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was made in October 1974. Early in the morning on the 22nd, the phone rang at the Otto murder
hotline that was set up by the two major newspapers. The caller didn't say much and he sounded angry. He told the
newsman, "Listen and listen good because I'm not going to repeat it." He said, "The man that had killed theos stuck a
letter in a mechanical engineering textbook on the second floor of the Witchah Public Library. Then he hung up
the phone. The police were notified. The letter was located. The letter was addressed to the Witchah Eagle and
Beacon Secret Witness Program. Under the Secret Witness Program, persons with information concerning a crime could
pass on information to the police through the newspaper without divulging their identity. The poorly typed and
badly misspelled letter provided details on the four Otto slayings that the police said at the time could only have
been known to someone who had been present at the scene. The letter read, "I write this letter to you for
the sake of the taxpayer as well as your time." Those three dude you have in custody are just talking to get
publicity for the Otto murders. They know nothing at all. I did it by myself and with no one's help. There has been
no talk either. Let's put this straight. Joe position southwest bedroom feet tied
to bed. Bondage, window, blind cord. Garat, blind cord, brown belt. Death, the old
bag trick and strangled with clothesline rope. Clothes, white sweatshirt, gray pants. Comments: He threw up at one
time. Had a rib injury from a wreck few week before. Julie position lying on her back
on the bed. Bondage blind cord. Garat clothesline cord tied in a clove hitch. Death strangulation
twice. Clothes. Blue house coat. Black slack. White sock. Comments. Blood on face from too
much pressure on neck. Bed unmade. Josephine. Position. Hanging by the neck in the northwest position of
the basement. dryer or freezer north of her body. Bondage, hand tie with blind cord. Feet and knees all with
clothesline cord all one length. Garat rough hemp rope. Noose with four or five turns. Clothes dark bra cut in the
middle sock. Death strangulation once hung. comments. Most of her clothes at the
bottom of the stairs, her glasses in the southwest bedroom. Joseph position in east bedroom
lying on his back. Bondage blind cord garage, three hoods, white t-shirt, white plastic bag, another t-shirt. Clos
line cord with clove hitch. Death. Suffocation once. Strangulation. Suffocation with the old bag
trick. Clothes. Brown pants. Yellow brown striped t-shirt. Comments. His radio is
blaring. All victims had their hands tied behind their backs. Gags of pillowcase material. Purse contents
south of the table. Spilled drink in that area. Also, kids making lunches. Otto's watch missing. I needed
one, so I took it. Runs good. Car was dirty inside. Out of gas. I'm sorry this happened to
society. They are the ones who suffer the most. It hard to control myself. You probably call me psychotic with
sexual perversion hang-up. When this monster enter my brain, I will never know. But it here to
stay. How does one cure himself? If you ask for help that you have killed four people, they will laugh or hit the panic
button and call the cops. I can't stop it. So the monster goes on and hurt me as well as
society. Society can be thankful that there are ways for people like me to relieve myself at time by daydreams of
some victims being tortured and being mine. It a big complicated game my friend of the monster play putting
victim's number down. Follow them. Checking up on them. Waiting in the dark. Waiting. Waiting. The pressure is great.
