Murder, Mystery & Makeup - Bind, Torture, Kill: Who was the BTK Killer?

Episode Date: February 4, 2025

Hi friends, happy Tuesday! Today, we're discussing the highly requested BTK killer, AKA Dennis Rader. This has got to be one of the worst MMM's so far...get ready, y'all. AND ALWAYS be aware of your surroundings. Also, let me know who you want me to talk about next time. Hope you have a great rest of your week, make good choices and I'll be seeing you very soon xo Bailey Sarian _________ :  :    F O L L O W    M E     :  : Discord:  https://discord.com/invite/BaileySarian Tik Tok: https://bit.ly/3e3jL9v Instagram: http://bit.ly/2nbO4PR Facebook: http://bit.ly/2mdZtK6 Twitter: http://bit.ly/2yT4BLV Pinterest: http://bit.ly/2mVpXnY Youtube: http://bit.ly/1HGw3Og Snapchat: https://bit.ly/3cC0V9d RECOMMEND A STORY HERE : [e-mail]  Business Related Emails : [e-mail] Wanna Send Me Something? Bailey Sarian 4400 W Riverside Dr Ste 110-300, Burbank, CA 91505 __________ Sign up now and join the over 13 million all-time customers who have already saved and invested over $22 billion dollars with Acorns. Head to https://www.acorns.com/makeup or download the Acorns app to get started. Get up to 10 FREE meals and a free high protein item for life at https://www.HelloFresh.com/makeup10fm. One item per box with active subscription. Free meals applied as discount on first box, new subscribers only, varies by plan.

Everyone's got a pro. Need tires? I've got a pro. Car making a weird sound? I've got a pro. So who's that pro? The pros at Tread Experts. From tires to auto repair, Tread Experts is always there, helping you with Toyo tires you can trust. Until May 31st, save up to $100 in rebates on select Toyo tires, like Toyo's open country family of tires. Find your pro at your local Tread Experts. From tires to auto repair, we're always there. Tread Experts.ca Hi friends, how are you today? I hope you're having a wonderful day so far. My name is Bailey Sarian and today is Monday, which means it's murder, mystery, and makeup. Monday! Theme song. If you're new here, hi, my name is Bailey Sarian and on Mondays I like

to sit down and talk about a true crime story that's been heavy on my noggin and I do my makeup at the same time. Today's story has been heavily recommended. I've been avoiding it because this guy scares the crap out of me. Crap out of me. Yes, but I'm doing it for you. Today we are talking about the notorious BTK killer. I learned too much about this guy. And the reason like he grosses me out the most is because he's one of those killers that like just would find someone and be like that's who I'm gonna kill next and like that was it you know where a lot of times

when we talk here it's kind of like people that the killer like knows or they're close with where this guy was like that person I'm gonna do that person and like it's scary. You know. Okay, so BTK killer. Between 1974 and 1991, Dennis Rader brutally murdered 10 people, including two children, mostly by binding, torturing, and killing them, which gave him the name BTK. Bind, torture, kill. Oh. Yeah. Dennis Rader, he lived quite quite the he lived a double life like on one hand

he was president of his local lutheran church council he was like president of that uh he was a cub scout leader he had a wife and two kids yep um what else Bailey? Well he earned multiple degrees and like held a variety of different jobs. One of his jobs was actually installing ADT security systems. Yeah he was installing security systems at the homes of people who were afraid of this BTK killer on the loose. Literally the killer is inside the house. So this guy, he had a very deep and complex dark side, which involved, you know, pretty like vivid fantasies of domination, bondage, torture, murdering women. And these fantasies turned to reality when in 1973,

Dennis was let go from his job at, think it's Cessna it's an aviation company and I guess he had time on his hands and he was like let's get down to business with too much time on his hands he fell deeper into his fantasies and the following year his killings began which would continue all the way up to 1991. During his murder spree, he would sometimes leave clues in the form of like letters that he would like leave in library books. He once even sent a poem to the local paper mocking one of his victims.

So like over 13 years, in 2004, Dennis hadn't been caught and the case had run cold. The local news had suggested that the killer must have been dead or was probably in prison, but Dennis didn't like this. He didn't wanna go unnoticed or forgotten. So he started communicating with media and police to let them know that like, hey, I'm still here.

He wrote letters, sent photos and evidence from crime scenes and he would send, like some would include driver's licenses of his victims. He even left random cereal boxes containing dolls bound with rope inside the cereal boxes. You know what I'm saying? And then finally though, his need for attention led cops to track him down,

all thanks to a floppy disk and his daughter's pap smear oh yes so now let's like get into the nitty-gritty of it all shall we so Dennis Lynn Rader was born on March 9th 1945 in Pittsburgh Kansas but I guess he grew up in Wichita, Kansas. His middle name is Lynn. I was like, oh, Dennis Lynn. He was the oldest of four boys and his mom worked at the local grocery store as a bookkeeper.

