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This file concerns the FBI's 2004 assistance to the Wichita Police Department investigation of the BTK serial murders, later attributed to Dennis Rader. The records state that BTK committed eight murders in Wichita between 1974 and 1986, resumed public contact in March 2004 after a 25-year silence, and sent communications authenticated by the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit. July 2004 FBI memoranda document the Wichita-based task force, a request for FBI CIRG and ViCAP analytical support, and the reclassification of the case. Property records from August through November 2004 log boxes containing buccal and oral DNA swabs obtained during the investigation.

FBI file number: 166E-KC-87567 | Documents span: 2004 | Released in 1 part
Names in this file: Dennis Rader
Subjects: BTK, serial murder, Wichita, DNA evidence, FBI task force, ViCAP

See also: Dennis Rader (BTK) Case Summary