And sometime he run the game to his liking. Maybe you can stop him. I can't. He has already chosen his next
victim or victims. I don't who they are yet. The next day after I read the paper, I will
know. But it too late. Good luck hunting. Yours truly guiltily. P.S. Since sex criminals do not change
their mo or by nature cannot do so, I will not change mine. The code words for me will be bind them, torture them, kill
them, BT K. You see he added again they will be on the next [Music] victim. When Dennis Rder killed the OTO
and their two children, he was unemployed and attending classes at Witchah State. In November of 1974,
Dennis was hired at ADT Security, which at the time sold and installed commercialgrade
alarms. It might have been this job that kept him busy. Maybe it was his home life. Regardless, something was
happening. And thank God that it did because BTK was just too busy to go out and kill. In fact, there would be 3
years before he would kill again. The killer claimed responsibility for the murders of the four Otero family members
and gave himself a name, BTK. But one thing he had yet to disclose and one thing that police were yet to connect to
the BTK strangler Mhm. is that he had committed another murder shortly after killing theos. And this is one that BTK
called Project Lights Out. Katherine Dorene Bright was one of five children in her family. She was born on February
24th, 1953. She loved singing in the church with her sister. She had graduated from
high school in 1971. Now, in 1974, she was 21 years old. Katherine was a smart, popular, and funny college student, and
she worked for the Coleman Company. Catherine and her sister shared a house that they rented together. Now, on the
morning of April 4th, 1979, Dennis Rder, who had been watching the house and who had targeted his next
victim, picked her because she was attractive and no men lived with her and she did not have a dog. You know, these
were problems that he ran into during the crimes. Yeah. And on that morning, he's going to break into a kitchen
window to gain access to the house. and he knew at this time that the house would be empty, which uh this was good
for him because he needed time to prep the home for murder, but he didn't he didn't just want to kill Catherine
Bright. He wanted to play with her first. And he brought with him plenty of ropes and cords to play with. While he
waited for her to return, he laid out ropes and cords on her bed. He used a broom to carefully sweep up the broken
glass. and he was wearing gloves and a green parka. He took a stocking cap and pulled it down to cover his face and he
brought with him a gun, his 22. Now he was ready and all he needed was for his victim to return to her home and find
him. At this moment he was no longer Dennis, no longer the ordinary man that led an ordinary unremarkable life. In
this moment, he was the killer that haunted Witchita, the phantom that the whole city feared. He was BTK. Well, and
when she returned, she's she's going to return home, but she's not going to be alone. Yeah. With her was her
19-year-old brother, Kevin. When they walked in, they were very quickly greeted by a man in a mask with a gun.
The man told them that he was a convict and he just needed something to make his
way to California. If they cooperated, they would not be hurt. He just needed some money, some
food, and the car keys. And he was going to need to tie them up to make sure that
he had enough time to get away. He had Kevin tie up Catherine, and then BTK tied up Kevin. BTK took Catherine to her
bedroom where he had prepped the room with his ropes and a chair. He tied Catherine to the chair. Then he returned
to the room where he had left Kevin. He put a rope around his neck. Now Kevin realizes at this moment that the man had
lied to them, that the man was going to kill him. Mhm. So he started twisting his hands and his arms until the
bindings gave way. Kevin jumped to his feet and the mass man grabbed his gun and put it to Kevin's forehead and
pulled the trigger. Kevin fell to the floor, but he was not dead. Amazingly enough, he was not dead. He had been
knocked out. And when he came too, he could hear his sister in the other room screaming. He got up and he charged into
the other room. The man saw him coming and again reached for his gun. But before he could take aim, Kevin pried
the gun from the man's hand. Kevin took the gun and shoved the barrel into the man's chest and he pulled the trigger.
The asalent managed to wedge his thumb between the gun and the hammer, preventing it from firing. The man
pulled the gun from Kevin and put it to Kevin's mouth and pulled the trigger. The gun fired and Kevin once again hit
the floor. BTK once again turned his attention to Catherine. Kevin was still not dead. When the gun was fired into
Kevin's face, the bullet had actually ricocheted off of his teeth, leaving Kevin a bloody mess and knocked out, but
not dead. It probably only knocked him out for a few minutes. And when he came to, he decided this time instead of
trying to fight off the attacker, he was going to take his chances and run for help. Kevin flew out the front door of
the home, running full speed and yelling at the top of his lungs. A man driving by stopped and Kevin jumped in his car.
The man drove him to the nearest phone and they called the police. The call, a robbery in progress at a home on East
13th Street. The robber was trying to kill two people and was still in the home. A police officer is going to be on
the scene within 15 minutes of Kevin leaving the home. When the officer arrived, the front door to the home was
wide open and the officer went in. He found Catherine in the front room lying on her side in a puddle of blood. A
phone was next to her. She had tried to call for help, but when the operator picked up, Catherine could not speak.
Her linex had been crushed. She could only whisper at this time. She lifted her head, but all she could say
to the officer was, "Help me. Help me." The officer radioed for an ambulance, and he knelt beside Catherine with his
gun drawn as he waited for backup. His backup arrived about the same time as the ambulance. They quickly determined
the man who had broke in and attacked Catherine and Kevin had fled the house. Mhm. In the two bedrooms were obvious
signs of a struggle. Both rooms were left in shambles and blood was smeared on the floors. Catherine had been
stabbed 11 times in her torso and back. Two of the stabs had punctured her lungs. Catherine died a short while
later at the hospital. Now, Kevin was a living witness. He was in the same hospital where his sister had just
passed. Now, he was being treated for those two gunshots. He would survive and he was
able to tell the police about the killer. You know, he told them what the killer had told them about him going to
California. Yeah. And this giving them a possible lead. Kevin described the attacker as a dark-haired man about 25
years of age, Caucasian with a pot belly and about 5'10 in tall with a thick mustache. Now, there was some problems
with this description of the attacker. Now, you and I, Captain, would know years later that this description is
actually a pretty good one, right? I mean, it's a little vague, but it's a pretty good one. He got the height
approximately right. He got the size of the person right. The the uh you know, dark-haired man with a thick mustache.
