BTK Killer Dennis Rader | Sentencing Statement — Transcript
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- 0:00generator do you desire to say anything
- 0:02on your own behalf and mitigation of
- 0:04punishment your honor Cedric County
- 0:07convictus
- 0:10I do realize that the crimes have
- 0:12committed
- 0:14[Music]
- 0:17okay
- 0:20and then trust's crimes have committed
- 0:22is continues of the Sedgwick County is a
- 0:26monster
- 0:27we brought the
- 0:29community
- 0:31the family the victims Dishonored
- 0:36and there's no and it's all
- 0:38self-centered as if you could call I
- 0:41would call the sexual pedicure
- 0:43today is my final judgment
- 0:46for me
- 0:48unless probation Court presented by the
- 0:51state the PowerPoint presentation was
- 0:54very powerful
- 0:56like a couple of things I might point
- 0:58out for the last but overall
- 1:00most of that was true
- 1:02and I think we Sedgwick County ought to
- 1:06be proud to think do have a good state
- 1:09that the evidence was there earlier DNA
- 1:12floppy
- 1:14it was there was no way that I was going
- 1:15to get out of this
- 1:18[Music]
- 1:21remorse responsibility and Corrections
- 1:24or the concepts
- 1:26of apology
- 1:29the old need
- 1:31started whatever was factor x
- 1:34sexual predator the volcano was the
- 1:37building of all those years was the
- 1:39Otero and probably the most devastating
- 1:43upsetting that means everybody is
- 1:45results of me
- 1:49I just don't know
- 1:51I self-centered
- 1:54very selfish
- 1:55[Music]
- 1:57exploded on that day it did continue
- 2:01off and on
- 2:01[Music]
- 2:03dishonesty definitely dishonestly
- 2:06probably the first thing to the people
- 2:08that I encountered
- 2:11that they trusted I was wanting to climb
- 2:14up take their money
- 2:15and leave
- 2:17and then I killed him
- 2:19that's
- 2:20just honestly to my family
- 2:24[Applause]
- 2:25[Music]
- 2:31no why and she she's self-interest come
- 2:35on players and to the county you know
- 2:37the taxpayers money
- 2:40[Music]
- 2:42um
- 2:45for identical responsibility yes I had
- 2:48Pride back then to some degree I'm
- 2:51trying to drop down to that but that's
- 2:53the media I I seem to Crave the
- 2:55attention of the media
- 2:57I think through the years that has quite
- 2:59presentation during the presentation and
- 3:01all the archives that you can understand
- 3:03that
- 3:05is it I think the bottom line is the old
- 3:09selfish
- 3:10all right
- 3:12just associated with with Society
- 3:15self-centered for my own purposes and I
- 3:18take that full burden on my shoulders
- 3:21[Music]
- 3:24victims
- 3:26[Music]
- 3:27there are some notes down
- 3:31I don't know if it's really filter or
- 3:33not
- 3:34and these things came a lot of these
- 3:36came out paper because I didn't I knew
- 3:38the people
- 3:39you all know why I've chosen
- 3:41but I thought I'd share some things
- 3:43[Music]
- 3:45happening bright
- 3:49and I hope I don't fit on the media
- 3:51because
- 3:52I did use this some of this from the
- 3:53video because I Didn't Know This Much
- 3:54from people
- 3:57she spent time in her grandparents Farm
- 3:59well I did too as a kid
- 4:02many many many
- 4:05Bond memory stuff and I took it
- 4:08she went to Valley Center
- 4:11I was at Valley Center High School for
- 4:13two years there walked the Halls
- 4:15probably at the same line shared make
- 4:18the same teachers although they would
- 4:20have been older
- 4:22she worked at Coleman just like I did
- 4:25trying to fail a job
- 4:29as anybody would
- 4:30try to keep you know our kids above
- 4:32water
