Police: BTK is arrested; Dennis Rader named as suspect in killings

It’s Being Reported police are saying they’ve arrested the “BTK” serial killer. The killer known as BTK is Wichita’s most notorious serial killer, now connected with eight unsolved homicides from 1974 to 1986.

BTK stands for “Bind, Torture and Kill,” a style of killing he used. The serial killer used the initials in letters he sent to local media.

In October 1974, several months after four members of the a family were killed, BTK contacted The Wichita Eagle to say he had placed a letter in a mechanical engineering textbook at the public library, and did something similar recently.