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Rader: I had many of what I call them projects.
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They were different people in the town
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that I followed, watched...
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...cut the phone lines, broke in,
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and waited for her to come home.
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Welcome to "Very Scary People."
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I'm Donnie Wahlberg.
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The serial killer known as BTK
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began terrorizing the city
of Wichita, Kansas, in 1974,
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stalking and savagely killing
his victims in their homes,
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then taunting police and reporters
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with disturbing letters detailing the carnage.
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Demented, elusive, BTK was
actually hiding in plain sight,
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but his true identity and motive
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would remain a mystery for decades.
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It all began on an ordinary
day with the Otero family.
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This is part one of "BTK: Bind, Torture, Kill."
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Rader: I came to the back
door, cut the phone lines,
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waited at the back door ...
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had reservations about even
going or just walking away,
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but pretty soon, the door opened and I was in.
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Jordan: The Otero family was a family of seven,
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headed by father Joseph and his wife, Julie.
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They had both been born in Puerto Rico,
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but they moved to New York as children
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and there, they met in high school.
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Otero: My family was
your typical military family.
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My father was an Air Force sergeant,
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and my mom was a stay-at-home mother,
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good Catholic woman.
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-They had five children, ranging in age
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from 15 all the way down to 9.
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We were all into school.
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My father expected us to get good grades,
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and we stayed pretty athletic and into sports.
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Hard workers, good parents,
kids doing well in school ...
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really, not a care in the world.
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Otero: We came to Wichita, Kansas, in the '70s
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because my father had retired overseas
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and was looking for work.
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He worked on jet engines, and that was the reason
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the Otero family moved here in 1973,
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was the number of airplane
factories we have in Wichita.
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Otero: My dad found a job at Cook Airfield.
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It was a small, family-owned airfield
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on the outskirts of Wichita,
and he was hired as a mechanic.
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Hatteberg: Wichita, Kansas,
was in the middle of America,
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and nobody locked their doors.
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It was a great little town to be from.
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January 15, 1974 started out different.
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I asked my dad to take
me to school early that day
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so that I could get an extra study hall in.
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My brother and sisters, Danny and Carmen,
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they went with me.
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Joe drops those three older kids at school,
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and he returns back home
and joins his wife, Julie,
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in getting the two younger kids ready for school.
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They're doing typical stuff ...
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making school lunches, gathering backpacks,
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getting ready for Julie to drop those kids off,
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when the unthinkable happens.
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Singular: He goes into the house.
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He draws his gun.
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One of the first things that
he does is cut the telephone cord,
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and then he tells them
that he just wants their car
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and some money and if he can tie them up
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and he can get the money in the car,
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he'll leave them alone.
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Relph: The killer bound Mr. Otero
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and then neutralized him pretty quickly.
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Singular: He tied up the parents,
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and then he tied up the kids,
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and then, when they were all in his control,
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he started to strangle the father.
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He strangled the mother.
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They were both in bedrooms.
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And then he strangled the boy,
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and then he took the young
girl down into the basement.
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Otero: I walked home by myself that day,
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and it was a very long, cold, windy walk,
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as is typical of Wichita winters.
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I went into the back door through the kitchen,
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and I opened up the door, walked in the house,
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and I saw my mother's purse.
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It was thrown over.
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All the belongings were strewn about,
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which was totally out of character for my mother,
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and I yelled out, "Is anybody home?"
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At that point, one of my siblings yelled out,
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"Charlie, come quick!
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Mom and dad are playing a bad trick on us."
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I saw my brother and
my sister, Daniel and Carmen,
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with my parent's bodies, and my heart ...
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it just felt like somebody
had ripped my chest wide open
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and pulled my heart out.
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We tried to use the phone, it didn't work,
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so I took Carmen and Danny outside.
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And we stayed out in the front yard,
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and Danny went next door to
use a phone, called the police.
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When the first police officer pulled up,
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he came out to us and asked what was going on.
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I said, "Go inside the house. You'll see."
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He went inside, came back
out, looked at me and said,
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"Could your father have done this?"
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Otero: I remember me asking over and over again
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for Joey and Josie
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because they were due
home from school any minute,
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and I just didn't want them
to come home to that scenario
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with the police there and everything.
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I wanted them with me.
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The crime-scene investigators .
