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People in Wichita had been terrorized
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by the BTK killer for 30 years.
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I looked and saw my mom laying on the bed.
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You could smell the death.
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Four people dying in a house in Wichita, Kansas?
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That just didn't happen.
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The motive behind these killings
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was more of the sexual gratification.
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The demands that those investigators felt
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when lead after lead led them nowhere.
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Three months after the Otero murder
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came Kathryn Bright.
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Dennis Rader had aspired
to become a serial killer.
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And with these murders, he had become BTK.
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When Dennis Rader,
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the serial killer known as BTK,
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started corresponding with me,
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one of the first things he said
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was that I should take a drive
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into the countryside around Wichita.
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He grew up on farms,
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and he wanted me to look
at the barns and silos.
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They might look ordinary,
but those were the places
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he had his first torture fantasies.
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He had this fantasy he was going to build
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this silo of terror.
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And so he drew it,
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and inside were things
like the wheel of death,
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where he would chain a victim to it.
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And there was a train
along with a railroad track
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because his fantasy
was to tie girls to the track
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and have the train run over them.
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When did you think of a barn
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for the elaborate torture devices?
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One of the things that we
know about sexually compelled
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serial killers like Dennis Rader
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is that they often have
generated a fantasy life
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that's very vivid to them.
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Usually starts quite young.
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Studying that would show me
what motivates them
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to want to kill someone
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but also to actually
cross the line and do it.
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So 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
that Rader has explored
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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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My goal with Dennis Rader is to use his story
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to dissolve some of the stereotypes
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about serial killers
so that we can better identify
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children who might be at risk
for becoming adult offenders.
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To do that, we need to understand
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what motivates someone like Dennis Rader.
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So we need to look at their development,
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their fantasy life,
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and their crimes to understand it.
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By the fall of 1974,
Rader had killed the Oteros,
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murdered Kathryn Bright,
attempted to kill her brother.
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And Rader has been going about
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business as usual as a young husband
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and a student taking classes at Wichita State.
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Initially, the Bright murder was not associated
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with the Otero killings.
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There were not a lot of similarities
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in the method of killing.
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The strangulation that was
used at the Otero house
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was different than what you found
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where Kathy was stabbed,
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and that's what resulted in her death.
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At the crime scene at the Oteros,
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the telephone line was cut,
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and there had not been a sign of a struggle.
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And at the Bright scene, of course,
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there was a struggle as Kevin fought back
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and they turned furniture over.
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And the phone in the bedroom
had been unplugged.
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But Kathryn Bright was found
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clutching a telephone receiver in her hand.
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She just wasn't able to make the call.
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Because Kathryn Bright's brother didn't die,
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he was able to give the police a little sketch.
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Did you pay attention
to the news coverage afterward?
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One of the things Rader said to me
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was that he always had
bad luck with his crimes
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because something always seemed to go wrong.
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And he always felt as if he were the victim.
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And it's because he sees his
world from his point of view
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and no one else matters.
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Clearly, he has not thought of his victims
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as human beings at all.
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They belong to him, and they're supposed
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to behave according to his fantasies.
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And when they don't,
he's the victim in his mind.
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After the Otero case
and the Kathryn Bright case,
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the newspaper makes a report
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that there were some people
that had been arrested
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that were indicating they might have been
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involved in the Otero killings.
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The one thing BTK likes
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more than anything else is publicity.
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So when suspects were in custody,
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not Dennis Rader,
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Rader was not happy about that.
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So Rader is thinking about,
"Wait, I'm the guy.
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Where's the headline?
I want to see the headline."
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And that ticked him off.
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In October of 1974, a prominent newspaperman
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for the "Wichita Eagle & Beacon"
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received a anonymous telephone call telling him
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that there was a letter
related to the Otero case
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on the second floor of the public library
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in an engineering textbook.
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Detective Bernie Drowatzky was assigned to go
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look for the letter, and he did find that.
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The letter started out with, "I did this.
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"I did it myself.
I did it alone.
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So let's set this straight."
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And then he goes into a recitation
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of all four of the victims,
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what position they were found in,
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how they were killed,
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the types of bindings that were used,
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the types of knots that were used.
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Whoever wrote that had intimate
knowledge of the crime scene
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or had committed the crime.
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At the end of the letter,
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he mentioned that,
"The code words for me
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will be bind them,
torture them, kill them, BTK."
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What gave you that idea
that you should have a name,
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and how did you come up with it?
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But other killers didn't name themselves.
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One of the things that
motivates Dennis Rader a lot
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is the need for attention.
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He wanted to be considered special.
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And other serial killers,
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he saw them as being famous.
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So I think he named himself
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because he saw the way
those names generated attention
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and he wanted to terrorize Wichita.
