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00:00Ele parece ser um cidadão compreendente de cidadão.
00:08Ele adora o conceito de cidadão. Ele gostaria de fazer isso de cidadão.
00:12Ele ia bind eles, ele ia torturá-los, e então ele ia cair.
00:15Nós encontramos a 13-year-old girl na sala de baixa, hangando de uma água pipa.
00:20Em essa carta para nós, BTK disse,
00:23como mais pessoas eu tenho que cair antes de ter publicidade?
00:26There may be victims out there that we have no clue of.
00:30The BTK Strangler hides in women's bedroom closets.
00:33He kills women, men, small children.
00:36Nobody is safe. Nobody.
00:46You can feel the spring storms blowing back into Kansas.
00:49This is a live look from SkyTracker in downtown Wichita.
00:52Clouds already rolling in, bringing with them the promise of a stormy weekend.
00:56This is the story of one of the most extraordinary events in criminal history.
01:04A story that has terrorized a small, mid-American city for the last 30 years.
01:13The conservative city of Wichita, roughly the size of Coventry,
01:17is slap-bang in the middle of the American heartland.
01:20More power to the hour, more bounce to the hour.
01:26With a population of just 500,000,
01:30the city prides itself on its friendly, peaceful community.
01:34But Wichita harbors a dark past that has recently returned.
01:41In the 70s, this peaceful community was shattered.
01:49Wichita had a serial killer on its hands.
01:52The murderer became known as the B.T.K. killer,
01:58due to the method in which he bound, tortured, and killed his victims.
02:03After his seventh victim, B.T.K. disappeared.
02:07And for the past two decades,
02:09Wichita has tried to forget these horrific events.
02:13But in 2004, all that changed.
02:24This is Cake News on your side.
02:27Good evening, everyone.
02:28Breaking news tonight.
02:30A letter sent to the Wichita Eagle is now believed to be from the B.T.K. killer.
02:34It's a story that broke first on Cake late this afternoon.
02:38Now, the B.T.K. killer hasn't been heard from in decades,
02:40but now it appears he may be back.
02:43The one thing about B.T.K. that makes him absolutely unique
02:46is he's the only serial killer to elude capture for more than 30 years
02:50and continue to communicate with the police.
02:54What brought him back?
02:56Did something change in his life?
02:57Did he go on drugs?
02:59Did he go off drugs?
02:59Did he get married?
03:00Did he get a divorce?
03:01Did he have a baby?
03:02What happened in this guy's life to bring him back?
03:06This is kind of unprecedented.
03:07We don't usually have serial killers out there
03:09who wait so many years, decades, to then return and say,
03:12ha-ha, I'm here, I'm alive, I'm in your community,
03:15and I'm threatening you again.
03:19The news of B.T.K.'s return has once again plunged the city of Wichita
03:24into a state of panic.
03:25One man knows more than any what B.T.K.'s re-emergence could mean for the community.
03:39Now retired, Benny Drowatsky was one of the original detectives to work the case.
03:44There was always a feeling, even after I retired,
03:49that that was the one case that we weren't able to solve or identify the killer.
03:55And then to have him resurface, of course, brought hope again
03:58that maybe a new investigation, new forensics, new minds, new detectives on the case
04:06might bring this to a solution.
04:09During the 70s, murders in Wichita were a rare occurrence.
04:18But the events of one cold January day would change that forever.
04:23On a quiet residential road, 38-year-old Joseph Otero, his wife Julie, 34,
04:39and two of their children were bound, tortured, and killed in their home.
04:46The Otero killings in 1974 were a huge, huge story.
04:51At the scene, it was a small frame home.
04:55Four people were dead inside when I arrived.
04:58The police were combing all over the scene.
05:01And it was hard for Wichitans at that point to believe
05:04that four members of a family had been killed.
05:06That just didn't happen in Wichita, Kansas.
05:09So for us in Wichita, this story was huge.
05:12Today, the Otero house at 803 North Edgemoor still stands.
05:23Bernie Drowatsky was one of the first detectives to arrive on the scene
05:27and returns 30 years later to recall the terrifying events that took place there.
05:33Well, it's been 30-some years since I've been in this house.
05:43It's exactly as I remember it.
05:46There was no forcible entry that we could find into the residence on the Otero homicide.
05:52The telephone line had been cut.
05:54The best I recall, the bed was to the west.
06:04Mrs. Otero was on the bed, kind of at an angle, and Mr. Otero was on the floor.
06:10They had both been bound and strangled and were both deceased.
06:13It was an extremely upsetting scene to go in and find those people,
06:20especially the two youngsters.
06:22The best of my recollection, this is the room that Joseph was in,
06:25on the floor on his back.
06:28I believe he was nine years old.
06:30He was face up, feet bound.
06:33His head was wrapped with a pillowcase and towel, plastic of some type.
06:39Further going through the house, we found the 13-year-old girl.
06:43in the basement, hanging from a water pipe.
06:47This is a stairway going downstairs.
06:56This was where the little girl, Josephine, was found hanging, in this basement.
07:06This pipe, there was a pipe with the rope was up and over.
07:11And around her neck.
07:16Her feet were so far off the floor.
07:21In all of these homicides, there was no sexual attack on any of the victims.
07:27But there was semen left at many of the scenes.
07:31So, I'm sure there's a sexual gratification of some type to these killings.
07:41BTK Strangler is a sadist.
07:44He loves watching people suffer.
