Latest / The conspiracy / BTK Killer Was Absolutely Terrifying...

Transcript

BTK Killer Was Absolutely Terrifying... · The conspiracy

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Wichita, Kansas, a city once known for its small town charm,
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: where church bells marked Sundays and families felt safe behind
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: unlocked doors. But beneath the calm streets and manicured lawns,
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: something sinister waited a man who blended perfectly into the ordinary,
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: all while harboring unspeakable secrets. For over thirty years, he
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: hid in plain sight, living two lives, one built on
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: trust and faith and the other on obsession and control.
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: And he watched, he planned, and when the urge took cold,
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: he murdered. This is the story of Dennis Raider, the
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: man the world would come to know as BTK, crime, conspiracy, ghults,
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: serial killers, and murder, all things that I love to consume.
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: And I know you do too, you sick, twisted, beautiful,
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: intellectually minded.
• 0:51
  Speaker 2: Free.
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: Currently there's a rat in my room. So if I'm
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: a little on edge, it's not only because I'm talking
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: about the biggest months there is to be, but also
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: because there's a giant monster rat in my room. So
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: this episode might be a little a little scary for
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: multiple reasons. Anyway, Today we are going over one of
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: the most infamous serial killers in the world at any
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: point in history. So without further ado, let's un buckler
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: our seatbelts go mock five down the highway, slamm of
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: the brakes and busted the swindshield into this horrifying case together.
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: So in the mid nineteen forties, Kansas was a heartland
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: state experiencing post World War two optimism and growth. Wichita
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: in particular had boomed during the war as the air
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: capital of the world, turning out military aircrafts and notably
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: the B twenty nine bombers, and drawing thousands of new
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: residents for factory jobs. So by nineteen fifty, Wichita's population
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: swelled to around one hundred and sixty eight thousand people,
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: up from one hundred and fourteen thousand in nineteen forty.
• 2:09
  Speaker 1: That's a lot of people, and this was due to
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: the wartime influx, and the war's end in nineteen forty
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: five brought a sense of hopefulness. Returning veterans settled down
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: to start families, aided by the gi bell, and new suburbs,
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: schools and churches sprang up amid a spirit of confident
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: post war growth, and culturally, mid century Kansas was conservative
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: and community oriented, and life centered on family, hard work
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: and faith, values that thrived in the Bible belt environment
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: of the Great Plains. Yet beneath the peaceful small town facade,
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: societal norms were strict and traditional, and Wichita was still
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: segregated in the nineteen forties, for example, with black residents
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: relegated to certain theaters and restaurants. And this was the
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: world that Dennis Raider's parents inhabited, a world of church
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: on Sundays, neighborly trust, and post war prosperity, and blatant racism,
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: all of which would form the backdrop for the arrival
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: of this child, Dennis Ryder. So Wichita in the nineteen
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: forties was a city in transition, evolving from its wild
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: West cow town roots in a modern industrial hub, and
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: the downtown bustled with department stores, theaters, and diners, while
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: the outskirts saw new housing for factory workers and aviation
• 3:29
  Speaker 1: companies like Boeing in, Beechcraft and Cessna had expanded massively
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: during the war and then scrambled to reproduce their production
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: in peacetime. And meanwhile, church congregations grew alongside new neighborhoods,
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: reinforcing the area's strong religious culture. So by the late
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: nineteen forties, Wichita's civic leaders, often war veterans themselves, were
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: building a city that viewed itself as an embodiment of
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: the American dream, a blend of small town values in
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: high tech industry. In this optimistic client community, ties were tight,
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: and crime was generally thought of as something distant or
• 4:05
  Speaker 1: confined to only big cities. So the notion of a
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: predatory killer that could be hiding in such a wholesome
• 4:12
  Speaker 1: Midwestern setting felt almost unthinkable. But from what we know
• 4:16
  Speaker 1: now about Midwestern serial killers, ate, dude, I feel so
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: unsafe in Midwesterley. We got this guy, this guy, this guy,
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: Like shit's crazy. But it was in this setting that
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: Dennis Raider's family began their story. So Dennis's father, William
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: Elvin Rader, was a US Marine veteran who served around
• 4:35
  Speaker 1: the time of World War Two and later made a
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: living as a civilian worker for the Kansas Gas Service,
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: and his mother, Dorothea May Raider, worked as a bookkeeper,
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: and they married and would start a family in southeastern Kansas,
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: and the Raiders were known to be of modest socioeconomic status,
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: a working class, middle class family where both parents labored
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: long hours to make ends meet job with the gas company,
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: and Dorothea's bookkeeping position suggests the family was not in
• 5:05
  Speaker 1: poverty but certainly lived a no frills lifestyle. They could
• 5:09
  Speaker 1: afford a stable home, but with both parents working full time,
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: money was earned through diligence, not privilege, and this work
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: ethic was typical of Kansas family's rebuilding after the war,
• 5:20
  Speaker 1: and religion was a cornerstone of life for the Raider
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: family and their entire community. William and Dorothea were devout
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: Lutherans and they were active members of the Zion Lutheran
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: Church in Pittsburgh, where Infantdenis was baptized, and the Lutheran faith,
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: a Protestant denomination with Germanic roots, basically a denomination of Christianity,
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: was common in that region of Kansas and its stressed
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: moral living and church fellowship and obedience to God's commandments.
• 5:49
  Speaker 1: Growing up in the late nineteen forties and nineteen fifties,
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: Dennis Raider would have been steeped in culture that encouraged
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: clean living and neighborly kindness, and the Raiders like attended
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: Sunday service without fail and observe traditional values at home
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: and as a strict and god fearing patriarch. William Rader
• 6:08
  Speaker 1: expected discipline and respect from his children, and neighbors later
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: described him as firm, but not the kind of stern
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: religious father figure that was not unusual in mid century
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: America and in the broader Wichta area. A strong sense
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: of community meant that people and culture prized safety and trust.
• 6:27
  Speaker 1: And ironically, it was exactly this trusting environment and emphasis
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: on appearing upstanding that would enable someone like Dennis Rader
• 6:35
  Speaker 1: to hide in plain sight for so long. But in
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: the nineteen forties, no one could have imagined the dark
• 6:41
  Speaker 1: path that lay ahead. So the stage was set in wholesome,
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: conservative Kansas, and the future BTK killer was born into
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: what appeared to be a completely normal, god fearing family.
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: All Right, things are getting of extremely dark, and I
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: would just like to take a moment to talk about
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: brand I really love and that I really appreciate for
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: supporting this channel, And it is truly something I use
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: every single day and every single night, and that is
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: Lola Blankets. So last week I was curled up researching
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: for this specific crime video and I was really chilly.
• 7:19
  Speaker 1: It's getting chillier, all right, and I unwrapped this luxurious blanket,
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: and the second I touched it, I was like, this
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: is not a normal blanket. Every time I touch it,
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: I realize that this is the softest thing I've ever touched,
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: and it brings me great comfort, especially when researching this
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: disturbing content on the rank. It's the little things that
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: bring me joy, and this blanket is one of them.
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: It's got vegan fur and four way stretch. It's just
• 7:46
  Speaker 1: a game changer, and if you have tons of animals
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: like me that love to curl up inside your blankets
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: and make it smell. It's also machine washable and there's
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: no pilling and no shedding. It literally just gets softer
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: every time you wash it. And it's literally the world's
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: number one blanket right now with over ten thousand and
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: five star reviews, and I get why. Plus with the
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: holidays coming up, this is the best gift. I would
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: love if I received five more of these. There's no complaints.
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: So if you have that impossible to shop for a person,
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: solt Dude solved. It's thoughtful, luxurious, and they'll actually use
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: it every single day. I got some of my family
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: members the XL blanket, and I think they love me
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: more now, So give the gift of softness this holiday
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: season with Lola Blankets and for a limited time, our
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: listeners are getting a huge forty percent off their entire
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: order at Lola Blankets dot com by using code CCCM
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: at checkout. That is a huge discount. So just head
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: to Lola Blankets dot com and use code CCCM for
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: forty percent off and after you purchase the last where
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: you heard about them and just say it was this channel.
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: I really really appreciate the support from you guys and
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: from Lola Blankets. Doing this kind of content is rough
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: on YouTube, to say the least, but it's with these
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: sponsors that I can keep doing the show. So it
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: means the world that you're listening, So it means a lot.
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: So go check out Lola Blankets, get a great gift
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: for yourself and support the channel. Thank you so much
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: to Loola Blankets for sponsoring this video and let's get
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: back to it. So. Dennis Raider was born on March ninth,
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: nineteen forty five, in Pittsburgh, Kansas, just months before the
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: end of World War Two, and shortly after his birth,
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: the Raider family moved to the Wichita area which is
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: where Dennis would grow up and where decades later he
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: would carry out his crimes. And he was described as
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: a shy child who enjoyed typical pastimes like reading comic
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: books and playing with neighborhood friends, and as the oldest
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: of four brothers, Dennis sometimes shouldered the responsibility of looking
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: after his siblings. I know how that feels. Not the
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: serial killer bar my baby's had my siblings and stuff.
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: I can't relate to him on any other level other
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: than that anyway. But family and friends and neighbors later
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: remembered the Raider boys as polite and ordinary kids raised
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: in a very normal, benign family upbringing. So the nurture
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: aspect to Dennis Raider is quite different than what we
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: see in other serial killers. Is always like a mix
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: of both, but with him it seems to be Morgist nature.
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: He was just born into the world spawn a satan,
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: it seems. But regardless, all the boys attended Riverview Elementary
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: School in Wichita, and Dennis was noted to be an
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: average or slightly below average student with an introverted personality,
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: and he wasn't especially social, and he tended to be
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: quiet and kept to himself, never causing much trouble at school,
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: and in many ways he appeared to be just another
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: Midwestern boy next door, a quiet, unassuming child. As one
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: criminologist put it, However, even during these early years, there
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: were subtle warning signs of the deviance brewing within him,
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: and he would later admit that.
• 10:54
  Speaker 2: Quote, probably even when I was in grade school, I
• 10:58
  Speaker 2: sort of had some problems fantasies, probably more than normal.
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: Unquote. Red Flag number one and one eerie childhood incident
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: in particular seemed to spark young Dennis's dark imagination because
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: when he was a little boy, his mother got her
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: finger accidentally caught in a sofa spring and became stuck.
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: So naturally she panicked and yelled for Dennis to run
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: and get help. The sight of his mother, trapped and terrified,
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: pleading helplessly, had an electrifying effect on the boy. Red
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: Flag number two, I'm going to count that as five actually,
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: so we're at six now. So instead of empathizing with
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: her fear, Dennis felt a strange thrill at seeing a
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: woman in distress, his mother in particular, which is horrifying.
