How Did A Church Council Meeting Agenda End BTK's Run?

On February 16, 2005, a purple Memorex floppy disk arrived at KSAS-TV in Wichita. The disk had been mailed by Dennis Rader. It contained a Microsoft Word file titled Test A.RTF. The file's content was unremarkable. The file's metadata was not.

The metadata showed two things. The file had been last saved on a computer at Christ Lutheran Church in Park City, Kansas. The user account that had saved it was named Dennis. Wichita Police called the church. The pastor, Michael Clark, confirmed there was a council member named Dennis. He confirmed it was Dennis Rader, the church's council president.

The case ended in a single phone call.

For BTK case followers, this fifth and final chapter of host Tony Brueski's investigation walks through the entire trap Lieutenant Ken Landwehr built over the eleven months of Rader's 2004 communications. The classified ad system Landwehr used to engage Rader through the Wichita Eagle. The lie Landwehr placed in the ad that read "Rex, it will be OK." Rader's typewritten cereal-box question asking whether a floppy disk could be traced. The forty-day gap between the question and the disk. The DNA confirmation from Rader's daughter Kerri's medical records, obtained under warrant without her knowledge or consent. The February 25 arrest at Rader's compliance officer truck near his Park City home. The thirty-plus-hour confession in which Rader corrected detectives when their facts were slightly off and asked, at one point, if they wanted him to draw a diagram.

The August 18, 2005, sentencing. The hour-long courtroom speech. Judge Greg Waller's ten consecutive life sentences. The closing roll call of the ten people Dennis Rader killed, named in order. The five uncomfortable truths the series exists to put on the record.

He caught himself.

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