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Lawyers for both sides outlined their arguments yesterday as they gave their opening statements on the first day of the trial concerning the 2001 murder of a homeless woman who lived in the Harvard Square...
...statute of limitations not expired, Rader would also be facing a charge of attempted murder, in the case of the lone person attacked by BTK to have survived, Kevin Bright, whose older sister Kathryn was stabbed and strangled to death three months after the Otero murders. After lunch on a warm April day in 1974, the Brights came home from taking their sister Karen to the bank. A man in a black stocking cap, camouflage jacket and black gloves was waiting, gun in hand, in the front bedroom. "He told us he was wanted in California and was headed...
...January 1991, BTK allegedly strangled Dolores Davis--at 62, his oldest victim--and dumped her under a bridge. Then he apparently went into hibernation until January 2004, after the Wichita Eagle ran a 30th-anniversary story about the unsolved Otero murder mystery. Two months later, the Eagle received a letter that contained, among other things, the driver's license of Vicki Wegerle, a young mom killed in 1986. The return address read Bill Thomas Killman. His ominous initials: BTK. Since then, BTK has communicated in some form about once a month, and it was his last missive, sent...
...suspect someone of murder because he is nitpicky or hates stray pets--you probably just decide he is annoying. In fact, Rader's mix of good and bad traits makes him human and relatively normal--which is what experts, though perhaps not the rest of us, expect serial killers to seem. BTK "has done such monstrous crimes, so we want the guy to be a monster, drooling and with one eye in the middle of his forehead," says former FBI profiler Gregg McCrary, author of The Unknown Darkness: Profiling the Predators Among Us. "But we look right through them because...
...long as the Supreme Court does not revisit this decision). This shows that the U.S., against the odds, is still tiptoeing down the road towards moral progress—the road that the civilized world has been traveling for centuries. But this is not enough. The state-sponsored murder of the irresponsible is execrable, but the state-sponsored murder of calculating adults isn’t saintly, either. America must move to abolish the death penalty...