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The letter in 1974
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indicated that he intended to continue to kill.
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He said that he was occupied by a monster
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and he doesn't know
what the monster is gonna do
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and that BTK doesn't have
a choice in the victims,
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that the monster picks the victims.
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The decision was made
by the command at that time
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the letter should not
be shared to the public
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because it was work product
of the investigation.
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The "Eagle" withheld
the information from the public
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at the request of police
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and did not publicize
that there was a serial killer.
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And, you know, police had
convinced editors at the paper
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at that time in the '70s that it was,
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you know, you don't want
to panic the public.
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When Dennis is trying to talk about Factor X,
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he's saying, "Here's the big mystery.
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What is it that motivates me?"
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Factor X was kind of
what one would consider to be
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the evil part of him.
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He was constantly daydreaming
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about how he can use sex to control others.
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He wants to say,
"There's a Factor X that's alive in me
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"that will have its way
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and there's not a lot I can do about that,"
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as a way to slip responsibility
for the decisions he made
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and the actions he took
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because it makes him seem larger
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than he actually is.
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If we can't figure him out,
he's a much bigger person.
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But if he can be reduced
to reasons for why he did it,
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he's no longer special.
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When do you think that started for you?
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Let me take you back to your childhood.
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You haven't talked very much,
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even to me, about your father
and your sense of your father.
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Okay.
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Oh, I'm sorry.
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What do you have?
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Dennis Rader thinks of himself as a good person
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who did some bad things.
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I don't buy that.
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But he certainly lives
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in an ordinary way most of the time.
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If anyone wanted to have
an association with him,
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I mean, you have to talk about ordinary things
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that really aren't about serial murder.
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Well, I mean, feel free
to eat while you're talking
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if you think you can do both.
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I don't want you to waste that.
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So let's go back to your childhood.
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Okay.
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Would you say you were close to him
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growing up, then?
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The common perception
of a serial killer's childhood
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is that they inevitably have endured some form
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of physical, sexual, or verbal abuse
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and pretty serious abuse.
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And we need to recognize
that we're wrong about that,
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and we need to stretch our concept
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to accommodate somebody
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who didn't have child abuse.
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Dennis Rader was born in a small town
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in southeastern Kansas.
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Both grandparents had farms.
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There was prayer, Bible reading.
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It seemed as if he had basically
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an all-American boyhood.
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But Rader didn't mature beyond
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the childhood need for attention.
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And one of the things
we do see in serial killers,
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especially those who have this
psychopathic kind of nature,
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is an arrested development.
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While he matured in other ways,
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this need for attention remained very infantile.
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When Rader was a boy,
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there was an incident that happened
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that he thinks of as a formative event.
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The expression on his mother's face
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was a part of Factor X.
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Watching his mother, who is typically
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in a more powerful position, be utterly helpless
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translates through his development later
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to be, "That's the expression I want
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on the face of my victims."
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As a child, there was a big progression
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in his sexual fantasy life that slowly escalated
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and became increasingly more deviant.
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I never knew that.
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Why did you like hanging cats?
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He did admit that he had tortured kittens, cats
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when he was younger, and it seems
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that a lot of the serial killers prefer cats.
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What they will tell you is that it sounds like
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a female in distress when you torture a cat.
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Why does he not see the immorality
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of his treatment, but also,
why does he relish it?
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He loved utter helplessness and desperation
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and needing him to decide to let them go.
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It would certainly be a training ground
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for what is coming for him in the future.
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At a young age,
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one of the things he was really
fixated with was bondage.
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And it led to his actually
experimenting on himself.
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The rope has already become
an arousal mechanism.
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Peeping on people has been something
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that has made him feel powerful.
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Now we put it together with a woman
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he wants to have power over quite specifically
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and he ejaculates.
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This cements the paraphilia.
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A paraphilia is a trigger to arousal
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that is considered to be deviant,
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sometimes to the point
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where they can't get aroused
in a normal way at all.
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Over time, you start to need more--
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More to stimulate yourself, more to get excited.
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And the fantasy started
to escalate even further
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to his wanting to carry it out on others.
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We see these childhood fantasies
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come full circle in the Otero murders,
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where all four victims were tied up, strangled,
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or hanged like the cats.
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And he replicated in his victims
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the look of helplessness
he'd seen on his mother's face
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when her hand was stuck in the sofa.
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When Chief LaMunyon took over
the department in 1976,
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BTK really wasn't on anybody's immediate radar
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because after 1974,
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we did not hear from BTK for about 2 1/2 years.
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At that point, that is enough time to go by
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that some of us speculated that perhaps
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he was in prison or he had been killed.
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What authorities didn't know
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is that Rader was starting a family
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in the Park City suburb of Wichita.
