“Dad was grieved over the loss of his father— he had loved him, very much. It’s impossible for me to reckon that with Dad taking the lives of ten innocent people.”— Kerri Rawson, amazon.com
“All families get into arguments, but what my father did was inexcusable. Yet, at the time, we dismissed it. It’d been that way as long as I could recall: Dad is under a lot of stress. He just lost control. He didn’t mean it. He will apologize soon.”— Kerri Rawson, amazon.com
“Dad committed murder three more times after I was born. Even now, it’s not possible to reconcile the man and life I knew with the other man— and his other life.”— Kerri Rawson, amazon.com
“My dad was raising children, yet he chose to take another mother away from her own children. He was about to have a daughter yet took two more daughters away from their families.”— Kerri Rawson, amazon.com
“The house I grew up in had deadbolts, which were always kept locked. No matter the time of day.”— Kerri Rawson, amazon.com
“Your Honor, Sedgwick County, victims.…The atrocious crimes I've committed has continued. Sedgwick County has a monster. I've brought the community, my family, the victims dishonor. There's no—it is all self-centered. It was what they call—I would call a sexual predator. Today is my final judgment fo…”— Dennis Rader, freewebs.com
“That particular day I had some commitments. I left those, went to one place changed my clothes, went to another place, parked my car, finally made arrangements on my hit kit, my clothes, and then walked to that residence. After spending some time at that residence—it was very cold that night. Had re…”— Dennis Rader, google.com
“Vicki Wegerle was a potential victim. I went through those different phases, locked in on her as I would call it and decided that I would try that date. I used a ruse as a telephone repairman to get in her house. [I] drove there in my own personal car around lunchtime having lunch hour or approximat…”— Dennis Rader, google.com
“She was chosen. I went through the different phases, stalking phase, and since she lived down the street from me I could watch the coming and going quite easily. On that particular date I—I had a—a other [sic] commitment. I came back from that commitment. Parked my car over at Woodlawn and 21st. Str…”— Dennis Rader, google.com
“Nancy Fox was another one of the projects. When I was trolling the area I noticed her go in the house one night. Sometimes I would—and anyway, I put her down as potential victim. …Well, I don’t know, if —you know, if you read much about serial killers, they go through what they call the different ph…”— Dennis Rader, google.com
“As before, Vian was a—actually on that one she was completely random. There was actually someone that across from Dillons was potential target. I had project numbers assigned to it. And that particular day I drove to Dillons, parked in the parking lot, watched this particular residence, and then got…”— Dennis Rader, google.com
“I had many what I call them projects. They were different people in town that I followed, watched. Kathryn Bright was one of the next targets, I guess, as I would indicate….Just driving by one day, and I saw her go in the house with somebody else, and I thought that’s a possibility. There was many,…”— Dennis Rader, google.com
“Well, I had—did some thinking on what I was going to do to either Mrs. Otero or Josephine, and basically broke into the house –or didn’t break into the house, but when they came out of the house I came in and confronted the family, and then we went from there….After I got in the house it—lost contro…”— Dennis Rader, google.com
“Factor X is probably something I’ll never know. I actually think it may be possessed with demons. Uh, I was dropped on my head when I was a kid...”— Dennis Rader, nbcnews.com
“I just put it in one of the first letters. I’m always surprised I put it up there first. I think it was just — Bind, Torture, Kill. I put 'Poetic Strangler,” 'the Wichita Strangler,' 'BTK Strangler' and they put the BTK on me. They actually decided, it wasn’t me. They took one of those acronyms and…”— Dennis Rader, nbcnews.com
“I don’t think it was actually the person that I was after, I think it was the dream. I know that’s not really nice to say about a person, but they were basically an object. They were just an object. That’s all they were. I had more satisfaction building up to it and afterwards than I did the actual…”— Dennis Rader, nbcnews.com
“You have to have the control, which is the bonding. That’s been a big thing with me. My sexual fantasy...if I’m going to kill a victim or do something to the victim, is having them bound and tied. In my dreams, I had what they called torture chambers. And to relieve your sexual fantasies you have to…”— Dennis Rader, nbcnews.com
“Just a quick glance and I knew all was lost. I saw in real life...now a on going mind view, the black and white, were now my new boss. I saw my life as I know quickly fade away. I saw my love ones, in mind and thoughts that I would never be able to touch, hold, communicate closely with and kiss with…”— Dennis Rader, foxnews.com
“The green color Pods at First were long and hollow. They had grown from Mother Earth, anti-society, into a wild vine. The vine with Pods, long and curling upward, had many follows; How each Pod has a unique Pea, that together walks a fine line. D.L.R., 4-19-05, Day 54”— Dennis Rader, freewebs.com