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Serial killer BTK claims he's innocent in 1976 Oklahoma cold case disappearance of 16-year-old Cyndi Kinney, as police have a 'complete lack of solid evidence', and she vanished a decade before he visited Oklahoma.
BTK, whose legal name is Dennis Rader, is known for 'binding, torturing, and killing' his 10 victims in Wichita, Kansas, from 1974 to 1991.
Kinney, a 16-year-old cheerleader, went missing on June 23, 1976. Authorities questioned if Rader, who had killed five people by that time, was involved, but they never released why they thought the murderer was involved.
Rader, who confessed to killing 10, has denied any involvement in Kinney's case and told Fox News the 'sheriff has what I call complete lack of solid evidence' and that the young girl disappeared before he came to Oklahoma.
Investigators who questioned Rader, who waived his Miranda Rights, said he disputed several claims they threw at him and claimed to have an alibi to prove it.
BTK, whose legal name is Dennis Rader (pictured in 2005), is known for 'binding, torturing, and killing' his 10 victims in Wichita, Kansas, from 1974 to 1991
Cyndi Kinney, a 16-year-old cheerleader, went missing on June 23, 1976. Rader, who confessed to killing 10, has denied any involvement in Kinney's case and said the 'sheriff has what I call complete lack of solid evidence'
Rader, who worked at ADT - a security services company - at the time, said that ADT had no involvement in the area that Kinney worked.
'Bank prewire [was] being installed close by, but no work by ADT in Oklahoma from the Wichita Office,' he told Fox News.
In addition, he said he didn't start working in Oklahoma until the 1980s, where he helped with Boy Scout camping trips and worked for the Census Bureau in the 1990s.
'Give me a break,' he said. 'I drove down there on a whim to Osage County, from Wichita, when I'd never been there before. I helped on 1990 Census in Oklahoma, but the timeframe doesn't match anything I did.'
His daughter, Kerri Rawson, also doesn't believe Kinney's disappearance matches her father's typical style - stalking, keeping trophies, and home invasion attacks.
'While it is my hope and prayer this missing person cold case gets solved for the family and friends of Kinney, in no way do I believe my father is connected,' she told Fox News. 'And, in fact, I believe he’s telling the truth on this, as he has done since 2005 on the 10 he did commit.'
She also doesn't believe her father had any reason to be in Oklahoma in 1976.
Osage County Sheriff Eddie Virden said the investigation is too early to give specifics but said they 'won't leave anything uninvestigated.'
He claimed Kinney (pictured) disappeared a decade before he went to Oklahoma, where he worked with the Boy Scouts in the 1980s and the Census Bureau in the 1990s
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