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- 0:12Speaker 1: I met Vicki in high school. It was like we
- 0:15Speaker 1: were just meant to be. We had so much in common.
- 0:22Speaker 1: That was my favorite song until this day. I'll crank
- 0:25Speaker 1: it up in the car if I hear it. It
- 0:28Speaker 1: just says something about I guess, kind of like the
- 0:31Speaker 1: way I thought of her.
- 0:32Speaker 2: Maybe there was never never a doubt in my mind
- 0:37Speaker 2: how much my mom and my dad loved us.
- 0:44Speaker 1: My name is Bill Wiggerly. I was coming home for lunch.
- 0:47Speaker 1: I was working on that side of town. I'd figured
- 0:49Speaker 1: by hurry and get home for lunch. I found Brandon
- 0:55Speaker 1: by himself. I thought that was unusual for her not
- 0:58Speaker 1: to be there with him. I kind of looked around,
- 1:02Speaker 1: I think, for her, and didn't find her normal life.
- 1:05Speaker 1: You don't expect something bad to be happening.
- 1:11Speaker 3: She died by strangulation or a number of literature marks
- 1:15Speaker 3: around her neck?
- 1:18Speaker 4: Why why her?
- 1:20Speaker 1: You know?
- 1:20Speaker 2: What did she do?
- 1:21Speaker 5: What did we do?
- 1:24Speaker 6: He's there for fifteen minutes, probably before he discovers the body.
- 1:28Speaker 6: There were definitely police officers that thought that Bill Weggerley
- 1:32Speaker 6: killed his wife.
- 1:33Speaker 4: Could that person be involved? You know who else would
- 1:36Speaker 4: have killed the wife?
- 1:37Speaker 7: Did they ask you to take a polygraph.
- 1:39Speaker 1: Yeah, I took a polygraph for them, and I also
- 1:42Speaker 1: took one privately.
- 1:45Speaker 7: And did that make them less suspicious?
- 1:48Speaker 1: Not made them more suspicious? Why I failed both of them?
- 1:53Speaker 8: So Bill Weggerly, for eighteen years, had to live under
- 1:56Speaker 8: the cloud of suspicion that he killed his wife.
- 1:58Speaker 3: I don't think they put two an two together that
- 2:01Speaker 3: this had anything to do as a serial killer.
- 2:03Speaker 1: This is BTK, this is him.
- 2:06Speaker 2: He killed my mom.
- 2:09Speaker 9: Out of the shadows.
- 2:38Speaker 8: For three decades, Wichita, Kansas has lived with a murder mystery,
- 2:43Speaker 8: ten victims, strangle without mercy, and a faithless killer who
- 2:47Speaker 8: called himself BTK.
- 2:50Speaker 3: Dealt with very, very cold blooded killers, but none who
- 2:55Speaker 3: have such a tremendous memory over this many years.
- 2:59Speaker 4: I've never dealt with anybody like this. Hello, everybody.
- 3:02Speaker 8: District Attorney Nola Fulston is prosecuting Dennis Rader, the man
- 3:06Speaker 8: behind the initials which stand for bind, torture and kill.
- 3:11Speaker 4: We have torture devices.
- 3:13Speaker 1: He commented to me at one point, I'm sorry. I
- 3:16Speaker 1: know this is a human being, but I'm a monster.
- 3:19Speaker 8: You'll learn how Rader became that killer and the untold
- 3:22Speaker 8: story of one family's horrific encounter with bt K.
- 3:28Speaker 3: Bill Weggerley was victimized and tortured in this whole episode
- 3:36Speaker 3: from the day that his wife died the day that
- 3:39Speaker 3: she was killed. It not only killed him, it put
- 3:42Speaker 3: him under suspicion for a long period of time.
- 3:47Speaker 8: Bill Weggerley and his children have been silent about what
- 3:51Speaker 8: happened to them for nineteen years. They speak for the
- 3:54Speaker 8: first time.
- 4:00Speaker 1: I remember seeing her across the hallway in school and
- 4:02Speaker 1: just thinking.
- 4:03Speaker 9: You know, wow.
- 4:05Speaker 8: Bill met his wife, Vicky when they were sixteen.
- 4:09Speaker 1: She was just tall and slender and attractive, well kept.
- 4:13Speaker 1: I mean, she's quiet.
- 4:15Speaker 7: And you got married when when.
- 4:17Speaker 1: We were seventeen young.
- 4:20Speaker 2: Yeah, sometimes it seemed like they were just, you know,
- 4:25Speaker 2: two kids in love.
- 4:27Speaker 8: When they were just eighteen, Bill and VICKI had a daughter, Stephanie.
- 4:32Speaker 7: What do you remember of your mom?
- 4:33Speaker 2: To me, it seemed like she was always happy and
- 4:35Speaker 2: bubbly and you know, easy going, and life was life
- 4:40Speaker 2: was good.
- 4:41Speaker 8: Eight years later, a son, Brandon was born.
- 4:45Speaker 1: My life revolved around her, and her life revolved around
- 4:49Speaker 1: the kids and me and her family too. Those are
- 4:52Speaker 1: the important things to us.
- 4:56Speaker 8: Then came a day so surreal that, even nineteen years later,
- 5:00Speaker 8: Bill Weggerley still seems in shock.
- 5:03Speaker 7: When was the last time you saw Vicky?
- 5:06Speaker 1: When I left for work that morning, probably about.
- 5:09Speaker 8: Eight o'clock the date September sixteenth, nineteen eighty six.
- 5:16Speaker 1: And I just remember kissing her goodbye, which normally I
- 5:19Speaker 1: didn't take the time to do that, but that morning
- 5:22Speaker 1: I did.
- 5:25Speaker 8: While Bill was at work and Stephanie at school, Vicki
- 5:29Speaker 8: was home. At one point that morning. She was heard
- 5:32Speaker 8: playing the piano. She was also taking care of Brandon,
- 5:35Speaker 8: who was then too.
