Kansas did not have the death penalty in the 17 years of his rampage.īut his guilty plea on June 27 pre-empted a much-anticipated trial. Rader, 60, is sure to spend his remaining days in jail, facing consecutive life sentences for each of 10 murders, including 40 years without the possibility of parole for the last one, in 1991. Rader, who terrorized this central Kansas city for three decades as 'B.T.K.,' a name he chose for his methods - bind, torture, kill. Such horrifying details, along with grotesque photographs and evidence of depraved sexual fantasies, emerged Wednesday in the opening day of an unusually lengthy sentencing hearing for Mr. Rader told investigators after his arrest, recounting how he let the girl's toes dangle a fraction of an inch from the floor to slow her death, then masturbated. 'I said, 'Well, honey, you're going to be in heaven tonight with the rest of your family,'' Dennis L. She squealed 'Momma, Momma!' And then Josie, all of 11, asked what would become of her. Her long hair got in his way as he tried to strangle her. There, he hanged her from a sewer pipe and yanked her white cotton panties down over her rope-bound ankles and the black Mary Janes below. 17 - Josie Otero had already watched the man strangle and suffocate her parents and younger brother when he led her to the basement he would later describe as his dungeon.
