Original subtitles

AND GOOD EVENING.

WE HAVE EXCLUSIVE DETAILS -- A NEW COMMUNICATION THAT

COULD BE FROM THE SERIAL KILLER BTK.

Woman: NOW POLICE BELIEVE BTK

IS ALIVE AND LIVING IN WICHITA.

BTK'S TRADEMARK, WRITING LETTERS TO THE PAPER,

DETAILING HIS MURDERS AND TAUNTING POLICE.

Otis: IT WAS JUST SO HARD TO BELIEVE THAT

A SERIAL KILLER WHO WAS VERY ACTIVE IN THE '70s,

WHO HAD DISAPPEARED FOR MANY,

MANY YEARS AFTER SEVERAL HOMICIDES AND HAD NEVER BEEN

HEARD FROM EVER,

WAS SUDDENLY, IN 2004, SENDING

PICTURES TO THE POLICE.

Peters: ABSOLUTELY

EVERYONE WAS IN SHOCK, SAID, "NO WAY."

THERE'S NO WAY THIS IS TRUE.

IT CAN'T BE THAT HE'S STILL AROUND.

Kelly: PEOPLE WHO WERE OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THE ORIGINAL

BTK MURDERS STARTED TO FEEL THAT FAMILIAR FEAR.

WHAT IF THIS GUY STRUCK AGAIN?

Hatteberg: THERE'S NOW A WHOLE GENERATION OF PEOPLE

WHO HAVE NOT BEEN AFRAID OF BTK.

NOW HE HAS ONCE AGAIN RE-EMERGED.

THAT TERRIFIED A WHOLE NEW GENERATION OF PEOPLE,

PARTICULARLY WOMEN.

Kelly: THE POLICE TOOK THIS THREAT VERY SERIOUSLY.

THEY FELT THAT BTK WAS ANNOUNCING THAT HE WAS

ACTIVE AGAIN,

THAT HE WAS ON THE PROWL, AND THAT HE WAS DANGEROUS

Narrator: LIEUTENANT LANDWEHR AND COMMAND STAFF

QUICKLY ASSEMBLE A TASK FORCE,

THE SECOND IN 20 YEARS CHARGED WITH BRINGING DOWN BTK.

Otis: THE LOGISTICS WERE INCREDIBLE,

BECAUSE WE REALLY HAD NO PLACE

IN OUR CITY HALL TO HOUSE AS MANY PEOPLE AS WE'RE GOING

TO NEED, SO WE FOUND ROOM AT OUR TRAINING CENTER.

PHONES HAD TO BE INSTALLED, COMPUTERS HAD TO BE INSTALLED.

IT WAS A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS GOING ON.

Relph: THIS WAS YOUR CRACK AT

THE MOST INFAMOUS CRIME IN WICHITA'S HISTORY.

I'M GONNA GET THAT GUY THAT SCARED ME WHEN I WAS A KID.

[ PHONE RINGING ]

Otis: WITHIN 24 HOURS, WE HAD OVER 200 TIPS

AND IN THE FIRST 48 HOURS, WE WERE PUSHING 700 TIPS.

Narrator: THIS NEW TASK FORCE IS UNDER NO ILLUSIONS ABOUT HOW

HARD IT WILL BE TO CATCH THE ELUSIVE BTK,

YET THEY NOW HAVE ONE BIG ADVANTAGE.

WE BELIEVED WE HAD BTK'S DNA, AND THAT'S WHAT

THE INVESTIGATORS IN THE '70s NEVER HAD.

Narrator: IN 1986, BLOOD AND SKIN WAS

REMOVED FROM UNDER VICKI WEGERLE'S FINGERNAILS,

BUT CONCLUSIVE DNA TESTING WAS STILL YEARS AWAY.

WHEN SEMEN WAS FOUND AT THE OTERO AND FOX SCENES,

DNA WASN'T EVEN A CONCEPT.

Otis: OVER THE YEARS, LIEUTENANT LANDWEHR

WOULD REGULARLY CHECK WITH OUR LOCAL DNA LAB

ABOUT TESTING THAT OLD EVIDENCE.

BUT IN THE '80s AND EARLY '90s,

DNA TECHNOLOGY HAD NOT GROWN TO WHERE YOU COULD GET A SMALL

AMOUNT OF DNA TO TEST OUT.

YOU'D HAVE TO BURN UP THE WHOLE SAMPLE.

AND THE LIEUTENANT, GOD BLESS HIM, HAD THE FORESIGHT TO

REALIZE THAT IF WE TEST ONE OF THESE SAMPLES, AND WE DON'T GET

WHAT WE WANT, OUR WHOLE SAMPLE'S GONE,

AND IF WE DON'T GET A PROFILE, WE'RE -- WE'RE SCREWED.

Relph: I GIVE LANDWEHR INCREDIBLE CREDIT FOR

THE JUDICIOUSNESS OF THAT EVIDENCE, 'CAUSE,

YOU KNOW, ONCE YOU USE IT UP, YOU CAN'T GO ASKING FOR MORE.

Narrator: BY 2004, THE SCIENCE PROVES IRREFUTABLE.

Otis: WE HAD THE SAME DNA PROFILE IN THE OTERO CASE,

THE NANCY FOX CASE, AND THE VICKI WEGERLE CASE.

SO INSTEAD OF TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHERE A NAMED PERSON

IN A TIP WAS IN 1974 OR 1976,

ALL WE NEEDED WAS A DNA SAMPLE.

Gouge: SO WHEN WE WOULD GET A TIP ON A SUSPECT,

WE WOULD SIMPLY EXPLAIN TO THEM THAT THE EASIEST WAY TO

ELIMINATE THEM FROM SUSPICION WOULD BE TO DO A DNA SWAB.

Relph: THE TIPS, WE WORKED FOR ABOUT 5,000,

AND ACTUAL SWABBINGS WERE SOMEWHERE AROUND 17 TO 1,800.

WE ALSO ASSURED PEOPLE THAT THOSE SAMPLES WOULD BE

DESTROYED AND WOULDN'T BE USED FOR ANY OTHER CASE.

Narrator: ON MAY 4th, A SECOND LETTER BELIEVED TO BE FROM BTK

IS DELIVERED TO KAKE-TV.

WHEN I ARRIVED, THERE WERE CAMERAS SET UP,

FILMING THE ENTRANCE OF THE DETECTIVES COMING IN

TO PICK UP THE PACKAGE -- THEY DID A PRODUCTION ON IT.

Woman: IT WAS JUST BEFORE NOON ON WEDNESDAY

WHEN A LETTER ARRIVED IN OUR STUDIOS.

THE SENDER -- POSSIBLY BTK.

KAKE-TV 10 AND THE ADDRESS TO THE STATION

WAS TYPED ON A LABEL.

THE RETURN ADDRESS WAS FROM THOMAS B. KING,

408 CLAYTON STREET, WICHITA, KANSAS, 67203,

AN ADDRESS THAT DOES NOT EXIST.

Narrator: THIS COMMUNICATION CONTAINS 13 CHAPTER HEADINGS,

APPARENTLY FOR A BOOK,

AND A HOMEMADE WORD SEARCH PUZZLE.

Otis: WE WERE ABLE TO FIND THE WORDS

THAT TALKED ABOUT THE M.O. OF HIS MURDERS.

I THINK HE WAS SHOWING OFF.

I THINK HE WAS PROUD TO TELL US

HOW HE COMMITTED HIS CRIMES.

