Notorious BTK serial killer Dennis Rader’s daughter confronted her father in prison after investigators found his personal diary that suggests he sexually abused her when she was too young to remember.
Kerri Rawson visited her dad — better known by his self-given moniker BTK for bind, torture and kill — in a Kansas prison in October, where he’s be locked up for nearly two decades on a life sentence after pleading guilty to murdering 10 people in 2005.
It was just the fifth time Rawson had spoken to her dad since his conviction, Fox News reported.
“I sat feet across from you; you crumbled up, rotting away in a wheelchair, me standing tall and brave, and confronted you with the hard bare truth you had kept hidden from me for over four decades,” she revealed on stage at CrimeCon 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee.
“You denied it, gas lit me, emotionally and verbally abused me, asked me what PTSD is; and then when I explained, told me, I had brought this all on myself,” she added.
She said Rader, who is confined to a wheelchair, became furious.
“I thought for a minute I was sixteen again, fleeing your angry fists — I did get up and flee for a bit at the prison,” she said. “But I came back, sat down, and confronted you harder.”
Rawson had volunteered to help the Osage County, Oklahoma Sheriff’s Office investigate the disappearance of 16-year-old high school cheerleader Cynthia Dawn Kinney, who vanished in 1976.
Investigators believe that Rader’s twisted journal entries may tie him to Kinney’s disappearance, and asked Rawson to help decipher some passages.
In one entry, Rawson came across her own name in capital letters: “KERRI/BND/GAME 1981.”
“BND” is Rader’s shorthand for bondage, she said. Her sexual sadist father was known to tie up his victims and sexually assault them before killing them.
“My stomach twisted into white hot lightning,” she said. “There it was, after four decades, hard proof that you, my father, had sexually abused me when I was a toddler.”
Rawson said she found similar entries littered throughout the diary.
Since reviewing his writings, she’s sure that her father killed more than the 10 people he admitted to. Rader has denied killing any more than the 10.
He kept detailed notes on all of his victims and other people he ominously referred to as “projects.”
Law enforcement believes that the project titled “Bad Laundry Day” may be a reference to the Kinney case as she was last seen alive at her aunt and uncle’s laundromat.
Rader, 79, is in very poor health and is wasting away in prison from a number of ailments.
“Soon you will meet your maker,” Rawson said of her father. “You’re going to have a few things to discuss. You will be gone soon. It is my last request of you, to give up the ghosts, if any remain.”
