Wichita ? Confessed BTK serial killer Dennis Rader told a Wichita television station that he had another potential victim in mind before his February arrest.

“There was probably one more,” Rader told KAKE-TV in an interview broadcast Thursday night.

“I was really thinking about it, but I was beginning to slow down age-wise my ‘thinking’ process, so it probably would have never went,” he said “It was probably more of an ego thing.”

Rader told the station he had already picked out the person, but refused to identify her.

Rader, who pleaded guilty last week to 10 first-degree murders in the Wichita area from 1974 to 1991, nicknamed himself BTK, for “Bind, Torture, Kill,” as he taunted media and police with cryptic messages about the crimes.

The 60-year-old former code inspector and church president with a wife and children, said he killed to satisfy sexual fantasies. He faces sentencing Aug. 17.

BTK had sent messages to the media about the crimes in the 1970s but stopped for more than two decades before resurfacing last year with a letter to The Wichita Eagle. He sent additional letters to others, include KAKE.

In his interview with the Wichita TV stations, Rader said he stopped communicating two decades ago because there were major conflicts going on in his life, but he refused to elaborate.

He said he reappeared last year when he heard that Wichita lawyer Robert Beattie was writing a book, “Nightmare in Wichita,” about the BTK crimes.

Rader said he wanted to tell his own story but insisted that he didn’t want to get caught.

“I just played cat and mouse too long with the police and they finally figured it out,” Rader said. “No, I was going to ride off into the sunset. I was closing everything down. I had about another half a year and that would have been it.”

Rader said he plans to apologize to his victims’ families at his sentencing hearing.

“Well, at the sentencing, it’s going to be very remorseful, apologetic to them,” Rader said. “I will be working on that. That’s one of the things that I am working on is a speech prepared for that. I think sentencing will be a pretty emotional day, probably have to have a box of Kleenex that day.”

While Rader will likely spend the rest of his life in prison, Dist. Atty. Nola Foulston has said she plans to present details of the sexually sadistic murders to get the longest possible sentence without the possibility of parole.

“You know, how could a guy like me – a church member with a family – go out and do those sorts of things?” Rader asked KAKE. “The only thing I can figure out is that I’ve compartmentalized somewhere in my body where I can do those sorts of things and go back and live a normal life which is unbelievable sometimes that it has happened.”

He later said he expects that psychologists, writers, criminologists and even himself will try to figure out what turned him into a killer.

Meanwhile, on Monday, Rader’s modest three-bedroom house will be sold at auction.

The real estate listing – which does not mention the home’s notorious owner – has generated thousands of hits to the auction house’s Web site, www.mccurdyauction.com, said Lonny McCurdy, the owner of McCurdy Auction Service.

“Their home didn’t do anything,” McCurdy said. “It is a nice property, and we are here to sell it. It is well maintained. It shows good evidence of pride of ownership.”