284
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Dennis and his wife
had their first child in 1975.
285
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Rader had gotten a job
from a security company.
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In a way, it was, like, the perfect job.
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Dennis was one of the supervisors
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who would come out and supervise the installation.
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I mean, how ironic is that?
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Working at a security company
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enhanced his predatory activities.
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He developed more skills and understanding
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of how to enter a home and how
to get past a security system.
294
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So no one ever caught you or complained
295
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that things were missing?
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While Rader's wife was home
taking care of their newborn,
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he began to act on his fantasies again.
298
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And his new job allowed him to troll for victims.
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He was always looking for victims,
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and he was always monitoring
his victims' activities.
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He called them projects.
302
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And one of the things he kept repeating to me
303
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throughout the time I spent with him
304
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is, "If you become my project
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and you have a routine, you're in trouble."
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Once you knew who you were going to target,
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what did that feel like to you?
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This is the neighborhood where Dennis Rader
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would roam around looking at the homes,
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going in backyards, being a voyeur,
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looking for what he called projects.
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And what he really liked
about this neighborhood was,
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this was close to the interstate,
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where it was a quick getaway.
315
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For Rader, a project is an incident
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that Rader has planned
where he has targeted a person
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against which he's going to commit a crime.
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He began to name them.
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Like, someone playing the piano
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was Project Piano.
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So whenever he wanted to think about a project,
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he had a label.
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When we sort of back up on this
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and look at it psychologically,
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he's dehumanizing people.
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He can distance himself from them
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and what he's going to do with them.
328
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Any pain they feel, any loss to other people
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is of no consequence to him
'cause they're projects.
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On March 17, 1977,
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almost three years after he killed Kathryn Bright,
332
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the pressure from his fantasies had been building,
333
00:22:00,235 --> 00:22:03,145
and Rader was ready to kill again.
334
00:22:04,898 --> 00:22:08,576
Rader had had his eye
on several different projects,
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potential projects.
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He dressed up in tweed
337
00:22:12,748 --> 00:22:15,324
and, you know, nice shoes and a briefcase,
338
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which was his James Bond outfit
339
00:22:17,586 --> 00:22:20,671
because he liked to think of himself as a spy.
340
00:22:22,424 --> 00:22:24,675
When he came to the first project,
341
00:22:24,834 --> 00:22:27,753
Project Green, he knocked on the door,
342
00:22:27,846 --> 00:22:29,671
and no one answered.
343
00:22:29,756 --> 00:22:32,841
And so he figured if
one project didn't work out,
344
00:22:32,926 --> 00:22:34,602
there was another one down the street
345
00:22:34,761 --> 00:22:36,595
that he could try as well.
346
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He was dressed to kill.
This is what he had in mind.
347
00:22:51,194 --> 00:22:54,538
Rader then moved on to a different project,
348
00:22:54,697 --> 00:22:58,700
Project Blackout, and again, no results.
349
00:22:58,785 --> 00:23:02,871
He did not want to let this
day get wasted, in his mind.
350
00:23:02,964 --> 00:23:06,634
And so he saw a little boy, and he thought,
351
00:23:06,793 --> 00:23:08,710
"If there's a little boy here,
352
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he must have a mother at home."
353
00:25:50,123 --> 00:25:52,967
Anytime you have a survivor
354
00:25:53,126 --> 00:25:56,136
who was approached by an offender,
355
00:25:56,221 --> 00:26:00,716
you do learn more about his MO, his approach,
356
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:03,385
whether he was persistent or not.
357
00:26:03,469 --> 00:26:04,970
What kinds of things did he say?
358
00:26:05,063 --> 00:26:06,981
How did he pass himself off?
359
00:26:07,065 --> 00:26:10,484
Shirley had told the kids to calm down
360
00:26:10,569 --> 00:26:15,573
because she did not know
she was in for murder that day.
361
00:26:15,657 --> 00:26:16,898
She might've said to the--
362
00:26:16,992 --> 00:26:18,317
"Keep screaming.
Keep screaming.
363
00:26:18,410 --> 00:26:19,743
The neighbors might hear you."
364
00:26:19,902 --> 00:26:22,162
She might've said that, except that he calmed her
365
00:26:22,247 --> 00:26:23,998
and assured her, "If you just do what I say,
366
00:26:24,157 --> 00:26:26,250
it'll be over and I'll leave."
367
00:26:29,504 --> 00:26:31,330
Dennis Rader was an unforgiving,
368
00:26:31,414 --> 00:26:34,258
unrelenting madman.
369
00:26:34,342 --> 00:26:39,004
And Steve, I've always felt very bad for him
370
00:26:39,088 --> 00:26:40,589
for what happened to him,
371
00:26:40,682 --> 00:26:43,684
because BTK just didn't kill his mother.