- 5:38Speaker 1: I was coming home for lunch and just to see
- 5:41Speaker 1: her and Brandon. I passed my car on my way home.
- 5:47Speaker 7: Did you know it was your car?
- 5:49Speaker 1: Yeah? I was sure it was my car.
- 5:51Speaker 7: And could you see who was driving it?
- 5:53Speaker 1: I saw a person driving.
- 5:54Speaker 7: It, yes, but not your wife.
- 5:56Speaker 2: No.
- 5:58Speaker 7: What happened when you got home?
- 6:01Speaker 1: I found Brandon sitting on the floor by himself.
- 6:05Speaker 7: Were you worried at that moment?
- 6:06Speaker 1: I was concerned. Yeah. I didn't know exactly what was
- 6:10Speaker 1: going on. Why Brandon would be there by himself, That's
- 6:14Speaker 1: very unusual.
- 6:15Speaker 7: What did you do at that point?
- 6:17Speaker 1: I've eventually went into the bedroom and discovered her on
- 6:21Speaker 1: the floor.
- 6:22Speaker 8: Vicky had been tied up and strangled.
- 6:25Speaker 1: Then you start to put things together that the person
- 6:29Speaker 1: that was in my car probably, I'm sure did this,
- 6:32Speaker 1: and I immediately called nine to one one.
- 6:36Speaker 8: But when police arrived and started putting things together themselves,
- 6:41Speaker 8: they came to a different conclusion.
- 6:43Speaker 7: Did they believe you?
- 6:45Speaker 1: I don't think they did.
- 6:47Speaker 8: That's because Bill failed those two lie detector tests.
- 6:51Speaker 1: The individual that I hired to take the polygraph, he
- 6:54Speaker 1: said he believed what I was saying was true. He said,
- 6:58Speaker 1: it's just the stress that I was.
- 7:00Speaker 7: Did you think it was possible you might be charged?
- 7:03Speaker 1: That got to a point, yeah, I was fearful of that.
- 7:07Speaker 8: Police never had enough evidence to actually charge Bill or
- 7:11Speaker 8: anyone else, but the rumors persisted for years.
- 7:16Speaker 2: I remember going back to school and my friends would
- 7:19Speaker 2: tell me on the playground that, you know, my mom
- 7:22Speaker 2: and dad said that your dad did it.
- 7:27Speaker 7: That was top one. What would you say to them?
- 7:30Speaker 2: I didn't say anything. We knew what the truth was.
- 7:35Speaker 2: So it just made me more aware of who I
- 7:39Speaker 2: was friends with.
- 7:42Speaker 7: What about you, Brandon?
- 7:43Speaker 8: Yeah?
- 7:43Speaker 10: I had a teacher, I think in middle school that
- 7:46Speaker 10: had laid to her younger son who had told me
- 7:50Speaker 10: that me and my dad were bad people and to
- 7:53Speaker 10: stay away from us.
- 7:55Speaker 1: Why because my dad killed my mother.
- 7:58Speaker 8: As you two got older, did you wonder what had
- 8:01Speaker 8: happened to your mom?
- 8:05Speaker 7: What would you think?
- 8:06Speaker 10: Well, I can remember from probably age seven or eight,
- 8:10Speaker 10: my grandma told me that she thought it was BTK.
- 8:13Speaker 10: But at that age, you know, that meant nothing to me.
- 8:17Speaker 8: B t K, those initials and this symbol haunted Wichita,
- 8:23Speaker 8: representing a phantom killer who had never been caught. Although
- 8:27Speaker 8: it had been nine years since his last known murder,
- 8:31Speaker 8: Vicky's brutal death seemed to carry his trademark. She had
- 8:34Speaker 8: been bound and strangled like all the others before her.
- 8:41Speaker 8: January nineteen seventy four, Four members of the Otero family
- 8:45Speaker 8: are tied up and strangled, including two children, nine year
- 8:49Speaker 8: old Joseph and eleven year old Josephine, who was hanged
- 8:53Speaker 8: from a basement pipe April nineteen seventy four. Twenty one
- 8:59Speaker 8: year old Catherine Bright tied up, strangled, and stabbed to
- 9:03Speaker 8: death October nineteen seventy four. In a note left at
- 9:08Speaker 8: the Wichita Public Library, the killer took credit for the
- 9:11Speaker 8: Otero murders and gave himself a name bt K for
- 9:16Speaker 8: buying them, torture them, killed them. March nineteen seventy seven,
- 9:22Speaker 8: another strangling, and this time a witness six year old
- 9:28Speaker 8: Steve Ralford.
- 9:29Speaker 7: What do you remember that day?
- 9:33Speaker 8: Steve was walking home from the store with soup for
- 9:36Speaker 8: his sick mother when he was confronted by a stranger.
- 9:39Speaker 11: He stops me, approaches me, shows me a pitcher, asked me.
- 9:43Speaker 11: Did not know who it was? So no, sir, I
- 9:47Speaker 11: don't know who she is.
- 9:49Speaker 8: Steve ran home. The moments later there was a knock
- 9:52Speaker 8: on the door.
- 9:53Speaker 11: Me and my brother rest of the door. I beat
- 9:56Speaker 11: my brother. I left the BTK in my house.
- 10:01Speaker 8: BTK gave Steve and his two siblings a blanket of
- 10:04Speaker 8: some toys, then he locked them in the bathroom. The
- 10:08Speaker 8: terrified children watched through a crack at the top of
- 10:10Speaker 8: the door as their mother, Shirley Ryan, was tied to
- 10:14Speaker 8: her bed and strangled.
- 10:16Speaker 7: What do you number of them? Was he tall, ma'am?
- 10:20Speaker 11: I don't remember how tall. I don't remember how short,
- 10:26Speaker 11: but I remember what his face looked like.
- 10:28Speaker 8: It sounds like you feel guilt that you ever let
- 10:32Speaker 8: him in your house.
- 10:34Speaker 11: That'll be forstenal life.
- 10:36Speaker 8: How could you feel guilty about it? Steve, you didn't
- 10:39Speaker 8: have anything.
