‘BTK Killer’ Dennis Rader’s former property searched in connection to cold cases

Investigators had been seen Tuesday looking the Kansas property the place infamous serial killer Dennis Rader as soon as lived in connection to long-unsolved lacking individuals and homicide instances.

Rader who known as himself BTK for “bind, torture and kill” — the best way he murdered his victims — is serving 10 consecutive life phrases after he confessed to killing 10 individuals between 1974 and 1991.

Authorities imagine he might have had extra victims earlier than his 2005 arrest and deputies with the Osage County Sheriff’s Workplace searched his former property in Park Metropolis to search for proof of further murders, native NBC affiliate station KSN reported.

“I can affirm we’re working leads on doable homicide and lacking individuals that could possibly be associated to BTK,” Undersheriff Gary Upton mentioned in an announcement to the brand new station.

Upton told Fox News that the search was spurred by the chilly case investigation into the disappearance of Cynthia “Cyndi” Daybreak Kinney, a 16-year-old highschool cheerleader who was reported lacking in June 1976. She was final seen leaving a relative’s laundromat.

Park Metropolis Police Chief Phil Bostian mentioned the sheriff’s workplace had requested public works to take away some cement on the property now owned by the town in an effort to dig beneath it, in response to KSN.

“The idea is he might have positioned proof of instances underneath stone pavers underneath the metallic shed he constructed within the early to mid-90s. Like drivers licenses in jars,” Rader’s estranged daughter Kerri Rawson advised Fox.

Investigators dug a gap in an space the place the shed as soon as stood, she mentioned.

The home Rawson grew up in and the place Rader reportedly deliberate his killings has lengthy been demolished.

Rader — who would usually brag about his murders in ugly element to the media earlier than he was caught — has beforehand denied being chargeable for Kinney’s disappearance.

Final month, the convicted killer wrote one other letter to a information outlet during which he claimed Gilgo Seashore murders suspect Rex Heuermann is a “clone” of himself.

Each males had been married with households and went undetected of their communities for many years till DNA proof tied them to the heinous killings.

Rader slaughtered his first victims, a married couple and their two kids, in January 1974 and went on to kill six extra individuals, all girls, via 1991.