Gouge: IT BECAME CLEAR THAT HE WANTED TO TELL HIS STORY

RATHER THAN TO HAVE OTHERS TO TELL HIS STORY,

SO HIS IDEA WAS THAT HE WOULD OUTSMART

EVERYONE AND CONTINUE TO GET AWAY WITH THIS.

Peters: THE THING THAT SCARED ME THE MOST

WERE THE CHAPTERS.

THE LAST CHAPTER

WAS ENTITLED "WILL THERE BE MORE?"

SCARED US HALF TO DEATH.

BTK IS A KAKE VIEWER AND HAS BEEN FOR YEARS.

HE HAS COMMUNICATED WITH US SINCE THE '70s,

AND IT CONTINUES TODAY.

WE KNOW HE IS WATCHING, AND WE KNOW HE IS LISTENING,

AND TO HIM WE SAY, THE MESSAGE HAS BEEN RECEIVED AND PASSED ON.

KAKE-TV WAS HIS STATION, AND KAKE-TV

GOT THOSE COMMUNICATIONS ON THE AIR.

IT'S WHAT HE WANTED IN THE '70s.

IT'S WHAT HE WANTED IN 2004.

WE ARE HERE, WE ARE LISTENING AND COMMUNICATING.

I THINK THAT HE ACTUALLY THOUGHT OF

THE PEOPLE OF KAKE AS HIS FRIENDS,

LONG-DISTANCE FRIENDS AND THROUGH THE TV ONLY,

BUT THAT'S WHY HE DIRECTED SO MANY COMMUNICATIONS AT US.

HE FELT COMFORTABLE. HE KNEW US.

Narrator: WITHIN A MONTH, A THIRD LETTER

IS DISCOVERED TAPED TO THE BACK

OF A STOP SIGN ON A BUSY STREET.

THE CONTENTS ARE PARTICULARLY DISTURBING AS THEY DETAIL

THE OTERO FAMILY KILLINGS.

HE MENTIONS WHERE EVERY VICTIM WAS FOUND AND WHAT CLOTHING

THEY WERE WEARING AND HOW THEY WERE BOUND

AND WHAT KIND OF KNOTS WERE USED.

HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF, "SAY,

"THIS MAY BE IT, A PERFECT SETUP,

"A PERSON HE COULD TIE UP, TORTURE, AND MAYBE KILL.

"IN JUST A FLASH, HE ORDERED THEM BACK INSIDE,

"CONFRONTING THE FAMILY.

"HE SLIPPED THE GARROTE AROUND THE GIRL'S NECK.

"SHE GRASPED. HER EYES BULGED.

"THEN SHE PASSED OUT.

"REX MADE A CLOVE HITCH AND PLACED IT OVER JULIE'S NECK.

"SHE CRIED, 'GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOU,'

"BEFORE HE TIGHTENED THE NOOSE.

"RETURNING TO THE BASEMENT, HE FOUND

"JOSEPHINE AWAKE AND LOOKING AT THE CEILING.

"HE PICKED HER UP AND TOOK HER TIED BODY TO THE SEWER PIPE.

"'DON'T WORRY, BABY, HE SAID.

"'YOU'LL BE IN HEAVEN TONIGHT WITH THE REST.'"

Narrator: ON JULY 17th, A FOURTH MISSIVE THREATENING

MORE MURDERS IS LEFT AT THE WICHITA PUBLIC LIBRARY.

A FIFTH LETTER, RECOVERED OCTOBER 22nd,

IS A FABRICATED VERSION OF BTK'S LIFE STORY.

HE ALWAYS SAW HIMSELF AS A MASTER CRIMINAL,

SO I THINK HE WANTED TO COME UP WITH A STORY THAT CREATED HIM.

"MOTHER SLEPT BESIDE ME AT TIMES, THE SMELLS,

"THE FEEL OF HER UNDERCLOTHES,

"AND SHE LET ME RUB HER HAIR.

"IF YOU MASTURBATE, GOD WILL COME AND KILL YOU.

"MOM -- WORDS AFTER SHE FOUND SEMINAL YELLOW STAIN IN

"HER UNDERWEAR ONE DAY, SHE TRIED TO BEAT ME.

"I FOUGHT BACK.

"SHE HELD MY HANDS BEHIND MY BACK AND USED

"THE MAN'S BELT TO WHIP ME.

FUNNY, IT HURT, BUT SPARKY LIKED IT."

HE WAS TRYING TO MAKE UP

A PERSONALITY THAT WAS JUST ONE CLICHE AFTER THE OTHER.

Narrator: LIKE CHIEF LAMUNYON IN THE 1970s,

LIEUTENANT LANDWEHR BELIEVES HIS BEST SHOT AT CATCHING BTK

IS TO PLAY TO HIS EGO AND LURE HIM IN

WITH THE HOPE THAT HE'LL MAKE A MISTAKE.

THE FBI SUGGESTED THAT WE SHOULD HAVE ONE PERSON BE

THE FACE OF THE CASE FOR THE WICHITA POLICE DEPARTMENT,

AND IT WAS DECIDED THAT THAT WOULD BE LIEUTENANT LANDWEHR.

Lamunyon: AND I CAN'T STRESS THE IMPORTANCE OF WHAT

KENNY HE DID IN THIS -- KENNY SAYS,

"THIS IS GONNA BE SCRIPTED.

"I'M GONNA GIVE OUT CERTAIN

SPECIFIC INFORMATION."

A LETTER RECEIVED BY KAKE-TV WAS TURNED OVER

TO US LAST WEDNESDAY.

THE FOLLOWING FACTS ABOUT BTK

ARE BEING MADE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC

IN HOPES OF IDENTIFYING BTK.

THOSE RELEASES WEREN'T MEANT FOR THE PUBLIC.

THEY WERE MEANT FOR BTK.

HE CLAIMS THE FOLLOWING,

HE WAS BORN IN 1939.

Relph: KEEPING HIM TALKING.

NO CRIMINAL EXCEPT MAYBE THE ZODIAC HAS

CONTINUED TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE POLICE

AND NOT BEEN CAUGHT.

THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST CHALLENGING CASES

THAT, UH, I'VE NEVER BEEN INVOLVED WITH.

Gouge: LIEUTENANT LANDWEHR WOULD SAY,

I REALLY THINK BTK WOULD BE

A VERY INTERESTING PERSON TO TALK TO.

AND THAT WAS KIND OF AN INVITATION TO BTK

TO BOND WITH HIM,

BECAUSE WE KNEW THAT HE WOULD BE WATCHING

EVERY NEWS CONFERENCE THAT HE COULD ABOUT HIMSELF.

Relph: AND SO EVERY NEWS RELEASE, EVERYTHING YOU HEARD

THROUGH THE NEWS, CAME THROUGH KENNY LANDWEHR.

HE WOULD BECOME BTK'S ADVERSARY.

WE ARE AGAIN ASKING FOR HELP FROM THE PUBLIC.

Gouge: THE IDEA WAS ALSO TO SAY THAT WE WERE CLOSING IN ON HIM

AND THAT SORT OF THING IN ORDER TO TRY TO KEEP HIM FROM

KILLING SOMEBODY ELSE.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

BY THIS TIME, WE KNEW HE'D KILLED EIGHT.

THE URGENCY WAS, YOU KNOW, THIS BACK AND FORTH

COMMUNICATION IS GONNA ENTERTAIN HIM FOR SO LONG,

AND THEN HE HAVE TO UP THE ANTE.

