'Psychological Torture' For Rader

Confessed BTK serial killer Dennis Rader faces a lifetime of "psychological torture" because he'll never be in a position of control again, says the son of Rader's last-known victim.

Jeff Davis' mother, Dolores, was strangled by Rader when she was 63, in 1991.

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"The alternative," Davis says, "would have been to stick a needle in his arm, like you do to the pet that you love. And I think that'd be far too quick and far too merciful for him.

"For a consummate narcissist and sociopath like him, being locked down and alone is its own form of torture and hell, because he can't be the show, he can't be in control. He now will be nothing. He now will be controlled every move he makes, and for him, that's purgatory right here on earth.

"So, really, I think it's very fitting for him. Normally, I'm a big believer in capital punishment, but unless (the execution) were something particularly savage and prolonged and excruciating, which is not really legal, then this is the next best thing. It's psychological torture for him."

Before Rader was sentenced Thursday, family members of some of his victims had a chance to address him face-to-face in court.

Davis was among the ones who did, saying, "For the last 5,326 days, I have wondered what it would be like to confront the walking cesspool that took my mother's precious life."

Davis told Syler that "was pretty satisfying because, for once, he didn't have the control and we did have the control, and I wanted to exploit that to the fullest."The message I sent to him, I wanted it to be the most personal, the most powerful and the most cutting I could possibly come up with, and I wanted him to hear and hurt from every word of it. And I think I got through. It's hard to hurt a narcissist, but I think I did a pretty good job."

Davis says he was "trying to exploit his weak points. I wanted to remind him that the irony of it all was that his greatest and last victims were his own family. I reminded him that if he hadn't been running his mouth, he wouldn't have gotten caught. I tried to twist the knife every way I could, to get through that emotional, callous exterior and actually have some emotional impact on him."

He adds that his court statement left him with feelings of "satisfaction, relief. Some justification. Some resolution. Knowing that he's just be on a slow downhill descent to oblivion, and I can now put that behind me and I can start focusing on the positive things in my life.

"You've gotta understand, that's a cross that I'd carried around for 14 years. So, if it came across as a little emotionally charged, it was. I mean, that was my day. Finally, after 14 1/2 years, to confront that animal and let him know what I thought of him."