It's good to undelete: Floppy disk led to arrest in BTK killings [priv]

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Subject: Computer Disk Led to Arrest in Killings, Pastor Says
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 09:22:21 -0500
From: Richard M. Smith <rms () computerbytesman com>
To: 'Declan McCullagh' <declan () well com>

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/02/national/02btk.html?pagewanted=print&posit
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March 2, 2005
Computer Disk Led to Arrest in Killings, Pastor Says
By MONICA DAVEY
        

WICHITA, Kan., March 1 - In the end, the B.T.K. serial killer's downfall may
have been his own love of sending letters, poems and packages out to the
world.

Michael G. Clark, the pastor of Dennis L. Rader, the man now charged with 10
counts of murder in the strangulations that terrorized a city, said Tuesday
that one item in the killer's most recent mailing to a local television
station helped finally crack the case: an ordinary computer disk...

Mr. Clark said that the police told him they used information on the
computer disk in B.T.K.'s final mailing on Feb. 16 to trace it back to a
computer at Christ Lutheran Church, where Mr. Clark is the pastor. Mr.
Rader, the president of the church council, had used the church's computer a
few weeks earlier, Mr. Clark said, to print the agenda for a council meeting
he was to preside over...
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