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People in Wichita had been
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terrorized by this
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Bind, Torture, Kill Individual
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for 30 years.
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He said, "If you become my project
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and you have a routine, you're in trouble."
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Rader then moved on to a different project,
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Project Blackout, and again, no results.
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Dennis Rader, he was the master manipulator.
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In 1991, Rader was in his mid-40s.
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By this time, he had accomplished ten murders
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without anyone suspecting him.
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When I was writing the book about Dennis Rader,
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the serial killer known as BTK,
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one of the things he wanted me
to have to use to organize it
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was his project list...
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Comprised of various people
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he had identified as potential victims,
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and that meant being very clear about
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when he attempted to kidnap somebody,
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when he stalked somebody and made contact.
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There were a number of young
women during that time
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who he had picked out,
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who were on his list,
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who he was going to murder.
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The list had the project name,
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the years, the dates, the location--
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All the details he could think of
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and fit onto this little chart.
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So it gives a lot of sense of his personality.
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He liked things organized, clear.
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He liked to follow rules
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because he wanted other people to follow rules,
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but that way, he could then break the rules
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but come back into a safe, organized world.
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Project 16 on the project list
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was known as Project Blackout.
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My name is Cheryl Gilmour Sarkozy,
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and I'm a survivor of BTK.
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And his name for me was Project Blackout.
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Good morning.
Hello, Dennis.
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I'm Dr. Katherine Ramsland,
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professor of forensic psychology
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and the author of multiple books
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about extreme offenders like serial killers.
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I've been corresponding with Dennis Rader
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to try to understand what led him to become
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one of the most notorious
serial killers in America.
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This is the first time
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that Rader has explored these
topics in-depth with anyone.
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The more information
we have about serial killers,
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the more we understand
what makes them tick,
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the easier it will be to prevent them.
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After the Dolores Davis murder,
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Rader slips back into a period of dormancy.
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He continues to look for projects,
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but he doesn't act out.
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What were you doing in those years
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when nothing was really happening?
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Did you feel like you were
in control of your urges then?
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The planning for
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any sexually compelled serial killer
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is definitely part of the pleasure,
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and Dennis Rader is quite the organizer.
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In the project list, marked Project Blackout,
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Blackout refers to a bar
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near the campus of Wichita State University
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where Rader would often go have a beer.
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Rader writes, "Girl at bar,"
and indicates the year 1977.
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I was 26 years old at that time.
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One afternoon, a girlfriend and I
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decided to go to the Blackout Bar,
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and I started talking to this man,
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and he told me that he was
studying at the university.
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It had to do with, like, police work and law.
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The bar got raided,
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and everybody was told to leave.
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And so he was walking with me
through the parking lot.
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I said, "So, tell me, do you know
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if it's against the law
in Kansas to commit suicide?"
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And he said, "It is against the law."
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And I said, "Well, that's a shame because
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"I think that anybody
that wants to commit suicide
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should have that right."
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And he reached over and took my arm
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and he squeezed it and he said,
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"Oh, please don't say that."
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And I thought, "What a kind man."
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By then I was at my car,
and I got in the car and left.
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He was really sort of a
nondescript type of character.
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He wasn't someone
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that I gave a second thought to after that,
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but it turned out that that was Dennis Rader.
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That particular day,
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he had followed me home,
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and then he started stalking me.
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So I have a report from a woman named Cheryl.
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She said she talked with you
at the Blackout Lounge.
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Cheryl Gilmour Sarkozy's neighbor
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was Dennis Rader's sixth murder victim,
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Shirley Vian, who he killed on March 17, 1977.
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The day Shirley Vian was murdered,
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I had a 4-year old son,
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and he had come to work with me that afternoon.
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When he and I got home,
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the whole neighborhood
was filled with police cars.
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There was a knock on my door,
and this policeman came in
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and he said the woman a few doors down
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has been murdered,
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and her little boy has said
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he saw the man knock on your door,
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so we feel that you might have
been the intended victim.
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I can't imagine why anybody
would want to kill me.
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It was a horrifying time in my life,
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and I nailed all my windows shut.
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And I couldn't sleep for months.
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Had I been home that day,
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it would have been me
instead of Shirley Vian.
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It certainly was possible
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that Rader would have had
a number of other victims
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had things gone a little bit differently,
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had someone come home
when he expected them to,
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had he figured out a routine
of somebody in the right way.
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From the project list Rader shared with me,
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we can see that he continued
stalking a number of people
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during the period of 1991 to 2005,
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but he just didn't succeed.
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At the same time,
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Rader worked as a park city compliance officer...
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The dogs are somewhat territorial...
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A job that once again gave him cover
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to stalk and troll in his own backyard.
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the reporting parties
of where the sheep were killed.
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A compliance officer is like
a law enforcement equivalent
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which is "Your grass is overgrown,"
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"Your dog is off the leash,"
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"Your house needs painting."
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He can kind of lord it over people
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and actually could carry a gun
as part of the job.
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Did you like being a compliance officer?
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Serial killers who aspire to become cops
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typically had delusions of power.
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As I recall, several citizens called
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and made complaints about
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his being strict or rude,
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confrontational and that type of behavior.
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As a compliance officer, he didn't like it
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if somebody did something
he thought they shouldn't.
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So in his world, it was okay
for him to break the rules,
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but he needed that safety
of that regimented world
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so everyone else around him
had to stay within their lane.
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January 2004 marked the 30th anniversary
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of Dennis Rader's first
murders, the Otero family.
