Authorities said Dennis Rader has always maintained that he did not experience physical or sexual abuse as a child, a hallmark characteristic of serial killers. Rawson couldn’t bring herself to attend her father’s court appearances, and after his plea and his sentencing in August 2005, "I shut down," she said. While one nightmare was ending for the town, the personal nightmare for Kerri Rawson was just beginning. Cops arrested Dennis as he was driving home for lunch.
He met his wife Paula, a bookkeeper for Snacks convenience store, at church and proposed marriage after only a few dates. My mom let me in her bed—that’s how I know he was gone.”. But then Rawson said she cut off communication with him again for five years afterward. And when her dad wrote, his letters sometimes went into the trash, where she dumped cat litter on them. “I have not forgiven him,” she said. I'm never corresponding with BTK," Rawson told "20/20." Church. She wrote again to her father, telling him once more that she forgave him.

She looked out at him from inside her apartment near Detroit—he was holding an FBI badge. Kerri remembered how he spoke sharply if she sat in his chair or failed to put her shoes away. TV crews camped outside, and when Darian drove to work, they followed.

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"Sexual, sexual fantasies. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? “I gave them a couple of months to decide. Paula had been fearful. All males probably go through some kind of, uh, sexual fantasy. The show includes never-before-heard audio interviews with Rader himself. But on her layover, she saw her father’s face on the airport’s TV screens. The FBI guy had asked Kerri for a cheek swab so he could double-check her DNA. Athletic and nearly five foot ten, she was no girlie girl, and he loved that. But he’s been dead to my mom for 12 years.”, My book, “A Serial Killer’s Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, And Overcoming” is available for pre-order.Amazon: https://t.co/J1ixGc9bVxBarnes & Noble: https://t.co/nOis1ROtVg…Christianbook .com: https://t.co/QePd63KTKY… pic.twitter.com/SK5w3wDfQB, With the release of Oxygen's special in September, Rader's sick desire for fame continues continues to come true. The album peaked at number two on the Billboard 200 and number one on the U.S. Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. ET on ABC. She even looked like her dad: same dark hair, same eyes. "I would wish no harm to you but some crazy individual might try something," Rader wrote. As Rader murdered innocent people — evading police and taunting media and police with clues— he led a relatively quiet family life in Wichita with his wife, Paula, and their two children, Kerri and Brian. Inside were documents taunting police with descriptions of planned murders, and a document with a question for investigators: Would it be secure to communicate further with them through a floppy disk? She now also has a son in addition to her daughter. But nothing about her life was spared, Kerri says. "When I was in grade school, I sort of had some problems," Rader says in the Oxygen special. ", "I wasn't corresponding with BTK. (Kerri gave permission for Parker to be interviewed for this story.) After the FBI agent left, she took down a picture of her father from the hallway and stuck it in a closet. Rawson described some of the letters she exchanged with her father in her new book, "A Serial Killer’s Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming.".