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[Music] the following is a BTK offender criminal profile this profile was written several years
after btk's first set of murders it reads the attached analysis is only as good as the information that has been
provided in addition it may be necessary to totally change or modify this analysis
if new information is developed such as additional victims more forensic evidence or more information obtained
from research multiple homicides Wichita Kansas the murders of the offender known to the
public only as the BTK are the result of a fantasy acted out a fantasy where for the first time in
his life he is in a position of dominance he is an inadequate type a nobody who through his crimes has placed
himself in a position of importance the BTK Strangler is now a somebody who is receiving the recognition he feels is
a long overdue he is not even very original in his crimes he has patterned himself after other
Killers such as the Son of Sam in New York City most of the verbiage used by the
offender in his letters probably comes out of recent Publications in detective magazines
the subject is alienated lonely and withdrawn he would not be expected to have any
lasting relationships with others and would lead a solitary existence dominated by fantasy magical thinking
his killing is an attempt on his part to find affection and acceptance he fears everyone including himself
he would not be expected to have had any normal relations with women and probably has never had a normal
heterosexual relationship with one when he is not killing he experiences intense feelings that he is not normal
and therefore he kills to cope with this disorder an attempt to escape within his
own fantasies thus he can be expected to kill again and to do so in a compulsive repetition
pattern that he has already established his victims can be either male or female
who are both loved and outgoing his victims will be in a position of vulnerability where he can totally
render them helpless his victims represent his own feeling of helplessness and hopelessness
his own life has been disruptive he probably comes from a background where his family was broken
he was raised by an overbearing mother who was inconsistent in her discipline and his father was absent either because
of marital Separation or death this would have occurred when he was a youth your subject may have been raised by
foster parents your subject was an average student in the classroom however he was more Adept
to disrupting the class by using profanity and pranks his language and statements make us
believe that he has some military experience and or is a police buff he probably has had run-ins with the
police in the past such as assault and or breaking and entering during these break-ins items taken will
be items of insignificance these items would have been taken because of a fetish or to feed a strong
urge to take an article of clothing or an item that he is fond of or the satisfaction of committing a crime that
will leave little evidence to investigators BTK may have a history of voyeuristic
activity and he may have an arrest record for these types of offenses he hunts his victims by selecting
neighborhoods where he can peruse different houses without being detected furthermore his victims will live in an
area where if need be he can have an easy Escape Route such as a neighborhood park where he can hide to elude police
his killings are impulsively motivated and without elaborate planning he seeks out targets of opportunity
such individuals of this type suffer from insomnia and thus find it difficult to Hold Steady employment
control of himself and of his environment is essential to such a person although he is gaining in
confidence he is still shy withdrawn and isolated as a counter-strategy technique your
department must not make any statements concerning the Killer's mental condition
do not allow the media to label him as some kind of psychotic killer if they have already done so your best
strategy will be to align yourself with the Killer and not the psychiatric experts
any press releases should clearly state that he is a killer who must be apprehended and that he is not a
psychotic animal this approach May reduce the Killer's anxiety and reinforce his own guilt
feelings this removing any psychiatric excuses for his ax and leaving him responsible
for his murders extended periods between his murders may be for reasons when he was absent from
the area either as a result of military service schooling incarceration or mental treatment
it is not uncommon for subjects such as yours to frequent police Hangouts in an attempt to overhear officers discussing
the case such offenders may be at the crime scene observing detectives investigating the
case all of this allows the murderer to fulfill his ego and gain a feeling of superiority
he may go so far as to telephonically contact your department and provide details specific to his crimes your
advantage in this case is his very strong self-centered attitude will be his downfall
he will provide information to a friend or an acquaintance at a local Tavern concerning information he knows about
the case he may even pretend to be an officer working the case he may carry a fake
badge on his person if so he may use this to gain entry into his victims homes BTK will continue to kill until he is
caught or killed [Music] [Music] Dennis Rader born in March of 1945 and Pittsburgh Kansas and he would be the
oldest of four children born to William and Dorothea Raider Dennis's father who went by Bill was a member of the U.S
Marine Corps when he retired from the Marines he went to work for the Kansas gas and electricity in 1948. Dennis's
mother Dorothea was a bookkeeper Dennis had three younger brothers Jeff Paul and Bill the family moved to
