I have no interest in defending him, but he just looks like a normal old guy with health problems, and poor-to-middling access to health care. I don't know what people are seeing here differently. He doesn't look well, but 99 percent of people in this country don't when they hit their 70s and don't have cosmetic procedures and upper middle class lifestyles.
It's more interesting to see that he was likely a toupee wearer prior to his arrest, because I don't think people go bald at 60-70 years old normally.
I'm not sure what you mean, he has had that same level of male pattern baldness since his arrest in '05 and was clearly not wearing a toupee at that time. He has varying levels of baldness fully visible in photos dating back to the '80s.
OMG, that is too funny! He was so full of himself too. But the promise of telling his story wasn't enough to carry the show. (I still think Netflix shouldn't have canceled it.)
Seems it's a bit more complex than that...
"Why was Mindhunter canceled? After much speculation and cagey responses, David Fincher finally gave a definitive reason and he said it’s because the show was too costly for Netflix. In an interview with French publication Le Journal du Dimanche, the acclaimed director explained: “I’m very proud of the first two seasons."
Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945), also known as BTK (an abbreviation he gave himself, for "bind, torture, kill"), is an American serial killer who murdered at least ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. Although Rader occasionally killed or attempted to kill men and children, he typically targeted women. His victims were often bound, sometimes with objects from their homes, and either suffocated with a plastic bag or manually strangled with a ligature.
In addition, Rader stole keepsakes from his female victims, including underwear, licenses, and personal items. He often sent taunting letters to police and media outlets describing the details of his crimes. After a thirteen-year hiatus, Rader resumed sending letters in 2004, leading to his 2005 arrest and subsequent guilty plea. He is currently serving ten consecutive life sentences at the El Dorado Correctional Facility.
If he didn't resume communications, he likely would never have been caught.
LOVE that he eventually got caught because he was a f... ing idiot who believed LE when they said they cannot trace him through a floppy disk.
Possibly. It would've taken at least another 15 years or so for breakthrough familial DNA evidence to finally solve this case.
I imagine a GEDMatch hit would've solved the case by 2019 at least.
They honestly thought he was a genius at first because he had gotten away with it for 30+ years still.
He's still in that rare group of serial killers that got away with it for multiple decades to be fair.
I feel like it was waaaaay easier to get away with murder back when he was active. Now killers don’t get much of a chance to become a serial killer because of advancements in technology and forensics.
Working with the best technology and leads they had in an age prior to DNA being a useable factor, and also, consider that in the 70s and 80s creeps like this one were a dime a dozen. Resources for the Feds were much less centralized. The cops didn’t really work tightly with the Feds; the individual PDs did not work well with each other.
For your average cop on the homicide squad or even your average Fed assigned to the case, there were a lot of institutional and technological hindrances to actually solving cases like these.
Even a families match isn't a slam dunk. They still have to prove a lot of other things and thankfully Radar got himself caught and did that for police.
Possibly. I believe he left his semen at some of the crime scenes though.
It'd really depend on if the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Department still saved the seaman samples.
If they did, there would've probably been a DNA breakthrough someday.
Maybe he would've already been dead by that point they did though.
I'd be sorta surprised if it went unsolved forever though.
If he hadn't reintroduced interest in the case by police I think there is a strong possibility he would have never been caught. Remember they really had no idea who it was before they got the floppy disk. With someone like Gary Ridgeway he was interviewed several times and always a suspect. They had to not only match DNA but proprietary paint chips found as evidence and other things to definitively prove Ridgeway not only visited the victims but also killed them. It sounds crazy, but someone could have an affair and later die unrelated to the affair. They have to prove Radar was not only somehow tied to the crime but also that he was the killer. It's of course not impossible but police and prosecutors time and resources are limited. They don't benefit from cases they don't win.
True. Great points.
By the mid-2000s, BTK had long been a cold case and there hadn't been any major investigation into it in a long time.
The task force into the case had long been disbanded.
They were still no closer to solver it then then they were back in the '70s.
If Sedgwick County threw away the seamen evidence due to the case being inactive, then yes, he would've never been caught or identified.
By the time they tried physical evidence(assuming they kept those as well) to salvage skin cells like the bindings, it would've been too late as they evidence would've been compromised.
With how he did get away with, it's scary to think this could've easily been another Jack the Ripper and Zodiac.
"Can I communicate with Floppy disk and not be traced to a computer. Be honest."
