Between 1974 and 1991, Dennis Rader killed at least ten people in the Wichita, Kansas area before he was finally arrested and convicted to serve ten life sentences. He received the moniker “the BTK Killer” for using the term “bind, torture, kill” in letters he sent to local police. His daughter, Kerri Rawson, believed her father to be a loving family man. Then, in 2005, authorities showed up at Rawson’s door, asking if she knew that her dad was the BTK Killer.
This fascinating documentary takes a look at Rawson’s upbringing with her father, who, unbeknownst to her, was enacting a reign of terror, and her current life helping the police search for more of her father’s possible victims as well as advocating for sufferers of crime and trauma. Not many famous serial killers have children, and this is a gripping, poignant look at someone who lived almost their whole life closer to them than his victims.
