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    Neighborhood Profile: Battery Park City Tucked away on the western edge of the Financial District and surrounded by the Hudson River, Battery Park City is a mixed-use planned community where thousands of New Yorkers live and work. As with the neighboring Financial District, Battery Park City has become a trendy place to live and work in recent years and has finally begun to shed its 9-to-5 image. Overview One of New York City’s newer neighborhoods, Battery Park City dint exist until the end of

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    A city needs to provide three environments: commercial, public and residential. First, a commercial environment is where people work, it is real state intended for use by for profit business, such as office complexes, shopping malls, and restaurants. Second, a residential environment describes a place intended for living in, a house, condo or apartment as opposed to an office or workshop, so basically its an area for a family. Third, a public environment is a social space that is generally open and

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    Fall is near which means Shreveport-Bossier City, Louisiana’s Fall Festival Season is in full rotation. Located in the northwestern corner of Louisiana, the cities are easily accessible for gamblers, travelers and shoppers from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Mississippi. “Louisiana’s other side” is home to many outstanding gambling outlets including Harrah’s Louisiana Downs, Horseshoe Hotel & Casino, Sam’s Town Hotel & Casino, Margaritaville Resort Casino, DiamondJacks Casino Resort & Hotel and Eldorado

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    The BTK Killer is a psychotic male named Dennis Rader. His murder spree started in 1974 with the Otero family. Dennis then went through 10 victims without getting convicted till 1991. Throughout Dennis's crime spree he would send messages and puzzles to KAKE and the police taunting them by basically admitting to it. The reason why they couldn't convict him was that they didn't know who it was at all. The police then send Dennis messages and Dennis sent a message back. Dennis asks the police if it

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    Dennis Rader Dennis Rader was from Wichita Kansas. He was the type of person that just blended in, so insignificant that you'd never notice him. When he was a younger Dennis was your average military son who went to church and did Boy Scouts. Everyone thought that he was a bit withdrawn but polite. What's scary is people didn't know that when he was young he started touring animals and imagining bondage, torture and death. Visualizing it to women he knew. He started a panty fetish young as well which

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    years. His father worked in the United States Marine Corps before joining KG&E, an electric utility company from the beginning of 1948. As previously mentioned, Dennis Rader was born in Pittsburg, Kansas before his family moved to Kansas’ largest city i.e. Wichita when he was still young. The family settled into a humble but lovely home that remained their household until it was sold in

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    Dennis Rader (BTK Killer) Dennis Rader was born on the 9th of March, in 1945. He was born in the United States in a small town called Pittsburg, located in Kansas. In Dennis’s child years, he was known to torture animals by hanging, and he had a sexual fetish for women's underwear, finding any type of women’s undergarments available, stealing them, and wearing them for himself. While in grade school, he would also sketch violent sextual drawings, with vivid detail of torture and neglect. He was also

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    Dennis Rader began his behavior early on life. He began with the killing of animals and his fantasies. Rader is known as the “BTK Killer” which is because that’s what he was known for doing when he murdered people. He would bind them, torture them, and then kill them. Watching people plead or beg for mercy was all part of his fantasy. In 1974, Rader could not take any more. He couldn’t control his self. He had to get a fix. That is when he committed his first real crime and began his real criminal

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    In this case analysis, the BTK killer also known as Dennis Rader was convicted with 10 counts of first degree murder in Wichita, Kansas. He committed those crimes between 1974 and 1991. The acronym BTK stands for blind, torture, and kill. Soon after each incident, he sent anonymous letters to the police and taunting them by offering knowledge of the killings. Dennis Rader was reported to have tortured a Puerto Rican family, the Oteros in their home (Vigliotti, 2015). In court, he testified

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    The BTK Killer

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    7 The BTK Killer Wanted Notoriety Murder wasn’t enough for Dennis Rader, he wanted attention for his crimes as well. This led him to start leaving letters in public places for the police. In these letters he claimed responsibility for the murders and requested to be called The BTK Strangler which he explained meant “Bind them, torture them, kill them”. As time went on he left more and more notes, puzzles and clues. His downfall came when he left a computer disk with a message. Police traced the

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