- 4:33and I took it
- 4:36the Lord stavis
- 4:39she loved animals and I worked in Animal
- 4:42Control I realized that in the early
- 4:44years
- 4:45probably did have some curly animals
- 4:47I don't think
- 4:49anybody asks Park City right they would
- 4:53say I was I was always pretty good
- 4:54animals I have I have a great finalist
- 4:56for Animals I have pets but I know she
- 4:58had it
- 4:59and I read somewhere she had her last
- 5:01Christmas
- 5:03with her family
- 5:05and
- 5:07not into
- 5:08that was a wonderful time
- 5:11I took that from her
- 5:14nasty boxing she was a wonderful person
- 5:17and I did I did track her just like a
- 5:20creditor
- 5:22yeah
- 5:23she's a wonderful young lady
- 5:25[Music]
- 5:26well organized hard worker yeah
- 5:30[Music]
- 5:33she's a neighbor
- 5:35[Music]
- 5:37you want to walk by wave to a gardener I
- 5:39love to garden flowers
- 5:41[Music]
- 5:43Lieutenant Church
- 5:45the same church I've been to with Boy
- 5:48Scouts
- 5:50Jessica trout
- 5:52was in the Air Force when I was in Air
- 5:54Force he was a husband I was a husband
- 5:58although I always wanted to be a pilot I
- 6:00always had a fascination with
- 6:01aerodynamics
- 6:02and he was a pilot
- 6:04and my mom even thought about taking
- 6:06toilet lessons and a veteran
- 6:10so our threads are close
- 6:16it's a lot like my wife a loving mother
- 6:19Grace kids
- 6:21and she also worked at Coleman
- 6:24Josephine
- 6:25[Music]
- 6:31could have been a lot like our daughter
- 6:33at that age later her Barbie dolls she
- 6:37left my portrait I like that poetry
- 6:40would you like to draw I like to draw
- 6:44someone mentioned that she would like
- 6:45peace in the pot
- 6:47and they probably come to this dog
- 6:50too
- 6:54[Music]
- 6:55he was just like me one time a boy and a
- 6:58dog again that comes from people
- 7:00and many many many many memories
- 7:04another dog excuse me
- 7:07[Music]
- 7:16I had a lot of a lot of memories as a
- 7:19kid with my pets
- 7:21boy the dog is a thing you have to have
- 7:24on your kid
- 7:26actually
- 7:29she was choir another
- 7:32[Music]
- 7:35and I took her life
- 7:40how about your fellow people I didn't
- 7:41know Vicki Ryan very much although I
- 7:43walked by her place and Melissa's potato
- 7:45I appreciate music that's one thing I
- 7:47always wanted was piano
- 7:50for life she's also
- 7:52pull out another
- 7:55she attended a church that I went to
- 7:57Once Saint Andrews
- 8:02[Music]
- 8:03somebody
- 8:09take a rebuild
- 8:13ing
- 8:14[Music]
- 8:16basically humbled myself now
- 8:19Detention Center I'm going to
- 8:24I've tried to
- 8:25realize worked with the police
- 8:27department work with my defense
- 8:30tried to realize my faults
- 8:34honesty
- 8:36again I think I cooperated with the
- 8:37police as well I did Ike I understand
- 8:39there was some smoke blowing and that
- 8:41was probably my demise
- 8:43afterlife and smoke the thing about Jake
- 8:45young and smoke
- 8:47BK story early parts of it was smoke the
- 8:50problem is I did completely so much
- 8:52smoke that now nobody knows facts or
- 8:54fiction and that's basic on my demise
- 8:57but I'd be very honest with my attorneys
- 8:59they worked very hard
- 9:03we met almost every day earlier before
- 9:06complete someone less after Africa is
- 9:08basically all over and I Steve
- 9:10encouraged me not to go with an early
- 9:12plea so we could do more they get all
- 9:16the things they could with the
- 9:18floppy they had an expert come in go
- 9:20over the floppy to see where there was
- 9:22any problems with that they did
- 9:24extensive research in the DNA
