[Murder Cases here are usually filed in the name of the perpetrator, or the lead perpetrator. If the case remains unsolved or with several killers, the case may be filed in the name of the victim]
Rada, Tair murder p1 - Rader, Dennis p1 - Rafay family murder p2 - Rafferty, Michael & Terri-Lynn McClintic p3 - Ragland, Shane p3 - Ramirez, John Henry p3 - Ramirez, Ricardo Munoz p3 - Ramsey, JonBenet murder p4 - Rand, Andre p6 - Ray, David Parker p6 - Ray, James p7 - Razell, Glynn p7 - Ream, Art p7 - Recob, Craig p7 - Redd, Stephen p7 - Reddish, Charles p8 - Redwine, Mark p8 -
RABIN, YITZHAK murder: viz Assassinations: RABIN, YITZHAK
RADA, TAIR murder [viz Miscarriages of Justice: Zadorov, Roman]: True Crime Recaps 2023 - The Times of Israel online -
December, 2006: The body of a popular 13-year-old girl [Tair Rada] is found with her throat slashed in a bathroom stall at school … Then the school handyman [Roman Zadorov] is arrested but did he do it? Years later never seen before evidence points to another suspect, one with a bizarre story and even stranger motive. True Crime Recaps: 13-Year-Old Stabbed in School Bathroom, Youtube 12.20, 2023
A three-judge panel sentenced him [Zadorov] to life in prison for the murder in 2010. ibid.
None of his DNA was found in the stall … Then there were the bloody footprints on the toilet stall that didn’t fit his size. ibid.
They [Netflix] alleged the killer was not Roman but a woman – Ola Kravchenko. ibid.
In a dramatic ruling in perhaps the most famous murder case in Israeli history, Roman Zadorov was acquitted Thursday of the 2006 murder of a 13-year-old schoolgirl that horrified the nation, in a retrial that overturned previous convictions that saw him serve more than a decade behind bars after being sentenced to life.
The gruesome murder of Tada Raida in a school bathroom in the northern town of Katzrin has long been the subject of intense debate online and in the media, with many believing the now 45-year-old Zadorov was not the killer and had been convicted based on insufficient circumstantial evidence, while ignoring evidence that indicates the presence of another person at the scene. Others are convinced the evidence, while incomplete, leaves little room for doubt he was the culprit. The Times of Israel online article 30 March 2023
RADEL, BRIAN: see ARRANT, JASON
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For over thirty years, ten bodies, three initials which struck terror in the heartlands of America – B = Bind; T = Torture; K = Kill. Crimes that Shook the World s1e2: BTK, Channel 5 2006
BTK first struck in 1974. ibid.
BTK targeted neighbourhoods where he thought he might find women at home alone. ibid.
The killer claimed to have committed seven murders. ibid.
Police decided they had to warn the public. ibid.
BTK left long gaps between murders. ibid.
After six years of silence another body was discovered. ibid.
Ten unsolved murders still haunted the city. ibid.
At BTK’s trial chilling details of thirty years of killing would shock the nation. ibid.
He was a family man with a wife and two kids. ibid.
A meticulous murderer who left few clues. He sent letters signed with three chilling initials: BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill). Then he seemed to disappear. But the perverted killer couldn’t resist the urge to write. After almost twenty years of silence the contents of a computer disc led the police to a church and a highly unlikely suspect. The BTK Killer, National Geographic 2012
By the end of the 1970s he had claimed seven victims. ibid.
He boldly taunted police in a series of letters. ibid.
He left no prints at any of his crimes. ibid.
But by sending a computer disc he’d unwittingly revealed incriminating details about himself. ibid.
Technology finally caught up with the BTK Killer. ibid.
What is this taht [sic] I can see,
Cold icy hands taking hold of me,
For Death has come, you all can see.
Hell has open it,s [sic] gate to trick me.
Oh, Death! Oh, Death! can’t you spare
Me, over for another year!
I’ll stuff your jaws till you can’t talk
I’ll blind your leg’s till you can’t walk
I’ll tie your hands till you can’t make a stand. Dennis Rader’s BTK poem, sent to KAKE 10 TV
On the loose was a man known as BTK: short for Bind, Torture, Kill. Crime Stories: Dennis Lynn Rader: The BTK Strangler
The writer reiterated his own name of choice: BTK. ibid.
BTK’s original letter was certainly copied on a machine that sat in the basement of the Life Sciences Building on the campus of Wichita State University. ibid.
The police did know the blood-type of the killer from the semen he left at two of the crime scenes. ibid.
BTK resurfaces after 25 years. ibid. news headline
An extraordinary confession. ibid.
His love of the public spotlight was his final undoing. ibid.
He was the most heinous serial killer Kansas has ever seen. He called himself BTK – Bind them, torture them, kill them. For three whole decades he would taunt the police and press in a perverted game of cat and mouse. But was BTK born to kill? Born to Kill: Bind and Torture Killer, Channel 5 2013
He would describe his methods and motives in chilling detail. ibid.
The young Dennis Rader ... was now experiencing inner turmoil. ibid.
On February 25th 2005 they arrested him ... On 18th August 2005, Dennis Rader was sentenced to 10 consecutive life terms. ibid.