WE TRULY FEEL THAT HE IS TRYING TO COMMUNICATE WITH US.

Woman: WE'VE HEARD IT TIME AND TIME AGAIN FROM POLICE.

BTK IS SPEAKING OUT AND WANTS TO MAKE SURE HE'S HEARD.

WE KNEW WE HAD A PIVOTAL ROLE IN GETTING THIS GUY CAUGHT.

WE HAD TO KEEP PUTTING THESE THINGS ON TV.

Man: IT APPEARS BTK IS COMMUNICATING AGAIN.

KAKE-TV RECEIVING ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS MESSAGE TODAY.

WE HAD TO KEEP PUBLICIZING EVERYTHING HE SENT US,

EVERY CLUE HE SENT US

BECAUSE WE KNEW THAT WAS THE KEY

TO GETTING HIM CAPTURED ONE DAY.

THIS IS A STORY YOU'LL ONLY SEE ON KAKE,

AND TODAY'S MESSAGE IS EERILY SIMILAR

TO A POSTCARD KAKE RECEIVED LAST WEEK.

Peters: HE WAS WATCHING ME EVERY SINGLE NIGHT.

HE WAS WATCHING ALL OF US, BUT OF COURSE, HE LIKED WOMEN.

KEEP IT ON KAKE FOR COMPLETE LIVE TEAM COVERAGE.

I HAD NO IDEA WHAT HE WAS THINKING,

WHAT HE MAY HAVE BEEN PLANNING,

WHAT HE MAY HAVE BEEN DOING WHILE HE WAS WATCHING ME.

I HAD NO IDEA.

FOR THE SECOND TIME IN JUST MORE THAN A WEEK,

ANOTHER POSSIBLE COMMUNICATION FROM BTK

ARRIVES HERE AT OUR STUDIOS.

THE COMMUNICATIONS ARE GETTING MORE FREQUENT

AND A LOT MORE PERSONAL.

THERE WAS ONE COMMUNICATION

THAT REALLY FRIGHTENED ME.

ONE NIGHT I TURNED TO THE WEATHERMAN, AND I SAID,

I SURE HOPE IT GETS WARMER, BECAUSE MY CO-ANCHOR AND I,

NAMED JEFF, WE BOTH HAD COLDS.

WE GOT THE CRUD OR SOMETHING.

TWO DAYS LATER, WE GET A POSTCARD FROM BTK.

"SORRY ABOUT SUSAN'S AND JEFF'S COLDS."

THIS MORNING WE HAVE MORE INFORMATION ON

THE LETTER SENT TO THE WICHITA EAGLE BY THE BTK KILLER.

Kelly: WHEN BTK RESURFACED,

IT REKINDLED FEAR AMONG THE REPORTERS, TOO.

SOME OF THEM WHO NEVER WOULD HAVE OWNED

A GUN BEFORE WENT TO A GUN STORE AND PURCHASED A REVOLVER

TO PROTECT THEMSELVES.

SOME INSTALLED SECURITY SYSTEMS.

EVERYONE BECAME MORE ALERT.

IT WAS CLEAR THAT BTK WAS FOCUSED

ON TAUNTING THE POLICE BUT ALSO VERY

FOCUSED ON JOURNALISTS,

AND NO ONE KNEW WHO HE MIGHT TARGET NEXT.

Rawson: I DIDN'T REALLY FOLLOW THE NEWS OF BTK IN 2004

VERY CLOSELY -- IT WAS REALLY CRAZY,

BUT IT FELT LIKE SOMEONE HAD

COMMITTED THESE CRIMES A LONG TIME BEFORE YOU WERE BORN.

IT WAS JUST THIS THING YOU READ ABOUT

IN THE NEWS THAT WAS HAPPENING WHERE YOU GREW UP.

Narrator: THE SERIAL KILLER'S SIXTH COMMUNICATION

IS DISCOVERED BY A MAN WALKING IN

A LOCAL PARK ON DECEMBER 13, 2004.

Woman: A WHITE PLASTIC BAG INSIDE

AN OBJECT WRAPPED IN PLASTIC AND A DRIVER'S LICENSE

WITH THE NAME NANCY FOX.

NANCY WAS KILLED IN 1977.

Otis: THERE WAS A DOLL SENT DEPICTING HER,

AND THE BONDAGE NOT ONLY MATCHED EXACTLY THE BONDAGE ON

HER BODY WHEN SHE WAS FOUND MURDERED, BUT THE SAME COLORS.

IT WAS

VERY SHOCKING TO SEE A DOLL

WITH THE EXACT SAME BONDAGE FROM 30 YEARS BEFORE.

Narrator: BTK DELIGHTS IN THE GRISLY DETAILS

OF HOW HE CHOSE NANCY, STALKED HER,

BROKE INTO HER HOUSE, AND SUBDUED HER ON HER BED.

Relph: "I TOLD HER I HAD A KNIFE

"AND DISPLAYED THE MAGNUM IN MY SHOULDER HOLSTER.

"WE TALKED ABOUT SEX AND THE HARM

"IF SHE DIDN'T COOPERATE.

"SHE LIT A SMOKE, AND FINALLY, SHE SAID,

"'LET'S GET THIS OVER WITH SO I CAN CALL THE POLICE.'

"I PULLED DOWN HER PANTIES, QUICKLY SLIPPED MY BELT OVER

"HER HEAD AND ONTO THE NECK

"AND PULLED TIGHT -- HER HANDS FOUND MY SCROTUM.

"THIS INCREASED MY SEXUAL THRILL.

"I SPOKE SOFTLY INTO HER LEFT EAR.

"I WAS WANTED FOR THE OTEROS AND OTHER MURDERS,

AND SHE WAS NEXT."

Peters: FROM A WOMAN'S PERSPECTIVE, A BARBIE DOLL.

IT WAS SO FRIGHTENING.

IT WAS LIKE HE WAS TAUNTING EVERY FEMALE OUT THERE.

Gouge: EVERY TIME WE WOULD GET A NEW PACKAGE,

WE WOULD ALWAYS CHECK IT FOR FINGERPRINTS, DNA,

SALIVA ON THE STAMPS OR ON THE SEALING OF THE ENVELOPE,

BUT WE WERE NEVER ABLE TO COLLECT ANY EVIDENCE LIKE THAT.

IT TOLD ME THAT HE WAS VERY CAREFUL,

HAD KNOWLEDGE OF FORENSICS AND PROBABLY TOOK EXTRA STEPS TO

MAKE SURE THAT HIS DNA AND FINGERPRINTS WEREN'T PRESENT.

Narrator: THE NEXT COMMUNICATION, BTK'S SEVENTH,

THREATENS TO GO MISSING FOREVER, COURTESY OF

A HOME DEPOT AN EMPLOYEE WHO FINDS SOMETHING STRANGE

IN THE BED OF HIS TRUCK.

Kelly: HE SAW WHAT LOOKED LIKE TRASH.

HE TOOK IT OUT, THREW IT IN THE DUMPSTER OUTSIDE OF

HIS HOUSE, AND WENT ON VACATION.

THAT EMPLOYEE DIDN'T REALIZE THE SIGNIFICANCE,

DID NOT RECOGNIZE IT AS AN IMPORTANT CLUE.

Narrator: ON JANUARY 25, 2005, KAKE-TV

RECEIVES THE KILLER'S EIGHTH CONTACT, A POSTCARD.

