He Bound, Tortured & KILLED! Fed Explains Serial Killer： BTK
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Summary
Dennis Lynn Rader is an American serial killer known as BTK. Between 1974 and 1991, he killed 10 people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas and sent taunting letters to police and media outlets describing the details of his crimes. After a decade-long hiatus, Rader resumed sending letters in 2004, leading to his arrest and subsequent guilty plea. He is currently serving 10 consecutive life sentences at El Dorado Correctional Facility.
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And we are live. What's up, guys? Welcome to FedIt. Today, we're going to be covering the BTK killer.
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You guys have been requesting this one for a long time, man.
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This will be probably going to be one of the most infamous serial killers, definitely out of Kansas.
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Let's get into it, guys. We've got a lot to talk about on this one, man.
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I was a special agent with Homeland Security Investigations, okay, guys? HSI.
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The cases that I did mostly were human smuggling and drug trafficking.
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You see him reaching in his jacket. You don't know.
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You're facing two counts of two meditative murder.
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Now, when they first started, guys, 6ix9ine ran with me.
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You know, I'm bobbing my head like, hey, this shit lit.
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When the cartels shipped drugs into the country.
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The largest corrupt police bust in New Orleans history.
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We're going to go over his past, the gang guy, so that this all makes sense.
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So today we're going to be covering the BTK killer, man.
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I'm going to go ahead and share a screen with y'all because we got a lot to cover.
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And, yeah, this one is definitely going to be a good one.
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Dennis Lynn Rader, born March 9, 1945, is an American serial killer known as BTK,
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an abbreviation he gave himself for buying, torture, kill, the BTK strangler, or the BTK killer.
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Between 1974 and 1991, he killed 10 people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, and sent taunting letters to police and media outlets describing the details of his crimes.
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After a decade-long hiatus, Rader resumed sending letters in 2004, leading to his 2005 arrest and subsequent guilty plea.
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He is currently saving 10 consecutive life sentences at El Dorado Correctional Facility.
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But, yeah, we're going to go over a documentary, guys, which chronicles his crimes.
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And, as we discussed before, a lot of these serial killers, guys, that, like, operated from the 60s all the way to the 90s, a lot of them didn't get caught because of DNA, which, in this case, you're going to see DNA rear its ugly head, I guess, in Dennis Rader's not to his favor later on.
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So I got this documentary here, guys, and we're going to play this thing.
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It's an older documentary, but it was really well done, and they got a lot of investigators that were involved in the investigation.
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So without further ado, let's get right into it.
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Three initials which struck terror in the heartlands of America.
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A serial killer so deadly, even the police feared where he would strike next.
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I was terrified that this guy was maybe going to come after my family.
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We go inside police files, piece together the forensic evidence,
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and reveal the true story of the hunt for one of the world's most wanted.
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The biggest city in the state they call the Buckle on the Bible Belt.
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A community where people felt safe leaving their doors unlocked.
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And just so you guys know, here's Wichita, Kansas right here for y'all.
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Because some of you guys might be saying, where the hell is Wichita?
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So if you go here to a map, it's damn near in the heart of the United States.
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And as you guys can see, Interstate 35 goes through Wichita, Kansas.
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Which, you know, as you guys know, I'm very familiar with this highway.
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Because this highway goes all the way down to mile-stomping grounds of Laredo, Texas, right here.
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Drugs come into the United States through here.
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And then they're moved all the way up through the Midwest.
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And Interstate 35 pretty much gets you all the way there.
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You guys can see all the major cities that it hits.
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You know, literally, when you guys think about the United States,
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you think of that American dream, Wichita, Kansas embodies that.
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So just to give you guys an idea of where these crimes were committed, okay?
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Or for all my people that are Geography Challenge,
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which apparently the after-hour show has demonstrated.
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Until a serial killer began to prowl the streets.
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For over 30 years, two generations of detectives hunted Wichita's serial killer.
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We knew sooner or later he will kill again if we fail.
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And just so you guys know, you're probably wondering, what the hell is a task force?
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Basically, it's a team of investigators from different agencies working together,
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leveraging their different skill sets and abilities, right,
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and unique authorities to work together in tandem to go ahead and capture criminals.
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You got the Joint Terrorism Task Force, which the FBI works with, you know,
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Everybody's working and, you know, staying locals.
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They're using their different authorities and powers and jurisdictions to combat terrorism.
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In this case, the BTK task force, you have a bunch of different agencies working together to catch the serial killer.
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Because, guys, this dude had the United States shook, especially Wichita,
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back throughout the 70s when he was doing this stuff.
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And we'll get into more detail on that here in a second.
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The fact that they created an entire task force to go after this guy lets you know that they weren't messing around.
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What detectives found at the scene haunted former chief of police Richard LeMunnion for decades.
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This is where BTK made his first hit over 30 years ago.
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Most of our homicides were the domestic type, the smoking gun, bar fights, things of that nature.
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What you guys are about to hear is pretty graphic.
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They're going to go into his first murder back in 1974.
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The Woodframe house was home to the Otero family, who had only just moved into the area.
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Joseph was an Air Force veteran, and his wife, Julie, worked in the local factory.
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It was very shocking for the officers, and they came up.
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They found the parents face down in their own bedroom, fully clothed, obviously strangled, bags over their head.
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The strangled corpse of nine-year-old Joe Jr. was in another bedroom.
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But police were still to make another horrific discovery.
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Josephine had been put through a different type of death than the others.
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He took her downstairs, and she was obviously alive.
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He had put a rope around her neck and over some pipes, and he would raise her up.
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And if she was dying, then he was masturbating at that time.
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So she was the target, the primary target, I believe, for this.
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Yeah, so he had been stalking them prior to this, guys.
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And he talks about this in his testimony, which I'll play a little bit later.
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But he used to stalk his victims for periods of times where he would watch them sometimes for months, if not damn near a year plus,
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getting their living pattern, seeing where they live.
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And he was very methodical about how he conducted his crimes, though he did make some mistakes.
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Now, this is 1974, guys, so he mentioned that he masturbated, right, at this crime scene after murdering one of the children.
