Robert Beattie, an American, Wichita-based, lawyer, is the author of the non-fiction book Nightmare in Wichita.
Career
editNightmare 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
edit- Nightmare in Wichita, New American Library, 2005, ISBN 978-0-451-21738-7
- Language of Evil. Penguin Group. 2009. ISBN 978-0-451-22530-6.
References
edit- ^ Davey, Monica (March 6, 2005). "Suspect in 10 Kansas Murders Lived an Intensely Ordinary Life". The New York Times.
- ^ Ellin, Abby (August 1, 1999). "Blackboard: Curricula Esoterica; Doctors, Soldiers, Serial Killers". The New York Times.
- ^ Hrenchir, Tim (2006). "BTK author seeking post as secretary". The Topeka Capital-Journal.
- ^ "Testimony of Robert M. Beattie on the Kansas Polygraph Protection Act of 2000". Antipolygraph.org. Retrieved 2015-05-21.
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