.. they came to the scene,
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collected the ropes that
the family was tied with,
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took pictures, documented the scene,
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diagramed it, and during
the initial crime-scene work,
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they worked this as if maybe
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it was a home invasion of some kind.
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Hatteberg: They sent me out, and I arrived,
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and police cars everywhere,
and then we start to find
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that there were multiple bodies inside the house.
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Otero: I kept asking for Joey
and Josie over and over again,
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and at one point, finally,
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the chaplain came up to me and sat me down.
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And the chaplain looked at me and said
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Joey and Josie were in the house also
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and that they were deceased.
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I pretty much went blank after that.
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It wasn't 'til very late in the evening
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that we even found out
the children were involved,
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and that's what changed everything.
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Jordan: This attacker took out the parents
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and the little brother
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all by suffocation and strangulation,
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which is a very slow, hands-on style of killing.
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It's very personal,
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and because it's slow,
unlike shooting or stabbing,
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you have the option at any moment
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of releasing your hands
and saving the person's life.
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The terror on the face becomes
enmeshed with sexual arousal,
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so the process of dying is what turns him on,
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not a sexual act itself.
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Relph: It was clear that he wanted Josephine.
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I think he'd have killed 10 people in that house
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if they'd have been between him and Josephine.
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He obviously spent the most time with Josephine.
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Josephine was moved to
the basement of the house...
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and she was hung.
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That was so sad and so .
.. so horrible and so callous
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and so cold that he would
do what he did to a child.
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Singular: He masturbated at the scene,
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which becomes significant in terms of forensics
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because he's leaving behind DNA samples.
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Otis: A lab investigator
took samples of that semen,
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put it in a paper bag,
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stapled it shut, and turned it in as evidence
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because there was no scientific testing to do.
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1974, that went on a shelf
in an evidence facility.
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I don't think people knew
how to spell DNA much less ...
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from a law-enforcement point of view ...
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much less knew what the
value is to preserve that,
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but there is one thing policemen did know
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and the investigator was
an incredible imagination for ...
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you don't know what you don't know,
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but he knew he had to preserve that.
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Jordan: He didn't rape the mother.
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He didn't even do sexual
acts on the mother postmortem.
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The idea that his focus
was on the 11-year-old girl
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really indicates to me
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that he's fundamentally a pedophile.
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Morton: With Josephine Otero, he said,
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"When I saw her bound out
of the car and up the stairs,
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I knew I just had to have her."
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O'Connor: Josie was a little girl.
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If that isn't a pedophile, I don't know what is.
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Foulston: Four people getting killed
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at home with two young children.
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That was the beginning of
his quest to be on the dark side
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and to do this kind of thing.
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January 15, 1974, Wichita instantly changed.
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It wasn't an innocent city anymore.
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It became a city that was afraid.
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Relph: Law enforcement at
the time were looking at it as,
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"Is this a one-off? What is this?"
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There was just no reason
to slaughter this family.
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Otero: From what I understand,
the police were wondering
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if my father's activities overseas
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had anything to do with their demise
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and what had happened to him,
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so there was a lot of questions
about overseas contacts.
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Hatteberg: As the days progressed,
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our police reporters were all over it,
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trying to get information.
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I remember the police chief checking on that
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somehow that this could be related to drugs,
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but it wasn't.
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So they abandoned that lead.
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Singular: They put 75 officers on the case.
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They contacted other police departments.
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They interrogated 800 people
in the first few weeks of it.
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They set up roadblocks and
were stopping all kinds of people,
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and they came up empty on everything.
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Jordan: The perpetrator begins to come down
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from the high of the Otero family,
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and he needs the thrill to come back.
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He focuses on a particular young woman,
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21-year-old Kathryn Bright.
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Jordan: Four members of the Otero family
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are murdered in January of 1974,
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and investigators are trying
to piece together the evidence
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and find the killer when, in April,
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another brutal killing.
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BTK: I had many of what I call them projects.
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They were different people in the town
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that I followed, watched.
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Kathryn Bright was one of the next targets.
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Kathryn lived in a house
just off Wichita State campus,
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a rental home.
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She lived with her sister,
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but she had gone to lunch
with her brother, Kevin.
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Singular: Killer breaks in.
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He's lying in wait,
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and he's thinking he will be able to subdue her
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and do whatever he wants and fill his fantasy,
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which is a lot of what the crimes are about.