IT SAYS, "REFERENCE 69th AND 77th STREET

"NORTH ON SENECA STREET.

"CONTENTS -- POST TOASTIES BOX.

"LET ME KNOW IF YOU OR PD

"RECEIVED NUMBER SEVEN

AT HOME DEPOT."

Hatteberg: THE POLICE DEPARTMENT DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING

ABOUT THE PACKAGE AT HOME DEPOT.

Peters: WE IMMEDIATELY WENT THAT DAY TO THE CORNER OF

69th AND SENECA STREET AND FOUND THE POST TOASTIES BOX.

THAT'S AN ISOLATED AREA IN BETWEEN VALLEY CENTER

AND PARK CITY, AND THIS IS THE FIRST TIME BTK

IS KNOWN TO HAVE MADE A DROP OUTSIDE WICHITA CITY LIMITS.

Kelly: IT APPEARED THAT BTK HAD A SOPHOMORIC SENSE OF HUMOR,

BECAUSE ON THE CEREAL BOX, HE'D WRITTEN "KILLER,"

AS IN SERIAL [ "CEREAL" ] KILLER.

Peters: INSIDE THE POST TOASTIES BOX WAS ANOTHER BARBIE DOLL,

WHICH WAS EVEN MORE FRIGHTENING THAN THE FIRST ONE,

BECAUSE THIS ONE WAS JOSIE OTERO.

THIS BARBIE DOLL HAD A NOOSE AROUND HER NECK,

WHICH WAS TIED TO A PIPE

JUST LIKE JOSIE OTERO.

AS A WOMAN, IT WAS NOT ONLY HORRIFYING,

BUT IT MADE YOU WANT TO GET SICK TO YOUR STOMACH.

WE KNEW THAT HE WAS CONTINUING TO

GET THRILLS, TO BECOME EXCITED OVER ALL THIS.

WE KNEW HE WAS CAPABLE OF ANOTHER KILLING.

WE KNEW HE WAS CAPABLE OF THREE MORE KILLINGS,

AND WE WERE DEFINITELY AFRAID.

Peters: THE POST TOASTIES BOX WAS FOUND ON

SENECA STREET BETWEEN 69th AND 77th STREETS NORTH.

Narrator: AT THE SAME TIME AS THEY ARE RECOVERING

THE POST TOASTIES BOX, KAKE STAFF

CONTACT POLICE AND ALERT THEM TO THE LINE IN BTK'S MOST

RECENT POSTCARD THAT MENTIONS

A PACKAGE LEFT EARLIER AT HOME DEPOT.

DETECTIVES ARE MYSTIFIED.

Otis: WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY KIND OF A PACKAGE DROP

RECOVERED THAT WE KNEW OF FROM HOME DEPOT.

I IMMEDIATELY CALLED LIEUTENANT LANDWEHR,

AND HE BEGAN ASSIGNING DETECTIVES

TO HIT BOTH HOME DEPOT STORES IN WICHITA.

Narrator: INVESTIGATORS COME UP EMPTY,

SO THEY PUT UP NOTICES ASKING EMPLOYEES TO COME FORWARD IF

THEY RECENTLY FOUND SOMETHING STRANGE.

THE NEXT NIGHT, I GET A PHONE CALL FROM THE 911 DISPATCH

CENTER THAT A HOME DEPOT EMPLOYEE WHO HAD BEEN OUT OF

TOWN AND RETURNED HOME AND SAW THE NOTE IN THE BREAK ROOM,

AND HE BELIEVED HE HAD SOMETHING TO REPORT --

A CEREAL BOX IN THE BED OF HIS PICKUP.

HE THREW IT IN HIS TRASH, AND HE BELIEVED

THAT WHILE HE WAS OUT OF TOWN,

THE TRASH HAD BEEN HAULED OFF AND TAKEN TO THE LANDFILL.

I CONTACTED LIEUTENANT LANDWEHR IMMEDIATELY,

AND WE STARTED PREPARING A POLICE RECRUIT CLASS TO START

THE NEXT MORNING,

DIGGING AROUND IN A LANDFILL WITH

A ONE-IN-A-MILLION CHANCE OF FINDING THIS BOX.

ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF LATER, I GET A PHONE CALL FROM

THE SAME MAN, AND HE SAID,

"I'M SORRY, THE BOX IS STILL HERE,

AND I HAVE IT IN MY KITCHEN."

WELL, THAT EMPLOYEE HAD NOT TAKEN HIS TRASH OUT

TO THE CURB, SO IT WAS STILL THERE,

LIKE, A WEEK LATER, FORTUNATELY.

IF THAT BOX WOULD HAVE MADE THE LANDFILL,

THE ODDS OF RECOVERING IT

WOULD HAVE BEEN ASTRONOMICAL.

THE FACT THAT

THIS GENTLEMAN PUT IT IN THE TRASH AND THEN DIDN'T

HAUL IT TO THE STREET WAS CERTAINLY IN OUR FAVOR.

Kelly: THE CEREAL BOX WAS A REAL TURNING POINT

IN THE INVESTIGATION.

Otis: INSIDE OF THAT CEREAL BOX WERE SEVERAL ITEMS,

BUT ONE OF THEM WAS A POSTCARD-SIZED WRITING,

AND ON THE BOTTOM OF IT, BTK ASKED...

"CAN I COMMUNICATE WITH FLOPPY AND NOT BE TRACED

TO A COMPUTER -- BE HONEST."

Otis: I BELIEVED THAT THIS WAS ANOTHER TRICK.

MY FEAR WAS THAT HE WOULD SEND US A FLOPPY DISK,

KNOWING THAT WE COULD GET INFORMATION FROM IT,

THAT IT WOULD LEAD US TO MAYBE A FALSE SUSPECT,

AND THEN HE'D KNOW WE LIED TO HIM.

Narrator: OFFICERS DESCEND ON HOME DEPOT TO

REVIEW THEIR PARKING LOT SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE.

Gouge: THIS IS POSSIBLY THE OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO

ACTUALLY GET A LOOK AT BTK.

BECAUSE NOW THAT WE HAVE THE EMPLOYEE, AND WE KNEW WHAT

TIME HE GOT OFF AND WHERE HE PARKED, WE STARTED LOOKING AT

THE SURVEILLANCE VIDEO FROM THE TIME OF THE DROP.

THE VIDEO WAS VERY GRAINY, AND THE EMPLOYEE WAS PARKED WAY

FAR AWAY FROM THE STORE.

AND YOU CAN SEE WHAT APPEARS TO BE A PERSON,

BUT IT LOOKS LIKE A STICK FIGURE.

NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU STARE AT,

NO MATTER HOW LONG YOU LOOK AT IT,

AND NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU WANT TO BE

ABLE TO TELL SOMETHING MORE ABOUT THE PERSON, YOU CAN'T.

Otis: YOU COULD SEE

A BLOBBY FIGURE GET OUT OF THE SUV AND STAND

AT THE BACK OF THE PICKUP FOR A SHORT TIME.

THERE WAS NO WAY TO IDENTIFY THE PERSON THAT GOT OUT,

BUT THERE WAS NO DOUBT THAT IT WAS BTK.

Narrator: CAREFUL ANALYSIS OF THE VIDEO DETERMINES THE VEHICLE

THE SUSPECT WAS DRIVING IS SPECIFICALLY A JEEP CHEROKEE.

