WEBVTT - Dennis Rader [8] 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:06.720 New episodes of Monster BTK are released every Monday and 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:10.480 brought to you absolutely free. But if you want to 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:13.880 hear the whole season right now, it's available ad free 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:18.200 on iHeart True Crime Plus. For more information, check out 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:22.440 the show notes. Enjoy the episode. 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:29.280 You're listening to Monster BTK, a production of iHeart Podcasts 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:33.480 and Tenderfoot TV. Listener discretion is advised. 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:40.760 It could be a breakthrough in the BTK investigation in 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:42.599 just a couple of hours, which you tall. Police are 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:46.680 expected to release new information about the BTK case. Police 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:48.760 took a person of interest. 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:49.320 In for questioning. 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:52.040 Cake News has learned police are expected to say that 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:55.440 person is indeed a suspect in the BTK case. 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:01.120 The day he was arrested, I was at the mall 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:03.480 because it was in the morning before we went to 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:11.559 work at two o'clock, and the boss called and said, 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:13.600 you got to get into work right away. I said, 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:18.640 why where Almost positive BTK was caught. I was standing 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:21.760 in the middle of the mall. The mall started going 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:26.160 round and round and round, and I thought, oh my god, 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:29.640 I'm going to faint. I'm going to faint, and I 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:33.280 started crying, and I sat down and put my head 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:38.520 between my legs. That was over a news story. We've 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:43.639 never done that before, but it involved us so much 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:48.800 that we became part of the fear, part of the story, 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:54.760 part of the extreme relief. When he was finally caught, 0:01:55.560 --> 0:02:00.960 I remember I started to cry, thinking to myself, the 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:04.840 nightmare is over for Wichita. 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:14.480 Someone killed four members of a family. 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:17.840 Hedge vanished from her home suddenly last weekend. Her phone 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:19.960 lines had been cut, her door left open. 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:23.520 You see the victim playing there with plastic bags over 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:24.680 their heads, strangled. 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:27.720 You could tell there was a plan scenario. 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:30.400 Well, police have said no more about the contents of 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:33.240 the letter. It does contain some sort of threat and 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:35.519 implies the killer may strike again. 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:37.360 He's going to play with these victims. 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:40.600 He'd get him to the point of death and then 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:43.320 bring them back and then brings them back to the 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:44.120 point of death. 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:51.200 From My Heart Podcasts and Tenderfoot TV. I'm Susan Peters 0:02:51.880 --> 0:03:01.680 and this is Monster BTK. On February twenty fourth, two 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:06.360 thousand and five, the Wichita Police Department, alongside the KBI 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:10.560 and FBI, received the news they had been waiting for 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:16.040 the DNA preserved from the nineteen seventy four Otero killings 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:21.720 matched Dennis Rader. It was time to execute and arrest, 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:27.360 and they were ready. Over the past week, the police 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:31.880 had stalked Raider, marking every aspect of his daily routine. 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:37.360 They tailored their arrest to his patterns, planning every single 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:42.120 element down to the minute the arrest would occur. Raider 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:48.240 would not get away this time. The police officers, investigators, 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:52.160 and lawyers who had put in countless hours tracking down 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:56.880 BTK over the last year, were brimming with tension. They 0:03:56.920 --> 0:04:00.520 went home to tell their families that tomorrow they may 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:05.800 finally get their guy. Here's former Sedgwick County Deputy District 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:07.640 Attorney Kevin O'Connor. 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.720 When we did finally find and knew we were going 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:14.520 to arrest Ennis Raider, it was the night before. All 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:18.200 plans were made, all search warrants were prepared, the arrest 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:21.200 team was identified, the plan of action was done. It 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:25.000 was really very impressive, almost like an army maneuver type 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:27.760 of planning. I mean they even have it down to 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:30.520 who was going to put the cuffs on them, who 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:32.200 was going to walk them back to the car that 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:35.080 Kenny Landware was going to be in, and they said 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:38.080 go home, you can tell your loved ones what you're doing, 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:39.800 and that there's going to be arrest the next day. 