The legendary BTK serial murderer is dispelling the notion that he is connected to Idaho murder suspect Bryan Kohberger, which was put out by his own daughter.
In response to TMZ’s inquiry over a recent NewsNation report, BTK sent them an email from behind bars in which he claimed Kohberger may have contacted him via Katherine Ramsland, a lecturer at DeSales University.
Kohberger, a graduate student at Washington State University, had previously studied under Ramsland at DeSales, who is also a well-known true crime novelist and has written a book about the BTK killer.
In response to his daughter Kerri Rawson telling NN reporter Brian Entin she was “very astonished” there was “potentially a connection to my father,” BTK writes in his message of January 5: “No on Kohberger all around.”
Additionally, Rawson stated that she believed Bryan was most likely affected by BTK because he studied under Ramsland.
BTK concurred on this point, saying, “I had assumed some one may have studied me.” He also praised the Idaho detectives for apprehending a suspect, i.e. Kohberger.
BTK continued by sharing his personal anguish over not being able to communicate with his family. “My family don’t communicate with me at all. I love them all very much and [would] be happy if one did.”
If you didn’t know, from 1974 until 1991, BTK (actual name: Dennis Rader) went on a sadomasochistic killing spree in Wichita, Kansas, where he killed ten people. He called himself “Bind, Torture, Kill” and sent mocking messages to the media.
He was finally apprehended in 2005, and after confessing to the killings, he was found guilty. He is currently incarcerated for ten life sentences, one for every murder he committed.
