Perhaps none were as prolific as Alcala, who operated for 11 years, mostly in California and New York. All three men promised to take photos of their victims, who were mainly aspiring models, before taking them to an isolated area and killing them. Serial Killers Who Posed As Photographersįor serial killers like Harvey Glatman, Rodney Alcala, and William Bradford, photography was a convenient tool to find victims and lure them closer. Others, like Robert Ben Rhoades or Jeffrey Dahmer, simply seemed to enjoy using photography to document their vile crimes.Ībove, look through 23 harrowing photos taken by serial killers. For example, Rodney Alcala and Harvey Glatman offered to photograph their victims before murdering them. They also take photos of their victims - trophies and mementos that they can use to relive their murders.Īnd some killers even used photography as a way to lure their victims in to begin with. "If he had just quit and kept his mouth shut, we might never have connected the dots.For some serial killers, taking a life isn't enough. "Him sending that disk is what cracked the case," Wichita Police Lieutenant Ken Landwehr told the ABA. According to the American Bar Association Journal, Rader was eventually caught after sending a floppy disc to a local TV station, which they were able to trace back to him with DNA evidence. He detailed this first killing spree in a June 2004 letter, per the Wichita Eagle, in gruesome details. While his sentence would be a minimum 175 years, per the article, Rader was not eligible for the death penalty, since capital punishment was reinstated three years after his murders had concluded.īTK's first set of murders involved four members of the Otero family in 1974, which audiences learn about in Mindhunter Season 2.
2005 for each of the murders he committed - all ten of which he pled guilty to. The BTK Killer evaded capture for over 31 years, according to the Washington Post, until he was sentenced to ten consecutive life sentences in Aug.
His first murders took place in 1974, per the Atlantic - a pattern which continued until 1991, when he killed Dolores Davis. Rader committed his ten murders in and around Wichita, Kansas, per ABC News. It comes even more clear when viewers see photos of the real BTK Killer in Mindhunter Season 2 compared to his onscreen counterpart (played by Sonny Valicenti).
While he's referred to in the credits simply as ADT Serviceman, it's clear that this creepy, bespectacled man is actually Dennis Rader, or the BTK Killer. What's more, viewers have already seen this man several times in Mindhunter.
Just minutes into the second season of David Fincher's Mindhunter, audiences learn what the "BTK" in BTK Killer stands for - Bind, Torture, Kill.
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