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When they came home, they were ambushed.
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Relph: He first says he's on
the run from California to New York
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and he just wants a car and some money.
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That's an attempt to put your victims at ease.
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He orders Kevin to tie up his sister.
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Then he takes Kevin into another room
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and wants to tie him up,
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and they get into a terrible struggle.
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And Kevin gets ahold of the gun.
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He shoves it into his stomach, he fires it,
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and it doesn't go off.
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Relph: Kevin believed that he had
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gotten ahold of the guy's gun,
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but unknown to him, he had a second weapon.
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Through a series of struggles,
he will shoot Kevin.
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Jordan: Kevin still gets up and fights.
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The attacker has to shoot him twice.
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??
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He thinks he's immobilized him,
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goes to take care of Kathryn according to plan.
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Kevin, who is very incapacitated
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but still somehow aware, realizes his only hope
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is to get out of the
house and flee and seek help.
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Relph: Kevin went out the
door and probably let this guy know
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that this thing has totally spun out of control.
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Singular: Kathryn puts
up also an incredible struggle
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to try to save her life.
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Jordan: The attacker, still
with Kathryn fighting and fighting,
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has to resort to using
a knife to stab her repeatedly,
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trying to control and incapacitate her.
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He stabs her seven times in one place,
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I believe four in another, and then he flees.
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Morton: He walks out and walks up the street.
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Why would he do that?
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Because it doesn't bring any attention to him.
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??
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Singular: Kathryn ... she's
able to crawl out of her room,
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crawl into another room,
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bleeding profusely, get to the phone.
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She calls the operator,
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and the police come and they get her.
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Jordan: An ambulance is dispatched to the address
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to gather up Kathryn
and take her to the hospital,
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but sadly, within hours,
she dies at that hospital
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while Kevin is trying to give a statement
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to the police describing the perpetrator.
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Foulston: There was a picture
that was drawn of the person ...
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mustache and a beanie kind of winter hat.
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??
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Hatteberg: When Kathryn Bright was murdered,
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no one had a clue
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that it was related to the Oteros in any way.
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Otis: The Bright case had appeared
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to be more of an aggravated robbery,
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a home-invasion robbery where it was chaos.
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There was gunshots fired, there was stabbing.
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It really did not compare,
crime-scene wise, to the Oteros.
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Jordan: So, other than the common denominator
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of a home invasion in the middle of the day,
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the police had no real reason
to link this to the same person.
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Morton: BTK studied a
lot about police techniques.
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He knew that the police, basically,
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were looking for a common M.
O., a method of operation.
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He would wear disguises,
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so if witnesses saw him, he would look different.
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He would speak with an
accent if he talked to anybody
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so there would be misinformation out there
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because he didn't want to get caught.
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??
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Otis: Later in 1974, towards the fall,
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two brothers and a friend of theirs
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claimed knowledge of the Otero homicides.
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Eagle reporters found out about it
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and wrote a story about it.
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Otis: And then, one day, a Wichita Eagle reporter
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took a phone call at his desk.
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The caller advised him that there was a letter
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at the Wichita Public Library
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and named a library book
that the letter would be in,
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told the reporter, "If you go get that letter
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and read it, I think you'll enjoy it."
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Hatteberg: And in that letter
was a description of the scene
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at the Otero house
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that only the killer would know about.
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The public didn't know about them,
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but the police knew about it,
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and they knew, "Oh, this guy's real.
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This is the guy who did it."
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??
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This letter was sent by
the killer to make it clear,
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"You don't have the right people."
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This killer didn't want anybody taking credit.
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Jordan: He is beginning to toy with the police,
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basically mocking them.
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That's all part of his craving
need for power at all times.
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Mattingly: He had some very detailed words
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about what he wanted people to know about it.
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He said, "When this monster entered my brain,
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I will never know, but it is here to stay.
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Maybe you can stop him. I can't.
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He has already chosen his next victim."
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When you read, "There's a monster inside of him,"
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that's really not true,
at least in my experience.
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What you see is you have somebody who has
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psychopathic traits there,
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total lack of empathy for victims.
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Why?
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How do we know he he has
lack of empathy for his victims?
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Because he kills them.
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People like that ... they call them psychopaths.
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??
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In that same letter, BTK gave himself a name.
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BTK: You'll know me by the way I bind them
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and I'll torture them and I'll kill them.
