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crime the following communication was sent to k a KV and was titled the BTK story believed to be the
autobiography of the killer the police were searching for complete with an outline giving the titles to 13 chapters
of the BTK story they were one a serial killer is born two dawn three fetish four fantasy world five the
search begins six btk's haunts s PJs 8 m M Mo ID ruse nine Hits 10 Treasured Memories
11 the final curtain call 12 Dusk 13 will there be more in the spring of 1989 Dennis Raider got
a new job as a census field operation supervisor in Witchita Kansas now he liked this job for many reasons mainly
because the job required him to be out driving around in a truck mhm one of his favorite things was to eat his lunch in
his truck and Scout for possible new victims he also had among other strange Hobbies a hobby where he would scour
magazines and newspapers for ads featuring women that caught his eye he would cut out the images of the women he
liked and he would glue them to 3x5 index cards each day he would Place one in his pocket and the card would ride
along in the truck with him while he was out doing his job each day he would write in his journals at home and talk
like the women were real so he would write things like drove around today drove around town today with a sexy red
head note to self if I ever start doing this jump off a bridge immediately in 1991 he was hired by the compliance
Department in Park City as a compliance officer this job required him to work with code violators issuing tickets and
catching dogs there were varying stories regarding Raider at this job some would
later say that Raider used the position to bully people some say he was just doing his job and others even reported
that Raider was nice and helpful in all likelihood he probably did not treat everyone the same way and he definitely
harassed some women during the time when he was working in this position and there's one story in particular of a
woman that had moved into town into Park City and she stated that when she moved
to Park City she was single and Raider must have taken a liking to her because he was very helpful like
seemed to be checking on her from time to time very pleasant very nice to her and he would see her often I think
that's called stalking well when she when she got a boyfriend mhm he changed his song and dance he really started
harassing the woman and started harassing the boyfriend he would issue them tickets for very minor infractions
almost seeming like he was making things up up from time to time and she said that he often would park his truck and
sit and eat his lunch where he could see the house where he could keep a visual monitoring of the house and maybe of her
as well again that's called stalking regardless he seemed to like this job and for many reasons but mostly because
it gave him some type of authority giving him a badge and some power mhm Dolores D Davis aged 62 was born in 19
28 in Stella Nebraska she was raised on a farm now she was an excellent cook who
made everything from scratch in 1961 after 12 years of marriage a son and a daughter de and her husband divorce now
she was a fun protective and devoted mother and grandmother adored by her family her son and you know his her son
always spoke to his mother on the phone on the weekends sometimes for hours H when her children and grandchildren
gathered for Christmas at her home in 1990 they spent much time together but one memory that was created during that
trip was they all sat together and watched the movie All Dogs Go to Heaven uh this if anybody seen this movie
you'll know it's an emotional movie it did bring the family to tears now de had just retired from her job of over 25
years as a secretary for a fuel company she was passionate about animal rights issues and she enjoyed being a Mary Kay
cosmetics sales consultant Dennis Raider had spent a couple of months driving by
her home and seeing her when he decided that she would be a good Target well this is because BTK found her attractive
and she lived alone in January of 1991 Dennis Raider was going to put together a plan to do a hit on her now on the
night of the 19th Raider went to dolores's Home Dolores was home inside reading Dennis waited outside for her to
turn off the lights before he would break in mhm while he's out there Raider is waiting outside he's wondering he he
cannot figure out how he's going to break into the house he had already checked the doors and they were locked
and they were far too sturdy for him to pry them open after she turned out the lights Raider cut the phone line to the
house he then found a cinder block in someone's backyard he carried it over near dolores's home he lifted it up
until it was shoulder high he centered himself on a large sliding glass door in the back of the house Raider launched
the heavy block into the air and through the window instantly shattering the glass Dolores ran out of her bedroom
screaming she saw Raider standing inside her home he told her it was cold outside
and that he needed some warmth some food and some money he ordered her to return
to the bedroom he followed behind once inside the bedroom Dennis Raider pulled a pair of handcuffs out of his pocket
and put them on her wrist to try to calm the woman down he kept telling her he just needed her car keys and then he
would be gone in no time once she calmed down Raider took the Cuffs off of Dolores and tied her hands together with
rope he took a pair of panty hoes from one of the dress her drawers he wrapped them around her neck strangling her
until she was dead blood had started to come out of her ears mouth and nose it took him about 3 minutes to strangle her
