Dennis Rader (BTK killer)

What happened then?

Finally got the hand on her and got a nylon sock and started strangling her.

The evidence was there earlier.

DNA, floppy.

There was no way that I was going to get out of this.

He is an individual who has a very deep-seated sexual deviancy, that he is an individual that could not be stopped.

Even as a child, he got sexually aroused, not as a human being or a normal person would be by love or attention or emotion, but by violent behavior.

Every thought, every breath that he takes is sexually motivated.

He lives it, he breathes it, he walks it, he talks it.

His life is centered around what he needs sexually.

And then what happened?

What did Mr. Rader tell you about his need for bondage and why he did what he did?

Well, he was a practitioner of autoerotic bondage.

Basically, he would dress himself up in victim's clothing.

He would put himself into peril at some point in time where there was a heightened fantasy of some apoxia that would go on in an autoerotic situation.

It's very gratifying to be able to show what low-level mentality he has of what excites him.

Explain that.

Basically, the theory is that because of oxygen deprivation to the brain, because of either putting something over your face where you're not getting oxygen or you're cutting off the blood supply to the brain, and if this comes at the time of a sexual release, this is supposed to give you a heightened thrill fantasy.

We're going to show a series of photographs taken by Mr. Rader of his self-induced bondage.

And he would hang himself from a tree, is that correct?