THIS WAS TRULY THE FIRST PIECE OF EVIDENCE

WE HAD THAT BTK DIDN'T GIVE US.

ALL OF THE EVIDENCE WE WERE WORKING WITH

DURING THE TASK FORCE TIMES

WAS GIVEN TO US BY BTK.

THIS WAS THE FIRST PIECE OF EVIDENCE WE HAD

THAT BTK DIDN'T KNOW WE HAD.

Narrator: THIS REVELATION, TOGETHER WITH THE KILLER'S

INQUIRY ABOUT SENDING A FLOPPY DISK,

INSPIRES BOTH HOPE AND CAUTION IN THE TASK FORCE.

Gouge: IF THERE'S A FILE ON A FLOPPY DISK,

THERE'S GONNA BE INFORMATION THAT A COMPUTER FORENSIC EXPERT

WILL BE ABLE TO EXTRACT TO HELP IDENTIFY AT LEAST THE LOCATION

OR THE COMPUTER THAT WAS USED TO WRITE THAT FILE.

BTK ASKED US TO BE HONEST IN OUR RESPONSE IN THE NEWSPAPER,

AND THE RESPONSE WAS TO BE, "REX, IT'LL BE OKAY."

AND SO WE PUT THAT AD IN THE PAPER FOR A WEEK,

AND THEN THE WAITING GAME STARTED.

Narrator: LESS THAN TWO WEEKS LATER,

A SUSPICIOUS PACKAGE ARRIVES AT ANOTHER WICHITA TV STATION,

KSAS-TV.

IT WAS A SMALL ENVELOPE -- IT HAS A FEW THINGS IN THERE,

SOME MORE JEWELRY THAT WOULD BE FROM A VICTIM

FROM BACK IN THE DAY,

AND THEN THERE'S A PURPLE FLOPPY DISK.

Gouge: I THOUGHT, THIS IS FANTASTIC.

I CAN'T WAIT TO GIVE THIS TO OUR COMPUTER FORENSICS EXPERT,

AND OUR FORENSIC COMPUTER GUY SAID, WELL,

THE FIRST THING WE NEED TO DO IS X-RAY IT,

BECAUSE WE WANT TO MAKE SURE IT

DOESN'T HAVE SOME KIND OF EXPLOSIVE OR SOME KIND OF

AN INCENDIARY DEVICE.

WE ALL THOUGHT THAT THAT WAS BTK'S SPEED,

THAT HE WAS THAT SMART.

AND THEN THE FORENSIC COMPUTER GUY SAID,

WE'RE GONNA PUT IT IN A NON-NETWORKED COMPUTER,

IN CASE IT'S FULL OF A VIRUS,

AND WE'LL USE SOME FORENSIC SOFTWARE TO GET INTO WHATEVER

IS ON THAT DISK AND SEE WHERE IT LEADS US.

Relph: THE TWO THINGS THAT -- THAT SHOT OUT IMMEDIATELY

WAS THAT THE DISK HAD BEEN IN A COMPUTER

IN PARK CITY AND ALSO IN A CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH.

Gouge: THE FILE THAT WAS ON IT HAD BEEN PRINTED

BY A USER NAMED DENNIS.

WENT TO -- I THINK IT WAS A GOOGLE SEARCH

AND FOUND CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH,

AND WHEN HE CLICKED ON THE OFFICERS,

THERE WAS A PICTURE OF A MAN NAMED DENNIS RADER,

AND HE WAS THE CONGREGATIONAL PRESIDENT.

Relph: DENNIS RADER, CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH,

WERE BROUGHT TOGETHER -- BY THAT POINT,

EVERYBODY KNEW THIS WAS -- THIS WAS THE DOMINO

THAT WAS GONNA START IT ALL.

ANOTHER DETECTIVE LOOKS UP DENNIS RADER'S ADDRESS,

AND THEN WE DROVE TO PARK CITY

AS FAST AS WE COULD.

Otis: THERE WAS A BLACK JEEP CHEROKEE IN THE DRIVEWAY.

♪♪

AND THEN IT WAS ON.

IT WAS GAME ON.

♪♪

Narrator: INVESTIGATORS HAVE TRACKED BTK SUSPECT,

DENNIS RADER, TO HIS HOME IN PARK CITY.

Relph: I CALLED KENNY, AND I SAID, YOU KNOW,

CALL EVERY POLICEMAN ON DUTY. THAT GUY'S 100 FEET AWAY,

I'LL GO RIP THAT DOOR OFF THE HINGES RIGHT NOW,

'CAUSE WE CAUGHT HIM.

Narrator: BUT LIEUTENANT LANDWEHR CALLS OFF HIS TROOPS,

PUTS DENNIS RADER UNDER 24-HOUR SURVEILLANCE, AND MAKES IT

A PRIORITY TO GET THE SUSPECT'S DNA FOR COMPARISON.

THEY TURN TO A SURPRISING SOURCE.

Rawson: I HAD ATTENDED COLLEGE AT KANSAS STATE.

SOME DETECTIVES HAD GONE TO KANSAS STATE,

TO THE HEALTH CENTER AND HAD, UM,

GOTTEN A WARRANT FOR MY MEDICAL RECORDS.

THEY FOUND OUT I HAD HAD

SLIDES OF, LIKE, A PAP SMEAR,

AND THEN GOT MY DNA OUT OF THAT.

I RECALL IT AS BEING THE LONGEST

TWO DAYS IN THE WORLD.

Otis: AND I'LL NEVER FORGET,

THE LIEUTENANT CALLED ME AND SAID, "GOT THE DNA BACK.

"IT'S HIM.

WE'RE GONNA COME IN IN THE MORNING AND START UP."

THERE WAS NO WAY I WAS STAYING HOME.

THERE WAS NOTHING TO DO. I WASN'T GONNA SLEEP.

SO I'LL GO UP AND CONTINUE TO WORK AND GET READY FOR THIS.

I PULL INTO THE BUILDING,

I GO UP TO OUR TASK FORCE OFFICE,

I WALK IN, AND EVERYBODY'S THERE.

NOBODY STAYED HOME.

AND JUST THAT LITTLE MOMENT, LITTLE MOMENTS LIKE THAT,

IT WAS FINALLY OVER, BECAUSE IT WAS A LONG TIME,

HAD BEEN A LONG RUN.

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Gouge: INITIALLY, THE DEPARTMENT WANTED THE SWAT TEAM TO

ARREST DENNIS RADER,

BUT WE HAD BEEN WORKING ON THIS CASE FOR ABOUT A YEAR.

WE HAD A LOT INVESTED IN IT.

WE ARE COPS, AND WE'VE ARRESTED MURDERERS IN THE PAST.

WE WERE QUALIFIED TO ACTUALLY DO THIS ARREST.

LIEUTENANT LANDWEHR LOOKED AT THE CHIEF AND SAID,

"MY GUYS WANT TO TAKE HIM," AND THE CHIEF SAID, "GO GET HIM."

ONCE WE IDENTIFIED RADER AS THE KILLER,

WE LEARNED THAT HE WAS A COMPLIANCE OFFICER.

HE WAS KIND OF A JACK-OF-ALL-TRADES

WHEN IT CAME TO INSPECTIONS FOR THE CITY OF PARK CITY.

HIS OFFICE WAS IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT,

SO WE COULDN'T TELL ANYBODY IN THE CITY OF PARK CITY

WHAT WE WERE DOING, BECAUSE WE DIDN'T KNOW

WHO HE WAS TIGHT WITH.

