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Original subtitles

- NARRATOR: They are the deadliest predators

on the planet.

this was somebody that was interested

in inflicting pain

and I was sure people had died there.

- NARRATOR: No killer is as cold, cunning,

or bloodthirsty.

- REPORTER: Police think there may be the remains

of 15 victims of yet another so-called serial killer.

- NARRATOR: And they may be closer than you think.

- He's the guy who's behind you in the supermarket line.

- NARRATOR: These killers don't hunt in search of food,

they pursue perverted fantasies.

- He became sexually aroused when he watched

his grandmother kill a chicken.

And he wanted to replicate that.

- NARRATOR: And they lust for power and control.

- The death is prolonged in such a way that

every excruciating pain that is imaginable

is part of the thrill.

- NARRATOR: What creates these cold-blooded monsters?

What drives their warped psyches?

- There's the fusion of a sexual thought

with violence, and it becomes sexually arousing to them.

- NARRATOR: Now, rare recordings of the voices and visions

of serial killers...

- I got the hand on her, got a nylon sock,

started strangling...

- NARRATOR: ...Plunges deep inside their complex

and twisted minds.

"Serial Psyche."

- ♪

- NARRATOR: March 22nd, 1999.

A terrified woman runs down a country road.

She's naked except for a metal dog collar

attached to a six-foot chain.

- WOMAN: [panting, crying]

- NARRATOR: The young woman barges into

a double-wide trailer, screaming for help.

- WOMAN: [crying]

- NARRATOR: The homeowner calls 911.

- And she told this amazing story,

and the story was that she had been abducted in Albuquerque

and she had been chained up and kept in a sunken room

in this man's house, chained to a post.

She had a bed and she had a bucket for a toilet.

And she had been systematically raped and tortured

over a period of three days.

- WOMAN: [crying]

- NARRATOR: The woman's name is Cynthia Vigil.

It's clear she has looked into the eyes of pure evil.

Cynthia directs police to the home of David Parker Ray,

and what they find there leads them

to one of history's most horrifying series of crimes.

- ♪

- So when the sheriff's department responds

into this house, they discover everything

is exactly--supports what Cindy Vigil's account

of events were.

- NARRATOR: They find a room in disarray,

with clear signs of a struggle.

Rich Libicer is the lead case agent

for the New Mexico State Police.

- They soon went down one of the short hallways

into another room, which they thought was a bedroom,

and discovered, uh, all kinds of...

sadomasochistic sexual devices the likes of which

nobody had ever seen.

Um, they did not appear designed for pleasure,

they definitely appeared designed to inflict pain.

They had all been modified, some had nails, uh,

melted into the plastic and bent.

- NARRATOR: Then, police find a trailer

next to the house, and none of them are prepared

for what they discover.

- So when you walk in the trailer, um,

the first thing you're gonna see is the centerpiece,

which is a gynecological chair.

A black gynecological chair,

and immediately suspended above it is this rack

of harnesses and pulleys and trusses,

all of which had manacles on them.

On the walls adjacent to it are devices

that made the devices inside the house look like

kids' toys, hese were obviously

painful...kind of implements.

I mean, I've never seen anything like it.

The space was evil. The space was sinister and mean.

- NARRATOR: David Parker Ray calls this $100,000 sound-proof

torture chamber his toy box.

- As soon as I went into the trailer and saw

what was inside the utility trailer...

I--I had two reactions.

First of all, I knew we were dealing

with somebody that was very, very accomplished

at this behavior, whatever it was.

They were obviously consumed by this,

this was very important to them,

whatever was going on in this trailer.

Second of all, I was sure people had died there.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: David Parker Ray is a serial killer.

This label places him in the most heinous category

of these offenders.

He's a psychopathic, serial sexual sadist.

Dr. Michael Stone and Dr. Gary Brucato

are experts on violent crime,

including serial sexual homicide.

Together they author the book, "The New Evil,

Understanding the Emergence of Modern Violent Crime."

