He enjoyed performing self-bondage, sometimes wearing a mask he used during some murders or even female underwear he had taken from his victims.

During these periods, he would engage in auto-erotic behaviour to keep his urges satisfied. Some such periods were around the time that his children were born and he didn't have enough free time to stalk potential victims. Occasionally, he took breaks from killing. Rader's killings occurred between 19, during which time he killed a total of 10 people (the first four of whom were killed in one night). He was still working there at the time of his arrest and was also the congregation president of the Christ Lutheran Church. One neighbor claimed he euthanized her dog for no reason. He was later described as being extremely strict in his position and even overzealous. Also, in 1989, he worked as a census field operations supervisor of Wichita and was, in 1991, hired by the Compliance Department in Park City as a dogcatcher and compliance officer. During his time in that position, he would teach the boy scouts some of the knots he used in his murders. In the early 1980s, he became a Cub Scout troop leader. Throughout his life, he held down several different jobs, including working at a supermarket, as an assembler for a camping gear firm, briefly for Cessna and, between November 1974 to July 1988, held various positions at ADT Security, which at the time sold and installed commercial-grade alarms. When Rader returned to the U.S., he moved to Park City, a Wichita suburb, and attended the Butler County Community College of El Dorado, earning an associate degree in Electronics in 1973, and then enrolled with the Wichita State University the same fall, graduating in 1979 with a bachelor's degree in Administration of Justice. Sometime during the 1970s, he married and he and his wife, Paula, had two children, a boy, and a girl. During this time, he would peep at women undressing and burglarize houses to steal women's underwear. Air Force until 1970, stationed in Texas, Alabama, Okinawa, South Korea, Greece, and Turkey. After attending the Kansas Wesleyan University between 19, he was in the U.S.

By his own account and several reports, he engaged in animal torture during his early years, hanging cats and dogs in barns, and harbored a sexual fetish for women's underwear. In 1957, he was confirmed into the Zion Lutheran Church. Though he was born in Pittsburgh, Kansas, he was raised in Wichita, Kansas, where he attended Riverview School and graduated from the Wichita Heights High School. His brothers were named Jeff, Paul, and Bill. Rader was born on March 9, 1945, as the eldest of four sons to William Elvin Rader, a Kansas Gas & Electricity employee, and Dorothea Mae Cook, a bookkeeper.

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