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crime foreign [Music] the first Contact from the BTK Strangler was made in October 1974.
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early in the morning on the 22nd the phone rang at the Otero murder hotline that was set up by the two major
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newspapers the caller didn't say much and he sounded angry he told the newsman listen and listen
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good because I'm not going to repeat it he said the man that had killed the oteros stuck a letter in a mechanical
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engineering textbook on the second floor of the Wichita Public Library then he hung up the phone
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the police were notified the letter was located the letter was addressed to the Wichita
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Eagle and Beacon secret Witness Program under the secret Witness Program persons
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with information concerning a crime could pass on information to the police through the newspaper without divulging
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their identity the poorly typed and badly misspelled letter provided details on the four
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Otero slangs that the police said at the time could only have been known to someone who had been present at the
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scene the letter red I write this letter to you for the sake of the taxpayer as well as your time
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those three dude you have in custody are just talking to get publicity for the Otero murders
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they know nothing at all I did it by myself and with no one's help there has been no talk either
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let's put this straight Joe position Southwest bedroom feet tied to bed bondage window blind cord
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garage blind cord brown belt death the old bag trick and strangled with clothesline rope close white sweatshirt
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gray pants comments he threw up at one time had a rib injury from a wreck few weeks before
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Julie position lying on her back on the bed bondage blind cord garot clothesline
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cord tied in a clove hitch death strangulation twice close Blue House coat black slack white sock
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comments blood on face from too much pressure on neck bed unmade Josephine position hanging by the neck
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in the Northwest position of the basement drier or freezer north of her body bondage hand tie with blind cord
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feet and knees all with clothesline cord all one length garat rough hemp rope noose with four or
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five turns clothes dark bra cut in the middle sock death strangulation once hung
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comments most of her clothes at the bottom of the stairs her glasses in the southwest bedroom
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Joseph position in East bedroom lying on his back bondage blind cord garat three hoods
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white t-shirt white plastic bag another t-shirt clothesline cord with clove hitch
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death Suffocation once strangulation Suffocation with the old bag trick clothes brown pants yellow brown stripe
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t-shirt comments His Radio is blaring all victims had their hands tied behind their backs
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gags of pillowcase material purse contents south of the table spilled drink in that area also
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kids making lunches otero's watch missing I needed one so I took it runs good car was dirty inside
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out of gas I'm sorry this happened to society they are the ones who suffer the most
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it hard to control myself you probably call me psychotic with sexual perversion hang up
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when this monster enter my brain I will never know but it here to stay how does one cure himself
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if you ask for help that you have killed four people they will laugh or hit the panic button and call the cops
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I can't stop it so the monster goes on and hurt me as well as Society Society can be thankful that there are
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ways for people like me to relieve myself at Time by Daydreams of some victims being tortured and being mine
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it a big complicated game my friend of the monster play putting victim's number down
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follow them checking up on them waiting in the dark waiting waiting the pressure is great and sometime he
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run the game to his liking maybe you can stop him I can't he has already chosen his next victim or
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victims I don't who they are yet the next day after I read the paper I will know but it too late
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good luck hunting yours truly guiltily P.S since sex criminals do not change their
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MO or by Nature cannot do so I will not change mine the code words for me will be
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bind them torture them kill them you see he at it again they will be on the next victim
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[Music] when Dennis Rader killed the oteros and their two children he was unemployed in
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attending classes at Wichita State in November of 1974 Dennis was hired at ADT Security which at the time sold and
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installed commercial grade alarms it might have been this job that kept him busy maybe it was his home life
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regardless something was happening and thank God that it did because BTK was just too busy to go out and kill in fact
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there would be three years before he would kill again the killer claimed responsibility for the murders of the
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four Otero family members and gave himself a name BTK but one thing he had yet to disclose and one thing that
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police were yet to connect to the BTK Strangler is that he had committed another murder shortly after killing the
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oteros and this is one that BTK called project lights out Catherine Doreen bright was one of five children in her
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family she was born on February 24 1953. she loved singing in the church with her sister she had graduated from
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high school 1971. now in 1974 she was 21 years old Catherine was a smart popular
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and funny college student and she worked for the Coleman company Catherine and her sister shared a house that they
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rented together now on the morning of April 4th 1979 Dennis Rader who had been watching the house and who had targeted
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his next victim picked her because she was attractive and no men lived with her and she did not have a dog you know
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these were problems that he ran into during the Otero crimes yeah and on that morning he's going to break into a
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kitchen window to gain access to the house and he knew at this time that the house would be empty which this was good
