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Rader: I had many of
what I call them projects.

They were different people
in the town

that I followed, watched...

...cut the phone lines,
broke in,

and waited for her to come home.

Welcome to "Very Scary People."

I'm Donnie Wahlberg.

The serial killer known as BTK

began terrorizing the city
of Wichita, Kansas, in 1974,

stalking and savagely killing
his victims in their homes,

then taunting police
and reporters

with disturbing letters
detailing the carnage.

Demented, elusive, BTK was
actually hiding in plain sight,

but his true identity
and motive

would remain a mystery
for decades.

It all began on an ordinary day
with the Otero family.

This is part one of
Bind, Torture, Kill."

Rader: I came to the back door,
cut the phone lines,

waited at the back door --

had reservations about even
going or just walking away,

but pretty soon, the door opened
and I was in.

Jordan: The Otero family
was a family of seven,

headed by father Joseph
and his wife, Julie.

They had both been born
in Puerto Rico,

but they moved
to New York as children

and there,
they met in high school.

Otero: My family was
your typical military family.

My father
was an Air Force sergeant,

and my mom was
a stay-at-home mother,

good Catholic woman.

They had five children,
ranging in age

from 15 all the way down to 9.

We were all into school.

My father expected us
to get good grades,

and we stayed pretty athletic
and into sports.

Hard workers, good parents,
kids doing well in school --

really, not a care in the world.

Otero: We came
to Wichita, Kansas, in the '70s

because my father
had retired overseas

and was looking for work.

He worked on jet engines,
and that was the reason

the Otero family
moved here in 1973,

was the number of airplane
factories we have in Wichita.

Otero: My dad found a job
at Cook Airfield.

It was a small,
family-owned airfield

on the outskirts of Wichita,
and he was hired as a mechanic.

Hatteberg: Wichita, Kansas,
was in the middle of America,

and nobody locked their doors.

It was a great little town
to be from.

♪♪

January 15, 1974
started out different.

I asked my dad to take me
to school early that day

so that I could get
an extra study hall in.

My brother and sisters,
Danny and Carmen,

they went with me.

Joe drops those three older kids
at school,

and he returns back home
and joins his wife, Julie,

in getting the two younger kids
ready for school.

They're doing typical stuff --

making school lunches,
gathering backpacks,

getting ready for Julie
to drop those kids off,

when the unthinkable happens.

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Singular:
He goes into the house.

He draws his gun.

One of the first things that he
does is cut the telephone cord,

and then he tells them
that he just wants their car

and some money
and if he can tie them up

and he can get the money
in the car,

he'll leave them alone.

Relph:
The killer bound Mr. Otero

and then neutralized him
pretty quickly.

Singular:
He tied up the parents,

and then he tied up the kids,

and then, when they were all
in his control,

he started to
strangle the father.

He strangled the mother.

They were both in bedrooms.

And then he strangled the boy,

and then he took the young girl
down into the basement.

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Otero: I walked home by myself
that day,

and it was a very long,
cold, windy walk,

as is typical
of Wichita winters.

I went into the back door
through the kitchen,

and I opened up the door,
walked in the house,

and I saw my mother's purse.

It was thrown over.

All the belongings
were strewn about,

which was totally
out of character for my mother,

and I yelled out,
"Is anybody home?"

♪♪

At that point, one of
my siblings yelled out,

"Charlie, come quick!

Mom and dad are playing
a bad trick on us."

♪♪

I saw my brother and my sister,
Daniel and Carmen,

with my parent's bodies,
and my heart --

it just felt like somebody
had ripped my chest wide open

and pulled my heart out.

We tried to use the phone,
it didn't work,

so I took Carmen
and Danny outside.

And we stayed out
in the front yard,

and Danny went next door to use
a phone, called the police.

When the first police officer
pulled up,

he came out to us
and asked what was going on.

I said, "Go inside the house.
You'll see."

He went inside, came back out,
looked at me and said,

"Could your father
have done this?"

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Otero: I remember me asking
over and over again

for Joey and Josie

because they were due home
from school any minute,

and I just didn't want them
to come home to that scenario

with the police there
and everything.

