David Lohr (born 1974) is an
American
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journalist who has written about and interviewed many of the world's most notorious criminals.
Lohr gained national prominence in 2003 when
Wichita, Kansas serial killer
Dennis Rader
Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945) is an American serial killer known as BTK (an abbreviation he gave himself, for "bind, torture, kill"), the BTK Strangler or the BTK Killer. Between 1974 and 1991, he killed ten people in Wichita and Par ...
(then known only as BTK), wrote letters to news outlets. One of his letters included a list of book chapters titled "The BTK Story" that were similar to a list of book chapters about BTK's crimes written by Lohr.
[Sylvester, Ron. "FBI combs letter, seeks ties to BTK." ''The Wichita Eagle'', March 14, 2007]
Accessed
September 12, 2013 This communication by Rader to the local media was but one of 11 similar communications made by him at the time, which led directly to Rader's February 2005 arrest, eventual confession, and conviction for the killing of 10 people between 1974 and 1991.
Previously, Lohr was senior investigative crime writer for the former
CourtTV’s
Crime Library
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and
Discovery Channel
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, where he headed the Criminal Report at
Investigation Discovery
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and reported on true crime cases in the news.
["David Lohr: Profile", ''Crime Magazine'', accessed September 12, 2013](_blank)
/ref> Lohr currently is a senior crime reporter for ''The Huffington Post
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''.["Profile: David Lohr," The Huffington Post]
accessed
September 12, 2013 He was instrumental in helping gain the freedom of Mac, a hip hop artist who Lohr alleges was wrongfully convicted of killing a fan in 2000.
Lohr lives in , Louisiana
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.
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Crime Library
American television reporters and correspondents
American television writers
American male television writers
American non-fiction crime writers
Living people
1975 births
People from Erie County, Pennsylvania
Journalists from Pennsylvania
21st-century American journalists
21st-century American male writers
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