I had never strangled anyone before. So I really didn’t know how much pressure you had to put on a person or how long it would take. Dennis Rader
It exploded on January 15 1974 ... I’m not exactly sure why. Dennis Rader
He killed to satisfy himself. He had no personal animosity towards any of the people that he killed. These were simply events or what he called projects that he was able to relieve himself sexually, to gratify himself. Dr Louis B Schlesinger, forensic psychologist
Police are about to confront a chilling scene of torture … What kind of heinous predator are they dealing with? Very Bad Men s3e4: BTK
They managed to trace one letter to a specific copying machine. ibid.
The capture of BTK is headline news. ibid.
November 1974 Wichita Kansas: A serial killer was attacking people in their own homes before Binding, Torturing and ultimately Killing them in pursuit of the thrill. The man behind these gruesome killings was living amongst his victims in the very town he was terrorising. World’s Most Evil Killers s3e6: Dennis Rader, Pick TV 2019
It took over thirty years for authorities to bring him to justice … his last murder taking place in 1991. ibid.
He was finally arrested in 2005 … He revelled in the attention. ibid.
For 30 years Dennis Rader lived as a pillar of the community he was secretly terrorizing; he was a cub scout leader who used the weekend camping trips as convenient alibis. True Crime Recaps: Dennis Rader, Youtube 26.44, 2022
Dennis Rader says he is a good guy who did bad things. ibid.
Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer: Bind, Torture and Kill … 10 victims … in Wichita, Kansas. He’s a pompous narcissistic man … He enjoyed taunting police. True Crime Recaps: 10 Most Terrifying Serial Killer Stories, Youtube 15.20, 2022
Wichita City Hall 22 March 2004: Inside [envelope] was a photocopy of three Polaroid photos of a dead woman. Catching Killers s2e1: Bind. Torture. Kill: BTK, rozzer, Netflix 2023
We used the media to appeal to his narcissistic side. ibid.
We were able to get a DNA profile for BTK. ibid.
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A quiet suburban town undone by an unspeakable crime. Crime Stories: Twisted Plot
Twenty-year-old Basma Rafay barely alive. Fifty-six-year-old Sultana Rafay is lying dead on the family room floor. ibid.
A baffling triple homicide [inc Dr Tariq Rafay] and two teenagers with a questionable story. ibid.
Burns and Rafay plead not guilty ... Atif and Sebastian are sentenced to three consecutive life terms. ibid.
Rafay and Burns guilty of murder, face life in prison. The Vancouver Sun headline
What’s the next legal move for Sebastian Burns and Atif Rafay, the former West Vancouver residents who’ve been behind bars for nearly two decades?
According to their lawyer, David Koch, the plan is to take their case to US federal court.
This comes in the wake of last Thursday’s decision by Washington State’s top court to deny the pair’s petition for a review of their failed bid in appeal court last July to overturn their triple-murder convictions.
In 2004, Burns and Rafay were found guilty of the murders of Rafay’s parents and autistic sister inside their suburban Seattle home in 1994 and sentenced to 99-year life terms. Vancouver Outlook online article 9th March 2013
We found Mrs Rafay face down on the ground; she had blunt force trauma to the head. From that room we went upstairs to Dr Rafay’s room – there was blood spatter, brain matter, the entire room was covered in debris from the murder of Dr Rafay. And then we went into Basma Rafay’s room, the daughter of Dr Rafay, she was still alive, and she later died at the hospital that morning. The two people that found them were Atif, Rafay’s son, and his best friend Sebastian Burns. The Confession Tapes I: True East part 1, rozzer, Netflix 2017
Teen Genius May Have Committed Perfect Murder, Say Cops: He’s been holed up in Canada since his family was brutally slain – and US police can’t touch him! ibid. newspaper headline
The Royal Canadian mounted police developed an undercover investigative technique called the Mr Big technique … The police officers disguise themselves as underworld figures. ibid. commentary
According to a 1998 US state department report, ‘Fuqra members have attacked a variety of targets that they view as enemies of Islam, including Muslims they regard as heretics’. The FBI noted that Fuqra likely committed a similar murder of an east Indian family living in Washington in 1984. The slain family were close friends of the president of Alpha Engineering. Alpha Engineering is the same firm that Tariq Rafay worked for when he and his family were murdered in 1994. ibid. captions
Defence accuses Mounties of illegal tactics. The Confession Tapes II: True East part 2, The Province newspaper headline 29 July 2003
The defence attorney says police ignored a fingerprint on this shower door, and they ignored a blood spot in the shower with DNA from Tariq Rafay and someone else, someone else who didn’t match any of the victims or Burns or Rafay. ibid. television news report
If they [Rafay & Burns] did do that incredibly bloody murder, why could they [rozzers] not come up with any forensics that was indisputably linked to the murder? Nothing. ibid. defence dude
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There was a party. There was a UK football player [Trent DiGiuro] who had been shot … Just a low-key party with some friends. Dateline: The Motive for Murder, NBC 2020
Concerning Shane Ragland being blackballed from the Fraternity: a silly reason to kill someone. ibid. rozzer
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In 2004 former US marine John Henry Ramirez stabbed and killed Pablo Castro. He was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death. After 8 years on Texas death row John will be executed in 7 days. John is making a final appeal to halt his execution. Life and Death Row: In Cold Blood, BBC 2018
‘It was just a bad day and a bunch of wrong choices on my part.’ ibid. Ramirez
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In August 1985 Los Angeles was in the grip of terror. A killer had been stalking his victims through the city at night for more than six months, and the police finally released a photofit. This cadaverous face now stared out from posters all over the city. It was now known that the same man had been responsible for at least a dozen brutal murders and scores of attacks. Great Crimes & Trials s2e18: Night Stalker, BBC 1994
On 1st June the killer struck again: bludgeoning an eighty-three-year-old woman to death. This time a new element was introduced as he drew satanic symbols on her thigh and the walls of her home with lipstick. ibid.
Ricardo Munoz Ramirez had been born in El Paso, Texas, 28th February 1960. ibid.
Night Stalker has killed 14. Los Angeles Herald headline
I love to kill people. I love to watch them die. I love all that blood. Ricardo Munoz Ramirez