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: And doctor Catherine Ramslin, who later extensively interviewed, Rader recounted
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: that quote it was exciting to him to see a
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: woman helpless unquote, and in this moment quote became in
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: printed in his mind unquote, planting the seed of his
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: lifelong obsession with trapping and controlling women. But little Dennis
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: eventually did get help for his mother. But the incident
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: was a formative one, to say the least. And from
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: then on the image of a woman trapped and helpless
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: and looking to him in terror was ingrained in his fantasies.
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: And he was a child. He was a child at
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: this point, and he's he's realizing that, like I, I
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. I don't know, I
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: don't know. Just note to self, if you got if
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: you got a little kid and you get stuck and
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: he's just like staring at you like this, I'd get
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: him some help, I think. So as he grew into adolescence,
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: raiders private deviants escalated beyond mirror fantasies, and by his
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: own later admissions, Gunnis began say it with me, the
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: number one thing most serial killers do a torture and animals,
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: so hang or cats and dogs in secret for his
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: own twisted pleasure, and this classic red flag behavior, I think,
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: let's give it another ten where it's sixteen now, just
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: went unnoticed by adults at the time because kids will
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: be kids. You know what happened to Buster. He's just
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: hanging from the tree. But Dennis didn't meet it. He's
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: just being a boy, you know, or whatever. It's horrifying.
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: I'm laughing. I'm very uncomfortable right now. But all this
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: just foreshadowed the violence to come, and puberty only intensified
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: little Dennis's disturbing inner world, and by his early teens,
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: he was regularly daydreaming about tying up girls and having
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: complete power over them, and he engaged in acts of
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: self bondage and autoerotic exphyxiation, which is basically sting yourself
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: with ropes or belts to achieve a spicy rush, nearly
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: to the point of passing out. And I'd say these
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: are not the typical fantasies of a teenaged boy. And
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: if it is, get some help, all right. And as
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: Raider later understated, quote.
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: All males probably go through some kind of sable fantasy.
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: Mine was probably just weirder than other people unquote, just felt.
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: Like a little bit just a little bit. In by
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: a little bit, I mean a lot. But at some
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: point he discovered a detective magazine in his father's car
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: that featured Harvey Glattman in nineteen fifties, murderer who photographed
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: and towarded women in California for his own perverse pleasure,
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: and Rader saw a reflection of his own desires in
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: Glatman's story, and it was at this point where he
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: also began to steal women's undergarments while indulging in what
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: he called quote unquote trolling. Yeah he's the og troller,
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: I guess what, But not in the Internet sense, in
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: the sense that he roamed around neighborhoods peeping on women
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: to fuel his lustful imaginations. And despite these alarming behaviors,
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: Raider outwardly maintained the mask of a normal youth, and
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: he continued participating in positive activities that bolstered his wholesome image.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: And he was involved in the local boy Scout troupe
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: and became proficient at tying knots. More on that later,
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: and he was also active in the church's youth group
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: and attended service with his family every week, and those
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: who knew him casually saw only a quiet, church going
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: boy who never got into serious trouble. But at home, though,
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: there was some emotional turbulence, and Dennis felt somewhat neglected
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: by his mother, who, according to him, didn't pay much
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: attention to the children and often left them in the
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: care of their grandparents.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: Quote.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: I got along real well with Dad, but Mom wasn't
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: always so happy. I did have a little bit of
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: a grudge against Mama unquote, Raider later reflected. And this
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: is just fuel to the fire for Raider because this
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: subtle resentment toward his mother may have further warped his
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: attitudes toward women. But still, nothing about young Dennis's public
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: behavior in the late nineteen fifties and early sixties hinted
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: at the monster he would become. I'd like to take
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: a quick moment to tell you about last night. Okay,
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: I was staring at my fridge at seven pm, completely
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: stumped about dinner yet again, sound familiar, and that's what
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: I remembered. Hello Fresh, and you've probably heard of them.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: They're the number one meal kit in America, delivering cheft,
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: crafted recipes and fresh ingredients right to your door. And
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I'm not a chef, not even
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: a little bit, not even close. Okay, that rat on
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: ratitui is better than me, actually is better than most people.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: Nob to think about it. But here's the thing. This
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: isn't the HelloFresh that you remember. They've actually gone bigger,
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: doubling their menu with one hundred options each week. That's impressive,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: including recipes from around the world. We're talking bigger portions
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: that actually fill you up. And they're healthier too, with
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: over fifteen high protein recipes weekly, which is important to me.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: I like my protein featuring grass fed ribbis and lamb chops,
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: plus new veggie packed dishes with at least two veggies
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: per serving. And tastier Okay, I'm just gonna say they're tastier.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: You get steak and seafood delivered every week at no
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: extra cost as well, with triple the seafood options and
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: perfect fall recipes like classic beef chili or honey glazed
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: pork tenderloin. Ah my mouth is wondering and seasonal produce
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: I'd never think to buy myself, like leeks, broccolini, Italian eggplant,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: and I personally use HelloFresh because, like I said, I
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: don't know how to put a meal together, so this
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: makes it so much easier for me, and it's truly
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: transformed my weeknight dinners because I don't want to think
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: about it. I don't want to think about it. I'm
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: too busy thinking about all this other dark stuff about
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: true crime. I just want to get into my kitchen
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: and not have to think at all, and I can
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: do that with HelloFresh. So if you want to experience
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: a stress free meal kit, go to HelloFresh dot com
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: slash CCCM ten fm to get ten free meals plus
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: a free breakfast for a life. That's one per box
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: with an active subscription. That's HelloFresh dot com slash CCCM
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: ten FM for ten free meals plus free breakfasts for life.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much to HelloFresh for supporting this channel
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: and sponsoring this video. And let's get back to it.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: So Dennis would graduate from Wichita Heights High School in
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three without incident, and to the community, Dennis
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Raider was just another local boy entering adulthood, now a
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: somewhat withdrawn kid perhaps, but essentially a normal and unremarkable
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: child or now young adult, as one account later summarized,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: but behind the timid demeanor lurked violent fantasies that were
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: growing stronger and stronger by the day. So, after high school,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: drifted through early adulthood in search of direction, all while
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: the side of his psyche continued to develop in secret,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: and he enrolled in college and attended Kansas Wesleyan University
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: for a short time. However, academics didn't hold his interest
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: and his grades were unexceptional to say the least, and
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: with the Vietnam War ramping up and the draft looming,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: twenty one year old Raider took a different path and
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: in the summer of nineteen sixty six, he enlisted in
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: the US Air Force, and this decision may have been
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: partly to avoid being drafted into army combat, and joining
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: the Air Force allowed him some choice in his fate
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: during the war years. So he went to Texas to
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: complete basic training and tech school before his station at
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Brookley Air Force Base in Mobile, Alabama, and he worked
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: as an antenna installer and maintenance specialist during his time there.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: And Raiter served on active duty from nineteen sixty six
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: until nineteen seventy, spending his service stationed in Turkey, Greece,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: South Korea, and Japan. He even earned a medal for
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: good conduct, a ribbon for marksmanship, and received a National
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Defense Service Medal as his service occurred under a state
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: of national emergency in the military during the Vietnam War,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: and this military life instilled discipline and technical skills in him,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: but it did not dampen his deviant impulses at all. Okay,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: and actually, Raider's time in the Air Force provided new
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: opportunities to act on his voyeuristic and fetishistic urgens, and
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: he later said that the Air Force actually taught him
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: about the devil's tango if you know what I mean,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: spicy sessions, if you know what I mean. And the
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: structure of the military may have contained his behavior to
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: some extent, but it certainly didn't reform his twisted proclivities.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: And Raider would be honorably discharged from the Air Force
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy and would return home to Wichita, Kansas. So,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: now in his mid twenties, he tried to settle into
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: normal civilian life, and a major positive change came when
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: he met a young woman named Paula Deets. Now Paula
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: was a church going a bookkeeper who knew Dennis's parents
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: from their Lutheran congregation, and Dennis's father introduced him to
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Paula at church. Soon after, Dennis came home from the
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: service and the two hit it off and began dating.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Rot Paula right So, unfortunately, Dennis married Paula in a
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: simple church ceremony, beginning what appeared to be a typical
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Midwestern marriage, but as we know today, it was just
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: to keep up this facade of a normal life so
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: he could commit his utter depravity behind the scenes. So
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: the couple moved to the suburban Wichita area of Park
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: City and planned to start a family, and in the
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: coming years they would have two children, a son and
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: a daughter. And to outsiders, the Raiders were the picture
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: of normalcy, exactly what Raider wanted. A hard working husband,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: a loving wife, and eventually a boy and a girl,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: all living in a modest house on a typical suburban street.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: And in the early nineteen seventies, Raider struggled a bit
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: to find stable employment, but he eventually landed on his
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: feet and he took a job on the production line
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: at the Coleman Company, which was a camping gear and
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: outdoor equipment manufacturer in Wichita, but by nineteen seventy three
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: he left Coleman for what he thought was his dream job,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: which was assembling small aircraft for the Sesna Company, because
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: aviation was booming in Wichita and working at Sesna paid
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: really well. And that same year, with his career seemingly progressing,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Rader decided to further his education, and after earning an
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: associate degree in electronic engineering, he enrolled at Wichita State
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: University in the fall, aiming for a degree in criminal justice.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: This guy, unfortunately, is very, very dedicated to being the
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: best criminal he could be, and perhaps in some corner
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: of his mind, which this is what I think Raider
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: fantasized about law enforcement, which is a profession of control
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: and authority over people, specifically can be women. You know,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: it's all kind of fitting together. Not to mention, he
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: would learn how law enforcement works in the criminal justice
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: system so he could just maneuver his way around like
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: a snake. So Dennis's life seemed full of promise. He
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: was a newlywed, working toward a college degree, active in
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: church groups, and described as a reliable, ordinary young man.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: But the cracks were starting to show beneath the facade,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: and late in nineteen seventy three, Dennis Raider's tenuous hold
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: on a normal life began to slip, and he was
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: laid off from his job at Cessna November, which was
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: a blow to his self esteem and to his finances.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: An unemployment left him with idle time and simmering resentment,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: so Raider became depressed over the setback, and without work
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: to occupy him, he sank deeper and deeper into the
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: fantasy world he had known since childhood, and all the
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: violent urges he had been harboring swelled up, demanding to
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: be acted upon, and he spent his days at home
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: nursing dark fantasies of bondage and murder, just picturing women
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: bound and struggling completely at his mercy, and he obsessively
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: consumed to fuel his imagination. And the more he fed
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: on these obsessions, the more they demanded an outlet in reality,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: and he would continue his aforementioned trolling by scouting certain
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: neighborhoods and campuses to find young women to watch and
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: fantasize over, just imagining scenarios like hiding in their vehicles
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: to surprise and kidnap them, and he would even physically