Wichita Kansas when Dennis was young and it was there that he would spend most of
his childhood the Raiders lived in a working-class neighborhood on North Seneca Street
Dennis's childhood friends describe his father bill as strict but never cruel Bill's cousin Lee Raider commented that
he could not remember a time when Bill Rader's family had done anything that might attract attention much less cross
the law from all accounts Dennis was a normal average child yeah and later in life he would describe his father as
distant and his mother well she was the disciplinarian now Dennis tried to be the good kid he was a member of the Boy
Scouts and participated in church youth group activities Dennis attended Riverview Elementary School and his
teachers later stated that Dennis was an average student although some other reports indicate that he got poor grades
kids who grew up with him say that Dennis loved Dime Store novels and comic books and like most kids he played cops
and robbers until it was dark as he got older people who knew him from his school days report that Dennis
exhibited withdrawn Tendencies he was described to be a quiet and polite young man who preferred to keep to himself
he was also described to be a person that would think before he spoke he would always listen very carefully when
spoken to and would give you his full attention what one of Dennis's former friends describe him as utterly lacking
in a sense of humor but tending to be focused in the eighth grade the colonel in the eighth grade Dennis was chosen to
be a crossing guard he carried a big red stop sign and told classmates and drivers when to go and when not to go
but otherwise Dennis appeared outwardly unremarkable and Blended seamlessly into
the background in 1963 Dennis graduated from Wichita Heights High School he got a job working at a grocery store but in
1965 he decided to move away from Wichita to go to Kansas Wesleyan College Dennis joined a fraternity but he was a
poor student and he soon returned to Wichita and enrolled in a community college
by the summer of 1966 at age 21 Dennis had decided to join the U.S Air Force he did his basic training and Technical
Training in Texas yeah I believe he spent four years in the Air Force yes and he would achieve the rank of
Sergeant at 26 years old Dennis returned to Wichita in 1970 and in May of 71 he married 23 year old Paula Dietz a
bookkeeper Paul had also grown up in Wichita and had gone to the same high school as Dennis they settled in the
Park City area just north of Wichita not far from the home in North Wichita where
Dennis had grown up and didn't Dennis Rader work in the meat department yeah he did this at the IGA Superstore while
attending Butler County Community College there he earned an associate degree in
electronics in 1973 but in 1972 Dennis actually left the IGA Superstore to go work for wichita's largest employer at
the time this is the Coleman company a manufacturer of camping supplies yeah that make the grills yeah amongst a
bazillion other things he worked on an assembly line there building heating and cooling units Dennis left Coleman in
1973 to go work for Cessna a manufacturer of small aircrafts but by late 1973 he was let go and in 1973
Dennis started taking classes at Wichita State University taking criminal justice
classes do we know why he was let go or was it just like a situation where they laid off a bunch of people uh I I
honestly I don't know um he had a he had a background in electronics and that's what he was in
the Air Force for so I'm a little surprised that he would be let go I don't know if there were major Cuts
right back then or if if he just couldn't hack the work you got to keep in mind Dennis Rader while he will
present himself throughout the course of his life as being above average intelligence trying to be superior to
the rest of us he is very much a a very average guy in his intellect so by the end of 1973 Dennis Rader he's married
he's unemployed but he's taken some college classes but Dennis is also hiding a secret
so all of these mundane details paint the picture of a completely normal even somewhat dull life
but by his own admission Dennis developed fantasies about bondage control and torture from a very early
age while still in grade school in fact when his mother would spank him remember
he said that she was the disciplinarian when his mother would spank him Dennis would later say that he felt a mixture
of pain and pleasure once he reached puberty Dennis dreamed of tying up girls and having his way with them Dennis has
admitted to torturing and killing cats and dogs when he was young by hanging them in Barns
he also had a fetish for women's underwear he realized that he realized that he could kind of keep
his fantasies and of torture and murder a secret from everyone else and and one way that I think that he helped himself
kind of keep these things quiet to kind of quiet the Beast if you will was by stealing underwear from undergarments
from women and from girls in the area I had Walker he'd put him in his pocket and walk around and sniff him no no but
uh no one in his life ever imagined that this average unremarkable boy was leading a depraved inner life that would
become dramatically more pronounced when he reached adulthood now according to the journals that Dennis kept from his
time at Kansas Wesleyan State and Salina in 1965. it was during this period that
he first started trolling for victims to act out his fantasies although it appears that he did not have any success
in actually carrying anything out at that time his journals also indicate that it was around this time that Dennis
was able to successfully break and enter into homes and buildings stealing small