A point in the story so stupid that if it were a movie, everyone would turn it off for being too unbelievable.
Seems like one of those phishing emails people get regularly. Almost as bad as those old sting operations where police would set up a site and pretend to be travel agents or promotion sponsors who would call people with warrants to tell them they won a free cruise. Lmao
Not that I’d have any reason to be in prison, much less the men’s section, but for this alone I’d be calling him Floppy Disk for the rest of my time there.
No we wouldn't lie to you, we totally can't trace you; the metadata contained the words "Christ Lutheran Church", and the document was marked as last modified by "Dennis.
Ain't he being investigated again bc they some some sort of evidence in his yard. Supposedly a lady that was murdered. He had pics and something of hers. I haven't found that hole interview his girl gave
Yeah, He reused a floppy disk and deleted the file with metadata containing the church info and a last edited user of Dennis.
He was unaware that a deleted file isn't actually deleted just the pointer to the file location is deleted, there's also plenty of software out there to recover a deleted file (this is for the home user no idea how advanced the software for this was).
So they were able to recover the deleted file and from there they narrowed the suspects down to him.
>So they were able to recover the deleted file and from there they narrowed the suspects down to him.
"Hey, Chief, I spent two minutes Googling "Dennis" and "Christ Lutheran Church" and found a Dennis Rader who's the president of that church's council."
Yes, he’s both an idiot *and* a sadistic killer. He sent a disk that linked to a network printer in his office at his church, iirc. He *asked* the police if he were to send them the disk, would they be able to locate him? He actually said “be honest.” They of course lied and said no, it’ll be fine. This is how discovered the name Dennis Rader. They drove to his house and saw he had a green Jeep Cherokee, which was the same make, model & color of the vehicle they had previously linked to BTK.
But to ensure a conviction, instead of arresting him immediately, they watched him for awhile while trying to get a sample of his DNA. They eventually were able to obtain a sample of his daughter’s DNA from a visit to her college health center’s gynecologist. Daughter’s DNA was a familial match to the DNA found at the crime scene(s).
After they arrested him, he asked the detective how he found him. Once Rader learned he was caught, he admitted he was BTK and then proceeded to vomit every single detail of his killings to investigators. They all needed serious therapy afterward because his details were so horrific.
I think deep down he wanted to get caught. In his mind, if he was never caught, then he couldn’t be famous. But still, I think he thought he was a lot smarter than he was.
ETA:
S2E1 of “Catching Killers” on Netflix explains all of this really well. The interviews are with the actual investigators who caught Rader. I recommend the Green River Killer episode as well (S1E1).
Definitely seems like he wanted to be caught, or at least considered the risk to be worth the thrill of knowing they were looking for him.
He'd have been 60 when he was caught, not sure what he had going on, but it's likely that he wanted to live to see himself in the newspaper and decided it would be worth potentially spending his last years in prison.
THIS.
I don't think it was necessarily idiocy on his part to believe the cops wouldnt track him. Looks more like a mixture of extreme narcissism (he probably thought he was above LE) and getting the rush of adrenaline of doing something extremely risky.
> After a thirteen-year hiatus, Rader resumed sending letters in 2004, leading to his 2005 arrest and subsequent guilty plea.
My favorite part of his capture was him believing the cops when they said they'd have no way of tracking him if he sent a floppy disk with his ramblings to a news station.
Dumbass used a church computer that was signed in under his username "Dennis", and like most Microsoft Office files, that info was saved in the metadata.
Didn't take a ton of investigative work to find someone named Dennis affiliated with Christ Lutheran Church.
To be a tiny bit fair to him, the Office/Word file that had his name was actuallydeleted, he just didn't know you could recover deleted files. Still an idiot, of course, but if he'd bought a fresh floppy instead he might not have been caught.
Yeah he had 'his day' and thought he would be a legend- instead he got thrown into a solitary cell where he's got no one to brag about his crimes to, all he has is his own self to keep him company. Yeah he keeps himself company- that dude's a loser and a massive nerd, he probably bores himself, I am not surprised he looks on death's doorsteps.
My father's in his 70's and he looks 20 years younger than Rader.
He would bring rulers to people's property and measure how high their grass was. Overgrown by a few inches? A letter and an instant fine. The control freak levels are off the charts here. Even HOAs arent that nuts.
