Jeff Davis, whose mother was strangled by Rader, called Rader's speech a "pathetic, rambling diatribe.""It's beyond comprehension It was that pathetic," he said "He just nauseates me. I just want them to put the cockroach away."Rader's voice choked as he made his half-hour address to the courtroom, saying he had been dishonest to his family and victims and selfish."I know the victim's families will never be able to forgive me. "Hopefully someday God will accept me."Rader, 60, a former church congregation president and Boy Scout leader, led a double life, calling himself BTK for "bind, torture and kill." He was arrested in February and pleaded guilty in June to 10 murders from 1974 to 1991.Family members of the victims talked about the hearing at a news conference afterward, saying that horror writer Stephen King couldn't have come up with more monstrous character than Rader. Some family members walked out of court during Rader's speech, saying they did not want to give him the time of day."A dark side is there, but now I think light is beginning to shine," Rader said. "He should never, ever see the light of day."Rader offered Biblical quotes, thanks to police and an apology to victims' relatives before he was sentenced. I want him to suffer as much as he made his victims suffer.""This man needs to be thrown in a deep, dark hole and left to rot," she said.
"As far as I'm concerned, Dennis Rader does not deserve to live. It culminated with rambling testimony from Rader, who said he had been dishonest to his family and victims and at times wiped his eyes."Nancy's death is a like a deep wound that will never, ever heal," Beverly Plapp, sister of victim Nancy Fox, testified. Kansas had no death penalty at the time the killings were committed. The two-day hearing featured graphic testimony from detectives and sobbing relatives. Instead, it was claimed, the birds had been poisoned by the wrong kind of feed or had been killed by worms.. The so-called 'BTK serial killer' Dennis Rader was ordered to serve 10 consecutive life terms yesterday during an emotional hearing in which relatives of his victims called him a monster and said he should be "thrown in a deep, dark hole and left to rot." The sentence - a minimum of 175 years without a chance of parole - was the longest possible that Judge Gregory Waller could deliver.
Several suspected outbreaks were claimed not to be bird flu after all. Quarantines have been imposed in many regions and the import of Russian poultry into the European Union has been banned.Scientists in Europe are looking on nervously as the disease appears to have reached the Ural Mountains, the natural dividing point between European and Asian Russia, some 750 miles east of Moscow.However there were signs yesterday that the disease was not spreading as fast as was feared. Thirty-six Russian settlements have confirmed cases of the disease, but no cases of human infection have been reported.Several regions have brought forward the start of the hunting season hoping that possibly infected wild birds will be shot out of the air. A highly infectious form of bird flu which appears to be moving westwards across Russia towards Europe is being tracked by teams of scientists in Germany and the Netherlands. The Russian epidemic was first detected in Siberia in July but has steadily spread due to contact between migrating birds and farmed poultry. Two types of wild duck are being blamed by Russian experts, who say the birds brought the disease from Asia, where it has mutated to affect humans, killing at least 60 people.In Russia 13,000 birds have died of the disease and 113,000 have been preventively culled. "It is about meeting lots of young people from all over the world You can talk to anyone The atmosphere is fantastic.".