In August , he was sentenced to 10 consecutive life sentences, which is a minimum of years. Rader was not eligible for the death penalty because his final murder happened three years before Kansas reinstated capital punishment. I hope somewhere deep down that will happen. He is let out of his cell for one hour a day, five days a week, to shower and exercise. But in a interview, his daughter did say he is starting to have health problems.
Probably more than normal. All males probably go through some kind of, uh, sexual fantasy. After spending time in the Air Force, Rader took a job at ADT Security Services to install residential and commercial security systems, per PEOPLE , where he learned how to disable home-alarm systems — a skill he'd later utilize to break and enter into victim's homes.
He met his wife Paula, a bookkeeper for Snacks convenience store, at church and proposed marriage after only a few dates. They wed in May , three years before he committed his first murders. On January 15, , Rader's dark fantasies turned into real-world action. That morning, he forced his way into the Wichita home of the Otero family after spotting them in their driveway. He confronted parents Joseph and Julie Otero, a young couple in their 30s, with a gun before suffocating Joseph with a plastic bag and strangling Julie with a rope.
Otero as comfortable as I could," he added. So I had him put a pillow down for his head I realized that I was already, I didn't have a mask on or anything. They already could ID me. And I made a decision to go ahead and put them down, I guess, or strangle them.
Then, he killed the couple's two youngest children, year-old Josephine and 9-year-old Joseph. Their older brother Charlie discovered the bodies when he returned from school that afternoon. Joseph was lying next to the bunk bed in his room, dead with ligatures around his neck, and Josephine was in the basement hanging from a sewer pipe. There was dried seminal fluid on the floor. Three months later, the body of year-old Kathryn Bright was found in her home.
She was bound with a cord, partially dressed, and had been stabbed several times in the abdomen and strangled, according to CNN.
Her brother, Kevin, was shot but survived. In October , The Wichita Eagle received a strange phone call from a man claiming to be the killer. He became notorious by taunting the media about his crimes, and that tendency to want credit for those crimes ultimately led to his capture. In , he mailed a floppy disk to police that authorities were able to get a DNA sample from. In fact, it was through his daughter's DNA that investigators were able to confirm his identity. While her book details how she and her father kept in touch for a while following his conviction, she noted that's over now.
She detailed to the horrified CrimeCon crowd some of the more disturbing alleged interactions between her and her father in recent years.
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Rader's daughter released a tell-all book.
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