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And they were able to find – they preserved this DNA, which would come back later on, okay, to haunt him.
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But remember, 1974, they didn't have any of this stuff, all right?
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The Otero children had only escaped because they were at school when the killer attacked.
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The killer had made certain there was no call for help, disabling the phone line before entering the house.
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You know, that right there goes to speak to his mindset when he entered that house.
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Because just so y'all know, he entered in bare face, no mask.
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So he knew, if I'm going to go ahead and get this done, I'm going to go in with a gun.
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And remember, guys, there was no cell phones in 1974.
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I know you guys were like, wait, why did they just pull out their iPhones and go ahead and call the police?
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That's what led the investigators to thinking that this couldn't be a random thing.
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People just don't walk in off the street and murder a family.
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And real quick, let me show you guys where the house actually is.
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Here it is, 803 North Edgemoor Street, okay, in Wichita, Kansas.
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He broke through here, and then he cut the phone line, which was right in this area.
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I mean, it's crazy that, you know, this house right here has that kind of, you know, unfortunate historical value.
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Searching for the brutal murderer of the Otero family.
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The victims, a mother, father, and two of their children.
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Police thought there could be a sexual motive due to evidence left at the scene.
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They were focusing on seminal fluid that was deposited near the body of Josephine Otero.
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They were primarily interested in determining the blood group, if possible.
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Blood typing suggested the killer was blood type O.
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Like, the universal blood donor, that doesn't really help too much.
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So that was really the only way they were able to identify anything.
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It's like, okay, we can go off a blood type, which narrows the suspects down to a degree.
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But, once again, it's not definitive and or conclusive.
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Before the use of DNA, the test could only narrow down the suspect list so far.
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For nine months, police followed up every lead they had.
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Witnesses provided descriptions and identicates were drawn up.
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Then, in October 1974, three men confessed to murdering the Oteros.
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Okay, guys, this is where shit gets crazy, all right?
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You guys have obviously heard the song by Offset and Cardi B, Clout, right?
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Y'all about to see right now, this is the biggest clout chase I've ever seen.
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Those three dudes you have in custody are just talking to get publicity for the Otero murders.
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Only the letter's author knew the horrific details.
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Josephine, hanging by the neck in the northwest part of the basement.
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Yo, he's over here giving grim details that only the investigators know and did not release to the public.
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And I'm going to go ahead and prove to you guys, telling y'all where I know my victim's glasses are, which goes to show you guys the mindset that this dude is in.
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And I'm going to play some testimony from him when he confesses later on so you guys can kind of get an idea of what type of individual we're dealing with here.
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FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood has analyzed BTK's behavior.
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An FBI profiler guy typically comes in when you're dealing with serial killers or someone that they're not able to necessarily identify and they need help building a profile for the serial killer.
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So what the FBI does a lot of the times is the profiler will come in, look at the scene of the crime, look at how they commit the crime, look at any evidence that was left at the scene.
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And what they do is they build a profile of that individual and try to establish a pattern.
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They give predictions on how old the individual might be, his race, what type of personality he may be, what he may do for work, et cetera.
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So it gives investigators an idea of where to start looking for this individual based on the crime scene.
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So using FBI profilers is fairly common in serial killer cases where there's not many clues because you guys got to remember the things that make serial killers so difficult to catch is that they kill randomly and they attack targets with no real motive.
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It's not necessarily to attack that specific person for some type of reason.
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A lot of the times the serial killers are able to commit the crimes so viciously is because they don't know who that individual is.
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They're able to separate feeling from that person, which allows them to commit the heinous crimes easier.
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Unusual for a serial killer to correspond following the commission of a crime.
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BTK certainly suffered from malignant narcissism.
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And that's when you begin to consider yourself superior to others, that you're incapable of making mistakes and you have a desperate need for attention.
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He had typed this letter, took it to the city library, and then he called one of the local newspaper reporters.
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BTK craved attention and used his letter to taunt the police.
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He dared them to catch him before he struck again.
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The Zodiac killer did something very similar where he would also write to the press and the police taunting them about catching him for his crimes.
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When this monster enters my brain, I will never know.
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The code words for me will be bind them, torture them, kill them, B-T-K.
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Claiming the murder for the Oteros when three other guys tried to claim the murder.
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So he had to write that letter into the media to let them know I did it, and he had to give gruesome, grim details that only the investigator and the killer would know.
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And a psychopath is a very manipulative individual.
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He's an individual who manages to compartmentalize.
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In other words, he can separate out what's taking place from his involvement.
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His next victim lived here on Hydraulic Street.
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She was a mother, along with her children, and she was ill that day.
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24-year-old Shirley Vianne was at home with her three children that day.
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If you guys go back and watch the podcast I did on Ted Bundy, Ted Bundy used to travel around in his little Volkswagen, right?
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With, you know, rope, burglar gloves, a crowbar, etc.
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All these different types of gadgets and tools to capture his victims and kill them.
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So, a lot of the times these serial killers have a methodology that they like to use.
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Sexual sadism feeds off of the response to the infliction of physical or emotional pain.
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The only act of mercy this fucking asshole gave was not allowing the children to watch what happened to the mother.
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Extremely important for B-T-K to elicit a response of terror and fear.
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The investigators came to me and said, there's a possibility this is tied to the Otero murders.
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Shirley Vianne's son saw the murderer at the door of her neighbor's home earlier in the same day.
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We never did think that she was the primary target, which turns out she wasn't.
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Very few people experience in a lifetime being able to say, I was the target of a serial killer,
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because most people that are targets of serial killers don't live to talk about it.
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Cheryl Sarkozy and Judy Skirl were roommates back in the late 70s,
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living just a few doors down from Shirley Vianne.
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But, on the day of the murder, the women were out.
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I came home and the police said that a man had murdered the woman down the street from me.
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But, previous to him murdering her, he had come to my house and knocked on my door.
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So, the police believed that I was the intended victim that day.
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But, the roommates think BTK came back the following year.
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And I can remember turning on the kitchen light as I'm entering the room.
