Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén - BTK's First Victims: The Otero Family Murders

Episode Date: January 15, 2024

50 years ago to this day, Dennis Rader, aka BTK, killed four members of the Otero family. These murders were his first of ten, and he would play cat-and-mouse games with media and law enforcement for the next 30 years before his own ego got him captured. Keep up with us on Instagram @serialkillerspodcast! Have a story to share? Email us at [e-mail] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Due to the nature of this case, listener discretion is advised. This episode includes discussions of sexual assault and murder. Consider this when deciding how and when you'll listen. He caused me to challenge my faith, change my future forever, and separated me from the rest of my loved ones for over 30 years. Yet I have never allowed his actions to send me to the dark side. That's Charlie Otero at Dennis Rader's sentencing in August 2005. On January 15, 1974, exactly 50 years ago from this episode's air date,

Raider committed his first known murders. The victims were Charlie's mother, father, and two of his four siblings. Including the Oteros, Raider murdered 10 people in Wichita, Kansas, over nearly 20 years, from 1974 to 1991. He gave himself the nickname BTK, because he bound, tortured, and killed his victims. Raider longed for media attention. He spent three decades sending mocking letters to the press

while maintaining a double life as a family man, Boy Scout leader, and active member of his church. But Raiders' thirst for media attention proved to be his downfall. In 2004, he began sending cryptic clues and evidence of his murders to local media outlets in Wichita. And it was Raiders' own letters that allowed police to finally find him and put him behind bars. I'm Vanessa Richardson, and this is Serial Killers, a Spotify podcast. You can find us here every Monday.

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and Charlie was already getting straight A's and making friends. After serving in the Air Force for two decades, Charlie's father, Joseph, took a job at a local airfield. His mother, Julie, was out of work. She'd recently been laid off from her factory job. The Ataros took precautions to keep the family safe. They adopted a dog named Lucky, who was very protective of the family, and the kids took judo classes. But on January 15, 1974, they had no idea they were being stalked by a child. a budding serial killer determined to get past their defenses. That brisk morning, the Oteros

experienced a small interruption in their normal routine. The family usually had two cars at their disposal, but Joseph had recently gotten into an accident, so his car was in the shop. He took his three oldest children to school in his wife's station wagon. Normally Joseph would head straight to work after dropping off his children, but the accident had left him with several cracked ribs, so he planned to spend the day resting at home. The idea was for Julie to take the station wagon and drop the two youngest kids off at school, but she never got the chance. After the dismissal bell rang, Charlie Otero walked back to his family home. It had been a long day at school, but a successful one. He'd gotten the perfect score on his biology exam. Charlie arrived at the

family's white bungalow at around 3.30 in the afternoon. He noticed the garage door was open and his mother's station wagon was missing. Stranger still, Lucky was outside alone. Charlie walked into a normally tidy kitchen in disarray. His mother's purse had been tossed to the ground, its content spilling out onto the tile. Credit cards from Joseph's wallet were strewn across the stovetop. As Charlie assessed the he heard his brother and sister shout, Come quick, Mom and Dad are playing a bad trick on us. But when Charlie followed the voices and crossed the threshold of his parents' bedroom,

he could see it wasn't a trick at all. Joseph was lying on the floor, his hands and ankles bound with white cord. A belt was fastened tightly around his neck. Julie was positioned on the bed, her face bloody, her neck and ankles bound. Charlie tried to dial 911, but the line was dead, so he sent his little brother to a neighbor's home to call the police.

Once they were safely removed from the scene, a chaplain sat down with the three surviving siblings and told them their younger brother and sister had also been killed in the house. Charlie later told ABC News, I thank God every day that I didn't find Joey and Josie, because I don't know how I would have had to be. It handled it.

The crime scene was unlike anything the officers from the Wichita Police Department had ever seen, but they worked quickly to try and find the killer. Autopsies showed all four family members had been bound and strangled sometime between 8, 15, and 9 in the morning. The phone lines had been cut. Seamen was present at the scene. The killer had used so many different kinds of knots to restrain the Oteros. the police needed to use an instruction manual to identify all of them. The only items missing from the crime scene were Joseph's watch, a set of car keys, and Joey's radio.

Some witnesses claimed they noticed a man around six feet tall with dark hair and an overcoat lingering outside the Otero home around 8 in the morning of the murders. Others saw the Otero's station wagon being driven away at around 10.30. The car was found later that night at a grocery store half a mile away from the Otero home. There were fingerprints on the vehicle's door, but there was not a match in the system. Detectives spent days combing through the evidence. They released composite drawings of their suspect and received tips from local citizens, but by January 23rd, officials announced they'd exhausted all significant leads.

Less than 10 miles away, as police called, Home through the evidence at the Otero home, Dennis Rader wrote down a detailed description of the Otero family murders, filed it in a hidden binder, and welcomed his wife home from work. Dennis Rader grew up in Wichita, Kansas. From an early age, he showed a sexual predilection toward bondage. He enjoyed watching his parents and grandparents tie up the chickens in the coop for the slaughter. As a Boy Scout, he studied knots. He cut images of models out of advertisements and drew rope around their bodies, so it looked

like they were bound. He fantasized about murder. But when Rader met Paula Dietz, a member of his church, he found his desire to kill temporarily fade. The pair dated for a few months before Rader proposed in January 1971, and they got married in May. They had a beautiful home with a nice backyard in Park City, Kansas. Rader got a job at the Cessna Aircraft Company in early 1973.

Around this time, Rader and Paula contemplated having kids, but just nine months after securing the job, Rader was laid off, and no longer had work to keep him occupied. As Paula worked to support the two of them, Rader spent all of his time absorbed in twisted fantasies. But eventually, the fantasies alone weren't enough for Rader. He later recalled to forensic psychologist and author Catherine Ramsland, I was home alone, depressed, and mad at the world. I decided to go out and do something bad.

With the loss of a job, my mind slipped into sex. In late 1973, Rader began building hit kits to keep in his car. They contained tools he thought might be used. to commit murder. He'd never killed before, but he was ready if the opportunity arose. In the winter of 1973, he decided to look for a victim. Raider targeted a bank teller in the Twin Lakes neighborhood of Wichita. He stalked her, memorized her comings and goings, and prepared a hit kit. Once he learned her routine, he planned his strike. During her lunch break one day, the teller parked her car near the bank.

Waring a ski mask, Rader jumped in and attacked her. But when the woman screamed and fought back, Rader decided it wasn't worth the struggle and fled. It was broad daylight. It wasn't long before Rader was back on the hunt for a new victim. The same week he'd failed to kidnap the bank teller, he identified Julie Otero as his next target. Raider spent days memorizing Julie and her family's patterns. He prepared another hit kit. Soon enough, four members of the Otero family were dead, and Raider was just getting started.

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He kept up appearances as a doting husband and diligent student at Wichita State University. In fact, Rader found his next victim, Catherine Bright, while he was taking his wife Paula out for lunch in the early spring of 1974. That April, the Wichita Police Department responded to a call in the north-central region of the city and found Catherine Bright collapsed on the floor. Her wrists and ankles were bound with nylon stocking. and she had a cord tied around her neck. She'd been repeatedly stabbed,

but she was still alive when medics arrived at the scene. Catherine was rushed to the hospital, but didn't make it through surgery. Catherine's 19-year-old brother, Kevin, told police he and his sister encountered an intruder shortly after walking into Catherine's home. The man, who they said had dark hair and a mustache, claimed to be a wanted fugitive, looking for money. The man kept Catherine and Kevin at gunpoint and ordered them into Catherine's bedroom. He forced Kevin to tie his sister's hands so she wouldn't fight back.

Then he bound Kevin to the bedpost and dragged Catherine into a separate bedroom before returning to Kevin. Rader turned on the radio and blasted music so Catherine wouldn't hear him killing her brother in the next room. But as he wrapped a cord around Kevin's throat, the young man, ripped free of his bindings. Kevin fought for his life, but Raider whipped out his gun and fired at the teenager's head. Kevin collapsed to the ground. Catherine heard the gunshot from the next room

and screamed for her brother. She assumed he must have been dead. But incredibly, Kevin was still alive. He was only playing dead. The next opportunity he had, he lunged at the intruder and fought for control of the gun. Amidst the chaos, the man man overpowered Kevin and fired the gun.

The bullet hit Kevin in the face, but even with two gunshot wounds, Kevin managed to escape, run out the front door, and call 911. Detectives from the Wichita Police Department considered the possibility that the Bright and Otero murders may have been perpetrated by the same killer. The murders occurred within a two-mile radius, and Catherine, Kevin, and Julie all worked the same company, but the authorities changed their minds after detailing the differences. The Oteros were strangled while Kevin and Catherine were shot and stabbed. The Otero's phone lines were cut, but Catherine's was still intact.

Rader was thrilled when he realized that the police had no idea who he was, and soon enough, three men were taken in for questioning in the Otero family murders. It looked like Rader might never be held responsible. But rather than celebrate the bizarre misdirect, Rader became enraged that he wasn't getting the fame and credit for the murders. So in October, Rader directed police to a taunting letter he'd left in a library book. It contained shocking details about the Otero murders that only the killer could know. Raider ended the letter with his codename and modus operandi. Bind them, torture them, kill them.

B.T.K. Rader continued to live his double life. He attended college classes at night in the fall of 1974 and became a youth leader at his church. During the day, he started working for a home security systems company, which he found amusing. He installed security systems in the homes of people afraid of the BTK killer. All the while, he kept playing the role of loving husband. In July 1975, Rader and his wife Paula welcomed a son. Paula stayed home with the new baby while Rader worked.

Nearly two and a half years passed without another letter from BTK or another murder. The people of Wichita started to breathe a little easy, year until spring 1977, when BTK struck again. On March 17th, Officer Raymond Fletcher responded to a report of a homicide

in a South Central Wichita neighborhood. He'd been one of the responding officers to the Catherine Bright murder. When he pulled into the neighborhood, James Burnett flagged him down and told Officer Fletcher he'd called in the homicide. Two young neighbor boys had come running

to his head. house screaming. The boys, we'll call them Adam and Sam, told James a man with a gun had been in their house, and their mother was tied up on her bed. James's wife Sharon went to check on the home and found Adam and Sam's little sister crying. Sharon discovered her neighbor, Shirley Vianne, dead in her bedroom. She was bound with black tape and had a plastic bag over her head. Adam told detectives that a man with a suitcase knocked on the door of their home. When Adam answered, the man shoved all three children in a bathroom. They wept and pounded their fists uselessly against the door as the man strangled their mother.

The high from killing Shirley Viann didn't last long, and Rader spent the rest of 1977 looking for his next victim. He often scoped out women during the day while installing some. security systems. In December 1977, Raider spotted his next target, 25-year-old Nancy Fox. He was pleased to learn that Nancy lived alone in southeast Wichita. That meant there would hopefully be no kids, siblings, or husbands to contend with. On December 8th, he warned his wife he would be studying late at the library. He spent a couple hours there working on a paper for one of his college classes, but around 9 p.m. he left the library and drove to Nancy's duplex with his hit kit. He knocked on Nancy's door to make sure

she wasn't home, then went out back and cut the phone line. He smashed open a window and scrambled into the apartment where he waited for her to return from her evening shift at Hellsburg Jewelers. He'd memorized her entire schedule and knew precisely what time she would arrive home. Raider drank a glass of water, then put Nancy's phone to his ear to double check that it was dead. Right then, Nancy walked into her apartment. Rader told Nancy that he just wanted to have sex with her and then let her go. Nancy then asked to use the bathroom first. When Nancy came out of the bathroom, Rader handcuffed her and forced her to lie face down on the bed,

then strangled her with a belt until she was unconscious. But Raider didn't leave the room. He waited until Nancy stirred again, then leaned close to her ear and whispered that he was BTK. Nancy fought desperately, but she couldn't overpower her attacker. Rader strangled her to death. He masturbated at the scene and left semen on her blue nightgown. He then cleaned up and stole some of Nancy's belongings as trophies. Raider was proud of this murder.

Everything had gone according to plan, so proud that he couldn't wait for someone to discover the crime scene. So the next day, he called the police on himself. Every outfit starts with a choice. What am I wearing underneath? Something comfortable? And let's be honest. Something that keeps everything looking smooth.

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He later tried to describe Raider to the police, but said he didn't get a good look. He estimated that Raider was maybe six feet tall and had blonde hair. It wasn't enough for detectives to go on, so the case went cold, which made Raider infallible and cocky enough to take more chances. He sent a poem he had written about Shirley Vian to the local paper The Wichita Eagle on January 31, 1978. But he was disappointed when they didn't publish the poem. There was no mention of BTK. So Rader sent a second poem about Nancy's death to local television station K-A-K-E 11 days later. Rader had slightly rewritten the folk song O Death to reference Nancy's death.

Nancy's murder and titled it O Death to Nancy. Along with the revised song lyrics, he sent a drawing of Nancy signed with his initials, B-T-K. Rader was frustrated the police didn't seem to realize they were dealing with a serial killer, so he decided to connect the dots for them. He laid out the similarities between his seven victims in his typo-filled letter to K-A-K-E. We've edited some of those typos for clarity. He wrote, "'Golly, gee, yes, the M.O. is different in each,

but look, a pattern is developing. The victims are tied up. Most have been women. Phone cut, bring some bondage material, sadistic tendencies, no struggle outside the death spot, no witnesses except the Vian's kids. They were very lucky.

Phone call saved them.' Rader later admitted to Catherine Ramsland that he got a thrill out of playing cat and mouse games with the police. The risk and the subsequent media attention he received was intoxicating. But Raider still had a life and an image to maintain. He soon became preoccupied. His daughter Carrie was born on June 13, 1978. His growing family now took up most of his time.

As a result, Wichita didn't hear from the BTK killer for nearly seven. years. By April 1985, Dennis Rader was 40 years old and not as spry as he used to be. He picked an easy target that didn't require much stalking or detective work. His 53-year-old neighbor, Marine Hedge. Rader's nine-year-old son had been in the Boy Scouts for two years,

and Rader had become a scout leader. On April 26, his troop was going on a camping trip where Rader knew he'd have the opportunity to murder again. He spent the evening of April 26th at the campgrounds with the other Boy Scout fathers. Then he told them he was tired and going to bed. With no one watching, he snuck away and drove to a local bowling alley. From there, he hired a taxi to drive him a block away from Marines home. When he finally arrived, he cut her phone line, broke in and waited. But when Marine finally returned home, she wasn't alone.

She had a male friend with her, so Rader scurried to a closet to hide. After an hour, the friend left and Marine went to bed. She had no idea Rader was hiding just a few feet away. Marine woke up to her neighbor choking her. After Rader strangled Marine to death, he tied her up to engage in his sexual fantasies. Raider disposed of Marines' body in a ditch, abandoned her car, and drove his own back to the Boy Scout camp before anyone noticed he was missing. With the police still at a loss, Raiders' next victim came a year later in September 1986. On September 16th, he knocked on 28-year-old Vicki Wegerly's door, posing as a telephone repairman.

When she let him inside, Rader pulled his gun on her and forced her into the bedroom. He strangled her, but Vicky fought back, scratching Rader's face and permanently scarring him. Nevertheless, he managed to kill her. He took three photos of Vicky's body as trophies and grabbed her driver's license before leaving. Sadly, the police didn't realize that Vicky was killed by BTK, and for decades they suspected that her husband, Bill, had murdered her. After killing Vicky in 1986, Rader struggled to keep his murderous compulsions under control. But police were starting to make use of DNA evidence by the late 1980s, and Rader knew he needed to be careful. But he could only tamp down his desire to kill for

so long. On January 18, 1991, Rader committed his final murder. Once again, he used one of his son's Boy Scout camping trips as a cover. He snuck away from the camp and drove to the house of 62-year-old Dolores Davis, a beloved mother and grandmother. He broke in and strangled her with a pair of pantyhose. Rader dumped Dolores' body under a bridge, where a young boy discovered her weeks later. The police had no leads and still didn't definitively connect the case to the ongoing BTK murders. Dolores Davis was Raiders' 10th victim, but authorities believed BTK hadn't killed anyone

since Nancy Fox in 1977. Around 1994 or 95, Raider began stalking women again, contemplating potential victims, but familial obligations soon inhibited him from murder. His father died in 1996, so Rader became his mother's primary caretaker. Rader even started shedding the remains of his double life. As DNA evidence led to the capture of other serial killers like Gary Ridgeway in 2001, Rader tossed out some of the evidence he'd been holding for decades. All was quiet for nearly ten years.

He may have completely gotten away with his crimes, but a bruised ego soon renewed his interest in cat and mouse games. In January 2004, reporter Hurst Loviana published an article about BTK in the Wichita Eagle on the 30-year anniversary of the Otero family murders. He described BTK as a killer that few in Wichita even remembered. Dennis Rader wasn't going to let that stand. So he sent a package to the Wichita Eagle on March 19, 2004, under the pseudonym Bill Thomas Kilman, a name whose initials spell out BTK.

Inside the package was Vicki Wegerly's driver's license. Over the course of 2004, Rader sent several more packages to the media, reveling in the renewed attention BTK now received from reporters. He even contemplated upping the ante by murdering an 11th victim in October of 2004. But he backed out at the last minute after he noticed a construction crew working outside her home. In February of 2005, Rader found his games with police to be a lot of work, and he was sick of photocopying notes. He figured he could simplify things by sending his taunting messages on a floppy disc.

Raider left police a message in a trash bin near a Home Depot in Wichita. The note asked, Can I communicate with floppy and not be traced to a computer? Be honest. Per Raider's request, the police then left a coded message in the local paper that indicated a floppy disk would be untraceable. Rader naively assumed the police wouldn't lie. On February 16, 2005, he sent a floppy disk to KSAS TV, who turned it over to officials.

Thanks to that floppy disk, police were able to find Dennis's name, the computer he used, and the church where he was just elected president. They then learned his daughter's DNA was on file at Kansas State University, where she'd undergone a medical exam. They subpoenaed the DNA and used that to connect him to the killings. In June 2005, Rader pleaded guilty to all 10 murders. He was sentenced to 10 life sentences, or 175 years in a maximum security prison. And that's where he sits today. In 2023, authorities began investigating a possible connection between Rader, and two unsolved cases.

Detectives have re-interviewed Rader and searched his former Park City home, but as of this recording, he's not been conclusively tied to the murders. After the 1974 murder of his parents and two siblings, Charlie Otero's life completely changed. He and his surviving siblings were sent to live with relatives in New Mexico. He'd once been a straight-A student destined for a top college, but his grades started to slip and he isolated himself from his family. Charlie graduated from a technical school but had trouble holding down a job.

He struggled with survivors' guilt and experienced PTSD. He used drugs to temper his intrusive thoughts. In 2005, Charlie received a call that again changed his life. The person who killed his family had been arrested and his name was Dennis. Raider. Charlie attended the trial intent on getting his hands on Raider to exact his revenge. But when his son fell into a coma after an accident, his need for vengeance waned, and he focused on his son, who eventually made a full recovery. Charlie had the opportunity to deliver a victim impact statement at Raider's sentencing hearing. Facing toward the man who killed his family,

Charlie read, Despite Dennis Raider's efforts to destroy my family, we survived, stronger and closer now more than ever. As far as I'm concerned, when it is all done, Dennis Raider has failed in his effort to kill the Oteros. Thanks for listening to Serial Killers, a Spotify podcast. We're here with a new episode every Monday. Be sure to check us out on Instagram at Serial Killers,

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