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The BTK nomenclature ... "bind, torture, kill."
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And that's how he wanted to be known.
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Jordan: He is telling you what to call him,
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which is simply a demonstration of his need
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for power and control.
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Singular: Once the Wichita
police department realize
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that they're communicating with the killer,
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they make the decision not to publicize it
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because they think maybe that will keep him
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from killing again.
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They all turn out to be wrong.
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Morton: He had another potential target.
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That one wasn't home.
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He was feeling very frustrated,
and then, up the street
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comes this little kid carrying a grocery bag.
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??
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??
383
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Welcome back to "Very Scary People."
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BTK, "bind, torture, kill,
" was the name he gave himself
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after confessing to the Otero family murders.
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BTK threatened he would kill again,
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but as time passed and there were no new victims,
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police wondered if he had moved
on to torment another city ...
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until March 1977.
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??
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Singular: Almost three years after he committed
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the Kathryn Bright murder,
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he has gone out again for a kill.
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Again, the M.O. Is slightly different here.
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Morton: He targeted a house
where there was two females,
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and he wanted to see if he could kill two females
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at the same time.
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He went there. They weren't home.
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He had another potential target.
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That one wasn't home.
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He was feeling very frustrated.
402
00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,000
??
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BTK: So I just started
going through the neighborhood.
404
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I'd been through back alleys,
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knew where some certain people live.
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While I was walking, I met a young boy.
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??
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Jordan: It's March 17, 1977, and Shirley Vian,
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a 26-year-old mom with three young children,
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is sick in bed with the flu.
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Because she's so sick,
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all of the children have stayed at home that day.
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She sends her 5-year-old son, Steven,
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down the street to the local grocery store
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to pick up some soup for her and the kids to eat.
416
00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,999
??
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Relph: On his return, he's walking back,
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and he's approached by a man
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who shows him a picture of a mother and a child,
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says, "Do you know where these people live?"
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He says he's a private
investigator working a case.
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He now watches this 5-year-old boy named Steven
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walk up to his own home and enter the door.
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And he decides impulsively this
is going to be his next target.
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??
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Morton: He watched him walk into the house.
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[Knock on door]
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A minute later, he knocks on the door.
429
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??
430
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??
431
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[Gasps]
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Has a gun, forces his way in.
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Now, this is completely spontaneous.
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I mean, anybody could've been inside that house.
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Jordan: Shirley Vian's extremely confused.
436
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Why is this man in her living room?
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The children seem confused and upset, as well,
438
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and she tries to cooperate...
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when he suddenly announces
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that he has a problem with sexual fantasies
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that she needs to help him with,
that she can't get out of this,
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things are going to happen,
they won't be pleasant,
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but she can survive if she cooperates.
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She actually helps him shepherd
the children into the bathroom
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and lock the door... thinking, of course,
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that the children will be protected
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if they can't see or experience
what's about to happen to her.
448
00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,999
??
449
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Morton: He then takes Shirley Vian
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into the bedroom to assault her.
451
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,000
??
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In the meantime, the kids are yelling,
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and the phone rings.
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[Telephone rings]
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Jordan: It interrupts the fantasy of BTK ...
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the children screaming
and crying, the phone ringing.
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The fantasy is not there.
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BTK: The kids were really banging on the door,
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hollering and screaming,
and then the telephone rang.
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So I cleaned everything up real quick-like
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and got out of there,
left and went back into my car.
462
00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,999
??
463
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:07,999
Jordan: The children actually manage
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to break the bathroom window
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and crawl out, running for help to the neighbors.
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Relph: Her neighbor comes
over, and Shirley is found.
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She has a bag over her head.
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She's got a ligature around her neck.
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There's attempts to save her, but she's gone.
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There will be a letter that arrives later on
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that specifically says
the Vian kids were very lucky.
472
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He had every intention
of killing those kids, too.
473
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The phone call and breaking the window
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basically saved the little kids' lives.
475
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??
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Jordan: BTK has now struck for the third time,
477
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and police who would be working these cases
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would be looking for patterns and similarities.
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Once again, there was no real physical evidence.
480
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The child who witnessed the intruder come in
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gave a fairly vanilla description
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of a white man dressed in a suit.
483
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The victimology is completely different.
484
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The killer's behavior is completely different.