07:46When he killed the Otero family, he probably enjoyed very much killing one and having the other family members have to hear their loved one dying.
07:58The person who went there had to control four people, had to tie them up and torture them for a long period of time.
08:04And this was broad daylight.
08:07The killer in this case really spent time watching the house.
08:11Knowing what was going on, he did a lot of surveillance.
08:13He had to know what the family did.
08:15He had to know that Joseph Otero, the father, would also be there at some point.
08:19Over the period of time that we worked these cases, what did we overlook or what did we miss?
08:26Somewhere there had to be a clue that we didn't pick up on.
08:31It'd be a blessing to have closure to know that the person responsible for this had been apprehended.
08:38It really would.
08:43Despite a thorough investigation into the Otero murders,
08:46the police had no leads and even struggled to find a motive.
08:51Once you've committed a crime to this extent, you are a serial killer.
08:55A person who commits a crime like the Otero family killing is going to want to go on and do something else.
09:05In 2004, the small mid-American town of Wichita was shocked at the news
09:11that its most notorious serial killer returned after a 25-year silence.
09:18The BTK Strangler, so-called because of the way he bound, tortured and killed his victims,
09:24began his killing spree back in January 1974,
09:27when he brutally murdered four members of the Otero family.
09:31Regardless of who the target was in the first murders, the Otero family murders,
09:37we see an element of enjoyment there.
09:40This killer really enjoyed killing the family, each one of them individually,
09:45and he got a sexual release from that.
09:47This puts him over into the category of serial killer already,
09:50that he loves the concept of killing and he would want to do it again.
09:54On April the 4th, 1974, three months after the Otero killings,
10:13police were called to the home of 21-year-old Catherine Bright,
10:17who lived just two miles away.
10:20Catherine Bright and her brother had returned home,
10:23and upon entering the residence were confronted by an individual
10:26that had been waiting in the house.
10:28He emerged from her bedroom closet with a gun,
10:31told them he was going to rob them.
10:34Struggle ensued between Kevin Bright and the individual,
10:38and Kevin was bound to a chair.
10:40Kevin fought free, grappled with the man,
10:44but the man shot Kevin in the side of the head,
10:48knocking him unconscious, although the killer thought Kevin was dead.
10:51Kevin woke and heard his sister being strangled, being attacked by this guy.
10:58He went to her aid, and again, then he was shot in the face.
11:06Kevin managed to stumble out the front door onto 13th Street,
11:10where a passerby found him and called emergency.
11:13Catherine Bright had been stabbed three times in the abdomen.
11:19Despite police and medical crews arriving at the scene,
11:22she died later in hospital.
11:25Kevin Bright survived the ordeal,
11:27but police felt the extent of his injuries
11:29made his description of the killer unreliable.
11:32In the months that followed,
11:38police received their first breakthrough in the Otero case.
11:41Three men openly confessed to the killings,
11:44and it wasn't long before the news made the front pages,
11:48much to the relief of the community.
11:50The police department made some arrest in December of 1974.
11:56It was during that period of time
11:57that we, the news media picked up on it,
12:01and it became knowledge to the community
12:05that we had people in custody.
12:07And that's when we received our first communication
12:10from the strangler.
12:11On October the 22nd, 1974,
12:22a man called the Wichita Eagle newspaper
12:24and directed them to the public library,
12:27where they would find a letter
12:28hidden in an engineering book.
12:31The police were immediately notified,
12:34and the letter was retrieved
12:35by lead detective Bernie Jawatzky.
12:39Upon retrieving that letter,
12:41and bringing it back and reading the letter,
12:44we determined that it most definitely
12:46was from the individual
12:48who had been in the Otero house
12:50and had committed all four of the killings.
12:53The letter said,
12:55those three guys didn't do it.
12:57I did it, and here's how you know I did it.
13:01He went on to describe in detail
13:03what the Otero crime scene looked like.
13:07The police realized that only the killer
13:10could have known those details.
13:13There's some speculation
13:14that he actually photographed the scene,
13:16all of the scenes,
13:17and that's how he kept all these details straight.
13:20The letter, filled with grammatical errors,
13:24was from the killer himself.
13:26He took sole responsibility
13:27for the Otero murders
13:29and went on to reveal accurate details
13:32of the crime scene.
13:34The killer spoke of a monster
13:36that couldn't be stopped
13:37and signed off with a signature
13:39that would become his trademark,
13:42as well as a chilling promise
13:45of further victims.
13:46One of the most unusual aspects
13:55about the BTK strangling case
13:57is that there were communicators
13:58with the police.
13:59Now, many people watching Hollywood
14:01think that all serial killers
14:02want to have a cat-mouse game
14:03with the police
14:04and send them letters,
14:05but it is really an extremely rare event.
14:09In a desperate attempt
14:10to find the killer,
14:12police stepped up their investigation,
14:14recruiting more officers to the case.
14:17But the trail of BTK
14:19mysteriously went cold,
14:20and it would be another three years
14:23before he was heard from again.
14:44Well, the next murder
14:46would have been Shirley Vianne.
14:48Shirley was a single mother
14:50living alone with her three children.
14:53As I recall,
14:54the oldest child was like eight,
14:56and then there were two younger children.
15:02Apparently, at one point in time,
15:04an individual had stopped
15:05one of the children on the street
15:06and showed a picture of a person
15:09and asked if he knew that person
15:11or if they lived there.