items of interest to him he found this sort of activity exhilarating Dennis further admitted that while in
the Air Force he would peep at women undressing he would stalk women and he would burglarize their houses to steal
their underwear while he was in the Air Force he began to spend time with local sex workers he was trying to get them to
play along with his fantasies his bondage Obsession but he was unsuccessful at getting any of them to
play along with this he would later say that he thought that they feared that he
was going to take it too far right I mean this guy that you don't know is paying you for sex and then he's
probably saying um I'll pay a little bit extra if you let me tie up they're probably going yeah I'm not not
gonna let that happen and that's an interesting thought because I tell you what something that we will learn about
Dennis as we go through his life and his crimes um I'm of the suspicion that maybe he
wasn't paying them for sex I don't know that he had the confidence to have sex with a professional
um being so he was just hanging out with them I no I bet you he was paying them to spend time with them but I don't I
think that he lacked the confidence to actually have sex with them foreign we're back cheers me ladies cheers
Captain Tuesday January 15 1974 in Wichita Kansas as expected this was a cold day and like most other days
15 year old Charlie Otero counted down until the final school bell rang three o'clock Charlie collected his things and
he made his way outside Charlie was 15 years old and in the 10th grade it was his duty as the oldest child to gather
up his brother and sister and lead the charge home back to their little white house with black shutters on North
Edgemoor Street the family had only been in town for a little more than 10 weeks
they were still figuring out the logistics of their new life together in Wichita they still had boxes of
household items that were to be unpacked Charlie's brother Danny was just a tad younger at 14 years of age and their
sister Carmen June she was 13. now their home was not terribly far from their school so it was a short walk on a cold
day when they arrived at the little house the door was locked as usual and the family dog lucky was out in the
fenced-in backyard pacing near the gate Charlie used his key to unlock the door when they entered the home they noticed
the kitchen had been left in a strange manner it was incredibly hot inside the house
Charlie expected to see his father Joseph their father Joseph was a hard-working man but he had practically
been confined to the home after a recent car accident in the kitchen open food containers were
sitting on the countertops and it looked like someone was making a sandwich Charlie called for his father several
times but got no answer the three kids walked the house looking for their mom dad little brother and
sister anyone who may be home Charlie opened the door to the master bedroom and walked into a horrific scene
his mother lay dead on the bed his father lifeless on the floor Charlie called out to Danny and Carmen
June both parents were bound at the feet and wrist one of the children grabbed a knife from
the kitchen and the children cut bindings from their parents this was a hopeless effort as both had been dead
for a couple of hours Charlie ran to the kitchen grabbed the phone receiver hanging on the wall and
called zero for the operator Charlie listened but heard nothing as the phone was dead
he would not be able to call police or medics he shouted for Danny and Carmen to join him as he ran to the neighbor's
house they pounded on the door and luckily their neighbor was home they told him that they found their parents
dead in their parents room and then they called the police while they waited for
police to arrive the neighbor ventured to the Otoro home to see if he could help in any way he saw what the children
had seen and he knew it was too late the first to arrive on the scene wore the Medics they arrived just five minutes
after the call was placed when they arrived the three Otero teenage children were standing out front
waiting for their arrival the children were begging for the Medics to go inside and help their parents but the EMTs
explained that for now they would have to wait for police to arrive on the scene to clear the house and give them
the okay to go in when The Neighbor man was describing to the First Responders what he had saw in
the bedroom the Medics began to think that they might be at the scene of a murder-suicide that may be somehow in a
fit of rage Joseph had killed his wife and then killed himself all right let's get into the
investigation a little bit to to get a better understanding of what may have happened to these two people in that
house that day while the children were at school well I just want to point out something that supposedly it's a murder
of suicide but we have legs bound and arms bound right well that's where I think the confusion comes
in so and what we will see happen here is the children when they found their parents the parents were bound at the
the hands and feet right remember the children went to the to the kitchen they got a knife and they cut the bindings
from their parents trying to revive them or save them or something so when The Neighbor goes in to see what had
happened all he sees is Joseph the father dead on the floor the mother dead on the bed and there's a knife lying
next to Joseph the father right right so he tells this to the Medics and the Medics are like crap this is a these
these kids just walked in to the result of a murder suicide of their parents so inside the home captain in that master
bedroom the two people that were found dead were Joseph Otero Jr who is 38 years old and his wife Julie aged 34.
