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Woman Accuses BTK Suspect Of Stalking Her

Former Park City Resident Says She Lived In Fear

POSTED: 8:19 pm CDT April 29, 2005
UPDATED: 8:34 pm CDT April 29, 2005

Dennis Rader, the man accused of being the notorious BTK serial killer in Wichita, Kan., is due in court next week to be arraigned. Since his arrest became public, new information and complaints have been surfacing about his past.

Misty King
Misty King

A former resident of his hometown, Park City, said Rader caused her to live in fear and eventually move out of town. Misty King said when Rader was a compliance officer for the town, she was going through a divorce. Rader stopped by her home to ask whether she or her ex would be moving out. She explained she'd be staying with her children and he promised to keep an eye on her home.

King said Rader would drive by and wave, until she had a male friend move in with her. Rader then began to use his job to find faults with her property, King said. He'd measure to see if her grass was too tall; he made her toss out a woodpile, put a tarp on a vehicle, and change the color of her garden hose.

"He came to the door and asked me if I had another man living in the house, and then I wondered, 'What is wrong with him?'" King said.

Dennis Rader
Dennis Rader

Rader told her that her problems would go away if she got rid of her boyfriend.

"I'd always ask him, 'Why are you doing this? What did I do that was so wrong?' And he just said, 'Get rid of that boyfriend and everything will go back to the way it was,'" King said.

When King called to complain to the city and to police, they accepted Rader's explanation for all of the citations she was issued. He had explained to the city that the boyfriend was working on inoperable vehicles in the driveway.

"And then, he started sitting outside the house -- day after day. And then I'd call the police and they'd say, 'He's in the neighborhood doing a job,'" King said.

King said the situation worsened when she caught Rader peeping in her windows and telling her that her front door was broken.

"That's when he'd walk around the house and bang on the windows. 'I know you are there, I need to talk to you,'" King said.

After Rader took away her daughter's dog and had it put to sleep, King packed up her kids and left town for good.

"I didn't know what he was going to do. I figured he'd already killed my dog, so I just left," King said.

Jack Whitson, Rader's boss at the time, now said he wishes he would have known about all the allegations.

"I don't know why I was never notified of the situation. I was never notified of the situation, because had I been notified I would have taken it very seriously," Whitson said.

"I'm angry because they allowed it to happen. They believed if you work for the city, you can do no wrong," King said.

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