- David Parker Ray being an example of a charming man

with--would go to bars and lure, uh,

either prostitutes or other women who would be

willing to go with him for a night of drinking,

you know, to his house, only to then end up

in the infamous toy box, a mobile home that he converted

into a torture chamber.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: Cynthia Vigil is a 21-year-old prostitute

and heroin addict.

Ray knows her disappearance is unlikely

to arouse suspicion.

He can take his time with his victim.

And she will experience unspeakable torture.

- Hanging on a wall inside the utility room

was a check list, and it was a,

"How to handle a captured victim,"

and, uh, it had check boxes next to it,

but it was an instruction manual,

how to deal with an abducted woman who was being tortured.

- But before the torture began, the woman might be drugged

and chained, hoisted to the ceiling and forced to listen

to an extremely long, droning tape of Ray

describing in detail all of the acts to which

she was going to be subjected.

- NARRATOR: Commander Vernon Gebreth is a world-renowned

homicide investigator.

He trains law enforcement on how to deal

with these extreme killers.

Ray's introductory tape is a powerful element

in his lectures to police officers.

- This is probably one of the most horrendous tapes

I've ever heard, and there's a few--I've heard some bad ones.

I've heard, uh, tapes of people being tortured,

sexually tortured, but... this one is terrible because

you have that psychopathic, monotone voice talking about

what he's going to do to this body.

And it's outrageous.

And the tape describes what's gonna happen to them.

I'll play a segment.

- DAVID PARKER RAY: Hello, there, bitch.

Are you comfortable right now? I doubt it.

Wrists and ankles chained, gagged, probably blindfolded.

You are disoriented and scared, too, I would imagine.

Perfectly normal under the circumstances.

For a little while, at least, you need to get your [bleep]

together, it is very relevant to your situation.

I'm going to tell you in detail

why you have been kidnapped, what's going to happen to you,

and how long you'll be here.

- That is scary.

You hear that voice?

He recorded that tape in July 23rd, 1993.

I can't imagine how many women heard that tape

before they were tortured and/or killed. It's horrible.

- NARRATOR: Ray's tape is carefully designed

to induce maximum terror and strip away

any last shred of power, hope, or personal identity.

This is key in satisfying the sexual sadist.

- This is another part of that kind of meticulous behavior,

but he had crafted this kind of, uh, ominous welcome

to them just to put them in a psychological state of terror.

And I think that's a method of control.

But it's also, I think, because David enjoyed

seeing fear and pain in another person.

- Important element in a sadistic man committing

serial sexual homicide, uh, is the reveling,

the joyfulness in causing intense pain and humiliation

to another human being.

- The torture of that individual becomes sometimes

a means in and of itself, the death is prolonged

in such a way that the end of every excruciating

pain that is imaginable is part of the thrill.

- David Parker Ray didn't wanna kill 'em,

he wants to cause them pain, it's the infliction of pain

and watching the victim suffer that was exciting for him.

- NARRATOR: The tape offers insight

into David Parker Ray's motives.

- DAVID PARKER RAY: In my case, I cannot get off with a girl

unless I hurt her first.

That's basically the reason I'm into rape and slavery.

And the reason that you're going to be subjected

to a certain amount of pain.

Actually, that pretty well covers it.

- Yes, instilling the fear,

psychologically breaking them down,

making them compliant, and if you hear what he says,

is that he is basically telling them,

"If you're docile and you work on going along with this,

you may eventually be released."

So there's that hope,

there's that piece of hope out there that,

"Maybe I'll get out of this, but it's gonna hurt."

- NARRATOR: For Ray, prolonging the torture

is critical.

- He had knowledge of things like medical techniques

where he would bring the person close

to the brink of death and then revive them

with medical equipment so that the individual did not die

during the act, um, as much as they may have wished

at the moment that they would have died...

- DAVID PARKER RAY: Well, I believe I told you about

everything that I can, and I cannot predict the future,

I can't predict changes of procedure,

and I can only give you advice.

Be smart and be a survivor.

Don't ever scream, don't talk without permission,

be very quiet.

Be docile and obedient.