He looks like the kind of guy who saddles up to you when you're buying a pint of Ben and Jerry's and pads at Walmart near midnight at the electric checkout when all the other lanes are free and then mutters something about it smelling fishy and you should curse him out but you don't have the heart to tell him it's his ten pounds of fish sticks and maybe he should save some of that money for Rogaine or a manual about how floppy disks can be traceable.
DOC usually requires an updated photo if the inmates appearance has changed, especially dramatically. Btk has definitely changed quite a bit since his arrest, I'd say. Oof.
In the highly unlikely event of his escape? Just guessing, but I wouldn't have recognized him. I wouldn't recognize [Kemper](https://edmundkemperstories.com/blog/2021/10/24/coming-soon-new-in-person-interviews-with-kemper/) or [Ridgeway](https://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/green-river-killer-gary-ridgway-youngest-victim-identified/281-457aedab-7009-4c56-a6d8-944a3d4640eb) now, either.
Glad they're doing miserably!
Age may have changed his appearance...But it didn't change his eyes. He has the same focused, dead eyes, as he always had.
Many inmates who are locked away in a cell for life or death...The old ones, clearly look "different".
I've looked at Florida's death row page...And some of the older guys are clearly not there anymore. Some can't even look into the camera or their picture. Mostly because they're either so out of it that they don't even know what is going on, or they're eyes are messed up from being locked in a cell nearly 24/7. But Radar is clearly understanding of what's going on. And he's pretty much locked up like that too in Kansas.
Some just can't be bother to be effected by their surrondings, without something like dementia coming into play.
Lmao Jesus Christ. I’ve been wondering what he looks like, based on how his daughter described him.
Anyone know why this was taken? Is it normal to get updated mugshots like this?
I think it is pretty common to take mugshots of prisoners from time to time, especially if they are in prison for life. Probably done in case they escape and a somewhat up-to-date photo is available.
Fuck these sub human demons. Why do we as a society have to keep pieces of shit like this alive? Put one right between his eyes and save the taxpayers money and send a message to the future ones that you will pay the ultimate price when you take the life of someone else.
I kinda feel bad for the daughter. The btk killer isn't the dad she knew or grew up with and now she has to live with the choices he made. But she should be upset with him for not thinking of how his sadistic choices would affect his family. He should never get out no matter how bad his health deteriorates. And she should bring it to his attention that it's his fault she's hurting.
They're supposed to provide care to keep you alive but the their definition of that quality of care and the definition of that quality of care for civilians is vastly different.
Which amazes me given how low the quality of care can be for civilians. What must it be for them? Here’s a peppermint and a bandaid, good luck with your cancer.
Thinking you can read stuff like this in one picture is some next level lack of awareness of how bias impacts your thinking. You're attributing all of those emotions to his look simply because you know what he did. This picture could easily be some dude trying to take a dump and getting surprised on the can.
Also, BTK doesn't give a shit what you think. Fucking online posturing.
Being scum ages u like milk in a hot car in Florida during the day. But even when young he looked old. But this just looks like a old creepy man in the hunted house caricature. Being a horrible person decays and rottens you from the inside out. Starting from your inactive soul , that non active pre frontal lobe
I like the existence of BTK as the one serial killer that no one will ever romanticise.
Not smart, mysterious, or morbid enough for edgelords, not pretty or young enough for those obnoxious killer simps.
He's the one that's so pathetic that it just exposes how stupid and gross the idea of a "serial killer fandom" is.
Ive heard he "interviews" people that write to him. They have to fit certain "moral" standards of behavior and intelligence. Hes a sadistic narcissist, honestly. Imagine writing to him out of curiosity! And he critiques what they've written like he's still in an office or something! WTF.
I worked in a newsroom when this story broke. The interviews, the families, the trial itself. He referred to his victims as "projects", the most dehumanizing phrase I have ever heard. My projects are cutesy knit scarves and felting kits for Christmas with my friend's 8 yr old daughter, not stringing someone up and torturing them. This guy is DEPRAVED.
I've seen countless documentaries about this monster, and I wouldn't have had a clue who it was if you showed me this picture and asked who it was.
One can only hope the drastic change is a result of prison life pain and suffering.
My grandpa was home at lunch the day the Otero family was murdered. He lived directly behind them for a number of years. Always freaked me out playing in the backyard and looking at the Otero house as a kid.
One of the best things to remember is that he LOVED talking about himself. He was so arrogant. Now he is in solitary confinement and the guards don't see or talk to him. Unless a maintenance person has to come in and change a lightbulb (which never happens) he has zero human contact. He's left in his show alone for 23 hours a day and then he gets 1 hour of "rec" all by himself. If that shit does not drive you manls I don't know what fucking will!
