Between 1974 and 1991, Dennis Rader murdered ten people in and around Wichita, Kansas, before going silent for thirteen years. When he resumed contact with police in 2004, his own correspondence became the instrument of his arrest, ending in February 2005 with a floppy disk whose metadata named him and his church. The case raises open questions about surveillance targets never publicly confirmed, an unreleased internal police review, and the legal frameworks governing familial DNA evidence.

Anyone with information about individuals Dennis Rader may have targeted or about unresolved disappearances in the Wichita and Park City region is asked to contact the Sedgwick County District Attorney's Office at 316-660-3600.

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation can be reached at 785-296-8200.

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