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: stalk lone women in grocery stores, just the ultimate creep.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: At the end of nineteen seventy three, the dark side
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: of Dennis Rader was in full control of his mind
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: and he quote was ready to act on his twisted
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: desires unquote, no longer satisfied with fantasy alone, so in
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: early nineteen seventy four, he made the fateful decision to
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: cross the line from fantasy into actual violence. And he
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: had already attempted at least one failed kidnapping or attack
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: before his first murder, and it was an aborted plan
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: involving a young bank teller that didn't pan out. But
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: the failed attempts only emboldened him to try again. And
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Raider had spent years training himself in his mind how
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: to be a predator without getting caught. And he knew
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: how to tie knots, how to quietly break into a house,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: and how to wear gloves and leave no fingerprints, and
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: scariest of all, he knew how to kill and carry
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: out his darkest desires. Now unemployed and spiraling, he had
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: time to stalk potential victims, and the urge to kill
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: had become overwhelming. So as he embraced his darkest fantasies,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Raider stood on the brink of unleashing unspeakable horror on
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: his community, all while his wife, Paula and everyone around
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: him remained utterly unaware of the monster growing inside him.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: I'd like to take a quick break from the very
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: dark and very disturbing to talk about something a little
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: more light, something a little more fluffy, Okay, And that
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: is my cat, all right, And it's starting to get colder, right,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: And now she's discovered that if she sits on the
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: heating vent and nyow's really loud, more of a screen, really,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: I will give her extra food. She's basically trained me.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: And that food is Smalls. Thank you so much to
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Smalls for supporting this channel and sponsoring the video. But honestly,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: my cat cannot live without Smalls. And for a limited
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: time you can get sixty percent off your first order
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: plus free shipping when you had two Smalls dot com
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: slash CCCM And if you don't know what Smalls is,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: it's protein packed recipes with preservative free ingredients you'd actually
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: find in your fridge. And starting with Smalls is super easy.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: You just share info about your cat's diet and preferences,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: and they send a personalized sampler, so no more random
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: guessing at the pet store. My kitty cat, she's a
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: little bit picky, okay, so she really appreciated the sampler pack.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: And I did a taste test once and put Smalls
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: next to her old cat food, and she went straight
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: to Smalls like it, didn't even hesitate. So it was
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: good to know that I was feeding my cat something
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: she really wanted, and that's also really good for her.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Plus eighty eight percent of cat owners reported overall health improvements.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: And my cat's coat, which is long and luscious, is
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: so much softer now and this is huge. Way fewer
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: hair balls and she produces a lot of hairballs usually. Okay,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: so what are you waiting for? Give your cat the
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: food they deserve for a limited time because you are
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: a crime, conspiracy, cult and murder listener. Get sixty percent
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: off your first order plus free shipping when you head
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: to smalls dot com slash CCCM. That's sixty percent off
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: your first order plus free shipping when you go to
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: smalls dot com slash CCCM. Thank you so much to
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Smalls for supporting this channel and sponsoring the video and
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: let's get back to it. So on January fifteenth, nineteen
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: seventy four, raiders long held violent fantasies became a reality
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: in one of the most brutal family murders Kansas has
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: ever seen. That morning, he put together what he called
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: his hit kit, a bag containing a gun, knives, ropes, tape,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: plastic bags, and tools for breaking into a home. And
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: he had selected his targets and this was the Otero family,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: who had recently moved into his neighborhood. Raider had become
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: obsessed with thirty four year old Julia Otero and his
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: daughter Josephine. He admitted he quote unquote lustfully noticed Julie
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: and especially Josephine, considering the young girl the primary target
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: of his twisted plan, just a sick piece of shit.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: So for weeks he stalked the Otaros from Afar, learning
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: their routines, and he fantasized about the moment he would strike.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: And finally he could wait no longer, and on that
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: fateful morning, just after eight a m Raider approached the
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Oto house, convinced that only Julie and Josephine would be
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: at home, and he slipped into the backyard and quietly
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: cut the telephone line, making sure that they couldn't call
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: for help if anything went wrong, and armed with a pistol,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Raider entered the house through an unlocked back door, and
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: inside he was startled to find not just Julie and Josephine,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: but also Joseph Junior and thirty eight year old Joseph
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: O'to Senior. But despite this unexpected complication, Rader pulled his
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: gun and asserted control over the family immediately, and speaking calmly,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: he lied to them that he was a criminal on
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: the run who needed food, money, and a car. So
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: to think on the spot like that, you had to
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: imagine that he went through every single scenario that could
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: have happened, and had a backup plan for that, an
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: abcd plan for everything, and the Ataro's, unaware of his
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: true intent, believed they were dealing with a desperate robber
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: rather than a sadist, so using his cold, authoritative demeanor,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Rader managed to bind the wrists and ankles of all
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: four family members without immediate incident, But once they were helpless,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: he revealed what kind of monster he truly was, and
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: with all four Otaros tied up and at his mercy,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Rader methodically began to them one by one, and first
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: he would slip a plastic bag Joseph Senior's head and
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: tighten it, watching as the man signed and Joseph Junior
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: would meet the same fate while his mother and sister
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: looked on in horror, and Julie would beg Rader to
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: stop hurting her family because she was sitting there completely helpless,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: and the mother would meet the same fate, dying of strength.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: When he was done with that, Rader turned his attention
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: to Josephine, the girl who had been his true target
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: all along, and he would separate Josephine from her mother,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: taking her down to the basement. And this is where
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Rader would prepare a noose and use it on the girl.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: I don't want to you can put that together, and
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: he would attach the noose to a sewer pipe on
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: the ceiling, and in his own words, why he was
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: asked why he did this, he coldly replied, quote, I
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: thought it would.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: Be interesting to watch her die.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Quote again, It just I nobody's life matters more than
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: anybody else's. But I hate talking about kids. I really
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: I don't like it at all, and after he was
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: done with that, he decided to take that moment to
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: indulge himself again. I don't want to say anymore on that.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: You can understand what I'm saying, because at the end
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: of the day, this was all about control and pleasure
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: for him, and how he got pleasure from control. And
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: after he was done, he then collected a few personal
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: items from the home as souvenirs and casually cleaned up
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: and left the crime scene. And then he allegedly took
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: the o'tara's family car to a Dylan's Grocery store parking lot,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: and realizing later that he had left a knife in
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: the backyard, he went back to remove that piece of evidence. So,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: in a mass of minutes, an entire family had been
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: wiped out and raider had bound toward and killed four
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: innocent people in pursuit of his perverse, disgusting fantasies. And
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: the Otero family murders shocked Wichitak to its core. Joseph
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: and Julie's three older children, who were at school during
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: the massacre, came home that day to find their parents
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: and siblings dead. It was just a nightmare that made
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: no sense. I can't even imagine how those kids felt
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: finding their family just massacred. It's absolutely heartrunching, and the
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: crime puzzled police for its sheer brutality and apparent lack
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: of motive. Unknown to investigators, the killer had left behind
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: clues of bizarre not used in the bindings and stains
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: near Josephine's body, But in those first few weeks of
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four, the name bt K did not yet exist,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: and the authorities had no idea that the Otero murders
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: were the beginning of a serial killer's career. And Dennis Rader, meanwhile,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: was already secretly planning his next attack because the high
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: he had gotten from fulfilling his dark desires only fueled
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: his hunger for more, and only a few months later
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Raider would strike again, and on April fourth, nineteen seventy four,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: he targeted twenty one year old Katherine Wright, a petite
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: college student who happened to work at the same Coleman
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: factory where Rader had briefly been employed, and Rader had
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: stocked bright and decided she would be another project for him.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: As Rader called his intended victims, because he saw them
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: less than human as we now know, and he would
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: break into her home and he would wait for her
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: to return. And when Catherine came home that afternoon with
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: her brother, Kevin, Rader was startled, but decided, just like
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: the Ottera family, to proceed anyway, and he confronted the
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: siblings at gunpoint and forced Kevin to tie Katherine up
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: and then bound Kevin himself in a separate room. And
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: in order to distinguish the scenario from the Otaro's, raider
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: used household items like bandanas to bind his victims, which
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: he would soon find out was a mistake. So after
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: tying them up, he turned on the living room stereo
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: to drown out any suspicious noise, a tactic he allegedly
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: picked up from a detective magazine, and then returned to
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: find Kevin free of his bindings. Because using household items
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: didn't work, and this is when a violent struggle would ensue,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Kevin Bright fought back fiercely, but Rader ended up Kevin
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: in the head twice, once in the forehead and once
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: just above his mouth. But miraculously, the young man survived
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: the gunshots and managed to escape the house by playing
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: dead until his attacker left the room, so Rader, now enraged,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: returned to Catherine, who all so had escaped from her bindings,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: so unable to struggle her as planned, he stir repeatedly
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: with a knife, inflicting fatal wounds, so Rader would flee
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: the scene after he heard Kevin call for help outside,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: and unfortunately, Catherine later died from her injuries at the hospital.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: So this second attack had been messy and risky, a
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: far cry from the controlled of the defenseless oteros, but
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: it taught Raider a lesson to be even more careful
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: in selecting victims who were alone, so after this incident
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: he would primarily target women by themselves or with small
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: children to minimize unexpected resistance. But still, two horrific crimes
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: in quick succession had left Wichita police scrambling for answers
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: to different crime scenes, multiple victims killed by jin or sing,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: and it wasn't obvious at first that the same perpetrator
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: was responsible, but the community was certainly on edge at
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: this point, and Raider, however, wanted the police in public
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: to know that a single killer was out there and
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: that he relished in the notoriety because he's a narcissistic,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: sadistic looked up twisted piece of shit. So in October
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: of nineteen seventy four, as if unable to restrain his
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: need for attention, Rader made his first contact with the media.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: About nine months after the Ottera murders. An anonymous phone
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: call was placed to the desk of the Wichita Eagle
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: newspaper directing them to a specific engineering textbook at the
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: public library downtown, and inside that library book, authorities found
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: a letter, and in it, the writer took credit for
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: the Otero family killings, providing details that only the true
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: murderer would know. And the letter's author claimed he was
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: driven to kill bistle motive and suggested he would strike again,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: and most famously, he gave himself a nickname in the note,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: declaring that quote.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: The code words for me will be buying them, for them,
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: kill them BTK unquote.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: We've gone over serial killers that like the notoriety or
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: like want it, but BTK just takes the cake for me,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: like naming himself. What a pathetic loser, what an actual
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: loser like I can't even think of what as somebody
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: that just is like lower than whale shit like he's
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: I yeah, just it's embarrassing, honestly, But obviously the Wichita
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: Eagle would turn the letter over to police, and the
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: news of the Otaro killers self chose a name eventually
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: reached the public, and law enforcement, upon reading this letter
