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The BTK Killer’s daughter is breaking her silence on her father’s killing spree for the first time in a new special report by US programme, 20/20.

Kerri Rawson was left dumbstruck when it was discovered that her father Dennis Rader was the notorious serial killer who haunted Wichita, Kansas, and murdered 10 people.

He became known as BTK for binding and torturing his victims before killing them.

It took more than 30 years before authorities were able to identify the BTK killer as Rader, who by that point was a married father-of-two.


Dennis Rader pleaded guilty to all 10 of the BTK crimes (Picture: Getty)

He was the president of his church, a Boy Scout troop leader and an Air Force veteran.



Rader, now 73, is currently serving 10 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole after pleading guilty to the murders in 2005.

Speaking to Deborah Roberts, Kerri explained she had no idea that her father was a killer, and it took a while for her to realise just what he was capable of.

However, after he was arrested ‘reality started to creep in’.

Kerri bravely retells the moment she discovered her father was a serial killer (Picture: ABC)

‘I knew that BTK had strangled women, I knew from the news,’ Kerri explained. ‘And it hit me that our neighbour down the street, Marine Hedge, had been strangled, and I felt my stomach just twist, realising it could be true.’

Marine was killed in 1985 after being strangled by the BTK killer.

The two-hour special on the killer’s rampage also includes interviews with survivors of the killer, and loved ones of those that were murdered by his hand.

Charlie Otero, who appears on the show, was 15 when his parents, Julie and Joseph Ortero, and his siblings Josie, 11, and Joey, 9, were murdered by BTK in 1974.

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He explained: ‘It was just like if you ripped my chest open and tore my heart out.’

Rader pleaded guilty on June 27, 2005, to 10 counts of first-degree murder. In court, Judge Greg Waller asked Rader to take him through each victim and describe what he did.

For nearly an hour, Rader calmly recounted each of his 10 murders to the court.

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With the exception of Joseph and son Joey, all of BTK’s victims were female, ranging from 21-62 years old.

Kathryn Bright, Shirley Vian, Nancy Fox, Vicki Wegerle and Dolores E. Davis were also among those killed.

20/20 will air the two-hour special this Friday, 1 February at 9pm on ABC in the US.

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