BTK Killer Dennis Rader’s daughter reveals her father’s diary entry suggesting he sexually abused her

The daughter of notorious BTK serial killer Dennis Rader confronted her father in prison after investigators found his personal diary revealing he sexually abused her when she was too young to remember.

Kerri Rawson visited her father – better known by his self-chosen nickname BTK, for Bind, Torture and Kill – in October at a Kansas prison where he was sentenced to nearly two decades of life in prison after pleading guilty to murdering 10 people in 2005.

According to Fox News, it was only the fifth time Rawson had spoken to her father since the conviction.

“I sat just feet across from you; you collapsed, rotting in your wheelchair, I stood tall and brave and confronted you with the harsh, naked truth that you had kept hidden from me for over four decades,” she revealed on stage at CrimeCon 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee.

“They denied it, gaslit me, emotionally and verbally abused me, asked me what PTSD was, and then when I explained it, said I brought it all on myself,” she added.

She said Rader, who is confined to a wheelchair, became angry.

“I thought for a moment I was 16 again, running away from your angry fists – I actually got up and ran away from prison,” she said. “But I came back, sat down and confronted you harder.”

Rawson had volunteered to help the Osage County, Oklahoma, Sheriff’s Office investigate the disappearance of 16-year-old high school cheerleader Cynthia Dawn Kinney, who vanished in 1976.

Investigators are convinced that Rader’s twisted diary entries may have a connection to Kinney’s disappearance and asked Rawson for help deciphering some passages.

In one entry, Rawson came across her own name in capital letters: “KERRI/BND/GAME 1981.”

“BND” is Rader’s acronym for bondage, she said. Her sexually sadistic father was known for tying up his victims and sexually abusing them before killing them.

“I felt hot,” she said. “There it was, after four decades, concrete proof that you, my father, sexually abused me when I was a toddler.”

Rawson said she found similar entries throughout the diary.

Since reading his writings, she is sure that her father killed more than the ten people he admitted to. Rader denies killing more than the ten people.

He kept detailed notes on all of his victims and other people he ominously referred to as “projects.”

Law enforcement believe the project, titled “Bad Laundry Day,” may be a reference to the Kinney case, as she was last seen alive at her aunt and uncle’s laundromat.

Rader, 79, is in very poor health and is suffering in prison due to various ailments.

“Soon you will meet your maker,” Rawson said of her father. “You will have some things to discuss. You will be leaving soon. It is my final request to you to give up the spirits, if there are any left.”