NASHVILLE – After Oklahoma cold case investigators helped her discover an entry in serial killer Dennis Rader's diary that suggested he abused her when she was too young to remember, she confronted him behind bars.
Kerri Rawson visited her father, better known as BTK by his self-proclaimed nickname (bind, torture, kill) in a Kansas prison in October. It was the fifth time she had spoken to him since she pleaded guilty to killing 10 people in 2005.
“I sat in front of you; you crumbled, you rotted in a wheelchair, I stood tall and brave, and I confronted you with the hard, naked truth that you had hidden from me for more than four decades,” she revealed on stage. from CrimeCon. 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee. “You denied it, you turned me on, you emotionally and verbally abused me, you asked me what PTSD is – and then when I explained it to you, you told me I brought this all on myself.”
Rawson, who became a victims' advocate in the wake of her father's killing spree, said her father raged from his wheelchair.
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Kerri Rawson speaks at CrimeCon (Michael Ruiz/Fox News)
Dennis Rader, known as BTK, sits in court in Wichita County, Kansas. (Photo by Bo Rader-Pool/Getty Images)
“For a moment I thought I was sixteen again, running from your angry fists. I got up and ran away into the prison for a while,” he said. “But I came back, sat down, and took you on harder.”
Rawson agreed to voluntarily assist the Osage County, Oklahoma, Sheriff's Office in the decades-old death of Cynthia Dawn Kinney last year. Sheriff Eddie Virden has said he believes Rader may have been responsible.
Investigators asked Rawson to help her decipher some difficult-to-read passages in her notes, and she found her own name written in capital letters: “KERRI/BND/GAME 1981.”
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The El Dorado Correctional Facility where Dennis Rader, also known as the BTK Killer, is sentenced in El Dorado, KS. (Photo by Larry W. Smith/Getty Images)
“BND” is his father's abbreviation for slavery, he said, a method he used on the 10 innocent people he tied up and killed.
“My stomach twisted in white-hot lightning,” he said. “There it was, after four decades, compelling proof that you, my father, had sexually abused me when I was a small child.”
He said he found more similar notes later.
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BTS killer Dennis Rader is escorted to El Dorado Correctional Center in El Dorado, Kansas. (Photo by Larry W. Smith/Getty Images)
After reading them, he said, he believes his father attacked more than the 10 victims he admitted to killing.
Rader took notes on all of his victims, as well as other people, whom he called “projects.” Virden suspects that the project titled “Bad Laundry Day” may be a reference to the Kinney case. The teenager was last seen alive in her uncle's laundry room.
Rader, in previous letters to Fox News Digital, has denied any involvement in murders other than those to which he pleaded guilty. He could not immediately be reached for comment on his daughter's revelations.
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He is in poor health, his daughter said, using a wheelchair and recovering from a broken hip and other ailments.
“You will soon meet your maker,” he said, speaking to his absent father from the stage. “You are going to have some things to discuss. You will be leaving soon. It is my last request of you, that you abandon the ghosts, if there are any left.”