the oteros have five children three of which we have already introduced these are the three oldest children and again
they were Charles who was 15 Danny who's 14 and Carmen who was 13. they had walked home from school and found their
parents dead in the home the other two children attended a different school they were like their older brothers and
sisters they walked to and from school as well but they were younger so they were in elementary school now Charlie
the oldest of the children did not want his little sister Josephine who was only
11 and his little brother Joseph age nine to see the swollen stiff bodies of their parents like he had so Charlie
stayed on the scene to help in any way that he could but he sent Danny and Carmen off to intercept the younger
children before they could make it all the way home around this same time a police officer
had arrived this is Officer Bola he went into the home and made his way to the master bedroom he stepped into
the room he saw the bodies of Joseph and Julie he touched their skin to gauge temperature both bodies were cold and
stiff as rigor had set in they had both been dead for a few hours and Joseph's body would be lying on the floor on his
back now next to Joseph was a plastic bag and a knife Julie was barefoot and her body was on the bed she had dried
blood around her mouth and nose she had some bruising around her neck as well there was some type of cloth lying next
to her now her feet were still Bound by white cord strips of cord lay next to each of the bodies someone had opened
all of the drawers to the dresser and rummaged through them okay so I want to go over some information provided to the
police by Charlie or the other children and we kind of got into this a little bit before but just to kind of clear it
up so the knife next to Joseph's body was the knife from the kitchen that the children had used to cut the bindings
from around his wrist right so not from the perpetrator so that also explains the cord lying next to Joseph the
plastic bag had been on Joseph's head that was found next to him this was removed by the children as well the
cloth that was lying next to Julie was actually a gag that her daughter had removed when they found her the cord
lying next to her had been tied around her hands so they first thought maybe a murder suicide like we talked about but
this because of what the neighbor had described however the neighbor had not realized that he was seeing it was an
altered crime scene altered by the children trying to save their parents very Brave of them to for the children
to try to save their parents yeah so now now the police know that both of the victims had actually been
tied up and left that way when the children had found them then the officer made his way to another bedroom inside
this room to his shock and surprise there was another body this was little Joseph
he was found dead in his room lying on his side next to the bunk bed he and Danny shared that room him and his older
brother in the room with him were a phone book and a chair with a broken leg the chair
was from another room and had been moved into the boy's bedroom why the investigators did not know the
boy had been tied around his ankles and the cord ran from his ankles up behind him and bound his hands together behind
his back the boy's hands were swollen to about three times the size of their normal
size the boy's face and head were covered with multiple items a T-shirt and two plastic bags all hooded the
boy's head the officer then set off to search the remainder of the home could the killer or Killers have left
something behind could there be some Trace as to who had committed these horrible murders
after searching the main level officer Bola ventured to the basement the basement was dark and he could not find
a light switch so he relied on the light of his flashlight once at the bottom of
the stairs he moved the beam around to see what was in the room he spotted you know normal things items you would
expect to find in a basement boots extra clothing old toys things like that he noticed an opening there was a there was
another room down there so still not having found a light switch he walks slowly toward the doorway using
his flashlight to guide his steps once in the room he first noticed that the room fell and appeared to be smaller
than the room he had just been in this smaller room housed the family's washer and dryer their washing machine in their
dryer right as officer Bola backed up and started to Pivot back around to the exit to the stairs right yeah his well
his back and shoulder brushed up against something at this point something with some weight to it he swung his arm
around to reach out to the object but when he hit it with his forearm it gave way and it moved now this terrified the
officer and he started to back up you know shuffling his feet to maintain his balance as he pulled his other hand
around to shine the light on the object that he had just touched that it just moved as he fell back and spotlighted
the object he could feel the Color Run from his face as he realized that he was looking at the dead body of a young
almost teenage girl her mouth was gagged her hands tied behind her back her head
