Saturday, July 11, 2026

Who was the most intelligent assassin in history?

 For me it was Dennis Rader, better known as BTK:

He murdered 10 people and managed to evade the police for over three decades, mocking them with letters and nonsensical messages. He did not target marginalized classes like other killers; his first victims were an upper-middle-class family, the Otero family, in 1974.

Julie Otero, 38 years old.

Julie Otero, 34 years old.

Joseph Otero II, son. 9 years old.

Josephine Otero, daughter. 11 years old.

He gagged, tortured, and took the time to slowly suffocate each of the Otero family to death (Rader is a suffocation fetishist). Even the police, upon seeing the scene, thought they had been murdered by a professional hitman.

The worst part was that the guy wasn't one of those killers with a tragic past, abuse, rape, etc. He was just a bad guy who found pleasure in killing people and mocking the authorities.