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And I looked up and I saw a man peeking in the back window.
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And by then, we had the phone and we had dove underneath the kitchen table for safety.
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And waited underneath the kitchen table until the sun came up.
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BTK targeted neighborhoods where he thought he might find women at home, alone.
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He would find somebody that looked right to him.
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25-year-old Nancy Fox lived alone, getting home late from working two jobs.
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Part of his protection against making mistakes was getting to know his victims, gathering intelligence, where they live, what kind of car they drive, what time they come home.
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He would spend months doing this, guys, studying these individuals.
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On the 8th of December, 1977, Nancy Fox returned home from her job at a jewelry store.
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He did take the victims to the brink of death, let them know that they were at the point of death, and that he had allowed them to come back.
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Because it gives you that feeling of being God, where you're able to torture the victim, you know, get them to pass out, go unconscious for a period of time, then bring them back to life.
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And John Wayne Gacy did this, Ted Bundy did this, and also BTK.
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It allows them to feel this sense of dominance and power.
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Jeffrey Dahmer also used to do this as well because he didn't like it when people would leave.
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If you guys go ahead and watch the podcast, which I've done podcasts on all these serial killers, by the way.
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But this is one of the underlying things that all these weirdos all share in common.
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But Dahmer was more on he wanted to, like, own them to a degree, and he didn't want them to leave.
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Anytime they want to leave, that's when he would commit the murder.
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And then the Zodiac Killer also would say, oh, I'm going to kill these people, and they're going to be my slaves in hell or in paradise.
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So these guys have a very warped sense of dominance, of belonging, of wanting to feel this strange God complex over the individual.
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John Wayne Gacy would do this as well where he would drown them.
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Or excuse me, they show this in the Jeffrey Dahmer Netflix series where, you know, the guy says, oh, why are you doing this?
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He's like, I am God, and he drowns him again, right?
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So that's what a lot of these weirdos get off on, okay?
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That method of allowing the victim to revive goes to his playing the role of God.
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He has within his power life and death over another human being.
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818 the following morning, police hear the killer's voice.
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Now, this is where the murder actually happened, guys.
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This is where the murder happened back then in 1997 that we just went over.
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And this was on December 8, 1977, Nancy Joe Fox.
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You will find a homicide at 843 South Pershing.
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It's a little warped, but basically he's saying you're going to find a homicide at 843 Pershing.
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This is him actually calling the police after the murder.
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So he says you'll find a homicide and he drops to Addie, right?
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And then he actually knows her name, Nancy Joe Fox, because they spoke for a period of time prior to him doing this.
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You will find a homicide at 843 South Pershing.
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I'm calling you to let you know that I did it and you still can't catch me.
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And they played that call a million times, guys, right?
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To try to get, hey, you know, does his voice sound like that?
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Of course, this is the 1970s, so phones weren't as clear back then.
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It's part of his game that he's playing with the police.
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It was a package that contained not only a letter, but a poem.
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So he sends a poem over to the police after he killed Nancy Joe Fox.
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He said, quote, writing poems about killing people.
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The killer claimed to have committed seven murders.
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The Otero family, Shirley Vian, Nancy Fox, and one unnamed victim.
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How many do I have to kill before I get my name in the paper or some national attention?
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How many more do I have to kill to get national attention?
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So that speaks to this guy's need for attention.
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This line that absolutely stopped everyone in their tracks.
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BTK's threat to kill again gave police a horrible dilemma.
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Give the killer the recognition he craved or risk provoking him into another kill.
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There was a lot of debate in terms of what we should do.
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There's certainly a danger of recognizing the presence of a serial killer within the community
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Because now what you've done is you've validated what he's doing.
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It may, in fact, encourage him to commit more murders.
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But when you're low on leads, what are you going to do?
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You need to you need to put the information out to the public for public safety reasons.
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There's a fucking crazy guy running around breaking in the homes.
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You need potential sources coming for witnesses.
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Police were not as sophisticated back then as they are now with DNA databases, computer systems where they're working together.
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Back then, it was like old school police detective work where you were on surveillance all day.
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You may or may not share information with other police departments.
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You didn't have a database to go ahead and compare other information with unless you went actively and sought it out from other departments.
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There wasn't a centralized fingerprinting system at this point, really, where it was like clearly being shared.
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So they had to rely heavily on the community to be able to go ahead and solve these crimes, especially when you got a serial killer where they're going ahead and just killing people for no real motive.
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And it's very difficult to ascertain the link between the killer and the victims, which a lot of the times there is none.
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But police decided they had to warn the public.
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We have an individual who apparently has the uncontrollable desire to kill at times.
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Ultimately, I was the one who had to make the decision.
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We were convinced that unless we were able to get him communicating, we would have another murder.
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Using TV, the chief tried to snare BTK with a strange experiment.
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The subliminal image was one or two frames that was spliced into videotape.
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And what the psychological impact of that, we hoped, was that that image would be burned into BTK's brain.
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But 30 years ago, there was some credence to that.
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If you guys remember, in his letter, what did he say to the police?
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Oh, Josephine Otero, the 11-year-old, by the way, that he had killed in his first murder when he invaded that home.
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He said in his letter, oh, the glasses were left in the bedroom.
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So only the killer and the police would know this, which is why they did this.
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But you guys are going to see here why this was definitely an L for the police.
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In the Nancy Fox sketch that he sent us was a pair of glasses that was lying upside down.
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And so what the behavioral science people came up with was a picture with a pair of glasses upside down.
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And it simply said, call the chief, knowing that he was watching this.
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Not only that, you guys flashed it for like a second on the screen.
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But, you know, this is 1970s police work here, you know?
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Robert Beattie, a local attorney following the BTK story, felt panic grip the entire city.
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Women would call the police to come and check their residence.
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Night after night, they would go in the house with their guns drawn and flashlight out, searching through the house.
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People are all over the place are calling the police.
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Okay, man, this is our 10th call of the week, but it's okay.
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We'll search anyway, because they're like, oh, what are they going to do?
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People were scared to death that this maniac was going to get them, particularly young women.
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And even still, I just laid awake all night waiting for this man to come back.
