“Seriemördarens daughter breaks the silence: ”the FBI knocked on the door””
“In 26 years, lived Kerri Rawson, a normal american life in a normal american family.”
“Then tapped the FEDS on the door.”
“Her dad was outed as a serial killer.”
“Dennis Lines thither the police in more than 30 years before he was arrested in 2005.”
“He took the lives of ten people in the Wichita, Kansas, and made himself known as the BTK-killer. The letters stand for ”bind, torture, kill – bind, torture, kill.”
“It was so he killed his victims and it was as he called himself in all the letters and phone calls to the local newspaper and the police. Cat – and råttaleken stretched over several decades before the Lines could be apprehended, on February 25, 2005.”
“Kerri Rawson was at home in his apartment in Michigan on the day. She worked as a substitute teacher and had taken off.”
“– It was an ordinary day. I was about to begin, ” she says in an interview with the tv company ABC.”
“– I thought: Who is this person in my house? Then he said that he came from the FBI.”
“the Agent asked her if she knew who BTK is.”
“– You mean the person who is wanted for murder in Kansas? I said. Then he said: Your father has been arrested as the BTK.”
“Dennis the Rows worked in the church.”
“Karri Rawsons life changed in an instant. Dennis Lines was that which the family man, even for her. He was my father. A bald man in his mid-60s, with glasses. Chairman of the local church. A scout leader.”
“She couldn’t believe what she just heard.”
“– I laid after the wall next to the fireplace. The room began to spin. I said: I think I pass out.”
“– the FBI agent asked things about my dad, the date and stuff, and I tried to almost give him the alibi. I said: My dad is a nice guy. You don’t want to believe it is true. The dad I knew was not capable of anything like that here.”
“Dennis Lines is today 73 years old and is serving ten life sentences, one for each murder. In an interview from prison last year blame he for the murders of chance.”
” I personally believe, and it is not specifically christian, but I think I have a demon in me. It got into me when I was young. And it controlled me.”
“He committed his last murder in January 1991. Then there was silence. The calls to police came to an end, no more clues in the letter to the local newspaper, no more searching for attention.”
“most people in Wichita thought BTK had disappeared.”
“the Wichita Eagle brought the serial killer again.”
“Thirteen years later, in 2004, drew the attention of the local newspaper, the Wichita unpaid economic activities done of the 30th anniversary of the unsolved murders of the family of Otero, the first BTK committed.”
“– We wrote in the article that no one remember him anymore. It aroused his wrath, says the redaktionschefen Michael Roehrman to ABC.”
“the Story got Dennis Lines to send a letter to the newspaper. As the sender he had written ”Bill Thomas Killman” – BTK.”
“I’ll never forget the day,” says the police investigator stood up Kelly Otis.”
” We opened the letter and found a picture of Vicki Wegerle who was murdered in his home in 1986.”
“Cat – and råttaleken resumed suddenly with full force. Dennis Lines sent letters and postcards to local media. Among other things, he wrote that he dumped a package with breakfast cereals along a country road.”
“It was a play on words. Cereal is called ”cereal” in English. It is pronounced the same way as in ”serial killer” – serial killer. “
“– He thought it was a good joke. In flingpaketen la he dolls that he had dressed so that they would resemble his victims. There were also belongings from some of the victims, ” says Katherine bjã rn ramsland, a rättspsykiater which examined the Lines after he was arrested and wrote a book about him. “
“Left the letter on the floppy disk in the cereal box.”
“But flingpaketen would finally reveal the serial killer. In one of the last – submitted by a member of staff at a building – he submitted a letter to the police, where he asked if he could send a floppy disk without being traced.”
“Be honest”, wrote the Lines in the letter and urged the police to leave a message in the lokaltidningens annonsspalt.”
“– So we put out an ad in the newspaper where it was ”Rex, it’s ok”. Then came the floppy disk and taken directly to the kriminalteknikerna, said Tim Relph, one of the investigators, to the ABC.”
“In the metadata found police the information that it used in a computer in the local church, by a person with the username Dennis.”
“then, When the saved dna sample from the attack was matched against the dna from the daughter Kerri was BTK revealed. There was a house search at her old school health care where the investigators got access to the stored pap smear.”
” I had no idea. It would have been nice if someone had asked me about dna. I had willingly let them get it. But I understand why no one came to me. They needed to arrest my dad, and not risk anything. At the time it seemed, however, as an assault on my private life, ” says Kerri Rawson to the ABC.”
“Kerri Rawson writes book about their feelings.”
“Dennis Lines was arrested when he was on his way home from work. 200 police officers had been called in. Nothing had to go wrong.”
” We had helicopters, we had a combat vehicle. We knew he would be home and that we would catch him before he reached his house, said Tim Relph. “
“Kerri Rawson, 40, has now written a book with the title ”A serial killer’s daughter: My story of faith, love, and overcoming”.”
“– It has taken a long time for me just to be able to say it out loud. But it is the truth. I was born in 1978. My dad murdered a young woman when I was in mommy’s tummy and she was pregnant in the third month.”
“She describes her childhood as normal. The father was ”mostly sweet and hot”, even if he could sometimes get ”unexpected outbreak”.”
“In the april 1985 murdered Dennis Lines of his eighth victim, Marine Hedge, who lived just six houses from the family. The murder affected the then-six-year-old Kerri deep.”
” somehow, I knew that her body had been found and that she had been strangled. It scared me. I started to get nightmares. I could wake up and scream and my mom was always the one who came and comforted me. I used to say: ”There is a bogeyman in my house” and she said, ”no, there’s no bogeyman in your house.””
“When the father was arrested and confessed to the killings raged throughout her world. She has been in therapy, sought the support of their faith, have been treated for stress disorder.”
“she says She has moved on, that sorrow turned into forgiveness. Since 2012, the communicate she with her father in prison.”
“– I talk with my dad. I’m talking with the man I lived with and loved for 26 years. I still love him. I love the man I knew. I know no psychopath.”
“She says that she breaks the silence to take command of their own story and to give support to others.”
” I have gone through a living hell. I’m still here. You can also get over things. Never give up, no matter what you go through so you can make it.”