And by all means, show proper respect.

Have a nice day.

- NARRATOR: David Parker Ray's crimes span more than 40 years.

He's believed to have brutally tortured and killed

more than 50 women.

- I mean, investigatively speaking,

I'd call him a human predator.

Clinically speaking, I'd say

he's a psychopathic sexual sadist.

Theologically speaking, I'd call him the devil on earth.

It's like a ghost, not looking for fame and glory

or recognition, simply slipping through society

like a dark cloud.

- [bird wings flapping]

- NARRATOR: The most heinous breed of serial killers

are identified as psychopathic sexual sadists.

For them, murder is not enough.

These monsters are addicted to rape and torture

before they kill.

At the core of their evil is that they are psychopaths.

This is the diagnosis of 95% of serial killers.

Dr. Bryanna Fox is an expert on psychopaths,

serial killers, and violent offenders.

- A psychopath is somebody who is narcissistic,

cold and callous.

They have very low empathy for others

and they're very willing to break laws and norms

to do exactly what they want.

This is somebody who doesn't have a lot of emotion

and doesn't really feel bad

when they commit crimes or hurt others.

All of that is very characteristic of someone

who's willing to commit crimes against other people,

including murder.

- NARRATOR: Certainly, not all psychopaths are criminals,

but it's frequently a trait of serial killers.

And what makes them extraordinary

is just how ordinary they appear.

David Parker Ray is a master mechanic

for the New Mexico State Parks Department.

- He was very clever, if you think about it.

Here he is, a state employee.

Uh, I believe in 1995,

he got an Employee of the Year award.

[chuckles] Okay?

'Cause nobody knew what he was doing

back in his little compound.

"He's a reliable employee, we don't need to supervise him."

So here's a guy who's operating separately from everybody else,

and on the surface, everything looks fine.

- [indistinct bar chatter]

- NARRATOR: Ray uses his psychopath's charms

to convince victims to come to his home,

only to end up in his so-called toy box.

- [indistinct bar chatter continues]

- NARRATOR: One of Ray's favorite tricks

is to pose as a police officer.

Investigators find authentic uniforms, gear,

and badges in his home.

Cynthia Vigil, the escapee from the toy box,

had been lured in by this deceit.

- [police sirens blaring]

- One morning I was walking to the restaurant,

and this guy came up to me and told me that...

he had asked for me, so I went over there,

and he acted like a cop and told me I was under arrest.

And he put his handcuffs on me,

and he had me in his trailer, and he drove me

to Elephant Butte... ...and he...

did a lot of sick stuff.

- NARRATOR: Vigil quickly becomes one

of David Parker Ray's sex slaves.

He is now her master.

She's horrified to find out that Ray has an accomplice.

The toy box is also ruled by a mistress.

- NARRATOR: New Mexico State Police investigate the home

of 59-year-old David Parker Ray,

a suspected sadistic serial killer.

They find a soundproof trailer outfitted as a torture chamber.

The tools they discover inside the dungeon

offer clear evidence of acts of unimaginable cruelty.

And terrifying insight into the mind

of a psychopathic serial sexual sadist.

But meanwhile, to his neighbors and coworkers,

Ray is just a friendly, regular guy.

- When you spoke to David, the--the--the David that you got

was an intelligent, articulate,

kind of wry sense of humor...

You never got the feeling when you were talking to him

that you were dealing with somebody that was

inherently evil or was capable of this kind of behavior.

He was excellent at shielding that part of himself

from anybody.

- NARRATOR: David Parker Ray's charm

not only attracts victims.

In a shocking revelation, investigators discover

that he has convinced accomplices to assist

in his heinous acts.

Including his own daughter, Jessie Ray.

- Also, he had a daughter lure women, uh, to the toy box,

there was one incident where she bopped a woman

over the head in a bar, uh,

with a beer bottle, after drugging her.

Uh, and, um, they brought her home and she was tortured.

- NARRATOR: Ray also has a live-in girlfriend

who becomes his partner in crime for several years,

named Cindy Hendy.

Ray is the dungeon master.

Hendy is the mistress.

Shockingly, Cindy Hendy and Jessie Ray lure in victims,

and Hendy also participates in the torture

of the young women.

- The fact that he incorporated a female accomplice,

that's not very common.

Not many serial killers have a female accomplice

that actually participates in the sexual assault

of another woman.

While she was with him,

she talks about doing 18 packages.

Those are victims.

- NARRATOR: During this time, Ray also persuades

a friend of Jessie's named Roy Yancy to join the group.

Ray convinces Yancy to murder one of their torture victims,

Marie Parker.

Together, they dump her body in the desert,

outside of Truth or Consequences.

- David seemed to have this ability, uh,

to manipulate people, and he would surround himself

with people who were easily controlled

and easily, uh, manipulated,

um, and who were much less intelligent than he was.

In a manner of speaking, he's brainwashing them,

he's...providing them with the things they want,

he's making them feel good about themselves,

he's filling a hole somehow in their life,

and out of gratitude for that or whatever that is,

or out of this idea that they have this meaningful

relationship with him, they'll basically do

whatever he wants them to do.

- WOMAN: [panting]

- NARRATOR: After Cynthia Vigil's escape,

and the discovery of the toy box,

David Parker Ray and Cindy Hendy are arrested.

Ray claims he was just helping Vigil detox

from her heroin addiction,

and all the rough sex was consensual.

- That was David's whole story, that--that any sex

that they would've had during that time was consensual,

she was a prostitute, he was-- he would pay her for that.

This was his approach, and he was very, very confident

in this kind of approach.

- NARRATOR: Meanwhile, the state police and the FBI

set up a task force in nearby Truth or Consequences, NM.

They are convinced there must be more victims.

- So what we were interested in doing was trying to kind of

co-locate David with known missing persons,

so if we could put David in the vicinity at the time

that a particular person was reported missing,

we could make some kind of a connection there

and maybe follow that up as a lead and see

if we could develop any evidence.

What we were able to do was to show the possibility

of upwards of 90 to 95 potential, uh, events,

missing person events that David Parker Ray was

in the vicinity at the time, we can place him there

at the time that person was reported missing.

- NARRATOR: But Ray's victims are tough to track.

Typically, they are prostitutes or runaways.

Young women who won't be missed.

After torturing and killing them,

he cleverly hides the corpses in the vast New Mexico desert.

Or in Elephant Butte Lake, next to his home.

Investigators can't find any bodies,

despite finding Ray's hand-drawn treasure map.

- RICH: This is Elephant Butte Lake, Elephant Butte Reservoir,

and it's 42 miles long.

Um, when we found the map that had Xs on it, for example,

one X would be up there, what we call Kettle Top,

the large plateau off in the distance.

And then there would be other Xs, like over here,

by Rattlesnake Island.

There would be an X down here in this part of the, uh,

the lake, which leads down to the Elephant Butte itself.

And we had dive missions in all of those places,

but you kinda get an idea the challenge you're facing.

Even in the best of conditions, it's very, very difficult

to locate something under water.

- NARRATOR: David Parker Ray has operated under the radar

for decades.

The number of victims is unknown.

He skillfully hides his crimes,

and law enforcement doesn't even realize

there was a serial killer on the loose.

But not all psychopathic serial sexual sadists

enjoy lurking in the shadows.

Some crave the media spotlight.

Like the brutal serial murderer known as Bind, Torture and Kill.

- NARRATOR: Law enforcement is searching for more victims

of one of history's most horrific and cunning

serial killers: David Parker Ray.

They develop leads on a possible 95 victims that could've been

abducted by the prolific murderer.

Ray has operated totally under the radar for over 40 years,

but meanwhile, a different breed of sadistic serial killer

is on the loose, one who craves the spotlight.

He would soon earn the gruesome nickname,

the Bind, Torture, Kill Strangler.

January 15th, 1974.

It's a quiet morning in this Wichita neighborhood.

An armed invader cuts the phone line

and forces its way into this home.

Joseph Otero, his wife Julie,

their nine-year-old son, Joseph II,

and 11-year-old daughter Josephine

all hope this is only a robbery.

- WOMAN: [screaming]

- NARRATOR: The Oteros are bound

and strangled to death,

and there is clear evidence of sexual violence and torture.

The young girl is hung on a pipe in the basement.

The murderer masturbates on her lifeless body.

The killer leaves no concrete leads,

and the case grows cold.

- [sirens blaring]

- NARRATOR: Then, in October, three suspects

are taken into custody for the crime.

And suddenly, a chilling letter arrives

at the Wichita Eagle newspaper.

The letter declares:

"Those three dudes you have in custody are just talking

"to get publicity for the Otero murders.

"They know nothing at all.

"I did it by myself and with no one's help.

Let's put it straight."

- This was his homicide, he wanted credit for that,

so he sends a letter to the press.

"Those three dudes that you have in custody did not do it,

I did this."

And then he begins to articulate

that only someone who was at the crime scene would know

the location and position of each of the bodies.

- NARRATOR: The writer signs the letter,

"Yours truly, guiltily," with a post-script.

- He then concludes with the fact that

he will continue to kill and he wants to be called

BTK, for Bind, Torture and Kill.

"And from now on, when you hear from me,

it will be BTK."

- NARRATOR: The killer's real name is Dennis Rader,

he's a church-going family man, respected in the community.

Later brutally murders at least ten people.

The hunt to find him will last over 30 years.

Like David Parker Ray, he's also a psychopathic

serial sexual sadist.

But Dennis Rader is fueled by somewhat different desires.

While David Parker Ray makes every effort

to hide his crimes,

Dennis Rader lobbies for publicity.

Rader is thought to have been driven by narcissism.

That means he feels he possesses unique talents and believes

he's entitled to special treatment.

- When you have a malignant narcissist, he gets off on

the thrill that he's a threat, that he's somebody.

In real life, he's nobody, but in this persona, the BTK,

he's someone to be reckoned with,

and that's what's driving him.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: Ray and Rader hunt for two different types

of prey.

David Parker Ray's anonymous victims

go missing completely.

But Dennis Rader targets ordinary citizens.

And then he poses the corpses in provocative positions.

- These victims were everyday people,

residents of Wichita, Kansas.

And basically, he had literally terrorized the city of Wichita,

because nobody knew where he would come.

People would come in and the first thing they would do

is they'd go to the phone and pick it up to see

if it was dead, that's how paranoid people became.

Because in the newspapers, a report that he would

cut the phone lines of each of his victims' houses.

So that was one of his signatures.

- NARRATOR: After three more murders,

Rader sends his next letter,

asking, "How many do I have to kill before I get a name

in the paper or some national attention?"

David Parker Ray and Dennis Rader may be

two different types of sexual sadists,

but at their core, both are lethal psychopaths.

So the key questions that still puzzle experts are,

how do people become psychopaths?

And then, how do they go on to be sadistic serial killers?

- It's very important to make a distinction

between what we would call

primary and secondary psychopathy.

It's certainly understood that the vast majority

of serial killers are gonna demonstrate some degree

of psychopathy, um,

but when we talk about primary psychopathy,

we're referring to hereditary psychopathy,

what we might call a bad seed.

Secondary psychopathy is where an individual is so badly...

maltreated, neglected, abused, that the individual looks

an awful lot like a person who, from birth,

has this kind of proclivity, uh, and, um,

it's sometimes difficult to tease them apart.

- NARRATOR: Dennis Rader had a fairly normal upbringing,

without any evidence of abuse.

But he developed a fascination with torturing

and killing animals.

- If you look at his history,

it would lead you to believe that this was a kid that was--

had some issues when he was young.

When he was a child, he admitted that he became

sexually aroused when he watched his grandmother kill a chicken,

and he wanted to replicate that.

Children that do certain kinds of things

like killing animals, those are kids that need watching,

and those are kids that you need to attend to.

But that never happened to Dennis Rader.

- NARRATOR: It appears David Parker Ray did suffer

a cruel childhood.

He grew up in an abusive, broken home.

The socially awkward child was bullied in school,

and in adolescence, developed a fascination with drugs,

pornography, sadomasochism... and murder.

Ray claimed to have committed his first sadistic attack

when he was a young teen, and he bragged about it

in his journal.

- VERNON: Now, you link psychopathy with sexual sadism,

and what you have is a human predator.

- Ray had a very peculiar split in his personality

that seems to have developed in adolescence,

where he was capable of viewing, uh, a woman

as a good object, uh, that he could incorporate

into his crimes, idealize a little bit, um,

or view her as this garbage.

Uh, there is an infamous incident

in the life of David Parker Ray,

where he told one of the female captives

that he did not kill, if I recall, uh,

he turned to her and said, "You know, if I had known

"that you were such a good woman, uh,

"I wouldn't have thought of you as the type of person

that I would torture in the toy box."

- NARRATOR: Another common trait of sadistic serial killers

is their engagement in paraphilia.

Defined as abnormal sexual behaviors or impulses

that play out through intense and recurring sexual fantasies

and urges.

The BTK strangler always tries to perfect his techniques.

He creates gruesome sketches

and builds models of his fantasies.

- He used a ball to strengthen his fingers

because you have to keep your fingers very strong

because it takes a lot to strangle someone.

- NARRATOR: Dennis Rader methodically scouts his victims

and plans his attacks.

All while carrying on with his normal life.

- So in addition to being a church leader

and a, uh, government worker for the city,

he also was a Boy Scout leader,

and they would go on camping trips,

and he would use the camping trips as cover

for him to go out and do a hit.

Because his wife believed he was on a camping trip,

the kids were sleeping,

he would leave the camp site, take a cab,

go to the location that he had pre-surveiled,

and attack his victim.

- NARRATOR: This aspect of planning their crimes

is one area where Rader and Ray are alike.

- In the case of BTK, Dennis Rader,

and David Parker Ray, we see there's these tendencies

to journal, to sketch things out,

to plan out their future crimes.

And this is both a way to relive the crimes

that they committed in the past,

to get pleasure out of it, much like you would look through

a photo album of happy moments from the past,

or to plan out the future crimes.

- NARRATOR: David Parker Ray even uses barbie dolls

in his planning.

- He had taken these dolls and perverted them

and turned them into...

kind of a...an action figure for S&M.

I mean, they were naked, um, he had manufactured

little devices to put on them, and they were decorations

in his utility trailer.

- DR. BRUCATO: What his disturbingly vivid diaries

record is years of fantasies of torture that were worsened

by the fact that he had an incredibly brilliant knack

for, uh, creating devices... sort of technical devices...

- NARRATOR: Ray is a skilled mechanic and builder.

At work he is known to be a pack rat,

bringing home scrap items to use on "personal projects."

- So this is the headquarters for the State Park

of Elephant Butte, and David was employed here,

he was employed first at-- with State Parks as a mechanic.

If--if there were things that were left over,

little bits and pieces that he could use,

he would pack those away,

we found a garage filled with it, just scrap

and old tools and scrap metal, uh, and that--that's some

of the material he would use to create his devices.

Um, he had a ready supply of it right here at work.

- NARRATOR: For decades, Rader and Ray carried out

their gruesome attacks.

Ray feeling he's invincible and can't be caught,

while Rader thinks he's smarter than the police

and dares them to stop him before he kills again.

- NARRATOR: Sadistic serial killers are the most

brutal predators on the planet.

David Parker Ray and Dennis Rader are two

of history's most horrific examples

of this kind of murderer.

They both carry out on their monstrous acts for decades.

Their crimes are similar, but their motives and methods

are very different.

Often, these crimes worsen over time as the killers

habituate to the experience and need to intensify

the sadistic acts to get the thrill they crave.