Raider then wrapped her body up in the blanket that was on the bed and carried her body out to the trunk of her car
then he went back into the home and collected some jewelry and clothing of dolores's he then hopped in her car and
drove off he dumped her body in a CT by a highway then he drove to another location and hid the trophies he had
collected from her house in a safe spot so that he could retrieve them later then and I find this to be awfully
strange mhm he drove her car back to her house and put it in the garage and then
he strange he walked like two miles to his own vehicle I do find this incredibly strange but here one thing I
do know about BTK is this at one of his crimes he actually left the gun that he used during the crime at the crime scene
MH I don't know which crime scene that was and he said that he had to go back and retrieve that gun my guess is it
might be this one right that he's talking about or his driving around and saw a bunch of cops and thought I should
just go back to the house and drop off the car at the house well and a little behind the scenes thought here for
everybody that's kind of why picked the beer this week to be dimwit we have this
individual Dennis Raider that likes to portray himself of a certain intellect and to be very smart and cunning and
outsmarting the police and outsmarting his victims when in reality he's just kind of a a buffoon you know he's just
kind of a diwi yeah he's a dimwit very good so I think maybe it might be this crime where he realized that he had left
the gun because he he dumps her body in this covert just to kind of conceal her and then he decides to go hide these
trophies that he intends to retrieve later driving her ve vehicle back to her home walking two miles to his own
vehicle and then once he gets his vehicle he drives back to her body picks it up and takes it to another location
much further away he decides that he's going to dump her here at this new location right this is under a bridge
out in the middle of nowhere now the next day he's still all charged up and hopped up on these fantasies and
thinking about the night before the next day he returned to the body he placed a
plastic mask over the face and put lipstick and makeup on the mask and then he took several photos of the body two
weeks later the body was discovered the murder was featured in the newspaper the
connection to BTK was not made according to Dennis's journals with each kill he was extremely paranoid after his
murders each time expecting the police to show up at his door at any time but each time that feeling would go away
after about a month or so mhm and after the paranoia left each time then he would be back out trolling for victims
again this murder took place in 1991 but we're not going to hear from the BTK cuz
he goes dark until 2004 yeah the whole time I guess living his life doing normal things more normal
things um however it would be what brought this on I believe is in January of 2004 the Witchita Eagle ran a story
on the 30-year anniversary of the BTK case right two months later in March of 2004 a letter arrived at the newspaper
according to the information on the envelope the letter was from Bill Thomas kilman the return address was 16 84
South Old Manor the the address was fake there was right no such place in Witchita now people had always wondered
if you think about the initials of Bill Thomas kilman so that's BTK right yeah and then the other thought was was he
playing some kind of game you know BTK would be an old man by now and the address used was 16 84 South Old
Manor right anyway inside the envelope they found photo copied snapshots of a woman who appeared to be either
unconscious or dead she's lying on a floor it also contained a photoc copy of a driver's license of a 28-year-old
Vicky wagerle whose 1986 murder had never been solved or linked to the BTK Strangler MH on the letters
BTK was written at the bottom of the page there was also some type of code made up of letters and numbers police
sent the code to code Breakers but they they came up with nothing they couldn't crack it well when you're stupid and you
come up with a code normally it's hard for anybody to to crack it right because it didn't make any sense in 2000 in the
year 2000 this was four year 2000 four years before BTK ended his silence the wagly Cold Case became hot M the
Witchita police detectives this is Kelly Otis and Dana gouge they were assigned to work on the unsolved 1986 killing of
28-year-old Vicky wagerle a wife and a mother found bound and strangled in her home on West 13th Street M now the
police had found a man's DNA this was under the victim's fingernails and in 2003 the lead homicide detective Ken
land wear remember we talked about him he was one of the members of the Ghostbuster Squad by this point in his
career he's now the lead homicide detective for the witch Kansas Police Department yeah he had the two
detectives on the case test the DNA that was found lwar had always suspected that
the Vicky wagerle murder could be the work of BTK now as you know when it comes to lab
work current cases take priority over the old on so it was not until after the first communication from BTK in 2004
that they would get the results back well and it could have been as simple as hey we he's made contact again so they
bumped up the priority yeah yeah they may have moved it to the the front of the line mhm but shortly after he broke
his silence they received the results from those tests and the profile was entered into a newly developed National
Database of criminals now there was no match for this however the DNA test showed that the same killer had been in
the homes where BTK strangled four members of the Otoro family in 1974 and Nancy Fox in
