For the next plus years, LISK's persona become more sinister. Theories turned into conspiratorial ghost stories, and LISK became a boogeyman who could be hunting anywhere. Little did anyone know, LISK is allegedly Rex Heuermann , a married father of two living about 16 miles from his alleged dumping ground among a neighborhood with current and former cops. The year-old commuted to Manhattan, where he worked as an architect.
But that's actually the norm for serial killers , according to a FBI report, which noted that many live "boring" lives on the surface. They are not monsters and may not appear strange," the FBI report says. Because many serial murderers can blend in so effortlessly, they are oftentimes overlooked by law enforcement and the public.
The phrase some experts use is "extraordinarily ordinary," which describes these three notorious serial killers' lives before they were convicted murderers. Dennis Rader preyed on victims in and around Wichita, Kansas, where he brutally killed 10 people from to and taunted news outlets and the police with letters and phone calls.
Known as "BTK" β bind, torture, kill β the U. Air Force veteran was a married father of two who worked in code enforcement and remained on the loose until his arrest in Before his arrest, Rader was just her dad.
He gardened, camped, hiked, fished and went to church. There are pictures of him with Rawson when she was a young girl, fishing and holding her on his shoulder, so she could top the Christmas tree with a star. And then there's the after, after he was arrested," Rawson said. Rader was specifically mentioned in the FBI report as an example of a serial killer who was an upstanding member of his community and lived a "normal" life as a married father of two. He killed at least 33 teenage boys and young men in Cook County, Illinois , in the s, and buried most of his victims under his house.