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for him because he needed time to prep the home for murder but he didn't he didn't just want to
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kill Catherine bright he wanted to play with her first and he brought with him plenty of ropes and cords to play with
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while he waited for her to return he laid out ropes and cords on her bed he used a broom to carefully sweep up the
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broken glass and he was wearing gloves in a green parka he took a stocking cap and pulled it down to cover his face and
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he brought with him a gun his 22. now he was ready and all he needed was for his
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victim to return to her home and find him at this moment he was no longer Dennis no longer the ordinary man that
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led an ordinary unremarkable Life In This Moment he was the killer that haunted Wichita the Phantom that the
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whole city feared he was BTK well when she returned she's she's gonna return home but she's not gonna be alone yeah
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with her was her 19 year old brother Kevin when they walked in they were very quickly greeted by a man in a mask with
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a gun the man told them that he was a convict and he just needed something to make his way to California
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if they cooperated they would not be hurt he just needed some money some food in
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the car keys and he was going to need to tie them up to make sure that he had enough time to get away
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he had Kevin tie up Catherine and then BTK tied up Kevin BTK took Catherine to her bedroom where
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he had prepped the room with his ropes and a chair he tied Catherine to the chair then he
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returned to the room where he had left Kevin he put a rope around his neck now Kevin
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realizes at this moment that the man had lied to them that the man was going to kill him
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so he started twisting his hands and his arms until the bindings gave way Kevin jumped to his feet and the masked man
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grabbed his gun and put it to Kevin's forehead and pulled the trigger Kevin fell to the floor but he was not dead
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amazingly enough he was not dead he had been knocked out and when he came to he could hear his sister in the other room
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screaming he got up and he charged into the other room the man saw him coming and again reached for his gun but before
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he could take Aim Kevin pried the gun from the man's hand Kevin took the gun and shoved the barrel into the man's
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chest and he pulled the trigger the assailant managed to wedge his thumb between the gun and the hammer
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preventing it from firing the man pulled the gun from Kevin and put it to Kevin's mouth and pulled the
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trigger the gun fired and Kevin once again Hit the Floor BTK once again turned his attention to Catherine
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Kevin was still not dead when the gun was fired into Kevin's face the bullet had actually ricocheted off of his teeth
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leaving Kevin a bloody mess and knocked out but not dead it probably only knocked him out for a
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few minutes and when he came to he decided this time instead of trying to fight off the attacker he was going to
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take his chances and run for help Kevin flew out the front door of the home running full speed and yelling at
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the top of his lungs a man driving by stopped and Kevin jumped in his car the man drove him to the nearest phone
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and they called the police the call a robbery in progress at a home on East 13th Street the robber was trying to
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kill two people and was still in the home a police officer is going to be on the scene within 15 minutes of Kevin
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leaving the home when the officer arrived the front door to the home was wide open and the officer went in he
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found Catherine in the front room lying on her side in a puddle of blood a phone
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was next to her she had tried to call for help but when the operator picked up Catherine could not speak
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her larynx had been crushed she could only whisper at this time she lifted her head but all she could say to
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the officer was help me help me the officer radioed for an ambulance and he knelt beside Catherine with his gun
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drawn as he waited for backup his backup arrived about the same time as the ambulance they quickly determined the
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man who had broken and attacked Catherine and Kevin had fled the house in the two bedrooms were obvious signs
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of a struggle both rooms were left in shambles and blood was smeared on the floors
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Catherine had been stabbed 11 times in her torso and back two of the stabs had punctured her lungs
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Catherine died a short while later at the hospital now Kevin was a living witness he was in the same hospital
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where his sister had just passed now he was being treated for those two gunshots
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he would survive and he was able to tell the police about the killer you know he
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told them what the killer had told them about him going to California yeah and this giving them a possible lead Kevin
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described the attacker as a dark-haired man about 25 years of age Caucasian with
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a pot belly and about five foot ten inches tall with a thick mustache now there was some problems with this
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description of the attacker now you and I captain would know years later that this description is actually a pretty
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good one right I mean it's a little vague but it's a pretty good one he got the height approximately right he got
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the size of the person right the the uh you know the dark-haired man with the thick mustache yeah the mustache the
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thing that he got wrong was he didn't tell him that uh he saw a giant piece of [ __ ]
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well because of the injuries that Kevin sustained during the the attack a lot of
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the police officers and investigators had a problem with taking him at his word they thought that it was too
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traumatic of an attack and that he was probably had suffered multiple concussions so he's just lying no no no
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no no that he just doesn't he doesn't remember he's misremembering correct okay I mean you have to keep in mind
