Dennis Rader, also known as the BTK Killer for his propensity for binding, torturing, and then killing his victims, terrorized the Wichita, Kansas, area from 1974 until 1991. He has ten known victims who he murdered either via strangulation or by stabbing them to death. His victims were primarily females and some were children. He gained notoriety for sending boastful and cryptic letters to the police and various media outlets describing the details of his crimes, along with poetry he had written and trophies he had taken from his victims. After a hiatus during the 1990s, Rader resumed his correspondence with police and the media in 2004 before being arrested in 2005. After pleading guilty on 27 June 2005, Rader was sentenced on 18 August 2005 ten consecutive life sentences. He would be eligible for parole after serving 175 years in prison.