- 10:39Speaker 7: To do with us, Yeah, did?
- 10:43Speaker 11: He's the door.
- 10:45Speaker 8: December nineteen seventy seven, BTK bound and strangled twenty five
- 10:50Speaker 8: year old Nancy Fox and added a twist, he reported
- 10:54Speaker 8: the murder to police himself.
- 10:59Speaker 3: You will find it.
- 11:01Speaker 2: Forty three stopped.
- 11:05Speaker 8: Then the killer sent a chilling letter to a local
- 11:08Speaker 8: TV station that read, in part, how many do I
- 11:11Speaker 8: have to kill before I get a name in the
- 11:13Speaker 8: paper or some national attention.
- 11:16Speaker 12: He apparently was pretty irritated by the lack of news coverage.
- 11:20Speaker 8: Former Wichita police detective Arlen Smith says the city was
- 11:24Speaker 8: in a panic.
- 11:25Speaker 12: We worked it with a sense of urgency because nobody
- 11:29Speaker 12: knew how long it was going to be before he
- 11:32Speaker 12: killed somebody else.
- 11:34Speaker 8: But then in nineteen seventy nine, BTK seemed to disappear.
- 11:39Speaker 8: So when Vicki Weggerly was killed seven years later, police
- 11:43Speaker 8: focused on the most logical suspect, her husband.
- 11:47Speaker 1: I knew there was an individual out there that did this,
- 11:50Speaker 1: but to me, it just seemed like they weren't looking
- 11:53Speaker 1: for anybody else.
- 12:14Speaker 2: All the pain and the heartache and dismiss her.
- 12:18Speaker 7: What do you miss about her?
- 12:22Speaker 2: Everything? I mean, even at ten years old. You know,
- 12:27Speaker 2: she was my best friend.
- 12:31Speaker 1: I don't think people understand that the difficulties that I
- 12:35Speaker 1: had and the fears of just raising two kids, it was.
- 12:40Speaker 10: Like Stephanie was my second mother. She stepped in and
- 12:46Speaker 10: kind of took over.
- 12:49Speaker 8: The Weggerly children not only lost their mother, VICKI, they
- 12:52Speaker 8: also had to endure the whispers and rumors about their
- 12:56Speaker 8: father for eighteen years. Is there ever a time, Stephanie
- 13:01Speaker 8: that you thought your dad might have been responsible for
- 13:03Speaker 8: your mom's death?
- 13:04Speaker 1: Oh? No, absolutely not.
- 13:06Speaker 10: Never.
- 13:07Speaker 3: There's a kind of a cloud that rests over your head.
- 13:10Speaker 3: And oh, there's Bill Weggerley. His wife was killed, and
- 13:13Speaker 3: nobody's ever found the killer.
- 13:18Speaker 8: And then on a March Day in two thousand and four,
- 13:22Speaker 8: everything changed. It started with a letter to reporter Hirst Loviana.
- 13:28Speaker 1: This is a copy of the envelope.
- 13:30Speaker 8: Inside the envelope a copy of Vicky Weggerly's driver's license
- 13:35Speaker 8: and what appeared to be crime scene pictures of her body.
- 13:38Speaker 13: I looked at the crime scene photographs and realized they
- 13:42Speaker 13: weren't routine crime scene photographs.
- 13:46Speaker 8: They weren't routine because police didn't take them. The only
- 13:51Speaker 8: person who could have was the killer.
- 13:54Speaker 6: We do not have photographs or its scene because she
- 13:56Speaker 6: was transported because it came in as a medical call,
- 13:59Speaker 6: so gets their transports are out before police arrived.
- 14:04Speaker 8: For Lieutenant ken Landweer, who ran the BTK task Force,
- 14:08Speaker 8: the letter was a huge breakthrough after eighteen years. It
- 14:12Speaker 8: cleared Bill Weggerly and exposed BTK as the real killer.
- 14:18Speaker 1: This monster come into my home and took my wife
- 14:21Speaker 1: from me, you know, it took my life, our whole
- 14:25Speaker 1: lives away from us as we knew it, and changed
- 14:29Speaker 1: us as people for the rest of our lives.
- 14:35Speaker 8: For the Weggerlees and all the families that lost loved
- 14:37Speaker 8: ones to BTK, the horror came rushing back.
- 14:41Speaker 2: We had gone on, you know, with our lives all
- 14:45Speaker 2: these years, and then to have all of it come
- 14:50Speaker 2: up again and to have to live through it all
- 14:52Speaker 2: again was pretty hard.
- 14:54Speaker 8: The return of BTK also shocked Wichita's district Attorney, Nola Falls.
- 15:00Speaker 8: Like everyone else in town, her life and career have
- 15:04Speaker 8: been haunted by the faceless killer.
- 15:07Speaker 3: I was the same as anybody else, with locking my doors,
- 15:11Speaker 3: checking my phone, living in the same fear that everyone
- 15:15Speaker 3: else was living with.
- 15:16Speaker 7: Good evening, a new letter and new clues, possibly.
- 15:19Speaker 8: Vicky Weggerly's driver's license was only the beginning. Throughout two
- 15:23Speaker 8: thousand and four, there was a frenzy of chilling BTK
- 15:27Speaker 8: communicays as the killer scattered clues from past crimes all
- 15:32Speaker 8: over the city, teasing, puzzling, and frightening.
- 15:37Speaker 9: K FDI.
- 15:39Speaker 13: The FBI is now checking out a package that was
- 15:41Speaker 13: found in a Wichita park.
- 15:42Speaker 8: There were dollgrams, little dolls, one with a noose around
- 15:47Speaker 8: its neck. The killer posed the doll to represent the
- 15:50Speaker 8: murder of eleven year old Josephine Otero, who was hanged.
- 15:56Speaker 4: He's preferred he's a sexual offender. He is a pedophile.
- 16:02Speaker 8: There were serial boxes. Btk's sick play on the words
- 16:06Speaker 8: serial killer.