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okay but why why well for the reasons I just said that no no but I mean like so what do they think
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he looks like oh they no they have no they have nothing to go off but they're just for whatever reason going now we
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don't really buy that okay but you you have to keep this in mind let's say okay let's say he suffered multiple
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concussions within a short period of time during this attack now nobody's doubting that he that he didn't get a
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good look at this guy uh the guy did had he had to disguise himself a bit by pulling that cap down over his face
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now on top of that though you have to worry that if if for some reason this guy is just misremembering and he gives
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you a bad description of this dude if you run with this this could really screw up your investigation yeah so so
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to err on the side of caution one might think well let's just throw this description out or keep it to ourselves
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not releasing it to the public and not putting much weight yeah that's what we're that's the point I was trying to
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get at like well if if they're not sure then what's the big deal right but like you said I mean if you give this report
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out then then this could affect the whole investigation and you don't want officers later going well I I arrested
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this guy and I thought maybe he had something to do with that attack but he didn't look anything like that
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description so I let him go right and then you're like oh crap that was our dude
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um so we have this murder and the strange thing about this murder is not only does BTK leave a witness
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but he also does not um he doesn't ever claim this murder he never he never outwardly says this is
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one that I did and I was as botched yeah and I wonder well not only that it's botched but this is the one time where
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we have a grown adult that might be able to identify him right therefore we're going to see where he will claim you
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know by this point he's already told the authorities and the police I'm the one that did the Otero murders but he never
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reaches out to them and talks to him about this one and this one occurred just three months afterward yeah but
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again you have eyewitness that lived well after the Catherine Bright's murder other than his letter left at the
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library the killer went silent both in words and murder foreign [Music] [Music] cheers me mateys cheers Captain well it
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would be three years before BTK would resurface and during this time Dennis and his wife had had their first child a
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son that they named him Brian now we talked about we wondered why he could have gone silent what was going what
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else was going on in his world when we see the birth of his son but Dennis is also working very hard at the ADT
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company and he was actually earning promotions at this job during the course of those three years he got to the point
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where he was actually supervising a team of installers and sales people now the country during this time
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celebrated its Bicentennial months came and went and the city that had once feared the BTK began to forget about him
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the killer had vanished and a lot of people wondered if he had maybe even left town a long time ago and we now
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know why BTK took a break but let's go through some of the theories that law enforcement had at the time theorizing
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why he was on a break well the two most popular you know like we said it seemed like the people of the city believed
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that maybe he had just fled the area right and just left altogether now the police theories one of the more popular
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ones is that maybe he had died in a car accident or that he was picked up on some unrelated charge in serving a
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prison sentence now this is one that I like this was a theory of the FBI because the Otero murders were very it
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was a it was an Infamous case I mean it was the the investigation spanned months
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and years and they actually some of the investigators traveled extensively in their investigation of the family
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murders so they interviewed hundreds of people when it came to the Otero murders
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so one FBI agent he had theorized that maybe that the BTK was actually one of many
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people that were interviewed in that in the course of that investigation and just that experience alone was enough to
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scare him away you know to stop him from moving forward with some of these crimes and some of
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these thoughts and desires of his and it's extra strange to me because he's made contact with the public and he's
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said hey I'm here I'm killing people and then it just kind of disappears yeah and he also confesses to being a
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you know these are crimes of her sexual nature is what he's told us in his own words and you know we somebody we talk
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about a lot on this show Captain John Douglas you know he says from his experience serial sexual predators don't
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just wake up one day and decide to turn over a new leaf and change their lives for the better so that's why you have
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the FBI and you have seasoned investigators believing that something must have happened something must have
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happened to derail this killer who was going to prey on the city but on March 17 1977 that's all Gonna Change yeah and
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this is almost three years after the murder of Catherine bright so the Killer is going to break his silence on that
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morning in the morning hours a little boy was returning home from an errand he was stopped by a man he had not seen
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before now the man had a bag with him and he also had a photograph and he showed the photograph after the boy and
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asked him if he knew either of the people in the photograph the boy said that he didn't know them now the man
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then walked away and the boy was watching this man and he saw the man approach the home of
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his neighbor now the boy then returned to his house where his mother was in her room sick
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and his brother and sister were still at home and they were watching TV after about 10 minutes or so there was a
