Confessions of a BTK Maniac: Dennis Rader's Story as Told by Himself
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Confessions of a BTK Maniac: Dennis Rader's Story as Told by Himself
9.99 €
The autobiography of BTK, the maniac who inspired Thomas Harris and Stephen King. For the first time, the killer himself talks about his crimes and what motivated him to kill.
For thirty years, from 1975 to 2005, a serial killer nicknamed BTK terrorized the town of Wichita, Kansas. He coined his alias himself, alluding to the way he killed his victims: Bind, Torture, Kill - "Bind, Torture, Kill." When he was finally caught, the locals were shocked. The murderous sadist turned out to be none other than Dennis Rader, a well-respected citizen and head of the local church congregation. Dennis was extremely organized: he called his victims - real or potential - "projects" and could spend years tracking the townspeople he planned to kill. He invented acronyms for all aspects of his secret life and kept an organized file cabinet of everything related to the murders. Criminal psychologist Catherine Ramsland did the impossible: she persuaded Dennis Rader, still in prison, to reveal his soul to the world. After five years of correspondence and phone conversations, they created BTK's "controlled autobiography" - a first-person account of the killer, with commentary by a psychologist. For the first time, a maniac tells his story in the most intimate detail, from his first impulses to violence in early childhood to the moment of his capture. The book "Revelations of a BTK Maniac" vividly shows how maniacs and psychopaths think and how their twisted fantasies turn into brutal murders.
For thirty years, from 1975 to 2005, a serial killer nicknamed BTK terrorized the town of Wichita, Kansas. He coined his alias himself, alluding to the way he killed his victims: Bind, Torture, Kill - "Bind, Torture, Kill." When he was finally caught, the locals were shocked. The murderous sadist turned out to be none other than Dennis Rader, a well-respected citizen and head of the local church congregation. Dennis was extremely organized: he called his victims - real or potential - "projects" and could spend years tracking the townspeople he planned to kill. He invented acronyms for all aspects of his secret life and kept an organized file cabinet of everything related to the murders. Criminal psychologist Catherine Ramsland did the impossible: she persuaded Dennis Rader, still in prison, to reveal his soul to the world. After five years of correspondence and phone conversations, they created BTK's "controlled autobiography" - a first-person account of the killer, with commentary by a psychologist. For the first time, a maniac tells his story in the most intimate detail, from his first impulses to violence in early childhood to the moment of his capture. The book "Revelations of a BTK Maniac" vividly shows how maniacs and psychopaths think and how their twisted fantasies turn into brutal murders.
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