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Dennis Rader

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Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945), also known as BTK (an abbreviation he gave himself for "bind, torture, kill"), is an American serial killer who murdered at least ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. Although he occasionally killed or attempted to kill men and children, Rader typically targeted women. His victims were often bound, sometimes with objects from their homes, and either suffocated with a plastic bag or manually strangled with a ligature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dennis Rader has received more than 25,239,367 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Dennis Rader is the 57th most popular extremist (up from 63rd in 2019), the 1,268th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,267th in 2019) and the 19th most popular American Extremist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Dennis Rader ranks 57 out of 283. Before him are Butch Cassidy, Issei Sagawa, Friedrich Jeckeln, Aileen Wuornos, Sawney Bean, and Michel Fourniret. After him are Marc Dutroux, Mohammed Deif, Henri Désiré Landru, Luis Garavito, Boris Savinkov, and Jean II, Duke of Alençon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Dennis Rader ranks 68. Before him are Richard Thaler, Moncef Marzouki, Hasan Akhund, Ken Hensley, Carmen Maura, and Haris Silajdžić. After him are Joël Robuchon, Yochanan Vollach, Joseph Kosuth, Graça Machel, Linda Lee Cadwell, and Micheline Calmy-Rey.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dennis Rader ranks 1,268 out of 20,380. Before him are George Whipple (1878), Mamie Eisenhower (1896), Scott Glenn (1939), Hamilton O. Smith (1931), Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840), and Kirstie Alley (1951). After him are David Morse (1953), Calamity Jane (1852), Dorothy Malone (1924), Jack Elam (1920), George Akerlof (1940), and Francis Gary Powers (1929).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Dennis Rader ranks 19. Before him are William Kemmler (1860), Timothy McVeigh (1968), George Jung (1942), Edmund Kemper (1948), Butch Cassidy (1866), and Aileen Wuornos (1956). After him are Gary Ridgway (1949), Jordan Belfort (1962), Frank Sheeran (1920), Ma Barker (1873), James Earl Ray (1928), and Susan Atkins (1948).

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