Yeah, the mustache. The thing that he got wrong was he didn't tell him that he saw a giant piece of [ __ ] Well, because
of the injuries that Kevin sustained during the the attack. Mhm. A lot of the police officers in and investigators had
a problem with taking him at his word. They thought that it was too traumatic of an attack and that he was probably
had suffered multiple concussions. So, he's just lying. No, no, no, no, no. That he just doesn't he doesn't
remember. He's misremembering. Correct. Okay. They I mean you you have to keep in mind Okay, but why why Well, for the
reasons I just said that No, no, but I mean like so what do they think he looks like? Oh, they No, they have no They
have nothing to go off of, but they're just for whatever reason going, "Well, we don't really buy that." Okay, but you
you have to keep this in mind. Let's say, okay, let's say he suffered multiple concussions within a short
period of time during this attack. Now, nobody's doubting that he that he didn't
get a good look at this guy. Uh the guy did had he had to disguise himself a bit
by pulling that cap down over his face. Now, on top of that though, you have to worry that if if for some reason this
guy is just misremembering and he gives you a bad description of this dude, if you run with this, this could really
screw up your investigation. Yeah. So, so to air on the side of caution, one might think, well, let's just throw this
description out or keep it to ourselves, not releasing it to the public and not putting much weight to what we're That's
the point I was trying to get at, like, well, if if they're not sure, then what's the big deal? But, but like you
said, I mean, if you give this report out, then then this could affect the whole investigation. And you don't want
officers later going, "Well, I I arrested this guy and I thought maybe he had something to do with that attack,
but he didn't look anything like that description, so I let him go." Right? And then you're like, "Oh crap, that was
our dude." Um, so we have this murder and the strange thing about this murder is not only does BTK leave a
witness, but he also does not um he doesn't ever claim this murder. He never he never
outwardly says this is one that I did. And I want because it's botched. Yeah. And I wonder, well, not only that it's
botched, but this is the one time where we have a grown adult that might be able
to identify him, right? Therefore, we're going to see where he will claim, you know, by this point he's already told
the authorities and the police, I'm the one that did the OTO murders. But he never reaches out to them and talks to
him about this one. And this one occurred just three months afterward. Yeah. But again, you have eyewitness
that lived. Well, after the Katherine Bright's murder, other than his letter left at
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Captain. Well, it would be three years before BTK would resurface. And during this time, Dennis and his wife had had
their first child, a son that they named him Brian. Now, we talked about, we wondered why he could have gone silent.
what was going what else was going on in his world. We see the birth of his son,
but Dennis is also working very hard at the ADT company and he was actually earning promotions at this job during
the course of those three years. He got to the point where he was actually supervising a team of installers and
salespeople. Now, the country during this time celebrated its bsentennial. months came and went and the city that
had once feared the BTK began to forget about him. Mhm. The killer had vanished and a lot of people wondered if he had
maybe even left town a long time ago. And we now know why BTK took a break. But let's go through some of the
theories that law enforcement had at the time theorizing why he was on a break. Well, the two most popular, you know,
like we said that it seemed like the people of the city believed that maybe he had just fled the area, right, and
just left altogether. Now, the police theories, one of the more popular ones is that maybe he had died in a car
accident or that he was picked up on some unrelated charge and serving a prison sentence. Now, this is one that I
like. This was a theory of the FBI because the Otero murders were very it was a it was an infamous case. I
mean it the the investigation spanned months and years and they actually some of the investigators traveled
extensively in their investigation of the family murders. So they interviewed hundreds of people when it came to the
Otero murders. So, one FBI agent, he had theorized that maybe that the BTK was actually one of many people that were
interviewed in that in the course of that investigation. And just that experience alone was enough to scare him
away, you know, to stop him from moving forward with some of these crimes and some of these thoughts and desires of
his. And it's extra strange to me because he's made contact with the public and he's said, "Hey, I'm here.
