The report should give a complete explanation of the crime committed

The serial killer named BTK was one of the mystwereious cases that stayed for longwitout
actually being solved

For more than 30 years, the case of the BTK serial killer went as one of the biggest
unsolved mysteries in America. Dennis Rader first committed murder in January 1975
when he killed four members of a family. For the next 15 years, he killed six more victims,
all females. During his murder spree, Rader taunted police by sending them bizarre notes.
In the first note he sent, which was found stuck in a book in the Wichita Public Library,
Rader admitted to killing the family and provided details that only the police knew. He also
created a nickname for himself – BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill). Rader sent several notes to the
police, either directly or through the media, and some notes contained poems, puzzles, and
pictures.

How the computer or electronic evidence played a part

It was not until 2004, after more than 10 years of complete silence from the killer, that
police finally caught a break. That year, Rader resumed his communications with police.
He eventually sent them a Word document on a floppy disk that computer forensics
experts immediately examined. The floppy disk was immediately handed over to computer
forensic experts for analysis. The forensic experts used EnCase software to examine the
floppy disk and found another Microsoft Word document that was deleted on the floppy
disk. The forensic experts recovered the document and after analyzing the metadata (data
about data) found that it had last been modified by someone named “Dennis” at Christ
Lutheran Church. Forensic experts then searched the church’s website and found that
Dennis Rader functioned as president of the church’s congregation council. After police
and FBI personnel checked Rader’s background and examined DNA evidence, they were
able to link him to the BTK murders.

Detailed discussion of the computer forensic examination findings and results

Seizure and Analysis of Forensic Evidence

There was a ton of evidence and more than enough to get a conviction once
BTK was captured. Due to his sexual perversion, he left semen at most of the
locations of his killings. Although BTK wasn’t caught until 3 decades later, the
case was never closed and police had evidence stored from all of the crime
scenes. Rader stayed in contact with police through the years taunting them
and sending them clues that would later be used to catch and convict him. For
example, Rader was so pleased with himself after he killed Nancy Fox that he
called the police the next morning to gloat about it. “He spoke 15 words
during a three-second span of a seven second recording. The audio quality of
the call, taped at a slow speed, so was poor it was not released to the public
until August 1979. The tape was sent to the Washington DC, FBI laboratory but
it was too brief and distorted by background noise to make a comparison
voiceprint”.5 This tape was kept as evidence and more than likely presented
during Rader’s trial. Semen was found on or near the bodies of his victims
Josephine Otero, Shirley Vian and Nancy Fox; all of the semen was matched to
Rader. Also, DNA obtained from fingernail scrapings of Vicki Wegerle’s left
hand matched Rader’s DNA, eliminating any doubt that he was her murderer.

High tech forensic computer detection was used to get evidence off of the disk
Rader mailed to a Wichita television station in February 2005. This is how Rader
was caught. Using this high tech computer, residual information left over on
the disk identified the last person who had used the disk: someone named
“Dennis”. It was also learned that the disk had been used on computers
registered to two local organizations, Christ Lutheran Church and Park City
Library. An “internet search” on the church’s name provided the name of the
congregation’s president: Dennis Rader.14