I wanted them with me.

The crime-scene investigators --
they came to the scene,

collected the ropes
that the family was tied with,

took pictures,
documented the scene,

diagramed it, and during
the initial crime-scene work,

they worked this as if maybe

it was a home invasion
of some kind.

Hatteberg:
They sent me out, and I arrived,

and police cars everywhere,
and then we start to find

that there were multiple bodies
inside the house.

Otero: I kept asking for Joey
and Josie over and over again,

and at one point, finally,

the chaplain came up to me
and sat me down.

And the chaplain looked at me
and said

Joey and Josie
were in the house also

and that they were deceased.

I pretty much went blank
after that.

It wasn't 'til very late
in the evening

that we even found out
the children were involved,

and that's what
changed everything.

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Jordan: This attacker took out
the parents

and the little brother

all by suffocation
and strangulation,

which is a very slow,
hands-on style of killing.

It's very personal,

and because it's slow,
unlike shooting or stabbing,

you have the option
at any moment

of releasing your hands
and saving the person's life.

The terror on the face becomes
enmeshed with sexual arousal,

so the process of dying
is what turns him on,

not a sexual act itself.

Relph: It was clear
that he wanted Josephine.

I think he'd have killed
10 people in that house

if they'd have been
between him and Josephine.

He obviously spent the most time
with Josephine.

Josephine was moved to
the basement of the house...

and she was hung.

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That was so sad and so --
so horrible and so callous

and so cold that he would do
what he did to a child.

Singular:
He masturbated at the scene,

which becomes significant
in terms of forensics

because he's leaving
behind DNA samples.

Otis: A lab investigator
took samples of that semen,

put it in a paper bag,

stapled it shut,
and turned it in as evidence

because there was no
scientific testing to do.

1974, that went on a shelf
in an evidence facility.

I don't think people knew
how to spell DNA much less --

from a law-enforcement
point of view --

much less knew what the value is
to preserve that,

but there is one thing
policemen did know

and the investigator was
an incredible imagination for --

you don't know
what you don't know,

but he knew
he had to preserve that.

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Jordan:
He didn't rape the mother.

He didn't even do sexual acts
on the mother postmortem.

The idea that his focus was on
the 11-year-old girl

really indicates to me

that he's fundamentally
a pedophile.

Morton:
With Josephine Otero, he said,

"When I saw her bound out of
the car and up the stairs,

I knew I just had to have her."

O'Connor:
Josie was a little girl.

If that isn't a pedophile,
I don't know what is.

Foulston:
Four people getting killed

at home with two young children.

That was the beginning of
his quest to be on the dark side

and to do this kind of thing.

January 15, 1974,
Wichita instantly changed.

It wasn't
an innocent city anymore.

It became a city
that was afraid.

♪♪

Relph: Law enforcement at
the time were looking at it as,

"Is this a one-off?
What is this?"

There was just no reason
to slaughter this family.

Otero: From what I understand,
the police were wondering

if my father's
activities overseas

had anything to do
with their demise

and what had happened to him,

so there was a lot of questions
about overseas contacts.

Hatteberg:
As the days progressed,

our police reporters
were all over it,

trying to get information.

I remember the police chief
checking on that

somehow that this
could be related to drugs,

but it wasn't.

So they abandoned that lead.

Singular: They put 75 officers
on the case.

They contacted other
police departments.

They interrogated 800 people
in the first few weeks of it.

They set up roadblocks and were
stopping all kinds of people,

and they came up empty
on everything.

♪♪

Jordan: The perpetrator begins
to come down

from the high
of the Otero family,

and he needs the thrill
to come back.

He focuses on a particular
young woman,

21-year-old Kathryn Bright.

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Jordan:
Four members of the Otero family

are murdered in January of 1974,

and investigators are trying
to piece together the evidence

and find the killer when,
in April,

another brutal killing.

♪♪

I had many of
what I call them projects.

They were different people
in the town

that I followed, watched.

Kathryn Bright was
one of the next targets.

♪♪

♪♪

Kathryn lived in a house
just off Wichita State campus,

a rental home.

