“I wasn't corresponding with BTK. In 1974, Rader killed four members of the Otero family, including Joseph and Julie Otero and two of their five children. "I was born in '78," Rawson said. They needed to catch my dad. Police released the recording of his telephone call to police but this brought about few leads. “Overnight we called 200 policemen,” Relph said. On February 25, 2005, Dennis Rader was arrested and charged with … But after that, Rader, the BTK killer, went silent. It's a very lonely -- worst club you could ever imagine belonging to, being the daughter of a serial killer. When law enforcement matched Rawson’s DNA to the DNA found at the crime scenes, “we knew we had our guy,” Otis said. I just watched the 20/20 episode about BTK. “[I’m] trying to say, ‘I've gone through hell. What do you know about BTK? “He taught me right from wrong.” And that’s where Rawson — whose new memoir, A Serial Killer’s Daughter (released on Jan. 29), chronicles how her horror and anger were tempered by the love she felt for her father — came in. Kerri Rawson is seen here during an interview with "20/20. In an effort to avoid tipping Rader off, authorities obtained a search warrant to access Rawson’s medical records from her college’s health center. But she eventually understood that they had no choice. Kerri Rawson and her father, Dennis Rader, are seen here in this August 1995 family photo. Now, they were certain that Dennis Rader was BTK and they had DNA to prove it. I had gone back to church. It was a close match. He got these dolls dressed them to look like his victims, put them into the boxes with ... some of the victims' items,” she added. Click here to get breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases in the True Crime Newsletter. “He says, ‘Let me know ... in the classified ads of the Wichita Eagle, that it's OK. In 2003, Rader walked his daughter down the aisle at her wedding. Kerri Rawson's father Dennis Rader walked her down the aisle at her wedding in 2003. Dennis Rader is seen here building a treehouse in the family's backyard in 1983. “There was a lot of hard work in me, with faith. Introducing ... PEOPLE's Products Worth the Hype. ", “I would wake up screaming, sitting up in bed, and my mom was always the one that would come comfort [me],” she continued. "It was a normal day. "I'm talking to my father. You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications. Don't ever give up. “It scared me. Rawson continued. She believed her father was away on a Cub Scout camping trip with her older brother. “Most of the time, [my father] was even-keeled and kind and warm,” Rawson continued. Credit: Kerri Rawson, the daughter of the notorious serial killer Dennis Rader, reveals how her life changed forever when she discovered who her father really was. “It felt,” she says, “like an invasion of my privacy.”. And then he says, 'Your dad has been arrested as BTK. Rawson went to Kansas State University, where she met her husband, Darian. When the murders began in the 1970s, DNA technology had yet to be developed. Idle hands, what is it?”Th… Rader, now 73, pleaded guilty on June 27, 2005, to 10 counts of first-degree murder. Rawson is emphatic that neither she, nor her mother or her brother knew anything about their father’s killings prior to his arrest. So she's like, ‘Well, what is jail?’ And I was like, ‘Well, it's like a really long timeout.’”. “We opened it up and it was pictures of Vicki Wegerle, who was killed in 1986 in her home.”. After all, it was his daughter, who was the key that leads to his capture. I had my family. She stated that she wished they had asked her permission beforehand, saying that she would have willingly gave her DNA. It has taken Rawson nearly 14 years to be able to finally talk about her father’s secret double life and his arrest — which devastated her family and nearly destroyed her. I'll look for that ad and if I see it, give me a couple weeks to send you something,’” Otis said. I was working on my relationship with God, working on my own heart.”. The test proved she was the daughter of the man investigators were looking for. But detectives traced a computer disc he sent them — with Rader’s name embedded in the disc’s metadata — to a local Lutheran church where he volunteered. Pretty easy if … “But I am forgiving him for what he did to our family.”. No matter what you're going through, you can get through it,'” she said. Less than two years later, in September 1986, Vicki Wegerle became Rader’s ninth victim. “They needed to catch my dad. BTK Killer's Daughter Kerri Rawson: 'I'd Give Anything Not To Be a Serial Killer's Daughter' this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. “I live with depression and anxiety. Text us for exclusive photos and videos, royal news, and way more. ET. It's a very lonely -- worst club you could ever imagine belonging to, being the daughter of a serial killer.”. They needed to be safe about it. “So law enforcement put an ad in the paper that said ‘Rex, it’ll be OK,’” said Tim Relph, a Wichita Police detective. They interviewed his daughter. “She would sit there and I would say, ‘There's a bad man in my house,’ and she's like, ‘No, there's no bad man in your house.’”