IF WE TOLD THE MAYOR, IF THE MAYOR WOULD TELL ONE

MORE PERSON, AND THEN DENNIS RADER WOULD FIND OUT.

SO WE DECIDED WE'RE NOT TELLING ANYBODY.

Relph: WE ALL GOT READY, AND GOD,

THERE WAS ALL KINDS OF PHASES OF PLANNING, MAN.

THEY WERE GONNA HAVE A PLANE

AND ALL KINDS OF CRAZY [BLEEP].

I MEAN, GOD, WE HAD A TANK -- I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE WERE DOING

WITH A TANK, BUT, UH, UM -- WE HAD A HELICOPTER.

I DIDN'T KNOW IF WE WERE GONNA ARREST SOMEBODY OR INVADE

A SMALL COUNTRY, BUT WE WERE READY,

AND I DON'T CARE IF HE WAS JAMES BOND,

HE WASN'T GONNA GET AWAY FROM US.

SO WE GOT IN OUR POSITIONS, AND WE --

WE HEARD HE WAS JUST GOING -- WE WERE PARKED ON --

RIGHT BESIDE A FRONTAGE ROAD

THAT HE CAME DOWN EVERY DAY, BECAUSE HE GOES HOME

EVERY DAY FOR LUNCH.

[ SIRENS WAILING ]

[ SIRENS WAILING ]

Otis: UNIFORMED OFFICERS PULLED HIM OVER.

BY THE TIME DENNIS RADER PUT HIS TRUCK IN PARK,

THERE WERE DETECTIVES AT HIS DOOR.

Gouge: WE HAD THIS GUY IN CUSTODY.

IT WAS SO EXCITING THAT I WAS

SELECTED TO PUT THE HANDCUFFS ON HIM.

SEARCHED HIM, STOOD HIM UP,

AND HE LOOKED AT US AND SAID,

"WOULD YOU PLEASE TELL MY WIFE I'LL BE LATE FOR LUNCH?

I ASSUME YOU KNOW WHERE I LIVE."

Narrator: THE SUSPECT IS LED TO A CAR WHICH HAS BEEN WIRED

WITH CAMERAS AND WHERE LIEUTENANT KEN LANDWEHR

WAITS TO MEET HIM.

Relph: BUT HE DIDN'T ASK, WHY DID SOMEBODY

JUST PULL ME OUT OF MY TRUCK?

WHY IS SOME -- A BOOT IS ON MY NECK, AND HE SAID,

"HELLO, MR. LANDWEHR."

RIGHT THEN, IT WAS OVER FOR SURE.

WE KNEW WE HAD HIM.

FROM THE TIME WE PUT HIM IN THE CAR,

WE WENT FLYIN'.

WE DIDN'T STOP TILL WE WERE DEEP

INTO THE BASEMENT OF THE EPIC CENTER.

Narrator: DENNIS RADER'S DNA IS COLLECTED.

HE'S INTERROGATED FOR OVER 30 HOURS

WHILE OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT WATCH REMOTELY.

Gouge: THE INTERVIEW WAS STARTED BY LIEUTENANT LANDWEHR

AND THE FBI AGENT,

AND THERE WAS A LOT OF JUST TALKING

BACK AND FORTH WITH HIM, GENERAL CONVERSATIONS ABOUT

WHO HE WAS BEFORE HE'S FINALLY ACTUALLY CONFRONTED.

LANDWEHR SHOWS HIM THE FLOPPY DISK AND EXPLAINS

TO HIM HOW COMPUTER FORENSICS EXPERTS WERE ABLE TO

IDENTIFY HIM.

HE WAS REALLY KIND OF UPSET ABOUT THAT,

AND HE INTERRUPTED LANDWEHR AND SAID,

"WHY DID YOU LIE TO ME?"

AND LANDWEHR'S LIKE, WELL, YOU KNOW,

I WAS TRYING TO CATCH YOU.

THAT WAS AMAZING TO ME.

RADER THOUGHT THAT LANDWEHR WAS

DOING THIS FOR THE FUN OF IT,

THAT THEY HAD A GOOD THING GOING.

IT WASN'T LONG AFTER THAT THAT THE FBI AGENT SAID,

"JUST TELL US WHO YOU ARE."

AND HE SAID, "I'M BTK," AND THEN HE REPEATED IT.

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Rawson: I AM THE DAUGHTER OF DENNIS RADER,

WHO IS OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BTK SERIAL KILLER,

WHO MURDERED 10 INNOCENT PEOPLE IN THE DECADES

BETWEEN THE '70s AND THE '90s.

♪♪

Rawson: I MET MY HUSBAND, DARIAN, IN 1998.

I WAS A JUNIOR IN COLLEGE, AND HE WAS A FRESHMAN.

WE DATED FOR THREE YEARS, AND THEN WE GOT ENGAGED,

AND WE GOT MARRIED IN THE SUMMER OF 2003.

MY DAD HELPED US MOVE TO MICHIGAN,

AND THAT'S WHERE I STARTED SUBSTITUTE TEACHING

IN THE FALL OF 2004.

[ KNOCK ON DOOR ]

I HEARD A KNOCK ON MY DOOR,

AND SO, LIKE, I BARELY OPENED THE DOOR,

BECAUSE MY DAD HAD ALWAYS, LIKE,

TAUGHT ME TO BE WARY OF STRANGERS,

BE CAREFUL WITH, LIKE, PEOPLE TRYING TO COME INTO YOUR HOUSE.

HE SAID HE WAS THE FBI.

HE'S LIKE, "ARE YOU KERRI RAWSON?

"IS YOUR DAD DENNIS RADER?

ARE YOU FROM WICHITA?"

AND I WAS LIKE, "YES."

AND THEN HE'S LIKE, "YOUR DAD IS BTK."

AND THAT'S WHEN, LIKE, THIS MASSIVE DISCONNECT

JUST SORT OF, LIKE, HITS, AND I GO INTO SHOCK.

AND I'M NOT REALLY COMPREHENDING WHAT HE'S TRYING TO SAY.

AND SO IT'S SORT OF LIKE TIME WAS STARTING TO, LIKE,

CUT IN AND OUT FOR ME.

WHILE THE FBI AGENT WAS INTERVIEWING ME,

MY HUSBAND WAS RIGHT NEXT TO ME THE WHOLE TIME HOLDING MY HAND.

IT WAS JUST VERY INTENSE.

LIKE, YOU'RE OUT OF YOUR BODY.

YOU'RE JUST IN SHOCK, AND YOU'RE JUST CONFUSED.

NOTHING'S RIGHT, AND EVERYTHING'S JUST CRAZY.

Narrator: AT THE SAME TIME, BACK IN KANSAS,

KERRI'S MOTHER IS ALSO GETTING THE DEVASTATING NEWS.

Otis: DENNIS RADER'S WIFE WAS INITIALLY

COMPLETELY DEFENSIVE OF HIM.

"THERE'S NO WAY. YOU GOT THE WRONG GUY."

SHE WAS VERY, VERY ANGRY AT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT

AND US FOR ARRESTING HER HUSBAND.

Rawson: ONE OF MY BIGGEST FEARS WAS HOME INVASION,

SO, HERE'S THIS VERY SURREAL MOMENT OF THIS STRANGER

IN YOUR HOUSE NOW NOTIFYING YOU THAT YOUR DAD

IS SOMEBODY THAT INVADED PEOPLE'S HOMES.

