How Did BTK Use A Church Council Seat To Hide In Plain Sight?

Dennis Rader was the council president of Christ Lutheran Church in Park City, Kansas, on the morning of February 25, 2005. The Wichita Police Department was, at the same moment, on its way to arrest him. The thing that had identified him as BTK was a metadata trace from a Microsoft Word document he had saved to a church computer in his role as council president.

He had volunteered for the council. He had volunteered to print agendas. He had risen through the ranks to council president, the visible layperson at a small congregation. He had been doing both jobs for years. The killing and the church. The Cub Scout pack and the typed letters to the press. The compliance officer truck and the kits in the garage.

In the third chapter of host Tony Brueski's five-part Hidden Killers investigation, every official role Dennis Rader chose for himself gets examined for what it actually gave him. The ADT alarm installer job that put him inside hundreds of Wichita homes legally during the most active years of his killing. The Cub Scout pack leader role that put him in front of children while teaching them the family of knots that had been showing up at his crime scenes since 1974. The Lutheran council seat that gave him community standing and, eventually, identified him to investigators. The Sedgwick County Zoning Appeals seat. The Animal Control Advisory Board. The compliance officer truck.

This episode also walks through Misty King's story. A Park City divorcee who fled the state with her two children after Dennis Rader, in his city role, made her life unlivable.

This is the third uncomfortable truth of the series. Dennis Rader did not hide despite his costumes. He hid inside them.

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