The daughter of the notorious BTK serial killer flew into a rage as she confronted her father almost 20 years after he was sent to prison for his murder spree.
Kerri Rawson worked with investigators in 2023 to help solve cold cases believed to be connected to her dad, Dennis Rader, who terrorized Wichita, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991 by breaking into his victims' homes, torturing them and then strangling them to death.
Rader, now 80, confessed to murdering 10 people and is currently serving a life sentence for each of his victims at the El Dorado Correctional Facility in Kansas.
Netflix released a documentary centered on Rawson, 46, titled My Father, the BTK Killer, which focuses on her struggles coping with the idea of her dad being unmasked as a brutal serial killer.
In the film, Rawson revealed that visited the prison in 2023 on a mission.
'If my father has committed more murders, then we really need to get to the bottom of the truth, and we need to get to it before my father passes away,' she said.
But Rawson ultimately couldn't contain her anger when facing the monster that raised her.
When she first arrived, she found Rader 'frail' and 'in a wheelchair, and he was literally crying, so happy to see me — like, over the moon to see his kid,' she said.
Kerri Rawson worked with investigators in 2023 to help solve cold cases believed to be connected to Dennis Rader, her father
Between 1974 and 1991, Rader terrorized Wichita, Kansas, as he stalked his victims before breaking into their homes, torturing them and then strangling them to death
Officials warned Rawson to not to ask her father about other potential victims, because they believed it would cause him to shut down.
When she finally started to pry after three hours of conversation, Rader got upset.
'What are you talking about? Can't we just reminisce?' he responded. 'Can't we just have a father-daughter — can't we just have memories?'
But Rawson kept pushing, also asking about an entry in his journal that may have indicated he sexually abused her.
This question caused Rader to 'turn on a dime,' Rawson said.
'That was just a fantasy. I never touched the family,' he replied. 'You're just making stuff up about me to be famous.'
His response led Rawson to completely go off the script.
'He was literally gaslighting me, manipulating me, lying to me, five feet from me. It was like I wasn't talking to my dad. It was like I was talking to a subhuman,' she explained.
Netflix released a documentary centered on Rawson, 46, titled My Father, the BTK Killer, which focuses on her struggles coping with the idea of her dad being unmasked as a brutal serial killer
The documentary's director, Skye Borgman
Rader is currently serving a life sentence for each of his murders at El Dorado Correctional Facility in Kansas
'What everybody talks about — him being a psychopath and a narcissist and not wanting to be around him — I had still been able to find humanity in him. And then, I wasn't able to,' Rawson added.
The documentary's director, Skye Borgman, told Fox News Digital that it was very difficult for Rawson to confront her father — but now she never wants to see or speak to him again.
'She talked about him being two different men. In her own words, she said she had a good childhood,' Borgman continued. 'They explored, they went places, they camped together, they had great family vacations.'
'So those memories of her father, I think, she was able to hang onto them because she was able to separate that man from BTK. But as far as I know, they're no longer speaking. She got to the point where she knew she needed to separate herself from him to continue on her healing journey.'
During his reign of terror, Rader often kept trophies such as underwear and took Polaroid photos of his victims' bodies to fulfill his sick sexual fantasies.
He played a cat-and-mouse game with police and the media, taunting them with letters and clues and giving himself the chilling name BTK in a nod to his depraved method of murder: 'bind, torture, kill'.
Rader was finally caught on February 25, 2005.
