and Kevin put up a fight for their lives. Katherine was eventually stabbed multiple times by Rader, and Kevin escaped after somehow surviving being shot in the head twice while running away. Even then, Kevin could possibly be the only person to see Dennis Rader and live even though his description didn’t help in later…
Chilling, true stories of serial killers can make anyone’s hair rise on the back of their neck and make their eyes pop, especially the stories of Dennis Rader. Dennis Rader is an infamous serial killer that was active in the 1970s. Rader was born February 9, 1945 in Pittsburg, Kansas. Ever since he was a child, he showed a few alarming signs of being a killer. From his own confession, he says he developed fantasies about bondage, control and torture during his early grade school years. He admits…
The movie Easy A is set in Ojai, California at Ojai North High School. The story centers on Olive Penderghast. Olive is a junior at Ojai North and goes relatively unnoticed by the majority of the school population. That is, until she lies to her best friend Rhiannon about losing her virginity. Olive’s lie gets overheard by Marianne Bryant, who thus spreads this news to the entire school. The events that take place once the rumors of Olive’s sexual encounter begin to spread are indicative of the…
Dennis Lynn Rader was a serial killer born on March 9th, 1945 in Pittsburg, Arkansas (see figure one.) He was the oldest of three other brothers born to William and Dorothea Rader. At a young age Rader’s parents moved the family to Wichita, Arkansas. Growing up Dennis Rader was a normal child. He was surprisingly involved with organizations such as the boys scout club and church activities. According to interviews Rader admitted he had thoughts of strangulation as a young child, it is known…
Hamilton, a young champion surfer who lost her arm in a shark attack, has hit the big screen. The biographical movie, ‘Soul Surfer’, is based on the true story of Bethany Hamilton, was released on April 8 in 2011, starring Anna Sophia Robb, Helen Hunt, Dennis Quaid and Carrie Underwood. Director Sean McNamara explains that ‘Soul Surfer’ is all about "the feisty unwavering attitude of a girl who never stopped believing in herself, her family or in the sheer beauty and thrill of being alive."…
talking about is Dennis Rader. Dennis Rader is also known as the BTK killer or some refer to him as the BTK strangler. Rader gave himself these nicknames in a letter he sent to the police and local news outlets. BTK stands for “blind, torture, and kill” and this is what he typically did to his victims. Dennis Rader murdered 10 people between the 1970’s and the 1990’s. He committed these awful crimes around the Wichita, Kansas area. Police and local news outlets knew about Dennis Rader because he…
The BTK was a very good but sloppy serial killer and it’s only because the lack of modern forensic technology that he was able to kill so many people. He knew not to leave finger prints but left DNA at almost every crime scene. DNA testing in the 1980s was relatively new and took a large sample to create a DNA profile and unlike today where the tests can be done within a day, there weren’t as many crime labs that could process the DNA. The Crime Scene investigators had a lot of evidence to…
Sophia Amoruso is an influential entrepreneur who has inspired millions of people around the world because of her immense success. Sophia was a young broke girl born in 1984 living in San Fransisco, California. During her late teens, she was a hitchhiker, dumpster diver, and sometimes would steal to get by. By the early 2000's, she decided that she did not want that life anymore and decided to do something about it. She enrolled in a community college and started working, doing odd-jobs and also…
The Beach Boys are an all-male and all American rock band that consists of five of them. They got together in Hawthorne, California in 1961. The original Beach Boys were three brothers; Brian who was born in 1942, Carl who was born in 1946 and Dennis Wilson who was born in 1944; later, one of their cousins Mike Love who was born in1941 and their schoolmate Alan Jardine who was born in 1942 (was replaced by David Marks before they got back together) grouped with them. Brian was actually the…
The Wandering Prince by Eleanor Hibbert was based on Charles the Second of England, but the narrator of the story is not from his side it´s from his beloved sister Minette. Though in very small parts he tells his own story it 's mostly his sister 's point of view and his mistress Lucy. The start of this book is in England right before Charles the first is captured by the puritans Cromwell 's, His youngest daughter Henrietta who is two at the time is being smuggled out of the country by Lady Anne…