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: knew they indeed had a serial killer in their midst
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: one who was seeking recognition, and the BTK killer had
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: introduced himself. And after the Catherine Bright incident, there were
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: no known BTK murders for nearly three years, and it's
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: possible Rader attempted other crimes that didn't succeed during this interval,
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: but the first confirmed murders after nineteen seventy four came
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: in early nineteen seventy seven, so quite the cool down period,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: and on March seventeenth, Rader randomly selected a young mother
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: named Shirley Ruth Ralford as his next victim, and the
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: encounter was initiated in a disturbingly casual way because he
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: originally had a different target, but when they weren't home,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: he went about finding a different one, and Rader spotted
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Shirley's son, Steve, walking home with a loaf of bread
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: from the store and approached him, pretending to be a
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: detective looking for someone, and he asked Steve if he
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: recognized the people in the photo, showing a picture of
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: his wife and daughter, which Steve misidentified as his mom
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: and sister because he's six years old, and the boy
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: then led him back to his home. Like Dennis Rader,
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: is he just a hitome of evil? I just so.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Upon arrival, Rader showed twenty four year old Surely the
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: same photo and then forced his way in at gunpoint,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: and inside were Shirley and her three children, Steve and
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: two siblings, all under the age of eight, and Rader
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: initially attempted to tie all of them up, but binding
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: the children proved to be difficult, and in a twisted
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: act of quote unquote mercy, he put the three kids
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: in the bathroom and barricaded the door and reportedly giving
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: them toys to help them stay comfortable, before threatening to
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: shoot them if they left the bathroom, but he had
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: no intention of sparing Surely. However, Rader would bind the
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: terrified woman and would strip her with a cord, and
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: allegedly she was actually sick and threw up before being bound,
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: and also requested water, which he gave to her before
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: finishing the job, and he later admitted that he intended
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: to kill the children as well, but fled the scene
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: after the phone rang, and they said it was likely
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: someone who was scheduled to visit soon. So the Ralpher
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: children had survived by sheer luck and thank goodness. But
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, I just being in a bathroom and then
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: your mom, that happening to your mother, and then going
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: through life having that happen. I mean again, my heart
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: just always goes out to people having to live with
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: that trauma, and obviously the victims as well, but like
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: the people that are so young and that have to
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: live with that trauma throughout the rest of your lives,
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: I can't even imagine. I cannot imagine what that's like.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: So this horrifying crime underscored btk's cruel modus operande or EMMO,
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: targeting a woman at home, binding and struying her, and
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: showing indifference to the collateral trauma inflicted on any children
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: who happened to be present. Now, Wichita authorities recognized the
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: pattern of btk's bind kill signature, and the public was
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: growing very fearful because a serial killer was stalking the city.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: And btk's next known victim was twenty five year old
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: Nancy Joe Fox. Rader had stalked Nancy for a period
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: of time in late nineteen seventy seven, noting her schedule
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: and routine, and on the night of December eighth, he
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: finally struck and Rader would break into Nancy's home and
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: he would wait for her to come home from her
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: evening job. And when Nancy arrived, she screamed at Rader
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: and threatened to call the police, and he calmly told
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: her that the phone lines were cut and she would
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: not be able to call for help. And then he
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: also told her of his intentions, and he told her
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: that he wanted to restrain her, photograph her, and ask her.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: So Nancy cooperated initially out of pure fear of just
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: trying to survive, and Raider even let her smoke a
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: cigarette and use the bathroom before it all began, giving
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: her a sense of comfortability like she could maybe make
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: it out, like he was maybe just a freak who
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: wanted to get off on taking photos and stuff. But
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: little did she know he had something much, much worse
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: plan for her. So once she returned from the bathroom
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: partially undressed as demanded, he forced her to lay down,
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: and she resisted as he attempted to remove her clothing
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: and handcuff her, questioning the necessity of it, to which
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: he replied that it was part of the thing and
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: it wouldn't work unless he used the handcuffs, and that's
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: when he proceeded to wrap his belt around her neck.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: And that's when he repeatedly tightened the belt and loosened
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: the belt so she would pass out and then wake
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: up again, and then pass out and then wake up again,
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: until she ultimately passed away in the process. But this
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: time Rider made sure the murder of Nancy Fox got
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: the attention he raved, and the morning after killing Nancy,
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: he himself placed an anonymous call to the police from
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: a payphone, directing them to find her at her home
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: as he wanted the body discovered quickly. And in addition,
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: in early nineteen seventy eight, Raiders sent a long taunting
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: letter to a local television station, kak ETV and to
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: the Wichita Eagle Beacon newspaper, formally taking credit for the
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: several murders, and in this letter he listed details of
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: seven victims Theotaro's counted as four plus Bright, Ralford and
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: Fox had suggested a number of Macab's pseudonyms for himself,
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: complaining that the authorities needed to come up with a
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: good name for him. Again, just like the most pathetic
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: human being to ever exist. Basically, he's in a big
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: group of those people, but he's definitely one of them.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: But ultimately he repeated the one that's stuck, which was BTK.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: And he also famously vented, quote, how many do I
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: have to kill before I get a name in the
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: paper or some national attention unquote pathetic ugh. And this
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: brazen provocation worked, and the press published Btk's letters and
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: which tas citizens were thrown into a panic because a
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: serial killer was not only on the loose, but he
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: was openly mocking the police and threatening to strike again.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: And by nineteen seventy eight, BTK was a name that
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: induced terror across Kansas and the nation, and little did
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: they know that the killer lived among them as an
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: ordinary family man. And for a long stretch of time
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: after nineteen seventy seven, it seemed to BTK had vanished,
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: but in reality he was entering a deceptive hiatus, blending
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: back into civilian life while his murderous persona went underground.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: For a while. So after the frenzy of his first murders,
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: Raider did something many serial killers do not. Frankly, just
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: don't have the will power to do. I'm not giving
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: him any sort of credit or anything, but he's just
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: very methodical in what he does because he is a sadistic, pathetic,
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: psychopathic pos right. But he stopped killing for several years,
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: and from the end of nineteen seventy seven through the
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: early nineteen eighties there were no more bodies attributed to
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: BTK and this period lasted roughly eight years into investigators
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: at the time it was baffling and investigators had to
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: think did the killer die or was he imprisoned for
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: another crime, or did he just move away? But in truth,
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: Raider was very much alive and free in Wichita, but
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: he had receded into the facade of a normal life.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: And in these years, Rader focused on work, family, and community,
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: the very things that kept him looking like a model
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: citizen while his dark desires simmered beneath the surface. And
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy four, almost the same time as the
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: first murders, Dennis Raider had found steady employment with ADT
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: Security Services, a company that installed home alarm systems just
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: a extremely cruel irony. As btk's reign of terror led
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: frightened Wichita residents to invest in security alarms, the serial
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: killer himself was often the technician, coming to their homes
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: to set up the systems. Absolutely horrifying and Raider worked
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: for ADT from nineteen seventy four all the way up
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: to nineteen eighty eight, a fourteen year stint where he
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: rose to the role of installation supervisor, and through his
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: job he became intimately familiar with the ins and outs
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: of home security, and knowledge he had already exploited by
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: cutting phone lines and sneaking into houses. And co workers
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: later recalled that Raider was not particularly well liked at
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: ADT because he was seen as an arrogant micromanager who
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: did his job. We did our job and nothing more.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: He had no desire to have like repertoire with his
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: employees or co workers. But there was no hint that
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: this uptight alarm installer was secretly the BTK killer, and
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: this job kept him busy during the day and provided
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: cover for any odd behavior around neighborhoods because he could
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: always claim he was on a service call, and on
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: the home front, Raider maintained the charade of being a
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: devoted family man, and he and Paula welcomed their first child, Brian,
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: born sometime in the early to mid nineteen seventies. Some
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: sources say nineteen seventy five, others say it's unknown, and
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: their daughter Carrie in nineteen seventy eight. So during the
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: late seventies and early eighties, Raider was busy raising toddlers
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: and then school age kids. By all accounts, he was
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: a loving father, supposedly, and he was a Boy Scout
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: leader and active in Boy Scout activities, and the same
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: skills he excelled at in Scouts were a grizzly part
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: of his crimes. But in the Scout context, Raider was
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: just seen as an enthusiastic dad volunteer. But it's crazy
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: looking at just he was in the security business. He
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: was in the Air Force at one point, and he
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: was a boy Scout who specializes in nots like it
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: all makes sense when he put it all together in
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: just this terrifying way, but on the surface, like who
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: would ever put that together, you know at the time,
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: especially with this huge cool off period. And he also
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: continued his college education part time, and in nineteen seventy nine,
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: Rader achieved a long term goal by graduating from Richita
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: State University with a bachelor's degree in Administration of Justice,
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: essentially criminal justice. So just throw that into the mix.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: So it's wild to think that BTK earned a criminal
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: justice degree studying law enforcement techniques even as he was
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: secretly outwitting law enforcement. And Raider became even more involved
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: in church during this period as well, and he and
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: Paula were dedicated members of the christ Lutheran Church in
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: Park City, and Raider volunteered for various church duties and
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: joined the church council. And to his fellow parishioners, Dennis
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: Rader was the reliable man who would usher on Sundays
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: and step into help with whatever needed when asked, and
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: that was the depth of his deception. Even as the
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: congregation prayed for the unknown BTK killer to be caught,
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: the very man sat among them quietly saying Amen. During
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: these dormant years, Btk's case gradually went cold for the police,
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: leeds dried up, and with no new murders after nineteen
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: seventy seven, some in Wichita hoped the killer was gone
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: for good, but little did they realize the killer was
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: very much present, just temporarily taking a break. But still
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: Raider's inner compulsions did not disappear, and he later admitted
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: that he continued to indulge in what he called fantasies
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: throughout the nineteen eighties because I can't even imagine committing
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: all those things and then just not being able to
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: do anything in the time period. I would never believe
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: that he didn't do anything. But during this time, he said,
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: he relived his crimes and planned for potential new ones,
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: and he had kept trophies from his victims, such as
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: jewelry or underwear, and would use these to fantasize, and
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: at home, hidden from his family, Raider engaged in elaborate
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: auto eerotic sessions where he would dress in women's clothing
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: or masks stolen from victims, tie himself up, and take
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: polaroid photos of himself bound and gagged. Again just a
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: pathetic psychopath, but essentially role playing his own victims to
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: recapture the ecstasy of the murder. But these secret behaviors
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: kept his dark side satisfied for a time, perhaps preventing
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: him from killing again. Immediately, so the monster was sleeping,
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: but it wasn't dead yet. And that's not to say
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: Raider didn't come close to killing during the off years.