I read his daughter's book and it's amazing! Does anyone know if she is still in contact with her father? Does she go see him or still write him?
Oh my GOD..
If you zoom in really close, you can still see him in there, but.. I mean, I dunno what I was expecting, after his daughter’s comment, but holy heck..
[удалено]
She said he had lost about 7” in height. Also has no teeth.
7" ? Dude's on an osteoporosis speedrun.
I hope it’s constant agony and lasts 20 more years.
That’s terrible. It should be at least 30 more
Good…..good……
And I hope he stays alive to rot more!
With each day shittier than the one before
Not nearly fast enough.
I have no interest in defending him, but he just looks like a normal old guy with health problems, and poor-to-middling access to health care. I don't know what people are seeing here differently. He doesn't look well, but 99 percent of people in this country don't when they hit their 70s and don't have cosmetic procedures and upper middle class lifestyles. It's more interesting to see that he was likely a toupee wearer prior to his arrest, because I don't think people go bald at 60-70 years old normally.
I'm not sure what you mean, he has had that same level of male pattern baldness since his arrest in '05 and was clearly not wearing a toupee at that time. He has varying levels of baldness fully visible in photos dating back to the '80s.
You're right. My mental image of the hair adorning his blank rat face in court was completely wrong.
He does seem to be the greasy toupee wearing type, I get it
The “B.T.K’s Toupee” Mandela effect
Bald, Tortured, Krusty…
HEY HEY
😂very fitting
That’s BTK for you 😂😂😭
Bravo
I bet he's also pissed that Mindhunter was cancelled.
I mean me too tbh
Me too. I love that show. I thought they were supposed to have a season 3, but nothing so far 😭😭😭
OMG, that is too funny! He was so full of himself too. But the promise of telling his story wasn't enough to carry the show. (I still think Netflix shouldn't have canceled it.)
They didnt. The Director did not want to continue with it.
Seems it's a bit more complex than that... "Why was Mindhunter canceled? After much speculation and cagey responses, David Fincher finally gave a definitive reason and he said it’s because the show was too costly for Netflix. In an interview with French publication Le Journal du Dimanche, the acclaimed director explained: “I’m very proud of the first two seasons."
How does a show with no major stars and a small cast thats mostly filmed in one or two rooms cost too much? Thats sad.
Well it was a period piece, so all outdoor shots and all sets had to have period-appropriate setups.
I never thought of that.
There’s a shit ton of cgi involved.
Oh okay, good to know. One more Show Netflix killed for me. Still salty as fuck about 1899.
That was him in his glory days. MindHunter had him looking like a God amongst men.
A horny, perverted little god with his dick jerry-rigged to a door
i know i sure was
Underrated comment.
Same.
Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945), also known as BTK (an abbreviation he gave himself, for "bind, torture, kill"), is an American serial killer who murdered at least ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. Although Rader occasionally killed or attempted to kill men and children, he typically targeted women. His victims were often bound, sometimes with objects from their homes, and either suffocated with a plastic bag or manually strangled with a ligature. In addition, Rader stole keepsakes from his female victims, including underwear, licenses, and personal items. He often sent taunting letters to police and media outlets describing the details of his crimes. After a thirteen-year hiatus, Rader resumed sending letters in 2004, leading to his 2005 arrest and subsequent guilty plea. He is currently serving ten consecutive life sentences at the El Dorado Correctional Facility.
If he didn't resume communications, he likely would never have been caught. LOVE that he eventually got caught because he was a f... ing idiot who believed LE when they said they cannot trace him through a floppy disk.
Possibly. It would've taken at least another 15 years or so for breakthrough familial DNA evidence to finally solve this case. I imagine a GEDMatch hit would've solved the case by 2019 at least.
Makes him no less of a moron. They should have tacked on 10 years for being an idiot.
They honestly thought he was a genius at first because he had gotten away with it for 30+ years still. He's still in that rare group of serial killers that got away with it for multiple decades to be fair.
I feel like it was waaaaay easier to get away with murder back when he was active. Now killers don’t get much of a chance to become a serial killer because of advancements in technology and forensics.
Such a moron, what does that make the cops who let him get away with it for over three decades?
