BTK: The Boy Scout Leader Who Was a Serial Killer

Imagine your city is terrorized by a serial killer, so you hire a security company to install an alarm. Now imagine the polite, rule-following man wiring your house is the exact monster you are trying to keep out. That was Dennis Rader, known as BTK, a husband, father, church council president and the man installing alarms for terrified Wichita families.We explore the ultimate dual life and the psychology of a killer whose inflated ego both drove his atrocities and ultimately destroyed him. Far from a criminal mastermind, Rader was relentless but clumsy, and his desperate craving for attention is exactly what brought him down.The methodical 1974 Otero family murders set against the bungled attacks that shatter the evil-genius mythHow his need for control fed his careers as a security installer and an overzealous code-enforcement officer measuring lawns with a tape measureThe chilling Marine Hedge case, where he staged photos of a victim's body inside his own church sanctuaryThe floppy disk metadata that exposed him, naming Dennis at Christ Lutheran Church, plus the familial DNA match through his daughterHis casual courtroom monologue describing murders as projects, and the still-open 2023 investigation into other possible victims