He still writes letters from prison, sometimes to criminology students studying his case, a haunting reminder that he continues to crave attention, even decades later.
Much of the aftermath has focused on Dennis Rader’s seemingly perfect family life — and the unimaginable shock his wife and children faced when they learned the truth: that their husband and father was one of the most notorious serial killers in American history.
Rader’s daughter in new documentary
A new Netflix documentary explores how Rader’s daughter Kerri Rawson — has processed the unimaginable.At the time of her dad’s arrest in 2005, Kerri was newly married and expecting her first child, living what she thought was an ordinary suburban life.
The revelation that her father was responsible for a string of brutal murders shattered that illusion, forcing her to confront the trauma of his crimes and reexamine her own childhood memories. That process of reflection led her to question what was real and what wasn’t, making healing even more difficult.
”You were a good Dad most of the time and raised us well, and we do not know what to believe – who you were to us, or who you were to others,” Rawson wrote her father in a letter dated Aug. 8, 2007.
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