Investigators dig up pantyhose at BTK killer Dennis Rader’s former property

Remnants of pantyhose and other “items of interest” were dug up by deputies during a renewed search of BTK serial killer Dennis Rader’s former Kansas property as part of an investigation into unsolved missing persons and murder cases.

A “pantyhose ligature” was discovered on the Park City-owned land during a dig in April and new potential evidence during another search this week, Osage County Sheriff Eddie Virden told Fox News Wednesday.

Investigators returned to the place where the notorious killer’s home once stood Tuesday to follow up on leads in cold cases potentially tied to Raer, who admitted to murdering 10 people between 1974 and 1991.

“The short version is, through the investigation, we developed information of some possible trophies of Dennis Rader’s, and we followed up on those leads and worked with Park City,” Virden told Fox. “Did a dig in the area. And we did recover some items of interest.”

It’s unclear if the items collected during the digs are related to any of the 10 known murders committed Rader — who called himself for BTK for “blind, torture, kill” — or if they could be potential evidence in unsolved cases.

The search of the property began at least in part due to the 1976 disappearance of Cynthia “Cyndi” Dawn Kinney, 16, in which Rader is a prime suspect. The high school cheerleader went missing after leaving her relatives’ laundromat in June of that year.

The items were found beneath a slab of concrete where Rader reportedly told others he had hidden “trophies” from his victims decades ago that had “never been found.”

“The theory is he could have placed evidence of cases under stone pavers under the metal shed he built in the early to mid-90s. Like drivers licenses in jars,” Rader’s estranged daughter Kerri Rawson previously told Fox.

The sheriff clarified that they did not expect to find any human remains on the city-owned property.

“We weren’t looking for bodies, we were looking for items,” Virden told the station. “We did find some items. We can’t release what they are.”

The findings, including the pantyhose, will be turned over to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the sheriff said.

Rader was arrested in 2005 after his DNA was positively matched to semen that matched found at the scene of his first murder of a married couple and two of their young children.

He confessed to 10 killings and was sentenced to 10 consecutive life terms. However, the serial killer has previously denied being involved in Kinney’s disappearance.

Last month, Rader made headlines when he wrote a letter to Fox News in which he compared himself to Gilgo Beach murders suspect Rex Heuermann who he called a “clone” of himself.