- 9:27there's a sore spot with me when they
- 9:29took my daughter but I understand in the
- 9:30law enforcement you have to do certain
- 9:32things
- 9:34and I think Honesty
- 9:36people will say I'm not a Christian
- 9:41so
- 9:43so anyway
- 9:44faced up to the man itself now
- 9:46my boss
- 9:49I think that all points to
- 9:51accountability
- 9:52full responsibility now
- 9:55and my remorse
- 9:57well I think I think it's here
- 10:00you know the victims families won't ever
- 10:03be able to forgive me
- 10:06I hope somewhere deep down okay that'll
- 10:09happen
- 10:11well this happened I was what I would
- 10:13say not a total
- 10:15in one time pardon me
- 10:18and only just caught only the thoughts
- 10:20the Comfort middle life that is probably
- 10:22as the
- 10:24the state started to show today was the
- 10:26compartmentalization of me
- 10:28and that has been my biggest records put
- 10:31back and forth I'm not proud of that
- 10:32it's just I was just Escape mechanism
- 10:36defense magazine mechanism
- 10:38I could switch back and forth fairly
- 10:40fast
- 10:42I explained to the
- 10:43defense I was kind of like an 18-wheeler
- 10:46either uphill or downhill I could switch
- 10:48gears very fast rapidly
- 10:53back and forth and as I stand here
- 10:56in this humble way and maybe people
- 10:58think that I've done that gone back to
- 11:00Kirk parking lots but I don't think so
- 11:05so anyway it's giving me the faith to
- 11:07see him today and not putting this to
- 11:10pass
- 11:11[Music]
- 11:15Corrections
- 11:17this is the full responsibility I'm
- 11:19going to the kennel Institution
- 11:22full full Morton I do not expect
- 11:24anything but the hard 40 today
- 11:27I expected that down the plea that's why
- 11:29I stepped up to complete
- 11:31I knew after I talked to police evidence
- 11:35there wasn't any way I was really going
- 11:37to get out of this unless we found some
- 11:39way of
- 11:41some evidence that was just totally out
- 11:43of the and the trial would have been a
- 11:45long drawn out to the police there was
- 11:47no way that I was ever going to go it
- 11:50was
- 11:51I think the corrections I'm away from
- 11:54society now
- 11:55of your healing process there as well as
- 11:58you can
- 11:59start my new chapter one
- 12:04and I suppose in all good time and it's
- 12:07rated everybody knows Raider has to
- 12:08complain a little bit so I would like to
- 12:10do some minor ones not because I want to
- 12:12complain today but I want to set the
- 12:14record this is my last time
- 12:16[Music]
- 12:19probably the biggest problem I have
- 12:21right now and we're still trying to
- 12:22answer is what happened to Mendoza I had
- 12:25to trust with that person
- 12:27psychiatrist
- 12:28and faces working out I know other
- 12:30people working on it that was a I just
- 12:32don't know what happened
- 12:34maybe that'll
- 12:35happen
- 12:36another one is the and I
- 12:39and I just basically expressing this I
- 12:42don't have a control on it but maybe
- 12:43somebody would take apart tip is lean on
- 12:46the house yeah the final victim is Mr
- 12:49Davis said is my wife
- 12:56yeah
- 12:59thank you
- 13:02[Music]
- 13:08[Music]
- 13:12Stephen Jeff
- 13:15[Music]
- 13:20oh anyway I'm gonna get back to that
- 13:22she's my final victim
- 13:24stay out of my family
- 13:27she knew nothing about this
- 13:33because I have property there's a lot of
- 13:36dependencies that stand up here don't
- 13:37have anything to go after I know this is
- 13:39very expensive
- 13:40I probably defense is running somewhere
- 13:4280 90 000.