1977 but once police saw the photoc copy of the pictures then the driver's license and the letters BTK the hunt was
on so police announced the startling new development and the news media pounced on this story police received over 1,000
tips over the course of the first first weekend of this investigation that they just launched now to handle the response
from the public police set up a command center at a law enforcement training academy they needed Elbow Room for phone
Banks and for computers and they just needed space to work on this thing the S the Sedwick County Sheriff's Office
assisted with data entry and research support callers gave police an overwhelming number of possible suspect
names detective land wear and crew decided suspects would be eliminated systematically and scientifically now
the eliminators would be as follows one would be race so the DNA profile showed the killer was a white male mhm so if
you weren't a white male you're eliminated right age the calculation was based on the idea that the killer
probably would have been at youngest 18 to maybe 20 years of age when he killed killed his first known victims right the
uros in January of 74 so the killer would be at this time 48 years or older now incarceration was also very much an
eliminating Factor because someone who was in jail or prison during any one of the murders was eliminated also
prisoners in recent years would have DNA on record and police knew that btk's DNA
didn't match anything in the database right the most important of all of the eliminating factors was of course DNA in
a somewhat controversial move investigators took 1,600 DNA mouth swabs for men mainly in
and around Witchita but a few came from people living out of the state almost all of these 1600 people volunteered and
complied to submit their DNA well and the other crazy thing is is now they're they're realizing with their research
that BTK wasn't dormant yeah and actually a lot of people at this time had probably forgotten about BTK the
Witchita was no longer afraid of this person most people would assume that he had died or moved on but yeah like you
said you know he it wasn't that he wasn't dorant during this two and a half decades he had just simply kept a lower
profile than in his earlier killings and now police had to wonder as did the community how many killings was he
responsible for over the course of of that time mhm on June 9th of 2004 what police would later call Communication
number three this was found at the corner of first in Kansas taped to a stop sign one of the documents in the
package graphically described the uro family murders also there was a drawing of a nude female bound gagged and
hanging from a rope with the drawing were the words the sexual Thrill Is my bill this guy's such a douche in July
workers at the public library discovered a clear plastic bag at the bottom of a book Return bin written on the bag were
the letters BTK inside were five sheets of paper two of the pages detailed btk's involvement
in the death of a troubled 19-year-old man named Jake Allen Allan's death was ruled a suicide now Allan was a star
athlete in high school who dreamed of being an optometrist Allen was picked up and
arrested by police he and some buddies were out drinking and driving and they had alcohol in the car after his arrest
he was convinced that he would never get into college and it is believed because
of this that he decided to take his own life by lying down on the train tracks yeah he was crushed almost beyond
recognition now BTK however wrote In this communication that he had been responsible for the death of as he put
it old Jakey after meeting him in a computer chat room and convincing the young man that he was in fact a private
eye hunting for BTK the letter claimed that the young man Jakey had sexual perversions
involving masturbation bondage and homosexuality and claimed Jakey agreed to help the private eye in his
investigation to find BTK these of course are all lies however the police at the time did not know this and this
was this was actually you know where I call Dennis Raider a dimwit uh this may have been a smart move on his part just
simply because the investigation at that time was white hot right and right this
this is Dennis Raider throwing a wrench into that well-oiled machine because then the police spent weeks focusing in
on Jake Allen conducting interviews sifting through his computer investigating if he was the latest BTK
victim but it was all for not it was it was just a farce put on by Raider after right he read about the boy suicide in
the newspaper now what might not be a phony story is that also in this communication BTK stated that he had
some future female and maybe a child victim in mind that he had spotted them and had already began to troll them and
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today all right cheers mates we're uh drinking the dim wit let's get back to the dim wit cheers Captain it was in
October the BTK reached out again what we're seeing here is a frequency he can't control himself at this point
right he's he's enjoying this communication back and forth too much at this point mhm this communication was
found in a UPS dropbox by one of their drivers again it was a plastic bag with the initials BTK on it inside were three
note cards and on them were what BTK called his Uno do Trace Theory stating that the world of the BTK is based
around the number three and triangles dou I could go into this it i' I I know this stuff but it makes little
to no sense at all like you know like he would draw like a triangle and it would
at one point put BTK police right right Detectives you know or or I'm sorry BTK victims police
you know and then the other Sun heat warmth like it was just stuff that made no sense at all right um this
