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Like all young moms in Wichita, Kans., in the late 1970s, Paula Rader had every reason to be afraid. A killer was on the loose. He was known as BTK--for "bind them, torture them, kill them," from a note sent to the local newspaper after he murdered four members of the Otero family in 1974. By 1979, when Paula's daughter Kerri was born and her son Brian was 4, BTK had killed three more female victims. But years later, BTK would send the cops a photocopy of a book cover with the adage "Never kill anyone you know...
Thirty-one years after the first BTK attacks, Dennis Rader, 60, was charged last week with 10 counts of first-degree murder. Paula had been envied by women at her church for the way her husband doted on her, helping with her coat and always opening the car door. The possibility that her husband of 34 years might be BTK has left her "in quite a lot of shock," says Brent Lathrop, a friend of hers since elementary school and co-owner of the Snacks convenience store, where Paula has worked as a bookkeeper since 1985. She is not alone...
ARRESTED. DENNIS RADER, 59, a city worker suspected of being the BTK serial killer, linked to at least eight murders in the Wichita area in the 1970s and '80s; in Park City, Kans. The killer, who bragged of his crimes in letters to Wichita media in the late '70s and suggested his nickname (the initials stand for "bind, torture, kill"), had not been heard from for 25 years when he resurfaced last March with a letter to the Wichita Eagle, taking responsibility for a 1986 killing...
...approached the baggage claim I frantically tried to fix my cowlick because I could see the cameras rolling in the distance. Peter Rader, a Harvard alumnus and successful screenplay writer, was waiting for us with cameras in tow. The footage was for an upcoming documentary Rader is making concerning the relationship between Harvard and Hollywood, an apt scenario for our immersion into...
...most heart attacks by an average of 4.2%--about 10 times better than statins, the most effective drugs now on the market, and in the almost unbelievably short period of just five weeks. With only 47 patients, the study was too small to be definitive, but, says Dr. Daniel Rader, the University of Pennsylvania cardiologist who wrote an accompanying editorial in J.A.M.A., "it's very exciting for the field. It's something that I think no one expected. It really has everyone scratching their heads...