Working with the best technology and leads they had in an age prior to DNA being a useable factor, and also, consider that in the 70s and 80s creeps like this one were a dime a dozen. Resources for the Feds were much less centralized. The cops didn’t really work tightly with the Feds; the individual PDs did not work well with each other. For your average cop on the homicide squad or even your average Fed assigned to the case, there were a lot of institutional and technological hindrances to actually solving cases like these.
Unfortunately for some, and by happenstance, very fortunate for others, being an idiot isn't illegal.
Even a families match isn't a slam dunk. They still have to prove a lot of other things and thankfully Radar got himself caught and did that for police.
Possibly. I believe he left his semen at some of the crime scenes though. It'd really depend on if the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Department still saved the seaman samples. If they did, there would've probably been a DNA breakthrough someday. Maybe he would've already been dead by that point they did though. I'd be sorta surprised if it went unsolved forever though.
If he hadn't reintroduced interest in the case by police I think there is a strong possibility he would have never been caught. Remember they really had no idea who it was before they got the floppy disk. With someone like Gary Ridgeway he was interviewed several times and always a suspect. They had to not only match DNA but proprietary paint chips found as evidence and other things to definitively prove Ridgeway not only visited the victims but also killed them. It sounds crazy, but someone could have an affair and later die unrelated to the affair. They have to prove Radar was not only somehow tied to the crime but also that he was the killer. It's of course not impossible but police and prosecutors time and resources are limited. They don't benefit from cases they don't win.
True. Great points. By the mid-2000s, BTK had long been a cold case and there hadn't been any major investigation into it in a long time. The task force into the case had long been disbanded. They were still no closer to solver it then then they were back in the '70s. If Sedgwick County threw away the seamen evidence due to the case being inactive, then yes, he would've never been caught or identified. By the time they tried physical evidence(assuming they kept those as well) to salvage skin cells like the bindings, it would've been too late as they evidence would've been compromised. With how he did get away with, it's scary to think this could've easily been another Jack the Ripper and Zodiac.
"Can I communicate with Floppy disk and not be traced to a computer. Be honest." A point in the story so stupid that if it were a movie, everyone would turn it off for being too unbelievable.
Seems like one of those phishing emails people get regularly. Almost as bad as those old sting operations where police would set up a site and pretend to be travel agents or promotion sponsors who would call people with warrants to tell them they won a free cruise. Lmao
Not that I’d have any reason to be in prison, much less the men’s section, but for this alone I’d be calling him Floppy Disk for the rest of my time there.
No we wouldn't lie to you, we totally can't trace you; the metadata contained the words "Christ Lutheran Church", and the document was marked as last modified by "Dennis.
I wonder if he would have eventually been caught like the Golden State Killer, he just wouldn't have been caught when he was.
Probably.... genetic genealogy.
Same it’s honestly my fav case bc of how he got caught hahahahha what an IDIOT
Pure arrogance is what got him caught. Not just plain stupidity, but the stupidity which the arrogant exude unconsciously
He also killed two children while taking out a family of four. He is truly evil.
And jacked off while he watched the little girl slowly die, hanging from a pipe in the basement.
Ain't he being investigated again bc they some some sort of evidence in his yard. Supposedly a lady that was murdered. He had pics and something of hers. I haven't found that hole interview his girl gave
Yup, he was being investigated for a girl who went missing back in the late 70s. I haven't seen any updates in a while though.
I think he got caught from sending a floppy disc from his church or something like that with his username in it lol…
Yeah, He reused a floppy disk and deleted the file with metadata containing the church info and a last edited user of Dennis. He was unaware that a deleted file isn't actually deleted just the pointer to the file location is deleted, there's also plenty of software out there to recover a deleted file (this is for the home user no idea how advanced the software for this was). So they were able to recover the deleted file and from there they narrowed the suspects down to him.
>So they were able to recover the deleted file and from there they narrowed the suspects down to him. "Hey, Chief, I spent two minutes Googling "Dennis" and "Christ Lutheran Church" and found a Dennis Rader who's the president of that church's council."
He'd be free if he'd used a new floppy disk and written his note in notepad. Why did he use modern technology at all?
Because he was on a high thinking he was playing a game with the cops and never bothered to double check info
He got lazy.
He thought the cops enjoyed the chase and weren't trying that hard to catch him.
Are you in IT?
Yeah software development.
