Wichita ? A Wichita police detective and two law enforcement computer labs will be honored for their work on the BTK murder case.

Wichita police Detective Randy Stone, whose computer work provided a key clue in the case, will receive an award for “forensics investigation case of the year” from the International High Technology Crime Investigation Assn. next week at its conference in Monterey, Calif.

The association also will honor the Wichita police department’s computer crimes lab and the FBI’s regional computer forensic laboratory in Kansas City, Mo., for their work on the case.

Just hours after police received a computer disk from BTK in February, Stone determined it had been used at Christ Lutheran Church, where Dennis Rader was president of the church council and had used the computer at least once.

Authorities quickly focused on Rader, and spotted a truck at his home that BTK used to leave a package at a Home Depot store.

“All that happened in, like, a day’s time,” said Capt. Randy Landen. “You work on something that many years, and all of a sudden you get that one piece of the puzzle that pulls it all together.”

Rader, 60, was arrested nine days later. He pleaded guilty to killing 10 people and has been sentenced to 10 consecutive life sentences.