Wichita ? BTK serial killer Dennis Rader has asked the judge overseeing his case to allow him to receive mail from the media at the jail. He also wants permission to resume contacts with a Topeka woman writing a book about his life, court papers show.

Judge Gregory Waller has set a hearing for this afternoon to hear a motion filed by his attorneys asking the judge to rescind previous court orders barring such contacts.

Rader, 60, pleaded guilty Monday to killing 10 people in the Wichita area from 1974 to 1991. He is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 17.

Georgia Cole, spokeswoman for the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office, said prosecutors had not agreed to the request.

“The mere fact a person files a motion doesn’t mean it is in the best interest of the state or anyone else … We have not agreed that it would be appropriate,” Cole said.

Rader’s attorneys did not immediately return calls for comment.

Since his arrest, Rader’s mail from media outlets has been rerouted to his court-appointed attorneys. In the motion, his attorneys argue that Rader’s guilty plea makes the order prohibiting him from directly receiving mail from the media no longer necessary.

The motion also seeks to allow him contact with Kristin Casa-rona, a Topeka woman who visited Rader in jail about 10 times and plans to write to a book about his life. It contends contact should be allowed because Rader’s guilty plea means Casarona is no longer a potential witness in the case.

In a phone interview from Topeka, Casarona said she and Rader want to discuss more details about the book – such as the crimes that they could not talk about before his guilty pleas.

“We did have a faith-based rapport going – an inspirational, uplifting, Christian rapport,” she said. “I think that is important for him to retain. My whole goal is I saw a hurting soul, someone who needed spiritual uplifting.”

Casarona said she planned to attend today’s hearing.

She said she and Rader were able to establish a rapport because of the inspirational messages she sent, and because “people of his nature” are very perceptive about whether they can trust someone.

“I think he was able to tell my motives were pure,” she said.