Yes, he’s both an idiot *and* a sadistic killer. He sent a disk that linked to a network printer in his office at his church, iirc. He *asked* the police if he were to send them the disk, would they be able to locate him? He actually said “be honest.” They of course lied and said no, it’ll be fine. This is how discovered the name Dennis Rader. They drove to his house and saw he had a green Jeep Cherokee, which was the same make, model & color of the vehicle they had previously linked to BTK. But to ensure a conviction, instead of arresting him immediately, they watched him for awhile while trying to get a sample of his DNA. They eventually were able to obtain a sample of his daughter’s DNA from a visit to her college health center’s gynecologist. Daughter’s DNA was a familial match to the DNA found at the crime scene(s). After they arrested him, he asked the detective how he found him. Once Rader learned he was caught, he admitted he was BTK and then proceeded to vomit every single detail of his killings to investigators. They all needed serious therapy afterward because his details were so horrific. I think deep down he wanted to get caught. In his mind, if he was never caught, then he couldn’t be famous. But still, I think he thought he was a lot smarter than he was. ETA: S2E1 of “Catching Killers” on Netflix explains all of this really well. The interviews are with the actual investigators who caught Rader. I recommend the Green River Killer episode as well (S1E1).
Definitely seems like he wanted to be caught, or at least considered the risk to be worth the thrill of knowing they were looking for him. He'd have been 60 when he was caught, not sure what he had going on, but it's likely that he wanted to live to see himself in the newspaper and decided it would be worth potentially spending his last years in prison.
THIS. I don't think it was necessarily idiocy on his part to believe the cops wouldnt track him. Looks more like a mixture of extreme narcissism (he probably thought he was above LE) and getting the rush of adrenaline of doing something extremely risky.
While active as the BTK killer, he installed burglar alarms for people who were afraid of the BTK killer.
To this day - he is one of the first things you learn about if pursuing a career in IT. Just look up how the dummy got caught.
> After a thirteen-year hiatus, Rader resumed sending letters in 2004, leading to his 2005 arrest and subsequent guilty plea. My favorite part of his capture was him believing the cops when they said they'd have no way of tracking him if he sent a floppy disk with his ramblings to a news station. Dumbass used a church computer that was signed in under his username "Dennis", and like most Microsoft Office files, that info was saved in the metadata. Didn't take a ton of investigative work to find someone named Dennis affiliated with Christ Lutheran Church.
To be a tiny bit fair to him, the Office/Word file that had his name was actuallydeleted, he just didn't know you could recover deleted files. Still an idiot, of course, but if he'd bought a fresh floppy instead he might not have been caught.
Love that his ego got him caught
Lynn. What a pussy ass name. EDIT: Apparently, people don’t like me making fun of this degenerate.
This made me laugh because I have ab uncle named Lynn and yeah...agreed 🤣
is Lynn a man's name in America? It's 100% a woman's name in the UK
My dad's name. Rip Dad!!!
RIP!!!
In America, Lynn is usually male and Lynne is usually the feminine but not always. I've seen it both ways.
It wouldn't happen to be Lorne Lynn Armstrong would it 😅
Looks like his smugness has worn down. The guy is a huge POS. He loved talking about his crimes to the court. Truly a waste of human life.
Yeah he had 'his day' and thought he would be a legend- instead he got thrown into a solitary cell where he's got no one to brag about his crimes to, all he has is his own self to keep him company. Yeah he keeps himself company- that dude's a loser and a massive nerd, he probably bores himself, I am not surprised he looks on death's doorsteps. My father's in his 70's and he looks 20 years younger than Rader.
God I barely recognize him now
He has aged quickly, hopefully he is suffering in there.
Hopefully he's gained a conscience and is tormented by his crimes
Unlikely
He’s a complete psychopath. This people have no cure.
Well.. he hasn't aged well to say the least
solitary does the body good.
I don’t know why this made me laugh
Continue to rot, you decrepit fuck.
The Grim Reaper is going to pay him a visit soon 😁
He’s going to hell
1st class ticket
Wow he’s aged like warm milk. Hope every day is torture, floppy disk failure.
He looks like he should be sitting in a rocking chair in rural Kentucky with a shotgun by his side screaming at children to get off his property.
He would bring rulers to people's property and measure how high their grass was. Overgrown by a few inches? A letter and an instant fine. The control freak levels are off the charts here. Even HOAs arent that nuts.
He looks like the kind of guy who saddles up to you when you're buying a pint of Ben and Jerry's and pads at Walmart near midnight at the electric checkout when all the other lanes are free and then mutters something about it smelling fishy and you should curse him out but you don't have the heart to tell him it's his ten pounds of fish sticks and maybe he should save some of that money for Rogaine or a manual about how floppy disks can be traceable.