15:14The child didn't apparently know that,
15:16and then later,
15:17apparently, the same man
15:18appeared at the door
15:19and gained entry into that residence.
15:22Once he was in the house,
15:23he pulled a handgun,
15:25again, similar to the Catherine Bright murder,
15:27told them he was going to rob them,
15:29put the children in a bathroom.
15:31This is the bathroom
15:44that the children were locked in.
15:46This door at the time was not here.
15:49This was a solid wall,
15:51and the kids were placed in here,
15:54and the door tied shut in some manner
15:56so they couldn't get out.
15:58The oldest child heard what he thought
16:00his mother being murdered,
16:03which was what was happening,
16:06and he helped his...
16:08He was eight years old.
16:09There was also a six-year-old boy
16:11and a four-year-old girl.
16:13There was a very small window
16:15in the bathroom.
16:20There was a window on this north wall,
16:23and this was a window
16:25that the kids used access to
16:27to finally get out of the bathroom.
16:29When the police arrived,
16:31Shirley Vian had been bound and strangled,
16:34similar to the Oteros.
16:36She was found on the bed,
16:38and there was semen left at the scene.
16:42Again, she was not raped or anything.
16:45She was strangled.
16:46This was a new thing,
16:49and totally the police did not understand,
16:52I mean, why there was semen on Josie Otero,
16:55the girl who was hung in the basement.
16:58There was semen near Shirley Vian.
17:01So after a while, they understood
17:03this was a sexually motivated serial killer.
17:06Our theory is that what he was doing
17:11is that he was strangling them,
17:12and as they were dying,
17:14he was probably masturbating at the time.
17:17He apparently actually saw the people
17:19dying from the strangulation,
17:22and that's what aroused him.
17:27If the children had not escaped
17:29or something interrupted him,
17:31I think we'd have had some dead children
17:32in that one also.
17:33We have since made every effort in the world
17:38to, you know, work with these children,
17:40try to get a description from them.
17:43We had child psychologists work with them
17:45and everything.
17:46As best we could come up with,
17:48he was, again, a white male
17:50about mommy's age,
17:52which would have put him somewhere
17:54in their 30s, early 30s,
17:55somewhere in that category.
17:58We do know that he had a black bag,
18:01which we had always theorized
18:03that he brought the tape with him
18:05that he used, the ropes that he used,
18:07and we know he had a gun
18:09because we theorize in the Otero case
18:15he had to have a gun
18:16to get control of the adults
18:18and things of that nature.
18:19We know in the Kathy Bright case
18:21he had a gun because he shot the brother,
18:23and in this particular case
18:26the youngster was able to tell us.
18:36Because of the similarities
18:38between the Otero, Catherine Bright
18:40and Shirley Vian murders,
18:42police suspected it may be the work
18:45of the same individual,
18:46but were baffled by the three-year time gap
18:49between killings.
18:51A serial killer usually kills
18:53after something has gone wrong in his life.
18:55He has some kind of crisis.
18:56Perhaps his wife has asked him for a divorce
18:58or his girlfriend has left him,
19:00or perhaps he's just been fired from his job.
19:02He's feeling really low,
19:03he's angry at the world,
19:04and he says,
19:04you don't have any respect for me,
19:06you don't think I'm anybody.
19:07So he goes out and he says,
19:08look what I can do to you.
19:09He kills somebody,
19:10he feels proud of himself,
19:11he's got a big ego again,
19:13and then he may not do anything again
19:14for months and months,
19:15or even years,
19:16until another crisis appears.
19:18And that's why serial killers,
19:19they don't kill every month by the moon
19:20like some people think.
19:21They kill when they feel a need to kill.
19:26As news of Shirley Vian's murder spread,
19:29police chief Richard Lemunian
19:30faced a difficult decision
19:32about whether to go public
19:34and warn the community of Wichita
19:35that there was a serial killer
19:37on the prowl.
19:39I'm getting advice at this point now
19:41from the FBI,
19:42from the behavioral science people.
19:44You know,
19:44should we release this information?
19:46Should we not release this information?
19:48And you get a lot of different advice.
19:52And if you asked six people,
19:54you get six different opinions.
19:57And finally,
19:57you have to make a decision.
19:59In this particular case,
20:01the decision was made
20:02that we would not give him credit for it
20:04at the time
20:05in hopes that he would communicate with us,
20:08which he did.
20:09But the communication
20:13was not what the police
20:14were hoping for.
20:15about 8.20 a.m.
20:37on December 8th,
20:38Friday morning, 1977,
20:40a caller told a police dispatcher,
20:44and his call was recorded,
20:46you have a homicide
20:47at 843 South Pershing,
20:49Nancy Fox.
20:51He communicated directly
20:52with the police department
20:54in that he told us,
20:55you will find a homicide,
20:57gave us the exact location,
20:59and gave us her name.
21:01Yes, you will find a homicide
21:03at 843 South Pershing,
21:07in Nancy Fox.
21:09I'm sorry, sir,
21:09I can't understand you.
21:10So what is the address?
21:12843 South Pershing.
21:15That's correct.
21:17Wichita just started
21:18a new system,
21:20which was brand new then,
21:22now well-known as caller ID.
21:24So the caller did not know
21:26that the dispatcher knew
21:27where the call was coming from.
21:29And a police officer
21:30was there within two minutes,
21:31but the caller,
21:33the BTK Strangler,
21:35was gone.
21:39They then dispatched
21:40two officers
21:41to 843 South Pershing
21:43to check the residents.