372
00:26:43,843 --> 00:26:46,687
BTK really killed him too.
373
00:27:14,374 --> 00:27:19,294
At Shirley Vian's home,
there's no empathy whatsoever
374
00:27:19,379 --> 00:27:22,631
for the kids or even
seeing them as human beings.
375
00:27:24,059 --> 00:27:26,885
Rader has a wife and a child at home,
376
00:27:26,978 --> 00:27:30,389
and yet he doesn't seem
to have the same feelings
377
00:27:30,473 --> 00:27:32,900
about what these kids are going through
378
00:27:32,984 --> 00:27:35,394
as they're watching through
this crack in the door
379
00:27:35,478 --> 00:27:38,980
as he's killing their mother.
380
00:27:39,065 --> 00:27:43,068
Having the children there
in Shirley Vian's house,
381
00:27:43,152 --> 00:27:44,828
did that bother you at all?
382
00:28:04,674 --> 00:28:06,809
Weren't you worried about
what might happen with them?
383
00:28:12,181 --> 00:28:15,100
Rader was barely even aware of them,
384
00:28:15,184 --> 00:28:19,271
which is exactly how the brain
of a psychopath works.
385
00:28:19,355 --> 00:28:21,281
They're very goal-orientated,
386
00:28:21,441 --> 00:28:25,110
and they're just gonna keep
going until they achieve it.
387
00:28:27,864 --> 00:28:29,373
After the Vian murder,
388
00:28:29,457 --> 00:28:32,534
BTK was back on the radar
of a number of people at WPD.
389
00:28:34,120 --> 00:28:35,454
Some officers speculated
390
00:28:35,538 --> 00:28:38,039
that Shirly Vian was a BTK victim
391
00:28:38,124 --> 00:28:40,718
because of the way she was tied.
392
00:28:40,802 --> 00:28:42,461
She was actually tied to the bed,
393
00:28:42,545 --> 00:28:44,963
not just tied up and placed on the bed.
394
00:28:45,047 --> 00:28:46,807
And there was some semen found
395
00:28:46,891 --> 00:28:49,551
in the immediate area of her body.
396
00:28:49,635 --> 00:28:51,553
Most of the cases, there was semen discovered
397
00:28:51,637 --> 00:28:54,565
either on or near the bodies,
but it was not a rape.
398
00:28:54,649 --> 00:28:56,308
It wasn't discovered in the bodies.
399
00:29:14,076 --> 00:29:16,336
There's an odd thing about Dennis Rader
400
00:29:16,421 --> 00:29:19,590
in that he never seems to recognize
401
00:29:19,674 --> 00:29:23,084
that murder is the worst thing you can do.
402
00:29:23,169 --> 00:29:28,089
So when he talks about raping,
"too far," it's absurd
403
00:29:28,174 --> 00:29:32,177
because in his fantasies, he did rape them.
404
00:29:33,772 --> 00:29:37,024
Shirley was found with a bag over her head.
405
00:29:37,183 --> 00:29:40,769
And the fact that the bag
was tied shut with a nightgown
406
00:29:40,853 --> 00:29:43,864
just seemed to ring of BTK.
407
00:29:45,274 --> 00:29:46,617
There were formal knots used,
408
00:29:46,776 --> 00:29:48,702
not just someone just making loops in a rope
409
00:29:48,861 --> 00:29:50,946
until it was secure.
410
00:29:51,030 --> 00:29:53,615
When you start looking
at the symmetry of the tie
411
00:29:53,699 --> 00:29:56,210
and bindings, that's when the bizarre flavor
412
00:29:56,294 --> 00:29:59,204
of the sadomasochistic interaction
413
00:29:59,288 --> 00:30:01,298
with the victims was there.
414
00:30:01,457 --> 00:30:03,041
The bindings were not just for security,
415
00:30:03,134 --> 00:30:05,803
but they were for bondage
gratification as well.
416
00:30:26,315 --> 00:30:28,233
Dennis Rader often experimented
417
00:30:28,317 --> 00:30:32,070
with different forms of binding and knots
418
00:30:32,154 --> 00:30:35,156
that allowed them to make certain movements
419
00:30:35,241 --> 00:30:37,325
or restrict them further.
420
00:30:37,410 --> 00:30:39,661
It's a part of the paraphilia.
421
00:30:39,745 --> 00:30:42,339
That was the feeling of power and control.
422
00:30:42,423 --> 00:30:45,250
And that was also a part of the fantasy.