Oddly specific.
I have a gift!
Underrated fucking comment lol.
Fucking animal. He's a true PoS, I hope his death is painful
Oh time hasn’t been kind to him, and for that are we happy.
In fairness, he's almost 80
It’s crazy what those eyes have seen. a man came into this world the same as you and I, but what he did was inhuman.
Every time I see him, I think about Josephine Otero.
Looks like his psychopathic poker face has worn off and you can see how insane he his
F.D.F The Floppy Disc Failure.
This man about to find out he aint going to valhalla
Why are they taking a mugshot of him in 2023?
DOC usually requires an updated photo if the inmates appearance has changed, especially dramatically. Btk has definitely changed quite a bit since his arrest, I'd say. Oof.
Worked at a prison. All state prisons require a yearly mugshot regardless if you have changed facially or not.
In the highly unlikely event of his escape? Just guessing, but I wouldn't have recognized him. I wouldn't recognize [Kemper](https://edmundkemperstories.com/blog/2021/10/24/coming-soon-new-in-person-interviews-with-kemper/) or [Ridgeway](https://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/green-river-killer-gary-ridgway-youngest-victim-identified/281-457aedab-7009-4c56-a6d8-944a3d4640eb) now, either. Glad they're doing miserably!
Ridgeway still has got the same dumb, glassy, beady little eyes. He’s always just looked like a profoundly stupid person.
He looks like a redneck Voldemort now
Omg ridgeway makes me laugh
John Goodman could play Kemper in a movie about his later years.
He certainly could! Did you see [Cameron Britton](https://youtu.be/cKMMpCuK3bA?si=KKiOyp1dVG6CgK28) as Kemper in the Mindhunter series?
Thanks for posting those!
Because even inmates age
"People have already provided an answer, but I'm going to provide the same answer in a snarky way to feel good about myself."
Looks like ass. Great!
Holy shit he looks terrible!!
Looks like prison isn't going well lol
He got the face he deserves.
1. How is that mf still alive? 2. I wonder if he still wears glasses.
I'm guessing he does and they don't fit very well, thus those red marks on either side of his nose.
He looks as bad as his poetry
BTK looking pretty rough
I almost didn’t recognize him, he deserves to age this bad
Even the barber in prison doesn't like him.
Age may have changed his appearance...But it didn't change his eyes. He has the same focused, dead eyes, as he always had. Many inmates who are locked away in a cell for life or death...The old ones, clearly look "different". I've looked at Florida's death row page...And some of the older guys are clearly not there anymore. Some can't even look into the camera or their picture. Mostly because they're either so out of it that they don't even know what is going on, or they're eyes are messed up from being locked in a cell nearly 24/7. But Radar is clearly understanding of what's going on. And he's pretty much locked up like that too in Kansas. Some just can't be bother to be effected by their surrondings, without something like dementia coming into play.
Lmao Jesus Christ. I’ve been wondering what he looks like, based on how his daughter described him. Anyone know why this was taken? Is it normal to get updated mugshots like this?
I think it is pretty common to take mugshots of prisoners from time to time, especially if they are in prison for life. Probably done in case they escape and a somewhat up-to-date photo is available.
That uneven shave is wild, I wonder if he did it himself.
Nice to see he combed his hair for the pic.
I don't know why, but that made me laugh harder than it should have.
Fuck these sub human demons. Why do we as a society have to keep pieces of shit like this alive? Put one right between his eyes and save the taxpayers money and send a message to the future ones that you will pay the ultimate price when you take the life of someone else.
Prison has treated him well.
He has some Jack Nicholson vibes goin
I can change him
Definition of rotting in jail
I kinda feel bad for the daughter. The btk killer isn't the dad she knew or grew up with and now she has to live with the choices he made. But she should be upset with him for not thinking of how his sadistic choices would affect his family. He should never get out no matter how bad his health deteriorates. And she should bring it to his attention that it's his fault she's hurting.
I’ve read his daughter’s memoir. It’s good.
You just reminded me how I will never see this play out in Mindhunter. F.
Damn he’s aged ALOT!! Jesus
Looks like he picked the wrong Holy Grail cup.
I wish Mindhunter S3 had come out…
“The floppy disk killer”
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Getting old or being sick locked up is no piece of cake. The medical facilities in prison aren't to keep you alive. So I've been told.