21:45They did not tell them
21:45the purpose of the call.
21:47They just wanted to check.
21:49And I've interviewed
21:49one of the officers
21:50who was there.
21:51He said they initially
21:52walked around the house,
21:56and in the back,
21:57they found the back window
21:58was broken
21:59and the telephone line cut.
22:00and they looked at each other
22:02and said,
22:03you know what
22:03we're going to find in here?
22:05We're going to find a body.
22:09843 South Pershing
22:11was the residence
22:12of Nancy Fox,
22:13a 25-year-old
22:15part-time secretary.
22:17She was found
22:17on the bed,
22:19face down,
22:21which was somewhat
22:22typical of what
22:23he would do
22:24with his victims.
22:26Her panties
22:26had been pulled down
22:27between her buttocks
22:28and her knees.
22:29There was semen
22:31left at the scene
22:32in a negligee
22:33laying by her head.
22:38Nancy Fox's father
22:40faced the task
22:41of identifying her body.
22:44When we arrived
22:45at the hospital,
22:46they took us
22:46into this room
22:47and wanted us
22:49to go make
22:51an identification.
22:51I mean,
22:53it was
22:53something you don't
22:58want to remember.
22:58I could see her face
22:59and her feet,
23:00basically.
23:01It was all,
23:02and it was just
23:03bruised,
23:05black and blue,
23:06but enough.
23:07There was no doubt
23:09as to who it was.
23:13Most serial killers
23:14want to simply commit
23:15their crime
23:16and get away with it.
23:18They never contact
23:19the police.
23:20They don't want
23:20anybody to know
23:21about it.
23:22They're happy
23:22if it just disappears
23:23and swept under the rug
23:24so they can go kill
23:26again someday.
23:26Usually,
23:27to most serial killers,
23:28it's a personal thing.
23:29It's between them
23:29and the victim
23:30that makes them feel
23:31like God
23:31when they're able
23:32to kill somebody.
23:33But there are
23:34some serial killers
23:34out there
23:35who want more than that.
23:36They like to play games.
23:37They like to see
23:38that they're smarter
23:39than the police.
23:40After he makes
23:41a phone call,
23:41he knows the police
23:42are rushing down there,
23:42and you can imagine
23:43them entering the apartment
23:44and finding what he's done,
23:46and that excites him.
23:48After the murder
23:49of Nancy Fox,
23:50BTK's seventh victim,
23:53police turned
23:54all their attention
23:55to the phone call
23:56and searched
23:57for witnesses
23:58to give them
23:58a detailed description
24:00of the killer.
24:02We found one witness
24:04that claimed
24:05he saw the individual
24:07on the telephone
24:07making the phone call
24:09to the police dispatcher.
24:11This was an individual
24:11that pulled up
24:12to use the telephone,
24:13saw a man
24:15on the phone,
24:16didn't have any change,
24:17so he went into the store
24:18to get some change
24:20for the pay phone,
24:21came back out
24:22to use the phone,
24:23and the individual
24:23was gone,
24:24and the phone receiver
24:25was dangling
24:26from the phone.
24:27When he picked it up,
24:28my understanding
24:29was that it was still
24:30an open line
24:30to the police dispatcher.
24:32He gave us
24:33a description
24:33at that time
24:34which was a white male
24:38approximately
24:385'8 to 5'9,
24:41light hair,
24:42a very generic description.
24:46Unable to release
24:47a detailed sketch,
24:49the police
24:49had nothing to go on.
24:53They would have to wait
24:55until the killer
24:56struck again.
24:58By the beginning
25:01of 1978,
25:03the BTK strangler
25:04had viciously murdered
25:06four members
25:07of the Otero family,
25:08including two children,
25:1021-year-old Catherine Bright,
25:1224-year-old Shirley Vian,
25:14and 25-year-old Nancy Fox.
25:16Despite devoting
25:19many officers
25:19and thousands
25:20of man-outs,
25:21the Wichita Police Department
25:23was struggling
25:23for leads
25:24and had still
25:25not made public
25:26that there was
25:27a serial killer
25:28on the prowl.
25:38In January of 1978,
25:40the BTK sent
25:41a postcard
25:42in an envelope
25:43to the Wichita Eagle
25:45newspaper.
25:45It had a poem
25:48called Shirley Locks
25:49and was signed
25:50BTK.
25:53The first line
25:54was Shirley Locks,
25:56Shirley Locks,
25:57wilt thou be mine?
25:58I think that was
25:59what it was.
26:01It came into
26:02the newspaper
26:03and was opened
26:04by someone
26:04who mistakenly assumed
26:06that it was
26:07for a Valentine's Day
26:09promotion.
26:10So they sent it
26:11to the wrong department,
26:12they put it on
26:13the wrong desk,
26:14whatever happened,
26:14it never made its way
26:15up to the newsroom.
26:17The poem consisted
26:18of seven lines
26:19and made reference
26:20to Shirley Viam.
26:22There was also mention
26:23of Nancy Fox.
26:27Ten days later,
26:29BTK sent another letter,
26:31this time to one of
26:32Wichita's main
26:33television networks,
26:34Cake TV.
26:35police are here.
26:38I remember going back
26:40into the newsroom
26:42and several people
26:44around the desk
26:44and I asked about
26:48where the letter was
26:50or where it had been
26:50found and they
26:51indicated to me
26:53the letter.
