-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Computer Disk Led to Arrest in Killings, Pastor Says Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 09:22:21 -0500 From: Richard M. Smith <rms@private> To: 'Declan McCullagh' <declan@private> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/02/national/02btk.html?pagewanted=print&posit ion= 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... _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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