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Saturday, Feb. 26, 2005

Wichita Police Chief Norman Williams announces an arrest in the BTK killings. In a morning news conference, Williams said, "The bottom line...BTK is arrested."

Sheriff Gary Steed says his department has also closed the investigation into two unsolved murders, Dee Davis and Marine Hedge. The newly attributed slayings occurred in 1985 and 1991.

Police arrested Dennis Rader Friday. Rader is 59-years-old. Wichita State University records show he graduated in 1979 with a degree in Administration of Justice. He was a municipal worker in Park City, Kan. and was arrested Friday in Park City, where searchers spent several hours at his suburban home.

The killer known as BTK has been linked to eight unsolved killings in Wichita from 1974 through 1986. As of Saturday, he is linked to 10 killings in all.

His self-coined nickname stands for "Bind, Torture, Kill."

BTK went silent for years until resurfacing last March with letters to Wichita media and police.

Police aren't saying how they identified the man man arrested in connection with the BTK serial killings. A source familiar with the investigation says surveillance gave police their "first big piece of evidence" leading them to the suspect.

Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius tells the Associated Press that officials familiar with the case have told her that DNA evidence links the suspect to the killings.

No charges have been filed. Prosecutors say the death penalty won't apply to any crime committed before 1994, when the death penalty was introduced in Kansas.

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.