26:54Of course,
26:55it was handled
26:56as evidence
26:56and protected
26:58for fingerprints
26:58and such as action.
27:00Because the Wichita Eagle
27:02had not published
27:03his Shirley Locke's poem,
27:05BTK opened his letter
27:06with a question.
27:10In that letter,
27:11he said,
27:12how many more people
27:13do I have to kill
27:14before I get
27:14some publicity?
27:16And it was at that point
27:17that we knew
27:18that he wanted publicity,
27:20that he enjoyed
27:21the publicity,
27:21that he really relied
27:23on that publicity
27:24in order to probably
27:26feed his ego.
27:28The letter consisted
27:29of two typewritten pages,
27:31an accurate drawing
27:32of Nancy Fox's body
27:34and a poem entitled
27:36Oh Death to Nancy.
27:38In the letter,
27:39BTK admitted to killing
27:41four members
27:42of Joseph Otero's family,
27:45Shirley Vian,
27:47Nancy Fox,
27:48and taunted the police
27:50to guess a further victim,
27:52presumably Catherine Bright.
27:54The BTK killer
27:55even admitted
27:56that he would have killed
27:58Shirley Vian's children,
27:59but was interrupted.
28:05After receiving this letter,
28:07Chief LeMunyon
28:07was forced
28:08to face the inevitable.
28:11In that particular time,
28:12you're getting
28:13all these mixed signals,
28:14you know,
28:15yes, don't give him credit,
28:17yes, give him credit.
28:18Well, in my judgment,
28:19we didn't give him credit
28:20for Shirley Vian,
28:21and we ended up
28:22with Nancy Fox.
28:24I don't know
28:25had we given him credit
28:27for Shirley Vian,
28:28that we still had
28:29Nancy Fox.
28:29I don't know that.
28:30So I was going to give him credit,
28:32which we did.
28:33On the 10th of February,
28:351978,
28:37four years after
28:38BTK's first victims,
28:40Wichita was finally
28:41told the truth.
28:42Good afternoon.
28:44This morning,
28:45Cake TV was contacted
28:46by the person
28:47who police say
28:47they believe murdered
28:48four members
28:49of the Joseph Otero family
28:51in January of 1974.
28:53The communication came
28:54in the form
28:54of a two-page
28:55typewritten letter
28:56addressed to
28:57K-A-K-E,
28:58Channel 10.
28:59It was signed
28:59with the initials
29:00BTK.
29:01But with us right now
29:02is Chief of Police
29:03Richard LeMunyon.
29:04I have a couple
29:04questions, Chief.
29:06How can you be sure
29:07that the BTK letter
29:08is authentic?
29:08Ron, after reviewing
29:11the contents of the letter
29:12is absolutely no question
29:13that the only person
29:14who would have
29:16the type of information
29:17that was included
29:19in the letter
29:19would have to be
29:20the killer himself.
29:21Do you know
29:22what the initials
29:23BTK stand for?
29:25Yes, it's our feeling
29:26that the initials
29:27that were placed there
29:29stand for bind,
29:31torture, and kill.
29:33BTK has killed
29:35seven people, Chief.
29:36What kind of leads
29:37do you have?
29:38Well, very honestly,
29:40we have no solid leads
29:42at all.
29:44The press conference
29:45was actually aimed
29:47at two audiences.
29:49Number one,
29:50the first audience
29:50was the community.
29:52And number two
29:53was to the strangler.
29:55And it was orchestrated
29:57for that purpose.
29:59The first idea
30:01of a police chief
30:02is public safety.
30:03I mean, we didn't want
30:05another murder.
30:06so if we could play
30:08with this guy
30:09in terms of the games
30:11that he played
30:11and let him communicate
30:13with us in writing
30:14as opposed to sending us bodies,
30:16that was my goal.
30:19But the public reaction
30:21was one of fear.
30:23This sleepy community
30:24had never imagined
30:25they would be prey
30:26to a serial killer.
30:28Wichita was plunged
30:29into a state of panic.
30:31There was not an unlocked door
30:33in this community anymore.
30:35Everybody locked the door.
30:36Prior to that,
30:37this had been a community
30:38in which you might
30:40leave your keys in the car,
30:41you might keep
30:42your door unlocked.
30:43But since BTK,
30:45and since there was
30:45a serial killer loose,
30:47not anymore.
30:48Everything changed.
30:49The reaction of the people
30:51in Wichita was panic.
30:54Everybody was scared.
30:56Everybody looked
30:57at their neighbors,
30:58locked their doors,
31:00locked their windows,
31:01checked their phone lines.
31:02It caused quite a stir.
31:04The second shift duty sergeant
31:07would always send
31:08the officers out
31:10reminding them
31:11the BTK strangler
31:13is out there.
31:13He hides
31:14in women's bedroom closets.
31:16He's armed
31:16with a knife and a gun.
31:18Be careful.
31:18The department
31:19encouraged people
31:21to call the police
31:22if they got home
31:22and felt anything unusual.
31:25If they got home
31:25and the door didn't look right
31:26or a light was off
31:27that should have been on
31:28or vice versa.
31:29We encouraged people
31:30to call and have officers
31:31come out and do house checks.
31:33They'd go through
31:33the whole building,
31:34the whole house,
31:35and the last thing
31:36they would do
31:37would be fling open
31:38that woman's bedroom closet door
31:40with their guns drawn.
31:42There was never anybody there.