communication also it contained what is thought to be pieces of the Killer's autobiography and as usual this was full
of errors and misspellings it was now and we kind of talked about this we don't know if if he was just an idiot
and he was had misspellings or had errors or if he did this on purpose to like throw off the scent yeah so um do
you want me to kind of fast forward a little bit since we're on that subject yeah so yes you're you're exactly right
the FBI warned the local police department to not fall for what could be what is commonly used when these guys
make Communications is a lot of them will purposely misspell things or they'll have grammatical
errors in this case with BTK that was the thought right that was the thought during the time of the investigation
after he was caught and after he was uh wrote out his own confessions they saw those same the guy couldn't spell and he
couldn't write well he might had some form of Dyslexia proba you know which would probably make him feel
self-conscious which would probably lead him to want to feel powerful yeah you know I laughed there but I only laughed
there because I actually think maybe he's just more impulsive and less in control of himself than he thinks that
he is right um and that and that this bad spelling thing has something that has always uh been a part of him right
now speaking of communications the next communication was as the others were strange uh this was a strange one and
they seem to be getting more and more strange as they were getting more frequent this time it was a Serial box
that was found inside I'm sorry in inside the cereal box they found jewelry from one of his victims and a little
doll like a like a Barbie doll mhm and the Barbie doll had bindings on it and it was tied by the neck with a to a
little piece of pipe the the box also contained a note card asking a question had the officers received number seven
from the Home Depot parking lot the answer to that question is they had not so so so here's here's what he's doing
okay he's kind of he's kind of numbering his Communications right if you just like he named himself now he's numbering
his Communications he's not he's not technically numbering them but but this would be the seventh communication that
they received in 2004 and he's saying wait a second did you receive number seven from the Home
Depot parking lot so but seven in the same year yes seven in the same year I just want to be clear about that right
so what what I'm getting at is this would be the seventh communication that they had received it's the eighth one
that he has sent to them MH he's asking them did you get number seven because he
knows that sometimes they receive these things and they don't tell anybody right
his whole thing that his his whole his whole ritualistic attitude here is he has to have that broadcasted he has to
get the not variety for these communications he has to see his name in the paper right and because he didn't he
wants to know well did you receive that and you're just keeping it quiet or did you not find it right well they had not
received this and the way that this worked out was they go to this Home Depot and they're they're looking around
they search the store inside and out they can't find anything from BTK they can't find any form of communication
note it should be pretty obvious once they find what they're looking for because he almost always puts the
initials BTK on the communications so what they do is they get a bunch of the surveillance tape from the parking lot
from the Home Depot and on one piece of footage this was from days before that they spotted where an SUV had pulled
into the almost empty parking lot this would have been when the store was not open mhm parking lot's almost empty This
SUV V pulls in somebody gets out of the vehicle walks across a short way across the parking lot and has some kind of
object in their hand and they toss it into the back of a pickup truck into the bed of a pickup truck mhm the crazy
thing here though Captain is the detectives we have land wear who's been working this case for almost 20 years we
have all these other detectives that have been hunting this madman could you imagine they're seeing what they believe
to be BTK vehicle could you imagine what's going through their brains they well they're looking at a shadow like a
a shadow figure of the guy that they know and believe to be BTK the guy that they've been hunting all these years
they can they're seeing him but not his face well what they end up doing is they
have to get the they have no idea what was thrown into the back of that truck or how they're going to find this thing
right well maybe if they get the license plate number they could track down the the vehicle couldn't because it it was
too blurry too blurry plus if they could do that then you would think they could
get btk's license plate number true but think of the risk that he these okay we've covered so many retail cases
lately please upgrade your cameras people please it's ridiculous well what they did Captain was they were able to
decide that they could determine the approximate size and wheelbase of the vehicle that the suspect was driving mhm
this was interesting because they actually really narrowed it down to a very few models a very few vehicles and
models and what they were able to determine was that if in fact this vehicle was not stolen that he was
driving his own vehicle let's say right he would be one of about 200 he would be one of about
2500 local residents that owned a vehicle matching this destion oh let's go knocking on doors my friend well that
would be an option but they actually came up with the communication before they would have to take that route so