- 16:09Speaker 3: He's got to be really twisted to have to manufacture
- 16:11Speaker 3: these pictures. He is sexually benefiting as he's drawing this stuff.
- 16:18Speaker 8: Why would he reappear after years of silence?
- 16:22Speaker 2: Okay, are you ready?
- 16:23Speaker 8: Police believe it was because of a writer named Bob Batty,
- 16:27Speaker 8: hi excellent book and the publicity surrounding his new book
- 16:31Speaker 8: about the murders.
- 16:33Speaker 13: This guy always wrote because he wanted attention. He writes
- 16:36Speaker 13: to a television station. It says how many do I
- 16:40Speaker 13: have to kill before I get some attention.
- 16:45Speaker 8: Soon enough? The killer, seemingly jealous of baby, submitted his
- 16:50Speaker 8: own book to police, and then he made a mistake
- 16:55Speaker 8: inside another serial box. He sent a note asking if
- 16:59Speaker 8: he could send lease a computer disc and still stay anonymous.
- 17:04Speaker 3: So he wrote, and he said, be honest with me,
- 17:07Speaker 3: his words, be honest with me. If I send you
- 17:10Speaker 3: a disc, will it be traceable?
- 17:12Speaker 1: You know?
- 17:12Speaker 3: Put in the newspaper it'll be okay, rex and send
- 17:15Speaker 3: it under this code number.
- 17:18Speaker 8: Police placed an ad in the paper just as BTK instructed.
- 17:22Speaker 8: He in turn sent in a disc and was trapped
- 17:26Speaker 8: when it.
- 17:26Speaker 3: Reached ass destination. Immediately, it was forensically examined.
- 17:31Speaker 7: In no time.
- 17:32Speaker 8: Computer experts trace the disc to a local church and
- 17:36Speaker 8: a user named Dennis. A Google search did the rest,
- 17:41Speaker 8: turning up a Dennis Raider, president of the christ Lutheran Church.
- 17:47Speaker 3: And I looked at this picture and I went, you
- 17:51Speaker 3: have got to be kidding me.
- 17:55Speaker 8: The ghost to a terrified Wichita for thirty years, finally
- 17:59Speaker 8: had a and what a face it was. BTK was,
- 18:05Speaker 8: of all things, a dog catcher, a suburban family man
- 18:10Speaker 8: with two grown kids and a tidy little house. It
- 18:14Speaker 8: all seems so normal.
- 18:18Speaker 4: And then it was kind of like, yeah, he fits,
- 18:21Speaker 4: he just fits. He fits the profile.
- 18:24Speaker 8: He's everyman, everyone's gut, said Dennis Rader. But police wanted
- 18:29Speaker 8: the case air tight. They wanted DNA. They secretly obtained
- 18:36Speaker 8: a sample from Raider's daughter.
- 18:38Speaker 4: That was taken while she was in college.
- 18:40Speaker 7: In blood no pap swear.
- 18:43Speaker 8: The daughter's DNA was compared to seamen left at some
- 18:47Speaker 8: of btk's crime scenes, and it was a close match.
- 18:54Speaker 8: On February twenty fifth, three decades after the BTK murders began,
- 19:00Speaker 8: it all ended, one of the most notorious murderers in
- 19:04Speaker 8: American history was arrested in the most routine way as
- 19:09Speaker 8: he headed home for lunch.
- 19:12Speaker 4: It was so emotional. I can't tell you how motional
- 19:15Speaker 4: it was. It was so great.
- 19:17Speaker 7: It was like, this son of a bitch, this gone,
- 19:22Speaker 7: he is out of here.
- 19:34Speaker 6: This is PTK, and your job is to get compassion
- 19:38Speaker 6: from him. He needs to say what he.
- 19:41Speaker 8: Did, which AITA police lieutenant Ken Lambweer spent his entire
- 19:46Speaker 8: career preparing for this one moment, confronting the man he
- 19:51Speaker 8: believed to be the serial killer bt k well.
- 19:54Speaker 6: I wanted to clear all the homicide. I just didn't
- 19:56Speaker 6: want to clear two or three. I wanted all of them.
- 20:00Speaker 8: As lambwere sat down to interrogate Dennis Rader, District Attorney
- 20:04Speaker 8: Nola Fulston watched from the next room.
- 20:07Speaker 3: What was your first reaction? I thought he was a geek.
- 20:12Speaker 3: I know that sounds terrible, but he was just he
- 20:15Speaker 3: was so full of himself.
- 20:21Speaker 8: For the first few hours, Rader admitted nothing. Then Lamb
- 20:24Speaker 8: Wird took him by surprise and told Rader there was
- 20:27Speaker 8: DNA evidence connecting him to six of the murders, including
- 20:31Speaker 8: Vicky Weggerly's raider's skin was found under her fingernails.
- 20:36Speaker 3: Then it was like the damn had broken. You could
- 20:41Speaker 3: not shut this guy up.
- 20:43Speaker 7: What was the most surprising part of the confession to.
- 20:46Speaker 6: The one that I will never forget is the fact
- 20:50Speaker 6: of when he asked me the question, ken, why did
- 20:53Speaker 6: you lie to me?
- 20:57Speaker 7: And what's he talking about? When he asks you, why
- 20:59Speaker 7: is she.
- 20:59Speaker 1: Looking at the floppy disc?
- 21:01Speaker 6: He didn't think we could trace a floppy disc because
- 21:04Speaker 6: he asked me, why'd.
- 21:06Speaker 1: You lie to me?
- 21:07Speaker 6: If he wouldn't have lied to me, I wouldn't have
- 21:09Speaker 6: sent it.
- 21:09Speaker 1: To you because I was trying to catch you.
- 21:12Speaker 6: And when I told him, I was trying to catch you,
- 21:14Speaker 6: he says, But we had such a good thing going,
- 21:18Speaker 6: you and I had that rapport.
- 21:20Speaker 7: He really thought that they would be honest with him.