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It was 25 years since his last correspondence
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with police or the media,
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and it had been 13 years
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since he'd killed his
last victim, Dolores Davis,
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although no one had yet
linked BTK to her murder.
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When you have anniversaries,
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news departments do stories on it,
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so it was on the front page
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that a guy was writing a book about BTK.
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Well, BTK did not like that.
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He is so arrogant
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that he wanted to tell his story.
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When Dennis Rader
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learned that an attorney
wanted to write a book
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about the unsolved BTK crimes
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and he was going to cover seven victims,
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and Rader knew there were more,
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so he didn't want a book written
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that would be his legacy
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that would really not get the story right.
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My administrative assistant
goes up to the mail every day,
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and she had gotten a letter
that had a photocopy
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of what appeared to be an old Polaroid.
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It looked like a woman's body on the floor
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and a copy of a woman's driver's license.
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The driver's license was Vicki Wegerle's.
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Her murder had never been tied to BTK.
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Investigators believe the letter is from BTK
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because it has information
about a 2-decade-old homicide
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linked to BTK that only the killer would know.
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BTK claims in the letter
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that Vicki Wegerle was his eighth victim.
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No photographs had been taken of the victim
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at the scene by the police, by anybody,
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because Vicki Wegerle had
been removed from the scene
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by an ambulance crew.
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So if there were any doubts in anybody's mind
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that this guy was the real thing,
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it stopped right there.
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It regenerated the fears of the citizenry
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there in Wichita.
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In your gut you felt like,
"Oh, my God, whoever he is
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and wherever he lives, we gotta stop this."
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A letter received by KAKE TV
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was turned over to us last Wednesday,
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and we are treating it
as possibly being sent by BTK.
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In 2004, after the re-emergence of BTK,
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the Wichita Police Department,
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under the leadership of Kenny Landwehr,
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who was the homicide lieutenant at that time,
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formed a task force made up
of Wichita police detectives,
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FBI agents, KBI agents.
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I mean, I said, "We're gonna get this guy.
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I don't care what it takes."
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BTK is back because
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he wants to see his name in the paper.
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He wants to see him talked about
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on the television station.
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BTK is communicating again.
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BTK is back.
BTK--
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BTK--
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This is one of the most challenging cases
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that I've ever been involved with,
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and I find that the individual
that is doing this
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would be very interesting to talk to.
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Early on in the investigation,
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a couple of profilers
from the FBI were brought in,
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and one of the greatest
guidances that they provided
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was the creation of the communications
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that Kenny Landwehr would release
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in these various media events.
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It all looked fairly natural,
the way Kenny delivered it,
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but these were scripted for the intent
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and sole purpose of keeping BTK communicating.
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If we could keep him communicating,
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that was the key to catching him.
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Eventually he would slip up.
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When Ken Landwehr did
a press conference about you,
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what was that like for you?
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The strategy that Ken Landwehr adopted
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was to personalize this,
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to address whoever BTK was.
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The hope was that that would make the killer
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feel as if they were buddies,
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which is exactly what did happen.
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Rader really enjoyed it.
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So what started as an attempt
to control his story
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turned into this game with law enforcement
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that he thought they were
having as much fun as he was.
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He has communicated with us since the '70s,
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and it continues today.
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Shortly after that,
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KAKE TV got a letter that had one page
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the BTK story--
Chapter one, chapter two,
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chapter three, chapter four--
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Went all through the chapters.
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He suggests chapter names
in talking about BTK.
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What killer does that?
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He wanted to give us a guide
on how we cover him, basically.
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But the scariest thing
was the very last chapter
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was just a question:
"Will there be more?"
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Taunting police and Wichita.
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Who was going to be the next victim?
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Scared us all to death.
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Why did you decide to send
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the BTK's story to the TV station?
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We would get sent information.
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Obviously, we'd read it,
we'd do a story about it,
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but immediately hand it over
to the police department
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hoping that maybe
this will lead to his capture.
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In May of 2004, Dennis Rader sent a word puzzle
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comprised of random letters
and numbers to KAKE TV.
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It was obviously a word search,
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and the idea was that in this puzzle
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there might be clues to his identity.
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Our responsibility was to find the words
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in the word puzzle.
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One was victim.
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One was serviceman.
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One was ruse.
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So we were in the newsroom
looking at this puzzle going,
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"Oh, my gosh."
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Hello, Susan.
So nice meeting you,
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Dr. Ramsland, and thank you so much
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for shedding light on these puzzles.
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Well, he loved codes.
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That was his big thing, he loved codes
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and communicating through codes,
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with just the idea of,
"Now you have to figure me out.
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You have to be thinking of me."
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Why he chose these words,
why some are backwards,
285
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some are forwards, what's this number,
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which actually should have the zero to it
287
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because that's his address.
288
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Oh!
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Wait a minute.
Where's his address?
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6220.
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If you saw that an O,
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you wouldn't know that's a zero.
293
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Exactly! First of all,
we didn't know at the time...
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Right, of course.
Obviously.
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But the 622 and then the 0...
Yeah, who would do that?
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Was his address.
Right, who would do that?
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Here it was here all the time.
298
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And then he puts address right down there.
299
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But that's the cat-and-mouse nature of it.
300
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The fun of it is he's going to take some risk
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in order to have some delight
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over how confusing this is going to be,
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and then he'll see that you won't get it,
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so he'll feel superior.
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Which...
I'm sure he did.
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He sent KAKE TV most of the
clues and the correspondence.
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Why do you think he sent it to KAKE TV?