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: There were a few near misses. Apparently. One of the
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: most notable was the Anna Williams incident in nineteen seventy nine,
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: where Raider had stalked sixty three year old Anna Williams
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: and broken into her home at night, intending to kill
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: her when she returned, but by sheer luck in a
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: state out later than usual at a dance class, and Rader, frustrated,
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: eventually left her house before she got home. So infuriated
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: by being deprived of his prey, he later mailed Anna
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: an anonymous poem titled Oh Anna, why didn't you appear,
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: hinting that he was the one who had been in
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: her house and laminating that his perfect plan was foiled.
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: Straight up horror movie what Oh my I would leave
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: the country if I got a letter like that, Oh
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: my God, And to be fair, I actually did, looking back,
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: I actually did. I got a creepy letter similar to
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: that at a house that he's lived in in Canada,
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: and I'm in a different country now. But so there
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: you go. Yeah, yeah, and there were likely other aborted
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: projects in those years that we may never know about,
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: and since the victims either escaped or Raider lost his nerve.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: For instance, btk's journal entries later suggested he trolled many
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: potential targets, but often backed out if conditions or timing
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: weren't just right because he was cautious. He was a
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: predator who could exercise patience. However, by the mid nineteen eighties,
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: the savage side of Raider could no longer be contained
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: by fantasy alone, and BTK was about to resurface and
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: resume his ghastly projects, embarking on a second wave of
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: killings that would prove the first spree was no fluke.
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: So after nearly eight quiet years, the BTK Killer broke
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: his silence with a murder that hit startlingly close to
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: home because Raider's next victim was Marine Hedge, a fifty
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: three year old widow who lived on the same street
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: as the Raider family, and she was his neighbor just
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: a few doors down. And in nineteen eighty five, Raider
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: decided it was time to kill again, and he set
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: his sights on Marine his next project, just to see
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: if he could kill a neighbor and get away with it.
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: It was a challenge, if anything, for him. So on
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: the night of April twenty seventh, Raider attended a boy
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: Scouts outing, establishing an alibi of sorts, but he faked
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: a headache, claiming he needed to go to bed early,
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: and sneaked away, and he then drove to a bowling alley,
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: ordered a quick drink and faked a drunk call to
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: a taxi that dropped him off down the street from
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: Hedges house, and Raider then cut her phone line and
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: broke into the house, hiding until she returned. Marie returned
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: sometime later with her boyfriend, forcing Rader to wait and
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: extended time in the closet. Yeah, he's the guy that
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: waited in the closet. That's that's why we all look
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: in the closet. But I all I could ever think
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: about is BTK, like, oh just again, nightmare fuel. So
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: once the boyfriend left and Rader was confident that she
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: was fully in bed for the evening, he left his
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: hiding place and turned on the bathroom lights and Marina
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: woke frightened and began to make a scene, and that
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: is when he appeared and bound her with handcuffs and
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: would strip her to death. But after acquiring her car
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: keys and a few mementos, Rader did something that was
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: unlike any of the murders he had done before, and
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: he took the victim's body from the crime scene and
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: in a bold and extremely gruesome move, Rader carried Marine
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: Hedge's lifeless body out of her house into her own
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: car and transported it to the christ Lutheran Church, the
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: very church he attended, because that's how confident he was,
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: that's how pathetic he was, and the church was empty
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: at that late hour, as he knew, and inside the
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: whole least sanctuary, Rader staged a vile photoshoot and he
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: laid Marine's body in various poses and bound her in
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: different positions and then took photographs for his collection. But
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: the fact that he used his own church for this
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: desecration as a testament to his arrogance and the compartmentalization
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: of his entire life, because in one moment he might
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: earnestly or I think, fake pray in that building, and
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: in another he defiled it with a deceased body of
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: a neighbor that he just murdered. The level of evil
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: is unprecedented, and after his sick photography session, Rader dumped
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: Marine's body in a remote ditch alongside a dirt road
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: outside of town, and her remains were discovered days later,
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: but with little evidence to tie the crime to BTK
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: at the time. Into the community, the death of Marine
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: Hedge was extremely frightening because she was a beloved neighbor
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: abruptly missing and found murdered, but no one immediately linked
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: it to the dormant BTK killer because it had been
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: eight years of cool down period and also he didn't
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: dumb bodies, so the mo wasn't lining up, and only
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: Raider knew that BTK was active again, feeding his dark
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: side once more, and the following year, on September sixteenth,
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six, he struck again and the victim this
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: time was Vicky Weggerly, a twenty eight year old mother
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: of two, and he countered Vicky while working his day
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: job for ADT Security, nicknaming her Project Piano after a
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: bout of stalking, determined that she enjoyed playing the piano,
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: so pretending to be a telephone repairman checking lines, Rader
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: gained access to one of Vicky's neighbor's houses to help
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: seem more believable, before then knocking on the Weggerly home
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: front door while Vicki's husband was out, and she allowed
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: him in to check the phone lines, and once inside,
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: he pulled a pistol and overpowered Vicky, immediately binding her
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: and directing her to the bedroom, and she insisted her
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: husband would be home very shortly and to stop what
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: he was doing, and somehow she managed to break free
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: and fought back ferociously, but unfortunately it wasn't enough and her,
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: just as he had done with many before, and the
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: struggle had actually upset the dogs, who were now viciously barking,
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: and that, along with the unknown time of the husband's arrival,
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: spooked Rader enough to get moving, and he then took
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: Vicky's driver's license as a trophy, along with some photographs
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: he snapped of her in bondage and slipped away, And
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: at the time, the Weggerly murder was not definitively pinned
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: on BTK, and her distraught husband was even considered a suspect,
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: initially because no one imagined the long dormant BTK had
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: suddenly killed again, and Rader, for his part, quietly blended
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: back into normal life after the crime, maintaining his mask
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: of ordinary life as a compliance officer, husband and father.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: And that's what brings us to Raider's final known victim,
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: who came in nineteen ninety one. So on January eighteenth,
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one, sixty two year old Dolores E. Davis
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: was murdered in her rural Park City home, and that
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: winter night, Raider staged a rouse and he attended the
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: annual dead of winter outing for the Trappers Scouts, where
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: he set up camp before leaving for a fake errant,
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: and he then drove to Park City Baptist Church where
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: he left his car and made the short trek through
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: the fields and a cemetery to reach Dolores's house, and
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: wasting no time as it was very cold, Raider threw
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: a cinder block through the glass door to gain entry,
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: and Dolores awoke in a panic to find an unknown
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: man in her home, and initially he fed her a
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: lie similar to what he had told the others, that
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: he only intended to rob her and steal her car,
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: so she initially denied his request. Forming her of the
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: weapons on his person, she quickly shifted to a cooperative demeanor,
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: so as he tied her up, Dolores began to suspect
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: that Rader would not simply be robbing her, and she
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: began to plead for her life, and that is when
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: he would kill her with pantehose. And during the struggle,
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: she had mentioned, whether true or not, that someone would
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: be arriving to the house soon, which forced Rader to
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: abandon his initial plan to take photos with her. So
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: after carrying Dolores's deceased body to her own car, he
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: drove out to a wooded area and tossed her body
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: beneath a bridge, and Raider later returned to the dump
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: site to take more disturbing photos, at one point dressing
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: Dolores's body with a grotesque female mask and posing her
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: just to satisfy his fantasies for later recall, and her
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: body was found about two weeks later by a fifteen
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: year old boy and his dog. So the murder of
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: Dolores Davis would turn out to be the last btk's
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: known series of ten killings, and after Dolores's murder, he
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: decided to stop killing. Perhaps middle aged made him cautious,
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: or perhaps there was something else at work in his dark,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: disgusting mind, But in any case, from nineteen ninety one onward,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: BTK went completely silent, and for the next thirteen years,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: Wichita's infamous boogeyman seemed to have simply vanished. But unbeknownst
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: to everyone, the killer was still right there in Park City,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: and Dennis Rader continued living his ordinary life, assuming that
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: he had gotten away with all of it, and the
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: cases of unsolved BTK murders went cold, just filed away
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: as unsolvable until or unless the phantom killer resurfaced, and
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: for over a decade he did not, and the citizens
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: of Wichita slowly breathed easier as the nineteen nineties went
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: by with no BTK incidents. But the story wasn't quite
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: over so from nineteen ninety one until two thousand and four,
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: Raider led what appeared to be an utterly normal life.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: As we know, he was the proverbial pillar of the community.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: In these were the years when BTK became a fading
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: memory in Wichita, while Raider himself settled deeper into his
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: double life as a husband, father, church leader, and public employee.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: So if it wasn't for his eventual capture. One could
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: easily have imagined him living out his days as an
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: unremarkable suburban grandfather. Yet even during this long hiatus for murder,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: the darkness and Raider did not disappear and merely just
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: found different outlets. So after leaving ADT in nineteen eighty eight,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: he had a brief stint working for the US Census
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: Bureau in nineteen eighty nine, and then in nineteen ninety
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: Dennis Rader landed a job as a compliance officer and
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: animal controlled dog catcher for Park City, the small municipality
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: where he lived, and the position actually started overlapping with
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: the tail end of his killing spray because as a
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: compliance officer, Raider's job was to enforce city ordinances, things
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: like blawn upkeep, stray, animal complaints, and housing codes, and
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: he took to this role with zeal And. Residents who
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: encountered Officer Raider often found him just power drunk, and
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: he had a reputation for being extremely strict, even bullying,
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: especially towards single women who he would cite for minor infractions,
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: and a female coworker at Park City, Mary Capps, recalled
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: that Raider was a nightmare of a boss. Quote mean controlling.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: He micromanaged everything unquote, making her walk on eggshells daily,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: and she even remembered an incident where she saw an
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: eerie transformation in his demeanor because he became enraged over
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: a misplaced file, shut the door and gave her a
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: terrifying look quote a glimpse of looking in the eyes
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: of BTK unquote, as she later described, and Raider eventually
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: let her out of the room as if nothing happened.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: But Mary Capps was deeply, deeply disturbed, and she filed
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: repeatedly grievances against Raider, but his superiors dismissed her complaints
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: because outwardly he was a respected church going family man.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: That means nothing if you're being a piece of shit.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: The Raider's need for domination found an outlet in his
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: mundane job lording his minor authority over neighbors and colleagues.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: So it's quite possible that exercising control as a compliance
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: officer helped keep his homicidal urges at bay for a while,
