“Factor X is probably something I’ll never know. I actually think it may be possessed with demons. Uh, I was dropped on my head when I was a kid...”— Dennis Rader, nbcnews.comTagged: Serial Killers, BTK, Factor X, Head Injuries
“I just put it in one of the first letters. I’m always surprised I put it up there first. I think it was just — Bind, Torture, Kill. I put 'Poetic Strangler,” 'the Wichita Strangler,' 'BTK Strangler' and they put the BTK on me. They actually decided, it wasn’t me. They took one of those acronyms and…”— Dennis Rader, nbcnews.comTagged: Serial Killers, BTK, Wichita, Acronym
“I don’t think it was actually the person that I was after, I think it was the dream. I know that’s not really nice to say about a person, but they were basically an object. They were just an object. That’s all they were. I had more satisfaction building up to it and afterwards than I did the actual…”— Dennis Rader, nbcnews.comTagged: Objectification, Serial Killers, BTK
“You have to have the control, which is the bonding. That’s been a big thing with me. My sexual fantasy...if I’m going to kill a victim or do something to the victim, is having them bound and tied. In my dreams, I had what they called torture chambers. And to relieve your sexual fantasies you have to…”— Dennis Rader, nbcnews.comTagged: BTK, Serial Killers, Control, Sexual Fantasy