Monster: BTK - Night Terrors

Episode Date: February 10, 2025

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Now what's my night terror? Somebody in my room, on top of me in bed, trying to kill me. Why is that? I mean, I was scared. I was scared of the dark. I was scared to go to the bathroom. This carried over into college. Why is that?

So I've talked to detectives, talked to trauma therapists. Nobody knows how to fix this night terror stuff, and nobody knows why is it the bad guy in the room trying to kill me. Do you feel like the bad guy is your dad? Yeah. My dad planned these things, premeditated these things. Was he practicing that murder in our house? Was he practicing corners and closets?

You're wondering if that feeling you had was maybe him actually in your room in the closet. Yeah, some sort of depressed memory where I was scared shitless from my dad. Who's to say he wasn't doing something in my bedroom? I just would rather know. Like for me I need to know. Because once I know then I can deal with it. You can divorce a spouse, you can't divorce a father. You can't just divorce your dad. Did a part of you feel like you wanted to make it better somehow? I wanted to help him.

Like I'm mad at you in one second and I'm worried you're cold and dealing with this blanket in this cold cell. Like I love you. I still love you. Do you still love him? Oh yeah. I mean I told him that and the letters were really odd. Like I love you and I don't know what's wrong and I don't know why you did this.

And I wrote him and I was like, I'm so sorry. Like, I'm so sorry, something must have happened to you. You're just thinking, something awful must have happened to you to turn you into this. And I'm so sorry, you know, that you're alone and that we're not with you. Monster BTK concludes. alone and that we're not with you. content, you'll only get with a subscription. Otherwise, the latest episodes will become available for free every Monday. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.