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: and in a sense, he could play god with someone's
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: pet or property code violation instead of murdering, which I
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: guess is better. But this guy needs to be thrown
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: into the depths of hell. At this point, those behavior
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: in retrospect was a glimpse of Raider's true nature leaking
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: out in socially acceptable context, as he could torment women
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: under the guise of doing his job, savoring their discomfort
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: in a way that echoed his violent domination of victims,
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: albeit on a smaller scale. And meanwhile, Rader's family life
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: progressed in an apparently wholesome way, and his son and
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: daughter grew into teenagers and then young adults in the
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: nineteen nineties, and by the late nineties, both children left
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: home for college and careers, and those who knew the
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: Raider family saw a proud father who just loved his children,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: and he taught them to fish and camp, attended their
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: school events, and imparted moral lessons. Quote. My dad was
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: the one who taught me my morals right from wrong unquote.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: His daughter Carrie later said, reflecting the sad truth, that
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: she never had an inkling of his double life, and
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: to her dad, he was just dad, the man who
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: gave piggyback rides and danced with her. And Paula and
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: Dennis remained married and there was no sign of marital
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: discord visible to outsiders. The family continued their deep involvement
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: at Christ Lutheran Church, and Raiders served many years on
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: the church council through the nineties, guiding church business and
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: even sometimes leading prayers during services, and he would eventually
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: become president of the council in two thousand and five,
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: and parishioners respected him as a steady, longtime member and
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: if you were to list the characteristics of a model citizen,
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: Dennis Raider's resume in the nineties would check nearly every
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: single box, which is absolutely horrifying. He's a veteran college graduate,
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: steady job, family man, church leader, scout master, neighborhood watch captain.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: It was an astonishing camouflage for the fiend inside and privately. However,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: Raider's deviant impulses did not lie completely dormant. Though he
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: abstained from murdering anyone during these years, he continued to
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: nurture his fetish for bondage and terror using proxies and mementoes,
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: and investigators later discovered that Raider kept extensive journals and
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: boxes of memorabilia from his crimes hidden in his home
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: and what he called the mother Load, and he would
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: write about his past murders in detail, fantasizing over them
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: to relive the thrill. And he also still had the
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: driver's licenses of Vicky Weggerley and some jewelry and clothing
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: from other victims, and the disturbing photographs he had taken
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: of Marine Hedge and Dolores Davis. Periodically, Rader would take
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: out these trophies to mentally transport himself back to those
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: moments of power he had over his victims, and he
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: also continued his escalated self bondage activities as well, and
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: in the privacy of his basement or remote locations, Raider
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: would tie himself up and pose for photographs, wearing those
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: women's wigs or masks, and sometimes dressing in the stolen
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: underwear of his victims definition of a monster and in
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: one such polaroid later found Raider had bound himself to
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: a chair wearing a woman's blond wig address taken from
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: victim Dolores's house. And through these bizarre rituals, Rader could
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: live in the moment for years without killing, as one
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: detective put it, using the final memories of his victims
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: as fuel for ongoing gratification. And it is harrowing to
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: realize that while the city of Wichita moved on from
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: BTK fear, Dennis Rader was still very much BTK in
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: his secret moments, feeding the monster within so that it
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: stayed satiated. But the dormant years nearly ended early on
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: a few occasions, apart from the nineteen seventy nine Anna
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: Williams near miss, after which Rader did not kill again
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: until nineteen eighty five, there are indications BTK considered other
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: victims in the nineties but just didn't follow through. And
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: as mentioned, Rader referred to potential victims as projects or pj's,
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: and he had a list of them, and one such
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: possible target was his own employee, Mary Capps, the one
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: he closed the door on and gave her the dead pan,
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: terrifying serial killer stare. And Mary later wrote a book
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: called My Boss Was BTK. I was the next victim,
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: claiming she believed Rader might have been on the verge
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: of harming her, and she cited his frightening behavior and
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: even a creepy moment when Rader himself joked to her,
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: you know, it looks like me I could beat BTK,
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: referring to a composite sketch of the killer. God. This
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: guy's so full of himself and pathetic and disgusting. I
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: hate him with every piece of DNA in me. But
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: Mary wasn't sure if he was serious or not, but
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: it unsettled her greatly. That we may never know if
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: Rader truly planned to murder Mary Capps or any others
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: during the nineties, but what is clear is that by
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: two thousand and three, over a decade had passed with
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: no new BTK murders, and the entire saga was fading
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: into local lore, and many of the younger generation in
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: Wichita only knew of BTK as a scary story from
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: the past, something their parents talked about. However, law enforcement
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: had never forgotten, and the BTK case remained officially open
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: but ice cold. But in early two thousand and four,
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: around the thirtieth anniversary of the Otero murders, Wichita media
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: ran retrospective pieces about the unsold BTK murders, speculating about
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: what had become of the killer, and this proved to
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: be the trigger that awoke the BTK killer from his
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: long dormancy, and Raider, now nearing sixty years old, saw
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: the newspaper story and could not resist the temptation. So,
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: after years of silence, his dark side wanted attention again.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: The stage was set for one of the most astonishing
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: re emergencies in serial killer history. So after years of
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: lying low, Dennis Rader's need for recognition and control surged
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: back to the forefront, and he felt provoked by the
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: Wichita Eagles article reflecting on the thirtieth anniversary of the
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: Otero murders, and Wichita would soon receive an unwelcome message
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: from the past. BTK was back, and on March nineteenth,
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: two thousand and four, an envelope from someone allegedly named
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: Bill Thomas Killman arrived at the Wichita Eagle newspaper containing
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: some startling evidence, and inside were photocopies of Vicky Weggerly's
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: driver's license and several crime scene photographs from her nineteen
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: eighty six murder images that had never been released to
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: the public, and a letter claimed responsibility for the Weggerly killing.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: And this was the first time authorities definitively linked to
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: BTK to Vicky's unsolved murder, and until then, Vicki's case
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: wasn't officially attributed to him, so the realization that BTK
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: was confirming a nineteen eighty six crime suddenly expanded his
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: known victim count and proved he had been active later
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: than they thought. So Wichita police were horrified and stunt,
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: and the two thousand and four letter was quickly authenticated
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: as genuine BTK because of the specific deep tales it provided,
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: and it meant that legendary Boogeyman was not dead. He
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: simply had been silent, and now he was reaching out again.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: In that spring and summer of two thousand and four,
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: BTK began a twisted correspondence spree, sending a series of
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: taunting communications to the media and to authorities, and he
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: was clearly very much enjoying this sick, twisted game much
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: as he had in the nineteen seventies, and perhaps felt
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: confident that modern police still could not catch him. So
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: in May of two thousand and four, a puzzling letter
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: was sent to a local TV station, Kake, containing a
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: word puzzle and fake IDs, and in June a package
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: was found taped to a stop sign in Wichita containing
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: a bizarre collection which was graphic descriptions of the Otera murders,
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: a sketch titled this thrill is my bill and a
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: chapter list for what he called the BTK story just
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: self indulgent bullshit and all. So placed several more packages
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: in public spots throughout Wichita with other sketches, puzzles, writings,
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: and more. The guy was bored and just even more pathetic,
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: if that was even possible. So the cat and mouse
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: game was fully afoot again and Wichita descended into renewed
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: anxiety as the BTK killer dominated headlines once more. In
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: law enforcement formed a new task force and through all
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: resources at this case and the FBI, the KBI, which
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: is the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, and Wichita police poured
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: over the letters and the clues. But this time the
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: world had changed because there was DNA profiling, computer forensic existed,
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: and media was instantaneous. So BTK had entered the modern
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: age of policing and it would prove to be his downfall.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: And a critical break came from a package left in
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: a home depot parking lot in January of two thousand
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: and five. Raider had deposited yet another serial box containing
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: BTK materials in the bed of a pickup truck in
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: that line, but the driver tossed it in the trash,
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: not realizing what it was. Unfortunately, it was later retrieved
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: and traced to BTK. Crazy coincidence. Karma did work that
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: day all right, and investigators reviewed security footage from the
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: home depot and spotted a shadowy figure in a black
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: Jeep Cherokee dropping that box off, and it wasn't clear
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: enough to identify the man, but it gave a key clue.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: BTK drove a black Jeep Cherokee and the task force
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: quietly began checking registration records for that vehicle model in
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: the area, and the news was tightening, but Rader remained
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: oblivious and calky as ever, so in February he made
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: a fateful error that ultimately gave him away and written
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: in one of his letters to police, left in a
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: cereal box package, Rader had asked a rather naive question.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: He wanted to send a computer floppy disk, and he
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: asked if the cops could trace it. And the authorities
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: saw an opportunity, because what the hell do you think
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: they're gonna say, no, we can't trace that. Send it over, guys.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: Stupid as shit, And they replied in a newspaper ad
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: as BTK instructed them to do with a message essentially
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: saying use the floppy It's okay, which is crazy. It
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: is crazy that after this many years, this is what worked.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: But it just speaks to the just pathetic naivety of
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: this human waste of a person. So believing them, Raders
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: sent of purple one point four four megabyte floppy disc
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: to KSASTV, a Fox affiliate in Wichita, and the disc
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: contained a message from BTK. But what Rader didn't realize
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: is that floppy discs often contain hidden metadata about the
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: last computer that used them. Oh no, oh no. So
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: tech experts quickly analyzed the disc and embedded in the
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: Microsoft word file was metadata that pointed to a computer
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: at Christ Lutheran Church and the username of the last
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: person who edited it was Dennis. So this was a
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: smoking gun. A quick web search by police found that
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: the president of Christ Lutheran's council was one oh Dennis Rader. Wow,
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: he just handed it to them on a silver platter
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: like a freakin' moron, and he drove what a black Cherokee.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: All the puzzle pieces are coming together, and the decades
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: long mystery had a name and a face at last,
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: and surveillance on Raider began immediately and quietly because investigators
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: needed definitive proof linking him to the murders, and DNA
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: was the route because they had the DNA from btk's
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: left at some crime scenes that they did not want
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: to tip Raider off by asking for his DNA directly, obviously,
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: so they obtained a sample in a covert way, and
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: they learned that Raider's daughter, Carrie, had a pap smear
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: at a university clinic as a student years earlier. So
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: with a court order and her permission, of course, they
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: obtained the DNA from that medical sample. I didn't even
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: know this was possible, by the way, this is crazy work.