423
00:30:47,086 --> 00:30:49,170
Dennis Rader would take artifacts,
424
00:30:49,264 --> 00:30:50,514
like a lot of serial killers do,
425
00:30:50,598 --> 00:30:52,015
from the crime scenes,
426
00:30:52,174 --> 00:30:54,935
and he would take items from his victims
427
00:30:55,019 --> 00:30:57,512
to dress in and use as articles
428
00:30:57,605 --> 00:31:00,774
in his autoerotic activities.
429
00:31:00,859 --> 00:31:04,027
We had a pretty good feeling
if we find this guy,
430
00:31:04,112 --> 00:31:06,938
there'll be no doubt 'cause
we'll find all his collection
431
00:31:07,023 --> 00:31:10,025
of things that he's stolen
from these poor victims.
432
00:31:13,288 --> 00:31:16,039
Do you ever think when you're in that cell
433
00:31:16,198 --> 00:31:17,949
about the possibility that you could
434
00:31:18,034 --> 00:31:20,377
one day face a firing squad?
435
00:31:20,536 --> 00:31:22,537
They don't have firing squads in Colorado,
436
00:31:22,622 --> 00:31:23,797
and I don't think that...
437
00:31:23,882 --> 00:31:26,133
Rader idolized other serial killers
438
00:31:26,217 --> 00:31:29,961
and craved the recognition
and attention they received.
439
00:31:30,046 --> 00:31:33,965
He wanted to be acknowledged
as being like them.
440
00:31:34,050 --> 00:31:36,217
But Rader worried
441
00:31:36,302 --> 00:31:39,563
that Shirley Vian's kids had seen him.
442
00:31:39,722 --> 00:31:41,982
He wanted recognition for this crime,
443
00:31:42,066 --> 00:31:44,225
but he wanted to see what would happen,
444
00:31:44,310 --> 00:31:46,811
so he didn't immediately
communicate with police
445
00:31:46,905 --> 00:31:48,655
or the media.
446
00:31:48,740 --> 00:31:52,701
How long had you been studying
other serial killers?
447
00:32:01,410 --> 00:32:02,544
Harvey Glatman, yeah.
448
00:32:07,750 --> 00:32:10,669
Glatman was a serial killer from the '50s
449
00:32:10,753 --> 00:32:14,005
known as the Lonely Heart Killer.
450
00:32:14,090 --> 00:32:16,183
He posed as a professional photographer
451
00:32:16,267 --> 00:32:18,343
in California, Los Angeles.
452
00:32:18,427 --> 00:32:21,179
And he would lure his victims
453
00:32:21,272 --> 00:32:23,440
by promising them that he could open the doors
454
00:32:23,599 --> 00:32:25,767
for a modeling career or profession.
455
00:32:25,860 --> 00:32:28,278
He would get more sinister
456
00:32:28,437 --> 00:32:29,771
in the types of pictures he would take.
457
00:32:31,524 --> 00:32:34,192
So pictures of them in certain types of bondage,
458
00:32:34,285 --> 00:32:36,027
and eventually he'd take control of them.
459
00:32:36,112 --> 00:32:38,455
And in the pictures, you can see
460
00:32:38,539 --> 00:32:43,460
the female's reaction to the fear.
461
00:32:43,544 --> 00:32:47,956
Rader wanted to replicate
that expression in his victims
462
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:49,883
where they would look at him,
463
00:32:49,968 --> 00:32:54,963
recognize his complete power
and control over them
464
00:32:55,047 --> 00:32:59,050
because it would make him
feel dominant and powerful.
465
00:33:00,553 --> 00:33:03,063
Serial killers tend to keep killing,
466
00:33:03,147 --> 00:33:05,899
but after the murder of Shirley Vian,
467
00:33:06,058 --> 00:33:08,226
Rader would go quiet again
468
00:33:08,319 --> 00:33:13,323
but only until he spotted the perfect victim.
469
00:33:18,654 --> 00:33:21,990
It's December of 1977.
470
00:33:22,074 --> 00:33:24,826
Rader has murdered six people.
471
00:33:24,910 --> 00:33:26,253
He's gotten away with it.
472
00:33:26,337 --> 00:33:28,672
He's feeling cocky.
473
00:33:28,756 --> 00:33:31,091
He's made mistakes.
474
00:33:31,250 --> 00:33:33,084
He's had close calls.
475
00:33:33,177 --> 00:33:36,254
He wants the next one to be just right.
476
00:33:38,933 --> 00:33:41,342
When he came to this street,
477
00:33:41,436 --> 00:33:43,603
he saw a young woman outside
478
00:33:43,688 --> 00:33:46,598
who fit exactly what he was looking for.
479
00:33:46,682 --> 00:33:51,603
She was petite, young, blonde Nancy Fox.
480
00:33:51,696 --> 00:33:53,113
He stalked her.
