Frank Carlson Library

What is it like to learn that your ordinary, loving father is a serial killer? In 2005, Kerri Rawson heard a knock on the door of her apartment. When she opened it, an FBI agent informed her that her father had been arrested for murdering ten people, including two children. It was then that she learned her father was the notorious serial killer known as BTK, a name he'd given himself that described the horrific way he committed his crimes: bind, torture,...

The author interweaves events as they happened in her life in sequence with what the BTK serial killer was doing at those times.

The events surrounding the manhunt, capture and conviction of serial killer Dennis Rader, also known as the BTK Killer, who terrorized a small town in Wichita, Kansas and eluded and taunted authorities with clues, puzzles and obscene letters for nearly thirty years.

For 31 years, an unremarkable family man stalked, killed, and terrorized the people of Wichita, Kansas. He was a devoted husband. A helpful Boy Scout dad. A reliable, conscientious employee. A dependable church president. And behind it all, the notorious serial killer BTK--a self-anointed acronym for "bind, torture, kill." Four award-winning crime reporters for The Wichita Eagle, with the enthusiastic help of Wichita police lieutenant Ken Landwehr...