I'm killing people and then it just kind of disappears. Yeah. And he also confesses to being a, you know, these
are crimes of a sexual nature is what he's told us in his own words. And you know, we somebody we talk about a lot on
this show, Captain John Douglas, you know, he says from his experience, serial sexual predators don't just wake
up one day and decide to turn over a new leaf and change their lives for the better. So that's why you have the FBI
and you have seasoned investigators believing that something must have happened. Something must have happened
to derail this killer who was going to prey on the city. But on March 17th, 1977, that's all going to change. Yeah.
And this is almost 3 years after the murder of Katherine Bright. So the killer is going to break his silence. On
that morning, in the morning hours, a little boy was returning home from an errand. He was stopped by a man he had
not seen before. Now the man had a bag with him and he also had a photograph and he showed the photograph to the boy
and asked him if he knew either of the people in the photograph. The boy said that he didn't know them. Now the man
then walked away and the boy was watching this man and he saw the man approach the home of his neighbor. Now,
the boy then returned to his house where his mother was in her room sick and his
brother and sister were still at home and they were watching TV. After about 10 minutes or so, there was a knock at
the door. The boy opened the door and on the front porch was the man who had asked him earlier about the photograph.
Now, the man was asking about a dog this time. He said that he had lost his dog and asked the boy if he had seen a dog
running loose around the neighborhood. The boy says, "No." And then the man asked, "Is your mother home? We should
ask her." The man then pushed the boy aside and walked inside the house right past the boy and he walks over to the TV
and he turns the TV off. Remember, the children are sitting there watching the TV, right? This startles the children
and they start screaming. The mother who was sick in her bedroom, she hears the commotion and she came out into the
room. At this point, the man had pulled out a gun. The woman yelled at him. She wanted to know who he was. Why was she
Why was he in her home? Why does he have a gun? Why does he have a gun? Yep. And
he he tells her to shut up and he pointed at the bedroom and he told her to get back in there. and she
says,"Well, what about my children?" And he told her to grab a blanket and some toys. Well, she complied. He took the
blanket and he lay it on the bathroom floor and then he spread the toys out on the blanket and he ordered the children,
all three of them, into the bathroom. Well, they complied. The bathroom has two doors. The man put together like a a
makeshift locking mechanism of some sorts. He he tied some rope from the door knob to the piping underneath the
sink in the bathroom. Mhm. And this prevented that door from being opened. Now the man went out the other door and
he pushed a bed to the outside of the door and this prevented this door from being open. So the three children are
trapped inside this small bathroom. The man then forced the mother to strip. Then he took some tape out of
his bag and he began to bind the mother. He taped her hands together behind her back and he laid her down on the bed
face down. He put a rope around her neck in a plastic bag over her head. Sometime
later, the children began to break free from their confinement in this bathroom.
One of the boys kicked through the bottom portion of one of the doors. This was the door that was tied to the pipes.
Yeah. When he busted free, he found his mother laying lifeless on her bed. The boy ran outside into the front porch of
a neighbor's house where he pounded on the front door. The neighbor answered and the boy screamed to the neighbor
that he needed help, telling him that his mommy was dead. So then the police were called. Well, paramedics arrived on
the scene first, and they actually went in and they cut the bindings around the woman's arms and legs, and it was a
smaller bedroom, so they carried her into the living room area, and they tried to revive the woman there. Now,
she had only been dead a very, very short period of time, so they thought they could bring her back. However, they
were unable to do so. Now, the police questioned the children. They wanted to know what had happened. What had they
seen? And the children told them that the killer was a dark-haired white man in his late 30s or 40s with a pot belly.
On March 17th, 1977, serial killer BTK killed Shirley Vianne in her home while her children
were locked in the bathroom. Now, many many years later, it was surmised that the man, the BTK that was walking around
the neighborhood, Mhm. that the photo that the man had shown the boy was actually a photograph of a neighbor
woman and her son. This was also the home that the man had approached after talking to the boy.