BUT IT, LIKE -- IT CLICKED THAT OUR NEIGHBOR,

MRS. HEDGE, HAD BEEN MURDERED,

AND SO I TOLD THE AGENT WHEN I WAS 6,

MRS. HEDGE WAS STRANGLED,

AND THEN IN MY HEAD, IT ROLLS -- BTK STRANGLES WOMEN,

'CAUSE I KNEW THAT FROM READING ABOUT HIM.

AND IT WAS LIKE SOMETHING DEEP SUNK IN ME

THAT IT COULD BE MY DAD.

BECAUSE I HAD A MEMORY OF,

LIKE, SLEEPING WITH MY MOM IN THE BED

'CAUSE OF A THUNDERSTORM AND I KNEW MY DAD WAS GONE THAT NIGHT.

AND SO I TOLD THE AGENT,

"I DON'T THINK MRS. HEDGE'S MURDER'S EVER BEEN SOLVED."

AND I SAID, "I DON'T -- MY DAD WASN'T HOME."

BEFORE MY FATHER'S ARREST, HE WAS WANTED FOR EIGHT MURDERS,

SO NOW I'M SITTING HERE

BASICALLY GIVING THEM A NINTH MURDER.

I FELT LIKE I WAS TURNING IN MY FATHER.

Man: THIS IS KAKE NEWS, STATION OF THE YEAR.

Peters: A QUARTER-CENTURY SEARCH FOR WICHITA'S

WORST SERIAL KILLER IS OVER.

POLICE CONFIRMING TODAY, THEY HAVE MADE AN ARREST OF BTK.

GOOD EVENING, IT IS A DAY THAT WILL GO DOWN IN

WICHITA HISTORY.

THE BTK MURDER MYSTERY MAY BE NEARING AN END.

THAT'S RIGHT. WICHITA POLICE AND CITY LEADERS

CONFIRMING TODAY THAT A PERSON OF INTEREST TAKEN IN

FOR QUESTIONING YESTERDAY IS IN FACT BTK.

Man: WE KNOW HE'S 59 YEARS OLD,

HE'S MARRIED WITH TWO GROWN CHILDREN,

AND HE WAS THE PARK CITY COMPLIANCE OFFICER,

AND HE LISTED AS HIS HOBBIES,

"RAISING HIS CHILDREN, SCOUTING, AND GARDENING,"

AND NOW EVERYBODY IS JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT

HOW THE MAN THEY KNEW

AS THE PRESIDENT OF THE CONGREGATION AT THIS CHURCH

COULD POSSIBLY BE BTK.

Peters: ONE OF OUR EMPLOYEES WAS A MEMBER OF

CHRIST LUTHERAN.

COUPLE OF MONTHS BEFORE BTK WAS CAUGHT, THIS EMPLOYEE SAID,

"THERE'S A GROUP FROM CHRIST LUTHERAN THAT WANTS A TOUR OF

THE STUDIO." WE HAD SEVERAL TOURS.

WE HAD PEOPLE WHO SAT IN ON THE NEWSCAST.

WE HAD PEOPLE WHO TOOK PICTURES.

THIS EMPLOYEE WALKS INTO THE NEWSROOM

THE DAY BTK WAS CAUGHT,

WIDE-EYED LIKE THIS, AND SAYS, "OH MY GOSH,

"BTK WAS A MEMBER OF THE TOUR GROUP.

"HE WAS IN OUR STUDIO WATCHING THE NEWS.

HE WAS 5 FEET FROM US."

MY HEART WENT TO MY STOMACH.

THE REALIZATION

THAT HE HAD BEEN

A FEW FEET FROM ME

AND WAS WATCHING ME IN PERSON.

THANK GOD HE HAD ALREADY BEEN CAUGHT,

BECAUSE I WOULDN'T HAVE GONE ON THE NEWS

THE NEXT DAY -- I WOULD HAVE RUN FOR IT.

Woman: RADER WAS ALTERNATELY DESCRIBED AS A GOOD FATHER

AND POLITE NEIGHBOR TO

OVERBEARING AND EERIE, AN OVERLY METICULOUS COMPLIANCE

OFFICER WHO WOULD GO AROUND

MEASURING GRASS AND WRITING UP ALL SORTS OF CODE VIOLATIONS.

Rawson: DAD REALLY LIKED UNIFORMS.

HE ALWAYS WANTED TO LOOK A CERTAIN WAY

TO KIND OF HIDE WHO HE REALLY IS.

WE'VE BEEN TRACKING IT DOWN --

THE DOGS ARE SOMEWHAT TERRITORIAL AS WELL AS VICIOUS.

Peters: MY VISION OF HIM WAS AN OUTCAST,

A LONER, SOMEONE WITH LONG, SCRAGGLY HAIR.

HE WAS THE DIRECT OPPOSITE OF THAT.

Hatteberg: IN THE 1970s TO THE 1980s,

HE WORKED FOR ADT, THE ALARM COMPANY.

HE'S IN YOUR HOUSE, INSTALLING THE ALARM SYSTEM,

AND HE'S A SERIAL KILLER.

AND HE'S A BOY SCOUT LEADER,

AND HE WOULD GO CAMPING WITH HIS SON.

AND HE'S ALSO THE LONGEST-RUNNING

SERIAL KILLER IN U.S. HISTORY.

[ INDISTINCT TALKING ]

ONCE HE BEGAN TO CONFESS, THE STRESS WAS

LIFTED IMMEDIATELY.

HE CONFESSED TO THE EIGHT KNOWN BTK HOMICIDES

AND THEN TWO MORE HOMICIDES THAT OCCURRED

IN THE PARK CITY AREA.

HE CONFESSED TO THE MURDERS OF MARINE HEDGE

AND DOLORES DAVIS.

MARINE HEDGE LIVED RIGHT DOWN THE STREET FROM DENNIS RADER.

THEY PROBABLY SAW EACH OTHER TAKING OUT THE GARBAGE.

"HI, DENNIS." "HI, MARINE. HOW YOU DOING?"

AND HE HAD TO HAVE BEEN PLANNING

WHAT HE WAS GONNA DO WITH HER.

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MAN, IT WAS JUST LIKE, OVERWHELMING.

MY MOTHER DIED AT THE HANDS OF ONE OF THE MOST

DISGUSTING SOCIAL MALIGNANCIES THAT'S EVER, YOU KNOW,

BEEN INTRODUCED INTO THIS WORLD.

Narrator: ANALYSIS OF THE TWO GOADING ANONYMOUS LETTERS

JEFFREY DAVIS RECEIVED

BACK IN THE '90s CONFIRMS THAT THE WRITER

WAS DENNIS RADER.

[ GLASS BREAKING ]

Davis: YOU ALWAYS IMAGINE THE FACE OF THE DEVIL.

AND HERE'S THIS ELMER FUDD LOOKING LITTLE OAF WITH

A STUPID HAIRCUT AND A DUMB LOOK ON HIS FACE,

AND I THOUGHT, OH, YOU'RE REAL INTIMIDATING.

YEAH, YOU COULD PROBABLY SCARE A WOMAN

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT,

BUT YOU'RE JUST A -- YOU'RE JUST A LITTLE COCKROACH.

Narrator: POLICE ARE TOLD SHOCKING DETAILS BEHIND

THE MURDERS OF HEDGE AND DAVIS.

