Wichita ? The daughter of one of the 10 victims of BTK serial killer Dennis Rader won a $250,000 default judgment against him Friday in the first of nine lawsuits filed by families.

Judge Timothy Lahey granted the maximum allowable under Kansas law in the lawsuit filed by Carolyn Hook in the 1985 death of her mother, Marine Hedge. The family withdrew its request for punitive damages.

Rader, who is representing himself in the civil cases, did not attend Friday’s hearing nor did he call by phone from prison as he had in an earlier civil proceeding. A default judgment was granted because Rader did not respond to the lawsuit in time.

Rader, who called himself BTK for “bind, torture and kill,” was sentenced Aug. 18 to 10 consecutive life terms for 10 murders committed from 1974 to 1991. Kansas had no death penalty at the time of the murders.

Hook did not testify, but her attorney, James McIntyre, told the judge that Hook was close to her mother and she does not want Rader to profit from the killings.

“That loss will never be replaced,” McIntyre said.

He said hearing details about her mother’s death in the media reopened the daughter’s old wounds.

Lahey also consolidated the nine lawsuits against Rader for the purpose only of hearing legal arguments about the Park City house Rader and his former wife, Paula, owned during their marriage. She got the house in an emergency divorce settlement after his arrest.

Paula Rader was not in court but is fighting to keep the money she stands to make from selling the couple’s former home. The Raders’ house sold for $90,000 at a July auction, although the home’s assessed value was just $56,700. Michelle Borin, an exotic dance club owner, has said she knew she overbid but she wanted the proceeds to help Rader’s family.

Paula Rader’s attorney, James Walker, told the court that the closing on that sale has been delayed because of the lawsuits and a lien related to the criminal case.

The buyer has agreed to an extension until Nov. 8 on the condition that all net proceeds from the sale be made payable to Paula Rader, Walker told the court.

Lahey denied a request by Kristin Casarona, a Topeka woman who is writing a book about Rader’s life, who sought the return of items seized from her during an inquisition conducted for Rader’s criminal proceedings.

Deputy Dist. Atty. Kevin O’Connor argued against the documents’ return because of a pending criminal hearing over the conditions of Rader’s imprisonment.

In making his ruling, Lahey noted that Casarona had copies of all the documents but told her attorney, John Val Wachtel, that he agreed in principle that once the criminal proceedings were over the documents should be returned to her.

In a separate BTK-related case, a Wichita man who wrongly came under suspicion in the killings got a step closer in his efforts to find out why he was fingered.

Roger Valadez wants the court to order prosecutors to disclose to him and his attorney any affidavits or other documents and testimony leading to the Dec. 1, 2004, search warrants for his DNA and his home.