485
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Other than strangulation
in the first and the third,
486
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it just doesn't seem that the same person
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would be responsible for all three attacks.
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Otis: However, the binding
of the victim on her legs
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and her arms are what
keyed the police department in
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to matching that one to the Otero case.
491
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The knots were the same.
The rope was kind of the same.
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So that one was lumped into
the BTK cases at that point.
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Relph: We knew of M.O., but certainly,
494
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we hadn't come to appreciate
what's called "signatures,"
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things that a killer does just for themselves.
496
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Certainly, some of the
binding of some of his victims
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was just for him.
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It didn't further the completion of the crime.
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Otis: I believed this guy
had to be just as smart as us
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when it came to ways to catch him ...
501
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fingerprints and hairs and fibers ...
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because he was being very,
very careful not to give us any.
503
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Jordan: With this third
attack, it wasn't well-Planned.
504
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These were not his intended victims.
505
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Shirley Vian was outside of
his normal, careful procedures.
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Jordan: One of the more baffling
aspects is that this is a man
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who had cased the home of two young women
508
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and had his sexual fantasy
and his plan all worked out.
509
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When it went south, why
didn't he just pack his briefcase
510
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and go back to work?
511
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It really doesn't make
sense that he would impulsively
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and randomly pick on the
home of a 5-year-old child.
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When we finally asked him about that, I said,
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"Why did you veer so far from
your very strict discipline?"
515
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And he said, "Well, I was
just all wound up that day."
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??
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Burgess: That happens,
where they will plan something,
518
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it doesn't work out, but they're on a high
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and they have to find someone.
520
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,999
And so that's where the impulsive aspect comes.
521
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:08,999
It moves from a plan, and that fails,
522
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:13,999
and then they're really angry,
so the anger gets built up,
523
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,999
and they just find a situation
where they can strike.
524
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:18,999
Foulston: It was unpredictable,
525
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:22,999
and that really was so
disruptive to our community
526
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:29,000
because nobody knew where, when,
why, or who was gonna be next.
527
00:27:29,001 --> 00:27:30,999
??
528
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,000
Hatteberg: When he made the phone call
529
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,000
from a public pay phone,
530
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:36,999
a firefighter came up right after him
531
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:40,999
and was able to have a description of him.
532
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:47,000
??
533
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:50,999
??
534
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,999
Jordan: A serial killer
is preying on Wichita, Kansas.
535
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:58,999
In March of 1977, after a three-year hiatus,
536
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,999
he returned to claim his sixth victim.
537
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,999
By December, he's on the hunt again.
538
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,999
??
539
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:12,999
BTK had an elaborate system
for finding his victims.
540
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:14,999
Trolling came first,
541
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:19,999
then stalking, then naming a project.
542
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:21,999
He would start with the process of trolling,
543
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,999
which might just be riding around neighborhoods,
544
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:26,999
looking for women.
545
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:27,999
Hatteberg: I asked him, I said,
546
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,999
"So, how did you pick your victims?"
547
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,999
And he said, "I would be driving down the street,
548
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:35,999
and I would see a woman standing on her porch
549
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,999
or I'd see a woman walking down the street."
550
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:43,000
??
551
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:47,999
"And I'd point my finger at
her, and I'd say, 'She's next.'"
552
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,999
Singular: So then he would
start the process of stalking.
553
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,999
Stalking would involve an individual,
554
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,000
and he would settle in on her.
555
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,999
??
556
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:04,999
Hatteberg: And then he would stalk these people
557
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:05,999
for a period of time.
558
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:07,999
He wanted to know all the information
559
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,999
that he could get publicly about them.
560
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:13,999
Singular: He would then name his project ...
561
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,999
again, a very organized process for him.
562
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:24,999
??
563
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:26,999
When he gets to Nancy Fox,
564
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,999
it will be called "Project Fox Hunt."
565
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,999
BTK: At first, she was spotted,
566
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:35,560
and then I did a little homework.
567
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:37,999
I dropped by once to check the mailbox
568
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,999
to see what her name was,
found out where she worked.
569
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,999
I stopped by there once, at Helzberg,
570
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:47,999
kind of sized her up.
571
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:48,999
The more I knew about a person,
572
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:50,999
the more I felt comfortable with it,
573
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,999
so I did that a couple times.
574
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,999
And then I just selected a night.
575
00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:03,999
??
