The Osage County Sheriff’s Office in Oklahoma has released a journal entry from Dennis Rader, serial killer BTK.
The journal entry, deputies say, alludes to the killer being out of the Wichita area when Cynthia Kinney of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, was reported missing in 1976.
The journal entry is titled “PJ-Bad Wash Day.” In part, Rader says he had “problems getting in or to much noise factor” of a house and would watch a nearby laundromat for a possible victim.
The sheriff’s office highlighted “C-9” in the entry, saying it references a chapter in an unpublished manuscript intended to give details on all the murders he actually committed.
The sheriff’s office says it started investigating Kinney’s case again after new discoveries tied Rader to Kinney’s disappearance. Nearly 50 years ago, investigators suspect Rader was installing security equipment at a bank in Pawhuska.
Across the road was a laundromat, the last place Kinney was seen. That link led Osage County Sheriff Eddie Virden to start looking at Rader as a suspect in her disappearance.
“She was taken mid-morning in the week,” Virden said. “A lot of his crimes occurred between eight and noon in the week when he worked for ADT.”
The release of Rader’s journal entry comes as Osage County deputies searched the former property of Rader in Park City on Tuesday in connection to several missing persons cases, including Kinney’s.
Rader maintains he has no involvement in Kinney’s disappearance.