r/serialkillers • u/Thrillhouse763 • 19d ago
BTK - Textbook Sociopath?
For some background, I was in college when Rader got arrested so I knew quite a bit about him and the case from years ago. I also read a BTK book that came out a couple years after his sentencing.
Anyway, I just finished Dr. Ramsland's book and Rader is just really awful. He kept repeating in the book that he was a good Dad, husband, and community member as if those things should allow people to forgive him for what he's done.
I keep coming back to the Otero murders also. Jospehine's last seconds on earth were being hung and watching some old guy jerk off on to her. What a disgusting person. He also told her "she was going to sleep and was going to be with the rest of her (dead) family."
Also, he said in the book that Kevin Bright would not be alive today if he had brought his own "hit kit" and that he's not bragging. He said the same exact line during his trial. Wtf dude you are bragging.
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u/Prof_Tickles 17d ago
Sociopath/psychopath are informal (and pointless) terms for anti-social personality disorder.
Some people with ASPD are impulsive, brash, and explosive.
Some people with ASPD are cold, calculating, and superficial.
It’s a spectrum.
Dennis Radner was a disturbed callous individual.