- 13:45it's about the house sold for
- 13:47if we wanted a trial has been millions
- 13:49and years
- 13:50so I I just basically asked that whoever
- 13:53does that final judgment that they think
- 13:55about the wife
- 13:58the other one is uh
- 14:02it's not this last issue is that the
- 14:04fight s for my wallet so I could get
- 14:06some personal pictures out of it I was
- 14:08hoping defense would have a court order
- 14:09and before I leave today I can go
- 14:11through that wallet and
- 14:13family pictures but that's not a big
- 14:15issue because I understand through code
- 14:17of ethics
- 14:18the defense we'll turn that probably
- 14:19over the family and go over my clothes
- 14:22so those are really those are the only
- 14:23early complaints except for a PowerPoint
- 14:27I don't and again I don't want to pick
- 14:29on the law enforcement they've done a
- 14:30very good job but I do want to clarify a
- 14:32few things
- 14:33just for the records
- 14:35because this is based on my final say
- 14:38in the first one there was two actors
- 14:40that were brought out the chainwalker
- 14:42John Wayne and James Bond
- 14:45the action of that with Kevin
- 14:48was the shooting not because I stood up
- 14:51and shine because when I was working
- 14:54with the police that was a what I call a
- 14:56quick draw just like that
- 14:58That's What I Call this John Wayne shot
- 15:00it's not that he would do something like
- 15:03that secondly we fought and for us to
- 15:06fight he had had both his hands open
- 15:09the PowerPoint said that he basically
- 15:12stood up he was tired not shot and
- 15:14that's incorrect
- 15:15we fought I backed off he had his hands
- 15:18now and I'm not starting again and again
- 15:22these are only minor it does not make
- 15:24any difference it's probably Euro I just
- 15:26want to set the record straight and
- 15:27that's all sir
- 15:30Ryan
- 15:31it was in the PowerPoint was perceived
- 15:33that I was strangling surely stopped to
- 15:37comfort the kids that's just the
- 15:39opposite
- 15:40achieve or I both put the kids back in
- 15:43the bathroom
- 15:44covered in there before we went in and
- 15:47what happened
- 15:49so the toys and all that were put in
- 15:51there earlier
- 15:52[Music]
- 15:56basically clarify that on that
- 16:04[Music]
- 16:06and this is really minor
- 16:08although it makes you wonder whether the
- 16:11information is candid or not evidence
- 16:13and what makes it effect like where the
- 16:15law enforcement did do although they
- 16:17looked like they did a good job with it
- 16:18he did it 100 percent
- 16:20Doris Davis Graves a little foot back
- 16:24and forth anybody knows anything about
- 16:26geology structure it's trees and stuff
- 16:29or not I'd like Sheen they were over in
- 16:31the eastern part of the United States so
- 16:33and those pictures that came in the mail
- 16:35were not they're not the other ones they
- 16:38were all from at their site that she
- 16:41probably the most damaging to me
- 16:45was the pornography they displayed USA
- 16:50pornography of what I drew but I didn't
- 16:52see where they had a lot of pornography
- 16:53but they brought two pictures out
- 16:56family will know that I didn't own a
- 16:58camper had a pickup with a camper top
- 17:00but he didn't have any shelves in it so
- 17:02I basically evidence was totally painted
- 17:04Vape either picked up a fixture from
- 17:06somewhere else or inserted or didn't
- 17:08realize it that may have been a relative
- 17:10I'm not sure
- 17:12that I would think if they had more
- 17:13pornography they would have showed it
- 17:16[Music]
- 17:19let's see what basically the
- 17:21clarifications
- 17:23the other thing is uh
- 17:25with law enforcement there seemed to be
- 17:28I was
- 17:30despite it as a dog picture I did go to
- 17:34AJ
- 17:34law enforcement
- 17:36I felt like it did I report with the law
- 17:39enforcement people
- 17:40during the confession as they probably
- 17:43said in the paper and I still probably
- 17:44be talking about if the defense person
- 17:46didn't show up right we had a good
- 17:48rapport I almost felt like they were my
- 17:51buddies at one time I asked about
