Serial slaughterer worked out to prepare for slayings

Notorious BTK serial killer, Dennis Rader, who terrorized the entire Wichita community with 10 brutal killings between 1974 and 1991 deeds were displayed today as prosecutors ask for the harshest sentence the law allows.

The law enforcement agents told his sentencing inquiry that the serial slaughterer worked out to put up his powers.

Rader had told law enforcement agents that he found killing people was harder work than he had expected so, as he continued killing, he worked out to get better his power.

The 60-year-old Rader, who called himself BTK, for “bind, torture and kill,” showed little sentiment on the first day of the inquiry.

But relatives of those he killed sobbed and hung their heads as they listened to how Rader stalked and gradually killed his victims, largely for sexual gratification, in a 17-year murder binge.

The evidence included photos of many of the bodies.

His primary victims were four members of the Otero family, whom he killed in their Wichita-area home in 1974. Rader said he went after the Oteros because he was involved to the Hispanic features of 11-year-old Josephine.

He killed her parents and younger brother while Josephine wept and called for her mother. Then he led the girl to the basement, telling her she would soon unite her family in ecstasy, Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent Larry Thomas testified.

According to Thomas, Rader detached some of the girl’s clothes, groped her and hung her from a sewer pipe, masturbating alongside her body as she died.

Throughout the evidence, the bespectacled, balding Rader was largely impassive, carelessly scratching his forehead or hidden his chin on his palm.

Victims’ relatives were expected to be a witness during the sentencing hearing, which could last three days, according to Sedgwick County District Court officials.

Rader was a one-time Boy Scout leader and before his arrest former this year was lay president of the congregation at Wichita’s Christ Lutheran Church where he was a usual Sunday worshiper.