Robert Beattie (writer) explained

Robert Beattie, an American, Wichita-based, lawyer, is the author of the non-fiction book Nightmare in Wichita.

Career

Nightmare in Wichita is about Dennis Rader, a serial killer in Wichita, Kansas who created the name BTK after his modus operandi, "bind, torture, kill". Rader resumed sending letters to media again after a 13-year hiatus after hearing about the book. Right before he was going to publish it, Dennis Rader was arrested and then convicted as the BTK Killer.^[1] As a result, Beattie quickly wrote an epilogue.

Beattie is also known for interviewing serial killer Charles Manson for a class project as a professor at Newman University in Wichita, which stirred controversy and brought media attention to him.^[2] Language of Evil is about a murder in Douglas County, Kansas.

Beattie ran unsuccessfully for the office of Kansas Secretary of State in 2006.^[3] He testified in front of the Kansas legislature against the reliability of polygraph examinations.^[4]

Works

• Nightmare in Wichita, New American Library, 2005,
• Book: Language of Evil. Penguin Group. 2009. 978-0-451-22530-6 .

External links

• Author's website

Notes and References

1. News: Suspect in 10 Kansas Murders Lived an Intensely Ordinary Life . The New York Times . Monica . Davey . March 6, 2005.
2. News: Blackboard: Curricula Esoterica; Doctors, Soldiers, Serial Killers . The New York Times . Abby . Ellin . August 1, 1999.
3. News: BTK author seeking post as secretary . The Topeka Capital-Journal . Tim . Hrenchir . 2006.
4. Web site: Testimony of Robert M. Beattie on the Kansas Polygraph Protection Act of 2000 . Antipolygraph.org . 2015-05-21.