A killer caught
Dennis Rader begun to get older and as he got older he became weaker enabling him to murder as he did before. He had lost media exposure and he felt like the world was slowing forgetting about his murders. He did not like that. He wanted to the spotlight back on him. He started again to send in little notes or poems to the police talking in detail about the murders of Vicki Wegerle. He would communicate with the police through a newspaper column. He asked the police, if he sent in a floppy disk would they be able to trace it back to the computer. Of course the police, looking to seize this opportunity said no. So Rader sent in a floppy disk. He thought that he had cleared it before he sent it in. But the police found documents from the Lutheran church the Dennis was the president of. They then found a name on the documents. It was Dennis. They looked up the name Dennis in association to the church and found that the president of the church was named Dennis Rader. They then learned that Dennis Rader lived quite close to the victims houses even on the same street as one of them. They also discovered Mr. Rader drove a black Jeep Cherokee like the one they had surveillance tape of dropping off a piece of evidence. The police then tested Rader's daughter for DNA and discovered it was a close match to the DNA of the semen found at the crime scenes. They arrested Dennis Rader on February 25, 2005. Dennis Rader didn't talk at first but then gave a 30 hour confession, going into detail of each murder. On August 18, 2005 Dennis Rader was charged with 10 counts of murder and sentenced to 10 consecutive life sentences. A minimum of 175 years in prison.