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How could detectives uncover the killer in their community?
00:35:01.540
New forensic tests were used to examine clothing from the Nancy Fox crime scene.
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The robe that was submitted from the Nancy Fox scene was processed once we've identified stains at our...
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And it's very strange, because the thing with BTK, guys, and you guys are going to see this a little bit later in some of the confession video...
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He would masturbate after the murder had been committed.
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After the person had pretty much been deceased.
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So he got like a huge sexual thrill out of killing the individual.
00:35:34.300
Nancy Fox, he told her, oh, I'm going to have sex with you.
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But it wasn't until she passed away that he just jerked off and left.
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He just busted a nut and left, which is weird, right?
00:35:46.260
But yeah, that was the ruse that he used with Nancy Jo Fox.
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And she's like, well, I want to use the bathroom.
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So they go into the room and he actually chokes her with a belt and kills her.
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Because she thought they were just going to have sex.
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It wasn't going to be, you know, he made it sound like that.
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And then after, you know, he did the masturbation thing.
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You know, thankfully, they preserved it for the future.
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We can use a microscope to look for sperm cells.
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Scientists could now classify people into two categories, secretors or non-secretors.
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If you're examining a seminal fluid stain and you're unable to identify a blood group,
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one conclusion that you could draw is that person is a non-secretor.
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BTK's blood type was not detectable in his semen.
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This new information made the previous blood typing inconclusive.
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To narrow down the suspects, the lab carried out a further test on proteins present in the semen called PGM.
00:37:12.040
The perpetrator was a non-secretor that narrows it down to approximately 20 percent of the population.
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And if on the other hand, you also know that they are a PGM type one and that is expressed by 50 percent of the population.
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You can combine these two points of information and further narrow it down to about 10 percent of the population.
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But even with this information, BTK could still be one of more than 15,000 men in Wichita alone.
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What made it even harder for police was that you guys can see, still don't have refined DNA to be able to pinpoint it into one individual.
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It had been three years since his last killings.
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Every time he makes a mistake, you'll see a period where he will.
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And just so you guys know what they're talking about when they're talking about gaps and murders.
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Here's a chart right here of all the murders he did.
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So as you guys can see, first one, January 15, 1974 with the Otero family, right?
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Then you got Catherine Doreen Bright, which I'm surprised this documentary didn't cover this one.
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And her and her brother, you know, he ends up showing them both a gun.
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He ties up the brother and then he goes to attack the sister in the other room.
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But the brother is able to get himself free and fights Rader, a.k.a. the BTK.
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And what ends up happening is Rader shoots him in the head.
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But miraculously, he's able to get out the house and call the police.
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So Rader at this point is freaking out like, holy crap, what am I going to do?
00:38:52.940
So he ends up, you know, going against what he normally does.
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And he stabs Doreen Bright, Catherine Doreen Bright.
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So obviously this spooks him because he almost got caught.
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You guys can see here his brother, her brother, Kevin Bright.
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And then after that, Shirley Ruth Vian Relford, 1977.
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And then a couple of months later, December 8, 1977.
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And then he doesn't kill again, guys, until 1985 and then 86 and then 1991.
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So, you know, this goes to show you guys, you know, the methodicalness of BTK as far as like studying his victims.
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Which obviously makes it harder for the police.
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After he makes his phone call in the Fox case, his voice is recorded.
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He's afraid, again, that someone will be able to identify him.
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Following the murder of Nancy Fox, BTK seemed to go underground again.
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We know that he was out there selecting victims in preparation for future attacks.
00:40:10.940
As detectives struggled to picture the phantoms stalking their city, BTK was free to kill again.
00:40:35.720
Police searched for a pattern in BTK's killings, or links, between the victims.
00:40:45.760
You guys can see the grid right here as far as the different addresses.
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It's all within maybe a couple miles of each other.
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It would be impossible to gauge who his next victim would be.
00:41:06.160
He is totally random, and that would be very difficult for any investigator to try to link those together,
00:41:11.700
because it just depends on what he feels like that day.
00:41:15.060
Police looked again at the evidence in the hope of finding a connection with the killer.
00:41:21.320
The letters sent by BTK were always photocopied to help disguise the typewriter he had used.
00:41:34.160
Back then, guys, I know some of you guys are like,
00:41:39.240
It's when you put a piece of paper in, you type on that bad boy,
00:41:44.160
And then you gotta move it back this way, and then type some more.
00:41:49.420
So he tried to disguise it, because other serial killers had also used typewriters,
00:41:53.180
and the police were able to kind of identify what type of typewriter it was typed on
00:42:08.140
Detectives traced the paper from BTK's communications to a machine in this building
00:42:14.960
Police hoped this might pinpoint BTK, but he was not the only one using this machine.
00:42:28.220
So this detective right here was one of the main investigators involved in the case.
00:42:31.460
He might have been actually the lead detective on this investigation, if I'm not mistaken,
00:42:35.160
back in 2004, 2005, when they eventually caught this guy.
00:42:41.600
The photocopier could not reveal BTK's identity.
00:42:44.980
The voice on the recording that came into the dispatcher appeared to be a white male, so we're
00:43:05.580
looking at white males, probably in their age of their 40s.
00:43:17.180
There were no more letters, and the murders seemed to stop.
00:43:26.260
Yeah, mind you, the last one he had committed, guys, we looked at the chart here, it was 1977.
00:43:35.000
So the last one he did was December 8, 1977, with Nancy Jo Fox.
00:43:39.040
We were told all along, serial killers can't stop.
00:43:46.420
Police set up a special task force to keep up the hunt for BTK.
00:43:50.180
They had looked at every eccentric, everybody with a sexual offender record, everybody basically
00:44:01.720
Then, in 1985, after six years of silence, another body was discovered.
00:44:08.100
53-year-old Marine Hedge was found in a ditch on the outskirts of Wichita.
00:44:17.640
He had never moved a victim from their home before.
00:44:25.140
Normally, he would break into their home or be waiting there for them when they arrived.
