Here’s another: http://www.zodiackillerciphers.com/?p=454. I’ll post about that soon. Idle hands, what is it?”The… The BTK Strangler had been active since 1974 and was still communicating with the authorities, sending letters to the media to feed his fame hungry need for recognition. The infamous Zodiac Killer who may have killed up to 27 people between 1968 and 1969 has finally been unmasked by a former detective. Rader was no genius but in this case he literally held the key to the solution and the code would never have been solved without knowing or guessing the keyword. I believe, however, that this is only a partial solution which I’ll explain. Warning: This article has graphic content that may be disturbing to some viewers. BTK stands for "Bind Torture Kill." I figured I would start a thread related to the codes sent by serial killer, BTK (Dennis Rader), in Wichita, Kansas. Post theories, questions, and discussion threads about suspects. Attention has refocused on BTK since March, when the Wichita Eagle received a letter with information on an unsolved 1986 killing. The above picture is an unreleased number puzzle that was sent by Rader in 2004. BTK was mad, says Loan (ph), because nobody was paying enough respect to his atrocities. The facts that the numbers increase consistently from a certain central point on the middle black line and that they match up with distances to many major Kansas Cities where Rader acknowledged “haunting” makes me pretty certain of the solution. There’s a couple other poems in the book by him too if you’re interested. This was then somehow used to convert the code based on this alphabet matrix to come up with the solution: A B C D E F G H I/J L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z. Some of the numbers match up with known locations of his stalking including Salina, Topeka and Hays, KS. I think the real intended message was essentially: “You think there are 7 BTK victims? OK... the above number puzzle clearly represents a crude map of Kansas and numbers indicate direction and driving distance, presumably from wherever Rader considered his home base, whether that be his home in Park City, KS or perhaps his church. IMO, it's going to be more like the one in this OP. ... help Reddit App Reddit coins Reddit premium Reddit gifts. I think that the BTK Killer, like the Zodiac killer, intended the letters to taunt the police rather than “specifically trying to help the cops track them down” as … They are not simply number crunching solutions. In John Douglas’s book Inside the Mind of BTK. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. On February 10, 1978, the killer sent another letter, this time to KAKE TV Channel 10 in Wichita (BTK, 1978). I also really doubt that serial killers are creating proofs for any of their codes or puzzles. I thought, well, that’s a corner house. The letter … Press J to jump to the feed. He has already chosen his next victim or victims. It was only when Rader – hungry for attention – started sending letters again in the new millennium … The most I've found are some news articles that quote parts of the letters, but not the entire thing. In the above example, I don’t know for sure if Wichita P. D. ever came to the same conclusion or whether Rader ever confirmed it. Was he lying about 14 or are there perhaps others that he hasn’t acknowledged because they are ones he wasn’t proud of or perhaps ones that would have potentially exposed him to the death penalty, which was reinstated in 1994? The slick ads were postcards he made of photos of barbie dolls and clipped out magazine ads to create torture and rape imagery, sometimes reflecting what he had done to victims. Society can be thankfull that there are ways for people like me to relieve myself at time by day dreams of some victim being tortore and being mine. That’s a possibility. The first contact from the BTK Strangler was made in October 1974, when he said in a letter that he was responsible for the slayings of four members of … They have a moral code of their own. I don’t know who they are yet. The first portion, “VAGIAN”, was presumed to be Rader’s misspelling (or miscoding) of vagina and was never publicized or discussed and the numbers were pretty much ignored. 1985 and 1986 both suffered murders now attributed to Rader. It is a mistake to think that psychopaths don't have a moral code. The number map pretty clearly indicates places outside of Wichita where he stalked specific “projects” (as he called them). BTK Confession, full version BTK killer Dennis Rader gave a dramatic, televised confession on June 27, 2005 in which he described killing 10 people. BTK killer on his way out, Bo Rader-The Wichita Eagle/Reuters Between 1974 and 1991 he terrorized the people of Wichita, Kansas by a series of ten murders. He told them that he left a letter at the Public Library in a mechanical engineering book. For those unfamiliar, here’s an overview of the BTK case and some suggestions regarding similarities to the Zodiac case. It also fits with the title of “BTK Haunts Ks. He revealed that it required a key word to solve but he was unable to explain exactly how he created it. … The code was not released or discussed until after Rader’s arrest in 2005 and police had no idea what it meant. It was likely copied multiple times to prevent an forensic identification of the copier. • July 17, 2004 --BTK left a letter (4th of year) in a drop box at the Wichita Public Library's main branch. The Defendant: On January 15th, 1974, I maliciously, intentionally and premeditation killed Joseph Otero. This greatly agitated Dennis Rader, and being the narcissist that he was, he started sending a series of letters to the police once again to revive interest in the BTK … The code words for me will be...bind them, torture them, kill them, BTK, you see he at it again. They know nothing at all. It's been about a month since last wrote you a unsent letter. That’s certainly up for debate but I think it’s interesting to look at how other communicating serial killers operated. I woke up this morning wondering how you're doing probably because I had a dream about you last night. In 1974, Rader killed four members of the Otero family, including Joseph and Julie Otero and two of their five children. Criminal Department. The letter was found June 9, 2004, in a package taped to a stop sign at First and Kansas. He sent several taunting letters to the media in which he claimed responsibility for the murders but in 1979 he went quiet. If you ask for help, that you have killed four people, they will laugh or hit the panic button and call the cops. Dennis Rader known as BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) made a chilling confession of his murders.