She lived with her sister,

but she had gone to lunch
with her brother, Kevin.

♪♪

Singular:
Killer breaks in.

He's lying in wait,

and he's thinking
he will be able to subdue her

and do whatever he wants
and fill his fantasy,

which is a lot of
what the crimes are about.

When they came home,
they were ambushed.

♪♪

Relph: He first says he's on the
run from California to New York

and he just wants a car
and some money.

That's an attempt to put
your victims at ease.

He orders Kevin
to tie up his sister.

Then he takes Kevin
into another room

and wants to tie him up,

and they get into
a terrible struggle.

And Kevin gets ahold of the gun.

He shoves it into his stomach,
he fires it,

and it doesn't go off.

Relph:
Kevin believed that he had gotten ahold of the guy's gun,

but unknown to him,
he had a second weapon.

Through a series of struggles,
he will shoot Kevin.

Jordan:
Kevin still gets up and fights.

The attacker has to
shoot him twice.

♪♪

He thinks he's immobilized him,

goes to take care of Kathryn
according to plan.

Kevin, who is
very incapacitated

but still somehow aware,
realizes his only hope

is to get out of the house
and flee and seek help.

Relph: Kevin went out the door
and probably let this guy know

that this thing has
totally spun out of control.

Singular: Kathryn puts up also
an incredible struggle

to try to save her life.

Jordan: The attacker, still with
Kathryn fighting and fighting,

has to resort to using a knife
to stab her repeatedly,

trying to control
and incapacitate her.

He stabs her seven times
in one place,

I believe four in another,
and then he flees.

Morton: He walks out
and walks up the street.

Why would he do that?

Because it doesn't bring
any attention to him.

♪♪

Singular: Kathryn -- she's able
to crawl out of her room,

crawl into another room,

bleeding profusely,
get to the phone.

She calls the operator,

and the police come
and they get her.

Jordan: An ambulance
is dispatched to the address

to gather up Kathryn
and take her to the hospital,

but sadly, within hours,
she dies at that hospital

while Kevin is trying
to give a statement

to the police
describing the perpetrator.

Foulston: There was a picture
that was drawn of the person --

mustache and a beanie
kind of winter hat.

♪♪

Hatteberg: When Kathryn Bright
was murdered,

no one had a clue

that it was related
to the Oteros in any way.

Otis:
The Bright case had appeared

to be more of
an aggravated robbery,

a home-invasion robbery
where it was chaos.

There was gunshots fired,
there was stabbing.

It really did not compare,
crime-scene wise, to the Oteros.

Jordan: So, other than
the common denominator

of a home invasion
in the middle of the day,

the police had no real reason
to link this to the same person.

Morton: BTK studied a lot
about police techniques.

He knew that the police,
basically,

were looking for a common M.O.,
a method of operation.

He would wear disguises,

so if witnesses saw him,
he would look different.

He would speak with an accent
if he talked to anybody

so there would be misinformation
out there

because he didn't want
to get caught.

♪♪

Otis:
Later in 1974, towards the fall,

two brothers
and a friend of theirs

claimed knowledge
of the Otero homicides.

Eagle reporters found out
about it

and wrote a story about it.

Otis: And then, one day,
a Wichita Eagle reporter

took a phone call at his desk.

The caller advised him
that there was a letter

at the Wichita Public Library

and named a library book
that the letter would be in,

told the reporter,
"If you go get that letter

and read it,
I think you'll enjoy it."

Hatteberg: And in that letter
was a description of the scene

at the Otero house

that only the killer
would know about.

The public didn't know
about them,

but the police knew about it,

and they knew,
"Oh, this guy's real.

This is the guy who did it."

♪♪

This letter was sent
by the killer to make it clear,

"You don't have
the right people."

This killer didn't want anybody
taking credit.

Jordan: He is beginning to toy
with the police,

basically mocking them.

That's all part of his craving
need for power at all times.

Mattingly:
He had some very detailed words

about what he wanted people
to know about it.

He said, "When this monster
entered my brain,

I will never know,
but it is here to stay.

Maybe you can stop him. I can't.

He has already chosen
his next victim."

When you read, "There's a
monster inside of him,"

that's really not true,
at least in my experience.

What you see is you have
somebody who has

psychopathic traits there,

total lack of empathy
for victims.

Why?

How do we know he he has lack
of empathy for his victims?

Because he kills them.

People like that --
they call them psychopaths.

♪♪

In that same letter,
BTK gave himself a name.

You'll know me by the way
I bind them

and I'll torture them
and I'll kill them.

The BTK nomenclature --
"bind, torture, kill."

And that's how he wanted
to be known.

Jordan: He is telling you
what to call him,

which is simply a demonstration
of his need

for power and control.

Singular: Once the Wichita
police department realize

that they're communicating
with the killer,

they make the decision
not to publicize it

because they think maybe
that will keep him

from killing again.

They all turn out to be wrong.

Morton:
He had another potential target.

That one wasn't home.

He was feeling very frustrated,
and then, up the street

comes this little kid
carrying a grocery bag.

♪♪

♪♪

Welcome back to
"Very Scary People."

BTK, "bind, torture, kill,"
was the name he gave himself

after confessing
to the Otero family murders.

BTK threatened
he would kill again,

but as time passed
and there were no new victims,

police wondered if he had moved
on to torment another city --

until March 1977.

♪♪

Singular: Almost three years
after he committed

the Kathryn Bright murder,

he has gone out again
for a kill.

Again, the M.O.
Is slightly different here.

Morton: He targeted a house
where there was two females,

and he wanted to see
if he could kill two females

at the same time.

He went there.
They weren't home.

He had another potential target.

That one wasn't home.

He was feeling very frustrated.

♪♪

So I just started
going through the neighborhood.

I'd been through back alleys,

knew where
some certain people live.

While I was walking,
I met a young boy.

♪♪

Jordan: It's March 17, 1977,
and Shirley Vian,

a 26-year-old mom
with three young children,

is sick in bed with the flu.

Because she's so sick,

all of the children
have stayed at home that day.

She sends her 5-year-old son,
Steven,

down the street
to the local grocery store

to pick up some soup for her
and the kids to eat.

♪♪

Relph: On his return,
he's walking back,

and he's approached by a man

who shows him a picture
of a mother and a child,

says, "Do you know
where these people live?"

He says he's a private
investigator working a case.

He now watches
this 5-year-old boy named Steven

walk up to his own home
and enter the door.

And he decides impulsively this
is going to be his next target.

♪♪

Morton: He watched him
walk into the house.

A minute later,
he knocks on the door.

♪♪

♪♪

Has a gun, forces his way in.

Now, this is
completely spontaneous.

I mean, anybody could've been
inside that house.

Jordan: Shirley Vian's
extremely confused.

Why is this man
in her living room?

The children seem confused
and upset, as well,

and she tries to cooperate...

when he suddenly announces

that he has a problem
with sexual fantasies

that she needs to help him with,
that she can't get out of this,

things are going to happen,
they won't be pleasant,

but she can survive
if she cooperates.

She actually helps him shepherd
the children into the bathroom

and lock the door...
thinking, of course,

that the children
will be protected

if they can't see or experience
what's about to happen to her.

♪♪

Morton:
He then takes Shirley Vian

into the bedroom to assault her.

♪♪

In the meantime,
the kids are yelling,

and the phone rings.

Jordan: It interrupts
the fantasy of BTK --

the children screaming
and crying, the phone ringing.

The fantasy is not there.

The kids were really
banging on the door,

hollering and screaming,
and then the telephone rang.

So I cleaned everything up
real quick-like

and got out of there,
left and went back into my car.

♪♪

Jordan:
The children actually manage

to break the bathroom window

and crawl out, running for help
to the neighbors.

Relph: Her neighbor comes over,
and Shirley is found.

She has a bag over her head.

She's got a ligature
around her neck.

There's attempts to save her,
but she's gone.

There will be a letter
that arrives later on

that specifically says
the Vian kids were very lucky.

He had every intention
of killing those kids, too.

The phone call
and breaking the window

basically saved
the little kids' lives.

♪♪

Jordan: BTK has now struck
for the third time,

and police who would be working
these cases

would be looking
for patterns and similarities.

Once again, there was no real
physical evidence.

The child who witnessed
the intruder come in

gave
a fairly vanilla description

of a white man
dressed in a suit.

The victimology
is completely different.

The killer's behavior
is completely different.

Other than strangulation
in the first and the third,

it just doesn't seem
that the same person

would be responsible
for all three attacks.

Otis: However, the binding
of the victim on her legs

and her arms are what keyed
the police department in

to matching that one
to the Otero case.

The knots were the same.
The rope was kind of the same.

So that one was lumped into
the BTK cases at that point.

Relph:
We knew of M.O., but certainly,

we hadn't come to appreciate
what's called "signatures,"

things that a killer does
just for themselves.

Certainly, some of the binding
of some of his victims

was just for him.

It didn't further
the completion of the crime.

Otis: I believed this guy
had to be just as smart as us

when it came to ways
to catch him --

fingerprints and hairs
and fibers --

because he was being very,
very careful not to give us any.

Jordan: With this third attack,
it wasn't well-Planned.

These were not
his intended victims.

Shirley Vian was outside of
his normal, careful procedures.

Jordan: One of the more baffling
aspects is that this is a man

who had cased the home
of two young women

and had his sexual fantasy
and his plan all worked out.

When it went south, why didn't
he just pack his briefcase

and go back to work?

It really doesn't make sense
that he would impulsively

and randomly pick on the home
of a 5-year-old child.

When we finally asked him
about that, I said,

"Why did you veer so far from
your very strict discipline?"

And he said, "Well, I was just
all wound up that day."

♪♪

Burgess: That happens,
where they will plan something,

it doesn't work out,
but they're on a high

and they have to find someone.

And so that's where
the impulsive aspect comes.

It moves from a plan,
and that fails,

and then they're really angry,
so the anger gets built up,

and they just find a situation
where they can strike.

Foulston:
It was unpredictable,

and that really was
so disruptive to our community

because nobody knew where, when,
why, or who was gonna be next.

♪♪

Hatteberg:
When he made the phone call from a public pay phone,

a firefighter came up
right after him

and was able to have
a description of him.

♪♪

♪♪

Jordan: A serial killer
is preying on Wichita, Kansas.

In March of 1977,
after a three-year hiatus,

he returned to claim
his sixth victim.

By December,
he's on the hunt again.

♪♪

BTK had an elaborate system
for finding his victims.

Trolling came first,

then stalking,
then naming a project.

He would start with the process
of trolling,

which might just be
riding around neighborhoods,

looking for women.

Hatteberg:
I asked him, I said,

"So, how did you pick
your victims?"

And he said, "I would be
driving down the street,

and I would see a woman
standing on her porch

or I'd see a woman
walking down the street."

♪♪

"And I'd point my finger at her,
and I'd say, 'She's next.'"

Singular: So then he would start
the process of stalking.

Stalking would involve
an individual,

and he would
settle in on her.

♪♪

Hatteberg: And then
he would stalk these people

for a period of time.

He wanted to know
all the information

that he could get publicly
about them.

Singular: He would then name
his project --

again, a very organized
process for him.

♪♪

When he gets to Nancy Fox,

it will be called
"Project Fox Hunt."

At first, she was spotted,

and then I did
a little homework.

I dropped by once
to check the mailbox

to see what her name was,
found out where she worked.

I stopped by there once,
at Helzberg,

kind of sized her up.

The more I knew about a person,

the more I felt comfortable
with it,

so I did that a couple times.

And then I just selected
a night.

♪♪

Jordan: Nancy Fox is
a 25-year-old single woman.

She has her own place,
lives alone,

and really is in control
of her life.

She has a full-time job
at an architectural company,

a part-time job at night.

♪♪

Singular: Before Nancy
has come home, he breaks in.

He goes into her closet.

♪♪

She does come home.

She's eating a hamburger.

♪♪

And he bolts out of the closet.

When Nancy finds this man
standing in front of her,

she actually tells him
to get out of her house.

Relph: He thought she was spunky
because she was like,

"I'm gonna call the police."

And he said, "That ain't
gonna do you no good.

The phone's already
taken care of."

Jordan:
She stands up to him.

This really just feeds
his fantasy

because he is going to make sure
she knows who's boss.

He tells her that he's suffering
from sexual problems

and that she needs
to help him with that

and that if she cooperates,
nothing bad will happen to her.

Singular: And this is
the first time really that he is

actually
in control of the situation

and he can actually act out what
he had fantasized about doing.

And she was like,
"Well, let's get this over with

so I can go call the police."

I think at the time,

women were taught
to submit to sexual assaults,

rather than try to fight off
an attacker,

which it's different now.

Singular:
So he ties her up.

He does very elaborate knots,

and he does
the BTK routine again.

He tortures her through
the strangulation process.

He brings her up
to the point of dying.

♪♪

Then he whispered in her ear...
"I'm BTK."

Jordan:
Don't forget that "BTK"

stands for
"bind, torture, and kill."

He has her bound, he's in
the process of killing her,

but the torture is
the whispering in her ear.

"I'm BTK.
I killed the Otero family.

I am now killing you
and strangling you."

This is psychological torture.

It would leave her dying
in absolute terror.

O'Connor: He will describe that
she put up a hell of a fight

that actually turned him on
even more.

♪♪

Once she is dead, then he will
masturbate at the crime scene.

He will leave behind semen
and DNA.

When BTK killed Nancy Fox,
he left her bound, strangled,

and deceased on her bed,
left the house.

The next morning, he realized
that nobody had found her body.

He wanted the police to know
that he had struck again.

So BTK went to a pay phone,
called the operator,

because in those days,
there was no 911.

He called the operator and asked
to be transferred to the police.

The police responded
to that address

and found her body on the bed.

Jordan: It wasn't that he wanted
to get caught.

He wanted the cat-and-mouse game
to begin,

and if he has to call in
the murder himself

and report it so that the police
can be on the hunt for him,

that he will do so that
he can gain the upper hand,

a feeling of superiority.

"You don't even know
I killed somebody,

and you're not gonna catch me."

When he made the phone call
from a public pay phone,

a firefighter came up
right after him

and was able to have
a description of him,

and the phone
was just dangling there.

So he was almost caught
at that point.

♪♪

Otis: When the
crime-scene investigators found the DNA stain

on the female clothing
on the bed, they collected it,

bagged it properly,
once again, sealed the bag.

They knew that it was semen,

but there was no DNA testing
at that time.

And so they packaged it
properly, sealed it up,

and put it with the rest
of the evidence of that case.

Singular: This is the second
time that he's done this.

He did it at the Otero
crime scene in '74.

He's now doing it in '77.

He doesn't really know
or understand

that genetic material
can be preserved over decades.

O'Connor:
Nancy Fox is the first one where

he will take a driver's license,

a memento, which is consistent
with serial killers.

The souvenir,
taking a driver's license,

was really about him
reliving the moment.

Burgess: I work with
criminal-personality

research studies
on serial killers.

That's the way it keeps
the fantasy alive,

and a lot of times,
that can work.

He can look at
the driver's license,

and that reminds him of that
and can be used

as a sexual stimulus for him --
until that starts to wane

and then he has to go
and find another victim.

Morton:
BTK was interesting

because he basically created
his own pornography.

He would draw pictures
of women in bondage,

tied up,
looks of fear on their face.

That's what he was trying
to capture was that terror,

that terror that excited him.

Hatteberg: So I called him
at home and said,

"You need to get in here now.

I think we have a letter
from a killer."

♪♪

It's almost two months since BTK
called in to the local police,

self-reporting the homicide
he committed on Nancy Fox,

and there just doesn't
seem to be any attention

being paid to this murder.

Not only that,
the police have never linked

all three of them together.

So on January 31, 1978,

BTK sends a cryptic little
child's rhyme

to the local paper,
The Wichita Eagle.

He creates a poem
called "Shirley Locks"

about the murder
of Shirley Vian,

based on the poem called
"Curly Locks."

♪♪

It ended up in the classified
department of The Eagle.