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knock at the door the boy opened the door and on the front porch was the man who had asked him earlier about the
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photograph now the man was asking about a dog this time he said that he had lost his dog
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and asked the boy if he had seen a dog running loose around the neighborhood the boy says no and then the man asked
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is your mother home we should ask her the man then pushed the boy aside and walked inside the house right past the
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boy and he walks over to the TV and he turns the TV off remember the children are sitting there watching the TV right
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this startles the children and they start screaming the mother who was sick in her bedroom she hears the commotion
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and she came out into the room at this point the man had pulled out a gun the woman yelled at him she wanted to
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know who he was why was she why was he in her home why does he have a gun why does he have a gun yep and he taught he
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tells her to shut up and he pointed at the bedroom and he told her to get back in there and she says well what about my
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children and he told her to grab a blanket and some toys well she complied he took the blanket and he lay it on the
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bathroom floor and then he spread the toys out on the blanket and he ordered the children all three of them into the
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bathroom well they complied the bathroom has two doors the man put together like a makeshift locking
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mechanism of some sorts he he tied some rope from the doorknob to the piping underneath the sink in the bathroom and
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this prevented that door from being opened now the man went out the other door and he pushed a bed to the outside
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of the door and this prevented this door from being open so the three children are trapped inside this small bathroom
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the man then forced the mother to strip then he took some tape out of his bag and he began to bind the mother he taped
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her hands together behind her back and he laid her down on the bed face down he put a rope around her neck and a plastic
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bag over her head sometime later the children began to break free from their confinement in this bathroom
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one of the boys kicked through the bottom portion of one of the doors this was the door that was tied to the pipes
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yeah when he busted free he found his mother laying lifeless on her bed the boy ran outside into the front porch of
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a neighbor's house where he pounded on the front door the neighbor answered and the boy screamed to the neighbor that he
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needed help telling him that his mommy was dead so then the police were called well paramedics arrived on the scene
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first and they actually went in and they cut the bindings around the woman's arms
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and legs and it was a smaller bedroom so they carried her into the living room area and they tried to revive The woman
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there now she had only been dead a very very short period of time so they thought they could bring her back
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however they were unable to do so now the police questioned the children they wanted to know what had happened what
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had they seen and the children told them that the killer was a dark-haired white
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man in his late 30s or 40s with a pot belly on March 17 1977 serial killer BTK killed Shirley Vian and her home while
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her children were locked in the bathroom now many many years later it was surmised that the man the BTK that was
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walking around the neighborhood mm-hmm that the photo that the man had shown the boy was actually a photograph of a
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neighbor woman and her son this was also the home that the man had approached after talking to the boy
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the intended target was the young mother who had regularly returned home from work during her lunch break but not on
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this day for whatever reason right and when she was not home you know he knocks on the door no one answers the door
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nobody's home he's too charged up he's ready to murder and the only way that this feeling was going to go away for
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him was to kill somebody right the factor x yes so that's why when his Target was not there he shifted gears
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and he went to he went to the home where he saw the little boy go inside because
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he knew somebody was home there yeah but you know can you imagine what that kid's
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gone through with his life I mean one he's stopped by this killer he doesn't know he's a killer right to ask a simple
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question about a dog he answers and goes back home and his mom's sick in bed the
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kids aren't sick the mom's sick but that's why they're not at school this guy knocks on the door you answer he
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says well let me talk to your mom and he walks right in the house look when you're a kid if an adult would
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have walked in the house you you probably just would have froze yeah I don't know this person what are
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they doing and you know they turn it off turn off the TV and then your mom comes
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out and now you're stuck in the bathroom and you're trying to get out you got to
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get through that rope and then you have to kick through the door and then you run to go get help and then
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paramedics almost are able to uh save your mother and you would have to contemplate for a long time that
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okay we're not saying that you'd have to but you would you would think maybe I could have done something to save her
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or maybe I could have got through there faster you know well it's depressingly strange how some small events that seem
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so meaningless in their moment how they shift the gears of our lives and the others around us I mean you talk
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about had had the mother not decided to keep the children home from school that day you know she didn't send them off to
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school because she was too sick to get them ready for the day and take them to school these were small children it was
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the butterfly effect yeah and so had her little boy not been walking the neighborhood he would have never been
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approached by that man by BTK and maybe BTK would have been forced to go to another Street or to call it off
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completely if he had no alternative victim let's say so it's it's depressingly strange how