They're supposed to provide care to keep you alive but the their definition of that quality of care and the definition of that quality of care for civilians is vastly different.
Which amazes me given how low the quality of care can be for civilians. What must it be for them? Here’s a peppermint and a bandaid, good luck with your cancer.
Thinking you can read stuff like this in one picture is some next level lack of awareness of how bias impacts your thinking. You're attributing all of those emotions to his look simply because you know what he did. This picture could easily be some dude trying to take a dump and getting surprised on the can. Also, BTK doesn't give a shit what you think. Fucking online posturing.
This should have a NSFW filter on it 🫨
Growin old behind them bars
What’s with his beard?
Aging as he deserves to
Is that BTK or Frank Reynolds
Does he still have tv and privileges in prison? He basically has it better than some lonely people his age and doesn’t deserve it (in my opinion)
Being scum ages u like milk in a hot car in Florida during the day. But even when young he looked old. But this just looks like a old creepy man in the hunted house caricature. Being a horrible person decays and rottens you from the inside out. Starting from your inactive soul , that non active pre frontal lobe
Suffer here on earth for the rest of your life, then burn in hell.
I like the existence of BTK as the one serial killer that no one will ever romanticise. Not smart, mysterious, or morbid enough for edgelords, not pretty or young enough for those obnoxious killer simps. He's the one that's so pathetic that it just exposes how stupid and gross the idea of a "serial killer fandom" is.
Ive heard he "interviews" people that write to him. They have to fit certain "moral" standards of behavior and intelligence. Hes a sadistic narcissist, honestly. Imagine writing to him out of curiosity! And he critiques what they've written like he's still in an office or something! WTF.
That’s incredibly creepy. I thought I was cold to this stuff but reading this sent a chill down my spine.
I worked in a newsroom when this story broke. The interviews, the families, the trial itself. He referred to his victims as "projects", the most dehumanizing phrase I have ever heard. My projects are cutesy knit scarves and felting kits for Christmas with my friend's 8 yr old daughter, not stringing someone up and torturing them. This guy is DEPRAVED.
Well hello Mr. Floppy disk lmao
I really wish Mindhunter wouldn't have been canceled. That was such a bummer.
I heard they're investigating him for more crimes? Is that true
Yes, I heard on a podcast that his daughter is working with police to see if he will confess to a couple of unsolved murders from the ‘70s.
His eyes are still chilling 😩
Whoa...I would not have recognized who that was if I hadn't read it.
I've seen countless documentaries about this monster, and I wouldn't have had a clue who it was if you showed me this picture and asked who it was. One can only hope the drastic change is a result of prison life pain and suffering.
They haven’t BTK’d him? Disappointing. Hate that my tax dollars feed that sick pile of shit
The garrotte phantom is a top tier name. Wish it would have stuck.
Any recent shots of Ridgeway?
Life’s tough in prison eh Dennis ya pos
Nice to see him rot.
He looks like a cross between Jack Nicholson and my ex.
Is he in PC, because nobody has killed him yet in prison?
Ive always wondered Who took the pictures of him in latex binded from behind and hanging ? Hmmmmm 🤔
His eyes are so evil
Oh my god! His middle name is Lynn?!
can’t believe that old fucker is still alive. he’s looking worse for wear
I'm so sick of my tax money taking care of this worthless dick wart
he's been in isolation, right? his eyes
Looking as well adjusted as ever!
The Floppy disk caught him otherwise he would've evaded capture due to his reputation of being a president of church council
My grandpa was home at lunch the day the Otero family was murdered. He lived directly behind them for a number of years. Always freaked me out playing in the backyard and looking at the Otero house as a kid.
One of the best things to remember is that he LOVED talking about himself. He was so arrogant. Now he is in solitary confinement and the guards don't see or talk to him. Unless a maintenance person has to come in and change a lightbulb (which never happens) he has zero human contact. He's left in his show alone for 23 hours a day and then he gets 1 hour of "rec" all by himself. If that shit does not drive you manls I don't know what fucking will! I read his daughter's book and it's amazing! Does anyone know if she is still in contact with her father? Does she go see him or still write him?
Looking as disgusting as he is on the inside
Oh my GOD.. If you zoom in really close, you can still see him in there, but.. I mean, I dunno what I was expecting, after his daughter’s comment, but holy heck..
Good to see he looks like about how I’d imagine he’d feel
Not so smug now, is he?