" But he knew from reading true crime books about mistakes that other killers had made and he was not about to join that club. He finished in time to greet his wife as she came home from work. To her, he acted the same as usual. But he knew he had crossed a significant threshold—the "death path. "

― Katherine Ramsland , Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer