WEBVTT - Bright [3] 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:06.680 New episodes of Monster BTK are released every Monday and 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:10.440 brought to you absolutely free. But if you want to 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:13.720 hear the whole season right now, it's available ad free 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:18.120 on iHeart True Crime Plus. For more information, check out 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:24.440 the show notes. Enjoy the episode. 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:29.200 You're listening to Monster BTK, a production of iHeart Podcasts 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:33.400 and Tenderfoot TV. Listener discretion is advised. 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:46.199 We were trying to do our job as journalists, but 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:49.200 then we became part of the story, and I think 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:51.879 for a journalist, that's a terrible place to be as 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:55.040 part of the story. But there was no way to 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:59.120 get out of it. Because he enjoyed communicating with caketv 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:03.640 KTV was his favorite station. He had watched it since 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:07.680 he was a child. I have a postcard talking about 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:10.600 the communications which he wrote to Keke and it says. 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:13.399 I write this letter to you for the sake of 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:17.880 the taxpayer as well as your time. Those three dudes 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:20.679 you have in custody are just talking to get publicity 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:25.200 for the Otero murders. They know nothing at all. I 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:30.240 did it by myself and with no one's help. Ps. 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:33.960 Since sex criminals do not change their mo or by nature, 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:38.920 cannot do so. I will not change mine. The code 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:44.479 words for me will be bind them, torture them, kill them, 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:57.280 b t K. They will be on the next victim. 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:00.360 Someone killed four members of the family. 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:03.520 Had you vanished from her home suddenly last weekend? Her 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:05.880 phone lines had been cut, her door left open. 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:09.440 You see the victim playing there with plastic bags over 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:13.600 their heads, strangled. You could tell it was a plan scenario. 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:16.320 Well, police have said no more about the contents of 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:19.160 the letter. It does contain some sort of threat and 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:21.440 implies the killer may strike again. 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:24.560 He's gonna play with these victims. He'd get him to 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:28.200 the point of death and then bring them back and 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:30.040 then brings them back to the point of death. 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:37.119 From My Heart podcasts and Tenderfoot TV, I'm Susan Peters 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:48.079 and this is Monster BTK. In episode one, we covered 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:52.320 the brutal and tragic murders of the Otero family. On 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:57.200 January fifteenth, nineteen seventy four, BTK broke into the Otero 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:02.080 home on Edgemore Drive in Wichita, can He tied up 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:07.600 the parents, Joseph and Julie before strangling them. Then he 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:14.239 strangled their young son Joey, and hanged their daughter Josephine. 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:18.680 It was btk's first murder, and it hadn't gone smoothly. 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:24.200 The killer made many mistakes. He hadn't known the parents 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:29.240 would be home. His only intended target was young Josephine. 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:33.359 He feared he would be caught, but the police were 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:37.480 seemingly not on his trail. In the months following the 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:43.280 Otero murders, Dennis Rader obsessed over his work. He reveled 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:46.840 in the success of not getting caught, and he realized 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:51.400 just how much he enjoyed the thrill of killing. He 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:56.120 started training for his next kill. In the book Confession 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:59.320 of a Serial Killer, Rader says he started to get 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:04.120 in shape and he was inspired once again by something 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:05.480 he saw on TV. 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:09.880 I saw in a movie about a minotaur serial killer 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:13.240 toughening up the hands. I had a sports ball at home, 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:16.880 work in a vehicle to practice and exercise my hands. 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:20.880 Exercise with a handball helps blood circulation and to keep 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:24.600 the hands fit. There was excitement in trying something dangerous. 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:29.920 Then it happens, and afterward you wish it hadn't. It's 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:34.600 like playing in the quicksand there's fear and excitement, but 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:35.400 then you're stuck. 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:42.080 Raider was hungry. He wanted to try again. He thought 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:45.159 he could get it right. Next time. Shall be started 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:48.280 to prowl for his next project. 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.320 I believe in February or March the hunt began again. 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:55.360 I found it exciting to prowl a day or night. 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:57.960 It was very easy for me to spend a little 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:01.839 time after classes to prowl or day drive going to 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:04.680 classes worked well for me as a cover. I could 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:06.800 say I was at the library, or I could use 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:08.919 that time to prowl or stalk. 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:14.200 After looking around the Wichita State campus for weeks, Raider 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:16.719 finally found his next target. 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.279 So it was the day after classes or in between. 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:25.240 I spotted Bride arriving home with a friend, another female, 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:29.200 maybe a sister. She was at her mailbox. She fit 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:34.719 my fantasy profile, a co ed, dishwasher, blonde, small. I 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:38.039 saw her go in the house and I thought that's 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:38.920 a possibility. 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:45.039 Her name was Catherine Bright. Raider eventually discovered that she 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:50.560 lived nearby, at thirty two seventeen East thirteenth Street, less 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:54.520 than two miles from the Otto home. He named her 0:05:55.040 --> 0:06:00.360 project Lights out Here again are Raider's words. 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:05.560 She became a true detective horror magazine hit Fantasy. Her 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:08.440 bedroom appeared to be in the center east. I was 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:11.000 planning on tying her up on the bed, either half 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:15.360 naked or totally. Then I would strangle her or suffocate her. 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.479 Her hands would be bound in front and tied to 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:21.520 her neck, like a true detective model I had seen. 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.840 I used to fantasize about women on the cover showing 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:29.280 terror in their eyes, bound hand up near her neck, 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:31.880 a man with a threatening knife overhead. 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:40.920 Just seventy nine days after the Otero murders, Dennis Rader 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:42.640 approached Bright's. 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:47.279 Home April four of nineteen seventy four. This was a 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:50.920 scene which isn't necessarily one that you would automatically assume 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:54.840 that it was connected to the ottos. My name is 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:59.880 Kevin O'Connor. I'm an assistant district attorney in Johnson County Now. 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:03.360 I was the deputy district attorney in witch Daw Sedgwick County, 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:08.800 Kansas during the Dennis Raider investigation. He was constantly trying 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:12.000 to trip the police up, so he was trying to 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:17.120 not connect it to the Otero's. Raider will break into 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:21.520 the house by smashing a window on the back, gaining entry. 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:24.640 He cleans up, and he waits. 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:28.960 Raider's plan was to force his way into Bright's home 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:32.920 by acting as a Wichita State student needing a quiet 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:36.680 place to study. But, as Kevin O'Connor says, there was 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:38.080 just one problem. 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:43.280 He is not anticipating that Catherine's brother, Kevin, will be 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:46.360 with her. Kevin Bright spent the night before with his 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:49.200 sister and there was snow, so he didn't go home. 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:55.040 Raider panicked. He improvised a fake story about how he 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:56.720 was a criminal on the run. 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:01.000 They will come back surprised by a and telling him 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:04.480 that he is on the run. He needs money in 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:06.120 a car, he needs a. 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:06.880 Little bit of food. 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:09.640 He will tell them they have the time to control them, 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:12.560 that they're not going to be heard. This crime goes 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:15.760 to hell in a handbasket pretty quickly. He loses control 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:16.600 of the situation. 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:21.800 Raider thought Catherine would be alone and easy to control. 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:26.000 For that reason, he brought no rope with him. He 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:29.480 had been planning to tie her up using pantyhose from 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:33.800 her dresser drawer. Pointing his gun at the siblings, he 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:40.360 marched them into the bedroom. In a rare CNN interview 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:44.239 from two thousand and five, Kevin Bright went into detail 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:47.920 about what happened next. 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:51.240 And then he forced me to tie my sister up 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:53.959 in the front bedroom, and then he took me into 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:56.880 the other bedroom and tied me up and laid me 0:08:56.920 --> 0:09:01.760 down on the floor on my stomaching nodded up stocking 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:07.160 and started strangling me, and I fought and broke loose 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:10.880 and jumped up on my feet. He pulled a gun 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:14.520 from his waistband, and I knew he was gonna shoot me, 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:16.800 and I grabbed hold of his hand and arm and 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.880 pushed it back into his stomach and got my hand 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:22.640 on the gun and the trigger pulled it twice, and 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:26.880 he didn't go off for some reason. He jerked it 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.200 away from me and shot me first time there, and 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:33.160 then I went to the ground, and anyway, he left 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:33.880 for a while. 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:39.800 With Kevin Bright seemingly dead, Rader went back for Catherine, 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:43.360 who was tied up in the other room. He tried 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:48.120 to strangle her, but she fought back once again. Rader 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:53.600 was losing control of the situation. Meanwhile, Kevin Bright had 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:57.679 to listen as his sister was being strangled to death 0:09:58.160 --> 0:09:59.040 in the other room. 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:03.199 And then he came back and grabbed a hold of me, 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:06.040 and he started strangling me again, and I fought again. 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:09.080 He shot me in the second time. I played like 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:13.400 I was dead, and he left again. And then I 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:15.280 looked around the room to see if there was any 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:17.680 kind of weapon that I could use against him, and 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:21.200 there wasn't anything there, and I just decided to go 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.520 for help. And so I was about fifteen feet from 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:27.679 the front door, and I got up and I went 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:32.120 out the front door, and there's two guys across the street, 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:34.400 two men, and one of them taking me to the 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:36.920 hospital and the other one called the police. 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:43.040 After Kevin escaped, Raider panicked. He started stabbing Catherine with 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:46.800 a knife over and over to make sure she was dead. 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:52.360 The police reports say she was stabbed eleven times. Here 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:55.640 are raiders words from confession of a serial killer. 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:01.280 I had no intention of stabbing anyone. Happened because I 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:05.440 lost control. That created a mess of blood everywhere on 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:10.000 my hands, pants, shoes. I made a vow if I 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:12.840 ever again had to confront to kill, there would be 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:16.480 no knife. It was a total mess because I didn't 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:17.440 have control over it. 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:24.520 Raider had to move quickly after stabbing Catherine. 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:25.959 Since Kevin could id me. It wouldn't make a difference 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:28.800 if she was dead. I was afraid the police would 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:32.079 catch me or stop me. On Holyoake, I recalled that 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:34.840 I ran so hard and fast that my lungs hurt 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:38.120 for a day or two. Afterward from breathing the cold air. 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:44.400 Raider ran back to his car parked by the Wichita 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.880 State Campus. Catherine tried calling for help. 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:52.200 She's able to get to the phone. It's a wall 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:54.839 unit and the phone will be. 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:55.400 Off the hook. 0:11:56.040 --> 0:12:01.240 That police report describing her and how that police officer 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:05.600 found her is heartbreaking as he describes her in trying 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:08.000 to breathe begging the police officer to help her. 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:12.800 The police report states that Officer Dennis Landon arrived at 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:16.800 the Bright home at two eight pm. Here's an excerpt 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:18.360 read by a voice actor. 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:23.720 Officer Landon approached the address of twenty three seventeen East 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:27.280 thirteenth Street and knocked at the screen door. The front 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:32.640 door was open. After receiving no response, Officer Landon looked 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.360 in through the open door and saw a female lying 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:38.160 in a pool of blood. The young woman was found 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:41.800 clutching a telephone in her hand. She was asked what happened, 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:45.720 but was unable to respond. When asked if she was hurt, 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:49.480 she pulled up a blouse, exposing her abdomen. The young 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:52.559 woman said she did not know her attacker. She was 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:55.400 able to give her name before beginning to pass out. 0:12:56.520 --> 0:13:00.360 Officer Raymond Fletcher arrived and assisted in attending to Bright. 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:04.840 Upon his arrival, Officer Fletcher noticed that Bright was covered 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:08.000 in blood. In addition to the pool of blood underneath 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:11.440 her waist, Bright had blood on her hands, in her hair, 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:15.320 and on her face. Officer Fletcher noted that she was 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:19.160 bleeding from her left nostril and her face was badly bruised. 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:25.000 Bright grabbed Officer Fletcher's arm and repeated, I can't breathe 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:25.600 help me. 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:30.720 Both Kevin and Katherine were taken to Wesley Medical Center. 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:36.600 Kevin survived his gunshot wounds. However, his sister Catherine didn't 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:41.040 survive the attack. She died of her stab wounds just 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:48.960 a few hours later. Catherine was yet another innocent victim 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:54.000 of btk's malice. This one has always been difficult for 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:57.280 me to wrap my head around. Catherine was just a 0:13:57.360 --> 0:14:00.760 college student looking forward to the next phase of her life. 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:07.200 To have that life cut short is a merciless injustice, 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:11.680 and for Kevin, the horror of remembering that dreadful day 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:15.520 was almost too much to bear. Even though he was 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:18.440 younger than his sister, he felt he should be the 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:21.920 protective brother, and when I was the first to interview 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:27.320 him thirty years later, the tears in his eyes were instant. 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:31.520 It still haunts him to this day that he could 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:36.400 not save his young sister's life. Last night, you and 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:40.560 your dad are talking, and thirty years later you're still 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:44.840 talking about what is Yeah, there's a reason for that. 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:50.760 Yeah, because well, sister shouldn't die Hamon. I was pry 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.120 that she didn't suffer very much, you know, it was 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:57.880 last hours, I don't know. And this prayer for all 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:00.600 the families that you know they can have healing. God 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:05.440 knows every movement you're making and knows that you're going 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:09.720 to answer one day, and that he offers, you know, 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.440 he offers every one of us salvation. 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:18.480 For Katherine Bright, it was a terrible and tragic end 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:22.600 to a budding life, but for Rader, it was just 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:27.880 the beginning. Following the murder of Katherine Bright, Rader planned 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:39.440 his next move. Project lights Out had been a disaster. 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:44.440 Dennis returned home and tried to resume his normal family life, 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:48.160 but he couldn't shake the paranoia that his mistakes would 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:51.520 cost him. Here again are his words from the book 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:53.360 Confession of a Serial Killer. 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:57.640 When I saw the news releases about Bright, I knew 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:01.520 Kevin was now a survivor and able to tell Catherine 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:06.840 had died. Kevin had described me. I was worried about Kevin. 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:10.760 He was Catherine's brother, I learned. I thought of maybe 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:13.640 trying to hit on Kevin at some point. I never 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:15.160 could come up with a perfect plan. 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:20.480 On April twenty third, nineteen seventy four, just three weeks 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:24.120 after the attack on the Brites, police released a facial 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:28.920 composite of the suspect based on Kevin's description. This is 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:31.800 former Wichita Police Chief Richard Lamonian. 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:35.320 All he could tell us it was a male, a 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:38.960 white male, but he could not describe the individual. 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:40.520 He was very cooperative. 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:45.320 We had professional psychiatrist psychologists work with him. But again, 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:48.360 I really think he gave us all the information he 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:51.400 had because I don't think he really had an opportunity 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:53.560 to even see what was going on. 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:00.560 Raider, however, felt differently about Kevin's recollection. 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:04.280 He did give a fairly good description of me, and 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:07.600 I thought the picture in the newspaper was uncomfortably close 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:09.879 to me. But no one ever came for me. 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:14.840 According to Lemonion, police had a hard time connecting this 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:20.159 crime to the Otero murders. Both were so messy and strange. 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:25.199 The Bright killing was clearly so poorly planned that it 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:27.199 was tough to make heads or tails of. 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:32.840 We assumed at that particular moment that that's probably just 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:36.159 boyfriend love triangle. Who knows what it is. But it 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:39.760 was interrupted, so it was not connected at the time 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:43.920 to the Otero murders. In those days, we probably had 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:48.679 a homicide rate forty forty five a year, so no 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:52.399 homicides were not unusual, and we would clear ninety percent 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:55.439 of them, so a homicide like this would not have 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:58.959 drawn a serial killer type mentality back to it. 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:04.360 While police were struggling, Rader was relishing. In the chaos 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:05.200 and confusion. 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:09.760 As I gathered the news clippings on Catherine Bright, I 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:12.399 taped a picture from a detective magazine to one of 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:15.200 my Heidi Hole folders, the one that showed the girl 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:17.600 with her hands in front, the way I had wanted 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:21.040 to do with Bright. I kept Bright's clippings inside and 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:24.080 even wrote a story I believe, possibly of a fantasy 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:27.840 of her. The months slipped away, and I was pretty 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:30.040 sure I wasn't going to be caught for a lineup. 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:35.560 Rader had all sorts of these heidie holes in his home, 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:39.399 where he would keep tokens from his victims or store 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:48.840 his crew drawings and newspaper clippings. In July, six months 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:52.440 after the Otero murders, four people in their early twenties 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:56.119 were killed following a small dispute. It was the second 0:18:56.240 --> 0:19:00.360 quadruple homicide that year. All of Wichita was shaken up. 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:04.360 Nineteen seventy four had thus far been a hard year 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:09.040 for violent crime. Police were scrambling to piece it all together. 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:13.560 Police finally got a breakthrough in the Otaro case. In 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:15.800 October of nineteen seventy four. 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:20.719 We had arrested a couple of brothers named Seabring who 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:23.679 admitted that they had killed the Otos. 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:29.240 Gary Seabring was arrested on charges for an unrelated sexual offense. 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:34.520 While being questioned, Seabrings started spewing about the Oto murders. 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:38.480 According to the book Inside the Mind of BTK by 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:42.360 John Douglas, Seabring would go on to tell police. 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:46.399 If I was doing the Otos, this is how I 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:48.919 would have done it. It would have been with my 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:52.359 brother and we would have tied them all up, and 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:54.960 my buddy Thomas Myers would have been with us. 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:59.960 This raised a few eyebrows, and the two brothers were 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:03.000 brought in his suspects in the Otero case. 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:06.960 Of course, the news media picks upon it, and we've 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:10.680 arrested the Otaro murderers and all things like that. 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:15.960 The people of which tah were ecstatic. They believed the 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:20.280 Otto murderer had been brought to justice. Seabring had a 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:24.239 criminal history involving the sexual assault of a minor. On 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:27.800 the surface, it seemed very plausible that he was the killer, 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:33.040 but police were skeptical of Sebring's knowledge of the case. 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:38.280 Investigators had Gary and his brother Ernest go through intense 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:44.880 psychological evaluations, and they determined both men were mentally unstable, 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:51.680 prone to lying and inventing false scenarios. Additionally, police Chief 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:55.320 Floyd Hannen determined that neither brother could be placed at 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:58.920 the scene of the Otero crime, and neither of them 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:02.119 fit the description the man who was seen leaving the 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:06.400 o'tara home. As for the friend, Thomas Myers, police had 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:10.240 trouble locating him at first, but after a week Myers 0:21:10.440 --> 0:21:13.840 was brought into custody and also taken in for a 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:19.880 mental evaluation. Once again, the conclusion was clear. These men 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:21.800 were not responsible. 0:21:22.920 --> 0:21:26.440 The Seabring brothers were just pedophiles. It's what they were, 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:30.240 and they had other problems that they had. They weren't murders. 0:21:33.119 --> 0:21:36.159 Raiders saw the false confession on the news and he 0:21:36.359 --> 0:21:38.600 was not happy about this development. 0:21:39.960 --> 0:21:42.359 Once the media picked up on it, and then they 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:45.520 started putting information out that we had a suspect in 0:21:45.600 --> 0:21:49.800 custody for it, that's what prompted it all. He didn't 0:21:49.840 --> 0:21:53.440 want someone else taking credit for his job. 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:57.360 Since I was in the mood of highness and attention 0:21:57.520 --> 0:21:59.840 as the newspaper ran the story on the three men, 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:03.120 I added it to my Heidi Hole folder on the oteros. 0:22:04.000 --> 0:22:08.560 I wanted credit, not someone else. I also wanted taxpayers 0:22:08.600 --> 0:22:11.199 not to spend endless dollars on false leads. 0:22:12.600 --> 0:22:15.960 A few days after the Wichita Eagle published its story 0:22:16.000 --> 0:22:20.439 about the Seabring brothers, Dennis Rader called the front desk 0:22:21.040 --> 0:22:25.159 and asked to speak to Eagle columnist Don Granger. Here's 0:22:25.240 --> 0:22:28.720 what Granger remembers hearing over the phone. 0:22:29.160 --> 0:22:33.280 Listen and listen good. I'm only going to say this once. 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:36.879 There is a letter about the Oteo case in a 0:22:36.920 --> 0:22:38.480 book in the public library. 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:44.800 Granger was freaked out. He immediately called the Wichita Police. 0:22:45.200 --> 0:22:47.280 He told them that the caller had the voice of 0:22:47.320 --> 0:22:51.560 a timid Midwestern man, but he couldn't make out anything else. 0:22:52.600 --> 0:22:57.000 Wichita PD Officer Bernie Drowaski went to the library that 0:22:57.359 --> 0:23:01.679 very day. He discovered up a duel your letter stuped 0:23:01.720 --> 0:23:07.600 into a book titled Applied Engineering Mechanics. The letter was 0:23:07.800 --> 0:23:12.399 riddled with misspellings and grammatical errors. Here is what it said, 0:23:12.800 --> 0:23:14.000 edited for clarity. 0:23:16.240 --> 0:23:19.120 Those three dudes you have in custody are just talking 0:23:19.160 --> 0:23:22.520 to get publicity. They know nothing at all. I did 0:23:22.520 --> 0:23:25.520 it by myself, with no one's help. I'm sorry this 0:23:25.600 --> 0:23:29.280 happened to the society. It's hard to control myself. You 0:23:29.400 --> 0:23:33.760 probably call me psychotic with sexual perversion. Hang up. Where 0:23:33.840 --> 0:23:37.240 this monster entered my brain? I will never know, but 0:23:38.119 --> 0:23:43.440 it's here to stay. How does one cure himself? If 0:23:43.480 --> 0:23:46.760 you ask for help that you've killed four people, they 0:23:46.760 --> 0:23:49.720 will laugh or hit the panic button and call the cops. 0:23:50.880 --> 0:23:54.840 I can't stop it, so the monster goes on and 0:23:54.960 --> 0:23:59.120 hurt me as well as society. Society can be thankful 0:23:59.600 --> 0:24:02.560 that they're ways for people like me to relieve myself 0:24:03.400 --> 0:24:07.120 at times by day dreams of some victim being tortured 0:24:07.600 --> 0:24:11.840 and being mine. It's a big, complicated game. My friend 0:24:11.960 --> 0:24:16.439 of the monster play putting victims down, following them, checking 0:24:16.520 --> 0:24:21.040 up on them, waiting in the dark, wading, wagdhing. The 0:24:21.080 --> 0:24:24.919 pressure is great, and sometimes he run the game to 0:24:25.000 --> 0:24:29.960 his liking. Maybe you can stop him. I can't. He 0:24:30.000 --> 0:24:33.680 has already chosen his next victim or victims. I don't 0:24:33.680 --> 0:24:36.119 know who they are yet. The next day, after I 0:24:36.200 --> 0:24:39.520 read the paper, I will know, but it will be 0:24:39.640 --> 0:24:42.480 too late. Good luck hunting. 0:24:45.880 --> 0:24:50.520 It was in this letter that the name BTK was born, 0:24:52.080 --> 0:24:56.000 a three letter moniker that came to haunt which a 0:24:56.080 --> 0:24:59.879 tall police. 0:24:58.480 --> 0:25:04.520 Yours truly guilty ps. Since sex criminals do not change 0:25:04.560 --> 0:25:08.080 their mo or by nature, cannot do so, I will 0:25:08.080 --> 0:25:11.399 not change mine. The code words for me will be 0:25:12.440 --> 0:25:18.800 bind them, torture them, kill them, BTK. They will be 0:25:18.880 --> 0:25:20.320 on the next victim. 0:25:21.440 --> 0:25:25.160 He considered himself to be among the elite serial killers, 0:25:25.560 --> 0:25:28.640 and so he named himself BTK. 0:25:30.240 --> 0:25:34.080 This is Catherine Ramsland, the forensic psychologist who wrote a 0:25:34.119 --> 0:25:36.679 book with and about Dennis Rader. 0:25:37.920 --> 0:25:40.440 He did not want to leave his name to chance 0:25:40.840 --> 0:25:44.239 and get something stupid. He wanted a powerful name, and 0:25:44.280 --> 0:25:47.880 it wasn't the only one. He gave them a few ideas, 0:25:47.960 --> 0:25:51.440 but because he had created an image for the BTK 0:25:51.920 --> 0:25:55.600 name as well, he stuck with that. He's one of 0:25:55.600 --> 0:25:59.320 the few who told police and journalists, here's what you 0:25:59.320 --> 0:26:03.520 should call me, and he enjoyed that. He enjoyed that 0:26:03.640 --> 0:26:05.120 kind of cat and mouse game. 0:26:06.640 --> 0:26:11.480 By using BTK, torture, fantasy, writing, drawing, and what I 0:26:11.520 --> 0:26:14.520 had planned to do. I wrote my own criminal epithet. 0:26:15.520 --> 0:26:18.000 If cocked, those words would hang me. 0:26:19.760 --> 0:26:23.879 Carrie Rawson, Dennis Raider's daughter, talks about her father's lust 0:26:24.119 --> 0:26:26.040 for notoriety. 0:26:26.200 --> 0:26:29.000 He feeds off the fair because he wanted to be 0:26:29.119 --> 0:26:32.199 remembered and known for what he had done. And he 0:26:32.280 --> 0:26:35.520 talks about Ted and California and he's talking about son 0:26:35.560 --> 0:26:39.199 of Sam. Well, He's in a smaller media market, so 0:26:39.240 --> 0:26:42.800