- Title: USA: KANSAS SERIAL KILLER DENNIS RADER IS JAILED FOR LIFE
- Date: 18th August 2005
- Summary: (AM) WICHITA, KANSAS, UNITED STATES (AUGUST 18, 2005) (POOL - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS OF COURT MEMBERS RISING FROM CHAIRS AND SITTING DOWN AFTER JUDGE ENTERS 0.15 2. CLOSE OF CONVICTED "BTK KILLER" DENNIS RADER 0.26 3. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) VICTIM'S FAMILY MEMBER CARMEN OTERO MONTOYA SAYING: "You took away the most lovable, fun, outgoing, friendly and adorable little brother anyone could ever imagine. He tried so hard to keep up with Charlie and Danny. Joey was a magnet. He attracted people of all ages. He could have done something big with his life but you took care of that, didn't you? A man with a gun against a little boy. You are definitely a coward." 0.48 4. SCU RADER SEATED 1.00 5. SLV (SOUNDBITE) (English) VICTIM'S FAMILY MEMBER JEFF DAVIS SAYING "If I embraced bitterness, I would remind you that you are nothing but a despicable child murdering, cowardly, impotent, eunuch and pervert masquerading as a human being. If I were the animal that you are, I would say that I relish the thought of you being treated the same despicable brutality, terror and agony at the hands of your soon to be fellow inmates that you relished inflicting on your defenseless victims." 1.24 6. CLOSE OF DENNIS RADER LISTENING 1.27 7. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) VICTIM'S FAMILY MEMBER STEPHANIE CLYNE SAYING: "It's been almost 19 years now that my brother and I had the most important woman in our lives taken away from us. My brother and I had to go so many important moments in our lives without her. Every day is a struggle to get through without her." 1.43 8. WIDE VIEW OF COURT ROOM 1.43 9. CLOSE OF RADAR WIPING AWAY TEARS 2.05 10. PAN OF COURTROOM 2.20 11. CLOSE UP OF JUDGE 2.36 12. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) RADER SAYING "The old me that started, whatever it was factor x, sexual predator. The volcano that was building all these years was the Otero. It's probably the most devastating, upsetting to everybody was Josephine. I just don't know. Self centered, very selfish and exploded on that day. It did continue off and on. Dishonesty? Definitely. Dishonesty, probably the first thing to the people that I encountered who trusted me that I was going to tie them up, take their money and leave and then I killed them. Dishonesty to my family. I would lie and cheat to these self interests, to my employers and to the county." 3.46 12. WIDE VIEW OF COURT ROOM 3.55 13. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) SEDGWICK COUNTY DISTRICT JUDGE GREGORY WALLER SAYING "In regards to count one. I would ask that you stand Mr. Rader. It will be the judgment, order and sentence of the court that you Dennis L. Rader be taken by the Sheriff of... 4.19 14. SLV RADER WALKING OUT OF COURT 4.43 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: WICHITA, KANSAS, UNITED STATES
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- Story Text:Kansas serial killer jailed for 'life.'
Confessed Kansas serial killer Dennis Rader was
sentenced on Thursday (August 18) to 10 life sentences
after two days of gruesome testimony, tearful pleas by
victims' relatives for harsh punishment and Rader's own
statement that demons drove him to torture and kill 10
people. Sedgwick County District Judge Gregory Waller said the
60-year-old Rader will not be eligible for parole for at
least 40 years.
Rader was arrested in February and pleaded guilty in
June to stalking, torturing and killing 7 women, two
children and one man. He is not eligible for the death
penalty because Kansas did not reinstate capital punishment
until after his crimes, which ran from 1974 to 1991.
In a rambling, disjointed statement offered just before
the judge passed sentence, the former dog catcher, Boy
Scout leader and church congregation president called
himself a Christian, quoted a Bible verse and talked about
demons he referred to as "factor X" that drove him to
torture and kill.
Rader, who had dubbed himself BTK for "bind, torture
and kill," also spoke fondly of his victims, tearing up as
he said he had a lot in common with them, attending the
same church as one woman and sharing a love for animals
with another.
Rader's first victims were four members of the Otero
family, including 11-year-old Josephine, whom Rader hanged
while he masturbated.
In another killing, Rader strangled a 53-year-old
neighbor and took her body to a church, where he posed her
in bondage positions on the altar as he snapped photos. He
then rejoined the Boy Scout camping trip from which he had
slipped away to commit the murder.
As the family members took turns at the microphone,
Rader removed his glasses, wiping his eyes and nose.
"It's been almost 19 years now that my brother and I
had the most important woman in our life taken from us,"
said Stephanie Clyne, who was 10 when her mother Vicki
Wegerle was murdered. "We didn't have enough time with her.
Every day is a struggle to get through without her."
"If I were the animal that you are, I would say that I
relish the thought of you being treated the same despicable
brutality, terror and agony at the hands of your soon to be
fellow inmates that you relished inflicting on your
defenseless victims," said Jeff Davis son of Rader victim
Dolores Davis.
During the two days of testimony, law enforcement
agents said that Rader, a married father of two, had a
secret lifetime obsession with sexual bondage.
When he was young, Rader would dress in women's
clothes, take pictures of himself and torture and hang
animals, according to court testimony.
During his murder spree, he collected souvenirs from
his victims to remember the thrill the crimes gave him and
wrote down fantasies about how his victims would serve him
as sex slaves and servants in the "afterlife," police said.
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