The intended target was the young mother who had regularly returned home from work during her lunch break, but not on
this day for whatever reason, right? And when she was not home, you know, he knocks on the door, no one answers the
door, nobody's home. He's too charged up. He's ready to murder. And the only way that this feeling was going to go
away for him was to kill somebody. Right. The factor X. Yes. So that's why when his target was not there, he
shifted gears and he went to he went to the home where he saw the little boy go inside because he knew somebody was home
there. Yeah. But you know, can you imagine what that kid's gone through with his life? I mean, one, he's stopped
by this killer. He doesn't know he's a killer, right? To ask a simple question about a dog. He answers. He goes back
home. Mhm. And his mom's sick in bed. The kids aren't sick. The mom's sick. but that's why they're not at school.
This guy knocks on the door. You answer. He says, "Well, let me talk to your mom." And he walks right in the house.
And look, when you're a kid, if an adult would have walked in the house, you you
probably just would have froze. Yeah, I don't know this person. What are they doing? And you know, they turn it off,
turn off the TV, and then your mom comes out and now you're stuck in the bathroom
and you're trying to get out. You got to get through that rope and then you have
to kick through the door and then you run to go get help and then paramed paramedics almost are able to uh save
your mother and you would have to contemplate for a long time that well not saying that you'd have to
but you would you would think maybe I could have done something to save her or maybe I could have got through there
faster you know. Well, and it's depressingly strange how some small events that seem so meaningless in their
moment, how they shift the gears of our lives and the others around us. I mean, you talk about had had the mother not
decided to keep the children home from school that day. Yeah. You know, she didn't send them off to school because
she was too sick to get them ready for the day and take them to school. These were small children. It's the butterfly
effect. Yeah. And so had her little boy not been walking the neighborhood, he would have never been approached by that
man, by BTK. And maybe BTK would have been forced to go to another street or to call it off
completely if he had no alternative victim, let's say. So it's it's depressingly strange
how these tiny little moments shift the gears of everything. The other thought too here, Captain, is
the scary thought that there was another targeted victim that that he that there
was somebody else that he was watching and he was so worked up by this point that he couldn't stop himself. He had to
kill somebody. This was the moment for him and he was going to make that happen even though his target was not
available. And and then you also wonder how long he was stalking this person. Yeah. And I get the feeling, well, I
don't get the feeling. I I know for a fact. I just don't know who these other potential victims would have been. Um
I'm sure law enforcement knows this and I'm sure FBI might know this because BTK
kept extensive notes. Okay. And he called each one of these little things. He called a project. It had a project
and a nickname. And usually in the notes he would refer to it as PJ something. So, like for we talked about uh
Katherine Brightit's murder, right? Well, she was project lights out and the next project that he had because he
fancied himself some kind of like he was conducting these secret missions. He's spying on these people. He's taking
notes about their activities and their lifestyle, their comingings and goings. And his secret mission is to break into
their home and terrorize them and kill them. Yeah. And so the next project that he had, he referred to this as Project
Foxy. And this would be Nancy Joe Fox. She was 25 years old. She was a smart, hardworking woman. She had a good sense
of humor. She worked days full-time as a secretary for a construction business. And at nights, she worked at a jewelry
store. So this was a busy, young, professional woman. A neighbor described Fox as a loner who seldom entertained
friends. On December 9th, a call came in. So busy working. Well, working two jobs. Yeah. On December 9th, a call came
in from a pay phone. The caller told the dispatcher, "You will find a homicide at
843 South Persing. Nancy Fox." Now, I'm sorry, sir, said the dispatcher. I can't
understand you. What is the address? At that point, another dispatcher who had been monitoring the call interrupted and
said, "I believe he said 8:43 South Persian." "That is correct," the man said, and then he hung up the phone. At
8:30 a.m., police arrived at the address given by the unknown caller. They discovered a back window to the home had
been shattered. The phone line to the house had been cut. The front door was unlocked. They entered the home. In the
master bedroom, the police found the half- naked dead body of 25-year-old Nancy Fox. She was lying on the bed. A
nylon stocking was used to tie her wrist behind her back. Her panties were pulled
down to her knees. A night gown had been tied around her ankles, and she had been
dead for quite some time, probably hours. Now, some portions of her body had turned black by the time she was
found. She had been gagged with panty hose. Blood was dried around her nose and mouth. Panty hose had been tied
around her neck. The killer had dumped NY's purse on the coffee table in the living room and her driver's license was
missing. Seaman was found on a blue night gown that was found on the floor near the foot of her bed. The victim had
not been raped. There were they were able to find partial fingerprints and a partial palm print on her body. However,
these would not be sufficient enough to find a match. Police theorized the killer had broke into the home through
the broken window, perhaps before Nancy had returned home the previous evening. He turned up the heat to make to make up
for the cold air that was coming through the broken window. He threatened her, bound her, killed her, masturbated near
her body, then posed the body, possibly taking photos of her. He then dumped out
her purse, keeping her driver's license as a souvenir. He rummaged through her dresser drawers, probably taking some of
her undergarments with him. He then left the home and at around 8:00 a.m. the next morning, he drove to a pay phone
and called in the homicide. Now, the phone call only lasted 7 seconds. The phone call was recorded and it was
played over and over on the local news channels during their broadcast. The police were hoping someone, anyone,
would recognize the voice. Someone had to know who this killer was. This audio clip is very distorted, but keep in mind
it is from 1977. Roger. Yes. You will find a home side at 843 South Ving. I'm sorry, sir. I can't understand you.