00:44:31.840
He knows that that's going to delay the investigation, that it's going to be worked as a missing person,
00:44:40.340
The murder didn't fit with the killer's normal pattern.
00:44:44.800
It was a discernible ritual, not a discernible MO.
00:44:50.760
MO are those acts necessary to the commission of the crime.
00:44:54.900
The thing that makes BTK discernible is his ritual.
00:44:58.340
The killer took the body of Mrs. Hedge into an empty church that night
00:45:06.220
to take a series of sexually explicit photographs.
00:45:11.440
And he took her there as a challenge, if you will.
00:45:17.480
He went to God's home, God's house on earth, and desecrated it as part of his belief of how powerful he is.
00:45:31.120
And what he did was he took a bunch of pictures of her in bondage.
00:45:41.040
But mind you, he had been studying this woman, right, probably for the better part of a few months,
00:45:52.860
maybe even a few years, because the last crime he committed was in 1977.
00:45:58.440
So he probably had been doing quite a bit of research,
00:46:00.820
really putting time and effort into being able to do this crime and get away with it.
00:46:05.700
So they can take these greater risks with the confidence that they are so superior,
00:46:26.280
In between attacks, jewellery stolen from previous victims became the focus of BTK's attention.
00:46:42.540
There are ways for a person to satisfy himself, and that's masturbatory fantasies.
00:46:53.080
Six years after the murder of Marine Hedge, another body was found.
00:47:02.040
Keeping trophies is very common with serial killers, guys.
00:47:05.100
Or sometimes people like, you know, the Green River serial killer,
00:47:10.020
which I'll cover on another episode, or Ted Bundy,
00:47:11.980
they would go back and revisit the corpses of the individuals they murdered.
00:47:17.040
So, yeah, these guys want to relive their gruesome crimes.
00:47:21.660
62-year-old Dolores Davis was enjoying her retirement in a house on the outskirts of town.
00:47:32.360
As Mrs. Davis slept, someone hurled a concrete block through the glass door of her home.
00:47:45.640
And I think she jumped out of bed, and, you know, you're trying to get your bearings to figure out what went on.
00:47:51.900
And here's this animal standing there, and then he went ahead and strangled her with her pantyhose.
00:47:57.640
Police discovered the body under this bridge, 10 miles north of Wichita.
00:48:04.540
But they didn't know just how close the killer was.
00:48:09.280
BTK had set up a complex alibi to ensure he would not become a suspect.
00:48:13.900
It was about a mile and a half away from his house.
00:48:16.720
It said up that he was on a scouting trip because it was close to his house,
00:48:19.880
so he thought he was too close to home that he thought that he might become a suspect.
00:48:37.300
I know it was close to my house or whatever, but it wasn't me because I was doing this, that, and this,
00:48:44.400
So that just goes to show, guys, this is one of the probably the most calculated serial killers
00:48:48.600
as far as, like, studying, planning, preparing, executing, having their tracks covered.
00:48:54.780
BTK is definitely up there as far as being calculated.
00:48:57.660
A lot of these other serial killers, I'll be honest, they get sloppy, man.
00:49:02.820
Best organized, then I would say with one being the least organized,
00:49:06.840
and I would say BTK is an 8 on a scale of 1 to 10.
00:49:11.520
He's probably one of the better organized serial killers by far compared to these other guys.
00:49:19.980
You could be sloppy like John Wayne Gacy and just bury all of them underneath your fucking house.
00:49:28.460
About 33 bodies, I think, no, 26 or 27 bodies, guys, underneath his house and in his backyard.
00:49:45.420
In his letter of 1978, the killer had claimed seven attacks.
00:49:49.780
But BTK had remained silent on three more unsolved murders.
00:49:59.280
But in 2004, advances in DNA technology provided a breakthrough that would prove crucial.
00:50:05.820
The semen samples from murders BTK carried out...
00:50:28.960
You wanted to bust nuts all at the crime scene?
00:50:39.580
However, until we had a profile from a known individual that we can compare that to,
00:50:45.860
The only thing that we could exclude is that when we ran the profile through the DNA database,
00:50:52.020
this person was not a convicted offender that had his profile in the database.
00:50:59.860
So they have his DNA, but they know that he hasn't been arrested and or put in the database
00:51:03.680
for any type of real serious felony conviction.
00:51:06.000
Because at this point, guys, you know, they're collecting DNA from a lot of people that are arrested.
00:51:09.120
I mean, hell, when I was an agent, we're collecting DNA from guys who were swabbing them
00:51:12.220
before we brought them over to the marshals, or the marshals will swab them as well.
00:51:19.060
The anniversary of BTK's first attack came news of an upcoming book saying that BTK was history.
00:51:29.040
It started as an academic educational exercise.
00:51:32.920
But there was a point when I realized that this might actually flesh out the killer.
00:51:39.260
If he is still out there, we may hear from him.
00:51:55.660
A letter arrived here claiming credit for a brutal, unsolved murder in 1986.
00:52:20.280
Matter of fact, let me give you guys an unsolved murder and let you guys know who the real culprit was.
00:52:26.780
You stupid police couldn't even catch me on this one.
00:52:30.800
His need for the clout was so goddamn strong that he had to come back 20-plus years later to claim credit for a murder that the police never even knew about.
00:52:42.060
We were going to work the case that it was BTK.
00:52:46.120
The strategy was to keep him talking because the problem we'd had before was that we'd get a letter from him and then we would not hear from him for another three or four years.
00:52:57.940
So we wanted the frequency of the communications to increase.
00:53:02.860
Police could not risk BTK going underground again.
00:53:06.220
And it was critical that we set up a bond between Lieutenant Landwehr and this killer.
00:53:13.440
Because, guys, they had not heard from him or his last murder had not occurred since 1991 at that point.
00:53:21.800
At this point, the FBI told us that it was very possible that the killer could become obsessed with that person and possibly target them or their family.
00:53:34.720
I was, you know, I was terrified that this guy was maybe going to come after my family or somebody or kill someone else in this community.
00:53:45.260
We were very, very careful to never say anything that might challenge him, anything that he might perceive as belittling.
