Kerri Rawson was 26 when she learned in 2005 that her father, Dennis Rader, had been arrested for 10 murders. Calling himself “BTK”, for “bind, torture and kill”, the doting, protective man she thought she knew had terrorised her hometown of Wichita, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. Committing murders that stood out for their savagery, he often bound his victims’ arms and legs before slowly strangling them.
Rawson, now 40, has spent the past 14 years struggling to come to terms with the horror. “Nobody,” she says, “wants to believe their father could be capable of such monstrous things.” In a new book, A Serial Killer’s Daughter , she looks back on her childhood (“If my mother, brother or I ever had any inkling, we would have…