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these tiny little moments shift the gears of everything the other thought too here Captain is
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the scary thought that there was another targeted victim that he that there was somebody else that he was watching and
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he was so worked up by this point that he couldn't stop himself he had to kill somebody this was the moment for him and
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he was going to make that happen even though his Target was not available and then you also wonder how long he was
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stalking this person yeah and I get the feeling well I don't get the feeling I know for a fact I just don't know who
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these other potential victims would have been um I'm sure law enforcement knows this
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and I'm sure FBI might know this because BTK kept extensive notes okay and he called each one of these little things
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he called a project it had a project and a nickname and usually in the notes he would refer to it as PJ something so
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like for we talked about uh Katherine Bright's murder right well she was Project lights out
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and the next project that he had because he fancied himself some kind of like he
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was conducting these secret missions he's spying on these people he's taking notes about their activities and their
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lifestyle their comings and goings and his secret mission is to break into their home and terrorize them and kill
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them yeah and so the next project that he had he referred to this as project foxy and this would be Nancy Joe Fox she
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was 25 years old she was a smart hard-working woman she had a good sense of humor she worked Days full time as a
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secretary for a construction business and at nights she worked at a jewelry store so this was a busy young
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professional woman a neighbor described Fox as a loner who seldom entertained friends on December
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9th A call came in so busy working well working two jobs yeah on December 9th the call came in from a pay phone the
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caller told the dispatcher you will find a homicide at 843 South Pershing Nancy Fox now I'm sorry sir said the
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dispatcher I can't understand you what is the address at that point another dispatcher who had been monitoring the
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call interrupted and said I believe he said 843 South Pershing that is correct the man said and then he hung up the
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phone at 8 30 a.m police arrived at The Address given by The Unknown Caller they
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discovered a back window to the home had been shattered the phone line to the house had been cut the front door was
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unlocked they entered the home in the master bedroom the police found the half-naked dead body of 25 year old
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Nancy Fox she was lying on the bed a nylon stocking was used to tie her wrists behind her back her panties were
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pulled down to her knees a nightgown had been tied around her ankles and she had
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been dead for quite some time probably hours now some portions of her body had turned Black by the time she was found
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she had been gagged with pantyhose blood was dried around her nose and mouth pantyhose had been tied around her neck
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the killer had dumped Nancy's purse on the coffee table in the living room and her driver's license was missing
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Seaman was found on a blue nightgown that was found on the floor near the foot of her bed
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the victim had not been raped there were they were able to find partial fingerprints and a partial palm print on
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her body however these would not be sufficient enough to find a match police theorized the killer had broke into the
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home through the broken window perhaps before Nancy had returned home the previous evening he turned up the heat
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to make to make up for the cold air that was coming through the broken window he threatened her bound her killed her
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masturbated near her body then posed the body possibly taking photos of her he then dumped out her purse keeping her
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driver's license as a souvenir he rummaged through her dresser drawers probably taking some of her
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undergarments with him he then left the home and at around 8 A.M the next morning he drove to a pay
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phone and called in the homicide now the phone call only lasted seven seconds the
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phone call was recorded and it was played over and over on the local news channels during their broadcast the
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police were hoping someone anyone would recognize the voice someone had to know who this killer was this audio clip is
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very distorted but keep in mind it is from 1977. that is correct it's like he's trying to
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be a robot or something maybe he was doing some kind of weird Cadence because if you notice like every everything he
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is saying is kind of like this so maybe he's doing that on purpose but I don't think this clip generated any
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leads right in in the audio quality may be so bad that it's just it sounds distorted anyway
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um but like you said this was played on the news and it didn't really generate any leads of any value if they did get
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any calls regarding this you know these could be crackpot calls of people calling in saying this sounds like my
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evil stepfather you know things like that of that nature but it was on the last day of January 1978 that the killer
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sent a valentine to the local newspaper this would be almost two months after the murder and that but that's not going
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to be made public no and because of that reason on February 10th of 1978 a letter
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was sent as well to k-a-k-e-tv network with a hand-drawn picture of a woman tied up gagged and
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lying Face Down on a Bed the letter would later become known as the fox letter right so we have the fox phone
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call and now we have the fox letter but these are I mean he his writing is as bad as my speaking well it could be or
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it could be done on purpose right so there's some thought that if you okay if you break up your words and if you break
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up your sentences that that they are able to tell the experts are able to tell less about you there are some
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people that are of the belief that by using certain words and choosing certain words in the way that you arrange them