00:54:03.300
This is one of the most challenging cases that I've ever been involved with.
00:54:08.680
And I find that the individual that is doing this would be very interesting to talk to.
00:54:22.540
He finally got the notoriety that he had always craved.
00:54:25.960
The residents of Wichita felt the fear of over 30 years ago grip the city again.
00:54:34.480
BTK responded to Lieutenant Landwehr's appeals in a series of notes and packages, often inside cereal boxes, marked BTK.
00:54:48.040
He sent a bound and hung doll, a chilling reference to young Josefino Taro.
00:54:59.620
And I'll show you guys some of these evidence photos right here of him sending these things to the police, right?
00:55:07.280
Here you guys can see this is the doll hooked to the pipe to reference, you know, Josefine when she was killed.
00:55:22.860
And then this is some other more graphic stuff.
00:55:32.860
But even more sinister, BTK revealed his plans to kill again.
00:55:40.060
So, obviously, this drives the police into overdrive because they're like, yo, is this guy going to go ahead and kill someone else?
00:55:47.980
And the fastest way to get a police department motivated, guys, is to go ahead and say that you're going to hurt children.
00:55:59.400
Hopefully, I don't get hit with a copyright too bad.
00:56:02.440
So, this is – we'll play a portion from here that covers this angle as well.
00:56:06.840
You're just pressing all the buttons to get a police department fired up.
00:56:14.900
I remember one time I got a case that had to do with a kidnapped child.
00:56:20.620
I remember I did not go to sleep until we found out where the hell she was.
00:56:26.280
You know, it's a very satisfying feeling to help a child.
00:56:42.940
So, I can speak for personal experience as to how that motivates you.
00:56:49.540
I drove to the Home Depot to see if we could recover the other package.
00:56:54.460
We really didn't know what we were looking for.
00:56:57.460
There's that detective again I told you guys about.
00:57:06.880
So, we put a sign there to ask anybody if they saw anything unusual.
00:57:10.540
Our greatest concern is that it had been found and disposed of.
00:57:17.380
And she said that they had had a phone call from a gentleman and that he was an employee of Home Depot.
00:57:31.840
Okay, so this is where he left the cereal box, guys, that I showed you guys a picture of before.
00:57:39.300
He recalled finding something suspicious in the bed of his pickup truck, which was parked in the parking lot.
00:57:45.140
I called him and I asked him what it was that he thought was suspicious.
00:58:04.540
See, as you guys can see, he's just having fun with this, right?
00:58:07.540
He knows to the police, leaving cereal boxes around, you know, thinking this is a game.
00:58:12.140
You know, of course, he doesn't realize that in 2004, at this point, the police are a lot more sophisticated and they have his DNA.
00:58:35.080
Can I communicate with Floppy and not be traced to a computer?
00:58:43.540
I will try a floppy for a test run sometime in the near future, February or March.
00:58:58.060
But I wanted to run that Home Depot once you guys kind of got the full context there of them picking up the packages because he had sent a couple other packages prior.
00:59:06.620
Actually, let me go back here so you guys get the full picture.
00:59:18.200
I drove up to North Seneca to collect the first package.
00:59:34.340
The road was sand and dirt and leaning up against the street sign.
00:59:48.200
And just so you guys get an idea here, North Seneca to Wichita, okay, is up north.
01:00:01.440
So he would drop these packages off in rural areas.
01:00:19.300
It was taken to heart by everybody on the task force.
01:00:28.160
I've spotted a female that I think lives alone.
01:01:01.520
And when the most important people in an investigation are that scared,
01:01:08.680
For 10 months, police play a game of cat and mouse with BTK.
01:01:13.500
Until the killer's urge to communicate leads to a critical mistake.
01:01:18.840
He leaves a package in an open flatbed truck outside a Wichita hardware store.
01:01:24.620
Which we know it's Home Depot from the other documentary.
01:01:33.780
Detectives prepared to analyze more than 2,000 hours of footage in a race against time.
01:01:46.060
It does kind of a loop and it pulls next to the truck.
01:01:56.440
See it right there in this area right here, guys.
01:01:59.100
Places it behind the cab of the truck and then gets back in his vehicle and pulls away.
01:02:04.800
The pictures wouldn't identify BTK, but could they pinpoint his vehicle?
01:02:12.560
By measuring the size, volume, and ground clearance, as well as the paintwork shade of the vehicle,
01:02:37.860
This is the era of surveillance cameras, my friend.
01:02:41.880
And as you guys know, this is where he left that cereal box with that note about the floppy disk,
01:02:48.180
So that's how they were able to, you know, conclusively prove, okay, BTK drove this vehicle
01:02:54.920
because we see him on surveillance camera putting this cereal box with this note on this vehicle.
01:03:00.780
And then that's when this came forward and said, I have this cereal box.
01:03:03.160
And I showed you guys that from the other documentary.
01:03:05.040
That's why I had to combine the two so you guys can get full context here.
01:03:10.880
Because this documentary didn't properly explain that part.
01:03:13.100
So I had to make sure that I included that in there for you.
01:03:20.180
the killer asks if a computer floppy disk can be traced back to the computer which author did.
01:03:26.100
If police promised it couldn't, he'd send future messages that way.
01:03:36.320
And the police were so dependent upon him for information that they couldn't possibly lie to him.
01:03:55.260
So he told them to message me basically like on a part.
01:04:03.020
So they went ahead and responded via newspaper to him.
01:04:06.120
And they referred to him by his codename, which was Rex, saying, let me know if I can communicate with you guys on floppy.
01:04:12.920
And they gave him a PO box so that no one in the public would know who they're actually communicating with.
01:04:17.460
And he was able to see it without necessarily being implicated as well.
01:04:30.440
The chances of him falling for that, you know, we didn't think.
01:04:38.760
I don't think anyone could ever believe that we were that lucky.
01:04:45.460
We always have a saying in law enforcement, guys, right?
01:04:48.000
I always just joke around with other agents when I was working.
01:04:50.200
And they always said, we only catch the dumb ones.
01:04:55.860
Committing crimes as a serial killer as if it's 1974 when it's really 2004.
