Robert Andrew Berdella Jr. (January 31, 1949 – October 8, 1992) was an American Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer, stalked the suburbs of Wichita for … Finally, on February 26, 2005, the BTK killer, self-named for his MO (“bind, torture, kill”) was arrested by Kansas police, his real named revealed to be Dennis Rader. After his tenth murder in 1991, B.T.K. The police have to do a lot of old fashion detective work with lack of physical evidence over a period of 10 to 12 days. (Bind, Torture, Kill) Killer tormented Sedgwick County through a series of heinous murders. was suddenly silent, only to reemerge in 2004, leading to the arrest and conviction of Dennis Rader. Dennis Rader, the admitted BTK serial killer, sits in court on the first day of his sentencing at the Sedgwick County Courthouse August 17, 2005, in Wichita, Kansas. On Friday, February 25, 2005 suspected BTK Strangler, Dennis Lynn Rader, was arrested in Park City, Kansas and later charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder. On June 27, 2005, Dennis Rader, the former church leader and Boy Scout leader, pleaded guilty as Wichita’s notorious BTK serial killer. Rader, of Park City, Kansas, has pleaded guilty to 10 killings dating back to 1974 (Getty Images) As the police tried their best to find him, BTK suddenly ghosted his … ... 2005, in Sedgwick County, Kansas. BTK was active for almost 20 years and wasn't caught until 2005. ... and eventually link the concept to that of a "serial killer." The day following his arrest Wichita Police Chief Norman Williams announced in a press conference, "the bottom line is that BTK has been arrested." Between 1974 to 1991, the B.T.K. With Jeff Downing, Dion Graham, Donie Hoffman, Mike Hutcheson. Since the 1970s, the Wichita serial killer known as BTK, for Bind, Torture and Kill, has frightened and fascinated the public, not only in Kansas but across the country. A serial killer of prostitutes based Kansas City taunts the police by calling several times to give them the locations of women he's killed. Bind, Torture, Kill: the mantra that haunted Kansas. The first came in November when the court decided Kansas City-area serial killer John E. Robinson Sr., who stored the bodies of some of his victims in barrels, must remain on death row. Although their numbers are few, just mentioning the names of the serial killers who have taken the lives of dozens of people in the Kansas City metro area can give people a queasy feeling.