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AND GOOD EVENING.

WE HAVE EXCLUSIVE DETAILS --
A NEW COMMUNICATION THAT

COULD BE FROM THE SERIAL
KILLER BTK.

Woman: NOW POLICE BELIEVE BTK

IS ALIVE AND LIVING
IN WICHITA.

BTK'S TRADEMARK,
WRITING LETTERS TO THE PAPER,

DETAILING HIS MURDERS
AND TAUNTING POLICE.

Otis: IT WAS JUST SO HARD TO
BELIEVE THAT

A SERIAL KILLER WHO WAS VERY
ACTIVE IN THE '70s,

WHO HAD DISAPPEARED FOR MANY,

MANY YEARS AFTER SEVERAL
HOMICIDES AND HAD NEVER BEEN

HEARD FROM EVER,

WAS SUDDENLY,
IN 2004, SENDING

PICTURES TO THE POLICE.

Peters: ABSOLUTELY

EVERYONE WAS IN SHOCK,
SAID, "NO WAY."

THERE'S NO WAY
THIS IS TRUE.

IT CAN'T BE
THAT HE'S STILL AROUND.

Kelly: PEOPLE WHO WERE OLD
ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THE ORIGINAL

BTK MURDERS STARTED TO FEEL
THAT FAMILIAR FEAR.

WHAT IF THIS GUY STRUCK AGAIN?

Hatteberg: THERE'S NOW
A WHOLE GENERATION OF PEOPLE

WHO HAVE NOT BEEN
AFRAID OF BTK.

NOW HE HAS ONCE AGAIN
RE-EMERGED.

THAT TERRIFIED A WHOLE NEW
GENERATION OF PEOPLE,

PARTICULARLY WOMEN.

Kelly: THE POLICE TOOK
THIS THREAT VERY SERIOUSLY.

THEY FELT THAT BTK WAS
ANNOUNCING THAT HE WAS

ACTIVE AGAIN,

THAT HE WAS ON THE PROWL,
AND THAT HE WAS DANGEROUS

Narrator: LIEUTENANT LANDWEHR
AND COMMAND STAFF

QUICKLY ASSEMBLE A TASK FORCE,

THE SECOND IN 20 YEARS CHARGED
WITH BRINGING DOWN BTK.

Otis:
THE LOGISTICS WERE INCREDIBLE,

BECAUSE WE REALLY HAD NO PLACE

IN OUR CITY HALL TO HOUSE
AS MANY PEOPLE AS WE'RE GOING

TO NEED, SO WE FOUND ROOM
AT OUR TRAINING CENTER.

PHONES HAD TO BE INSTALLED,
COMPUTERS HAD TO BE INSTALLED.

IT WAS A LOT OF
DIFFERENT THINGS GOING ON.

Relph:
THIS WAS YOUR CRACK AT

THE MOST INFAMOUS CRIME
IN WICHITA'S HISTORY.

I'M GONNA GET THAT GUY THAT
SCARED ME WHEN I WAS A KID.

[ PHONE RINGING ]

Otis: WITHIN 24 HOURS,
WE HAD OVER 200 TIPS

AND IN THE FIRST 48 HOURS,
WE WERE PUSHING 700 TIPS.

Narrator: THIS NEW TASK FORCE IS
UNDER NO ILLUSIONS ABOUT HOW

HARD IT WILL BE TO CATCH
THE ELUSIVE BTK,

YET THEY NOW HAVE ONE
BIG ADVANTAGE.

WE BELIEVED WE HAD BTK'S DNA,
AND THAT'S WHAT

THE INVESTIGATORS
IN THE '70s NEVER HAD.

Narrator: IN 1986,
BLOOD AND SKIN WAS

REMOVED FROM UNDER
VICKI WEGERLE'S FINGERNAILS,

BUT CONCLUSIVE DNA TESTING
WAS STILL YEARS AWAY.

WHEN SEMEN WAS FOUND
AT THE OTERO AND FOX SCENES,

DNA WASN'T EVEN A CONCEPT.

Otis: OVER THE YEARS,
LIEUTENANT LANDWEHR

WOULD REGULARLY CHECK WITH
OUR LOCAL DNA LAB

ABOUT TESTING
THAT OLD EVIDENCE.

BUT IN THE '80s
AND EARLY '90s,

DNA TECHNOLOGY HAD NOT GROWN
TO WHERE YOU COULD GET A SMALL

AMOUNT OF DNA TO TEST OUT.

YOU'D HAVE TO BURN UP
THE WHOLE SAMPLE.

AND THE LIEUTENANT, GOD BLESS
HIM, HAD THE FORESIGHT TO

REALIZE THAT IF WE TEST ONE OF
THESE SAMPLES, AND WE DON'T GET

WHAT WE WANT,
OUR WHOLE SAMPLE'S GONE,

AND IF WE DON'T GET A PROFILE,
WE'RE -- WE'RE SCREWED.

Relph: I GIVE LANDWEHR
INCREDIBLE CREDIT FOR

THE JUDICIOUSNESS
OF THAT EVIDENCE, 'CAUSE,

YOU KNOW, ONCE YOU USE IT UP,
YOU CAN'T GO ASKING FOR MORE.

Narrator: BY 2004,
THE SCIENCE PROVES IRREFUTABLE.

Otis: WE HAD THE SAME
DNA PROFILE IN THE OTERO CASE,

THE NANCY FOX CASE,
AND THE VICKI WEGERLE CASE.

SO INSTEAD OF TRYING TO FIGURE
OUT WHERE A NAMED PERSON

IN A TIP WAS
IN 1974 OR 1976,

ALL WE NEEDED
WAS A DNA SAMPLE.

Gouge: SO WHEN WE WOULD GET
A TIP ON A SUSPECT,

WE WOULD SIMPLY EXPLAIN TO
THEM THAT THE EASIEST WAY TO

ELIMINATE THEM FROM SUSPICION
WOULD BE TO DO A DNA SWAB.

Relph: THE TIPS,
WE WORKED FOR ABOUT 5,000,

AND ACTUAL SWABBINGS WERE
SOMEWHERE AROUND 17 TO 1,800.

WE ALSO ASSURED PEOPLE
THAT THOSE SAMPLES WOULD BE

DESTROYED AND WOULDN'T BE USED
FOR ANY OTHER CASE.

Narrator: ON MAY 4th, A SECOND
LETTER BELIEVED TO BE FROM BTK

IS DELIVERED TO KAKE-TV.

WHEN I ARRIVED,
THERE WERE CAMERAS SET UP,

FILMING THE ENTRANCE
OF THE DETECTIVES COMING IN

TO PICK UP THE PACKAGE --
THEY DID A PRODUCTION ON IT.

Woman: IT WAS JUST BEFORE NOON
ON WEDNESDAY

WHEN A LETTER ARRIVED
IN OUR STUDIOS.

THE SENDER --
POSSIBLY BTK.

KAKE-TV 10
AND THE ADDRESS TO THE STATION

WAS TYPED ON A LABEL.

THE RETURN ADDRESS WAS FROM
THOMAS B. KING,

408 CLAYTON STREET,
WICHITA, KANSAS, 67203,

AN ADDRESS
THAT DOES NOT EXIST.

Narrator: THIS COMMUNICATION
CONTAINS 13 CHAPTER HEADINGS,

APPARENTLY FOR A BOOK,

AND A HOMEMADE
WORD SEARCH PUZZLE.

Otis: WE WERE ABLE TO
FIND THE WORDS

THAT TALKED ABOUT
THE M.O. OF HIS MURDERS.

I THINK HE WAS SHOWING OFF.

I THINK HE WAS
PROUD TO TELL US

HOW HE COMMITTED HIS CRIMES.

