The BTK serial killer is again on police radar …however this time we’re informed it is to see if he has any connection to the disappearance of an Oklahoma teenager again in 1976.
BTK (actual title: Dennis Rader) tells TMZ…he was interviewed January 20 by Osage County Sheriff, Eddie Virden and three different investigators at El Dorado Correctional Facility in Kansas. That’s the place BTK is serving 10 life phrases for killing 10 folks from 1974 to 1991. He was captured in 2005 after sending police taunting letters utilizing the moniker, “Bind, Torture, Kill.”
Rader mentioned the Osage County cops wished to know if he was concerned in the disappearance of 16-year-old Cynthia Dawn Kinney in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, on June 23, 1976. Kinney was reportedly final seen leaving Osage Laundromat and getting right into a beige 1965 Plymouth Belvedere with two folks underneath suspicious circumstances. No one has been arrested.
BTK mentioned police thought he might need a connection to the Kinney case as a result of he was actively committing murders in Wichita, Kansas, throughout that time-frame. Wichita is just a couple of 2-hour drive to Pawhuska.
The killer additionally mentioned cops requested him about his connection to Oklahoma and the Boy Scouts. BTK admitted he was in Oklahoma as a Boy Scout, however a number of years earlier than and after 1976.
BTK categorically denied any involvement in the Kinney case.
Sheriff Virden confirmed to TMZ…he and the opposite investigators visited BTK in jail to interview the serial killer in a roundabout manner relating to the Kinney case.
Virden mentioned investigators have been pursuing leads and doing their due diligence to see if BTK suits into the Kinney case contemplating his felony actions round that point.
Virden mentioned, “There’s similarities between the time frames. She disappeared in daytime – most of [BTK’s] stuff occurred in daytime hours. Some of the stuff that motivated [BTK] — there are similarities,” however Virden declined to additional elaborate.
During the interview, Virden mentioned he additionally gathered private info from BTK about his adolescence, navy service and his murders.
Virden ended with this…”There’s additional research going to be done to either rule [BTK] in or out.”
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