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He knew he was going to get publicity
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if he sent this to KAKE.
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And he loved the station
because he watched it as a kid.
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He loved you particularly.
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I remember responding to one
correspondence in particular
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where he said,
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"I hope Susan's and Jeff's cold gets better."
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Two nights before I had just said on the air,
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"Jeff and I have a cold, Jay.
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Can you give us some warm weather?"
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Why do you think he did that?
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Rader wanted you to know he was watching you.
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He was aware of you, alert to you,
321
00:19:36,416 --> 00:19:38,509
and he wants you to feel his eyes on you.
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That's so frightening.
Definitely.
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I was wondering, because you were
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so attuned to media at that time,
325
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whether you ever considered
a media person as a project?
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Okay.
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He's having fun because he is
watching this hit the news,
328
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be talked about on TV,
329
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but he forgets you are a serial killer.
330
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This cat-and-mouse game is about real people
331
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that you killed.
332
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You're acting as if the police
are playing a game with you
333
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and everybody's having a good time at it,
334
00:20:37,060 --> 00:20:39,070
and that is not what's happening.
335
00:20:40,730 --> 00:20:43,074
We were all concerned because we didn't know
336
00:20:43,233 --> 00:20:45,243
what was going to happen--
We didn't know
337
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if all of a sudden in the middle of the night
338
00:20:47,829 --> 00:20:50,498
the BTK was going to
go show up in our bedroom.
339
00:20:57,089 --> 00:21:00,007
Throughout 2004 into the beginning of 2005,
340
00:21:00,092 --> 00:21:02,251
Dennis Rader sent correspondence
341
00:21:02,335 --> 00:21:04,086
and items of evidence from his crimes
342
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to the media and police.
343
00:21:06,589 --> 00:21:09,016
He enjoyed the publicity,
344
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and he wanted to tell
his story in his own way.
345
00:21:13,513 --> 00:21:18,183
KAKE received another message
from BTK about a cereal box
346
00:21:18,277 --> 00:21:21,103
that he had deposited
at a home-improvement store
347
00:21:21,187 --> 00:21:25,366
that wasn't that far from KAKE TV.
348
00:21:25,525 --> 00:21:27,609
We sent--immediately sent
detectives to Home Depot,
349
00:21:27,703 --> 00:21:29,695
and they looked, didn't see anything,
350
00:21:29,779 --> 00:21:31,038
talked to all the employees
351
00:21:31,123 --> 00:21:33,032
about any packages they had found.
352
00:21:33,116 --> 00:21:34,783
Investigators posted a message
353
00:21:34,868 --> 00:21:36,794
in the employee lounges
354
00:21:36,953 --> 00:21:40,131
asking if anyone saw anything suspicious.
355
00:21:40,215 --> 00:21:42,958
A guy came back from vacation
and said, "Well, yeah,
356
00:21:43,043 --> 00:21:45,878
"I found this cereal box
in the back of my truck,
357
00:21:45,962 --> 00:21:47,888
and it said 'BTK bomb.'"
358
00:21:50,550 --> 00:21:52,226
Thought somebody was just messing with him.
359
00:21:52,311 --> 00:21:53,886
So he said, "I just
threw it in my burn barrel
360
00:21:53,979 --> 00:21:55,396
when I got home.
361
00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:57,723
It turns out that was the communication
362
00:21:57,816 --> 00:22:00,735
that Rader was referring to, so when we got
363
00:22:00,819 --> 00:22:02,978
the surveillance of the parking lot,
364
00:22:03,071 --> 00:22:04,655
that was our actual first sighting
365
00:22:04,814 --> 00:22:08,492
of what we believe was BTK
delivering that package.
366
00:22:08,577 --> 00:22:12,830
The video was blurry,
and he's far from the camera,
367
00:22:12,914 --> 00:22:15,916
so police couldn't clearly see
what he looked like.
368
00:22:16,076 --> 00:22:17,835
However, they did see
369
00:22:17,919 --> 00:22:22,089
that he was driving
a dark-colored Jeep Cherokee.
370
00:22:22,174 --> 00:22:26,335
What about driving into
the Home Depot parking lot?
371
00:22:26,419 --> 00:22:29,013
Did you think they'd have
a surveillance camera?
372
00:22:46,448 --> 00:22:49,784
Dennis Rader has gotten away
with this for 30 years,
373
00:22:49,943 --> 00:22:52,361
so there's a narcissism.
374
00:22:52,445 --> 00:22:56,115
We actually call this narcissistic immunity.
375
00:22:56,208 --> 00:23:00,536
The immunity part is the sense
that he's so special
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00:23:00,629 --> 00:23:02,788
that no one can touch him,
377
00:23:02,872 --> 00:23:08,377
but the narcissistic immunity
is kind of well-earned because
378
00:23:08,470 --> 00:23:10,721
"I'm one of the few serial killers
379
00:23:10,806 --> 00:23:15,309
that they haven't identified
and never will," in his mind.
380
00:23:16,636 --> 00:23:20,314
He asked to communicate
with law enforcement directly.
381
00:23:20,399 --> 00:23:21,974
He was trying to find a way to do that
382
00:23:22,058 --> 00:23:24,068
without giving himself away,
383
00:23:24,152 --> 00:23:26,654
and so one of the things he suggested
384
00:23:26,813 --> 00:23:28,981
was to use a floppy disk.
385
00:23:29,074 --> 00:23:30,566
So at one point,
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00:23:30,650 --> 00:23:33,494
he sent a message through the media saying,
387
00:23:33,578 --> 00:23:35,320
"Can I communicate with you guys,
388
00:23:35,405 --> 00:23:38,907
and can we use a floppy disk,
and you won't trace it?"
