The Osage County Sheriff’s Office in Oklahoma said it has found “items of interest” and potential connections to missing persons cases in a search of the former home of BTK serial killer Dennis Rader in Park City, Kansas.
In a press release on its web site, Osage County officials talked about a search that was conducted Tuesday at the site where Rader’s home once stood. The home and property were purchased by the City of Park City after Rader was sent to prison for the BTK murders. The home was then demolished.
Osage County Sheriff Eddie Virden led a team of investigators to Park City to look for any possible evidence relating to the 1976 disappearance of 16-year-old Cynthia Kinney of Pawhuska. Digging was conducted at the site and some items were found. Investigators said the items will be examined to determine any possible relevance to the Kinney case and other cases.
Rader’s daughter, Kerri Rawson, released a statement on social media saying that she has been working as a volunteer with Osage County officials on the investigation, and that included visiting her father twice at the El Dorado Correctional Facility. She said she has also talked with McDonald County officials in Missouri on the unsolved murder case of Shawna Garber, whose remains were found in 1990 near Pineville, Missouri.
Her statement said:
Beyond these two cases that have been released publicly, I‘m not at liberty to discuss other possible missing persons and unsolved murder cases that are being actively investigated as possibly committed by my father, nor can I comment on my direct assistance in the investigations.
Multiple LE agencies are seeking long-sought answers in decades-old missing persons & unsolved murder cases in the tri-state area of KS, MO, & OK. And possibly locations that extend beyond the tri-state area.
This past spring, federal transaction immunity was offered to my father in the tri-state area by a federal district attorney’s office to give my father a chance to confess to any other violent crimes he may have committed from roughly 1963-2005 giving decades-long grieving families long-sought answers, and in return, my father would not be charged in these cases.
[ photo: Osage County Sheriff’s Office ]