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:43.640 And I remember going home and telling my wife. I said, 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:46.799 I have something to tell you, and she sat down 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:49.800 and she started crying, and I go, what, why are 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:52.640 you crying? And she goes, you're going to tell me 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:56.839 you're having an affair, and I go, no, I go, 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:58.600 We're going to arrest Betk tomorrow. 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:06.040 On the morning of February twenty fifth, the arrest team 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:09.560 slipped quietly into Park City. 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:11.120 On that day. 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:16.040 I remember it was radio silence, and it was time coordinated, 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:19.359 so everybody moved at the same time so as not 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:21.440 to tip him off, because we didn't know what access 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:25.960 he had to police radio, police scanners. There was a 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:30.360 concern about somebody who was able to commit crimes over 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:34.320 a thirty year period, how savvy he might be and 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:39.000 how aware he might be, and then knowing that he's 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:41.839 on the other side of a wall from a police department, 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:47.040 so we raided essentially Park City City Hall. 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:51.080 The arrest was scheduled for twelve to fifteen PM, when 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:54.080 Raider would make his way home from his Park City office, 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:58.880 as he did every Friday. They spent all morning staging 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:03.880 cops into their positions. Backing the arrest team were more 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:09.520 than two hundred people, many of them assigned to simultaneous searches. 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:14.560 We planned it that the search warrants would be executed 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:18.919 at the same time, so as Dennis Raider was being arrested, 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:21.920 these search warrants were then being executed. We didn't want 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:24.919 to serve a search warrant at the Park City Library 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:27.880 and Dennis Raider would be sitting at the Park City 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:32.400 Police Department and become aware that the FBI and the 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:36.400 Wichtap Police Department were serving a warrant at the Park 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:37.280 City Library. 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:41.919 In addition to the arrest team, they had prepped the 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:48.000 bomb unit, a computer seizure team, relief teams, and interview teams. 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:52.440 While police prepared, they worried the news would leak to 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:57.039 the media, jeopardizing the success of their arrest. Land where 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:02.800 wanted Raider in police custody. The media frenzy began, but 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:06.400 by nine am, the buzzing had already started. 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:09.920 Now we've been hearing from sources that police are waiting 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:12.800 for d and a results. If this is the man 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:14.560 and they do get a match, it is going to 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:16.400 be very tough for them to keep this quiet. 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:20.440 They stealed their nerves and told themselves they would not 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:27.640 fumble the most historic day of their careers. The arrest 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:30.520 team lined up on a side street in Park City, 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:35.520 two blocks from Raider's house. Officers Dan Hardy and Scott 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:38.480 Moon were first in line and would be the ones 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:43.760 to initially pull Raider over. Their fleet included four other 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:49.200 vehicles and nine other men, including Dana Gouge, Kelly Otis, 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:54.520 and Kenny Landware. Everyone wore body armor. They didn't know 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:58.520 how Raider would react to his arrest and prepared for 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:05.760 the worst. The minutes till go time ticked by. Finally, 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:11.240 their radio switched on. He's on the move, a voice said. 