389
00:23:38,992 --> 00:23:41,919
And then he specified, "Be honest."
390
00:23:43,663 --> 00:23:45,840
If it was okay for Rader
to send the floppy disk
391
00:23:45,999 --> 00:23:47,583
without being traced,
392
00:23:47,667 --> 00:23:50,419
he instructed the police to respond in code
393
00:23:50,503 --> 00:23:52,680
through an ad in the newspaper that said,
394
00:23:52,839 --> 00:23:55,349
"Rex, it will be OK."
395
00:23:56,676 --> 00:23:58,853
We thought it so ironic
that a freaking serial killer
396
00:23:59,012 --> 00:24:00,438
wants us to be honest.
397
00:24:00,597 --> 00:24:02,189
Lieutenant Landwehr decided, and the FBI,
398
00:24:02,348 --> 00:24:04,692
they decided to go ahead and place the ad
399
00:24:04,851 --> 00:24:07,027
and see what happens.
400
00:24:21,117 --> 00:24:22,418
Treated as a possible--
401
00:24:26,539 --> 00:24:28,466
This letter is from BTK, and we--
402
00:24:38,051 --> 00:24:40,895
Rader had this kind of
idealism he had developed
403
00:24:41,054 --> 00:24:42,980
ever since he was a boy scout
404
00:24:43,139 --> 00:24:45,307
and his hope to become a police officer,
405
00:24:45,391 --> 00:24:48,402
had this kind of John Wayne thinking going on
406
00:24:48,561 --> 00:24:50,488
that they're upholding the law,
407
00:24:50,647 --> 00:24:52,990
so of course they're not
going to lie to him.
408
00:24:54,075 --> 00:24:56,744
He answered with the floppy disk.
409
00:24:58,488 --> 00:25:00,748
The floppy, was it just a test file on it,
410
00:25:00,907 --> 00:25:02,583
or was there anything else on it?
411
00:25:05,495 --> 00:25:06,504
Okay.
412
00:25:12,585 --> 00:25:14,253
One of their IT guys
413
00:25:14,337 --> 00:25:16,255
there at the Wichita Police Department
414
00:25:16,339 --> 00:25:18,849
loaded it into his computer.
415
00:25:19,008 --> 00:25:22,269
He began pulling metadata files
416
00:25:22,354 --> 00:25:25,272
showing prior users of that disk.
417
00:25:25,357 --> 00:25:27,107
Immediately there was an indication
418
00:25:27,267 --> 00:25:29,101
that it had been used
419
00:25:29,185 --> 00:25:32,020
at Christ Lutheran Church up in Park City,
420
00:25:32,113 --> 00:25:35,023
but also the name Dennis appeared.
421
00:25:35,108 --> 00:25:37,609
Real quick check--
The president of that church
422
00:25:37,694 --> 00:25:39,620
was a guy named Dennis Rader.
423
00:25:39,779 --> 00:25:41,789
That was a huge break.
424
00:25:41,948 --> 00:25:46,535
That was one of those moments
where you were just ecstatic.
425
00:25:46,628 --> 00:25:49,121
We found an address in Park City,
426
00:25:49,214 --> 00:25:51,966
and the race was on--
We all wanted to get there.
427
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:00,632
As soon as they get the location
428
00:26:00,717 --> 00:26:03,051
where Dennis Rader lives,
429
00:26:03,136 --> 00:26:05,396
two of our detectives are on it,
430
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:09,558
and there sits the type
of vehicle that was used by BTK
431
00:26:09,642 --> 00:26:11,402
to deliver the package to Home Depot.
432
00:26:13,238 --> 00:26:15,564
We wanted to just go knock doors down
433
00:26:15,648 --> 00:26:17,649
and go in and get him.
434
00:26:17,734 --> 00:26:20,402
The lieutenant, he said,
"We don't have his DNA
435
00:26:20,486 --> 00:26:24,915
to confirm that this is
in fact the BTK Killer."
436
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,576
We didn't arrest him at that point,
437
00:26:27,660 --> 00:26:30,337
but he was placed under surveillance 24-7
438
00:26:30,422 --> 00:26:33,832
because the last thing
we wanted was for him to go out
439
00:26:33,916 --> 00:26:35,593
and try to victimize somebody
440
00:26:35,677 --> 00:26:37,845
after we had already identified him.
441
00:26:37,929 --> 00:26:39,597
With DNA testing,
442
00:26:39,681 --> 00:26:42,674
forensic scientists can link
criminals to crime scenes,
443
00:26:42,759 --> 00:26:44,768
something that was unavailable to police
444
00:26:44,853 --> 00:26:47,846
when the BTK Killer first
terrorized Wichita, Kansas
445
00:26:47,939 --> 00:26:50,024
in the mid-'70s.
446
00:26:50,183 --> 00:26:53,277
We had DNA from the Otero
case and several other cases.
447
00:26:53,436 --> 00:26:56,188
At this point, you've got DNA analysis.
448
00:26:56,281 --> 00:26:58,866
When BTK was leaving all that evidence behind,
449
00:26:59,025 --> 00:27:00,534
it was worthless.
450
00:27:00,619 --> 00:27:02,277
It couldn't be analyzed back then,
451
00:27:02,370 --> 00:27:04,288
but technology had caught up.
