March 9, 1945, the fate of ten was sealed.
Dennis Rader was born in a sleepy Kansas town.
Bind, torture, kill became his mantra.
Letters were sent, packages left, and yet the police were lost.
That little purple floppy disk told all.
Without it the killer unknown…

Ten murders would have gone unsolved but now
Dennis Rader has 175 years in a small metal box.
With ten life sentences and no death penalty
2180 will never come.
It’s a day he hopes for but will never see.

He started with animals.
They were tortured and killed.
The brutal man matured and so did his kills.
All those poor people were strangled and stabbed.

Dennis is gone away after bragging about his kills to the police.
The victims will never be back to see the light of day.
The families still ache to see them but Dennis took them away.