- 17:52Lamonia maybe coming in and having a cup
- 17:54of coffee with me
- 17:55so there was a rapport I've always had a
- 17:57great respect for law enforcement
- 18:00although I wore back black after Civil
- 18:03Right There
- 18:04[Music]
- 18:07thanks
- 18:08[Music]
- 18:10I can't believe the people of health
- 18:11illness
- 18:13starting with I yeah I think they use
- 18:17Society have to even though I'm a
- 18:21criminal I think you have to appreciate
- 18:22the police department they've done a lot
- 18:24of work
- 18:25even though it took a long time they
- 18:27gathered evidence they had that evidence
- 18:29when they got the key suspect they zero
- 18:31they're not a very crap look so to have
- 18:33the dedication that like Mr Edward for
- 18:35all this years has been great so I think
- 18:37Cedric County really has a good police
- 18:40force
- 18:43defense this has been a unique
- 18:46probably a different type case that
- 18:49they've ever had
- 18:50we've had our ups and downs but mostly
- 18:52we've been good it's it it's just like a
- 18:55new learning curve it's just a new curve
- 18:58and the media has just been terrible
- 19:00I worked with the media afterwards and
- 19:03yeah it I mean it's it's just it's just
- 19:07tremendous they've done a very good
- 19:09Sarah has probably been like
- 19:10probably my Workforce I will appreciate
- 19:13her she's done a lot of good work
- 19:15Steve he had to keep the heads and all
- 19:17this and I know that was very hard very
- 19:19hard for me I want to go ahead since I
- 19:21worked with defense very close to skip
- 19:23them all personal
- 19:25shirt would be list here
- 19:27however I mentioned Steve Sarah McKinley
- 19:30everybody knows Steve
- 19:33another one that happened was John
- 19:34Mitchell I think she's on a case today
- 19:36probably uh is that correcting over here
- 19:39okay
- 19:41uh ligands starrich she was a social
- 19:44worker that did a lot of research for me
- 19:45earlier I appreciate her helping that it
- 19:48was Jenny barn with a special
- 19:50investigator
- 19:51then Jamie Turner she's the one who cut
- 19:52my hair or brought my clothes up so I
- 19:54have a
- 19:55you know they're basically my family so
- 19:58I appreciate that I'm professional staff
- 20:00although we have some questions with
- 20:01Robert jamendos and what happened there
- 20:04I take that time that'll be solved but I
- 20:06still have to give him credit for coming
- 20:08in and helping me
- 20:09and working with me and I'm sure I hope
- 20:12I can pronounce that right like hey
- 20:14Walter she was the other doctor that
- 20:15came in and they were all from Cambridge
- 20:17forensic
- 20:19Society for Consultants
- 20:22so I really appreciate the defense
- 20:24they've done a lot for me kept me
- 20:26advised
- 20:29Sedgwick County Detention Center
- 20:32[Music]
- 20:33yeah I was really scared when I first
- 20:35came in here
- 20:36I've never been I've never been arrested
- 20:38before I really didn't want to look I
- 20:40was basically 40 43 days 42 43 days
- 20:44after in isolation
- 20:46the first the officers control office
- 20:50would call them deputies down there five
- 20:51deputies for they didn't know me I
- 20:53didn't know them but they they finally
- 20:55opened up and they became human and I
- 20:58think they realized I was human too
- 20:59eventually I moved over to pod two
- 21:03that's a very much camaraderie with what
- 21:07I call the dirty dozen or or the peas in
- 21:10the pod there was a bunch of great guys
- 21:11most of those guys were gone now but I
- 21:14had a lot of respect I sit down with him
- 21:16we're all all have crimes but there's
- 21:19you basically build a camaraderie
- 21:21Nicholas type people
- 21:24the people who moved me around
- 21:26I'm what they call uh I call it hot
- 21:29peppers a habanero we wear red we have
- 21:31got the special Movers
- 21:33and again I hope I pronounce these from
- 21:36the detention area I hope I pronounce
- 21:37these people's last names right and if I
- 21:39leave somebody else I apologize for that
- 21:42one I have is Robert Henshaw
- 21:44Captain Barbara Maxwell
- 21:46Captain Glenn Kurtz and lieutenant
- 21:49Larry Braggs Sergeant he's my main