576
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,999
Jordan: Nancy Fox is a 25-year-old single woman.
577
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,999
She has her own place, lives alone,
578
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:11,999
and really is in control of her life.
579
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,999
She has a full-time job
at an architectural company,
580
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:15,999
a part-time job at night.
581
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,999
??
582
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,999
Singular: Before Nancy
has come home, he breaks in.
583
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:24,999
He goes into her closet.
584
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,999
??
585
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,999
She does come home.
586
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,999
She's eating a hamburger.
587
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:38,999
??
588
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,999
And he bolts out of the closet.
589
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,999
When Nancy finds this
man standing in front of her,
590
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,999
she actually tells him to get out of her house.
591
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:50,999
Relph: He thought she was
spunky because she was like,
592
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:51,999
"I'm gonna call the police."
593
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,999
And he said, "That ain't gonna do you no good.
594
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,999
The phone's already taken care of."
595
00:30:58,000 --> 00:30:59,999
Jordan: She stands up to him.
596
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:01,999
This really just feeds his fantasy
597
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:06,999
because he is going to
make sure she knows who's boss.
598
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,700
He tells her that he's
suffering from sexual problems
599
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:11,999
and that she needs to help him with that
600
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:16,000
and that if she cooperates,
nothing bad will happen to her.
601
00:31:16,001 --> 00:31:18,999
Singular: And this is the
first time really that he is
602
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:20,999
actually in control of the situation
603
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,999
and he can actually act out
what he had fantasized about doing.
604
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:26,999
And she was like, "Well, let's get this over with
605
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:28,999
so I can go call the police."
606
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:30,999
I think at the time,
607
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,999
women were taught to submit to sexual assaults,
608
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:36,999
rather than try to fight off an attacker,
609
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,999
which it's different now.
610
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,000
Singular: So he ties her up.
611
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,999
He does very elaborate knots,
612
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,999
and he does the BTK routine again.
613
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:53,999
He tortures her through
the strangulation process.
614
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,999
He brings her up to the point of dying.
615
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:58,999
??
616
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:04,999
Then he whispered in her ear... "I'm BTK."
617
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:05,999
Jordan: Don't forget that "BTK"
618
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,999
stands for "bind, torture, and kill."
619
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:10,999
He has her bound, he's
in the process of killing her,
620
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:16,000
but the torture is the whispering in her ear.
621
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,999
"I'm BTK. I killed the Otero family.
622
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:24,999
I am now killing you and strangling you."
623
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,999
This is psychological torture.
624
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:31,999
It would leave her dying in absolute terror.
625
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:35,000
O'Connor: He will describe
that she put up a hell of a fight
626
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:37,999
that actually turned him on even more.
627
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,999
??
628
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,999
Once she is dead, then he
will masturbate at the crime scene.
629
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,999
He will leave behind semen and DNA.
630
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:53,000
When BTK killed Nancy Fox,
he left her bound, strangled,
631
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,999
and deceased on her bed, left the house.
632
00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:01,999
The next morning, he realized
that nobody had found her body.
633
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,999
He wanted the police to
know that he had struck again.
634
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:08,999
So BTK went to a pay phone, called the operator,
635
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,999
because in those days, there was no 911.
636
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,180
He called the operator and asked
to be transferred to the police.
637
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:25,999
The police responded to that address
638
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:27,999
and found her body on the bed.
639
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,999
Jordan: It wasn't that he wanted to get caught.
640
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,999
He wanted the cat-and-mouse game to begin,
641
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:35,999
and if he has to call in the murder himself
642
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:39,999
and report it so that the
police can be on the hunt for him,
643
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,999
that he will do so that
he can gain the upper hand,
644
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:44,999
a feeling of superiority.
645
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:46,999
"You don't even know I killed somebody,
646
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:48,999
and you're not gonna catch me."
647
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,000
When he made the phone
call from a public pay phone,
648
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:54,999
a firefighter came up right after him
649
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,999
and was able to have a description of him,
650
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,999
and the phone was just dangling there.
651
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,000
So he was almost caught at that point.
652
00:34:03,001 --> 00:34:04,999
??
653
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,000
Otis: When the crime-scene investigators
654
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,999
found the DNA stain
655
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,999
on the female clothing
on the bed, they collected it,
656
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,999
bagged it properly, once again, sealed the bag.
