“We looked like a normal American family because we were a normal family,” she said in an interview. She describes the ordeal in a book, “A Serial Killer’s Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming,” which was published in January. She fell into a black hole that, 14 years later, she still hasn’t escaped. Her father, Dennis Rader, was a stamp-collecting, plant-growing, badge-wearing code enforcement officer who somehow found time to be a Cub Scout leader and church council president.īTK, which stood for “bind, torture, kill,” was a sexual deviant, a sadistic psychopath, a monster who murdered 10 people.īut Rawson would eventually learn her life had been a lie. He was being charged with being BTK, a serial killer who had terrorized Wichita for 17 years. The man, an FBI agent, knocked on her door, saying her father had just been arrested in Kansas. Her dread would soon be realized, but not how she imagined. A man parked outside her Farmington apartment in 2005 had been glancing at her second-story window for an hour.
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