01:05:09.440
The disc he sent was rushed to the forensics team.
01:05:14.680
Could such a simple trap have finally snared BTK?
01:05:18.080
Microsoft embeds in many of his documents something called metadata.
01:05:23.260
And that metadata is information about the file.
01:05:26.400
You can access that by going to file properties.
01:05:30.840
And as you can see here, the software that was registered to Christ Lutheran Church.
01:05:36.480
And that's the church that he brought that other victim to, by the way.
01:05:45.040
But how could it possibly be linked to a serial killer?
01:05:49.180
In addition to that, we can see that the document was last saved by a person named Dennis.
01:06:04.540
And here, by the way, guys, is where Christ Lutheran Church is.
01:06:07.800
Actually, let me just bring this whole thing over here for y'all.
01:06:10.680
This is where Christ Lutheran Church is in relation to Wichita.
01:06:17.560
And then this is the actual floppy disk, which got him bagged up.
01:06:33.280
We came up with a website for Christ Lutheran Church in Wichita.
01:06:37.840
And on that home page, there's a link to people who are related to the church.
01:06:41.760
So when you click on that link, it brings up the page.
01:06:44.840
It has the president of the congregation was Dennis Raider.
01:06:58.440
As we came down the street here, we saw that there was a black Jeep Cherokee in the driveway.
01:07:05.680
And it was just a huge rush of energy because the thing about the Cherokee was it was the one piece of evidence that he didn't know we had.
01:07:14.420
Even with the Jeep, the evidence was circumstantial.
01:07:19.400
Lieutenant Landwehr ordered detectives to hold off as lieutenant.
01:07:24.420
And he had a good reason for it, even though I know that, you know, at this point they want to put him in jail.
01:07:32.820
As you guys can see, it's actually been been knocked down.
01:07:48.740
Police needed to link Dennis Raider's DNA with that of the killer.
01:07:52.660
Which I'll be honest, that was a very smart call.
01:07:55.680
You got the guy, the probable suspect identified.
01:07:58.980
Why not go in and make sure you know 100% you got your guy so that you don't build a weak case?
01:08:03.480
By secretly accessing medical records, they obtained the DNA profile of Raider's daughter.
01:08:20.040
It's fair to say that you could exclude over 99% of the population with these paternity tests.
01:08:25.600
DNA from the crime scenes and Raider's daughter proved BTK and Dennis Raider were the same man.
01:08:38.100
And she talks about this, how they identified him through her.
01:08:45.260
At one time, the original title of that file was Christ Lutheran Church.
01:08:50.000
And the person last using it was someone logged into a computer under the name Dennis.
01:09:01.860
But investigators still needed proof positive that church president Dennis Raider was BTK.
01:09:10.800
So you wouldn't think, is this guy the one running around killing people,
01:09:13.260
biting them and sending these crazy-ass letters?
01:09:21.820
And CNN, all of a sudden, is saying, like, local Wichita news are reporting that Carrie turned in her father
01:09:32.700
I knew I hadn't turned in my dad, and I knew I hadn't given blood.
01:09:35.800
A couple weeks later, it came out in the news that the Wichita police and KBI had gone.
01:09:43.680
Once they thought they knew my dad, which I was pretty sure it was my dad,
01:09:47.600
they got a warrant for my medical records at K-State.
01:09:54.140
And while there, had tests at health services, both a pap smear and a biopsy.
01:10:00.000
Investigators traveled to Manhattan with a subpoena in hand for those smears.
01:10:04.280
Her DNA, a direct match to DNA left at BTK crime scenes.
01:10:14.180
From the people that did it, and I'm not learning it privately.
01:10:21.900
Really violated and really just mainly violated and embarrassed that now,
01:10:27.820
like the national news is talking about, like the most private female test.
01:10:35.580
Yeah, because he left those, left semen at the crime scene.
01:10:38.300
So they were able to go ahead and compare it and get them,
01:10:40.480
which actually really smart by the police to do that.
01:10:43.380
Armed with this data, police were poised to strike.
01:11:15.580
Every police officer since 1974 has wished for the day that I got right there.
01:11:48.700
The guy terrorized the place for three decades almost.
01:11:52.580
Well, no, three decades, 1974, and they caught him in 0405, so over 30 years.
01:12:04.400
At BTK's trial, chilling details of 30 years of killing would shock the nation.
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All right, so here's that lieutenant that you guys saw during the documentary, and this
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is an FBI agent, and they did this on purpose to appease his ego.
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They know that he's a cloud chaser, so they bring in a higher-ranking detective, an FBI
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agent, and they kind of want to get him to claim the credit for his crimes.
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This is the actual footage of Rader's 30-hour interrogation.
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Then, three hours in, Lieutenant Landwehr played his ace, the DNA.
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I know that BTK is the father of your children.
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He's thinking back to all those times he busted nuts at those crime scenes like, fuck.
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The strategy of winning Rader's trust had been a spectacular success.
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He honestly believes that, you know, he's the fox, we're the hounds.
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He thinks that we're going to come after him, and that's part of the chase, and he's going
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to escape, and then we're going to come after him again.
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And now that we've caught him, we're all good buddies.
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On 27th of June, 2005, Dennis Rader began the most chilling courtroom confession ever
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heard, as he coldly revealed secrets he'd kept for over 30 years.
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First of all, Mr. Otero was strangled, or a bag foot over his head, and strangled.
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Well, I want you guys to look at how matter-of-fact he speaks about these heinous crimes, all right?
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And his body language, his tonality, the way he speaks, the detail that he's able to recall.
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Then I thought he was going down, and I went over and strangled Mrs. Otero, and I thought
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she was down, then I strangled Junior, and then when I went back, Josephine had walked back
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I took her to the basement, and eventually hung her.
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All right, did you do anything else at that time?
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Yes, I had some sexual fantasies, but that was after she was hung.
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That's how they were able to find semen on the floor at that crime scene, which they were
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They can't quite get over the fact that almost invariably they look like us.
