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Michael Eldon Burgess (born June 1, 1960) is an American actor known for his sinister television portrayal of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer. Burgess was born in Lusk, Wyoming and grew up in Central City, Nebraska, the son of Eldon V. and Ida May Spencer Burgess. His father was a master electrician and electrical engineer with various public utilities and municipalities in the state of Nebraska. His mother was a career nurse. As a boy Burgess was very involved with the Boy Scouts of America, eventually rising to the rank of Eagle Scout in 1976, along with Vigil Honor in Scouting's Order of... MORE

Michael Eldon Burgess (born June 1, 1960) is an American actor known for his sinister television portrayal of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer. Burgess was born in Lusk, Wyoming and grew up in Central City, Nebraska, the son of Eldon V. and Ida May Spencer Burgess. His father was a master electrician and electrical engineer with various public utilities and municipalities in the state of Nebraska. His mother was a career nurse. As a boy Burgess was very involved with the Boy Scouts of America, eventually rising to the rank of Eagle Scout in 1976, along with Vigil Honor in Scouting's Order of the Arrow later that same year. In the Order of the Arrow, he was a member of the now-renamed We-U-Shi Lodge. He rose as high in the organization as Junior Assistant Scoutmaster in Troop 114 of the Overland Trails Council in Grand Island, Nebraska. He graduated from Central City High School in 1978. He joined the United States Navy right out of high school and became a Hospital Corpsman. He was eventually assigned to the United States Marine Corps, serving with the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines at Camp Pendleton, California, from 1980 to 1982. After being honorably discharged from the Navy he worked LESS