31:43But they didn't know that
31:44because they knew
31:45that this guy would break in
31:46and hide in a woman's closet.
31:47Some serial killers
31:49like to be the boogeyman.
31:51They like to scare
31:52not only the person
31:53they're killing
31:54but the entire community.
31:56These kind of serial killers
31:57love a lot of publicity.
31:59They like having their stories
32:00in the newspaper.
32:01Many of these guys
32:01will do odd things
32:02at the crime scene
32:03just to make it
32:04look even creepier
32:05so that people get
32:06more and more terrified
32:07and they start being afraid
32:08to walk on the streets
32:09at night,
32:09afraid to enter their apartments.
32:11That gives them a thrill
32:11of not only controlling
32:12one crime scene
32:13but essentially controlling
32:15an entire city.
32:18At the height of the panic
32:20once again
32:21BTK mysteriously disappeared.
32:24And it was to be
32:25another year
32:26before he was heard from again.
32:28The Anna Williams case
32:44is one of those cases
32:45that to me
32:46is one of the most terrifying
32:47for what didn't happen.
32:52Annie Williams
32:53was a 63 year old lady
32:54widow lady
32:55who lived alone.
32:57And her pattern was
32:58on this particular
32:59night of the week
32:59she had a regular thing
33:02I can't remember
33:02if it was a dancing thing
33:03that she went to
33:04or bowling or something.
33:06And she normally
33:07came home
33:07when that was over
33:09on that particular night
33:10she chose to stay
33:11with her daughter.
33:14When she got home
33:15early the next morning
33:16discovered
33:16there had been someone
33:18who had broken
33:18into her house
33:19had spent apparently
33:21considerable time
33:22in her house
33:22the telephone line
33:24had been cut
33:24it was forced entry
33:25through one of the windows.
33:28It was just a typical
33:29residence burglary
33:30as far as anybody knew
33:31until several months later
33:33when a letter was received
33:34that had some items
33:35in the envelope of hers
33:37as well as a letter
33:38and a drawing.
33:39I won't describe the drawing
33:40but it was
33:41the drawing
33:43that he sent
33:44was quite horrifying.
33:46obviously
33:46it goes along
33:48with his theme
33:49of buying,
33:50torture and kill
33:51and he sent
33:53the drawing
33:53of the poem
33:54and one of the woman's scarves
33:57that she was able
33:58to identify
33:59as her scarf.
34:01BTK's poem
34:02posed a question
34:03It also stated
34:09that Anna Williams
34:10would have been
34:11victim number eight.
34:15To me
34:15that's very terrifying
34:17and for many
34:18for many women
34:19in Wichita
34:19that was an incredibly
34:21terrifying moment
34:22because all of them
34:23could imagine
34:23that happening to them
34:24and what would they do?
34:26It's very scary.
34:27Anna's reaction
34:30was to the point
34:31that she was so upset
34:32that she left the state.
34:36She was afraid
34:37apparently that he would
34:38come back
34:39or keep trying
34:39so she did leave the state.
34:50BTK's attempted murder
34:51of Anna Williams
34:52confused the police
34:53even more
34:54as they desperately
34:55searched for a link
34:56between the victims.
34:58So you have
34:59a victim pattern here
35:00of the youngest
35:01Otero
35:02who was probably
35:04about five or six
35:05and the little girl
35:06who was probably
35:06eleven or twelve.
35:08Then you have
35:09the parents
35:11you have Kathy
35:12who was a college age
35:13you have Shirley
35:14their, you know
35:16twenties,
35:16early thirties
35:17you have Nancy Fox
35:20and then you have
35:20a sixty-three-year-old.
35:22Again, you know
35:23you're getting
35:24all this advice
35:25from these psychologists
35:26and these behavioural scientists
35:27and it doesn't fit
35:29anything that they're telling us.
35:31So the only thing
35:33that was consistent
35:34about this person
35:35for over the thirty years
35:36is inconsistencies.
35:39Desperate for a break
35:40in the case
35:40the police took
35:41the unprecedented step
35:43of releasing
35:44the Nancy Fox phone call
35:45to the public
35:46which they had spent
35:47the past two years
35:49trying to enhance.
35:50Using state-of-the-art
35:52equipment at the time
35:53experts managed
35:54to clear up
35:55some of the background noise
35:56in the aim
35:57that someone
35:58would recognize
35:59the voice
35:59of BTK.
36:00That was the first time
36:10that anybody
36:11had heard his voice
36:12and so that was
36:14really a momentous occasion.
36:16For the audience
36:17it was really a moment.
36:19That's BTK's voice.
36:20That's the killer.
36:23When I heard
36:23the phone call there
36:24why it was
36:25a shock
36:26I guess you might say
36:26and a surprise
36:28that somebody
36:29a killer
36:31would be that
36:31cold-hearted
36:32to call
36:33and notify
36:34and tell the police
36:36of his own
36:36what had happened
36:38and everything
36:38in his own words.
36:41Despite releasing
36:42the voice
36:43no one came forward
36:44and once again
36:46BTK
36:47mysteriously vanished.
36:49Three years
36:50after the
36:50Anna Williams
36:51incident
36:51police still
36:53had no clues
36:54to BTK's
36:55identity
36:55and the FBI
36:56became fully
36:58involved.
