BTK Begins Serving Life Sentence for Murders
From Times Wire Reports
Dennis Rader has begun serving a life sentence for the BTK sex-murders that terrorized Wichita for 17 years. He was led into a maximum security prison in El Dorado a day after relatives of his 10 victims got a chance to vent their anger at his sentencing hearing on what one called “this social sewage.”
Rader, who wanted to be known as BTK for “bind, torture, kill,” got the stiffest sentence the law allowed: 10 consecutive life terms with no chance of parole for 175 years.
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