BTK Killer GAVE the police his name?

TorzJohnson

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Preliminary "gossip" I've read so far is that he sent a CD ROM to a Fox station in Kansas and there was a folder on it that he tried to delete, but it still had his own name associated with it. I sure hope this turns out to be true.

I guess when he was first setting up his computer he registered it under his own real name. Oh, he thought he was pretty smart, didn't he?
 
Ren the devils trailboss said:
BTK killer??? some news I dont know about?? :confused:
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Yeah, DNA evidence links Dennis Rader to at least 8 of the earlier BTK murders. They just had a press conference about it this morning. Lots of still breaking news on it... CNN story.
 
As an ex-cop, I learned early on to be eternally grateful that the typical hood was'nt very bright. As much as (we) might like to take credit for great dtective work, luck and stupidity always were appreciated.
 
I think he was worried that they might give him a name like "Tubby" or "Mr. Magoo", so he decided to try and get out in front of things....

S1
 
As alluded to by sendec, people will ask, "How did you find that guy". The answer is weeks, months and years of outstanding investigative techniques and police work, grinding out lead after lead - and then, somebody tells you who it is. A perfect example is the unabomber case. Thousands of us from all agencies worked in taskforces for years, and then his brother turns him in. The lone crazy guy is hard to find.
 
Okay, maybe I'm living under a rock, but whoe is this guy to begin with. Is this the creep in the Kansas/Ohio area who's been active for over 20 years or someone else entirely? In any case I hope they nail his butt to the wall, any killer deserves to get what's coming to them, but the ones that think they're so smart and like to taunt the LEO's with clues really piss me off.

Lagarto
 
or does he resemble a younger Harold Shipman?

Co-incidentally, Shipman started in practice in 1974.

Andrew.
 
Yep, my Grandpa always said, "Two people can keep a secret, as long as one of them is dead!"

Those criminals who adhere to the "Let NO ONE know about this," e.g., don't boast of how they've pulled off the perfect crime, are the the reason there are "unsolved" cases. Not to say that dedicated and focused investigative work doesn't solve cases; of course it does, but (in my own experience) usually when there are known suspects.

The out-of-towner who pulls off a crime, alone, with no witnesses, then goes bak home (wherever home may be) and forgets all about the incident may well never be caught.

Or, as forensic science advances over the following years, perhaps . . .
 
Anybody know what the percentage unsolved homicide is?

It seems like a very simple statistic to me, but I'm having trouble find it.

Ok, looks liek that cleared homicide rate is approximately 65%.
 
sniper308 who used to post alot on this site is a retired WPD officer. He was one of the responding officers to the Otero (sp) murder scene in the 70s.
 
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