Book Review: "A Serial Killer's Daughter" - Rawson

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"A Serial Killer's Daughter" by Kerri Rawson (daughter of the BTK killer). The book was interesting, but spends a lot of time on private family memories, which are much like anyone else's. She dated, fell in love, went to college, got married, struggled through the first year's of marriage. All well and fine, but I was confused on how these things related to being the daughter of BTK. She did eventually talk about growing up with BTK who sounded much like any other person. He worked, enjoyed TV and trips, occasionally got mad but not out of the ordinary, needed alone time and he cried at his daughter's wedding. Perhaps that's what scary about it. He was just like anyone else. After the family found out that their "Dennis" was actually "BTK" (a name he gave himself in one of the letters he liked to write for the police- short for Bind, Tourture, Kill) - Kerri stayed in touch with her dad and described many of her letters to him. In the letters she told him that she still loved him even though she didn't understand why he did his crimes. He would complain of extended family not coming to visit him, saying that they weren't acting very Christian. (Well, not very Christian to go murdering people, either.... so.... ) Eventually though - she would come to disown him - because she found out that he had used the excuse of "working late" to the family when he was in fact our torturing and killing people and that in an interview he had described his family as his "social contacts". I don't aim to judge Rawson - but I think I would be more upset that brutally murdered people. But that's just me.