- 21:52Sergeant he's the one that's been
- 21:54very very close with me worked with
- 21:56David Milan
- 21:58and I have a lot of respect for him he's
- 22:00been my main main Sergeant I'm the
- 22:01judicial
- 22:03I'll probably mess up his last name but
- 22:05it's Daniel pardon's friend and I I
- 22:08messed it up I'm sorry Grandpa
- 22:12there's many many more Beyond those
- 22:15I would be here a long time if I help so
- 22:17I do appreciate all those people that
- 22:18helped
- 22:21Esther Clark
- 22:24he has been
- 22:26my main man
- 22:30I've come see me every day and not every
- 22:32day excuse me at least once a week
- 22:33sometimes it's twice a week if anybody
- 22:36has dishonest tube does that mean right
- 22:38there
- 22:38[Music]
- 22:44remember the house of God who created
- 22:47these things
- 22:49controls his Acts
- 22:51[Music]
- 22:53and for him for him to stay with me and
- 22:56remain strong
- 23:00yeah he's a good man
- 23:02I appreciate that
- 23:04[Music]
- 23:10he also went to me uh wrote this weekend
- 23:13with your confession
- 23:14I sit down and went through each of the
- 23:16people I killed
- 23:18professional match
- 23:21and uh and I felt the strengthening some
- 23:23bonds there at that time with him
- 23:27family
- 23:28the last victims
- 23:30I I don't even start with them
- 23:35you know there's still support you for a
- 23:37little bit
- 23:38my wife's going on divorced
- 23:40he's trying to stay out of Harm's Way
- 23:43uh since my kids are away I don't get
- 23:46much letters or anything from them but
- 23:48they're they're basically supportive
- 23:49[Music]
- 23:57foreign
- 24:02[Music]
- 24:03175 176 days he couldn't survive without
- 24:06friends
- 24:07if you didn't have family to support you
- 24:09if you didn't have something or someone
- 24:11to come to you like Pastor Clark you'd
- 24:13go down just mentally you'd go down
- 24:16well friends have been a very
- 24:18key part
- 24:20the people in the Pod
- 24:22the Pod deputies
- 24:24sergeant
- 24:26although they can't have a real friend
- 24:28relationship with your friends
- 24:31I got this out this morning but the
- 24:34other day when I was working out this
- 24:35comes from the daily devotions a
- 24:36Christian book
- 24:37it's called touched by stranger which is
- 24:39an article and in the bottom
- 24:42there's an article
- 24:44it's by Hess there isn't a first name
- 24:46for it
- 24:47but it's something like a friend would
- 24:48do and I really appreciate like
- 24:50refreshing rain in the summer or the
- 24:52gentle breeze in Spring it's just a
- 24:54little gift of kindness Joy someone
- 24:57Hearts can bring
- 24:58with immediate exposure in my family I
- 25:00basically had the almost to stay away so
- 25:02I really didn't have any support there
- 25:04was one people one person that stepped
- 25:07up Christina castner that really helped
- 25:10and I really appreciate her support
- 25:13there's another one that's out on the
- 25:14west coast Andy parshaw he is another
- 25:16Christian and I realized where I would
- 25:19have gone down a long time ago without
- 25:20their support so I do want to
- 25:24[Music]
- 25:30[Music]
- 25:34a Christian Bible verse I found that I
- 25:36think
- 25:37it's helping me it will help me in
- 25:39leading me this is John 8 12. I am the
- 25:43light of the world he who follow me
- 25:45shall not walk in darkness but have life
- 25:47of life now that I've confessed
- 25:51put myself out until everybody know
- 25:53what's going on
- 25:54I expect to heal and just have life
- 25:57and then hopefully someday God will
- 25:59accept me
- 26:02thank you
- 26:06I think central County myself
- 26:11speak of a man as an evil man a dark
- 26:15side is there but now I think light is
- 26:19beginning to shine
- 26:22so
- 26:24appreciate the family and friends
- 26:26oh I can be thankful for
- 26:30and I think that will keep me from
- 26:31finally going to the dark side
- 26:35[Music]
- 26:37and finally our final College shots to
- 26:40the victims families
- 26:42there's no way
- 26:44that I can ever repay
- 26:50it's also
- 26:52all right thank you very much take care
- 26:55to be heard
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