BTK serial killer investigation: new clue unlocks missing 16-year-old girl's name

[Judi Lynn]

After receiving a word puzzle, Oklahoma police say they’re closer to identifying another victim of murderer Dennis Rader

Edward Helmore
Wed 15 May 2024 16.55 EDT

A newly re-examined word puzzle sent to a Kansas City TV station in 2004 could strengthen leads in a cold-case investigation into the disappearance of a 16-year-old girl in Oklahoma and link it to the convicted serial killer Dennis Rader, nicknamed BTK for “bind, torture, kill”.

At a news conference on Tuesday, Osage county sheriff Eddie Virden said he had received a package from a woman in April containing a crossword puzzle Rader allegedly used to taunt investigators.

The words Rader used identified places, names or fantasies connected to the serial killer who murdered at least 10 people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991.

Rader was arrested in 2005, 13 years after the murders ceased, when he sent another clue – a floppy disk – to a TV station that contained data investigators used to uncover him as the killer.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/15/btk-serial-killer-investigation-new-clue

[North Shore Chicago]

1. Dennis Rader

*Psychopath

*Scout leader

*Active church member

*REPUBLICAN

[hlthe2b]

2. I'd gladly forgotten (mostly) about him. He's still alive apparently in El Dorado Max Security--Kansas

A fact that the article really ought to have included... sigh

Here's hoping there will be some truth for the family waiting since 1976...

[LeftInTX]

3. I'm surprised this wasn't figured out earlier