- There are times where a sexually sadistic killer

will jump immediately into serial killing,

and in those cases, we tend to see where

there's a slight escalation in the severity of their crimes,

but more often we see it where they keep trophies

of their offenses and that helps them to relive the fantasy

to keep that high going that they had,

and also the premeditation of their next crime.

- NARRATOR: Dennis Rader exhibits a rare behavior

for a serial murderer.

He is able to completely stop killing

for long stretches of time.

He takes five victims in 1974.

Two in 1977.

Then, one a year in 1985,

1986 and 1991.

His last correspondence with the press

is received in 1988.

Commander Vernon Gebreth is brought in

as a consultant on both the Ray and BTK cases.

- VERNON: So, he remained dormant, if you think about it,

from 1988 to 2004, nobody heard anything about him.

Now, the old, uh, caveat in cases like this is that

the serial killer's either in jail or has died.

Well, guess what? BTK just rewrote the book.

[laughs] It changed all the rules.

He actually remained dormant all these years,

now how did he do that?

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- NARRATOR: Dennis Rader stashes away trophies

taken from his victims, and uses them to play

twisted, auto-erotic games.

He engages in self bondage and takes...selfies.

- So Dennis Rader in some instances would actually wear

the clothing of the victim or dress like the victim,

and put a mask over his face, okay?

And put himself in the pos-- the same position as the victims

he had killed, and he was able to relieve himself sexually

like that.

- NARRATOR: In one photo, he digs a shallow grave

and wraps himself in plastic, and wears a frightening mask.

In another, he suspends himself upside down from the trees,

all keeping the memories of his victims alive,

fulfilling his fantasies and allowing him

to stop killing.

By 2004, the case goes cold.

It's assumed BTK is in jail or dead.

- 2004, he announces that he's back.

And why is he making that announcement?

Because the Wichita Eagle had a special front-page edition,

"30-Year Anniversary of the BTK killings,"

which basically set him out again to come forward.

- NARRATOR: Over the next 12 months,

BTK sends 11 communications confirming his role

in several earlier murders, with gruesome photos

and victims' driver's licences and ID badges.

One chilling letter confirms BTK's new intentions.

- This letter was more intense, he was scary,

because he ends it with a threat.

"I have spotted a spoiled latch key kid,

"just have to work out the details.

I think fall or winter will be just about right for the hit."

So now he's doing--he's putting the authorities on alert

that he's now about to strike,

he's identified his possible victim,

and this is putting a whole new spin on it,

the pressure on the authorities is unbelievable.

- NARRATOR: Now in Wichita,

30 years after BTK first appears,

a long, dormant horror is about to rear its head

once again.

- NARRATOR: David Parker Ray, the Toy Box Killer,

and Dennis Rader, the BTK Strangler,

are two of the most evil serial killers

in the annos of crime.

Both remain on the loose for decades.

After three days of unspeakable cruelty

with David Parker Ray's toy box torture devices,

Cynthia Vigil manages to escape.

While David is out,

she's able to overcome Cindy Hendy and get free.

Finally, Ray's reign of terror comes to an end.

- WOMAN: [panting, crying]

- NARRATOR: Police find incriminating evidence

at the crime scene, but the few victims that survive

were so heavily drugged and brainwashed

that their testimony is not considered credible.

- [police siren blaring]

- NARRATOR: Investigators hunt for definitive evidence

of murder.

They continue to scour the desert

and the lake for bodies.

But they still come up empty.

In the courtroom, the judge rules against

playing Ray's introductory audio tape,

and in the first trial there's a hung jury.

Prosecutors cannot let this monster go free,

so they retry the case.

Still, they can't convict Ray of murder without a body.

But this time, the tape is played for the jury,

and finally, in 2001,

he is convicted for kidnapping and torture,

and is sentenced to 224 years in prison.

- David showed zero remorse for anything.

It wasn't that he didn't understand

the--the ramifications of what he's doing.

He just didn't care.

- NARRATOR: His daughter, Jessie Ray, cooperates

with the prosecution and only receives probation.

Cindy Hendy is sentenced to 36 years.

She is released on probation in 2019 after serving

half her sentence.