HE WAS ON BOY SCOUT CAMPOUTS WITH MY BROTHER.

HE USED THE BOY SCOUTS FOR AN ALIBI TWICE,

UM, WITH MRS. HEDGE'S MURDER AND ALSO MRS. DAVIS'S MURDER.

Hatteberg: HE WOULD GET UP LATE AT NIGHT

AFTER EVERYBODY ELSE HAD GONE TO SLEEP,

AND HE FOUND MARINE HEDGE, KILLED HER.

[ OWL HOOTING ]

Peters: HE LEFT ANOTHER BOY SCOUT OVERNIGHT,

WENT AND KILLED DOLORES DAVIS,

TOOK HER BODY,

PUT SOME SORT OF SCARY, HORRIBLE MASK OVER HER FACE,

AND WENT AND DUMPED HER BODY UNDER A BRIDGE.

SO TO DO THAT, HOW SICK DO YOU HAVE TO BE?

AS HE WAS GOING BACK TO THE BOY SCOUT OVERNIGHT,

HE ACTUALLY STOPPED AT A SERVICE STATION TO CHANGE

HIS CLOTHES, BECAUSE HE HAD JUST COMMITTED A MURDER.

A HIGHWAY PATROLMAN SPOTTED HIM

AND ASKED HIM WHAT HE WAS DOING.

HE HAD A GOOD EXCUSE.

I'M IN A BOY SCOUT OVERNIGHT,

AND I THOUGHT I'D COME TO A RESTROOM TO CHANGE MY CLOTHES,

BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT TO CHANGE IT IN A TENT.

WELL, THAT'S SOMETHING THE HIGHWAY PATROL OFFICER,

OF COURSE, IS GONNA BELIEVE, IT'S VERY BELIEVABLE.

HE ACTUALLY WENT BACK TO THE BOY SCOUT OVERNIGHT,

AND PROBABLY JUST SO PLEASED WITH HIMSELF,

FELL ASLEEP NEXT TO HIS SON.

HERE'S A GUY WHO CAN BE WITH HIS SON AT A BOY SCOUT CAMP

IN ONE MOMENT AND AN HOUR LATER BE OUT

KILLING SOMEONE.

THAT RIGHT THERE REALLY SHOWS YOU HOW THAT

CANCEROUS MUSCLE THAT HE CALLS A MIND WORKS.

AND THAT IN-YOUR-FACE ABOUT "YOUR MOTHER

MUST HAVE BEEN TERRIFIED," I'LL BET YOU

MY FACE JUST WENT BEET RED,

BECAUSE BASICALLY THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HE'S SAYING.

"THAT'S WHAT I DID --

I TERRIFIED YOUR MOTHER BEFORE I KILLED HER."

HE DUMPED HER BODY, BUT HE DIDN'T HAVE TIME

TO DO THE THINGS HE WANTED TO DO WITH HER,

SO HE LEFT FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS, AND WHEN HE CAME BACK,

SHE WASN'T TURNING HIM ON, BECAUSE HER FACE WAS STARTING

TO DECOMPOSE.

SO HE THOUGHT HE MIGHT BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE

MORE SEXUAL EXCITEMENT IF HE WOULD TAKE THAT PORCELAIN

MASK THAT HE HAD AND PUT IT ON HER.

BUT HE SAID THE MASK DIDN'T DO IT FOR HIM, BECAUSE THE REST OF

HER BODY WAS DECOMPOSING, TOO,

SO HE JUST LET HER BODY THERE UNDER THE BRIDGE.

Narrator: UNDER THE DIRECTION OF LIEUTENANT LANDWEHR,

INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS OF THE BTK TASK FORCE HAD BEEN

ASSIGNED SPECIFIC MURDERS TO FOCUS ON.

NOW THEY TAKE TURNS QUESTIONING THE KILLER

ABOUT THEM.

HIS RECALL -- THERE'S NO DOUBT ABOUT HIS RECALL.

HE HAD A PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY OF THOSE MURDERS AND THE SCENES.

AND NOW HE'S ABLE TO ACTUALLY RELATE THAT AND TAKE FULL

CREDIT FOR EVERYTHING THAT HE HAD DONE.

HE APPEARED TO BE COMING AROUSED AS

HE STARTED TO TALK ABOUT THE MURDERS.

I WAS LIKE, "YOU FILTHY PIG."

HE THOUGHT HE WAS...

THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS.

HE THOUGHT HE WAS FROM THE DARK SIDE.

Gouge: HE THOUGHT HE WAS A CELEBRITY

AND THAT WE SHOULD BE HONORED TO BE IN

THE ROOM WITH HIM IN ORDER TO SHARE THIS EXPERIENCE WITH HIM.

HE SAID, YOU KNOW, "I'M LIKE A LION ON THE SERENGETI.

YOU CAN'T ASK THEM NOT TO HUNT."

IT WAS LIKE, I'M THIS WAY.

YOU JUST GOTTA ACCEPT IT.

HE ALMOST TOOK ON A ROLE OF

AN INSTRUCTOR -- WHEN HE WAS TELLING US ABOUT THE CASES,

IT WAS, THIS IS HOW I GOT MYSELF PREPARED FOR IT,

'CAUSE STRANGLING PEOPLE'S HARDER THAN YOU THINK.

YOU KNOW, HE SAID THAT.

BTK USED A SMALL SQUEEZE BALL

THAT HE KEPT ON HIS BEDSIDE TABLE.

WRITTEN ON IT WAS THE SLOGAN, "LIFE IS GOOD."

HE USED THAT BALL TO STRENGTHEN HIS HANDS

SO THAT HE COULD MORE EASILY STRANGLE HIS VICTIMS.

IT BOTHERS ME TO THIS DAY.

Hatteberg: HE WAS A MAN WITH NO SOUL,

AND HE WAS THE MOST EVIL PERSON I EVER MET.

RADER HAD A NOTION ABOUT HIMSELF,

AND STILL DOES, THAT HE WAS A GOOD GUY,

ESSENTIALLY, WHO DID SOME BAD THINGS.

TO HIS MIND,

THAT MEANT HE WAS HELPFUL TO NEIGHBORS.

HE WAS A GOOD FATHER, A GOOD HUSBAND, A GOOD PROVIDER.

HE WAS A HARD-WORKING MEMBER OF HIS CHURCH.

OCCASIONALLY, HE HAD FORAYS INTO HIS DARK SIDE,

WHERE HE WOULD STALK PEOPLE,

BREAK INTO THEIR HOUSES, AND KILL THEM.

BUT THOSE WERE, IN HIS MIND, ABERRATIONS.

THEY WERE NOT REALLY WHO HE WAS.

IT'S STILL VERY HARD TO HEAR PEOPLE CALL HIM

A MONSTER OR CALL HIM EVIL OR SAY, LIKE,

UM, HE SHOULD WALK THE GREEN MILE AND FRY.

I MEAN, THESE ARE THINGS PEOPLE LITERALLY HAVE SAID

TO MY FACE.

IT'S HARD FOR ME TO HEAR THAT,

BECAUSE THAT'S NOT THE PERSON I KNOW.

YOU KNOW, PEOPLE LIKE TO SAY, "YOUR WHOLE

"LIFE WAS A LIE, BECAUSE YOU LIVED WITH BTK.

YOU NEVER LIVED WITH THE MAN YOU THOUGHT YOU DID."

YES, BUT I STILL LIVED WITH MY DAD.

♪♪