The serial-killing dad in "The Clovehitch Killer" is described by Roger Ebert as a "church-going guy who comes off as exceedingly normal." In real life, Rader was the president of his Lutheran Church, who in 1985 took his 53-year-old neighbor's body from her home, where he strangled her death, to the church, so he could take photographs of her "in bondage positions," according to CNN.
In the movie, Roger Ebert reported that the son's suspicions start when he borrows Burnside's truck and finds a crumpled photo of a woman in bondage, which was BTK's modus operandi — he often took photos of his crimes to remember them by. In an interview with FBI Profiler John Douglas posted on Mindhunters, Rader said, "It was all psychological. My whole thing when I went into someone's house was based on a fantasy of bondage ... Sex was never part of my fantasy either. I wanted power..."
Another parallel between Don Burnside and Dennis Rader is that Burnside is portrayed as a Boy Scout troop leader, and Rader served as a Cub Scout leader when his kids were small. However, unlike in "The Clovehitch Killer," it wasn't until Rader's children were grown and he was finally caught in 2005 that they learned their father was the BTK Killer.
Rader's daughter, Kerry Rawson, told ABC News (via YouTube) police said to her, "Your dad has been arrested as BTK." Rawson said, "I was like, 'I think I'm gonna pass out.'"
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