Roy Yancy, the accomplice who murdered Marie Parker

under orders from Ray also cooperates.

He agrees to take police to the site of her body,

but the corpse isn't there.

- He realized that more than he knew where that body was.

He went back, dug that body up, and put her someplace else.

Very smart, very clever. Very evil.

So when Roy Yancy--who was arrested--

admitted what he had done,

he actually brought the authorities out there,

"This is where the body was,"

but the body wasn't there anymore.

- NARRATOR: Roy Yancy is sentenced to 22 years

for the murder of Marie Parker.

David Parker Ray is sent to prison,

but just eight months later, he dies of a heart attack.

- So he dies eight months, uh, into his sentence

at a prison facility in Hobbs, New Mexico.

And it was, uh... it was frustrating, uh, for us,

because that ended any possibility we had, um,

or the best possibility we had, of being able to take something

to the families of--of his victims and say,

"Here's what happened."

These people are still, uh, at home,

with pictures of their daughter somewhere in that house,

and that daughter is dead, she's gone,

and we couldn't do anything about that.

That is what was the frustration with David's death

for all of us.

- NARRATOR: By 2004,

three decades after Dennis Rader's first murder,

the case had been declared cold.

But then the letters and other correspondence

flood into Wichita media outlets.

The BTK Strangler's ego and narcissism are his downfall.

Eventually the police trick him into sending

a floppy disk to the newspaper.

Officers are able to trace the computer files

to a desktop machine

located at Christ Lutheran Church in Wichita.

Quickly, they identify the source:

Dennis Rader, president of the congregation council.

BTK is finally stopped.

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- NARRATOR: In BTK's shocking court room confession,

he describes his methods of trolling,

then stalking his victims.

Coldly, he refers to his targets as "projects."

Like Kathryn Bright, his sixth victim.

- I had many--what I call them, projects.

They were different people in the town

that I followed, watched.

Kathryn Bright was one of the next targets.

Anyway, that's--it just--was basically a selection process,

if it worked, it worked, if it didn't work,

I just moved on to something else.

- Part of the plea agreement was that he had to admit

to each of these cases in front of the families

of the victims, which he did.

And when he articulated that, it was almost like

he was reading a laundry list.

No emotion. No emotion.

He talked about, "Well, I realized they saw me,

so I had to put 'em down."

That's an expression used for animal control.

"Putting them down."

That's what he said, "I had to put 'em down."

Just like that.

- NARRATOR: The psychopath's lack of sympathy

is clearly evident through BTK's 45-minute statement.

- I strangled her with a belt, I took the belt off

and re-tied them with pantyhose, real tight,

and in that time, um, masturbated, sir.

- NARRATOR: In August 2005, 60-year-old Dennis Rader

receives ten consecutive life sentences.

Sadistic serial killers may carry no remorse

or sympathy for their prey.

But concerns for the victims and their families

must never be ignored.

- I--I think that when we talk about serial killing,

mass killing, spree killing, and you know,

we become interested in understanding how people

can do these things and so forth,

fascinated, horrified, sometimes simultaneously.

What I have found often gets lost is the fact that

what we're talking about are crimes that involve

real human beings.

- DR. FOX: Given the fact that so many victims

of serial killers are females,

and they're younger women, um, I find it really difficult

to dissociate from that.

When I see these crime scene photos,

when I read about what had happened to these women,

oftentimes I think, "That could've been me,"

or, "That woman looks like me,"

and it's really difficult to not feel the pain,

to feel the fear that they must have felt when they were

about to go through these horrible experiences,

and I just wanna be able to prevent this type of thing

from happening in the future.

- RICH: I think the right way to present these kinds of cases

is to see if there's something to learn from them.

I would like to see--whether it's David or BTK, um,

or anything else--a presentation of how does somebody...

evolve into this? How does that happen?

And is there anything that can be done to prevent it?

Because by doing so, you're literally saving

somebody's life somewhere.

You don't know 'em, um, but they have a family, um,

they're--they're important in their world

and they don't deserve to die, um,

the way these women died.

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