daughter of the notorious BTK serial killer, talked to her dad in jail after finding out that he may have abused her according to a new journal entry.
Dennis Rader, 78, pleaded guilty to 10 killings in 2005 and is now serving 10 life sentences in a row. He goes by the name “BTK killer,” which stands for “bind, torture, kill.” Oklahoma detectives looking into a cold case recently found Rader’s diary entry that makes it sound like he may have abused his daughter when she was too young to remember.
Fox News reports that Ms. Rawson told the crowd at CrimeCon 2024 that she talked to him in jail in October. She said it was the fifth time since her dad went to jail that she had talked to him.
At the crime convention, she gave a victim impact statement as if she were talking to her jailed father. “I sat feet across from you; you crumbled up, rotting away in a wheelchair, and I stood tall and brave and confronted you with the hard, bare truth you had kept hidden from me for over four decades,” she said.
“You denied it, gaslighted me, screamed at me, used bad language, and asked me what PTSD is. When I told you, you said I caused all of this,” she said.
As Oklahoma police looked into the case of Cynthia Dawn Kinney’s disappearance in 1976, they found the writing in her journal. They think Rader might be to blame for the girl’s strange disappearance.
Fox News reports that Ms. Rawson helped police figure out what a passage that read “KERRI/BND/GAME 1981” meant in her father’s diary, in which he wrote about torturing people. BND stood for “bondage” in Rader’s mind.
According to Fox News, Ms. Rawson said, “My stomach turned into white hot lightning.” “Finally, after forty years, there was proof that you, my father, had abused me sexually when I was a child.”
In the meantime, police have tried to connect Rader to other unsolved crimes.
Rader’s drawings and writings that were found after he was arrested in 2005 were the subject of a new probe by the Osage County Sheriff’s Office in January 2023.
He told CNN at the time, “We’re hoping that by releasing these, someone will recognize one of these barns or the unique features in it, or the closeness of the silo to the barn, or they may have even found things that they didn’t know why they were there that could be very important in this case.”
Rader was cleared earlier this year of another open case that people thought was connected to him: the murder of Shawna Garber in 1990.