657
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:16,999
They knew that it was semen,
658
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,999
but there was no DNA testing at that time.
659
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:21,999
And so they packaged it properly, sealed it up,
660
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,999
and put it with the rest
of the evidence of that case.
661
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:26,999
Singular: This is the second
time that he's done this.
662
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,999
He did it at the Otero crime scene in '74.
663
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,000
He's now doing it in '77.
664
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:35,999
He doesn't really know or understand
665
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:40,999
that genetic material
can be preserved over decades.
666
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:42,999
O'Connor: Nancy Fox is the first one where
667
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:44,999
he will take a driver's license,
668
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:49,000
a memento, which is consistent
with serial killers.
669
00:34:49,001 --> 00:34:51,999
The souvenir, taking a driver's license,
670
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,999
was really about him reliving the moment.
671
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:57,999
Burgess: I work with criminal-personality
672
00:34:58,000 --> 00:34:59,999
research studies on serial killers.
673
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,999
That's the way it keeps the fantasy alive,
674
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:03,999
and a lot of times, that can work.
675
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:05,999
He can look at the driver's license,
676
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:07,999
and that reminds him of that and can be used
677
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,999
as a sexual stimulus for him .
.. until that starts to wane
678
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,999
and then he has to go and find another victim.
679
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,999
Morton: BTK was interesting
680
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,999
because he basically created his own pornography.
681
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:24,999
He would draw pictures of women in bondage,
682
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:28,999
tied up, looks of fear on their face.
683
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:30,999
That's what he was trying
to capture was that terror,
684
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:35,999
that terror that excited him.
685
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,999
Hatteberg: So I called him at home and said,
686
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:39,999
"You need to get in here now.
687
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,000
I think we have a letter from a killer."
688
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:48,000
??
689
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,999
It's almost two months since
BTK called in to the local police,
690
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,999
self-reporting the homicide
he committed on Nancy Fox,
691
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,999
and there just doesn't seem to be any attention
692
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:07,999
being paid to this murder.
693
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:09,999
Not only that, the police have never linked
694
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:13,999
all three of them together.
695
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,000
So on January 31, 1978,
696
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,999
BTK sends a cryptic little child's rhyme
697
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:24,000
to the local paper, The Wichita Eagle.
698
00:36:24,001 --> 00:36:26,999
He creates a poem called "Shirley Locks"
699
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,999
about the murder of Shirley Vian,
700
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,999
based on the poem called "Curly Locks."
701
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:36,999
??
702
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:40,999
It ended up in the classified
department of The Eagle.
703
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,000
Singular: He thinks that this is somehow
704
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,999
going to draw attention.
705
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,999
There's no report about it.
There's no story about it.
706
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:48,999
??
707
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:52,999
After 10 days, he finally sends a new letter
708
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:54,999
to the local TV station.
709
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,999
If the newspaper's not
going to pay attention to him,
710
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,000
maybe the TV station will.
711
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:02,999
??
712
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:04,999
Hatteberg: It was February 10, 1978,
713
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,999
and I get a call from a receptionist.
714
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:12,999
And her voice is quivering just a little bit.
715
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,000
And she says, "I think I have something
716
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,999
that maybe could be important."
717
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:19,999
So I walked out front,
718
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:25,999
and she's holding up this
letter just by the edges.
719
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:29,999
It turned out to be a letter from BTK.
720
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,999
Jordan: There was a poem
titled "Oh! Death to Nancy."
721
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:38,999
To the left of the poem
was typed "BTK" four times,
722
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:43,999
and beside each, he added tiny hangman nooses.
723
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:48,999
There was also a pencil drawing
of a woman bound and gagged
724
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:49,999
and a two-page letter
725
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,999
with some of the words misspelled.
726
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:55,999
BTK wrote, "I find the newspaper
727
00:37:56,000 --> 00:38:01,999
not writing about the poem on Vian unamusing.
728
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:05,999
There's a psycho running
loose, strangling mostly women.
729
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:07,999
There are seven in the ground.
730
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:09,999
Who will be next?
731
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,999
The writer, who claimed to be BTK,
732
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:16,999
admitted to the murders of the Otero family,
733
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:18,999
Shirley Vian, Nancy Fox.
734
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:23,999
He admitted to and gave details
of all of those homicides.
735
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:25,999
Relph: There was no confusion anymore
736
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:27,999
that all these cases were connected.
