'BTK Killer' sentenced to 10 life terms

BTK serial killer Dennis Rader was ordered to serve 10 consecutive life terms Thursday during a tear-filled hearing in which his victims called him a monster who should be "thrown in a deep, dark hole and left to rot."
The parents and siblings of two New Mexicans were killed by Rader. Carmen Otero Montoya was 13 when she and her brother found her dead parents in on January 1974.

Montoya and her two brothers were in court when Rader described how he killed their family.

The sentence - a minimum of 175 years without a chance of parole - was the longest possible that Judge Gregory Waller could deliver. Kansas had no death penalty at the time the killings were committed.

The two-day hearing featured testimony from detectives who graphically detailed the 10 killings and tearful relatives of the victims. It culminated with rambling testimony from Rader, who said he had been dishonest to his family and victims and at times wiped his eyes.

"Nancys death is a like a deep wound that will never, ever heal," Beverly Plapp, sister of victim Nancy Fox, testified. "As far as Im concerned, Dennis Rader does not deserve to live. I want him to suffer as much as he made his victims suffer."

"He should never, ever see the light of day."

Rader offered Biblical quotes, thanks to police and an apology to victims relatives before Waller sentenced him.

"A dark side is there, but now I think light is beginning to shine," Rader said. "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 the 10 murders from 1974 to 1991.