452
00:27:04,372 --> 00:27:05,947
Were you worried about
453
00:27:06,041 --> 00:27:08,033
getting caught during this time,
454
00:27:08,117 --> 00:27:09,585
that they might trace
something back to you?
455
00:27:29,722 --> 00:27:31,890
We began to mull over the idea,
456
00:27:31,974 --> 00:27:34,559
"How do we get his DNA?"
457
00:27:34,644 --> 00:27:36,236
And I happen to notice that his daughter
458
00:27:36,321 --> 00:27:38,739
had gone to Kansas State University.
459
00:27:38,898 --> 00:27:40,574
Let's get a court order
460
00:27:40,659 --> 00:27:42,326
and see if they've got any records.
461
00:27:42,485 --> 00:27:45,237
Sure enough, they had records of her.
462
00:27:45,321 --> 00:27:48,573
The records indicated
that she had had a Pap smear.
463
00:27:48,658 --> 00:27:52,169
We're able to take possession of that sample.
464
00:27:52,253 --> 00:27:55,506
Then we began to wait for the analysis.
465
00:27:57,425 --> 00:28:01,011
I got a call that following
Monday from the examiner,
466
00:28:01,096 --> 00:28:04,014
and she said, "That sample you submitted,
467
00:28:04,173 --> 00:28:08,677
that person is the offspring of BTK."
468
00:28:08,770 --> 00:28:11,680
Those were words that I had waited
469
00:28:11,764 --> 00:28:14,024
and hoped we would hear eventually.
470
00:28:15,351 --> 00:28:17,611
That's pretty definitive at that point.
471
00:28:17,696 --> 00:28:19,029
It was very exciting.
472
00:28:19,114 --> 00:28:21,356
I can only imagine for the Wichita guys
473
00:28:21,441 --> 00:28:23,951
who'd been living this case
every day and night
474
00:28:24,110 --> 00:28:27,538
for months and years--
That had to feel incredible.
475
00:28:29,541 --> 00:28:33,535
Following the findings
of our forensic laboratory,
476
00:28:33,619 --> 00:28:36,547
number one on that priority
was the arrest of Dennis Rader.
477
00:28:42,887 --> 00:28:45,973
There were a number of people
in the arrest team--
478
00:28:46,132 --> 00:28:47,799
All of the task force,
479
00:28:47,884 --> 00:28:49,893
plus a couple of uniformed officers.
480
00:28:50,052 --> 00:28:52,646
We got word from the surveillance team
481
00:28:52,731 --> 00:28:54,732
that Dennis Rader, the BTK, was on the move.
482
00:28:54,816 --> 00:28:58,894
He was leaving his office
and was likely headed home,
483
00:28:58,978 --> 00:29:01,980
and so we were set up along his route home.
484
00:29:02,073 --> 00:29:04,733
And the decision was made that once he passes,
485
00:29:04,817 --> 00:29:08,320
a uniform car will execute
a traffic stop on him.
486
00:29:09,414 --> 00:29:12,824
When the uniform car
stopped Dennis Rader's truck,
487
00:29:12,917 --> 00:29:17,254
I had kind of beat feet
as quickly as I could move
488
00:29:17,413 --> 00:29:19,089
because Dennis was coming out of his--
489
00:29:19,174 --> 00:29:22,009
His door popped open fairly quickly,
490
00:29:22,093 --> 00:29:24,669
but before he was able to get out,
491
00:29:24,754 --> 00:29:27,264
I grabbed him and introduced
him to the concrete.
492
00:29:28,841 --> 00:29:31,843
I was joined by several of my colleagues
493
00:29:31,936 --> 00:29:35,522
who had every kind of gun
in the world pointed at him.
494
00:29:36,357 --> 00:29:38,850
They got him handcuffed, and we stood him up.
495
00:29:38,943 --> 00:29:42,613
When he turned to me,
we're maybe a foot apart,
496
00:29:42,697 --> 00:29:44,865
looking eye to eye.
497
00:29:44,949 --> 00:29:46,867
He looks at me and says,
498
00:29:46,951 --> 00:29:49,611
"Would you mind telling my wife
I won't be home for lunch?
499
00:29:49,704 --> 00:29:51,279
I assume you know where I live,"
500
00:29:51,364 --> 00:29:53,624
just calm as calm can be,
501
00:29:55,368 --> 00:29:59,371
And we escort him back to a transport vehicle.
502
00:29:59,455 --> 00:30:00,798
He stuck his head in the door
503
00:30:00,957 --> 00:30:02,374
and he says, "Well, hello, Mr. Landwehr."
504
00:30:02,467 --> 00:30:04,125
So that was all he said.
505
00:30:04,210 --> 00:30:06,962
Immediate recognition and knew who Kenny was.
506
00:30:07,046 --> 00:30:09,297
We scooted him in the car.
I jumped in next to him,
507
00:30:09,382 --> 00:30:11,642
and we took off for our interview location.
508
00:30:13,469 --> 00:30:16,063
Let's talk about when you did get caught.
509
00:30:16,147 --> 00:30:17,731
It was a huge effort.
510
00:30:17,816 --> 00:30:20,317
What was that like to be in the middle of it?
511
00:30:47,670 --> 00:30:48,512
Right.
512
00:30:59,274 --> 00:31:01,358
One of the things the FBI profiler
513
00:31:01,442 --> 00:31:04,611
that was interviewing him
with Lieutenant Landwehr
514
00:31:04,696 --> 00:31:08,949
made him say--very specific, he said,
515
00:31:09,108 --> 00:31:11,443
"Tell us who you are.