- 21:23Speaker 4: Can you believe that they could have sold them the
- 21:27Speaker 4: Brooklyn Bridge.
- 21:29Speaker 8: From that point on, Rader eagerly spent the next thirty
- 21:33Speaker 8: hours reviewing the last thirty years of his life as
- 21:37Speaker 8: he proudly confessed to murder after murder, Rader revealed a
- 21:41Speaker 8: darker nature than anyone could have imagined.
- 21:45Speaker 3: Nauseating, he'd start going on and on and on about
- 21:50Speaker 3: each and every one of his conquests.
- 21:53Speaker 8: While Rader was confessing, investigators began turning up physical evidence
- 21:58Speaker 8: against him. In his city office, they discovered, in plain
- 22:02Speaker 8: sight a cabinet full of souvenirs from the killings, all
- 22:06Speaker 8: neatly filed away. Raider called the stash his mother load.
- 22:12Speaker 6: He had all the original communications, he had all the evidence,
- 22:16Speaker 6: all the trinkets, driver's licenses, all those things were all
- 22:21Speaker 6: very neatly stored, all in finders.
- 22:25Speaker 8: Inside Raider's tiny nine hundred square foot house, investigators found
- 22:30Speaker 8: another stash, a container in his closet full of what
- 22:34Speaker 8: Raider called slick ads, sexual fantasy cards he made using
- 22:38Speaker 8: magazine photos of women and young girls.
- 22:41Speaker 4: What is wrong with this guy?
- 22:43Speaker 1: His mind was totally fantasy driven.
- 22:46Speaker 8: Police theorized these fantasies allowed Raider to go years without
- 22:51Speaker 8: killing and were key to his elaborate double life, a
- 22:55Speaker 8: life in which the normal activities of Dennis Rader fed
- 22:58Speaker 8: the ghoulish appetite heights of BTK. For instance, he told
- 23:03Speaker 8: police he used a former job installing burglar alarms to
- 23:07Speaker 8: enter homes and trol for victims.
- 23:10Speaker 14: You always felt like he was very busy, and you know,
- 23:15Speaker 14: whatever you got, just whatever you need, let him know
- 23:17Speaker 14: because he's got things to do. Very busy.
- 23:19Speaker 8: Man Denise Maddock shared an office with Rader at the
- 23:23Speaker 8: home security company ADT in the nineteen eighties. Vicky Waggerly
- 23:28Speaker 8: was killed in the middle of the day when he
- 23:31Speaker 8: was working at ADT and when you were working with him,
- 23:37Speaker 8: which means he had to leave in the middle of
- 23:39Speaker 8: the day and then come back after killing a woman
- 23:42Speaker 8: and brutally killing a woman. When Rader admitted to the
- 23:47Speaker 8: nineteen eighty five strangling of Marine Hedge, a woman who
- 23:51Speaker 8: lived on his own block. He told police he took
- 23:54Speaker 8: the body to his church, where he posed and photographed it.
- 24:01Speaker 8: It was the same church where he appeared to be
- 24:03Speaker 8: so devout he was elected president of the congregation.
- 24:08Speaker 15: We just couldn't believe that they were talking about the
- 24:10Speaker 15: denist Raider that we knew.
- 24:13Speaker 8: Paul Carlstad has known Dennis Raider for thirty years.
- 24:17Speaker 15: The dentist that came to church every Sunday, the dentist
- 24:20Speaker 15: that was there to help in whatever way we wanted
- 24:23Speaker 15: him to help. It just didn't make any sense.
- 24:27Speaker 8: Raider also revealed that he slipped away from a boy
- 24:30Speaker 8: Scout camping trip in nineteen ninety one to strangle sixty
- 24:34Speaker 8: two year old Dolores Davis. It was Raider's last murder.
- 24:39Speaker 3: His fantasy is to take her to a barn, string
- 24:42Speaker 3: her up, and then do some sexual bondage things with
- 24:46Speaker 3: this dead body and photograph room.
- 24:49Speaker 8: But Raider got caught in a snowstorm and dumped the
- 24:52Speaker 8: body under a bridge instead.
- 24:55Speaker 3: And it isn't until a couple weeks later that her
- 24:58Speaker 3: body's actually located underneath this bridge out in the county,
- 25:04Speaker 3: and they find with it a mask, a plastic mask
- 25:07Speaker 3: that's been painted decorated with some eyelashes and lipstick and
- 25:12Speaker 3: painted face on it?
- 25:13Speaker 5: What made him think he had the right to take
- 25:19Speaker 5: somebody that meant the world to me?
- 25:23Speaker 8: So unjust For Delores Davis's son Jeff, learning the identity
- 25:28Speaker 8: of his mother's killer is a fresh outrage.
- 25:33Speaker 5: What sick, perverted pleasure can you possibly get enjoying looking
- 25:42Speaker 5: into somebody's terrified eyes as you strangle the life out
- 25:47Speaker 5: of them.
- 25:52Speaker 3: The BTK suspect will be back in court in about
- 25:55Speaker 3: a half an hour.
- 25:56Speaker 7: A court proceeding is scheduled at nine o'clock.
- 25:59Speaker 8: Finally, Raider was forced to appear in public for the
- 26:02Speaker 8: first time since his arrest.
- 26:05Speaker 13: Sir, I have been advised, as your desire inter a
- 26:08Speaker 13: pleaded guilty in this case is fact correct.
- 26:11Speaker 11: Yes, Sir.
- 26:12Speaker 8: On June twenty seventh, in a Wichita courtroom, he pleaded
- 26:16Speaker 8: guilty to all ten murders.
- 26:18Speaker 13: I used to Russ as.
- 26:19Speaker 1: A telephone repaireman to get in their house.
- 26:22Speaker 8: Reader's casual, cooperative tone in the courtroom seemed strangely at
- 26:27Speaker 8: odds with the brutal murders. He described.
- 26:30Speaker 2: I was still kind of in a fog. I think
- 26:34Speaker 2: you know, it just didn't seem real that this person
- 26:36Speaker 2: could do these things. And then for me, it really
- 26:39Speaker 2: hit home when he said he walked on up to
- 26:42Speaker 2: the door.