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:16.240 Over the next few moments, an officer in an unmarked 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:22.600 car tailed Raider, reporting on his every turn. Raider was 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:27.280 making his way home for lunch with his wife, Paula. Unsuspecting, 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:31.040 he pulled past the line of cops lying in wait 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:35.680 to arrest him. Officers Hardy and Moon let him pass 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:40.760 before gunning the engine, pulling up behind Raider and flipping 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:45.320 the flashing lights on the front of the car. Raider, ever, 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:52.360 the obedient citizen pulled over. Immediately, the arrest team surrounded Raider, 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:57.800 guns drawn and ordered him to the ground. Raider, for 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:02.040 his part, remained calm and collected. He turned to the 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:05.360 police and asked, with a straight face. 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.920 Would you please call my wife? She was expecting me 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.640 for lunch. I assume you know where I live. 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:17.760 He slipped into the cold serial killer role he had 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:23.160 crafted for himself over the last thirty years. Kevin O'Connor 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:27.880 says as police handcuffed him, he played up the dramatics. 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:32.000 When Rader got into the car after being arrested, they 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:34.680 walked him back to a car that Kenny Landweer was 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:38.800 in and they opened the door and he says, well, hello, mister. 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:44.760 Landwere Later, in confession of a serial killer, Rader would say. 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:47.720 I did what Son of Sam did. 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:52.240 Rader often looked to the other serial killers of the 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:57.720 time for inspiration. David Burkerwood's aka Son of Sam killed 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:01.840 six people between nineteen seventy six and seventy seven in 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:04.960 New York City. This is a clip from the Today 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:08.920 Show on the Dave Berkowitz was arrested when he. 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:11.960 Was arrested late last night in his apartment at Yunkers. 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:12.040 New York. 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.280 He told the officers, Okay, you've got me. 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:21.600 Police carried Raider off and would in short order hold 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:27.800 him for thirty six hours of questioning while WPD officers 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:33.400 and FBI made the arrest. The prosecutors prepped the interview room. 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:35.840 When they arrested him and brought him up to the 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:39.680 Epic Center, there was a interview room that was prepared. 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:44.120 It was an old copy room from this office, and 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:48.680 I remember my boss, Nola Folston going in there and 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:52.400 turning the table around till you could initially see the 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:55.840 detective land wherein the guy from the FBI, Bob Morton, 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:58.800 who started the initial interview, and then Raider on the 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:01.240 other side. Well, Nola came in and switched it around 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:05.200 where the camera would be on Dennis Rader, with the 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:07.760 law enforcement officers with their backs to the camera. 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:13.680 Folston was thinking ahead to the trial. Looking into Rayder's 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:17.680 eyes as he was interrogated about his heinous crimes would 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:20.760 have a greater impact on the jury and put a 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:28.440 face to the previously faceless monster of Wichita's history. Just 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:31.600 twenty minutes after Raider had been ordered to the ground 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:35.240 Land where and Morton brought him into the interview room 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:39.840 and handcuffed him to the table. They had planned to 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:43.640 play up the good cop interview tactic the arresting officers 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:48.560 had played the bad cops in the interrogation room. Land 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:52.280 Where introduced Raider to Detective Dana Guage, who held a 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:57.240 search warrant to collect Raider's DNA. They swabbed him and 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:01.120 sent the test off to confirm what Carrie Rawson's DNA 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:04.920 had proved just a day earlier. Two went to the 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:09.160 County forensics lab and two to the KBI lab in Topeka. 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:12.600 Rader agreed to talk, but he wouldn't make it easy 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:16.400 for them. He never even questioned why he was being interviewed. 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:20.640 To him, this was his fifteen minutes in the spotlight. 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:22.960 Here's Catherine Ramsland. 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:26.880 When they brought him in for interrogation, he did kind 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:29.120 of play a game for a little ways. He didn't 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:32.440 break down right away. He said, I'm just don't want 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:34.600 to be I've been watching this all in the news. 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:37.640 You know, I know the cases really well, but I 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:38.840 really didn't do anything. 