What is the address? South is correct. That is correct. It's like he's trying to be a
robot or something. Maybe he was doing some kind of weird cadence cuz if you notice like every everything he is
saying is kind of like this. Mhm. So maybe he's doing that on purpose, but I don't think this clip generated any
leads, right? And and the audio quality may be so bad that it's just it sounds distorted anyway. U but like you said,
this was played on the news and it didn't really generate any leads of any value. If they did get any calls
regarding this, you know, these could be crackpot calls of people calling in saying, "This sounds like my evil
stepfather." You know, things like that of that nature. But it was on the last day of January 1978 that the killer sent
a Valentine to the local newspaper. This would be almost two months after the murder. And that but that's not going to
be made public. No. And because of that reason, on February 10th of 1978, a letter was sent as well to
K TV network with a handdrawn picture of a woman tied up, gagged, and lying face
down on a bed. The letter would later become known as the Fox letter. Right. So, we have the Fox phone call and now
we have the Fox letter. But these are I mean he his writing is as bad as my speaking. Well, it could be or it could
be done on purpose. Right. So there's some thought that if you okay if you break up your words and if you break up
your sentences that that they are able to tell the experts are able to tell less about you. There are some people
that are of the belief that by using certain words and choosing certain words and the way that you arrange them in
sentences that they might be able to judge and tell things about your personality. So, one thing that people
have always taken a guess at here when it comes to BTK, was he just stupid? Like the way that his words sound on
paper? No, you stupid you stupid. Or was he smart enough that he did this on purpose so that he wasn't showing his
full hand, so to speak? The typed photocopied letter that they received, known as the Fox letter, reads as
follows. I find the newspaper not writing about the poem on vain unamusing. A little paragraph would have
enough. I know it not the media fault. The police chief, he keeps things quiet and doesn't let the public know. They're
a psycho running around loose, strangling mostly women. There are seven in the ground.
Who will be next? How many do I have to kill before I get a name in the paper or some national
attention? Do the cop think that all those deaths are not related? Golly G. Yes, the MMO is
different in each, but look, a pattern is developing. The victims are tie up. Most
have been women. Phone cut. Bring some bondage. Sadist matter tendencies. No struggle outside the death spot. No
witnesses except the veins kids. They were very lucky. A phone call saved them. I was going to tape the boys and
put plastic bag over their head like I did Joseph and Shirley and then hang the girl. God,
what a beautiful sexual release that would been. Josephine, when I hung her, that really
turned me on. Her plead for mercy. Then the rope took hold. She helpless. Staring at me with wide,
terrorfilled eyes. The rope getting tighter, tighter. You don't understand these
things because you are not under the influence of factor X. The same thing that made Son of Sam,
Jack the Ripper, Harvey Glatman, Boston Strangler, Dr. HH Holmes, Pantyho Strangler of Florida, Hillside
Strangler, Ted of the West Coast, and many more infamous character kill, which seems senseless, but we
cannot help it. There is no help, no cure except death or being caught and put away. It a terrible nightmare. But you
see, I don't lose any sleep over it. After a thing like Fox, I go home and I go about life like anyone else. And I
will be like that until the urge hit me again. It not continuous. And I don't have a lot of time. It take time to set
a kill. And one mistake it all over since I about blew it on the phone. Handwriting is out. Letter guide is too
long and typewriter can be traced too. My short poem of death and maybe a drawing later on. Maybe a real picture
and a tape of the sound will come your way. How will you know me? Before a murder or murders, you will
receive a copy of the initials BTK. You keep that copy. The original will show up someday on Guess Who. May
you not be the unlucky one. P.S. How about some name for me? It's time. Seven down and many more to go. I like the
following. How about you? The BTK strangler, Witchita Strangler, poetic strangler, the bondage strangler or
psycho, the Witchita hangman, the Witchita executioner, the Garat Phantom, the esphyxiator. Number five, you guess
motive and victim. Number six. You found one Shirley vein laying belly down on unmade bed in northeast bedroom. Hand
tied behind back with black tape and cord. Feet and ankles with black tape and legs. Ankles tied to west head of the
bed with a small off-white cord wrapped around legs, arms, and neck. many times a plastic bag over her
head with a pink nighty on barefooted. She was sick. Use a glass of water and smoke one or two cigarette. House a
total mess. Kids took some toys with them to the bathroom. Bed against east bathroom door. Chose at random with some
pre-planning. Motive factor X. Number seven, one. Nancy Fox lying belly down on maid bed in southwest bedroom. Hands
tied behind back with red panty hose. Feet together with yellow nighty. Semi-nude with pink sweater and bra.
