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Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945), better known as the BTK Killer, the BTK Strangler, or simply BTK, is an American serial killer who murdered at least ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. Although he occasionally killed or attempted to kill men and children, Rader typically targeted women. His victims were often attacked in their homes, then bound, sometimes with objects from their homes, and either suffocated with a plastic bag or manually strangled with a ligature. In a series of crimes that terrorized Wichita residents in the mid-to-late 1970s, Rader also initiated a series of taunting letters he sent to police and media outlets, describing his crimes in detail and referring to himself as BTK (for "bind, torture, kill"). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dennis Rader is the 60th most popular extremist (down from 57th in 2019), the 1,543rd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,268th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Dennis Rader ranks 60 out of 283. Before him are Butch Cassidy, Pavlik Morozov, Tex Watson, Karl Denke, Friedrich Jeckeln, and Gary Gilmore. After him are Edmund Kemper, Fritz Haarmann, Tommaso Buscetta, Henri Désiré Landru, Aileen Wuornos, and Rodney Alcala.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Dennis Rader ranks 87. Before him are Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Tex Watson, Linda Lee Cadwell, Ken Hensley, Haris Silajdžić, and Joseph Kosuth. After him are Linda Harrison, George Alencherry, Joël Robuchon, Eizo Yuguchi, Türkan Şoray, and Frans Sammut.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dennis Rader ranks 1,543 out of 20,380. Before him are Barbara Bel Geddes (1922), Solomon R. Guggenheim (1861), Cesar Chavez (1927), Edith Wharton (1862), Gary Gilmore (1940), and Henry Way Kendall (1926). After him are Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807), Shia LaBeouf (1986), Harriet Jacobs (1813), Joel Schumacher (1939), Anjelica Huston (1951), and Dr. Dre (1965).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Dennis Rader ranks 23. Before him are Timothy McVeigh (1968), Jim Jones (1931), William Kemmler (1860), Butch Cassidy (1866), Tex Watson (1945), and Gary Gilmore (1940). After him are Edmund Kemper (1948), Aileen Wuornos (1956), Rodney Alcala (1943), Marvin Heemeyer (1951), Jordan Belfort (1962), and Axeman of New Orleans (null).

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