and shoulders slumped in a lifeless position a noose was around her neck and she was hanging just a foot or two of
rope from a pipe that had run the length of the ceiling the body swayed from where he had bumped
into it and hit it with his arm the officer had to yeah the officer had to announce to
the other officers responding to the call that there were four bodies at 803 North
Edgemoor Street it's a quadruple homicide after a little bit of time to confirm the detectives suspicions the officer
told the three teenaged Otero kids that they had walked home from school together that their their parents and
their young sister and brother had all been killed that day before they arrived police scoured the home and yard for
Clues detectives and officers set out on foot to Canvas the area and interview Neighbors
over the course of the evening they spoke with three separate individuals that provided them with a similar clue
all three of these people had seen the otero's vehicle this is a Plymouth Station Wagon it was being driven by
someone other than the oteros on that day one said that he had saw a short possibly Middle Eastern man driving the
vehicle one said he saw some man but not Joe Otero driving and another said I don't know who was driving the vehicle
but the vehicle backed out of the driveway so fast that this eyewitness had to slam on his brakes to avoid
crashing into the car right so we got three very undetailed accounts yeah um I think I know I know it was a man
right well the and the thing is I don't it's one of those situations where you don't know that you're seeing the
otero's car being driven by somebody else you're just seeing a car that matches that description right and then
later realizing some [ __ ] has happened some stuff has gone down now oh I saw a
car that looked just like theirs but I didn't think it was theirs because it was a man that I didn't recognize right
right driving the vehicle now later that night Captain they ended up finding the
uh vehicle at Dylan's grocery store if somebody had left it in the parking lot at Dylan's grocery store
an eyewitness later told police that they had seen a man Park the vehicle exit the vehicle and walk away the man
was visibly nervous to the point that he was shaking and they're not the most detailed accounts but at least we do
have eyewitnesses in this investigation yeah and they're all similar one man having been driving the family's vehicle
yeah so for as for more details Captain so Joseph Otoro he served in the Air Force for 20 years and he had recently
retired at the rank of Master Sergeant the oteras had been married for about 16 years Julie his wife had worked at the
Coleman company Plant Joseph had once been a champion boxer now I don't know if this was while he
was in the Air Force or a local thing when he grew up in New York but but he he was a boxer at one point in his life
and Julie and the children studied and practiced Judo so the FBI would later tell investigators that the fact that we
have four members of a family that were all trained Fighters attacked and killed
in their home pointed to two possibilities either they were dealing with multiple offenders or in what they
believed to be the most likely situation is that they were dealing with a single
killer that was able to gain entry to the home and used a gun to control the four individuals the other issue here is
like you said before the the husband the father he was basically housebound because of a car accident so you know he
could have been in a lot of pain having difficulties moving and stuff so he might not have been able to fight well
and I also think the reason the reason why they believed that we're working with a single offender here is because
they firmly believe that this was a sexually motivated home invasion and murders and the murderer appeared to
have a fascination with bondage strangulation and Suffocation and one particular FBI agent believed that the
likelihood that more than one offender would share the same distinct sexual urges and murderous fantasies well he
believed that to be very unlikely yeah and there's some evidence to support this yeah both female victims were found
partially disrobed semen was found present on Josephine and on the floor of the basement
from the appearance of the kitchen now it looked like the killer or Killers gained access to the house and surprised
the Otero family while the children were preparing their school lunches before leaving for their school school day they
were there were food products out on the counters and table the girls winter gloves were discovered
just outside of the house and police had a theory on this that they were making their lunches and Joseph told the little
girl to take out the trash she goes outside and is grabbed up by the offender who then took her inside and
was able to gain control because he already had a hostage right so you he used her like a do what I say I'm gonna
shoot her yeah and also there was no sign of a struggle anywhere in the house no sign of breaking and entering right
and because this was a family of Fighters again we have the gun is the thought here to gain control the things