Panties below butt. She had a smoke and went to the bathroom before the final act. Very neat
housekeeper and dresser. Rifled purse in kitchen. Empty paper bag. White coat in living room. Heat up
to about 90°. Christmas tree lights on. Hosery on bed. Driver's license gone. Seinal stain
on or in blue women underwear. Chose at random with little pre-planning. Motive factor
X. Number eight. Next victim maybe. You will find hanging with a wire noose. Hands behind back with black taper cord.
Gagged then cord around the body to the neck. Hooded maybe will be chosen at random with some pre-planning. Motive
factor X. Enclosed was a poem titled Oh Death to Nancy. Oh, what is this that I can see? Cold,
icy hands taking hold of me. For death has come, you can see. Hell has opened its gate to trick me. Oh, death. Oh,
death, can't you spare me? Over for another year. I'll stuff your jaws until you
can't talk. I'll bind your legs till you can't walk. I'll tie your hands till you
can't make a stand. And finally, I close your eyes so you can't see. I'll bring sexual death unto you for me.
[Music] All right, Captain. Before we leave, before we take off for Crime Con. Yeah.
I'm leaving Crime Con on. I'm leaving tonight. I'm going I'm traveling by way of hot air balloons, so it will take me
a little longer. Want to drop you a little recommended reading before we go. I'm traveling by foot. Here you go. This
week, we are recommending Love and Death in the Sunshine State, the story of a crime by Cutter Wood. And this story
starts off when a stolen car is recovered on the GF coast of Florida. And it sets off a search for a missing
woman. Now, there are three men that are named as persons of interest. And this is her husband, her boyfriend, and the
man who stole the car. This is this is a mystery that's going to keep you guessing. I highly recommend Love and
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BTK /// Bind, Torture, Kill /// Part 2

Released: 5-1-2018

Part 2 of 4

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January 1974 - Wichita, Kansas - After years of fantasizing a killer emerges from the shadows and announces himself to the world. A dark haired man slipped into the home of the Otero's one morning as the children prepared for school. He murdered all four people inside the home. Later that same year he would attack and kill again before vanishing into hibernation. After many requests we have decided to take an in depth look into the dark, disturbing life and mind of Dennis Rader. Driven by what he called Factor X, Dennis was better known as the BTK. Beer of the Week - Demon Dweller by Green Man BreweryGarage Grade - 3 and 3 quarter bottle caps out of 5

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Brief Summary

The episode details the BTK killer's early murders, his chilling letters, and the impact on victims' families.

Key points

The First Contact from BTK. In October 1974, the BTK strangler made his first contact, leaving a chilling letter.
Catherine Bright's Tragic Fate. Catherine Bright was brutally murdered by BTK, leaving her brother Kevin as a witness.
The BTK Killer Strikes Again. On March 17, 1977, BTK killed Shirley Vianne while her children were locked in the bathroom.
The Disturbing Phone Call. A chilling phone call was made to report Nancy Fox's murder, revealing the killer's confidence.
The Infamous Fox Letter. The killer sent a letter to the media, taunting them about his crimes and seeking notoriety.
Love and Death in the Sunshine State. A stolen car leads to a search for a missing woman, involving three suspects.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

He said, "I'm not going to repeat it.".

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Tension

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