The BTK serial killer is again on police radar …however this time we’re instructed 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 individuals 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 needed to know if he was concerned within 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 individuals below 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 barely 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 within 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 concerning the Kinney case.
Virden mentioned investigators had been pursuing leads and doing their due diligence to see if BTK matches 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 data from BTK about his adolescence, army service and his murders.
Virden ended with this…”There’s extra analysis going to be achieved to both rule [BTK] in or out.”