37:00In 1982
37:02the federal government
37:03started funding
37:04a program
37:05through the FBI
37:06called VICAP
37:07Violent Criminal
37:08Apprehension Project
37:09and in 1984
37:12money was appropriated
37:15for the Wichita
37:16Police Department
37:17to work on
37:18catching this
37:19violent criminal
37:20that had not
37:21been apprehended
37:22the BTK
37:23Strangler.
37:24So with the
37:25federal money
37:25and city money
37:27they devoted
37:28eventually
37:29up to eight
37:30officers to
37:32work on this
37:32case full time
37:33from the
37:34summer of 1984
37:36until the
37:37summer of 1986.
37:40Ghostbusters
37:41was the
37:42BTK task force
37:43and it was
37:45a group of
37:46individuals
37:46that I put
37:47together
37:47specifically
37:48to work
37:49on the BTK
37:50case.
37:51Their number
37:52one priority
37:53was to identify
37:54the individual
37:55and short of that
37:57to make sure
37:57that we had
37:58everything
37:58that we could do
38:00from an
38:01investigative
38:01standpoint
38:02done.
38:03They used
38:04computers,
38:05profilers,
38:06DNA testing
38:07as far as I've
38:08been able to
38:08determine
38:09the first DNA
38:10testing done
38:11in the United
38:11States was in
38:12this investigation
38:14for the BTK
38:15Strangler.
38:15having first
38:17focused on the
38:18phone call
38:19attention moved
38:20to the letters
38:21received from
38:22BTK.
38:23He sent copies
38:25of his letters
38:25he did not send
38:26originals that he
38:27had typed
38:28apparently the
38:29copy machines
38:30of that era
38:31printed an image
38:31a little bit
38:32bigger than
38:32what it saw
38:33so that made
38:34it impossible
38:35to positively
38:36identify a
38:37typewriter
38:37should a suspect
38:38typewriter
38:39ever be located.
38:40With the help
38:40of Xerox
38:41Corporation
38:41in Rochester,
38:42New York
38:43we were able
38:43to identify
38:44the brand
38:45and make
38:45of toner
38:46and the brand
38:47and even
38:47the length
38:48of the roll
38:48of the paper
38:48that one
38:49of the copies
38:49was made
38:50from.
38:50So we were
38:51able to pin
38:52it down
38:52to one
38:53particular
38:53copy machine
38:54on the
38:54campus
38:55at Wichita
38:55State University
38:56which unfortunately
38:58for us
38:58was a public
38:59access machine
39:00open to any
39:01student or
39:01employee
39:02or person
39:03who wandered
39:03in there
39:03so at that
39:04time it led
39:05to some
39:05speculation
39:06that perhaps
39:06he was a
39:07student.
39:08The second
39:08copy machine
39:09was traced
39:10using the same
39:10methods
39:11to the second
39:11floor
39:12of the Wichita
39:12Public Library
39:13which was just
39:15within a few
39:15feet of where
39:16the original
39:16letter was found
39:17in an engineering
39:18book.
39:20After two
39:21years of
39:22intensive
39:23investigation
39:23and thousands
39:24of man-hours
39:25the Ghostbusters
39:26Task Force
39:27came up with
39:28nothing
39:28and shut down.
39:34Just about
39:35a month
39:35after the
39:36investigation
39:36had concluded
39:37there was
39:39one last
39:41murder
39:42investigation
39:42that the
39:43Ghostbusters
39:44met to
39:45discuss.
39:46It was the
39:47murder of
39:47Vicki
39:47Wegerly
39:48and they
39:50unanimously
39:50concluded
39:51that BTK
39:53did not
39:54kill
39:54Vicki Wegerly.
39:56It would
39:57take about
39:5818 years
39:58before they
39:59found that
40:00they were
40:00wrong.
40:01Wichita's
40:05most notorious
40:05serial killer
40:06has not been
40:07heard from
40:08in over
40:0825 years.
40:10But in
40:112004
40:12all that
40:13changed.
40:21On March
40:22the 19th
40:23a letter
40:24was sent
40:24to the
40:25Wichita Eagle
40:25newspaper.
40:27No one
40:28could ever
40:28imagine
40:29what the
40:30letter
40:30confirmed.
40:32The letter
40:33contained a
40:34single sheet
40:34of paper.
40:36On that
40:36sheet of
40:37paper were
40:37three photographs
40:39and one
40:40driver's
40:41license.
40:41The
40:42photographs
40:42appeared to
40:43be a
40:43woman who
40:45with her
40:45hands tied
40:46behind her
40:46back who
40:47appeared to
40:47be dead
40:48lying on
40:48the floor.
40:49The driver's
40:50license
40:50belonged to
40:50Vicki
40:50Wegerly.
40:51I
40:51immediately
40:51recognized
40:52that name.
40:54Vicki
40:54Wegerly was
40:55murdered in
40:55her home in
40:561986.
40:57The case
40:57has been
40:58unsolved for
40:58nearly 20
40:59years.
41:00I suspected
41:01that what I
41:02had was a
41:03letter from
41:04the killer
41:04of Vicki
41:04Wegerly.
41:24The Vicki
41:25Wegerly case,
41:26the murderer
41:27came in the
41:28back door.
41:29It was on a
41:30very busy
41:30street.
41:32She was
41:33home.
41:33She was a
41:34mother.
41:35She had a
41:36child who
41:36was at
41:36school.
41:38Her husband
41:38was at
41:38work and
41:39he had a
41:39little toddler
41:40who was like
41:40two years
41:41old on the
41:41floor.
