AmyW
03-05-2007, 09:29 PM
Has anyone else read the book? I just finished it today and was intrigued by Dennis Rader's life. Seems he started out bad and got worse as time went by. It amazes me how he was able to maintain a normal facade, do what he needed to do, and then turn around and become this monster. He was methodical and precise, learning from his mistakes, and took the lives of 10 people.
http://www.allenandunwin.com/Shopping/ProductDetails.aspx?ISBN=9781741750355
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WICHITA, Kansas (CNN) -- Self-described BTK serial killer Dennis Rader Thursday was sentenced to 10 consecutive life terms after the court heard emotional statements from his victims' families and listened to Rader himself express remorse.
With a minimum sentence of 175 years, Rader, 60, will spend the rest of his life at the maximum-security El Dorado Correctional Facility near Wichita.
The state's department of corrections will decide whether he will spend his time in a 23-hour lockdown cell or in the general prison population.
"I'd vote for general population," prosecutor Nola Foulston told CNN. (CNN Access)
She noted that pedophiles "don't usually fare well" in prison and added, "I think he ought to, you know, kind of hack it out with the rest of the guys there."
The sentencing was in many ways a formality, with the only issue before Sedgwick County District Judge Gregory Waller being whether Rader would serve his life sentences consecutively or concurrently.
Rader could not face the death penalty because Kansas did not reinstate capital punishment until 1994, three years after his last killing.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/08/18/btk.killings/index.html
http://www.allenandunwin.com/Shopping/ProductDetails.aspx?ISBN=9781741750355
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WICHITA, Kansas (CNN) -- Self-described BTK serial killer Dennis Rader Thursday was sentenced to 10 consecutive life terms after the court heard emotional statements from his victims' families and listened to Rader himself express remorse.
With a minimum sentence of 175 years, Rader, 60, will spend the rest of his life at the maximum-security El Dorado Correctional Facility near Wichita.
The state's department of corrections will decide whether he will spend his time in a 23-hour lockdown cell or in the general prison population.
"I'd vote for general population," prosecutor Nola Foulston told CNN. (CNN Access)
She noted that pedophiles "don't usually fare well" in prison and added, "I think he ought to, you know, kind of hack it out with the rest of the guys there."
The sentencing was in many ways a formality, with the only issue before Sedgwick County District Judge Gregory Waller being whether Rader would serve his life sentences consecutively or concurrently.
Rader could not face the death penalty because Kansas did not reinstate capital punishment until 1994, three years after his last killing.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/08/18/btk.killings/index.html