Gouge: IT BECAME CLEAR
THAT HE WANTED TO TELL HIS STORY

RATHER THAN TO HAVE
OTHERS TO TELL HIS STORY,

SO HIS IDEA WAS
THAT HE WOULD OUTSMART

EVERYONE AND CONTINUE
TO GET AWAY WITH THIS.

Peters: THE THING
THAT SCARED ME THE MOST

WERE THE CHAPTERS.

THE LAST CHAPTER

WAS ENTITLED
"WILL THERE BE MORE?"

SCARED US HALF TO DEATH.

BTK IS A KAKE VIEWER
AND HAS BEEN FOR YEARS.

HE HAS COMMUNICATED WITH US
SINCE THE '70s,

AND IT CONTINUES TODAY.

WE KNOW HE IS WATCHING,
AND WE KNOW HE IS LISTENING,

AND TO HIM WE SAY, THE MESSAGE
HAS BEEN RECEIVED AND PASSED ON.

KAKE-TV WAS HIS STATION,
AND KAKE-TV

GOT THOSE COMMUNICATIONS
ON THE AIR.

IT'S WHAT HE WANTED
IN THE '70s.

IT'S WHAT HE WANTED IN 2004.

WE ARE HERE, WE ARE LISTENING
AND COMMUNICATING.

I THINK THAT HE ACTUALLY
THOUGHT OF

THE PEOPLE OF KAKE AS
HIS FRIENDS,

LONG-DISTANCE FRIENDS
AND THROUGH THE TV ONLY,

BUT THAT'S WHY HE DIRECTED SO
MANY COMMUNICATIONS AT US.

HE FELT COMFORTABLE.
HE KNEW US.

Narrator: WITHIN A MONTH,
A THIRD LETTER

IS DISCOVERED
TAPED TO THE BACK

OF A STOP SIGN
ON A BUSY STREET.

THE CONTENTS ARE PARTICULARLY
DISTURBING AS THEY DETAIL

THE OTERO FAMILY KILLINGS.

HE MENTIONS WHERE EVERY VICTIM
WAS FOUND AND WHAT CLOTHING

THEY WERE WEARING
AND HOW THEY WERE BOUND

AND WHAT KIND
OF KNOTS WERE USED.

HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF, "SAY,

"THIS MAY BE IT,
A PERFECT SETUP,

"A PERSON HE COULD TIE UP,
TORTURE, AND MAYBE KILL.

"IN JUST A FLASH,
HE ORDERED THEM BACK INSIDE,

"CONFRONTING THE FAMILY.

"HE SLIPPED THE GARROTE
AROUND THE GIRL'S NECK.

"SHE GRASPED.
HER EYES BULGED.

"THEN SHE PASSED OUT.

"REX MADE A CLOVE HITCH
AND PLACED IT OVER JULIE'S NECK.

"SHE CRIED,
'GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOU,'

"BEFORE HE TIGHTENED THE NOOSE.

"RETURNING TO THE BASEMENT,
HE FOUND

"JOSEPHINE AWAKE
AND LOOKING AT THE CEILING.

"HE PICKED HER UP AND TOOK HER
TIED BODY TO THE SEWER PIPE.

"'DON'T WORRY, BABY,
HE SAID.

"'YOU'LL BE IN HEAVEN
TONIGHT WITH THE REST.'"

Narrator: ON JULY 17th,
A FOURTH MISSIVE THREATENING

MORE MURDERS IS LEFT AT
THE WICHITA PUBLIC LIBRARY.

A FIFTH LETTER,
RECOVERED OCTOBER 22nd,

IS A FABRICATED VERSION
OF BTK'S LIFE STORY.

HE ALWAYS SAW HIMSELF
AS A MASTER CRIMINAL,

SO I THINK HE WANTED TO COME UP
WITH A STORY THAT CREATED HIM.

"MOTHER SLEPT BESIDE ME AT
TIMES, THE SMELLS,

"THE FEEL OF HER UNDERCLOTHES,

"AND SHE LET ME RUB HER HAIR.

"IF YOU MASTURBATE,
GOD WILL COME AND KILL YOU.

"MOM -- WORDS AFTER SHE FOUND
SEMINAL YELLOW STAIN IN

"HER UNDERWEAR ONE DAY,
SHE TRIED TO BEAT ME.

"I FOUGHT BACK.

"SHE HELD MY HANDS
BEHIND MY BACK AND USED

"THE MAN'S BELT TO WHIP ME.

FUNNY, IT HURT,
BUT SPARKY LIKED IT."

HE WAS TRYING TO MAKE UP

A PERSONALITY THAT WAS JUST
ONE CLICHE AFTER THE OTHER.

Narrator: LIKE CHIEF LAMUNYON
IN THE 1970s,

LIEUTENANT LANDWEHR BELIEVES
HIS BEST SHOT AT CATCHING BTK

IS TO PLAY TO HIS EGO
AND LURE HIM IN

WITH THE HOPE
THAT HE'LL MAKE A MISTAKE.

THE FBI SUGGESTED THAT
WE SHOULD HAVE ONE PERSON BE

THE FACE OF THE CASE FOR
THE WICHITA POLICE DEPARTMENT,

AND IT WAS DECIDED THAT THAT
WOULD BE LIEUTENANT LANDWEHR.

Lamunyon: AND I CAN'T STRESS
THE IMPORTANCE OF WHAT

KENNY HE DID IN THIS --
KENNY SAYS,

"THIS IS GONNA BE SCRIPTED.

"I'M GONNA GIVE OUT CERTAIN

SPECIFIC INFORMATION."

A LETTER RECEIVED BY KAKE-TV
WAS TURNED OVER

TO US LAST WEDNESDAY.

THE FOLLOWING
FACTS ABOUT BTK

ARE BEING MADE AVAILABLE
TO THE PUBLIC

IN HOPES OF IDENTIFYING BTK.

THOSE RELEASES WEREN'T MEANT
FOR THE PUBLIC.

THEY WERE MEANT FOR BTK.

HE CLAIMS THE FOLLOWING,

HE WAS BORN IN 1939.

Relph:
KEEPING HIM TALKING.

NO CRIMINAL EXCEPT
MAYBE THE ZODIAC HAS

CONTINUED TO COMMUNICATE
WITH THE POLICE

AND NOT BEEN CAUGHT.

THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST
CHALLENGING CASES

THAT, UH,
I'VE NEVER BEEN INVOLVED WITH.

Gouge:
LIEUTENANT LANDWEHR WOULD SAY,

I REALLY THINK BTK WOULD BE

A VERY INTERESTING PERSON
TO TALK TO.

AND THAT WAS KIND OF
AN INVITATION TO BTK

TO BOND WITH HIM,

BECAUSE WE KNEW
THAT HE WOULD BE WATCHING

EVERY NEWS CONFERENCE
THAT HE COULD ABOUT HIMSELF.

Relph: AND SO EVERY NEWS
RELEASE, EVERYTHING YOU HEARD

THROUGH THE NEWS,
CAME THROUGH KENNY LANDWEHR.

HE WOULD BECOME
BTK'S ADVERSARY.

WE ARE AGAIN ASKING FOR HELP
FROM THE PUBLIC.

Gouge: THE IDEA WAS ALSO TO SAY
THAT WE WERE CLOSING IN ON HIM

AND THAT SORT OF THING IN
ORDER TO TRY TO KEEP HIM FROM

KILLING SOMEBODY ELSE.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

BY THIS TIME,
WE KNEW HE'D KILLED EIGHT.

THE URGENCY WAS, YOU KNOW,
THIS BACK AND FORTH

COMMUNICATION IS GONNA
ENTERTAIN HIM FOR SO LONG,

AND THEN HE HAVE TO UP THE ANTE.

WE TRULY FEEL THAT HE IS
TRYING TO COMMUNICATE WITH US.

Woman: WE'VE HEARD IT TIME
AND TIME AGAIN FROM POLICE.

BTK IS SPEAKING OUT AND
WANTS TO MAKE SURE HE'S HEARD.

WE KNEW WE HAD A PIVOTAL ROLE
IN GETTING THIS GUY CAUGHT.

WE HAD TO KEEP PUTTING
THESE THINGS ON TV.

Man: IT APPEARS BTK
IS COMMUNICATING AGAIN.

KAKE-TV RECEIVING ANOTHER
MYSTERIOUS MESSAGE TODAY.

WE HAD TO KEEP PUBLICIZING
EVERYTHING HE SENT US,

EVERY CLUE HE SENT US

BECAUSE WE KNEW THAT
WAS THE KEY

TO GETTING HIM CAPTURED
ONE DAY.

THIS IS A STORY
YOU'LL ONLY SEE ON KAKE,

AND TODAY'S MESSAGE IS
EERILY SIMILAR

TO A POSTCARD KAKE
RECEIVED LAST WEEK.

Peters: HE WAS WATCHING ME
EVERY SINGLE NIGHT.

HE WAS WATCHING ALL OF US,
BUT OF COURSE, HE LIKED WOMEN.

KEEP IT ON KAKE FOR COMPLETE
LIVE TEAM COVERAGE.

I HAD NO IDEA
WHAT HE WAS THINKING,

WHAT HE MAY HAVE
BEEN PLANNING,

WHAT HE MAY HAVE BEEN DOING
WHILE HE WAS WATCHING ME.

I HAD NO IDEA.

FOR THE SECOND TIME IN JUST
MORE THAN A WEEK,

ANOTHER POSSIBLE
COMMUNICATION FROM BTK

ARRIVES HERE AT OUR STUDIOS.

THE COMMUNICATIONS
ARE GETTING MORE FREQUENT

AND A LOT
MORE PERSONAL.

THERE WAS ONE COMMUNICATION

THAT REALLY FRIGHTENED ME.

ONE NIGHT I TURNED TO
THE WEATHERMAN, AND I SAID,

I SURE HOPE IT GETS WARMER,
BECAUSE MY CO-ANCHOR AND I,

NAMED JEFF,
WE BOTH HAD COLDS.

WE GOT THE CRUD OR SOMETHING.

TWO DAYS LATER, WE GET
A POSTCARD FROM BTK.

"SORRY ABOUT SUSAN'S
AND JEFF'S COLDS."

THIS MORNING WE HAVE MORE
INFORMATION ON

THE LETTER SENT TO THE WICHITA
EAGLE BY THE BTK KILLER.

Kelly:
WHEN BTK RESURFACED,

IT REKINDLED FEAR AMONG
THE REPORTERS, TOO.

SOME OF THEM WHO NEVER
WOULD HAVE OWNED

A GUN BEFORE WENT TO A GUN
STORE AND PURCHASED A REVOLVER

TO PROTECT THEMSELVES.

SOME INSTALLED
SECURITY SYSTEMS.

EVERYONE BECAME MORE ALERT.

IT WAS CLEAR
THAT BTK WAS FOCUSED

ON TAUNTING THE POLICE
BUT ALSO VERY

FOCUSED ON JOURNALISTS,

AND NO ONE KNEW
WHO HE MIGHT TARGET NEXT.

Rawson: I DIDN'T REALLY FOLLOW
THE NEWS OF BTK IN 2004

VERY CLOSELY --
IT WAS REALLY CRAZY,

BUT IT
FELT LIKE SOMEONE HAD

COMMITTED THESE CRIMES A LONG
TIME BEFORE YOU WERE BORN.

IT WAS JUST THIS THING
YOU READ ABOUT

IN THE NEWS THAT WAS
HAPPENING WHERE YOU GREW UP.

Narrator: THE SERIAL KILLER'S
SIXTH COMMUNICATION

IS DISCOVERED
BY A MAN WALKING IN

A LOCAL PARK
ON DECEMBER 13, 2004.

Woman:
A WHITE PLASTIC BAG INSIDE

AN OBJECT WRAPPED IN PLASTIC
AND A DRIVER'S LICENSE

WITH THE NAME NANCY FOX.

NANCY WAS KILLED IN 1977.

Otis: THERE WAS A DOLL
SENT DEPICTING HER,

AND THE BONDAGE NOT ONLY
MATCHED EXACTLY THE BONDAGE ON

HER BODY WHEN SHE WAS FOUND
MURDERED, BUT THE SAME COLORS.

IT WAS

VERY SHOCKING TO SEE A DOLL

WITH THE EXACT SAME BONDAGE
FROM 30 YEARS BEFORE.

Narrator: BTK DELIGHTS
IN THE GRISLY DETAILS

OF HOW HE CHOSE NANCY,
STALKED HER,

BROKE INTO HER HOUSE,
AND SUBDUED HER ON HER BED.

Relph:
"I TOLD HER I HAD A KNIFE

"AND DISPLAYED THE MAGNUM
IN MY SHOULDER HOLSTER.

"WE TALKED ABOUT SEX
AND THE HARM

"IF SHE DIDN'T COOPERATE.

"SHE LIT A SMOKE,
AND FINALLY, SHE SAID,

"'LET'S GET THIS OVER WITH
SO I CAN CALL THE POLICE.'

"I PULLED DOWN HER PANTIES,
QUICKLY SLIPPED MY BELT OVER

"HER HEAD AND ONTO THE NECK

"AND PULLED TIGHT --
HER HANDS FOUND MY SCROTUM.

"THIS INCREASED
MY SEXUAL THRILL.

"I SPOKE SOFTLY
INTO HER LEFT EAR.

"I WAS WANTED FOR THE OTEROS
AND OTHER MURDERS,

AND SHE WAS NEXT."

Peters: FROM A WOMAN'S
PERSPECTIVE, A BARBIE DOLL.

IT WAS SO FRIGHTENING.

IT WAS LIKE HE WAS TAUNTING
EVERY FEMALE OUT THERE.

Gouge: EVERY TIME WE WOULD
GET A NEW PACKAGE,

WE WOULD ALWAYS CHECK IT
FOR FINGERPRINTS, DNA,

SALIVA ON THE STAMPS OR ON
THE SEALING OF THE ENVELOPE,

BUT WE WERE NEVER ABLE TO
COLLECT ANY EVIDENCE LIKE THAT.

IT TOLD ME THAT
HE WAS VERY CAREFUL,

HAD KNOWLEDGE OF FORENSICS
AND PROBABLY TOOK EXTRA STEPS TO

MAKE SURE THAT HIS DNA AND
FINGERPRINTS WEREN'T PRESENT.

Narrator: THE NEXT
COMMUNICATION, BTK'S SEVENTH,

THREATENS TO GO MISSING FOREVER,
COURTESY OF

A HOME DEPOT AN EMPLOYEE
WHO FINDS SOMETHING STRANGE

IN THE BED OF HIS TRUCK.

Kelly:
HE SAW WHAT LOOKED LIKE TRASH.

HE TOOK IT OUT, THREW IT IN
THE DUMPSTER OUTSIDE OF

HIS HOUSE,
AND WENT ON VACATION.

THAT EMPLOYEE DIDN'T REALIZE
THE SIGNIFICANCE,

DID NOT RECOGNIZE IT
AS AN IMPORTANT CLUE.

Narrator: ON JANUARY 25,
2005, KAKE-TV

RECEIVES THE KILLER'S
EIGHTH CONTACT, A POSTCARD.

IT SAYS, "REFERENCE
69th AND 77th STREET

"NORTH ON SENECA STREET.

"CONTENTS -- POST TOASTIES BOX.

"LET ME KNOW IF YOU OR PD

"RECEIVED NUMBER SEVEN

AT HOME DEPOT."

Hatteberg: THE POLICE DEPARTMENT
DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING

ABOUT THE PACKAGE
AT HOME DEPOT.

Peters: WE IMMEDIATELY WENT
THAT DAY TO THE CORNER OF

69th AND SENECA STREET AND
FOUND THE POST TOASTIES BOX.

THAT'S AN ISOLATED AREA
IN BETWEEN VALLEY CENTER

AND PARK CITY, AND THIS IS
THE FIRST TIME BTK

IS KNOWN TO HAVE MADE A DROP
OUTSIDE WICHITA CITY LIMITS.

Kelly: IT APPEARED THAT BTK HAD
A SOPHOMORIC SENSE OF HUMOR,

BECAUSE ON THE CEREAL BOX,
HE'D WRITTEN "KILLER,"

AS IN SERIAL [ "CEREAL" ]
KILLER.

Peters: INSIDE THE POST TOASTIES
BOX WAS ANOTHER BARBIE DOLL,

WHICH WAS EVEN MORE
FRIGHTENING THAN THE FIRST ONE,

BECAUSE THIS ONE WAS
JOSIE OTERO.

THIS BARBIE DOLL HAD A NOOSE
AROUND HER NECK,

WHICH WAS TIED TO A PIPE

JUST LIKE JOSIE OTERO.

AS A WOMAN,
IT WAS NOT ONLY HORRIFYING,

BUT IT MADE YOU WANT TO GET
SICK TO YOUR STOMACH.

WE KNEW THAT HE WAS
CONTINUING TO

GET THRILLS, TO BECOME EXCITED
OVER ALL THIS.

WE KNEW HE WAS CAPABLE OF
ANOTHER KILLING.

WE KNEW HE WAS CAPABLE
OF THREE MORE KILLINGS,

AND WE WERE
DEFINITELY AFRAID.

Peters: THE POST TOASTIES BOX
WAS FOUND ON

SENECA STREET BETWEEN 69th
AND 77th STREETS NORTH.

Narrator: AT THE SAME TIME
AS THEY ARE RECOVERING

THE POST TOASTIES BOX,
KAKE STAFF

CONTACT POLICE AND ALERT THEM
TO THE LINE IN BTK'S MOST

RECENT POSTCARD THAT MENTIONS

A PACKAGE LEFT EARLIER
AT HOME DEPOT.

DETECTIVES ARE MYSTIFIED.

Otis: WE DIDN'T HAVE
ANY KIND OF A PACKAGE DROP

RECOVERED THAT WE KNEW OF
FROM HOME DEPOT.

I IMMEDIATELY CALLED
LIEUTENANT LANDWEHR,

AND HE BEGAN
ASSIGNING DETECTIVES

TO HIT BOTH HOME DEPOT STORES
IN WICHITA.

Narrator: INVESTIGATORS COME
UP EMPTY,

SO THEY PUT UP NOTICES ASKING
EMPLOYEES TO COME FORWARD IF

THEY RECENTLY FOUND
SOMETHING STRANGE.

THE NEXT NIGHT, I GET A PHONE
CALL FROM THE 911 DISPATCH

CENTER THAT A HOME DEPOT
EMPLOYEE WHO HAD BEEN OUT OF

TOWN AND RETURNED HOME AND SAW
THE NOTE IN THE BREAK ROOM,

AND HE BELIEVED HE HAD
SOMETHING TO REPORT --

A CEREAL BOX
IN THE BED OF HIS PICKUP.

HE THREW IT IN HIS TRASH,
AND HE BELIEVED

THAT WHILE
HE WAS OUT OF TOWN,

THE TRASH HAD BEEN HAULED OFF
AND TAKEN TO THE LANDFILL.

I CONTACTED LIEUTENANT
LANDWEHR IMMEDIATELY,

AND WE STARTED PREPARING
A POLICE RECRUIT CLASS TO START

THE NEXT MORNING,

DIGGING AROUND
IN A LANDFILL WITH

A ONE-IN-A-MILLION CHANCE
OF FINDING THIS BOX.

ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF
LATER, I GET A PHONE CALL FROM

THE SAME MAN, AND HE SAID,

"I'M SORRY,
THE BOX IS STILL HERE,

AND I HAVE IT IN MY KITCHEN."

WELL, THAT EMPLOYEE HAD
NOT TAKEN HIS TRASH OUT

TO THE CURB,
SO IT WAS STILL THERE,

LIKE, A WEEK LATER,
FORTUNATELY.

IF THAT BOX WOULD
HAVE MADE THE LANDFILL,

THE ODDS OF RECOVERING IT

WOULD HAVE BEEN ASTRONOMICAL.

THE FACT THAT

THIS GENTLEMAN PUT IT IN
THE TRASH AND THEN DIDN'T

HAUL IT TO THE STREET WAS
CERTAINLY IN OUR FAVOR.

Kelly: THE CEREAL BOX WAS
A REAL TURNING POINT

IN THE INVESTIGATION.

Otis: INSIDE OF THAT CEREAL BOX
WERE SEVERAL ITEMS,

BUT ONE OF THEM WAS
A POSTCARD-SIZED WRITING,

AND ON THE BOTTOM OF IT,
BTK ASKED...

"CAN I COMMUNICATE WITH FLOPPY
AND NOT BE TRACED

TO A COMPUTER --
BE HONEST."

Otis: I BELIEVED THAT
THIS WAS ANOTHER TRICK.

MY FEAR WAS THAT HE WOULD
SEND US A FLOPPY DISK,

KNOWING THAT WE COULD GET
INFORMATION FROM IT,

THAT IT WOULD LEAD US TO MAYBE
A FALSE SUSPECT,

AND THEN HE'D KNOW
WE LIED TO HIM.

Narrator: OFFICERS DESCEND
ON HOME DEPOT TO

REVIEW THEIR PARKING LOT
SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE.

Gouge: THIS IS POSSIBLY
THE OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO

ACTUALLY GET A LOOK AT BTK.

BECAUSE NOW THAT WE HAVE
THE EMPLOYEE, AND WE KNEW WHAT

TIME HE GOT OFF AND WHERE HE
PARKED, WE STARTED LOOKING AT

THE SURVEILLANCE VIDEO FROM
THE TIME OF THE DROP.

THE VIDEO WAS VERY GRAINY,
AND THE EMPLOYEE WAS PARKED WAY

FAR AWAY FROM THE STORE.

AND YOU CAN SEE WHAT APPEARS
TO BE A PERSON,

BUT IT LOOKS LIKE
A STICK FIGURE.

NO MATTER HOW HARD
YOU STARE AT,

NO MATTER HOW LONG
YOU LOOK AT IT,

AND NO MATTER HOW MUCH
YOU WANT TO BE

ABLE TO TELL SOMETHING MORE
ABOUT THE PERSON, YOU CAN'T.

Otis: YOU COULD SEE

A BLOBBY FIGURE GET OUT OF
THE SUV AND STAND

AT THE BACK OF THE PICKUP
FOR A SHORT TIME.

THERE WAS NO WAY TO IDENTIFY
THE PERSON THAT GOT OUT,

BUT THERE WAS NO DOUBT THAT
IT WAS BTK.

Narrator: CAREFUL ANALYSIS OF
THE VIDEO DETERMINES THE VEHICLE

THE SUSPECT WAS DRIVING IS
SPECIFICALLY A JEEP CHEROKEE.

THIS WAS TRULY
THE FIRST PIECE OF EVIDENCE

WE HAD THAT BTK
DIDN'T GIVE US.

ALL OF THE EVIDENCE
WE WERE WORKING WITH

DURING THE TASK FORCE TIMES

WAS GIVEN TO US BY BTK.

THIS WAS THE FIRST PIECE OF
EVIDENCE WE HAD

THAT BTK DIDN'T KNOW
WE HAD.

Narrator: THIS REVELATION,
TOGETHER WITH THE KILLER'S

INQUIRY ABOUT SENDING
A FLOPPY DISK,

INSPIRES BOTH HOPE AND CAUTION
IN THE TASK FORCE.

Gouge: IF THERE'S A FILE
ON A FLOPPY DISK,

THERE'S GONNA BE INFORMATION
THAT A COMPUTER FORENSIC EXPERT

WILL BE ABLE TO EXTRACT TO HELP
IDENTIFY AT LEAST THE LOCATION

OR THE COMPUTER THAT WAS USED
TO WRITE THAT FILE.

BTK ASKED US TO BE HONEST IN
OUR RESPONSE IN THE NEWSPAPER,

AND THE RESPONSE WAS TO BE,
"REX, IT'LL BE OKAY."

AND SO WE PUT THAT AD
IN THE PAPER FOR A WEEK,

AND THEN THE WAITING
GAME STARTED.

Narrator:
LESS THAN TWO WEEKS LATER,

A SUSPICIOUS PACKAGE ARRIVES
AT ANOTHER WICHITA TV STATION,

KSAS-TV.

IT WAS A SMALL ENVELOPE --
IT HAS A FEW THINGS IN THERE,

SOME MORE JEWELRY THAT WOULD
BE FROM A VICTIM

FROM BACK IN THE DAY,

AND THEN THERE'S
A PURPLE FLOPPY DISK.

Gouge: I THOUGHT,
THIS IS FANTASTIC.

I CAN'T WAIT TO GIVE THIS TO
OUR COMPUTER FORENSICS EXPERT,

AND OUR FORENSIC COMPUTER GUY
SAID, WELL,

THE FIRST THING WE NEED
TO DO IS X-RAY IT,

BECAUSE WE WANT
TO MAKE SURE IT

DOESN'T HAVE SOME KIND OF
EXPLOSIVE OR SOME KIND OF

AN INCENDIARY DEVICE.

WE ALL THOUGHT THAT
THAT WAS BTK'S SPEED,

THAT HE WAS THAT SMART.

AND THEN
THE FORENSIC COMPUTER GUY SAID,

WE'RE GONNA PUT IT IN
A NON-NETWORKED COMPUTER,

IN CASE IT'S FULL OF A VIRUS,

AND WE'LL USE SOME FORENSIC
SOFTWARE TO GET INTO WHATEVER

IS ON THAT DISK AND SEE
WHERE IT LEADS US.

Relph: THE TWO THINGS THAT --
THAT SHOT OUT IMMEDIATELY

WAS THAT THE DISK
HAD BEEN IN A COMPUTER

IN PARK CITY AND ALSO IN
A CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH.

Gouge: THE FILE THAT WAS
ON IT HAD BEEN PRINTED

BY A USER NAMED DENNIS.

WENT TO -- I THINK IT WAS
A GOOGLE SEARCH

AND FOUND CHRIST
LUTHERAN CHURCH,

AND WHEN HE CLICKED
ON THE OFFICERS,

THERE WAS A PICTURE OF A MAN
NAMED DENNIS RADER,

AND HE WAS
THE CONGREGATIONAL PRESIDENT.

Relph: DENNIS RADER,
CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH,

WERE BROUGHT TOGETHER --
BY THAT POINT,

EVERYBODY KNEW THIS WAS --
THIS WAS THE DOMINO

THAT WAS GONNA START IT ALL.

ANOTHER DETECTIVE LOOKS UP
DENNIS RADER'S ADDRESS,

AND THEN WE DROVE
TO PARK CITY

AS FAST AS WE COULD.

Otis: THERE WAS A BLACK
JEEP CHEROKEE IN THE DRIVEWAY.

♪♪

AND THEN IT WAS ON.

IT WAS GAME ON.

♪♪

Narrator: INVESTIGATORS HAVE
TRACKED BTK SUSPECT,

DENNIS RADER,
TO HIS HOME IN PARK CITY.

Relph: I CALLED KENNY,
AND I SAID, YOU KNOW,

CALL EVERY POLICEMAN ON DUTY.
THAT GUY'S 100 FEET AWAY,

I'LL GO RIP THAT DOOR OFF
THE HINGES RIGHT NOW,

'CAUSE WE CAUGHT HIM.

Narrator: BUT LIEUTENANT
LANDWEHR CALLS OFF HIS TROOPS,

PUTS DENNIS RADER UNDER 24-HOUR
SURVEILLANCE, AND MAKES IT

A PRIORITY TO GET THE SUSPECT'S
DNA FOR COMPARISON.

THEY TURN
TO A SURPRISING SOURCE.

Rawson: I HAD ATTENDED
COLLEGE AT KANSAS STATE.

SOME DETECTIVES HAD GONE
TO KANSAS STATE,

TO THE HEALTH CENTER
AND HAD, UM,

GOTTEN A WARRANT
FOR MY MEDICAL RECORDS.

THEY FOUND OUT I HAD HAD

SLIDES OF, LIKE, A PAP SMEAR,

AND THEN GOT MY DNA
OUT OF THAT.

I RECALL IT AS BEING
THE LONGEST

TWO DAYS IN THE WORLD.

Otis: AND I'LL NEVER FORGET,

THE LIEUTENANT CALLED ME
AND SAID, "GOT THE DNA BACK.

"IT'S HIM.

WE'RE GONNA COME IN IN
THE MORNING AND START UP."

THERE WAS NO WAY
I WAS STAYING HOME.

THERE WAS NOTHING TO DO.
I WASN'T GONNA SLEEP.

SO I'LL GO UP AND CONTINUE TO
WORK AND GET READY FOR THIS.

I PULL INTO THE BUILDING,

I GO UP TO
OUR TASK FORCE OFFICE,

I WALK IN,
AND EVERYBODY'S THERE.

NOBODY STAYED HOME.

AND JUST THAT LITTLE MOMENT,
LITTLE MOMENTS LIKE THAT,

IT WAS FINALLY OVER,
BECAUSE IT WAS A LONG TIME,

HAD BEEN A LONG RUN.

♪♪

Gouge: INITIALLY, THE DEPARTMENT
WANTED THE SWAT TEAM TO

ARREST DENNIS RADER,

BUT WE HAD BEEN WORKING ON
THIS CASE FOR ABOUT A YEAR.

WE HAD A LOT INVESTED IN IT.

WE ARE COPS, AND WE'VE
ARRESTED MURDERERS IN THE PAST.

WE WERE QUALIFIED TO ACTUALLY
DO THIS ARREST.

LIEUTENANT LANDWEHR LOOKED
AT THE CHIEF AND SAID,

"MY GUYS WANT TO TAKE HIM," AND
THE CHIEF SAID, "GO GET HIM."

ONCE WE IDENTIFIED RADER
AS THE KILLER,

WE LEARNED THAT HE WAS
A COMPLIANCE OFFICER.

HE WAS KIND OF
A JACK-OF-ALL-TRADES

WHEN IT CAME TO INSPECTIONS
FOR THE CITY OF PARK CITY.

HIS OFFICE WAS
IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT,

SO WE COULDN'T TELL ANYBODY IN
THE CITY OF PARK CITY

WHAT WE WERE DOING,
BECAUSE WE DIDN'T KNOW

WHO HE WAS TIGHT WITH.

IF WE TOLD THE MAYOR,
IF THE MAYOR WOULD TELL ONE

MORE PERSON, AND THEN
DENNIS RADER WOULD FIND OUT.

SO WE DECIDED
WE'RE NOT TELLING ANYBODY.

Relph: WE ALL GOT READY,
AND GOD,

THERE WAS ALL KINDS OF
PHASES OF PLANNING, MAN.

THEY WERE GONNA HAVE A PLANE

AND ALL KINDS OF CRAZY [BLEEP].

I MEAN, GOD, WE HAD A TANK --
I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE WERE DOING

WITH A TANK, BUT, UH, UM --
WE HAD A HELICOPTER.

I DIDN'T KNOW IF WE WERE GONNA
ARREST SOMEBODY OR INVADE

A SMALL COUNTRY,
BUT WE WERE READY,

AND I DON'T CARE
IF HE WAS JAMES BOND,

HE WASN'T GONNA
GET AWAY FROM US.

SO WE GOT IN OUR POSITIONS,
AND WE --

WE HEARD HE WAS JUST GOING --
WE WERE PARKED ON --

RIGHT BESIDE A FRONTAGE ROAD

THAT HE CAME DOWN EVERY DAY,
BECAUSE HE GOES HOME

EVERY DAY FOR LUNCH.

[ SIRENS WAILING ]

[ SIRENS WAILING ]

Otis: UNIFORMED OFFICERS
PULLED HIM OVER.

BY THE TIME DENNIS RADER
PUT HIS TRUCK IN PARK,

THERE WERE DETECTIVES
AT HIS DOOR.

Gouge:
WE HAD THIS GUY IN CUSTODY.

IT WAS SO EXCITING THAT I WAS

SELECTED TO PUT
THE HANDCUFFS ON HIM.

SEARCHED HIM,
STOOD HIM UP,

AND HE LOOKED AT US
AND SAID,

"WOULD YOU PLEASE TELL MY WIFE
I'LL BE LATE FOR LUNCH?

I ASSUME YOU KNOW
WHERE I LIVE."

Narrator: THE SUSPECT IS LED
TO A CAR WHICH HAS BEEN WIRED

WITH CAMERAS AND WHERE
LIEUTENANT KEN LANDWEHR

WAITS TO MEET HIM.

Relph: BUT HE DIDN'T ASK,
WHY DID SOMEBODY

JUST PULL ME OUT OF MY TRUCK?

WHY IS SOME -- A BOOT IS
ON MY NECK, AND HE SAID,

"HELLO, MR. LANDWEHR."

RIGHT THEN,
IT WAS OVER FOR SURE.

WE KNEW WE HAD HIM.

FROM THE TIME
WE PUT HIM IN THE CAR,

WE WENT FLYIN'.

WE DIDN'T STOP
TILL WE WERE DEEP

INTO THE BASEMENT
OF THE EPIC CENTER.

Narrator: DENNIS RADER'S
DNA IS COLLECTED.

HE'S INTERROGATED
FOR OVER 30 HOURS

WHILE OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT
WATCH REMOTELY.

Gouge: THE INTERVIEW WAS STARTED
BY LIEUTENANT LANDWEHR

AND THE FBI AGENT,

AND THERE WAS A LOT OF
JUST TALKING

BACK AND FORTH WITH HIM,
GENERAL CONVERSATIONS ABOUT

WHO HE WAS BEFORE HE'S FINALLY
ACTUALLY CONFRONTED.

LANDWEHR SHOWS HIM
THE FLOPPY DISK AND EXPLAINS

TO HIM HOW COMPUTER FORENSICS
EXPERTS WERE ABLE TO

IDENTIFY HIM.

HE WAS REALLY KIND OF
UPSET ABOUT THAT,

AND HE INTERRUPTED LANDWEHR
AND SAID,

"WHY DID YOU LIE TO ME?"

AND LANDWEHR'S LIKE,
WELL, YOU KNOW,

I WAS TRYING TO CATCH YOU.

THAT WAS AMAZING TO ME.

RADER THOUGHT THAT LANDWEHR WAS

DOING THIS FOR THE FUN OF IT,

THAT THEY HAD
A GOOD THING GOING.

IT WASN'T LONG AFTER THAT
THAT THE FBI AGENT SAID,

"JUST TELL US WHO YOU ARE."

AND HE SAID, "I'M BTK,"
AND THEN HE REPEATED IT.

♪♪

Rawson: I AM THE DAUGHTER
OF DENNIS RADER,

WHO IS OTHERWISE KNOWN
AS THE BTK SERIAL KILLER,

WHO MURDERED 10 INNOCENT PEOPLE
IN THE DECADES

BETWEEN THE '70s AND THE '90s.

♪♪

Rawson: I MET MY HUSBAND,
DARIAN, IN 1998.

I WAS A JUNIOR IN COLLEGE,
AND HE WAS A FRESHMAN.

WE DATED FOR THREE YEARS,
AND THEN WE GOT ENGAGED,

AND WE GOT MARRIED
IN THE SUMMER OF 2003.

MY DAD HELPED US
MOVE TO MICHIGAN,

AND THAT'S WHERE
I STARTED SUBSTITUTE TEACHING

IN THE FALL OF 2004.

[ KNOCK ON DOOR ]

I HEARD A KNOCK ON MY DOOR,

AND SO, LIKE,
I BARELY OPENED THE DOOR,

BECAUSE MY DAD HAD ALWAYS, LIKE,

TAUGHT ME TO BE
WARY OF STRANGERS,

BE CAREFUL WITH, LIKE, PEOPLE
TRYING TO COME INTO YOUR HOUSE.

HE SAID HE WAS THE FBI.

HE'S LIKE,
"ARE YOU KERRI RAWSON?

"IS YOUR DAD DENNIS RADER?

ARE YOU FROM WICHITA?"

AND I WAS LIKE, "YES."

AND THEN HE'S LIKE,
"YOUR DAD IS BTK."

AND THAT'S WHEN, LIKE,
THIS MASSIVE DISCONNECT

JUST SORT OF, LIKE, HITS,
AND I GO INTO SHOCK.

AND I'M NOT REALLY COMPREHENDING
WHAT HE'S TRYING TO SAY.

AND SO IT'S SORT OF LIKE TIME
WAS STARTING TO, LIKE,

CUT IN AND OUT FOR ME.

WHILE THE FBI AGENT
WAS INTERVIEWING ME,

MY HUSBAND WAS RIGHT NEXT TO ME
THE WHOLE TIME HOLDING MY HAND.

IT WAS JUST VERY INTENSE.

LIKE, YOU'RE OUT OF YOUR BODY.

YOU'RE JUST IN SHOCK,
AND YOU'RE JUST CONFUSED.

NOTHING'S RIGHT,
AND EVERYTHING'S JUST CRAZY.

Narrator: AT THE SAME TIME,
BACK IN KANSAS,

KERRI'S MOTHER IS ALSO GETTING
THE DEVASTATING NEWS.

Otis: DENNIS RADER'S WIFE
WAS INITIALLY

COMPLETELY DEFENSIVE OF HIM.

"THERE'S NO WAY.
YOU GOT THE WRONG GUY."

SHE WAS VERY, VERY ANGRY
AT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT

AND US FOR ARRESTING
HER HUSBAND.

Rawson: ONE OF MY BIGGEST FEARS
WAS HOME INVASION,

SO, HERE'S THIS VERY SURREAL
MOMENT OF THIS STRANGER

IN YOUR HOUSE NOW NOTIFYING YOU
THAT YOUR DAD

IS SOMEBODY
THAT INVADED PEOPLE'S HOMES.

BUT IT, LIKE -- IT CLICKED
THAT OUR NEIGHBOR,

MRS. HEDGE, HAD BEEN MURDERED,

AND SO I TOLD THE AGENT
WHEN I WAS 6,

MRS. HEDGE WAS STRANGLED,

AND THEN IN MY HEAD, IT ROLLS --
BTK STRANGLES WOMEN,

'CAUSE I KNEW THAT
FROM READING ABOUT HIM.

AND IT WAS LIKE SOMETHING
DEEP SUNK IN ME

THAT IT COULD BE MY DAD.

BECAUSE I HAD A MEMORY OF,

LIKE, SLEEPING WITH MY MOM
IN THE BED

'CAUSE OF A THUNDERSTORM AND I
KNEW MY DAD WAS GONE THAT NIGHT.

AND SO I TOLD THE AGENT,

"I DON'T THINK MRS. HEDGE'S
MURDER'S EVER BEEN SOLVED."

AND I SAID,
"I DON'T -- MY DAD WASN'T HOME."

BEFORE MY FATHER'S ARREST,
HE WAS WANTED FOR EIGHT MURDERS,

SO NOW I'M SITTING HERE

BASICALLY GIVING THEM
A NINTH MURDER.

I FELT LIKE I WAS
TURNING IN MY FATHER.

Man: THIS IS KAKE NEWS,
STATION OF THE YEAR.

Peters: A QUARTER-CENTURY
SEARCH FOR WICHITA'S

WORST SERIAL KILLER
IS OVER.

POLICE CONFIRMING TODAY, THEY
HAVE MADE AN ARREST OF BTK.

GOOD EVENING, IT IS A DAY
THAT WILL GO DOWN IN

WICHITA HISTORY.

THE BTK MURDER MYSTERY MAY
BE NEARING AN END.

THAT'S RIGHT.
WICHITA POLICE AND CITY LEADERS

CONFIRMING TODAY THAT A PERSON
OF INTEREST TAKEN IN

FOR QUESTIONING YESTERDAY
IS IN FACT BTK.

Man:
WE KNOW HE'S 59 YEARS OLD,

HE'S MARRIED
WITH TWO GROWN CHILDREN,

AND HE WAS THE PARK CITY
COMPLIANCE OFFICER,

AND HE LISTED AS HIS HOBBIES,

"RAISING HIS CHILDREN,
SCOUTING, AND GARDENING,"

AND NOW EVERYBODY IS
JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT

HOW THE MAN THEY KNEW

AS THE PRESIDENT OF
THE CONGREGATION AT THIS CHURCH

COULD POSSIBLY BE BTK.

Peters: ONE OF OUR EMPLOYEES
WAS A MEMBER OF

CHRIST LUTHERAN.

COUPLE OF MONTHS BEFORE BTK
WAS CAUGHT, THIS EMPLOYEE SAID,

"THERE'S A GROUP FROM CHRIST
LUTHERAN THAT WANTS A TOUR OF

THE STUDIO."
WE HAD SEVERAL TOURS.

WE HAD PEOPLE WHO SAT
IN ON THE NEWSCAST.

WE HAD PEOPLE
WHO TOOK PICTURES.

THIS EMPLOYEE WALKS INTO
THE NEWSROOM

THE DAY BTK WAS CAUGHT,

WIDE-EYED LIKE THIS,
AND SAYS, "OH MY GOSH,

"BTK WAS A MEMBER
OF THE TOUR GROUP.

"HE WAS IN OUR STUDIO
WATCHING THE NEWS.

HE WAS 5 FEET FROM US."

MY HEART WENT TO MY STOMACH.

THE REALIZATION

THAT HE HAD BEEN

A FEW FEET FROM ME

AND WAS WATCHING ME IN PERSON.

THANK GOD HE HAD ALREADY
BEEN CAUGHT,

BECAUSE I WOULDN'T
HAVE GONE ON THE NEWS

THE NEXT DAY --
I WOULD HAVE RUN FOR IT.

Woman: RADER WAS ALTERNATELY
DESCRIBED AS A GOOD FATHER

AND POLITE NEIGHBOR TO

OVERBEARING AND EERIE,
AN OVERLY METICULOUS COMPLIANCE

OFFICER WHO WOULD GO AROUND

MEASURING GRASS AND WRITING UP
ALL SORTS OF CODE VIOLATIONS.

Rawson:
DAD REALLY LIKED UNIFORMS.

HE ALWAYS WANTED
TO LOOK A CERTAIN WAY

TO KIND OF HIDE
WHO HE REALLY IS.

WE'VE BEEN TRACKING IT DOWN --

THE DOGS ARE SOMEWHAT
TERRITORIAL AS WELL AS VICIOUS.

Peters: MY VISION OF HIM WAS
AN OUTCAST,

A LONER, SOMEONE WITH LONG,
SCRAGGLY HAIR.

HE WAS
THE DIRECT OPPOSITE OF THAT.

Hatteberg: IN THE 1970s
TO THE 1980s,

HE WORKED FOR ADT,
THE ALARM COMPANY.

HE'S IN YOUR HOUSE,
INSTALLING THE ALARM SYSTEM,

AND HE'S A SERIAL KILLER.

AND HE'S A BOY SCOUT LEADER,

AND HE WOULD GO CAMPING
WITH HIS SON.

AND HE'S ALSO
THE LONGEST-RUNNING

SERIAL KILLER IN U.S. HISTORY.

[ INDISTINCT TALKING ]

ONCE HE BEGAN TO CONFESS,
THE STRESS WAS

LIFTED IMMEDIATELY.

HE CONFESSED TO THE EIGHT
KNOWN BTK HOMICIDES

AND THEN TWO MORE HOMICIDES
THAT OCCURRED

IN THE PARK CITY AREA.

HE CONFESSED TO THE MURDERS
OF MARINE HEDGE

AND DOLORES DAVIS.

MARINE HEDGE LIVED RIGHT DOWN
THE STREET FROM DENNIS RADER.

THEY PROBABLY SAW EACH OTHER
TAKING OUT THE GARBAGE.

"HI, DENNIS."
"HI, MARINE. HOW YOU DOING?"

AND HE HAD TO HAVE
BEEN PLANNING

WHAT HE WAS GONNA
DO WITH HER.

♪♪

MAN, IT WAS JUST
LIKE, OVERWHELMING.

MY MOTHER DIED AT THE HANDS
OF ONE OF THE MOST

DISGUSTING SOCIAL MALIGNANCIES
THAT'S EVER, YOU KNOW,

BEEN INTRODUCED INTO THIS WORLD.

Narrator: ANALYSIS OF THE TWO
GOADING ANONYMOUS LETTERS

JEFFREY DAVIS RECEIVED

BACK IN THE '90s CONFIRMS
THAT THE WRITER

WAS DENNIS RADER.

[ GLASS BREAKING ]

Davis: YOU ALWAYS IMAGINE
THE FACE OF THE DEVIL.

AND HERE'S THIS ELMER FUDD
LOOKING LITTLE OAF WITH

A STUPID HAIRCUT
AND A DUMB LOOK ON HIS FACE,

AND I THOUGHT, OH,
YOU'RE REAL INTIMIDATING.

YEAH, YOU COULD
PROBABLY SCARE A WOMAN

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT,

BUT YOU'RE JUST A -- YOU'RE JUST
A LITTLE COCKROACH.

Narrator: POLICE ARE TOLD
SHOCKING DETAILS BEHIND

THE MURDERS OF HEDGE
AND DAVIS.

HE WAS ON BOY SCOUT CAMPOUTS
WITH MY BROTHER.

HE USED THE BOY SCOUTS
FOR AN ALIBI TWICE,

UM, WITH MRS. HEDGE'S MURDER
AND ALSO MRS. DAVIS'S MURDER.

Hatteberg:
HE WOULD GET UP LATE AT NIGHT

AFTER EVERYBODY ELSE
HAD GONE TO SLEEP,

AND HE FOUND MARINE HEDGE,
KILLED HER.

[ OWL HOOTING ]

Peters: HE LEFT ANOTHER
BOY SCOUT OVERNIGHT,

WENT AND KILLED DOLORES DAVIS,

TOOK HER BODY,

PUT SOME SORT OF SCARY,
HORRIBLE MASK OVER HER FACE,

AND WENT AND DUMPED HER BODY
UNDER A BRIDGE.

SO TO DO THAT,
HOW SICK DO YOU HAVE TO BE?

AS HE WAS GOING BACK TO
THE BOY SCOUT OVERNIGHT,

HE ACTUALLY STOPPED AT
A SERVICE STATION TO CHANGE

HIS CLOTHES, BECAUSE HE HAD
JUST COMMITTED A MURDER.

A HIGHWAY PATROLMAN
SPOTTED HIM

AND ASKED HIM
WHAT HE WAS DOING.

HE HAD A GOOD EXCUSE.

I'M IN A BOY SCOUT OVERNIGHT,

AND I THOUGHT I'D COME TO
A RESTROOM TO CHANGE MY CLOTHES,

BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT
TO CHANGE IT IN A TENT.

WELL, THAT'S SOMETHING
THE HIGHWAY PATROL OFFICER,

OF COURSE, IS GONNA BELIEVE,
IT'S VERY BELIEVABLE.

HE ACTUALLY WENT BACK TO
THE BOY SCOUT OVERNIGHT,

AND PROBABLY JUST SO PLEASED
WITH HIMSELF,

FELL ASLEEP NEXT TO HIS SON.

HERE'S A GUY WHO CAN BE WITH
HIS SON AT A BOY SCOUT CAMP

IN ONE MOMENT
AND AN HOUR LATER BE OUT

KILLING SOMEONE.

THAT RIGHT THERE REALLY
SHOWS YOU HOW THAT

CANCEROUS MUSCLE
THAT HE CALLS A MIND WORKS.

AND THAT IN-YOUR-FACE
ABOUT "YOUR MOTHER

MUST HAVE BEEN
TERRIFIED," I'LL BET YOU

MY FACE JUST WENT BEET RED,

BECAUSE BASICALLY THAT'S
EXACTLY WHAT HE'S SAYING.

"THAT'S WHAT I DID --

I TERRIFIED YOUR MOTHER
BEFORE I KILLED HER."

HE DUMPED HER BODY,
BUT HE DIDN'T HAVE TIME

TO DO THE THINGS HE WANTED
TO DO WITH HER,

SO HE LEFT FOR A COUPLE OF
DAYS, AND WHEN HE CAME BACK,

SHE WASN'T TURNING HIM ON,
BECAUSE HER FACE WAS STARTING

TO DECOMPOSE.

SO HE THOUGHT HE MIGHT
BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE

MORE SEXUAL EXCITEMENT IF
HE WOULD TAKE THAT PORCELAIN

MASK THAT HE HAD
AND PUT IT ON HER.

BUT HE SAID THE MASK DIDN'T DO
IT FOR HIM, BECAUSE THE REST OF

HER BODY WAS DECOMPOSING, TOO,

SO HE JUST LET HER BODY
THERE UNDER THE BRIDGE.

Narrator: UNDER THE DIRECTION
OF LIEUTENANT LANDWEHR,

INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS OF
THE BTK TASK FORCE HAD BEEN

ASSIGNED SPECIFIC MURDERS
TO FOCUS ON.

NOW THEY TAKE TURNS
QUESTIONING THE KILLER

ABOUT THEM.

HIS RECALL -- THERE'S NO DOUBT
ABOUT HIS RECALL.

HE HAD A PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY
OF THOSE MURDERS AND THE SCENES.

AND NOW HE'S ABLE TO ACTUALLY
RELATE THAT AND TAKE FULL

CREDIT FOR EVERYTHING
THAT HE HAD DONE.

HE APPEARED TO BE COMING
AROUSED AS

HE STARTED TO TALK
ABOUT THE MURDERS.

I WAS LIKE,
"YOU FILTHY PIG."

HE THOUGHT HE WAS...

THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS.

HE THOUGHT HE WAS
FROM THE DARK SIDE.

Gouge: HE THOUGHT
HE WAS A CELEBRITY

AND THAT WE SHOULD BE HONORED
TO BE IN

THE ROOM WITH HIM IN ORDER TO
SHARE THIS EXPERIENCE WITH HIM.

HE SAID, YOU KNOW, "I'M LIKE
A LION ON THE SERENGETI.

YOU CAN'T ASK THEM
NOT TO HUNT."

IT WAS LIKE,
I'M THIS WAY.

YOU JUST GOTTA ACCEPT IT.

HE ALMOST TOOK ON A ROLE OF

AN INSTRUCTOR -- WHEN HE WAS
TELLING US ABOUT THE CASES,

IT WAS, THIS IS HOW I GOT
MYSELF PREPARED FOR IT,

'CAUSE STRANGLING PEOPLE'S
HARDER THAN YOU THINK.

YOU KNOW, HE SAID THAT.

BTK USED A SMALL SQUEEZE BALL

THAT HE KEPT
ON HIS BEDSIDE TABLE.

WRITTEN ON IT WAS THE SLOGAN,
"LIFE IS GOOD."

HE USED THAT BALL TO
STRENGTHEN HIS HANDS

SO THAT HE COULD MORE EASILY
STRANGLE HIS VICTIMS.

IT BOTHERS ME
TO THIS DAY.

Hatteberg:
HE WAS A MAN WITH NO SOUL,

AND HE WAS THE MOST
EVIL PERSON I EVER MET.

RADER HAD A NOTION
ABOUT HIMSELF,

AND STILL DOES,
THAT HE WAS A GOOD GUY,

ESSENTIALLY, WHO DID
SOME BAD THINGS.

TO HIS MIND,

THAT MEANT HE WAS HELPFUL
TO NEIGHBORS.

HE WAS A GOOD FATHER, A GOOD
HUSBAND, A GOOD PROVIDER.

HE WAS A HARD-WORKING MEMBER
OF HIS CHURCH.

OCCASIONALLY, HE HAD FORAYS
INTO HIS DARK SIDE,

WHERE HE WOULD STALK PEOPLE,

BREAK INTO THEIR HOUSES,
AND KILL THEM.

BUT THOSE WERE,
IN HIS MIND, ABERRATIONS.

THEY WERE NOT REALLY
WHO HE WAS.

IT'S STILL VERY HARD TO
HEAR PEOPLE CALL HIM

A MONSTER OR CALL HIM EVIL
OR SAY, LIKE,

UM, HE SHOULD WALK
THE GREEN MILE AND FRY.

I MEAN, THESE ARE THINGS
PEOPLE LITERALLY HAVE SAID

TO MY FACE.

IT'S HARD FOR ME
TO HEAR THAT,

BECAUSE THAT'S NOT
THE PERSON I KNOW.

YOU KNOW, PEOPLE LIKE TO SAY,
"YOUR WHOLE

"LIFE WAS A LIE, BECAUSE
YOU LIVED WITH BTK.

YOU NEVER LIVED WITH
THE MAN YOU THOUGHT YOU DID."

YES, BUT I STILL LIVED
WITH MY DAD.

♪♪