516
00:31:11,527 --> 00:31:14,037
Tell us who you are, Dennis."
517
00:31:14,196 --> 00:31:17,875
And eventually he would say, "I'm BTK."
518
00:31:25,884 --> 00:31:28,627
During the initial interview process,
519
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,546
Kenny Landwehr was in the room with Dennis Rader
520
00:31:31,639 --> 00:31:35,726
and laid the floppy disk on the
table just to get his reaction.
521
00:31:55,830 --> 00:31:58,665
When you asked them to tell you
522
00:31:58,750 --> 00:32:01,251
if the floppy could be traced,
why did you trust them?
523
00:32:16,601 --> 00:32:20,679
To this day when Rader talks about that,
524
00:32:20,763 --> 00:32:23,431
he still can't believe the cops lied to him.
525
00:32:23,516 --> 00:32:27,110
He got a degree in administration of justice,
526
00:32:27,195 --> 00:32:28,853
and he would know
527
00:32:28,938 --> 00:32:31,106
that interrogators use lies all the time
528
00:32:31,190 --> 00:32:34,034
because they're trying to catch the bad guys.
529
00:32:34,118 --> 00:32:40,281
So there's an odd child-like
naivety at play here.
530
00:32:40,366 --> 00:32:43,543
"How could you have ever
betrayed me like that?"
531
00:32:43,703 --> 00:32:47,455
Dennis even felt, you know,
that since he wore a badge
532
00:32:47,540 --> 00:32:50,634
and a uniform that we were
kind of in the same group,
533
00:32:50,718 --> 00:32:54,471
that we were all in the
law enforcement, that world.
534
00:32:54,555 --> 00:32:58,308
Why did you finally confess
during the interrogation?
535
00:33:09,729 --> 00:33:12,147
He cooperated on all the cases,
536
00:33:12,231 --> 00:33:15,158
including the two that
the county detectives had,
537
00:33:15,243 --> 00:33:18,153
which were the Dolores Davis
and Marine Hedge,
538
00:33:18,237 --> 00:33:21,906
who were disposed of in their
territory, their jurisdiction.
539
00:33:21,991 --> 00:33:25,076
For decades, it's been
speculated BTK was responsible
540
00:33:25,161 --> 00:33:27,004
for more murders,
541
00:33:27,088 --> 00:33:29,256
the 1991 murder of Dolores Davis
542
00:33:29,340 --> 00:33:32,250
and the 1985 murder of Marine Hedge.
543
00:33:34,253 --> 00:33:35,587
When Dennis Rader was asked
544
00:33:35,671 --> 00:33:37,514
about the possibility of his family
545
00:33:37,598 --> 00:33:39,766
knowing that he was BTK,
546
00:33:39,851 --> 00:33:43,678
he did not feel that they ever had a clue.
547
00:33:43,763 --> 00:33:47,190
On the day that Dennis Rader was arrested,
548
00:33:47,275 --> 00:33:50,435
Detective Kelly Otis and
myself talked with his wife.
549
00:33:50,519 --> 00:33:55,282
She was, of course in shock,
in complete denial,
550
00:33:55,366 --> 00:33:57,275
complete denial.
She said, "No, no, no."
551
00:33:57,359 --> 00:33:59,360
She said, "You've made a horrible mistake."
552
00:33:59,445 --> 00:34:03,031
She was not going to believe this.
553
00:34:03,115 --> 00:34:05,125
Although she was putting
on a brave face, you know,
554
00:34:05,209 --> 00:34:06,451
that she had to be--
555
00:34:06,535 --> 00:34:08,286
Her mind had to be just whirling,
556
00:34:08,370 --> 00:34:11,289
and wondering, and worrying,
557
00:34:11,373 --> 00:34:13,458
and thinking back over their marriage--
558
00:34:13,542 --> 00:34:16,219
"Is this a possibility?"
559
00:34:34,146 --> 00:34:40,652
He was manipulative enough
to keep them in the dark.
560
00:34:40,736 --> 00:34:42,996
As much as--
I'd say sick to my stomach,
561
00:34:43,155 --> 00:34:45,832
I was sick to my heart.
562
00:34:45,991 --> 00:34:53,248
I don't know that the Dennis
that I thought I knew exists.
563
00:34:53,332 --> 00:34:55,342
I did interview his son.
564
00:34:55,426 --> 00:34:57,919
He said, "We lived the perfect
'Leave It To Beaver' Life.'"
565
00:34:58,012 --> 00:34:59,504
He said, "We went on vacations.
566
00:34:59,588 --> 00:35:01,589
Dad was involved in our sports,
567
00:35:01,674 --> 00:35:04,259
and our activities and the church.
568
00:35:04,343 --> 00:35:08,179
We had a great time at home."
He said "There's nothing."
569
00:35:08,264 --> 00:35:11,683
But the day he was arrested is basically the day
570
00:35:11,767 --> 00:35:15,529
he will mark forever as the day he died.
571
00:35:15,688 --> 00:35:17,772
He was like my best friend
that I walked the dog with,
572
00:35:17,865 --> 00:35:20,024
and I was very close to him.
573
00:35:20,118 --> 00:35:21,701
And so when the FBI showed up
at my door, you know,
574
00:35:21,861 --> 00:35:24,612
February of 2005,
575
00:35:24,697 --> 00:35:26,706
like, I told them they had the wrong guy.
576
00:35:26,866 --> 00:35:30,794
I tried to alibi him, and I
just fell into physical shock.
577
00:35:30,953 --> 00:35:33,296
My whole world just fell out under me.