. “They were trying to save the community [in Wichita] and prevent him from committing any more murders.”, RELATED: Why I Still Love My Serial Killer Dad: ‘The Man I Knew Could Be Good and Decent’. “I had my family. In early 2005, police retrieved DNA from Kerri Rawson, the married daughter of Dennis Rader. I don't know a psychopath. Athletic and nearly 5 … Kerri Rawson grew up worshipping her doting, protective father, Dennis Rader. I would have willingly given it.”, RELATED: The Shattering Moment I Learned My Dad Was the Notorious BTK Serial Killer. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? But she also unwittingly gave police the final piece of the puzzle they’d spent 30 years searching for — and unmasked her father as the brutal “BTK” serial killer who had terrorized her hometown of Wichita, Kans., for decades. When Rawson reached her mother on the phone the day she found out, "You could just hear her [my mother] break ... just utter grief and loss," she said. “Cereal boxes because serial killer,” said Dr. Katherine Ramsland, a forensic psychologist and author of "Confession of a Serial Killer, the Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer.". “I’m not forgiving him for what he did to those other families,” says Rawson. It was in April 1985 that Rader murdered his eighth victim and neighbor, Marine Hedge, who lived just six doors down. '", "You don't want to believe it’s true," Rawson continued. But you're, sort of, alone. “I’m BTK’s daughter,” she writes. They needed to do it quick. "I was substitute teaching and I took the day off. She said they obtained DNA through tissue from a pap smear she had done. Rader’s wife Paula was granted an emergency divorce while Dennis was in jail, and his children had no desire to recount their lives. “At times, he could be very firm or have flashes of anger or outbursts that you weren't expecting.”. For more than 30 years, the BTK killer haunted the community in and around Wichita, Kansas, torturing and murdering 10 people, including two children. Get push notifications with news, features and more. Kerri Rawson, daughter of the BTK killer When the BTK — which stands for “Bind, Torture, Kill” — was finally caught in 2005, Dennis Rader’s wife and his daughter Kerri even refused to believe it. From the moment the FBI agent broke the news to her, Rawson said it felt like her "whole life was a lie.". In her first television interview, Kerri Rawson spoke with "20/20" about her father, Dennis Rader. She never suspected the man she was reading about online would turn out to be her father. Then began the task of linking Rader to the BTK crime spree. Coyote Ugly Turns 20: Where Is the Cast Now? I was like, 'You mean the person that's wanted for murders back in Kansas?' I had therapy. The two-hour 20/20 documentary airs tonight at 9pm ET on ABC. “I understand why nobody approached me,” she says in the documentary. BTK por fin había cumplido su sueño: hacerse famoso. A man who was nearly 60 by that point, balding and wore glasses. "My dad murdered a young woman when my mom was three months pregnant with me.". I started having night terrors around that time. I was like, 'My father is a good guy. They secretly obtained a DNA sample from Rader's daughter, then in college, and compared it to semen left at some of BTK's crime scenes. DNA Taken From BTK Killer's Unwitting Daughter Led to His Arrest: 'They Needed to Catch My Dad' Kerri Rawson, the daughter of BTK Killer Dennis Rader, did not know her DNA … As time has passed, Rawson said she tried for nearly 10 years to avoid telling people she was Rader’s daughter. And I was in between work. Can you please tell us why? ", he was being named among the most notorious serial killers, (MORE: The 'BTK' Case: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer), targeted four members of the Otero family, (MORE: FBI 'unraveling true extent' of convicted killer's crimes after he confesses to 90 murders), (MORE: 'Possible serial killer' nabbed in Texas slayings charged with capital murder; police vow to 'up our game' with parolees), (MORE: Cops to suspected serial killer: 'We know it's you. She said a pastor at their church encouraged her to write to him as he was in jail, which she did. “He has said himself that he just got busy raising kids and having a family,” Rawson said. As a result of the lack of evidence, the case was considered a cold case in 2004. I love the man that I knew. “It would have been nice if somebody had asked me for my DNA. Kerri Rawson will never forget getting the knock on her door on Feb. 25, 2005, that changed her life forever. Rader was finally caught in 2005 after cops secretly obtained his daughter's DNA and matched it to the BTK killer. They took her annual pap smears to get samples of her DNA for testing. “They found out I had had annual pap smears and they got a warrant for my medical records,” Rawson says in an ABC 20/20 documentary on that airs tonight at 9 p.m. Kevin Bright was a BTK survivor and described her killer as “an average-sized guy, bushy moustache, ‘psychotic’ eyes”. We looked like a normal American family because we were a normal family. The investigation at the time of the killings had very few leads, there was DNA evidence but after extensive testing a match had not been found. I'm already ... uptight, thinking, 'Who is this person in my apartment building?' It was in 2005, after DNA testing became a possibility and 'BTK' had resurfaced, that Rader