20 years ago on this day, on Thursday, August 18, 2005, BTK serial killer Dennis Rader received 10 consecutive life sentences from Judge Greg Waller in Sedgwick County district court; the legal proceeding took place at the County courthouse in downtown Wichita.
Rader received 10 consecutive life sentences for a series of murders, the maximum sentencing the law would allow.
Rader terrorized the Wichita area for decades, and his revealed identity stunned the community; the seemingly-normal Rader was married with children, a Boy Scout troop leader, and an active church-member. But he harbored an evil side.
Rader remains in custody at the El Dorado Correctional Facility in Butler County.