In a series of letters written in 2012 and obtained by TMZ, Dennis Rader outlined his daily routine, saying that his day started with a 5 a.m. breakfast followed by some cleaning. After that, he wrote that he would spend some time updating his “logs + journals,” and revealed that he recorded things like sunrise and moonrise times, daily temperatures, and various other natural phenomena.
After a 9 a.m. break, he would go on to letter- and poetry-writing, then it was time for exercise. He wrote that he tried to get in at least 2,000 steps per day, along with 120 push-ups, a routine that led into reading or studying chess up until it was time for lunch. Then, he’d spend some time watching Spanish television in an attempt to learn the language, then nap, and the rest of the afternoon would be spent in much the same way that his morning was. Dinner was between 4:30 and 5, followed by watching the news on TV, updating his journals with anything that had happened during the day, and lights-out happened somewhere around midnight.
Then, Rader wrote, he “checks the heaven for stars, due to lights outside, only the very bright ones, mainly a blue-white one east, every night might be the main star of ‘Pegasus,” and naturally the moon phases.” During it all, he said that he usually averaged about 5 or 6 cups of coffee a day.