481
00:33:53,197 --> 00:33:54,856
He went to where she worked.
482
00:33:54,949 --> 00:33:56,941
He wanted to get her routine
483
00:33:57,035 --> 00:34:00,445
so he knew when she'd be home
and when she wouldn't.
484
00:34:00,529 --> 00:34:03,698
She had taken a second job
during the Christmas season,
485
00:34:03,791 --> 00:34:05,283
and that was at the mall.
486
00:34:05,376 --> 00:34:07,210
He'd go in and act like
he was gonna buy something,
487
00:34:07,369 --> 00:34:08,953
looking for gifts just to interact with her.
488
00:34:10,623 --> 00:34:13,884
On December 8, 1977,
489
00:34:13,968 --> 00:34:17,378
nine months after the murder of Shirley Vian,
490
00:34:17,463 --> 00:34:20,640
Dennis Rader came to Nancy Fox's house
491
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:22,300
for the final time.
492
00:34:23,969 --> 00:34:26,396
He had already broken in
and was sitting inside
493
00:34:26,481 --> 00:34:27,722
when she walked through the door...
494
00:34:29,391 --> 00:34:30,901
When she realized he was sitting there,
495
00:34:30,985 --> 00:34:32,811
and she says, "What do you want?"
496
00:34:32,895 --> 00:34:35,230
And he told her that he was a--
497
00:34:35,314 --> 00:34:37,824
He always used the word "strange dude."
498
00:34:37,909 --> 00:34:40,235
"I'm a strange dude.
Gonna do some stuff with you.
499
00:34:40,328 --> 00:34:42,487
If you cooperate, you'll be okay."
500
00:34:44,156 --> 00:34:47,334
She was upset, but he
let her have a cigarette.
501
00:34:47,418 --> 00:34:49,410
They sat and talked for a while.
502
00:34:49,504 --> 00:34:51,663
At one point, she then said,
503
00:34:51,756 --> 00:34:54,582
"Let's get this over with
so I can call the police."
504
00:34:56,677 --> 00:34:59,170
He learned that he needed to take control quickly,
505
00:34:59,255 --> 00:35:02,006
so he took her to the bedroom.
506
00:35:02,100 --> 00:35:07,428
At this point, he begins
to mentally torture her
507
00:35:07,513 --> 00:35:10,440
so that he can capture
that terror on her face
508
00:35:10,525 --> 00:35:16,354
in exactly the way his
adolescent fantasy had formed.
509
00:35:16,438 --> 00:35:20,742
You enjoy the look of fear
on your victim's face?
510
00:35:39,971 --> 00:35:41,880
As he was sitting astraddle of her,
511
00:35:41,964 --> 00:35:43,473
he leaned over and whispered in her ear,
512
00:35:43,558 --> 00:35:45,717
"I'm BTK. I'm a bad dude."
513
00:35:45,810 --> 00:35:49,479
That was the second scene where DNA was found--
514
00:35:49,564 --> 00:35:52,473
Or the seminal stains that
were eventually used for DNA
515
00:35:52,558 --> 00:35:54,151
was on one of her nightgowns
516
00:35:54,235 --> 00:35:56,153
that was on the head of her bed.
517
00:36:09,333 --> 00:36:12,577
When he was telling us the
story about killing Nancy Fox,
518
00:36:12,661 --> 00:36:18,008
he recalled with specificity
the details of the murder--
519
00:36:18,092 --> 00:36:22,086
Her pleas and her words and her fear.
520
00:36:22,171 --> 00:36:24,422
This man committed these things to memory,
521
00:36:24,506 --> 00:36:26,933
and he lived these things day after day
522
00:36:27,092 --> 00:36:29,010
in his fantasy world.
523
00:36:29,094 --> 00:36:30,678
Although he looked normal on the outside,
524
00:36:30,763 --> 00:36:32,680
it just gives you a glimpse of the monster
525
00:36:32,773 --> 00:36:34,349
that was living inside him.
526
00:36:48,873 --> 00:36:52,533
With Nancy Fox, having been in the house
527
00:36:52,627 --> 00:36:55,378
and seeing how very small it was,
528
00:36:55,537 --> 00:36:58,623
it was very clear that he had picked a place
529
00:36:58,716 --> 00:37:01,218
where he could easily keep total control
530
00:37:01,302 --> 00:37:05,972
over the situation, because his ultimate goal
531
00:37:06,057 --> 00:37:10,468
was to get her to the point
where she felt helpless
532
00:37:10,552 --> 00:37:13,471
and there was no place for her to go.
533
00:37:13,564 --> 00:37:18,476
And that way, he could enjoy
his ultimate fantasy.