was finally identified and arrested. Rawson said she first read about the serial killer in Wichita in an article on ABCNews.com. “They were just doing their job and they were heroes,” she told PEOPLE in last week’s cover story. "It's taken me a long time to even be able to say that out loud," she said, referring to her book title. After her father’s confession, Rawson tried to find ways to cope with what had happened. So they used Rader's daughter's DNA … They wanted DNA. The daughter of Wichita’s notorious serial killer breaks her silence in an exclusive local interview with Susan Peters. I had my husband. “We were living our normal life. Kerri Rawson is seen here fishing with her father Dennis Rader in this 1982 family photo. He asked, 'Do you know who BTK is?' “I had to learn how to grieve a man that was not dead, somebody I loved very much that no one else loved anymore,” she said. Kerri Rawson, the daughter of BTK serial killer Dennis Rader, released her memoir on Tuesday. But you're, sort of, alone. For years, there were no killings, no phone calls to police, no letters left around town or sent to journalists. "And then he says, 'Your dad has been arrested as BTK.'". That’s a possibility. Rawson said she began writing her father again in 2012, and still does to this day, because she has forgiven him. Before they could arrest Rader, however, police needed to match DNA evidence to the scenes of the murders. Kelly Otis. '), (MORE: Why former FBI agent thinks 'Golden State Killer' suspect fits the serial killer profile). I'm talking to the man that I lived with and loved for 26 years. Rawson decided to come forward to talk about her story now, after all this time, she said, because she wants to start taking control of her story. Kerri Rawson, the daughter of Wichita, Kansas, BTK killer Dennis Rader, is attacking Stephen King for using her father as the inspiration for his new film. Ramsland corresponded and met with Rader over the course of five years after he was incarcerated. So Rader decided to send a letter to the Wichita Eagle under the name “Bill Thomas Killman,” or “BTK” as the return address. Rader later told authorities he snuck away from the event that night to commit the murder and returned to the campsite in the morning. He was finally arrested in 2005 after resurfacing to announce that he was preparing to kill again. Rader tells Dateline of happening upon Mrs. Otero, “She came out of the house and took the kids to school, so I followed them to school. “If we had had an inkling that my father had harmed anyone, let anyone murdered anyone, let alone 10, we would've gone screaming out that door to the police station,” she said. Who Is BTK’s Daughter, Kerri Rawson? He is currently serving 10 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole. On February 25, 2005 Dennis Rader was arrested. The law enforcement had strong circumstantial evidence pointing him out as the BTK killer but needed something concrete like DNA proof. The Rader family, his wife and two children, refused any media requests for years, naturally. Dennis Rader Rader's mugshot at the El Dorado Correctional Facility Born Dennis Lynn Rader (1945-03-09) March 9, 1945 (age 75) Pittsburg, Kansas, U.S. Other names The reports of BTK’s return were explosive. He killed 21-year-old Kathryn Bright later that year and his next two victims, Shirley Vian and Nancy Fox, in 1977. There is a lot of talk here about DNA and genetic sites. Investigators started Googling the church and found the website for Christ Lutheran Church in Park City, whose president was named Dennis Rader. I still love my dad today. Looking back, Rawson said she was 6 years old at the time of Hedge’s death. Kerri Rawson told "20/20" that, on Feb. 25, 2005, the FBI arrived at her home to tell her that her father Dennis Rader had been arrested and identified as the BTK serial killer. Dennis Rader had killed 10 people by the time this family photo was taken in 1998. I thought, well, that’s a corner house. If you would like to opt out of browser push notifications, please refer to the following instructions specific to your device and browser: DNA Taken From BTK Killer's Unwitting Daughter Led to His Arrest: 'They Needed to Catch My Dad'. And, you know, she was, kind of, like, "Well, where's the other grandfather?” Rawson said. Mom was pregnant with her in 1977 when BTK murdered Nancy Fox. I understand why nobody approached me. ... And we knew he was leaving work. By 1991, when Rawson was 12 years old, her father got a job as a compliance officer in the Wichita suburb of Park City, Kansas. Rawson said her mother was granted an emergency divorce in July 2005. “I was mad. Daughter’s DNA Led To BTK’s Arrest Kevin February 28, 2005 Justice 8 Comments Wichita news station KWCH reports that sources close to the investigation of the BTK serial killer confirm that a crucial mistake led to the arrest of Dennis Rader. “The problem is if you live such a quiet, private life, it sits inside you and eats at you because it's like something you have to hide or something you have to be ashamed of,” Rawson added. BTK serial killer Dennis Rader listens to testimony in the sentencing phase of his trial Wednesday in Sedgwick County Court in Wichita, Kan. Rader is waiting to be sentenced on 10 counts of murder, Aug. 17, 2005. Find out what your cat is