what happened was the manager of the Home Depot put up Flyers inside the store asking all of the employees did
you receive anything strange in your vehicle did you find anything weird and you don't know what it is let us know
well a roommate of a guy that worked there that owned a the um the guy that worked there owned a pickup truck right
his roommate had found a cereal box in the back of the dude's pickup truck Simon Toast Crunch it was uh Special K
cereal oh that's that's not cereal that's garbage he was he assumed that it was trash and he had thrown it away he
assumed right cuz that cereal is garbage I like Special K now you're garbage the
trash had not been collected from the home yet mhm so they were able to retrieve this special case serial box
this was recovered and inside there were there was a two-page document and on it
was a long list of btk's projects or what he called his PJs there there was also a question and this was asking land
wear this was asking land wear directly if BTK wanted to send a computer disc to
them could they trace it and he asked them to give him the the answer in the newspaper in the One ads under the
miscellaneous section and if they can't trace it to put in the message Rex it will be okay also they should run the ad
for several days so that BTK would not miss the ad if he were out of town or didn't pick up the paper that day please
run the ad multiple times for me this was weird because now we have Raider wanting to start communicating by
sending them floppy disc from computers and for the first time BTK is asking the
police a question this is a dumb question rather than just kind of telling you know directing the
conversation and telling them whatever he wants when your teacher tells you when they stand up in the front of the
classroom and they say students there are no dumb questions you say yes there is when you're a serial killer you do
not ask the cops if if they can trace something or not the police they went ahead and ran the ad in the newspaper
mhm and their ad read Rex go ahead and send a floppy well on January of 2005 Dennis Raider became the elected
president of council at the Christ Lutheran Church right on February 16th of that same year a padded envelope
arrived at K KV inside were more index cards and a purple computer disc the disc was turned
over to the police analysts the disc contained one message and the message said this is a test see note card for
further instruction the note card said that any communication going forward from the
killer would have a number on it that way if one was lost they would know yeah or if somebody else was writing to them
pretending to be the BTK that they wouldn't get mixed up it only took the analyst a few more minutes to pull the
information that they were searching for this revealed that the author of the test message was someone named Dennis
and the owner of the computer was the Christ Lutheran Church now this is going to sound
completely crazy for somebody that you've looked for for 20 years I mean and when you factor all involved you're
talking about this is over a 30-year Manhunt for this guy right so what did they do they did a quick Google search
and this quick Google search told the officers that Christ Lutheran Church was located in Park City right and that a
one Dennis Raider was listed as the church's president they put surveillance on their
subject but they didn't jump on him and arrest him right away they wanted to make sure that they had good solid
evidence on this guy to connect him to BTK before the arrest lwar wanted DNA from Raider to tie him to the DNA that
was found at multiple crime scenes where BTK had killed right but how were they going to get Dennis Raiders DNA without
tipping him off well this is this is wild so they start doing some digging on Dennis Raider his background and his
family one thing that they discovered is that his daughter Carrie had attended the University of Kansas
State while she was there she had been treated or or received some kind of you know checkup or treatment at the health
clinic there yeah they took her DNA yeah so she was no longer she was no longer a
student there she had graduated before but they still had things that they believed that they could pull DNA from
so they get a court order and they go to the Kansas State University they find these items they get a court order to
test them for DNA and what they discover is that it tested positive that the DNA
that they tested was the daughter of the killer that they knew to be BTK oh good
cuz I just hate this guy you know yeah you and I mean you and the rest of the world right he's just I hate him so the
the task force that we have they were worried that somehow the media might learn of Dennis Raider before they could
arrest him mhm this was a concern because this had actually happened before this was when they had they they
they had a guy that they liked as BTK his name was Roger Valdez and they wanted to get DNA swab
from him he was one of the few people that didn't really want to comply and give them the DNA swab and it was
because through the media he had heard that he was considered a prime suspect at the time so they had a leak somewhere
amongst this task force they were worried would Dennis Raider would this be leaked to the media and Dennis Raider
catch wind of this so they're going to have to move a little faster than they wanted to however for Raider what the
police wanted to do was map out precisely and coordinate a plan to simultaneously arrest him search his
home other key places and contact an interview his relatives all at the same time so what they did was they organized
250 officers and agents were assembled to take to take this on well that's a lot
of money a lot of this was mostly for the searches that were going to be done right so now they were going to use