- 26:42Speaker 1: And heard the piano.
- 26:44Speaker 2: As I approached it, I could hear a pianel sound.
- 26:48Speaker 2: That's when I knew that, you know, yeah, that was
- 26:50Speaker 2: my mom that he heard play.
- 26:53Speaker 8: Is that the first time you realized this really was
- 26:55Speaker 8: the killer? But even as he was admitting what he did,
- 27:00Speaker 8: Dennis Raider failed to answer the biggest question of all,
- 27:04Speaker 8: what made him do it.
- 27:06Speaker 10: I remember one of the detectives saying, the devil comes
- 27:09Speaker 10: in an angel's disguise.
- 27:28Speaker 2: It just still didn't seem it still doesn't seem one
- 27:32Speaker 2: hundred percent real to me that this normal look, you know,
- 27:37Speaker 2: normal average guy that's married, has two kids, does all
- 27:43Speaker 2: the normal stuff, that that he could do such horrible
- 27:46Speaker 2: things to so many innocent people.
- 27:50Speaker 8: Well known Dennis Rader did do these horrible things. The
- 27:53Speaker 8: only question is why I was able to speak with
- 27:57Speaker 8: him by phone, and I met with him twice in cameras, however,
- 28:01Speaker 8: were banned.
- 28:02Speaker 7: This is what Raider told me.
- 28:06Speaker 8: He says, he grew up like any other child in
- 28:09Speaker 8: a loving family and insists he was never abused. In fact,
- 28:14Speaker 8: Raider's court appointed attorney, Steve Osborne, admits he tried to
- 28:18Speaker 8: find something, anything from Dennis Raider's past that could somehow
- 28:23Speaker 8: explain bt K.
- 28:26Speaker 16: We talked to the family some and you know, we
- 28:28Speaker 16: didn't see anything that jumped out at us as abnormal.
- 28:32Speaker 16: No trauma, no big event that would scar him or
- 28:37Speaker 16: or cause, you know, something like this to happen.
- 28:42Speaker 8: Yet, as young as seven or eight years of age,
- 28:44Speaker 8: Raider told me and investigators he became fascinated with inflicting
- 28:49Speaker 8: pain on living things. He started with animals.
- 28:53Speaker 4: As a young boy.
- 28:55Speaker 3: He first became aroused when he was at his grandpier It's.
- 29:00Speaker 4: Farm and they would kill chickens.
- 29:06Speaker 3: For feeding the family, and he became very fixated on
- 29:10Speaker 3: the death of those animals.
- 29:14Speaker 8: And it gets stranger. While other boys of his generation
- 29:18Speaker 8: looked up to baseball players, Raider says his hero was
- 29:22Speaker 8: Harvey Glatman, a serial killer who targeted young single women
- 29:26Speaker 8: in Hollywood. He was executed in nineteen fifty nine when
- 29:30Speaker 8: Raider was just fourteen, but Glatman became an inspiration for
- 29:35Speaker 8: the boy who would grow up to terrorize Wichita. Remember
- 29:41Speaker 8: Annette Funicello, Raider told detectives, quote she was my favorite
- 29:48Speaker 8: fantasy hit target. When she was on the Mousketiers, Raider
- 29:52Speaker 8: imagined how he would kidnap the star Mouskatier and quote
- 29:56Speaker 8: do sexual things to her in California. Reader told me
- 30:02Speaker 8: that as he got older, he collected detective pulp magazines
- 30:05Speaker 8: depicting women in bondage. That the act of tying up
- 30:09Speaker 8: a human body became an obsession, an obsession that he
- 30:13Speaker 8: managed to keep secret from everyone he knew, even when
- 30:16Speaker 8: he began killing at the age of twenty nine. For
- 30:19Speaker 8: all these years, he seemed just like anybody else here.
- 30:23Speaker 8: He might have been someone you talk to. You might
- 30:25Speaker 8: have been standing next to him here in the library,
- 30:28Speaker 8: right right, author Robert Beatty.
- 30:31Speaker 13: They were looking for crazy Charles Manson, somebody with a
- 30:34Speaker 13: history of crime, sex crimes, mental disorders. You get on
- 30:40Speaker 13: the elevator with Charles Manson, you're going to move to
- 30:42Speaker 13: the other side of the elevator, said, You get on
- 30:44Speaker 13: the elevator with BTK, You're going to smile a nod
- 30:47Speaker 13: and have a conversation. You're never gonna suspect this guy.
- 30:50Speaker 4: I trusted this man.
- 30:53Speaker 14: I mean I really trusted him.
- 30:55Speaker 8: During the time that Denise Maddock shared an office with
- 30:58Speaker 8: Raider at ADT you will.
- 31:00Speaker 2: Find me Homer Tide.
- 31:02Speaker 8: That fourteen second phone call reporting Nancy Fox's homicide was
- 31:07Speaker 8: replayed repeatedly on television. Denise, you worked with him for
- 31:11Speaker 8: eleven years, I do, and you didn't recognize his voice
- 31:15Speaker 8: on that I didn't phone.
- 31:18Speaker 13: Would you please stand with counsel.
- 31:20Speaker 8: She also never connected the killer's behavior with the Dennis Raider.
- 31:25Speaker 8: She knew he was polite and even protective of women.
- 31:29Speaker 14: I was working around all these guys, sharing a restroom
- 31:31Speaker 14: with him, I was the only woman, and he always
- 31:35Speaker 14: wanted to make sure that they put the lid down
- 31:37Speaker 14: and no dirty jokes. He painted the bathroom for me
- 31:39Speaker 14: because I thought it was It was really gross.