578
00:35:34,966 --> 00:35:38,468
When you were arrested, did it occur to you
579
00:35:38,553 --> 00:35:40,545
that people who looked up to you,
580
00:35:40,629 --> 00:35:42,806
how they were going to feel about that?
581
00:36:03,736 --> 00:36:06,830
He never thought he'd be caught,
582
00:36:06,914 --> 00:36:10,500
so he really didn't think about
what it would be like for them
583
00:36:10,585 --> 00:36:12,335
to find out their father
584
00:36:12,420 --> 00:36:15,839
or their husband was a serial killer.
585
00:36:15,923 --> 00:36:20,510
So if you consider that love is being able to
586
00:36:20,595 --> 00:36:24,255
think about what benefits the loved one,
587
00:36:24,340 --> 00:36:25,765
then you would say Rader's love,
588
00:36:25,850 --> 00:36:29,186
whatever it means, does not run very deep.
589
00:36:29,270 --> 00:36:32,347
Today is a very historic day.
590
00:36:32,431 --> 00:36:36,693
The bottom line--
BTK is arrested.
591
00:36:41,523 --> 00:36:44,192
The day Dennis Rader was arrested,
592
00:36:44,276 --> 00:36:47,028
I'm in a shopping center.
I hadn't gone into work yet.
593
00:36:47,121 --> 00:36:49,623
My boss calls, and he goes,
594
00:36:49,707 --> 00:36:51,875
"We're almost positive BTK has been caught.
595
00:36:51,959 --> 00:36:54,794
You need to get into work right away."
596
00:36:54,954 --> 00:37:00,541
No lie, the whole room,
597
00:37:00,626 --> 00:37:03,544
the whole shopping center started spinning.
598
00:37:03,629 --> 00:37:07,465
The blood rushed from my head down to my toes,
599
00:37:07,558 --> 00:37:10,143
and I sat down and said, "I'm going to faint."
600
00:37:10,302 --> 00:37:12,395
And then I started crying.
601
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:15,065
I just cried and cried and cried,
602
00:37:15,149 --> 00:37:19,978
and I think I had much the same reaction
603
00:37:20,062 --> 00:37:22,572
as a lot of women in Wichita had,
604
00:37:22,657 --> 00:37:27,202
and that was such a sense of relief.
605
00:37:28,663 --> 00:37:31,322
Glad they caught the son of a bitch.
606
00:37:31,407 --> 00:37:34,751
Now my mom can rest in peace.
607
00:38:04,189 --> 00:38:09,119
It was very, very tense time.
608
00:38:09,278 --> 00:38:12,455
I didn't know how to feel.
I wanted revenge.
609
00:38:12,540 --> 00:38:15,283
I wanted to get my hands on this guy.
610
00:38:23,625 --> 00:38:26,303
Rader tells us he had most of
611
00:38:26,387 --> 00:38:29,130
what he called the mother lode of evidence
612
00:38:29,223 --> 00:38:30,631
in a two-drawer file cabinet
613
00:38:30,716 --> 00:38:33,977
located in his compliance
office at Park City.
614
00:38:34,061 --> 00:38:36,554
When we were there, it was unlocked.
615
00:38:36,638 --> 00:38:39,307
There was a key to lock it up
on top, but it wasn't locked.
616
00:38:39,391 --> 00:38:40,641
So he was pretty comfortable, I guess,
617
00:38:40,726 --> 00:38:42,485
that it was safe there.
618
00:38:42,644 --> 00:38:45,238
He had everything categorized, indexed,
619
00:38:45,397 --> 00:38:47,324
and they were in order,
620
00:38:47,483 --> 00:38:49,901
kept all the originals of any correspondence,
621
00:38:49,994 --> 00:38:52,320
of all the artifacts that he was collecting.
622
00:38:52,404 --> 00:38:55,239
He would mark them with dates and times.
623
00:38:55,333 --> 00:38:58,910
The level of organization was remarkable.
624
00:39:01,914 --> 00:39:03,840
At this time, we're going to ask
625
00:39:03,924 --> 00:39:06,501
how do you plead to these ten counts?
626
00:39:06,585 --> 00:39:07,919
Guilty.
All right.
627
00:39:08,003 --> 00:39:10,588
Are you pleading guilty
because you are guilty?
628
00:39:10,672 --> 00:39:12,849
Yes, sir.
All right.
629
00:39:12,933 --> 00:39:17,020
Mr. Rader, I need to find out
more information.
630
00:39:17,179 --> 00:39:21,099
Well, I mean, I strangled Mrs. Otero.
631
00:39:21,183 --> 00:39:26,279
He was sentenced to ten
consecutive life sentences.
632
00:39:26,364 --> 00:39:29,357
The death penalty for his case
was not on the books,
633
00:39:29,441 --> 00:39:31,943
and so we really never had a discussion
634
00:39:32,027 --> 00:39:34,445
about the death penalty being possible.
635
00:39:34,538 --> 00:39:35,872
He was fully aware
636
00:39:35,956 --> 00:39:39,667
that he was never going
to see freedom again.
637
00:39:41,128 --> 00:39:44,714
I think that we in the media
and in the community
638
00:39:44,799 --> 00:39:49,219
really fully understood
the damage he had done
639
00:39:49,378 --> 00:39:51,546
when you could feel that sense of relief
640
00:39:51,630 --> 00:39:54,140
that he was off the street forever.