534
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:21,646
Rader said Nancy Fox was his favorite case
535
00:37:21,730 --> 00:37:24,491
because everything went the way
he had orchestrated it.
536
00:37:24,575 --> 00:37:27,994
Now he wanted some acknowledgment
537
00:37:28,153 --> 00:37:31,239
that BTK had killed again,
538
00:37:31,323 --> 00:37:35,743
so he called it in and listened for the news.
539
00:37:35,828 --> 00:37:38,579
Because this is his special murder,
540
00:37:38,664 --> 00:37:41,758
he wants something associated with it
541
00:37:41,842 --> 00:37:46,671
that he can cut out of the
newspaper and keep as a token.
542
00:37:48,924 --> 00:37:52,769
On a cold morning in December of 1977,
543
00:37:52,853 --> 00:37:55,179
a police dispatcher received an anonymous call.
544
00:38:24,385 --> 00:38:25,802
I have a homicide that occurred here
545
00:38:25,886 --> 00:38:27,462
at 843 South Pershing.
546
00:38:27,546 --> 00:38:31,891
We received a call about 8:20
from an individual
547
00:38:31,976 --> 00:38:34,552
that said there's a homicide
and hung up the phone.
548
00:38:34,645 --> 00:38:37,564
And officers came out, and we have checked,
549
00:38:37,648 --> 00:38:41,568
and we do have a young lady
that is a victim of homicide.
550
00:38:41,727 --> 00:38:43,227
Was she shot or stabbed?
551
00:38:43,321 --> 00:38:46,147
No, she appears to have been
strangled this time.
552
00:38:46,231 --> 00:38:47,648
The officers that I knew
553
00:38:47,733 --> 00:38:49,734
thought it was pretty arrogant
of the killer to call.
554
00:39:09,671 --> 00:39:12,423
He made the call that had put him at risk
555
00:39:12,508 --> 00:39:15,518
in ways he hadn't anticipated.
556
00:39:15,603 --> 00:39:18,513
There were definitely times
when he expected to be caught,
557
00:39:18,597 --> 00:39:24,027
yet when he went uncaught,
it just confirms for him
558
00:39:24,186 --> 00:39:26,521
there must be something special about him
559
00:39:26,605 --> 00:39:31,284
and it must be because
he's smarter than the police.
560
00:39:31,369 --> 00:39:33,453
He said that was the
stupidest thing he ever did
561
00:39:33,537 --> 00:39:35,288
was make that phone call because now
562
00:39:35,373 --> 00:39:38,291
there was a vocal footprint of him
563
00:39:38,450 --> 00:39:40,627
that could give him away.
564
00:39:40,711 --> 00:39:44,547
It's been over three years
since he left the letter
565
00:39:44,706 --> 00:39:47,708
at the library about the Otero murders.
566
00:39:47,793 --> 00:39:50,711
And now he's craving publicity.
567
00:39:50,796 --> 00:39:53,214
And he'd murdered twice more.
568
00:39:53,298 --> 00:39:55,058
But police still haven't revealed
569
00:39:55,142 --> 00:39:58,219
there's a serial killer in Wichita.
570
00:39:58,303 --> 00:40:00,814
This keeps them in control of the narrative
571
00:40:00,898 --> 00:40:03,641
and drives BTK to the media.
572
00:40:05,736 --> 00:40:09,989
I was on duty at KAKE
as the chief photographer.
573
00:40:10,074 --> 00:40:12,659
The receptionist out front called back,
574
00:40:12,743 --> 00:40:14,244
and I took the call, and she said,
575
00:40:14,328 --> 00:40:15,987
"You know, I have an odd letter here."
576
00:40:16,071 --> 00:40:18,665
So I took a look at it,
577
00:40:18,749 --> 00:40:23,253
and it was a letter talking about Nancy Fox,
578
00:40:23,412 --> 00:40:25,746
detailing several different things.
579
00:40:25,831 --> 00:40:29,584
But the chilling moment
in that letter was the line,
580
00:40:29,668 --> 00:40:32,762
"How many people do I have to kill
581
00:40:32,921 --> 00:40:35,840
"before I get my name in the paper?
582
00:40:35,933 --> 00:40:39,269
BTK."
583
00:40:39,353 --> 00:40:40,270
Executive producer Ron Loewen
584
00:40:40,354 --> 00:40:41,855
received the letter.
585
00:40:41,939 --> 00:40:43,356
He's with us today to give us the information.
586
00:40:43,441 --> 00:40:44,932
Ron.
587
00:40:45,017 --> 00:40:46,276
Jack, the communication came in the form
588
00:40:46,435 --> 00:40:48,269
of a two-page typewritten letter
589
00:40:48,353 --> 00:40:50,771
addressed to KAKE channel 10.