that the police found the most alarming was that nothing appeared to have been taken from the home so not a robbery
gone bad as most would think and and secondly the cords and bags and ropes used in the murders didn't come from
inside the home leading to the terrifying thought that the killer showed up prepared that he intended to
kill the family before he ever entered the home the police theorized about the chair with the broken leg as well the
chair was from another room this was told to them by the children right the police theorized that the killer after
using a gun to gain control of the family tied them up then he killed Joseph the father first to get rid of
the biggest threat to him then he molested and killed the mother the boy who who suffocated due to the
plastic bags the killer placed the chair in the room and their Theory this is just a kind of a wild speculation Theory
here but they wondered if maybe he had held the little girl that he sat with her in the chair forcing her to watch
her brother die and during this struggle maybe the leg to the chair had broke and after the three were dead then he
takes the girl to the basement because it was actually her they wondered if it was actually the little girl that he had
targeted that and that maybe he wanted to spend some time with her now he hung her with a rope over the top of a pipe
in the basement he met some sick [ __ ] man yeah he he masturbated either while she was being killed or just after I say
sick [ __ ] and then he just dropped that on us well then he collected everything
that he brought to the home with him he cranked up the thermostat and then left in the family's vehicle
now the two detectives that took the case I mean cranked up the thermostat I don't know how hot it was in the house
but but the children and police and Medics all describe the home to be extremely warm and they believed that
the offender cranked up the thermostat to maybe speed up the the decomposition process that maybe
they would decompose a little faster if it was 90 or 95 or I don't know how hot it was in the home yeah but the two
detectives that took the case Captain I found this to be extremely interesting and dedicated on their part
they had a suspicion even though they thought it might be a small chance they thought that there was a small chance
that the killer might return to the scene of the murders so the two detectives that caught the case they
actually spent several nights staying overnight at the murder house so going on with some more police thoughts
here imagine that that'd be us would be on the case Chief would say hey you two Knuckleheads
you guys like to talk to each other you guys are gonna stay in the house just wait till he comes back yeah well
and I I want to point out a few things as this is going on you've got to understand the confusion here amongst
just the officers involved in the investigation because this is not a crime that they're used to seeing okay
this is not a crime that anybody is used to seeing where a whole family well most
of a family is wiped out in the course of a morning or afternoon yeah and you have little to no evidence Left Behind
the thing here though too is Captain when you have a situation like this you know in Wichita at the time you know it
was a big city yes but they didn't have a high murder rate and the murders that they had they typically solved them
fairly quickly back then because usually they were committed by somebody if a family member was killed good chance it
was killed by another family member right right um you know people on the inner circle
were killing committing these types of crimes they were solved very quickly this situation we have
we have where police are not fully understanding what they are seeing they're not fully understanding the
crime that took place that day and so therefore you have officers and investigators that are not going to
share the same theories about what took place that day yeah because it's not just it's not just a murder right we
have a race well not rape okay so it's not actual rape because there there was no penetration right
right okay okay so sexual assault correct and he's basically masturbating to the torture that's going on
um you know these these wouldn't have been fast deaths you know they weren't it's not like putting
a gun to somebody's head and pulling the trigger these this type of death this type of killing takes some time and he
jerked off to it right he he enjoyed witnessing it whether it was during or after and that's why when we spoke
earlier about Dennis Raider spending time with sex workers now he has said that he had sex with
these sex workers I actually questioned if he would have been able to physically
because when we see his crimes he doesn't show that he has that he's capable of that that there's some
something in his makeup that does not allow him to do that now we talked about the police and investigators
jerking off right but that's mentally that's much different than um than an actual intercourse
so we talked about some of the different police and investigator theories and thoughts as to motive
um there were three popular ones at the time of the early investigation and one was that this could be some type of