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:43.400 Land Where asked why the oteros had been murdered. 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.760 Well, if you take that murder and some of the others, 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:50.480 I would say, you've got a serial killer loose. 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:53.880 He asked Rader what he thought about BTK. 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:58.360 The killer is like a lone wolf, kind of like 0:12:58.400 --> 0:12:59.880 a spy or something. 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:06.160 Fed up Land Where and Morton backed Raider into a corner. 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.840 They came back and said, well, we do have DNA 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:11.319 from some of these scenes. 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.600 Morton asked Rader what he thought would happen if his 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:18.000 DNA matched btk's. 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:20.600 I guess that might be it. 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:25.200 Then he was shocked that they still had some preserved 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:28.920 DNA from even back as far as the Otaro's when 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:30.760 nobody even knew anything about DNA. 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:36.559 Back then, the walls were closing in on Raider. Land 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:40.240 where played his biggest hand. Here is an excerpt from 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:44.599 the Wichita Eagle book bind Torture Kill, read by a 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:45.360 voice actor. 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.840 He pulled out a purple computer disc, land Where told 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:53.960 Rader that this disc sent by BTK, appointed the cops 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:57.720 to Raider's church and to him, could he explain that? 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:02.240 Then Raider asked a few questions of his own. 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:07.600 Would BTK get the death penalty? BTK has killed some 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:13.440 kids and stuff? What would happen to btk's house, you guys, 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:16.079 have got me? How can I get out of it? 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:21.280 And finally, isn't any way you can get out of 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:22.240 DNA right? 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:27.680 Morton had had enough. He yelled at Raider, just tell 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:28.520 us who you are. 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:31.840 I'm BTK. 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:37.920 Once he realized there was no getting out of this, 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:41.760 he then admitted to all the murders and so, well, 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:45.800 since you know about seven, i'll tell you that some others. 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:50.880 For decades, it's been speculated BTK was responsible for more murders, 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:54.240 two murders in particular, the nineteen ninety one murder of 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:58.080 Dolores Davis and the nineteen eighty five murder of Marine Hedge. 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:02.080 Both women were found strangled and bound in Sedgwick County. 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:07.160 Land, where and Morton took a break. After three hours, 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:10.640 they had secured a confession. While the two men were 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:14.080 out of the room, Raider told KBI Special Agent in 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:16.120 charge Larry Thomas. 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:20.480 Well, you guys got the evidence. There's no way I 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:23.479 can get out of it. I can't beat around the bush. 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:26.840 Whether it's a day or two or a week, you're 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.640 going to find it. So I might as well just 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:34.440 fess up. They'll probably find things that I've even forgotten about. 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:40.080 Raider would lead police to the evidence he had accumulated 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:44.880 over the last thirty years. Drawing a map of his home, 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:49.960 Rader pointed investigators to a stash of scrap books in 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:54.320 the cupboard, his collection of slick ads in the closet, 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:58.240 and his hit kit in another corner of the home. 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:05.080 The attic contained his old detective magazines. The car held 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:10.240 a shotgun and dolls like those mailed to the Wichitau Eagle. 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:16.200 The important evidence, however, he kept in his office. Here 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:19.280 again is an excerpt from bind Torture. 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:23.080 Kill at Raiders City Hall office, they found what he 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:27.240 called his mother load trophies in all his original writings. 