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was made in October 1974 early in the morning on the 22nd the phone rang at the Otero 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 the otos stuck a letter in a
mechanical engineering textbook on the second floor of the witch public library then he hung up the
phone the police were notified the letter was located the letter was addressed to the Witchita 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 Otero slangs 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 ooto 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 positioned Southwest bedroom feet tied
to bed bondage window blind cord Gat 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 positioned lying on her back on the bed bondage blind cord Gat
clothline 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 Gat 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
south West bedroom Joseph position an East bedroom lying on his back bondage blind cord Gat
three hoods white t-shirt white plastic bag another t-shirt cloth 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 otero'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 hangup 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 hun ing Yours Truly
guiltily PS 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 you see he added again they will be on the next victim when Dennis Raider killed the
otos and their two children he was unemployed in attending classes at Witchita state in November of 1974
Dennis was hired at ADT Security which at the time sold and installed commercial grade
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 is that he had committed another murder shortly after killing the
otos and this is one that BTK called project lights out Katherine Dorene brigh 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 Catherine was a smart popular and funny college student and
she worked for the Coleman company Katherine and her sister shared a house that they rented together now on the
morning of April 4th 1979 Dennis Raider 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 and she did not have a dog you know
these were problems that he ran into during the ooto 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 Katherine
brigh 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 dentist no longer the ordinary man that led an orinary unremarkable Life In This Moment
he was the killer that haunted witch the Phantom that the whole city feared he was BTK well and when she returns 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 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 Mask 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 to 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 PRI 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 as salent 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 for 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 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 darkhaired man with the thick mustache 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 misremembering correct okay that I mean 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 yeah 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 guy M
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 into 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 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 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 Otero 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 mhm well after the Catherine Bright's murder
other than his letter left at the library the killer went silent both in words and
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Captain well it would be 3 years before BTK would resurface and during this time
Dennis and his wife 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 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 Bicentennial months
came and went and the city that had once feared the BTK began to forget about him
M 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
belied that maybe he had just fled the area right and just left all together 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 in serving a
prison sentence now this is one that I like this was a theory of the FBI because the ooto murders were
very it was a it was 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 MH
so they interviewed hundreds of people when it came to the ottero 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 pray 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 brigh so
the Killer is going to break his silence on that morning in the morning hours a little boy was returning home from an
Aaron 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 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 MH the boy says no and then the man asks 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 starts 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 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 and 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 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 vienne in her home while her children were locked in the bathroom now many
many years 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 they 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
param 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 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 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 mhm 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 stocking 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 Bright'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 comings 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 843 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 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 nany's purse on the coffee table and the living
room and her driver's license was missing Sean 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 you will find a homicide at 43 South N I'm sorry sir I can't understand
you what is the address3 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 was 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 um 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 2 months after the murder and then 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 a 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 in 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 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 photocopy 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 mo is different
in each but look a pattern is developing the victims are tie up most have been women phone cut bring some
bondage sadest matter Tendencies no struggle outside the death spot no Witnesses except the Vain's
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 whole she helpless staring at me with wide terror-filled 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 glass Boston Strangler Dr HH
Holmes pantyho Strangler of Florida Hillside Strangler Ted of the West Coast and many
more infinite 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 to 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 Gat Phantom the asphyxiates motive and victim number six
you found one Shirley vain 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 made 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 and
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 seminal 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 o death to Nancy oh what is this 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 [Music] me all right Captain before we leave before we take off for Crime con yeah
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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 BTK's early murders and his taunting letters to police, focusing on the Otero family and Katherine Bright's cases.

Key points

First Contact with BTK. The BTK Strangler made his first call in 1974, hinting at his gruesome crimes.
Catherine Bright's Murder. Catherine Bright was targeted by BTK, leading to a tragic confrontation.
Kevin's Brave Escape. Kevin Bright survived a brutal attack and managed to escape to call for help.
The BTK Killer's Theories. Investigators theorize about the BTK killer's disappearance and possible reasons behind it.
The Tragic Home Invasion. On March 17, 1977, the BTK killer murdered Shirley Vienne while her children were trapped in the bathroom.
The Fox Letter. The BTK killer sent a disturbing letter to the media, taunting law enforcement and the public.

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