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in sentences that they might be able to judge and tell things about your personality so one thing that people
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have always taken a guess at here when it comes to BTK was he just stupid like the way that his words sound on paper no
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you stupid people or was he smart enough that he did this on purpose so that he wasn't showing his
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full hand so to speak the typed photocopied letter that they received known as the fox letter reads as follows
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I find the newspaper not writing about the poem on vain unamusing a little paragraph would have enough
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I know it not the media fault the police chief he keeps things quiet and doesn't let the public know they're
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a psycho running around loose strangling mostly women there are seven in the ground
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who will be next how many do I have to kill before I get a name in the paper or some national
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attention do the cop think that all those deaths are not related golly G yes the mo is different in each
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but look a pattern is developing the victims are tie up most have been women phone cut
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bring some bondage sadist matter tendencies no struggle outside the death spot no Witnesses
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except the vayne's kids they were very lucky a phone call saved them I was going to tape the boys and put
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plastic bag over their head like I did Joseph and Shirley and then hang the girl
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God what a beautiful sexual release that would been Josephine when I hung her that really
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turned me on her plead for Mercy then the Rope took whole she helpless staring at me with wide terror-filled
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eyes the Rope getting tighter tighter you don't understand these things because you are not under the influence
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of factor x the same thing that made Son of Sam Jack the Ripper Harvey glattman Boston Strangler
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Dr H.H Holmes pantyhose Strangler of Florida Hillside Strangler Ted of the West Coast
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and many more Infamous character kill which seems senseless but we cannot help it
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there is no help no cure except death or being caught and put away it a terrible nightmare but you see I
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don't lose any sleep over it after a thing like Fox I go home and I go about life like anyone else
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and I will be like that until the urge hit me again it not continuous and I don't have a lot
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of time it takes time to set a kill and one mistake it all over since I about blew it on the phone
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handwriting is out letter guide is too long and typewriter can be traced too my short poem of death and maybe a
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drawing later on maybe a real picture and a tape of the sound will come your way
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how will you know me before a murder or murders you will receive a copy of the initials BTK
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you keep that copy the original will show up someday on Guess Who may you not be The Unlucky One
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P.S how about some name for me it's time seven down and many more to go I like the following how about you
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the BTK Strangler Wichita Strangler poetic Strangler the bondage Strangler or psycho
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the Wichita hangman the Wichita executioner the garage Phantom the asphyxiator number five you guess motive and victim
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number six you found one Shirley vane laying belly down on unmade bed in Northeast bedroom
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hand tied behind back with black tape and cord feet and ankles with black tape and legs
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ankles tied to West head of the bed with a small off-white cord wrapped around legs arms and neck many
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times a plastic bag over her head with a pink nightie on barefooted she was sick
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use a glass of water and smoke one or two cigarette house a total mess kids took some toys with them to the
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bathroom bed against East bathroom door chose at random with some pre-planning motive
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factor x number seven one Nancy Fox lying belly down on made bed in Southwest bedroom
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hands tied behind back with red pantyhose feet together with yellow nightie semi-nude with pink sweater and bra
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panties below butt she had a smoke and went to the bathroom before the Final Act
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very neat housekeeper and dresser rifled purse and kitchen empty paper bag white coat in living room
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heat up to about 90 degrees Christmas tree lights on Hosiery on bed driver's license gone
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seminal stain on or in blue women underwear shows at random with little pre-planning motive
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factor x number eight next victim Maybe you will find hanging with a wire noose hands behind back with black tape or
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cord gagged then cord around the body to the neck hooded Maybe will be chosen at random with some
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pre-planning motive factor x enclosed was a poem titled o death to Nancy oh what is this that I can see cold Icy
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hands taking hold of me for death has come you can see hell has opened its gate to trick me
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O Death O Death can't you spare me over for another year I'll stuff your jaws until you can't
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talk I'll bind your legs till you can't walk I'll tie your hands till you can't make
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a stand and finally I close your eyes so you can't see I'll bring sexual death unto you for me
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[Music] all right Captain before we leave before we take off for Crime con yeah I'm
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leaving for Crime Con on I'm leaving tonight I'm going I'm traveling by way of hot air balloons so it will take me a
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little longer want to drop you a little recommended reading before we go I'm traveling by foot here you go this week
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we are recommending Love and Death In the Sunshine State the story of a crime by cutter wood and this story starts off
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when a stolen car is recovered on the Gulf Coast of Florida and it sets off a search for a missing woman now there are
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three men that are named as Persons of Interest and this is her husband her boyfriend and the man who stole the car
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this is this is a mystery that's going to keep you guessing I highly recommend Love and Death In the Sunshine State and
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