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:30.520 In the bottom drawer of a cream colored filing cabinet, 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:34.680 they found seven three ring binders in more than twenty 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:39.440 five hanging file folders, newspaper clippings about many of the killings, 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:43.840 drawings depicting women bound at torture, machines of Raiders design, 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:48.160 a copy of the police wanted poster for the OTO homicides, 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:52.160 and computer discs that were labeled according to the chapters 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:53.320 of btk's book. 0:16:54.800 --> 0:17:00.280 Descriptions of the mother Load fill five pages of the 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:04.600 State of Kansas's Summary of Evidence. A document prepared by 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:09.840 Kevin O'Connor that provides full accounts of Raider's crimes. It 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:15.199 took investigators a month to digitally record all of the 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:21.000 mother load. As evidence was collected from raiders, Park City 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:26.119 Office police interviewed him in pairs for over thirty hours. 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:32.800 The footage from these interviews filled seventeen DVDs, and in them, 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:38.560 Raider describes in chilling, matter of fact detail, the cold 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:41.720 blooded murder of ten people. 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:45.679 In looking at the drawings he made of Nancy Fox, 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:49.240 he will tell Detective Ralph that he's getting excited sexually 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:55.680 just remembering. He will even mimic Josephine Josie o'tero because 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:58.560 he killed her parents in front of her. He killed 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:01.640 her little brother in front of her, and he will 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:04.600 mimick her saying, don't hurt my mommy, don't hurt my mommy. 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:08.680 It's amazing to me the restraint that the law enforcement 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:09.480 officers had. 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:13.920 He attempted to joke around with the interviewers. 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:18.600 Once he started talking, they couldn't shut him up. He 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:22.680 became so comfortable that during a break in the interviewing, 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:26.640 he had a cup of some kind of drink and 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:28.720 the officer that came in to see if he wanted 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:31.240 to go to the bathroom or something. Said well, we 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:34.680 can put that drink for you in the refrigerator. He goes, 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:36.719 you just put your name on it. So he wrote 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:39.280 bt K on the cup. 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:41.639 So that's who he really was. 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:47.480 He wanted the notoriety. He does still kick himself over 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:51.879 the mistakes he made with that floppy disk, but once 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:55.120 caught okay, I'm just going to put it all out 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:57.280 there because i want to be famous. 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:01.520 The Wichita Police Department had kept the rumors at bay 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:05.040 for as long as possible, but the commotion in Park 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:09.000 City was heating up. Once Raider was in custody, they 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:12.000 knew it wouldn't be long before the news reports began. 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:16.560 As we've been telling you all day, they executed a 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:19.159 search warrant in Park City at a home. There's a 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:24.000 possible BTK suspect who is now in police custody. Police 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:28.280 have now called a Saturday morning news conference for ten am. 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:33.000 We were buzzing at Cake News. We followed each story 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:36.120 that day with any updates we had. By the six 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:41.040 pm newslaught, we were airing coverage from every critical location. 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:47.960 The announcement would be broadcast worldwide. We waited with baited breath. 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:52.879 In just fourteen hours, we would finally have our answer 0:19:53.480 --> 0:20:06.320 to a thirty year old question. The next day, Saturday, 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:11.280 February twenty sixth, at ten am, Wichita Police gathered local, 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:17.040 state and federal law enforcement, regular citizens, and family members 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:23.200 of btk's victims into the City Council Auditorium. Local national 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:29.200 and international reporters set up cameras. CNN and MSNBC carried 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:34.520 the news conference live. The press conference lasted nearly an hour. 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:40.040 In total, eight people spoke. It wasn't until Sheriff Gary Steed, 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:43.840 sixth in the lineup of speakers, took the podium that 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:46.160 any real details were revealed. 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:51.680 I'm also pleased to announce today that we have brought 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:54.280 closure to two cases, and that of the homicides of 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:58.800 Marine Hedge and Dolores Davis Raiders. 0:20:58.920 --> 0:20:59.120 Name. 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:02.080 What everyone had been hanging on the edge of their 0:21:02.119 --> 0:21:07.120 seats waiting for wasn't even spoken until the very end. 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:13.840 Shortly afternoon. Yesterday afternoon, agents from the KBI, agents from 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:17.600 the FBI, and members of the Wichitak Police Department arrested 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:22.600 Dennis Raider, fifty nine, a white male in Park City, Kansas. 