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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 Rader occasionally killed or attempted to kill men and children, he typically targeted women. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dennis Rader has received more than 24,020,472 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Dennis Rader is the 63rd most popular extremist (up from 77th in 2019), the 1,267th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,643rd in 2019) and the 22nd most popular American Extremist.

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  • 60.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Dennis Rader ranks 63 out of 209. Before him are Frank Sheeran, Karl Denke, Hermine Braunsteiner, Johnny Torrio, Barry Seal, and Timothy McVeigh. After him are Marc Dutroux, Shamil Basayev, Sada Abe, Charles Sobhraj, Boris Savinkov, and Jean II, Duke of Alençon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Dennis Rader ranks 64. Before him are Bryan Ferry, Joël Robuchon, Phil Jackson, Dirk Benedict, Bubba Smith, and Pete Townshend. After him are Joseph Kosuth, Laurent Gbagbo, Linda Lee Cadwell, Ken Hensley, Moncef Marzouki, and Bette Midler.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dennis Rader ranks 1,267 out of 18,182. Before him are Robert Rauschenberg (1925), Chris Columbus (1958), Alan J. Heeger (1936), Lisa Kudrow (1963), John Forsythe (1918), and Joan Didion (1934). After him are Joseph Erlanger (1874), Irwin Shaw (1913), Anthony Mann (1906), Cormac McCarthy (1933), Joseph Kosuth (1945), and John Brown (1800).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Dennis Rader ranks 22. Before him are Butch Cassidy (1866), Edmund Kemper (1948), Jordan Belfort (1962), Frank Sheeran (1920), Barry Seal (1939), and Timothy McVeigh (1968). After him are Henry Lee Lucas (1936), Ma Barker (1873), Richard Ramirez (1960), James Earl Ray (1928), Gary Ridgway (1949), and Susan Atkins (1948).

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