

It wasn’t until 2005 that the police discovered that the killer’s real name was Dennis Rader – a husband and father of two children who was active in the community as the council president of his Lutheran church and a Cub Scout leader. Through these messages he gave himself a nickname based on his methodology: Bind, Torture, Kill a.k.a.

Between the mid-1970s and early 1990s, police investigated a total of 10 homicides that showcased a pattern of sadistic behavior, and the criminal responsible taunted the detectives on the case with photos and letters about what he had done.

In 1974, reports came out of Wichita, Kansas that four members of a family had been brutally murdered by an unknown assailant, and it turned out to be the first work of a dangerous serial killer. The story and the characters are fiction, but the novella itself is heavily inspired by a true monster from the real world. Stephen King has spent decades terrifying Constant Readers with villains and mayhem conjured from his own imagination, but “A Good Marriage” can be called a deviation. (Image credit: Screen Media Films) What “A Good Marriage” Is About
