[1] Dennis Rader, a city compliance officer and church council president working in Park City, just north of Wichita, was ultimately arrested, charged and convicted of the crimes.

Beattie, who lives in Wichita, compiled the book based on interviews with police officers and detectives familiar with the case.

Rader's capture, on February 25, 2005, happened just as the book was in the final stages of editing.

Many, including some Wichita police officers, have speculated that the fact that a book about BTK was being written was what caused the killer to reemerge in 2004, which led to his arrest the following year.

[3] In its review, TruTV's "Crime Library" criticized the book for filling up "many, many pages with (the author's) meetings with various individuals that clearly interested Beattie, but are likely to bore readers."