Dennis Raider's schedule against him Raider was predictable and the detectives knew this from following him
over the course of that surveillance they knew what time he went to work they knew what time he came home for lunch
every day and so on and so forth now the police knew that Raider always left his
office at 12:15 p.m. and arrived home for lunch to have lunch with his wife at 12:18 p.m. each day 3 minutes as Raider
drove onto Frontage Road this is off of 61st Street in Park City an unmarked police car stopped him there were plenty
of guns drawn on him an officer dragged him out of his truck now at that point we the the officers would later say at
that point we're dealing with an individual We Believe committed eight homicides so we were taking no risk we
we knew that he had used guns before and in previous crimes so they drew guns on
this guy they took no risk now Raider was handcuffed and he was searched moments later Raider and land wear the
guy who had been hunting him for 20 years wait did he have one of those little creepy cards his little flash
cards he made wonder if he had one on his person at that time I I don't know he driving around with a red head
that's interesting if he still had that hobby at the time um weirdo but now we have these two individuals we have the
the monster and the guy that's been hunting the monster for 20 years they're finally face Toof face with each other
and they're they're saying hello to one another they're calling each other Mister at this point in the back of the
police car I'm not calling nobody Mis police audio taped the arrest from the car um and and used in the transport of
raider and took aerial photographs from a helicopter as well right they stated that he was Dennis Raider was breathing
hard during this time uh as were the officers and later land wear would go on records saying I cannot tell you how
much fun it was to finally take this guy down it was a great day for everyone in
law enforcement now Bob Morton who was a FBI Behavioral Analyst and detective landware they were the ones that would
conduct the initial interview with Dennis Raider the idea here Captain was that Raider would respond to land wear
because he knew who he was he knew him by name he knew he was active on the BTK case for so long right and Bob Morton
being from the FBI well this would boost Dennis Raiders ego during the course of
the interview then the teams of detectives interviewed Raider about the cases that had been assigned to so we
have all these murders all these homicides we have other detectives working some of these now that we had
some detectives during the interviews the only thing they spoke to Raider about was his Communications with K
KV with law enforcement and so on and the sheriff's Personnel they approached him about the Marine hedge in Dolores
Davis homicides now you you have to keep in mind the sheriff's department had to
work these two homicides because they took place outside of Witchita City and not only that they were abducted from
from another location and then dumped elsewhere so how long did they interview this creepo uh for 32 hours they
interviewed Dennis Raider and they during that time they actually encouraged him to sleep but he wouldn't
um he did nap a couple times you know very briefly but they wanted him to get a a good night's sleep and he did not
want to he wanted to talk it was about 3 hours and 15 minutes into the initial interview when Raider looked at Bob
Morton the FBI agent and Morton said to him say who you are and Dennis Raider answered I'm
BTK now Raiders own DNA came back as a match uh about 12 hours after the start of the interviews right he had learned
that investigators by this time had all already had his daughter's DNA and had linked that to him into
BTK and so according to detective landar at this point Raider has figured out that he has been put in a corner and he
kind of once that comes out with the DNA and once he realizes this is what's going on
right after about 12 or 13 hours into the interview he's going to start telling them everything I mean
everything right and to the point that he was even trying to describe to them the that code remember that code that
they couldn't figure out yeah the shitty code yeah he was trying to tell them that the letter that he mailed to the
eagle in 2004 what he had used was German fractional code that he claimed that he
knew from his military background and remember they sent it and nobody could crack it because the code actually made
no sense he he got it wrong when he tried to remember it uh and damn dyslexia getting in the way again well
in the interview process he tried to prove them wrong trying to recall the code himself which he he couldn't diwi
another interesting thing though here Captain was that during the course of the interview Raider repeatedly tapped
on the disc on the computer disc they put it on the interview table and they just kind of set it there right in front
of him okay and he tapped on it well he would tap on it and throughout the course of the interview and at some
point he looked at the officers land wear in particular and he asked him why did you lie to me and land wear said
because I'm trying to catch you yeah why wouldn't I lie to you I'm trying to catch you yeah you killed people you son
of a [ __ ] yeah we're going to lie to you well I think see that's what what's weird though is that okay so something
psychological had taken over with Dennis Raider and this was actually something that the FBI had recommended that the
police do a long time ago in their investigation what they had recommended is that they create the Persona of some
kind of super cop all right so that Dennis Raider would identify the the investigation into him into his killings