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: And the Kansas Bureau of Investigation lab tested the daughter's DNA,
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: which makes sense. I mean, just going to a pap
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: smear place just seems kind of crazy, but whatever. Anyway,
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: but they got the daughter's DNA against the BTK crime
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: scene DNA and found a familial match, indicating that the
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: killer was closely related to Carrie. And this was the
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: final confirmation Dennis Rader's family members DNA was consistent with BTKS,
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: so the odds of him being BTK were really, really
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: really high. So on the strength of that evidence, plus
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: all the circumstantial clues, they moved in to make the
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: arrest before Raider could potentially harm anyone or destroy evidence.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: In February twenty fifth, two thousand and five, was a
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: cold day in Wichita when the police decided it was
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: time to take down BTK, and in a carefully coordinated operation,
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: Wichita police pulled over Dennis Rader near his home and
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: he was taken by complete surprise. So officers ordered him
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: out of his jeep and onto the ground, and when
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: asked if he knew why he was being arrested, he
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: allegedly murmured, oh, I have suspicions why. Just trying to
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: play it cool, but you know that he was literally
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: crying inside like a little baby bitch. And his home,
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: his vehicle, his work office, Christ Lutheran Church, and the
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: main branch of the Park City Library were all searched
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: for evidence, and once in custody, the evidence against him
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: was overwhelming and Raider quickly folded and at police headquarters.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: After a bit of initial denial, Raider began talking and
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: once he started, he did not stop. So at a
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: marathon interrogation, Raider confessed in detail to being BTK and
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: to the ten murders attributed to the killer, and investigators
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: were struck by how matter of fact and emotionless his
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: tone was as he recounted each killing. It was as
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: if he was proud, eager to finally tell his story
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: now that the game was over. And he expressed only
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: one real surprise, and he was shocked that the police
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: had lied to him about tracing the foppy disc. This
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: guy can't. I can't with this guy, like the fact
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: that he studied criminal justice and doesn't realize that police
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: are allowed to lie in circumstances like this is like
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: next level stupid. That he is really smart but also
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: incredibly stupid, and I'm so grateful for that. And his
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: ego is huge, and that ego was bruised that he
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: had been outsmarted. And meanwhile, news of the arrest sent
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: shockwaves through Wichita and the nation, and for Wichita residents
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: who remembered the terror of the nineteen seventies, it was
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: almost surreal to learn BTK had been living among them
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: as a seemingly ordinary man. And for Raiders, friends, coworkers,
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: and a special his family, the revelation was devastating, and
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: no one close to Dennis had any clue of his
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: secret life besides Mary Capps probably, and the betrayal was total.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: His pastor, who had prayed with Raider weekly, said it
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: was beyond comprehension. We prayed for the capture of BTK.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: We didn't know he was among us. In the community's
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: collective sense of relief at Btk's capture was tempered by
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: the horror that the boogeyman had been the Bland neighbor
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: next door all along. So Rayder's arrest was just the
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: beginning of a legal saga that would see him confronted
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: with his crimes in a court of law, and he
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: faced a swift and airtight prosecution, and on March first,
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: two thousand and five, he was formerly charged with ten
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: counts of first degree murder, corresponding to each of his
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: known victims. The Kansas had no death penalty at the
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: time the murders were committed. The state's death penalty law
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: was reinstated in nineteen ninety four, three years after his
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: last kill, and could not be applied retroactively. Damn so
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: Raider's punishment would be life in prison, regardless of trial outcome,
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: which I kind of loved the idea of him just
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: rotting away in prison, hopefully getting beat up and stuff. Sorry,
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: but I'm not sorry. So understanding this, Raider chose to
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: waive his right to a jury trial and instead opted
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: to plead guilty to all charges. So on June twenty seventh,
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: in a packed Wichita courtroom, Dennis Rader stood before Judge
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: Gregory Waller and calmly pleaded guilty to murdering ten people.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: And what followed was one of the most chilling courtroom
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: confessions ever recorded, and as part of the plea, Raider
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: was required to give the factual basis for each of
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: his crimes, essentially describing in his own words what he
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: had done to each victim, and for about forty five minutes,
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: Rader spoke in an unnervingly detached, casual tone, recounting each
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: murder in detail, as if discussing the weather. And he
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: described how he tied them up and put bags over
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: their heads, and how he locked kids away, and so
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: on and so on, and his voice was emotionless and clinical,
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: even when describing the death of the younger victims, and
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: at times he used his familiar phrase of projects to
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: refer to his victims and hits to describe the murders
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: like he was recounting a work project, and the bizarre
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: courtroom monologue stunned those present. It was the ultimate revelation
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: of the banality of evil. Soft spoken, middle aged man
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: describing acts of unimaginable cruelty in the same tone one
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: might use to order a sandwich, and his words confirmed
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: everything from the early nineteen seventy four killings to the
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one murder, leaving no doubt the right man
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: had been caught, and Raider expressed that he had fantasies
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: that drove him and that he couldn't stop himself, but
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: he did not outward expressed remorse during his plea, and
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: his hearing solidified his guilt on record, and with the
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: guilty plea entered, the case moved directly to the sentencing phase,
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: since no trial was needed and Kansas law mandated life
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: sentences for each first degree murder, and the main question
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: was whether the ten life sentences would run concurrently or consecutively,
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: which could affect the symbolic minimum time he'd serve. Practically
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: at Raider's age, any life sentence meant he would die
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: in prison. Judge Waller had discretion and was inclined to
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: impose the maximum severity. Before he did, however, the court
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: allowed the families of Raider's victims to give victim impact statements.
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: And this took place on August eighteenth, and it was
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: an emotionally wrenching proceeding in One by one the survivors,
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: including children, siblings, spouses of the victims, stood only a
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: few feet away from Raider, the absolute pathetic monster, and
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: poured out their pain and anger, and they wanted him
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: to know the devastation he caused. Beverly Plap, Nancy Fox's sister,
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: spoke through tears about the eternal grief of losing Nancy. Quote,
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: Nancy's death is like a deep wound that will never heal.
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: As far as I'm concerned, Dennis Raider does not deserve
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: to live. I want him to suffer as much as
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: he made his victims suffer. This man needs to be
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: thrown in a deep, dark hole and left to rot.
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: He should never ever see the light of day. Unquote,
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely, this is what it should be, in my opinion,
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: just rotten a dark hole, never see the light of day.
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: Get the minimal amount of food to survive, just so
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: you could survive, but just a painful existence. That is
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: what he deserves. That is what he deserves. And I'm
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: not gonna say sorry for that. That's just true. And
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: Carmen o'tero, who was fifteen when she came home from
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: school to find her parents and siblings murdered, unleashed raw
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: fury at Raider and Kevin bright the young man who
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: survived being shown ahead during the Catherine Brighte attack, delivered
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: a statement so gut wrenching that some of the courtroom
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: broke down, and he described the trauma and the guilt
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: he carried for not being able to save his sister.
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: All the while, Rader sat at the defense table, mostly
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: just avoiding eye contact, occasionally welling up with tears but
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: saying nothing. And the prosecution also presented additional evidence during
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: sentencing to ensure Raider received the harshest possible penalty. The
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: detectives testified to some of Rader's more grotesque behaviors, illustrating
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: the depth of his depravity, and Captain Sam Houston of
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office recounted how Rader's gruesome fantasies
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: were fueled by the final moments of his victim's lives,
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: and he revealed that Raider had a journal where he
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: described how he savored the moment a victim was bound
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: and helpless. That quote, it was this moment when the
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: victim was tied and bound, which gave Raider the greatest thrill.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: And to underscore this, the prosecution showed the court some
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: of Rader's secret photos of himself, including one where he
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: was seen wearing a woman's mask in blonde wig tied
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: to a chair with bindings, and other photos showed Rader
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: dressed in victim dolorous Davis clothing and a female mask
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: bound in various poses. I imagine he was utterly horrified and
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: embarrassed in these moments, and I just agri I revel
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: in it. And these disturbing pictures demonstrated how far Raider
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: went in reliving the murders and how twisted his mind
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: remained even years later. The courtroom gasped at these revelations,
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: and that same day Judge Waller pronounced the sentence, citing
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: the extreme cruelty and the lasting harms of the community.
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: He ordered the maximum ten consecutive life sentences, one for
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: each murder, and in Kansas, a life sentence for a
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: crime in the nineteen seventies and eighties carried a minimum
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: of fifteen years life means fifteen at the time I'm
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: also known as hard fifteen and for later crimes a
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: hard forty for the nineteen nineties murders due to updated laws,
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: so by running them consecutively, the judge insured Raider would
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: never even come close to a parole date, and the
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: earliest theoretical parole eligibility for Rader added up to some
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy five years in the future, so
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: there's no way he's ever ever ever getting out, and
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: Raider would spend the rest of his natural life in prison,
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: no appeals or leniency in sight. And in addition to
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: the prison sentences, the court addressed financial and legal repercussions,
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: and the State of Kansas sought to ensure Rader did
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: not profit from his crimes in any way. Thank god
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: they did this, citing Son of Sam laws which prevent
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: criminals from making money off of book deals or media
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: about their crimes. I will definitely do a video on
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: Son of Sam at a different time. If you guys
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: want that. I think I just will anyway, because that's
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: a crazy, crazy case to say the least, and all
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: the profiting and everything anyway, So he was not allowed
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: to do that, and Kansas Attorney General filed leans to
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: claim any of Raider's assets that could be used for
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: restitution or legal fees. So Raider was ordered to pay
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: nearly forty two thousand dollars in restitution to the victim's
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: families for funeral costs and other expenses. I think that's
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: extremely low, but that's just me. And he was also
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 1: held responsible for court costs. And at the time of
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: his arrest, Raider and his wife owned their house in
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: Park City, and he had a civilian government pension and Paula,
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: who had divorced him immediately after his arrest. The divorce
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: was finalized in July two thousand and five, just five
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: months after arrest, with the judge granting it swiftly for
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: her protection. Was initially awarded their property and his retirement funds,
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: so at least the family could be well off. However,
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: families of btk's victims filed civil suits to rent any
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: sale of Raider's home or assets benefiting his family, which
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: is understandable, and indeed, the modest Raider home was put
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: up auction and someone offered ninety thousand dollars for it,
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: but legal wrangling put that on hold, and the state
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: intended that proceeds from any sale go towards paying the
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: restitution and costs, not to Raider's wife for children. Which
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: that's like a whole that's a tough moral thing. It's
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: like the family didn't know what was going on, you know,
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: and like the victims' families had lost somebody. It's just
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: like they're all victims in a sense. But I can't
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: even imagine just being one of the victims family members
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: and seeing the family be well off while you're struggling.
