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BTK Murder Suspect Being Held on Bond

NPR | By Madeleine Brand

Published March 2, 2005 at 12:00 AM EST

On Tuesday, authorities in Wichita, Kansas, charged a former home security worker with 10 counts of murder in the BTK serial murder case. The suspect, Dennis Rader, is being held on a bail of 10 million dollars. NPR's Madeleine Brand speaks with Wichita Eagle reporter Roy Wenzl about the case.

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Madeleine Brand is the host of NPRs newest and fastest-growing daily show, Day to Day. She conducts interviews with newsmakers (Iraqi politicians, US senators), entertainment figures (Bernardo Bertolluci, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ricky Gervais), and the everyday people affected by the news (an autoworker laid off at GM, a mother whose son was killed in Iraq).

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