Robert Beattie (writer)

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Robert Beattie is an American Wichita-based lawyer, and author of the non-fiction book Nightmare in Wichita .

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Nightmare in Wichita is about Dennis Rader, a serial killer in Wichita, Kansas who created the name BTK after his modus operandi, "bind, torture, kill". Rader resumed sending letters to media again after a 13-year hiatus after hearing about the book. Right before he was going to publish it, Dennis Rader was arrested and then convicted as the BTK Killer. [1] As a result, Beattie quickly wrote an epilogue.

Beattie is also known for interviewing serial killer Charles Manson for a class project as a professor at Newman University in Wichita, which stirred controversy and brought media attention to him. [2] Language of Evil is about a murder in Douglas County, Kansas.

Beattie ran unsuccessfully for the office of Kansas Secretary of State in 2006. [3] He testified in front of the Kansas legislature against the reliability of polygraph examinations. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Davey, Monica (March 6, 2005). "Suspect in 10 Kansas Murders Lived an Intensely Ordinary Life". The New York Times.
  2. ↑ Ellin, Abby (August 1, 1999). "Blackboard: Curricula Esoterica; Doctors, Soldiers, Serial Killers". The New York Times.
  3. ↑ Hrenchir, Tim (2006). "BTK author seeking post as secretary". The Topeka Capital-Journal.
  4. ↑ "Testimony of Robert M. Beattie on the Kansas Polygraph Protection Act of 2000". Antipolygraph.org. Retrieved 2015-05-21.
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