MOSCOW, Idaho—BTK serial killer Dennis Rader’s daughter, Kerri Rawson, said Bryan Kohberger’s fans risk “feeding” his ego. On November 13, 2022, Kohberger, 28, allegedly fatally stabbed Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, in their off-campus three-story rental home. Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, apprehended him on December 30, 2022.
Facebook groups supporting Kohberger feel he is innocent. He has female “fans” who write him love letters. Rawson now criticizes supporters of the alleged mass murderer.
‘People merely feed their egos.”
“They should not be lauded or idolized,” Rawson told Newsweek. “That merely feeds egos.” She revealed that her father, BTK (for “bind, torture, and kill”),” received love letters in Wichita jail. His February 2005 arrest landed him here. “He’s perpetuated it with his copious letter writing, art work, and back-end trades through the murder memorabilia black market,” she claimed.
She claimed that some may have had hybristophilia. “My father is a dangerous sexual sadistic psychopath, a pathological liar, and a narcissist,” she stated. “People should remember that when talking with him and others like him.”
Kerri Rawson worries jail officials aren’t thorough.
Although prisons monitor correspondence, Rawson worries officials don’t check everything. She stated, “Love letters to a prisoner are honestly fairly low on their list of priorities and should be,” considering far larger demands.
Rawson warned that writing to these assassins is risky. “I’m not sure that fans emailing someone like my father, or potentially Kohberger, are aware that they are putting their own lives at risk by revealing their addresses and private information,” she said.
Kohberger returned to the crime scene and may have stalked his victims’ houses 12 times before the attack. Five hours after killing the students, his phone pinged in the house’s vicinity around 9 a.m. on November 13. His attorney, Kootenai County Public Defender Anne Taylor, said he will contest the probable cause evidence at a June 26 preliminary hearing.