Did BTK Kill A 16-Year-Old From Oklahoma In 1976?

Cynthia Dawn Kinney walked out of her aunt and uncle's laundromat in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, on June 23, 1976. She was sixteen years old. A cheerleader. Reportedly, she was last seen getting into a beige 1965 Plymouth with two women she did not appear to know. She has never been seen alive since. Her body has never been found. Almost fifty years later, her family is still waiting.

In August of 2023, the Osage County Sheriff's Office in Oklahoma released a journal entry in Dennis Rader's own handwriting. It described a fantasy of taking a young woman from a laundromat. Rader had titled the project. He had written the title on the page. "Bad Wash Day."

Rader has denied the Kinney case. He has given investigators an alibi. He has told reporters the sheriff lacks solid evidence. In September of 2023, the Osage County District Attorney Mike Fisher told reporters that in his judgment, the evidence does not support charges, and that the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation was following a different lead.

For BTK case followers, this fourth chapter of host Tony Brueski's five-part investigation walks through every cold case publicly named in connection with Rader during the years he was supposed to be silent. The 1976 Kinney disappearance. The 1990 Shawna Beth Garber case, officially attributed in March of 2024 to a different man. The August 2023 excavation of a property near Rader's former Park City home. The 2023 task force announcement by Sheriff Eddie Virden. The framework Dr. Katherine Ramsland developed in her decade of correspondence with him.

Dennis Rader is eighty-one years old. His health is declining at El Dorado Correctional Facility. Whatever he has chosen not to confess is going to leave the world when he does.

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