- 31:43Speaker 8: We know from Raider's own letters to police that he
- 31:47Speaker 8: admired famous murderers like Jack the Ripper and Son of Sam,
- 31:51Speaker 8: But what isn't widely known is how much he borrowed
- 31:54Speaker 8: from his hero, serial killer Harvey Glatman. A warning what
- 31:59Speaker 8: you were about to see maybe very disturbing. Back in
- 32:03Speaker 8: the nineteen fifties, Glatman's victims were beautiful young models. He
- 32:09Speaker 8: would lure them with the promise of a photo shoot.
- 32:13Speaker 8: Glatman bound, gagged, and then photographed them in the moments
- 32:18Speaker 8: before he strangled them. Rader told me that's where he
- 32:22Speaker 8: got the idea. These are the pictures Dennis Raider took.
- 32:27Speaker 8: This of his last killing.
- 32:29Speaker 4: He shows her laying on the bed gagged.
- 32:33Speaker 8: Rader even sketched a drawing of that same victim.
- 32:36Speaker 3: It was with her eyes open and a very horrified
- 32:40Speaker 3: look on her face, and actually reinforcing that she knew
- 32:45Speaker 3: of her impending death.
- 32:48Speaker 8: Raider is proud to take credit for all of this,
- 32:51Speaker 8: but what he didn't want the public to know was
- 32:53Speaker 8: how far he took his obsession with bondage. This is Raider.
- 33:00Speaker 8: He took these photographs of himself, this one in an
- 33:04Speaker 8: open grave he dug for a victim.
- 33:07Speaker 3: Dennis Raider did not want that evidence to come out.
- 33:10Speaker 3: He did not want people to see him in a
- 33:12Speaker 3: negative light. He wanted people to see him as some
- 33:15Speaker 3: gentleman serial killer. We believed that that was totally inappropriate.
- 33:21Speaker 8: The killing, the stalking, the fantasy world. Somehow Raider managed
- 33:26Speaker 8: to hide it all, even from the woman who thought
- 33:29Speaker 8: she knew him best. His wife of thirty three years,
- 33:32Speaker 8: paula raider, a bookkeeper. They appeared to be a devoted couple,
- 33:37Speaker 8: regularly attending church together. Is it possible that his wife,
- 33:42Speaker 8: who lived with him for all those years, truly had
- 33:46Speaker 8: no idea he.
- 33:47Speaker 7: Was connected to this?
- 33:48Speaker 1: I'm convinced of it.
- 33:50Speaker 7: What makes you say that.
- 33:51Speaker 6: I've talked to that woman, just to be honest, is
- 33:55Speaker 6: a very very nice woman, a saint.
- 33:57Speaker 1: She is totally devastated.
- 34:00Speaker 6: I've talked to his daughter, a wonderful, wonderful young woman,
- 34:05Speaker 6: totally devastated by the actress of this man.
- 34:07Speaker 1: They had no idea.
- 34:09Speaker 8: How would his wife not have any idea that she
- 34:13Speaker 8: was living with a serial killer in.
- 34:15Speaker 4: A thirty year period.
- 34:17Speaker 3: He disappeared for ten nights in a thirty year period,
- 34:21Speaker 3: probably less than a lot of men in America.
- 34:24Speaker 7: But he hid so much stuff in the house.
- 34:26Speaker 3: And he was pretty neat he had, He kept it neat,
- 34:30Speaker 3: he kept it orderly. A lot of this stuff was
- 34:33Speaker 3: at his workplace. And he's such a control freak. Maybe
- 34:37Speaker 3: this the relationship he had with his wife. Don't be
- 34:39Speaker 3: touching my things.
- 34:42Speaker 8: Why didn't Rayder target his wife? He looked shocked when
- 34:45Speaker 8: I asked him that question, he said he didn't kill anyone.
- 34:49Speaker 8: He knew that his victims were just objects. He did say, however,
- 34:54Speaker 8: that his wife was terrified of BTK, and that he
- 34:57Speaker 8: once reassured her by telling her to keep all the
- 35:00Speaker 8: windows and doors locked. I wasn't really worried, he told me,
- 35:04Speaker 8: since I knew I was the one doing all the.
- 35:07Speaker 7: Killing, I'll take care of that.
- 35:08Speaker 8: Steve Osborne believes that even if no one had discovered
- 35:12Speaker 8: his well kept secret, Dennis Raider, dogcatcher, scout leader, church president,
- 35:18Speaker 8: was planning to one day take credit for becoming BTK.
- 35:23Speaker 16: I think this was his life's work and he wanted
- 35:25Speaker 16: basically to take a bow for it. I mean, this
- 35:28Speaker 16: is who he was, this is what he did. I
- 35:31Speaker 16: don't think that he was going to go to the
- 35:32Speaker 16: grave without taking.
- 35:33Speaker 9: A bow for this.
- 35:35Speaker 7: What do you hope happens to Dennis Raider at this point?
- 35:38Speaker 1: I hope he's incarcerated for the rest of his life,
- 35:41Speaker 1: which he will be, and that we never have to
- 35:43Speaker 1: hear from him again.
- 35:56Speaker 11: It is shun person within our community suffering from a
- 36:01Speaker 11: mentality disorder leading toward to fetish.
- 36:08Speaker 8: For those in Wichita who lived through three decades of
- 36:11Speaker 8: fear and grief.
- 36:15Speaker 13: It's like a war has ended and there's not really
- 36:17Speaker 13: a victory, but the war's over.
- 36:20Speaker 8: Today is a day they never thought they'd see. Dennis
- 36:24Speaker 8: Rader is about to be sentenced for his crimes.
- 36:27Speaker 10: I could see it in his eyes and his face.
- 36:30Speaker 1: This guy is an animal and he's a monster.
- 36:37Speaker 8: To make sure Rader is put in prison for life,
- 36:40Speaker 8: the state must present evidence of his killings.
- 36:44Speaker 2: After we had heard what she had went through. I
- 36:47Speaker 2: know for me, that's when I decided that I couldn't
- 36:50Speaker 2: be strong enough for her to sit through everything that
- 36:53Speaker 2: I had to to get to the end of it.
- 36:55Speaker 2: That's the least I can do for her.