Singular:
He thinks that this is somehow going to draw attention.

There's no report about it.
There's no story about it.

♪♪

After 10 days, he finally sends
a new letter

to the local TV station.

If the newspaper's not going to
pay attention to him,

maybe the TV station will.

♪♪

Hatteberg:
It was February 10, 1978,

and I get a call
from a receptionist.

And her voice is quivering
just a little bit.

And she says,
"I think I have something

that maybe could be important."

So I walked out front,

and she's holding up this letter
just by the edges.

It turned out to be a letter
from BTK.

Jordan: There was a poem titled
"Oh! Death to Nancy."

To the left of the poem
was typed "BTK" four times,

and beside each,
he added tiny hangman nooses.

There was also a pencil drawing
of a woman bound and gagged

and a two-page letter

with some
of the words misspelled.

BTK wrote, "I find the newspaper

not writing about the poem
on Vian unamusing.

There's a psycho running loose,
strangling mostly women.

There are seven in the ground.

Who will be next?

The writer,
who claimed to be BTK,

admitted to the murders
of the Otero family,

Shirley Vian, Nancy Fox.

He admitted to and gave details
of all of those homicides.

Relph:
There was no confusion anymore

that all these cases
were connected.

Singular: KAKE realized
they had a big story,

but they took it
to the police department.

Hatteberg: Chief Lamunyon looked
at the letter, and he said

basically that it was time
to release the letter

because we now had
a serial killer.

Singular: Lamunyon made
the decision at that point

to go on television
and announce

that there was a serial killer
in Wichita by the name of BTK.

This morning,
KAKE-TV was contacted

by the person who police say
they believe murdered

four members of the Joseph Otero
family in January of 1974.

So, that evening,
the police chief of Wichita

appeared on our air at 6:00.

We have an individual
who apparently has

the uncontrollable desire
to kill at times.

He is not a rational person
during that frame of mind.

As your letter indicates,
he tries to fight off

the demons in his head
but is unable to do so,

so there's just no question
in the police's mind

as to the fact that
this individual is responsible

for seven murders in our city.

Hatteberg: We didn't know we had
a serial killer.

We knew we had a bad guy.

Serial killer,
we didn't know about.

That was a terrifying
and clarifying moment

for the people of Wichita.

Nobody expected
a serial killer here.

Foulston:
People were really concerned

about having locks
on their doors,

about who might be calling them
or them not having the telephone

or just walking into the house

and finding the telephone wires
had been cut.

BTK was utterly
the bogeyman to all of us.

He was the bogeyman made real.

Jordan:
BTK is finally in his glory.

It's been four years
since the Otero murder,

and finally, he's on the news.

This is important because
he's launched the investigation,

actually giving police the clues
they need to try to catch him.

And this is just going to
make him feel like he is God.

♪♪

There was criticism
in the community --

"Why can't you catch this guy?"

Jordan:
What's different about him

and what's unusual is
the randomness of the victims,

which is why he was able
to get away with it.

He's perfecting his craft.

He's trying to be very good
at what he does.

Jordan: For a serial killer's
power and control,

they're very often not able
to control their compulsions.

The cooling-off period
usually gets

shorter and shorter
and shorter.

The thrill is gone.
They have to get out there.

They have to kill again.

♪♪

Gagliano:
These homicidal maniacs,

they think they're smarter
than the rest of us,

and they think that
they're going to pull off

the perfect crime,
and it doesn't exist.

The arrogance was part
of his downfall.

Hatteberg: We're not getting
any communication

from the police departments.

Something is happening.

Something is going on.

Woman: This guy?
This is the killer?

So I finally looked at him
and said,

"Come on,
just tell us who you are."

And he said, "I'm BTK."

BTK had killed seven people,
including two children.

He was taunting law enforcement
with clues,

but police were no closer
to discovering his identity.

Although he left his DNA
at two murder scenes,

DNA testing and tracing did
not yet exist,

so the killing would go on --
until a stunning twist

that would finally end
the terror.

That's in part two of "BTK."

I'm Donnie Wahlberg.
Thanks for watching.

Goodnight.