737
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,999
Singular: KAKE realized they had a big story,
738
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:32,999
but they took it to the police department.
739
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,999
Hatteberg: Chief Lamunyon
looked at the letter, and he said
740
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:39,999
basically that it was time to release the letter
741
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,999
because we now had a serial killer.
742
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,999
Singular: Lamunyon made
the decision at that point
743
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:47,999
to go on television and announce
744
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:53,999
that there was a serial killer
in Wichita by the name of BTK.
745
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:55,999
This morning, KAKE-TV was contacted
746
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:57,999
by the person who police
say they believe murdered
747
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:02,999
four members of the Joseph
Otero family in January of 1974.
748
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,999
So, that evening, the police chief of Wichita
749
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:07,999
appeared on our air at 6:00.
750
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,999
We have an individual who apparently has
751
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,999
the uncontrollable desire to kill at times.
752
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,999
He is not a rational person
during that frame of mind.
753
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:22,999
As your letter indicates, he tries to fight off
754
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,999
the demons in his head but is unable to do so,
755
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:28,999
so there's just no question in the police's mind
756
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:30,999
as to the fact that this
individual is responsible
757
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:32,999
for seven murders in our city.
758
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:34,999
Hatteberg: We didn't know we had a serial killer.
759
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:35,999
We knew we had a bad guy.
760
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,999
Serial killer, we didn't know about.
761
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:43,999
That was a terrifying and clarifying moment
762
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,000
for the people of Wichita.
763
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,999
Nobody expected a serial killer here.
764
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:51,999
Foulston: People were really concerned
765
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:53,740
about having locks on their doors,
766
00:39:53,741 --> 00:39:56,999
about who might be calling them
or them not having the telephone
767
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:58,999
or just walking into the house
768
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:03,000
and finding the telephone wires had been cut.
769
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:06,999
BTK was utterly the bogeyman to all of us.
770
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,999
He was the bogeyman made real.
771
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:11,999
Jordan: BTK is finally in his glory.
772
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,999
It's been four years since the Otero murder,
773
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,000
and finally, he's on the news.
774
00:40:17,001 --> 00:40:20,999
This is important because
he's launched the investigation,
775
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:25,000
actually giving police the clues
they need to try to catch him.
776
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:29,999
And this is just going to
make him feel like he is God.
777
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:31,999
??
778
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:33,999
There was criticism in the community ...
779
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:35,999
"Why can't you catch this guy?"
780
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:37,999
Jordan: What's different about him
781
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:41,999
and what's unusual is
the randomness of the victims,
782
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:45,999
which is why he was able to get away with it.
783
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:47,999
He's perfecting his craft.
784
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:50,999
He's trying to be very good at what he does.
785
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:52,999
Jordan: For a serial killer's power and control,
786
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:56,999
they're very often not able
to control their compulsions.
787
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:58,999
The cooling-off period usually gets
788
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:00,999
shorter and shorter and shorter.
789
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:02,999
The thrill is gone. They have to get out there.
790
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:04,999
They have to kill again.
791
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:07,000
??
792
00:41:07,001 --> 00:41:08,999
Gagliano: These homicidal maniacs,
793
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:10,999
they think they're smarter than the rest of us,
794
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,999
and they think that they're going to pull off
795
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:15,999
the perfect crime, and it doesn't exist.
796
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,999
The arrogance was part of his downfall.
797
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:20,999
Hatteberg: We're not getting any communication
798
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:21,999
from the police departments.
799
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:23,999
Something is happening.
800
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:25,999
Something is going on.
801
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,999
Woman: This guy? This is the killer?
802
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:32,999
So I finally looked at him and said,
803
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:34,999
"Come on, just tell us who you are."
804
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:39,999
And he said, "I'm BTK."
805
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,999
BTK had killed seven people,
including two children.
806
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,999
He was taunting law enforcement with clues,
807
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:48,999
but police were no closer
to discovering his identity.
808
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,999
Although he left his DNA at two murder scenes,
809
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:53,999
DNA testing and tracing did not yet exist,
810
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:57,999
so the killing would go on .
.. until a stunning twist
811
00:41:58,000 --> 00:41:59,999
that would finally end the terror.
812
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,999
That's in part two of "BTK."
813
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,999
I'm Donnie Wahlberg. Thanks for watching.
814
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Goodnight.
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