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: You lost somebody, and you have all these it's a
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: whole moral lem I don't I don't even know what's
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: right and wrong. So by late two thousand and five,
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: Judge Waller had placed a hold on the transfer of
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: the homes title until these issues were sorted, and in
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: the end, any meager assets Raider had were consumed by
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: legal battles, victim compensation, and government claims for the cost
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 1: of his public defender. Kansas ag even filed a lean
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: to recover the cost of Raider's court appointed defense attorneys,
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: so financially and legally, Raider was left with nothing, which
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: was exactly what the families wanted, which makes sense to
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: me and victims relatives and public commentary expressed that Raiders
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: should not profit or received comfort from what remained. So
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: justice in the courtroom had been served and the BTK
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: killer was condemned and every possible measure taken to ensure
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: his punishment was absolute. So after his sentencing, Dennis Rader
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: was transferred into custody of the Kansas Department of Corrections
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: to begin serving his ten life sentences, and he was
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: now inmate number zero zero eight three seven oh seven,
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: destined to spend the remainder of his days behind bars.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 1: And Kansas officials, aware of the notoriety of this prisoner
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 1: and the need for security, placed Raider in the El
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: Dorado Correctional Facility, which was a maximum security person in Kansas,
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: and on August nineteenth, two thousand and five, just one
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: day after sentencing, arrived at El Dorado and was immediately
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: put into administrative segregation basically solitary confinement for his own
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: protection and to isolate him from harming or being harmed
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: by others, and life in prison for Raider has been
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: stark and tightly controlled. Yes, he is still rotting, guys,
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: He's rotting, and I love it. And for the first
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: months and years he was kept in an eight foot
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: by ten foot cell twenty three hours a day. Initially,
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: a judge had ordered special restrictions on Raider to prevent
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: him from relishing or sharing his sick fantasies from behind bars,
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: and the court ruled that Raiders should not be allowed
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: to possess, receive, or create any visual images of humans, beings,
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: or animals, including drawings, due to fear he might derive
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: pleasure from sketching violent scenes or communicating coded messages. The
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: For a time, he was barred even from watching television
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: or having magazines with pictures. However, these restrictions eased after
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: about a year once Rader proved to be a compliant
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: inmate and through a privileged system for good behavior. He
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: eventually was allowed limited access to TV, radio and reading
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: material by two thousand and six and two thousand and seven,
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: and the prison administration concluded that completely sensory depriving him
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 1: was unnecessary if he followed the rules. Ugh I don't
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: a great but still Raider has remained in isolation, not
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: integrated with the general prison population, and Rader, now in
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: his late seventies he turned eighty in twenty twenty five,
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: has spent over eighteen years in custody, and over that
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: time bits of information have emerged about his condition and mindset,
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: and he's kept to himself, occupied by reading the Bible
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: and true crime books are known favorites, and writing extensive letters.
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: Why the is he allowed to do any of that?
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: That doesn't make sense to me? But what do I know.
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: I'm just a YouTuber. So Indeed, btk's penchant for communication
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: did not entirely stop in prison, and he began corresponding
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: with a few people on the outside, though under prison monitor.
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: The most prominent correspondent has been forensic psychology professor doctor
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: Catherine Ramsland, who engaged in a multi year exchange of
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: letters and interviews with Rader. Ramsland even wrote a twenty
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: sixteen book based on a titled Confession of a Serial Killer,
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer, and
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 1: through these letters, Rader expounded on his life and crimes
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: in the third person, sometimes referring to his murderous side
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: as Factor X, giving Ramsland insight into his psychology, and
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: he described early fantasies the oteroesine, etc. And Rader revealed
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: in the attention from doctor Ramsland, seeing it as a
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: way to cement his infamous legacy, and inside El Dorado,
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: Raider's behavior has been described as largely compliant and routine
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: because we know he's really good at blending him and
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: he's aged into a quiet, if still manipulative, older man.
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: And one of the few visitors he had was his
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: pastor from christ Thren, who initially visited to offer spiritual counsel,
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: and Rader, interestingly still allegedly considered himself religious, which is
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: no words. I have no words. And Raider's wife, Paula,
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: never spoke to him again after his arrest and secured
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 1: that immediate divorce in two thousand and five, and she
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 1: and their son moved away and changed their names to
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: avoid media attention. And his daughter, Carrie Rawson, struggled immensely
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: with the revelation that her father was BTK, and for
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: years she suffered PTSD and night terrors and disorientation, and
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: in her memoir A Serial Killer's Daughter, she recounts how
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: everything she thought she knew collapsed, and after Rader's sentencing,
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: Carrie said she shut down and ceased corresponding with her father,
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: and Rader complied and did not attempt to contact his children,
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 1: recognizing the harm that he had done. And for over
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: a decade, Raider stewed in prison with minimal outside interaction
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: beyond the Ramslan project. But in twenty twenty one to
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, a surprising development occurred. Cold case detectives
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: from Oklahoma and Missouri began reinvestigating some unsolved cases that
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: they thought could be tied to Raider, and this was
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 1: sparked by similarities in m and a few hints from
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: Raider's old journals. In particular, the disappearance of sixteen year
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: old Cynthia down Kinney in nineteen seventy six in Pahuska, Oklahoma,
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: and the nineteen ninety murder of SHAWNA Beth Garber in
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 1: Missouri caught investigator's attention. So in twenty twenty three, law
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: enforcement even dug up portions of Raider's former property in
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: Park City, searching for clues, perhaps items buried or hidden
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: by Raider, and they recovered items of interest that are
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: still under analysis, and named Dennis Rader as a prime
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: suspect in those two unsolved cases. And this has not
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: yet led to new charges as of twenty twenty five,
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: but it has renewed interest in raiders possible wider involvement
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: in crimes beyond the ten known murders. And notably, Raider
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: himself has not confessed to those crimes and he might
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: not ever and he's aware he can't face additional punishment
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 1: beyond life, but he could be enjoying holding back information
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: as we know so to assist investigators and perhaps for
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: her own closure. Raider's daughter Carrie, actually agreed to visit
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: him in prison in twenty twenty three for the first
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: time since two thousand and five, and she met with
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: him in hopes he might reveal something about the cold cases,
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: and that visit was jarring for Carrie. She reported that
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: her father looked to physically diminished. Quote he's lost like
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 1: seven inches and he's in a wheelchair. He's pretty much
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: rotting to his core unquote. She would tell News Nation
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: good not for her trauma. I can't even imagine what
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: it's like being her and what she's gone through. But
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: the fact that we hear that he is just like
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: just slowly rotting away into the just dirt of a
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: person that he is is great to hear. But when
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: she greeted him, she said, quote, it took him a
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: minute to process who I was, if he didn't even
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 1: necessarily recognize me. At one moment, she saw the facade
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: drop and glimpsed BTK in her father's eyes, which deeply
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: unsettled her, and she left the encounter convinced that her
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: father is where he belongs and that he is rotting
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: away as he should. And in the broader media, Dennis
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: Rader's case has remained a source of grim fascination and
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: numerous documentaries and dramatizations have been produced, and Raider has
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: been portrayed in TV movies and subjected to countless podcast
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: episodes in true crime shows, Hey I'm here, Why I'm
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 1: one of them? And he's often cited in criminology discussions
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: as a classic example of the masked serial killer in
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: the ordinary looking family man who is secretly a psychopath
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 1: and from investigative techniques perspective, the BTK case has had
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: a notable impact and it highlighted the value of cold
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: case persistence and modern forensics. For instance, using familial DNA
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: from a PAP smere to solve a serial killer case
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 1: was an innovative move in two thousand and five and
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: has foreshadowed the later wave of case is solved by
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 1: familial DNA and genealogy, and Bdkay's capture also underscored the
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: dangers of engaging in communication with an active killer. Investigations
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: carefully balanced, giving BTK a ne f rope to hang
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 1: himself like the floppy disk trick, without letting him slip away,
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 1: and the case is frequently taught in criminal justice courses
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: as a study in patience and the evolution of evidence technology,
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: as well as a psychology of a narcissistic killer who
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: ultimately caused his own downfall by seeking attention. I remember
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 1: going over this case in university and I was just
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: awestruck at how horrifying it was, but also just everything
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 1: involved with the psychology of it. It is just I mean,
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: it's extremely fascinating and horrifying at the same time, and
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: profilers also revisited their assumptions. His writer was unique in
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: that he stopped killing for long periods. The notion of
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 1: a dormic killer who isn't caught or dead was once controversial,
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: and he also was older when he re emerged, nearly
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: sixty years old, challenging the idea that serial killers age
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: out of violent behavior. The BTK investigation is credited with
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: reinforcing the importance of interagency cooperation like local police and FBI, etc.
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: And approving how departments handle archival evidence and communications from
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: unknown subjects. And today, Dennis Rader wakes up each morning
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: in a cell at El Dorado Correctional Facility, and he's
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 1: an elderly man now reportedly in declining health, spending his
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: time writing letters, drawing. He's allowed to sketch now though
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: he's monitored and reading the Bible, and his identity as
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: BTK is known to every guard and inmate, so he
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 1: lives under watchful eyes. And one could say that the
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: ultimate punishment for raiders is exactly what one victim's family
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: member wished, and that is that he has been thrown
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: into a deep hole figuratively to rot, likely plagued by
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: the loss of control and power that he so cherished
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: when free. No more peeking through windows, no more trolling
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: for victims, his world is concrete walls and steal doors,
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: and he will die as prisoner number zero zero eight
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 1: three seven oh seven, a fate fully deserved for the
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 1: misery he wrote. And that is that for the case
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: of prisoners year zero eight three seven oh seven, just
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 1: a waste of oxygen. He is rotting in prison, and
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna choose to remember him as that number. And
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 1: I will choose to remember all the names of the victims,
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: and my heart goes out to them as always. And
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: if you would like me to go over any other
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 1: specific case, let me know down in the comments. I
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 1: always read the comments. And until then, please please please
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 1: be safe, and I will see your beautiful face in
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 1: the next video. All right, Bye,