590
00:40:50,856 --> 00:40:53,450
It was signed with the initials BTK.
591
00:40:53,534 --> 00:40:57,195
BTK claims to have strangled
a total of seven women--
592
00:40:57,279 --> 00:40:59,539
Seven people, rather, mostly women.
593
00:40:59,623 --> 00:41:01,291
He provided a list of his victims
594
00:41:01,450 --> 00:41:02,876
beginning with the number five.
595
00:41:03,035 --> 00:41:04,535
During the newscast,
596
00:41:04,620 --> 00:41:06,204
the police chief walks into the studio,
597
00:41:06,297 --> 00:41:08,214
takes a seat,
598
00:41:08,373 --> 00:41:11,459
and we cut to LaMunyon,
599
00:41:11,552 --> 00:41:13,803
and LaMunyon picks up the story.
600
00:41:13,888 --> 00:41:16,964
BTK has killed seven people, Chief.
601
00:41:17,049 --> 00:41:19,217
What kind of leads do you have?
602
00:41:19,301 --> 00:41:23,387
Very honestly, we have no solid leads at all.
603
00:41:23,472 --> 00:41:25,306
We have a general lead.
604
00:41:25,399 --> 00:41:27,233
We have circumstantial evidence.
605
00:41:27,392 --> 00:41:28,976
We have absolutely nothing
606
00:41:29,061 --> 00:41:32,813
that will point us to any one
particular individual.
607
00:41:32,907 --> 00:41:35,909
Chief LaMunyon made the decision
608
00:41:35,993 --> 00:41:39,579
that in fairness to the public,
he needed to warn them
609
00:41:39,738 --> 00:41:43,157
that there was a serial killer
afoot in Wichita after all.
610
00:41:43,242 --> 00:41:48,496
This guy is in our community,
and he's killing our people.
611
00:41:48,580 --> 00:41:51,508
When they finally announced
that there was a serial killer
612
00:41:51,592 --> 00:41:53,000
on the loose in Wichita,
613
00:41:53,093 --> 00:41:54,344
what was that like for you?
614
00:42:07,525 --> 00:42:11,194
Dennis Rader loved the idea
that he was a serial killer.
615
00:42:11,278 --> 00:42:16,691
It was the hottest aspect of his identity.
616
00:42:16,784 --> 00:42:18,952
And his need for attention
617
00:42:19,036 --> 00:42:21,538
would ultimately be his downfall.
618
00:42:21,622 --> 00:42:24,457
The most important thing that everyone can do
619
00:42:24,616 --> 00:42:26,209
is certainly be aware
620
00:42:26,368 --> 00:42:28,286
that we do have a very serious problem.
621
00:42:28,370 --> 00:42:32,540
That was like an atomic bomb
going off in the city.
622
00:42:32,624 --> 00:42:35,209
The whole city was turned upside down.
623
00:42:35,302 --> 00:42:37,220
There were 200,000 people here.
624
00:42:37,304 --> 00:42:39,380
It changed the lives of 200,000 people.
625
00:42:39,464 --> 00:42:41,808
You're dealing with a person who is perverted,
626
00:42:41,967 --> 00:42:43,050
a person that is sick.
627
00:42:43,135 --> 00:42:46,387
People were just terrified.
628
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:48,723
Question for Wichita back then
629
00:42:48,807 --> 00:42:50,808
is, how many more people are gonna die?
630
00:42:58,158 --> 00:42:59,659
People were frightened.
631
00:42:59,743 --> 00:43:01,152
That person is gonna kill again.
632
00:43:01,236 --> 00:43:02,495
When she turned to check on the baby,
633
00:43:02,654 --> 00:43:04,071
he pounced on her.
634
00:43:04,156 --> 00:43:06,240
There were a number of other young women
635
00:43:06,333 --> 00:43:08,209
who he was going to murder.
636
00:43:13,332 --> 00:43:16,500
The sexual arousal started to escalate.
637
00:43:18,003 --> 00:43:19,095
Rader really enjoyed
638
00:43:19,254 --> 00:43:21,431
this game with law enforcement.
639
00:43:21,515 --> 00:43:23,257
Taunting police.
640
00:43:23,342 --> 00:43:25,259
Who was gonna be the next victim?
641
00:43:25,344 --> 00:43:28,512
All of a sudden, BTK is back.
642
00:43:33,944 --> 00:43:36,187
Dennis Rader has gotten away with this
643
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:38,448
for 30 years.
644
00:43:38,532 --> 00:43:40,274
Eventually, he would slip up.
645
00:43:40,359 --> 00:43:42,368
I said, "We're gonna get this guy.
646
00:43:42,453 --> 00:43:44,028
I don't care what it takes."
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