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According to an entry I read in his journal, Rader’s family bought
their first TV set in 1955, when Rader was around ten years old.
The Rader boys loved watching The Mickey Mouse Club. But Dennis
enjoyed the Mouseketeers for reasons other than their zany songs
and adventures. By the time he entered junior high, he’d developed an
obsessive and violent crush on America’s newest teen sweetheart—
Annette Funicello. He told Landwehr about how he longed to drive
out to California, kidnap her, tie her up in ropes, then take her to an
abandoned house—always situated atop a lonely hill outside of town.
“

On June 4, 1963, a few months after the movie trailer for Beach Party was released and about ½ away drive north from the beach/film location a young couple was murdered by the Zodiac.  Of note in this case, the female victim was instructed to bind the male with precut ropes.  The police thought the shooter was an expert/experienced and the bodies were dragged to a shack.  The female’s bathing suit was cut open with a sharp instrument exposing her breasts. The killer then attempted to set fire to the shack with wooden matches, to no avail.  (Failed arson indicating juvenile or inexperience)

The Zodiac had brought a knife, a gun, and pre-cut rope ( BTK’s hit kit! )       BTK also cut some of his female victims bras/tops, exposing their breasts.         BTK also instructed his female victims to bind male victims.                        Dennis Rader had a motive to kill the female and the male.  He must have been jealous of Frankie Avalon taking “his girl” Annette Funicello.