Revenge killing that somebody went out to kill one member of the family or Wipe Out the entire family for some purposes
of Revenge the other Theory estimotive number two was the family had recently moved from
Panama and Joseph was a pilot so where there were some people that wondered could this be something that is
tied to the drug trade or some type of gang hit was Joseph Joseph involved in anything moving drugs right things of
that nature and somebody had sought him out to put an end to him and the other three were just collateral damage
the third Theory and this is probably the most terrifying one when you think about
the community is that Mrs Otero and the little girl were actually targeted by the Killer and the killer was surprised
to find the father at home that day and there's some there's some thoughts to support this Theory and that being that
there were no cars in the driveway when the killer had entered the home and remember Joseph was only home because
just a couple of weeks earlier he had been in a car accident so the car that that he drove was in the shop because it
was being fixed and Joseph was off of work nursing some injuries right so I'm assuming there was a way
that you know the killer would have been able to see into the garage to see if there was cars in the garage well their
their vehicle was home the one that the Otero mother typically drove right um but the other one was gone correct
and so even if the killer had been watching the house if he wasn't watching the home cons you know consecutive days
right he might not have any clue that Joseph would have been in the home you know there was no evidence to support or
to suggest to him that Joseph was there right so the police had like we said little to no leads the case was going to
go cold very quickly this was until October of that same year until October of 1974. this is when
police picked up a man for molesting a little girl behind the public library this man his name is Gary Sebring now
this is a man with a lengthy criminal record that included bestiality uh that he had committed in the local park there
now so he's picked up for possibly molesting this little girl behind the library now during the interrogation
regarding that attack on the little girl he started talking about the Otero murders and saying some weird stuff he
said you know had had he done the Otero murders he would have committed them with his brother Ernest and their friend
Thomas Meyer would have helped them commit this crime so it'd be three people yeah so he would have raped their
cat well all three of these men had a record of sex offenses uh the brother Ernest was brought in for questioning
police were looking for Thomas Myers now it took some time for them to find this
Thomas Myers character he was eventually located after he tried to take his own life
now all three men were found to be mentally unstable and they were all taken to a mental hospital for
observation they remained there for quite some time but none of the three would be charged with the quadruple
homicides yeah anybody that's raping an animal is obviously not mentally stable well yeah you touched on some on
something there captain that the the FBI would say as well they found that these
three individuals they didn't find any of them capable of getting away with these murders that it
would have gotten out of hand the the crime scene would have looked much differently it just didn't make any
sense to them now they're not just the police are not just going to go off of the FBI's thoughts and theories on this
there was also no evidence to suggest that they had had anything to do with these they one of them probably read
about it in the newspaper or overheard people talking about it this was a very very famous crime when this took place
in 1974. Wichita had not witnessed or experienced something of this level before like I said none of them would be
charged in the quadruple homicide but there was plenty of news coverage regarding the arrest of these three men
and the real killer was watching and reading it all and the thought that someone else may take credit for his
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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 profile and the Otero family murders, highlighting the investigation's complexities and chilling discoveries.

Key points

True Crime Garage Day. A shout-out to listeners and a toast to fans across the globe.
The BTK Offender Profile. An analysis of the BTK killer's psyche and background, revealing disturbing tendencies.
Dennis Rader's Childhood. Exploring the early life of Dennis Rader, an average boy with dark fantasies.
The Otero Family Tragedy. A chilling account of the Otero family's discovery of their parents' bodies.
Children Discover Tragedy. Three children walk home to find their parents dead in a shocking scene.
Officer Discovers Multiple Bodies. Officer Bola finds the bodies of the Otero family, revealing a quadruple homicide.

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Episode quotes

He is not even very original in his crimes.

Analysis of the BTK killer's methods

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Tension

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