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:27.720 We shared the news with Wichita and the world. 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:31.800 The bottom line, BTK is arrested. 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:40.080 A quarter century search for Wichita's worst serial killer is over. 0:21:40.280 --> 0:21:40.800 Good evening. 0:21:40.840 --> 0:21:44.480 It is a day that will go down in Wichita history. 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:49.919 My coworkers and I exhaled the biggest news story of 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:55.880 our collective careers was finally hitting its closing sequence. Over 0:21:55.960 --> 0:21:59.040 the twenty fifth and twenty sixth of February, the news 0:21:59.080 --> 0:22:02.680 of raiders arrests shattered its way through the Wichita community. 0:22:03.480 --> 0:22:07.720 Bob Smeiser, a member of Raider's church, Christ Lutheran, was 0:22:07.760 --> 0:22:10.920 among the first group of church members to find out. 0:22:11.200 --> 0:22:13.360 On the afternoon of the twenty fifth. 0:22:14.600 --> 0:22:17.920 Short of Alzheimer's I'll never Forget It. 0:22:19.280 --> 0:22:22.960 He had actually had plans with Rader for that weekend. 0:22:24.320 --> 0:22:27.680 We were playing a fishing trip. He can never go, 0:22:28.320 --> 0:22:30.800 but that year and five he said, yeah, I'm gonna 0:22:30.800 --> 0:22:33.359 go with the guests. He thought he was home free. 0:22:33.720 --> 0:22:36.439 He thought I can just pop out and go, we 0:22:36.480 --> 0:22:38.600 can go to this fishing trip. I'm the president of 0:22:38.640 --> 0:22:40.960 the council now, and you know, and that would be 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:43.320 a good thing for me, you know, to go. 0:22:44.720 --> 0:22:47.919 That fishing trip. Obviously, didn't happen. 0:22:49.560 --> 0:22:52.440 So I got a call. Couldn't have been one o'clock yet, 0:22:53.000 --> 0:22:55.880 I'll tell you. I said, Wellington at a communience store, 0:22:56.200 --> 0:22:59.159 putting gas in my vand and my wife called him 0:22:59.160 --> 0:23:05.240 and said, hey, Chan, just call something going on to church? Really, 0:23:05.920 --> 0:23:09.440 I said, Mike's there. The police are there and they've 0:23:09.520 --> 0:23:14.639 arrested Dnis. Sick to my stomach, not ready to accept 0:23:14.640 --> 0:23:18.320 it at this point, but sick to my stomach. So 0:23:18.440 --> 0:23:20.800 immediately started to call Mike, trying to get hold of 0:23:20.840 --> 0:23:24.399 my of course he's busy with the investigators. And finally 0:23:24.440 --> 0:23:26.200 get a hold of him and he said, I got 0:23:26.200 --> 0:23:28.600 to get out of here. I got him out of 0:23:28.600 --> 0:23:30.560 the church after they got done with the search, and 0:23:31.080 --> 0:23:34.600 he went home. Dennis actually asked for him, but they 0:23:34.600 --> 0:23:37.200 were not going it seems, so, you know. And once 0:23:37.280 --> 0:23:39.840 Thenis started talking about today, just like him talk Why 0:23:39.840 --> 0:23:40.320 wouldn't you. 0:23:44.720 --> 0:23:47.480 The next morning, the day of the police news conference, 0:23:47.880 --> 0:23:52.200 Smiser rose early and had it back to Christ Lutheran Church. 0:23:53.400 --> 0:23:56.480 So Saturday morning and there there's five of us in there. 0:23:57.200 --> 0:23:59.960 I can't even begin to tell you how surreal it was. 0:24:00.760 --> 0:24:02.680 And we had to watch it from upstairs in that 0:24:02.720 --> 0:24:05.040 part of the building because the only place we had 0:24:05.040 --> 0:24:09.760 any TV reception. There isn't a lot to say, you know, 0:24:10.000 --> 0:24:15.199 Stunned is still the best description. When the chief came 0:24:15.240 --> 0:24:20.560 out and said we've caught BTK, denial was the first reaction. 0:24:21.560 --> 0:24:24.919 And in the midst of that, the media started knocking 0:24:24.960 --> 0:24:27.679 on the front door of the church. There was a 0:24:27.720 --> 0:24:30.760 bunch of them, and it wasn't just a few hours 0:24:30.800 --> 0:24:33.000 before national people were on. 0:24:32.960 --> 0:24:33.520 Top of us. 0:24:35.000 --> 0:24:37.640 Every news outlet was trying to get the story out. 0:24:38.280 --> 0:24:41.800 An unfortunate consequence of the race to be first is 0:24:41.840 --> 0:24:44.399 that it puts us at odds with those at the 0:24:44.560 --> 0:24:47.240 very center of these monumental news events. 0:24:48.480 --> 0:24:50.520 They had a council meeting. I was not on a council. 0:24:50.520 --> 0:24:52.800 That's why I was at the front door. They called 0:24:52.880 --> 0:24:56.520 us guards or something whatever, and we would try to 0:24:56.560 --> 0:24:59.480 be very nice to everybody. It was a little harder 0:24:59.520 --> 0:25:03.280 with some Another council broke up. One of the young 0:25:03.359 --> 0:25:06.200 ladies that was on the council. She won't talk to anybody. 0:25:06.520 --> 0:25:08.840 I get that. So I took her out the side 0:25:08.920 --> 0:25:10.919 door and put her in her car, and one of 0:25:10.920 --> 0:25:13.560 the guys from the Channel twelve came out and he 0:25:13.600 --> 0:25:16.680 said Are you protecting her from us? And I said, no, 0:25:16.920 --> 0:25:19.560 she just doesn't. She's said, I'm want to talk. At 0:25:19.600 --> 0:25:21.960 that time, there were twenty or thirty people out there 0:25:22.520 --> 0:25:25.800 and they tried everything. One of them brought a basket, 0:25:26.119 --> 0:25:29.000 you know, it was oranges and apples, and I'd like 0:25:29.040 --> 0:25:31.119 to get this Pastory Clark. I said, yeah, I suppose 0:25:31.119 --> 0:25:33.840 you would, but no, that's not happening to day. And 0:25:33.920 --> 0:25:36.040 there was a lot of that trying to get through 0:25:36.080 --> 0:25:37.200 the gatekeeper. 0:25:42.600 --> 0:25:46.720 The news was out to the world. With that came 0:25:46.800 --> 0:25:51.960 the NonStop media requests and all the confusion, anger and 0:25:52.160 --> 0:25:56.680 second guessing expected from discovering that a pillar of your 0:25:56.720 --> 0:25:59.760 community was built on a lie. 0:26:01.520 --> 0:26:04.920 I heard the chiefs say we've captured BTK. I don't 0:26:04.920 --> 0:26:08.760 have any evidence of why. He didn't say, you know, 0:26:08.800 --> 0:26:13.600 he's admitted to ten murders. So I was skeptical at 0:26:13.640 --> 0:26:17.480 that point. For people outside, or at least in that 0:26:17.560 --> 0:26:20.840 group and that church group, there was no belief that 0:26:20.880 --> 0:26:25.119 this was a real thing, especially the older people that 0:26:25.200 --> 0:26:28.520 people have been friends with, Dorothea, Dennis's mom and dad, 0:26:28.600 --> 0:26:31.879 and Paula's mom and dad, the people that you know 0:26:31.920 --> 0:26:34.399