trying to tell you with a new cat app, Princess Diana died when Harry was just 12 years old, Mitchell Tenpenny Reflects on the Grief of 2020 — and the Blessings He Sees Ahead of Him in 2021, Mom of 4 Wakes from COVID-Related Coma One Day Before Family Planned to Take Her Off Ventilator, Engineer Creates App To Translate Your Cat, The Sweetest Photos of Princes Harry with Diana, Sean Connery's Cause of Death Revealed Weeks After He Dies at Age 90. Rawson couldn’t bring herself to attend her father’s court appearances, where he recounted how he tried to make one of his victims comfortable offering him a pillow as he was killing him. I had my husband. Credit: Rader's killing spree began in January 1974, when he targeted four members of the Otero family, killing Joseph and Julie Otero and two of their five children. In her new book, "A Serial Killer’s Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming," Rawson describes struggling to reconcile the loving father she knew with psychopathic murderer known as BTK. The first nights, Kerri and her husband, Darian, slept as if one of them needed to … Most in Wichita believed he just disappeared. “It would've been nice if someone had asked me for my DNA. Credit: Instead of taking a chance of extracting DNA from Rader himself, the detectives attempted to confirm the sample on the victims with a sample from his daughter. I was done. ...… At the time, it felt like an invasion of my privacy.”. In the years after his last killing, the Rader family continued to live their everyday lives. "I was gripping the wall next to my stove, [the room] was spinning, [I was] saying, 'I think I'm going to pass out,'" she said. On Feb. 25, 2005, police arrested Rader, who had been on his way home to have lunch with his wife. "But it is the truth.”. She now also has a son in addition to her daughter. "And you know ... the father you know is not capable of any of this.". “No longer Kerri — she’s gone.” Initially, Rawson, her mother and brother kept in touch with Rader, writing him letters in jail. His office was down the hall from the Park City Police Department. “Somehow I knew -- at 6 -- that her body had been found and that she had been murdered and she had been strangled,” Rawson said of her neighbor. “He thought this is a great joke. ... That's not the man I knew and loved.”. As she started to learn more, Rawson said she assumed the killer “was a loner,” some guy who had been in trouble with the law in the past. I had therapy. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. Take this quiz and find out. DNA Taken From BTK Killer's Unwitting Daughter Led to His Arrest: 'They Needed to Catch My Dad' More Kerri Rawson grew up worshipping her doting, protective father, Dennis Rader . Then, the Wichita Eagle newspaper ran a story in 2004 about the 30th anniversary of the unsolved Otero family murders. Courtesy Kerri Rawson, | To Rawson, her childhood seemed normal. When investigators got into the disk’s metadata, Relph said it showed that the disk had been in a computer registered to Christ Lutheran Church and a user named Dennis. ", "He asked, 'Do you know who BTK is?' “Eventually the disk arrives, and it is taken directly to a forensics software detective.”. WICHITA, Kansas (CNN) -- The daughter of the man whom Wichita authorities arrested in the notorious BTK serial killings approached police with her … Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office via Getty Images. The FBI guy had asked Kerri for a cheek swab so he could double-check her DNA. A young Kerri Rawson is seen here with her father, Dennis Rader, opening a Christmas present in 1981. You, too, can overcome things. “It was a very long journey,” Rawson said. In this family photo, Dennis Rader lifts his daughter Kerri Rawson up to place the star on top of the family Christmas tree, Dec. 1984. Police in Wichita, Kan., could not ask Dennis Rader, shown here in 2005, for a DNA sample in order to confirm he was a murderer known as BTK. This included four members of the Otero family—Julie Otero (the matriarch), Joseph Otero (the patriarch), 11-year-old … She said the family lived in a three-bedroom ranch house with a dog, and a treehouse her father built for her and her older brother in the backyard. Five years passed, and in January 1991, Rader murdered his 10th victim, Dolores Davis. He was known for taunting the Wichita community, local media and police with letters, sometimes phone calls, seeking recognition and detailing his horrific crimes. “I'll never forget that day,” said former Wichita Police Det. BTK serial killer's daughter: 'We were living our normal life. Larry W. Smith/EPA/REX/Shutterstock, | Rader eventually confessed. WICHITA, Kansas (CNN) -- The suspect in the BTK serial killings is awaiting his first court appearance, and there are conflicting reports on the role his daughter's DNA … Kerri Rawson, the daughter of BTK Killer Dennis Rader, did not know her DNA was being used by investigators. After pleading guilty to ten murders, Rader is now serving a 175-year sentence. And we were going to catch him right before he got to his house.”. I'm never corresponding with BTK," Rawson contined. By the time Kerri Rawson (nee Rader) was born in 1978, her father had already murdered seven people. “We had helicopters. 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