SK: BTK Denis Radar
I watched YouTube vid of his confession for 10 murders.
Here are some of the SK behaviours he described:
- Owning a 'Hit Kit' which was a briefcase containing the items he needed to commit the crimes.
- Hit Kit usually consisted of various items like guns, rope, bags for covering their heads, and props.
- He used props like a fake 'telephone line testing machine' when he entered a home after telling the female home owner he was working for the telephone company testing the phone lines.
- Radar bought special clothes he called his 'Hit Clothes', which were clothing items that were markedly different to his normal attire.
- He discarded the Hit Clothes after each crime.
- Radar described different stages of serial killer activity.
- 1st stage was Trolling for victims.
- Radar spent a lot of time trolling for potential victims. IIRC weeks or months.
- Trolling involved driving around sussing out homes and victims that would suit his crimes.
- 2nd stage was Stalking. Once Radar decided on a victim, he attempted to find out about them.
- He watched them to learn their schedules, where and when they moved about, how many family members they had or close friends etc. He even looked in their letter boxes to learn their names.
- Stalking helped him decide when to commit the crime to avoid detection.
- Radar called potential victims 'Projects'.
- Radar didn't implicitly state this, but next stage was buying his HIt Clothes and getting his Hit Kit ready.
- Some crimes were committed without his Hit Kit (IIRC), as sometimes he needed to improvise on the spot.
- Final stage was the crime.
- Sometimes he broke into the house and waited for the victim to get home.
- Another time he hid in the house until visitors left and the female victim was alone.
- Sometimes he lied his way in pretending to be someone he was not.
- He killed a whole family, 2 parents, 2 kids. But mostly had female victims.
- He used a gun to control victims.
- He feigned caring, offering victims glasses of water and asking if they were okay or needed anything.
- Radar told lies to victims, like saying he would rape them when he didn't rape them, or lying that he wouldn't harm them and then he strangled them.
- Radar was a sadist and enjoyed watching victims die, and listening to their screams when other members of their family were being attacked.
- Radar got sexual excitement from killing and masturbated over the victims and crimes, but never raped victims.
- Family members were tied up and usually put in separate rooms.
- Radar took Polaroid photos of deceased victims in various positions while they were still tied up. He even tied up some victims post-mortem just for the photos.
- He attempted to clean up crime scened before leaving, but sometimes he got interrupted and had to bail.
- He took trophies, but not always. He didn't take trophies if he got interrupted.
[video]https://youtu.be/jj5zeSDlqa0[/video]
Edit: I didn't take notes while watching the vid, so I hope what i've written here is fairly accurate.