641
00:39:54,299 --> 00:39:57,552
In the courtroom, families
of some of BTK's victims
642
00:39:57,645 --> 00:39:59,554
got their first real look
643
00:39:59,638 --> 00:40:02,390
at the man police believe
killed their loved ones.
644
00:40:02,474 --> 00:40:04,392
This changed these young people's lives
645
00:40:04,476 --> 00:40:06,069
30, 25 years ago
646
00:40:06,228 --> 00:40:08,571
and they've lived with that ever since.
647
00:40:08,656 --> 00:40:10,565
The criminal actions of Dennis Rader
648
00:40:10,649 --> 00:40:12,733
caused irreparable damage
649
00:40:12,818 --> 00:40:14,661
to the very fabric of my blood family.
650
00:40:14,745 --> 00:40:17,914
He caused me to challenge my faith,
651
00:40:17,998 --> 00:40:20,834
changed my future forever,
652
00:40:20,918 --> 00:40:22,493
yet I have never allowed his actions
653
00:40:22,578 --> 00:40:25,913
to send me to the dark side.
654
00:40:25,998 --> 00:40:29,250
Nancy Fox is my sister.
655
00:40:29,343 --> 00:40:31,845
Nancy's death is like a deep wound
656
00:40:32,004 --> 00:40:34,097
that will never, ever heal.
657
00:40:34,181 --> 00:40:37,592
I'd just like for him to suffer
658
00:40:37,685 --> 00:40:39,853
for the rest of his life.
659
00:40:39,937 --> 00:40:43,514
I'm Jeffrey Davis, son of Dolores Davis.
660
00:40:43,599 --> 00:40:47,694
For the last 5,326 days, I have wondered
661
00:40:47,778 --> 00:40:49,520
what it would be like to confront
662
00:40:49,605 --> 00:40:53,950
the walking cesspool that took
my mother's precious life.
663
00:40:54,034 --> 00:41:00,698
Not only were we united
as a family of survivors,
664
00:41:00,791 --> 00:41:03,117
we were kind of representative
665
00:41:03,202 --> 00:41:06,537
of the family of citizens of the community
666
00:41:06,622 --> 00:41:11,626
who had literally lived in terror at times.
667
00:41:11,710 --> 00:41:14,971
You have to live with the cold reality
668
00:41:15,055 --> 00:41:18,892
that while all of us here
will overcome your depravity,
669
00:41:18,976 --> 00:41:20,968
you have now lost everything,
670
00:41:21,053 --> 00:41:23,563
and you will forever remain nothing.
671
00:41:25,483 --> 00:41:28,226
His wife requested an emergency divorce,
672
00:41:28,310 --> 00:41:31,062
and I think it's probably the
quickest divorce in history.
673
00:41:31,146 --> 00:41:32,980
It was probably less than five minutes.
674
00:41:33,065 --> 00:41:35,408
I don't think she's ever looked back.
675
00:41:35,493 --> 00:41:39,904
I don't think she enjoys being in the public.
676
00:41:39,997 --> 00:41:42,156
She's never been interviewed.
677
00:41:42,249 --> 00:41:46,077
Paula and the kids became Dennis' victims.
678
00:41:46,161 --> 00:41:50,173
I can't imagine the price that they paid.
679
00:41:50,257 --> 00:41:56,254
My heart--
I can't imagine.
680
00:41:57,681 --> 00:42:00,424
This is now Dennis Rader,
681
00:42:00,509 --> 00:42:04,262
no longer in a courtroom suit
but a prison uniform.
682
00:42:04,355 --> 00:42:05,930
This is likely the last time
683
00:42:06,014 --> 00:42:09,817
you'll ever see the serial killer again.
684
00:42:26,126 --> 00:42:29,128
One of the things I suspected about Rader,
685
00:42:29,213 --> 00:42:31,455
there were things different about him
686
00:42:31,540 --> 00:42:36,210
than the typical things
we know about serial killers--
687
00:42:36,303 --> 00:42:38,629
The fact that he was a family man,
688
00:42:38,714 --> 00:42:40,557
had a full-time job.
689
00:42:40,641 --> 00:42:44,635
He seemed to be a regular guy
with an ordinary childhood.
690
00:42:44,720 --> 00:42:50,808
It impressed upon me the
importance of studying people
691
00:42:50,901 --> 00:42:55,488
who don't fit the mold,
who break the stereotypes.
692
00:42:55,573 --> 00:43:00,493
We need to be very clear
that there are no formulas
693
00:43:00,652 --> 00:43:04,414
because I think had we been
like that back then,
694
00:43:04,498 --> 00:43:07,250
Rader would have been caught sooner.
695
00:43:08,493 --> 00:43:09,994
I think it's an irony
696
00:43:10,078 --> 00:43:13,339
that everything about Rader is control,
697
00:43:13,498 --> 00:43:18,169
and yet he's in a prison cell 24-7
698
00:43:18,262 --> 00:43:20,513
with guards deciding when he gets his meds
699
00:43:20,598 --> 00:43:24,350
and his food and he gets
to have a shower, et cetera.
700
00:43:24,435 --> 00:43:28,012
He's totally under our control,
701
00:43:28,105 --> 00:43:31,766
and it's important that we
learn from people like Rader
702
00:43:31,850 --> 00:43:33,934
by demystifying them,
703
00:43:34,019 --> 00:43:38,439
decoding them, and unmasking them.
704
00:43:38,532 --> 00:43:42,276
Even though my work with Rader is finished,
705
00:43:42,361 --> 00:43:44,612
my research of extreme offenders
706
00:43:44,696 --> 00:43:47,790
and how to prevent them continues.
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