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I want to kind of show you guys a little bit more about how chilling some of these confessions
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If you guys remember, Nancy Fox is when he killed her December 8, 1977, and he broke
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into the house, and he said, oh, yeah, we're just going to have sex.
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That you unlawfully killed a human being, that being Nancy Fox, maliciously, willfully, deliberately,
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and with premeditation by strangulation, inflicting injuries from which the said Nancy Fox
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Nancy Fox was another one of the projects when I was trolling the area.
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So he refers to her as a project and says when I was strolling the area.
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So you were not working in any form or fashion?
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If you read much about serial killers, they go through what they call the different phases.
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That's one of the phases they go through as a trolling stage.
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Basically, you're looking for a victim at that time.
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But once you lock in on a certain person, then you become stalking.
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And that might be several of them, but you really hone in on that person.
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That explains the gaps in his crimes, because he was spending a significant amount of time watching these individuals.
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Here's defense counsel telling him, hey, chill out, Brad.
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What her name was, found out where she worked, stopped by there once at Hillsborough.
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The more I knew about a person, the more I felt comfortable with it.
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And then I just selected a night, which was this particular night, to try it.
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About two or three blocks away, I parked my car and walked to that residence.
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I knocked at the door first to make sure to see if anybody was in there, because I knew she arrived home at a particular time from where she worked.
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Nobody answered the door, so I went around the back of the house, kept the phone lines.
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I could tell that there wasn't anybody in the North Department, broke in, and waited for her to come home in the kitchen.
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I confronted her, told her there I had a problem, sexual problem, that I would have to tie her up and have sex.
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I'm going to tie you up, though, because that's what turns me on.
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Just so you know, we're going to have to have sex.
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While we smoked a cigarette, I went through her purse, identifying some stuff.
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She finally said, well, let's get this over with so I can go call the police.
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Let's get this over with so I can call the police.
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She came out to make sure that she was undressed.
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I took the belt and then strangled her with a belt.
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After you had strangled her, what happened then?
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After I strangled her with a belt, I took the belt off and retied that with pantyhose real tight.
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I removed the handcuffs and tied those with pantyhose.
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You guys can see here that he's literally running the murder in his head.
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He's like, you know, I can't remember the color right now.
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Mind you guys, this is in 2004, 2005 now when they're asking him this.
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And they were probably already tied her feet were.
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Dressed and then went to the house, took some of her personal items.
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And I cleaned the house up, went through it, and they checked everything.
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So you guys could see, man, he didn't even have sex with her.
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That's probably what calmed her down a little bit.
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And he just basically choked her out, let her die.
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Once she died, he masturbated and then left the semen at the scene.
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But I wanted you guys to see that testimony to see the type of individual he was, how matter of fact he is, how, you know, he was diagnosed with a bunch of disorders, which OCD was one of them.
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By the time he had two children, he tortured seven people to death.
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This was the one part of his life that signified the amount of power that he had.
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He was a Boy Scout himself, by the way, in his childhood, guys.
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Didn't really show too many signs of being a weirdo besides killing animals as a child, which a lot of serial killers do.
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But, yeah, typical American upbringing, born in 1945.
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And, yeah, that's why this was so crazy, because he's like an everyday American guy doing this stuff.
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He'd chosen the ideal job for a murderer, touring Wichita, installing locks and security alarms in people's houses.
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Did you imagine that, a serial killer that does alarm systems and locks?
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Just so you guys know, back in the 1970s, there was no GPS.
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You either had to know the area or have, like, a big-ass map, and you'd be sitting there in the middle of the road, like, oh, where am I going?
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So, by profession, the fact that he went to so many different houses, he was aware of different locking systems, mechanisms, et cetera.
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This is the 70s and 80s before the age of GPSs.
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He was very well-versed in the Wichita, Kansas area, you know, which allowed him to be able to blend in, conduct surveillance, watch these people for months, if not years, and do the killings and not get caught.
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What fucked him up was the DNA and his need for clout.
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So, if he had never written to the papers, not been so thirsty for attention, he probably would be free right now.
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When they talk about how his wife had to have known, and I thought, well, you know, I worked with this guy eight hours a day.
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If I ever had to walk down a dark alley, I would have said, I want Dennis.
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That goes to show how well of a mask he put on for the public.
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If you read much about serial killers, they go through what they call the trolling stage.
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Basically, you're looking for a victim at that time.
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But once you lock in on a certain person, then you become a stalking.
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And that might be several of them, but you really hone in on.
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I told her that I was a, had a problem, sexual problem.
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Why had there been such long gaps between the murders?
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And once his children were born, it limited the time that he could be away from home.
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And he did not want his wife to become suspicious.
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When he was unable to kill, Rader satisfied his urges by practicing on himself.
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That's what's important is the bondage and the imagery.
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He had a fantasy that all of the victims that died would serve him in the afterlife.
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Those who knew Rader couldn't believe what they were hearing.
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When he went on to talk about the details and how he, you know, smothered the bags over those kids' head and, I don't know.
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Rader escaped execution only because his murders were committed before Kansas voted to restore the death penalty.
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The greatest satisfaction I have in my life is the thought of him burning in hell.
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When you think about what that cockroach did to so many lives,
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can you ever exact enough punishment, enough pain to make up for that?
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His sentence was the toughest the judge could impose.
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There will be people who will study Dennis Rader, I am sure, and try to figure out what makes him tick.
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I don't really care what makes Dennis Rader tick.
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The only thing that I'm concerned about is that Dennis Rader will no longer hurt anyone else.
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And I will sleep very nicely, just knowing that he's where he belongs.
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Hope you guys enjoyed that documentary on Dennis Rader, a.k.a. the BTK.
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Yeah, so, guys, we've covered quite a bit of serial killers now, man.
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I think I've covered pretty much all the famous ones at this point.
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So, guys, don't forget to go ahead and like this video.
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I'll catch you guys on the next episode of FedIt.
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I was a special agent with Homeland Security Investigations, okay, guys?
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The cases that I did mostly were human smuggling and drug trafficking.
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Dr. Lafredo confirmed lacerations due to stepping on glass.
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We are facing two counts of two meditative murders.