- 36:58Speaker 8: For it, Stephen ralph it is a memory he has
- 37:04Speaker 8: tried so hard to forget.
- 37:12Speaker 11: I see the same thing all my life, my mom
- 37:15Speaker 11: laying there on that bed.
- 37:18Speaker 1: And you looking over that door.
- 37:26Speaker 8: Until now, this is the only way Steve Ralphord could
- 37:29Speaker 8: release the anger and grief he has known since his
- 37:33Speaker 8: mother was killed by raider in nineteen seventy seven.
- 37:36Speaker 7: Will it be over after the sentencing for you?
- 37:38Speaker 11: No, it will never. Never'll be over, ma'am, never until
- 37:43Speaker 11: this son of a bitch is dead. My mom was
- 37:47Speaker 11: my life.
- 37:49Speaker 1: Man, he took it from me.
- 37:56Speaker 5: What is satisfying for you?
- 38:00Speaker 8: The morning, with the sentencing about to begin, Ralphord and
- 38:04Speaker 8: the other families arrived to finally confront the man who
- 38:08Speaker 8: caused them all so much pain.
- 38:10Speaker 5: I've waited forteen years. I want him to hear my spayment.
- 38:13Speaker 5: I want him to hear what I have to say.
- 38:15Speaker 8: District Attorney Nola Fulston hopes to expose the real man
- 38:18Speaker 8: behind the killer who was invisible and once seemed invincible.
- 38:23Speaker 4: This is a man who is twisted and the community
- 38:28Speaker 4: needed to see that.
- 38:31Speaker 11: All right.
- 38:34Speaker 8: It is a day and a half of my numbing testimony.
- 38:38Speaker 6: He strangled her by kying the rope tightly around her neck,
- 38:41Speaker 6: put a plastic bag over her head.
- 38:45Speaker 3: Did missus Davis put up any resistance or fight.
- 38:49Speaker 1: There was nothing that she could do.
- 38:51Speaker 6: When he stated that, it took approximately two to three
- 38:54Speaker 6: minutes for her and she felt no more pain.
- 39:00Speaker 8: Finally, my name is Charlie Otoll. My name's Beverly Platt.
- 39:04Speaker 8: The families get their chance to speak.
- 39:07Speaker 13: I want him to suffer as much as he made
- 39:11Speaker 13: his victims suffer.
- 39:13Speaker 8: Although we have never met, you have seen my face before.
- 39:17Speaker 8: It is the same face you.
- 39:18Speaker 6: Murdered over thirty years ago, the face of my mother,
- 39:21Speaker 6: Julio Tarroll.
- 39:23Speaker 5: For the last five three hundred and twenty six days,
- 39:26Speaker 5: I have wanted what it would be like to confront
- 39:27Speaker 5: the walking cesspool that took my mother's precious life. If
- 39:32Speaker 5: I had your devil nature, I would delight in the
- 39:35Speaker 5: fact that your congregation has turned its back on you,
- 39:37Speaker 5: that your wife has divorced you, that your own children
- 39:39Speaker 5: have disowned you. You have now lost everything and you
- 39:43Speaker 5: will forever remain nothing. Thank you, your honor.
- 39:48Speaker 11: My name is Steve Elford.
- 39:50Speaker 8: Shirley byan my mother after waiting twenty eight years for
- 39:54Speaker 8: this moment.
- 39:55Speaker 11: I'd dislike for him to suffer for the rest of
- 39:59Speaker 11: his life.
- 40:00Speaker 8: Words fail, Steve Ralford.
- 40:04Speaker 1: No, so, your honor, my name is Bill Waggerly.
- 40:19Speaker 8: Bill Weggerly too, is overwhelmed as his daughter speaks from
- 40:24Speaker 8: her broken heart.
- 40:25Speaker 2: It's been almost nineteen years now that my brother and
- 40:28Speaker 2: I had the most important woman in our lives taken
- 40:31Speaker 2: from us. It's not fair that we had so little
- 40:36Speaker 2: time with her. It's not fair that she doesn't get
- 40:39Speaker 2: to see me with her grandchildren. My mother begged for
- 40:44Speaker 2: her life. Yeah, he showed no remorse.
- 40:48Speaker 8: If the families hope to see that remorse from Dennis
- 40:51Speaker 8: Raider today, they didn't get it. Some of them weren't
- 40:56Speaker 8: even willing to sit and hear him speak and simply
- 40:59Speaker 8: walked out.
- 41:03Speaker 11: And you were okay.
- 41:07Speaker 5: You know, the victims' families will ever be able to
- 41:09Speaker 5: forgive me.
- 41:10Speaker 1: I hope somewhere keep down. Eventually that will happen.
- 41:14Speaker 8: When he finally apologizes.
- 41:16Speaker 1: Final apologize to the victims' families. There's no way that
- 41:23Speaker 1: I can ever repay him.
- 41:25Speaker 8: His closing words bring hollow.
- 41:27Speaker 3: It's pitiable for mister Rader to stand here looking all
- 41:31Speaker 3: pail a pasty and say how sorry he is.
- 41:34Speaker 4: You know, gosh, I'm really sorry. Well, what else do
- 41:37Speaker 4: you say after you kill ten people?
- 41:43Speaker 8: At the time of the murders, Kansas had no death penalty.
- 41:46Speaker 1: You, Denis L.
- 41:47Speaker 13: Rader be taken by the Sheriff of Cedric.
- 41:49Speaker 8: So the judge gave Raider the maximum sentence, one hundred
- 41:53Speaker 8: and seventy five years.
- 41:54Speaker 7: They're coming down the road.
- 41:56Speaker 16: They're now on prison property, and if.
- 41:58Speaker 8: The families get their way, Dennis Raider and bt K
- 42:02Speaker 8: will just fade into the past.
- 42:05Speaker 1: I hope that people will not correspond with him, have
- 42:09Speaker 1: anything to do with him that would probably be a
- 42:13Speaker 1: greater suffering to him than if he was put to
- 42:16Speaker 1: death or tortured or whatever else.