41:42He came in,
41:43he got
41:44control of
41:44her, he
41:45bound her,
41:46tied her up,
41:47left semen at
41:48the seam,
41:48strangled her,
41:49took the car,
41:50drove it a
41:51short distance
41:52away, and
41:52left.
41:53The
41:54investigators on
41:55that particular
41:56case went to
41:58the scene,
41:59and at the
41:59time they got
42:00to the scene,
42:00the husband had
42:01already been
42:01there.
42:02The husband
42:02found her.
42:03He disrupted
42:03the scene,
42:04he cut her
42:04loose, he
42:05thought she
42:05was still
42:05alive.
42:06The ambulance
42:07was called
42:07for, of course
42:08she was dead,
42:09but he, the
42:10husband, was
42:11doing what he
42:11thought was
42:12right, and
42:12he did.
42:15By the time
42:15police got to
42:16Vicki Wegerly's
42:17house on West
42:1713th, her heart
42:19had already
42:19stopped beating.
42:20She died
42:21within 15
42:21minutes at
42:22Riverside
42:22Hospital.
42:23Her husband
42:24Bill supposedly
42:25found Vicki
42:25with a noose
42:26around her
42:26neck.
42:27Their two-year-old
42:28son Brandon
42:28was playing in
42:29another bedroom
42:30at the time
42:30of the murder.
42:32As BTK had
42:33been silent for
42:34seven years,
42:36Vicki Wegerly's
42:36husband became
42:37the number one
42:38suspect.
42:40In a case like
42:41that, your first
42:41suspect is
42:42normally the
42:43husband.
42:44The lead
42:44detective, he
42:45believed that
42:46the probability
42:47was that it
42:48could have been
42:48the husband,
42:49and he looked
42:49that
42:50direction.
42:52Given that
42:53my brother
42:54was a suspect,
42:55I was asked
42:56by the attorneys
42:57to talk to
42:57the children.
43:00In a
43:01conversation
43:01when I was
43:02talking to
43:03Brandon, he
43:05said,
43:07Mommy hurt
43:08man.
43:09And I
43:10asked him
43:12at that
43:12time, did
43:13Daddy hurt
43:14Mommy?
43:15And he
43:15said, no.
43:17So I
43:18believe in
43:18self-defense,
43:19that Vicki
43:21did try
43:22to hurt
43:23her killer.
43:27After a
43:28thorough
43:28investigation,
43:29Bill Wegerly
43:30was cleared,
43:31but for the
43:32last 18 years,
43:33a shadow has
43:34hung over the
43:34Wegerly family.
43:36Vicki's killer
43:37has remained
43:38a mystery.
43:41Her body
43:42was removed
43:42before detectives
43:43arrived, so there
43:45were never any
43:45crime scene
43:46photographs taken.
43:50The only item
43:51missing was the
43:52victim's driving
43:53license.
43:55This proved that
43:56the letter received
43:57in 2004 could have
43:59only come from
44:00Vicki Wegerly's
44:01killer.
44:02The false return
44:05address on the
44:05letter was from a
44:06Bill Thomas
44:07Kilman, initials
44:09BTK.
44:12Further
44:13examination revealed
44:14an authentic
44:15signature used in
44:17every communication
44:18sent by the
44:19BTK killer.
44:20When I first heard
44:23the news that
44:24BTK had
44:26returned and
44:27claimed that
44:28he had killed
44:28Vicki, I was
44:29elated.
44:31And, of course,
44:32then I immensely
44:32felt guilty
44:33because that
44:34didn't seem to
44:35be the right
44:36emotion, but
44:37yet, in
44:39my heart, I
44:39knew that
44:40that meant
44:40my brother
44:41was vindicated
44:43that, hey,
44:45you know,
44:47this just puts
44:48it on the
44:48front page
44:49and for the
44:49world to know.
44:50I thought I'd
44:55been writing a
44:56history book
44:57and that I was
44:58coming near the
44:59end of writing a
45:00history book, but
45:01there was a whole
45:02new chapter to be
45:03written.
45:04No serial killer
45:05has ever come
45:06back after a
45:07couple of decades
45:08of being silent
45:09and terrorized the
45:10community once again.
45:11That, to me, is
45:12the most shocking.
45:13What brought him
45:14back?
45:15One possibility
45:15is that he wants
45:16to have attention
45:17again as he's
45:18getting his kick
45:18sitting in his
45:19house playing
45:20this new little
45:21sick game of
45:22his.
45:31The only way
45:32you'll get a
45:32conviction is by
45:34having a DNA
45:34match.
45:35If they don't have
45:36a DNA match,
45:37this case may
45:38never be solved.
45:39BTK could be our
45:50neighbor.
45:50One expert even
45:52said that you
45:53could be married
45:54to BTK and not
45:56know who he is.
45:57and not know who he is.
46:12Surely afternoon,
46:14yesterday afternoon,
46:15agents from the KBI,
46:20agents from the FBI,
46:21and members of the
46:22Wichita Police
46:22Police Department
46:23arrested Dennis
46:25Rader, 59 and a
46:27white male, in Park
46:29City, Kansas, for the
46:31murders.
46:32The bottom line,
46:34BTK is arrested.
46:35who has a
46:36bothmun
46:36and b
46:37who
46:41is
46:42getting
46:45in front of the
46:45CIB and
46:46Invest��가
46:46in
46:47the
46:49body
46:49and
46:49they
46:49are
46:50in the
46:52middle of a
46:52ал
46:53nelle
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