through one person and one person only that he could he could take this this detective and he could put him on a
pedestal in his mind he's now this super that is a worthy adversary of his hunting him somebody that is his
equal and through of the throughout the course of many years of looking at that one person and having this person that
he considered to be an equal he L his guard down to the point where he then believed that he could trust him that
that his equal would be honest with him and that the game of cat and mouse would
continue forever well that wasn't going to be the case obviously right and the FBI did say that they believed with
somebody and they always believe this usually when a killer is willing to communicate multiple times with the
media or law enforcement is that usually they will lead them to they will lead law enforcement to themselves they will
get themselves caught because their ego and because of their need to make these communications now Raider did voice
concern about how his arrest would affect his family his church and the City of Park
City when teams of investigators told Raiders wife and his grown son and daughter about his arrest they were in
disbelief they had no idea that their husband or father was this monster mhm um they
did they did exactly like they said they were planning to do remember we said that they brought in 215 officers
because they want wanted to search his all at the same time they wanted to arrest him search his home interview his
relatives and and they did that and some of them didn't even live in witch Kansas
so what they did was they distributed officers out to those locations they sat there and waited in at at that specific
time between 12:15 and 12:18 on that day those officers were to go and bust into the
home knock on the door do you got to do you need to be in these locations all at
the same time on March 1st 2005 Raiders bail was set at $10 million and a public
defender was appointed to represent him on May 3rd the judge entered a not guilty plea on
Raider's behalf as Raider did not speak at his arraignment however on June 27th the which was the scheduled trial date
yeah Dennis Raider changed his plea to to guilty um the thought here was that he would save his family some anguish
and shame of of going through the details of the crime that was not to be because he was forced to describe the
murders in detail during uh he was he was ordered to give a full confession basically right now could there be some
murders out there that he didn't confess to for some reason possible it's possible I doubt it like you said
earlier it seems to be that he wants the credit let's say that's a terrible word
but that's what he wants he wants the credit for his actions and for what he thinks to be some kind of career or some
kind of great work that he believes that he did now during the and I'm sure some
people have seen this by now you can actually find the full confession online I believe it's like 48 minutes long it's
awful it's very tough to listen to because he doesn't seem like he gives a [ __ ] he seems like he's kind of giving
the weather report to somebody when he talks about these crimes one thing that I know that really sickened the family
his his direct family especially his daughter was that one they they didn't believe he was guilty until they you
know the next day when they found out well he confessed to police right they're like and the DNA matches right
well they're like crap you know the he he did really do this and then once he's in court when he's going over the
description of these murders mhm a lot of people thought that he may have purposely droned on about the murders of
the two children you know most of his victims were adults and a lot of people seem to think that he hovered around
that a little longer than necessary maybe he took some kind of pleasure in talking about those specific murders out
of yeah yeah so he offered no apologies during the course of this confession and
at Dennis Raider's August 18th sentencing victim's families made their statements after which Raider did
Apologize in a rambling 30 minute monologue Dennis Raider was sentenced to 10 consecutive life sentences with a
minimum of 175 years to be served Kansas had no death penalty at the time of the
murders that he committed so he is in solitary confinement with 1 hour of exercise per day and gets to shower
three times per week and guess what that makes them what one stinky piece of [Music]
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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 - Dim Wit by River City Garage Grade - 3 and a half bottle caps out of 5

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Brief Summary

The episode details the BTK killer Dennis Raider's crimes, capture, and psychological profile, focusing on his first murder and communications with police.

Key points

The BTK Story. A chilling look into the mind of a serial killer, Dennis Raider, and his methods.
Raider's New Job. In 1989, Dennis Raider took a job that allowed him to scout for victims.
Dolores Davis's Tragic Fate. The story of Dolores Davis, a victim of Dennis Raider, unfolds in a harrowing manner.
BTK's Communication Resumes. After years of silence, BTK re-emerges with a letter that reignites the investigation.
The Jake Allen Deception. BTK claims responsibility for a young man's suicide, diverting police attention.
BetterHelp: Your Mental Health Partner. BetterHelp offers online therapy tailored to your schedule, making mental health support accessible.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I think that's called stalking.

Commentary on Raider's behavior towards a woman.

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