His dad, his name was William. He was in the Marine Corps. And then later he worked at the Kansas Gas Service Gas Distribution Center. But both of Dennis's parents worked long hours. And I guess, you know, because they're working all the time, they didn't pay much attention to their kids. They're working.

Later in life, Dennis would say that growing up, he felt ignored by his mother specifically. And I guess he like really resented her for this. He attended Riverview Elementary School and Wichita Heights High School. I guess he wasn't like a really good student you know and it was said that he was more introverted and withdrawn like his personality and while still in grade school Dennis developed sadistic sexual fantasies that involved torturing, quote, trapped and helpless women. Yeah, in grade school. Who the fuck? was caught believed that Dennis must have like had an early childhood experience that tied his

sexuality to watching like a living creature suffer and die uh you think maybe yeah that's what they think in this doctor's opinion after whatever that first event was he must have nurtured and encouraged those feelings in himself. I couldn't find anything like Dennis himself saying like what happened but obviously I think it's safe to say he was introduced to something very young right? By the time Dennis hit puberty his fantasies became like more elaborate and explicit. He was quoted as saying they were quote almost like a picture show that he wanted to direct and produce. There was this actress on the Mouseketeers. Well do you remember the Mickey Mouse Club on TV? If you don't that's okay it was an old show.

And there's this actress her name was like Annette but Dennis like would watch the show and he would see this Mouseketeer and would visualize like she was the main person starring in his dark fantasies. Well, when Dennis was young, he participated in, you know, Boy Scouts and various activities through the Lutheran Church. And as a Boy Scout, unfortunately, he learned how like how to tie different knots, you know, with rope, which would like go on to be part of this process of torturing and murdering his victims. So that backfired. Dennis went to college for about a year,

but then he dropped out. I don't know. He was over it. And then he ended up serving in the US Air Force from 1966 to 1970. And I guess during that time, he was a perv. He would peek through like window blinds to watch women undress and would even sometimes break into like their homes

when they weren't there and steal their underwear. Yeah. After the Air Force, Dennis moved to Park City, which was like just outside of Wichita. And when he was there, he worked in the meat department of the IGA supermarket. And this is like where his mom had been working as the bookkeeper. Then in 1971, he married a woman named Paula. And they went on to have two children together, a daughter named Carrie and a son named Brian. So like,

as all of these stories usually go, it's like from the outside, it's like, oh, this, you know, all American family working at the local supermarket, raising their kids. Nobody thinks a damn thing. At some point, Dennis, he would enroll in the local community college. I mean, he's smart because he went to like Butler County Community College in El Dorado and he earned an associate's degree in electrical engineering technology. So it seems like he wasn't dumb, you know what I'm saying? During this time, he was also continuing to act on his sexual fetishes of voyeurism, voyeurism, autoerotic asphyxiation, and cross-dressing, like low-key, you know, no one knew. It was said that he would also spy on female neighbors while dressed in women's clothing and then would masturbate with

ropes or other bindings around his arms and his neck. Yeah, he was a little extreme, huh? He also engaged in what's known as zoosatism. It's bad. It's the torture and killing of small animals like dogs and cats. Yeah, so he would like do that. He would strangle and hang animal victims. Oh, this is like the worst of the worst.

Dennis would later say that he was obsessed with pornography. Like in his free time if he wasn't killing animals or peeking on the neighbors he was looking at porn and he even had like a special nickname for his penis. Yeah he named him his penis sparky sparky and whenever he would get aroused he would call it big sparky time so there's that there's that sparky all right you know all right there was debate over like how others saw him some described him as well-mannered, polite, and normal and others said that he was obsessive and like extremely strict. So it was like you know how you know I don't know. He was apparently known to like bully single women and he killed a neighbor's dog for no reason during his time as a dog catcher.

Because he was like a dog catcher for a little bit. I think it's safe to assume he just really liked control and power. In 1973, Dennis was working for that aviation company. And then he got let go. And this event seemed to like give Dennis a lot of free time. It was said that this thrust him deeper into his violent fantasy life. With too much free time, you know what they say,

the devil's got work for idle hands, and boy, he had some idle hands. Like, I guess he started to crave knowing what it would be like to act on his sadistic impulses. Like, I don't know you guys, he must have hid this so well from his family. I mean, I watched interviews and stuff and like the kids were like,

yeah, he did hide it really well. But it's like, I don't know why, I don't know why, I'm not trying to like say I don't believe them or anything, you know, but like if you're married to someone, how do you not see little glimpses of like, he's fucked up, something's, something ain't right.

You know? I don't know just scary to think you can marry someone and they could be this fucking bimbo so Dennis began to quote unquote troll women which meant he was like casing neighborhoods and school campuses where he would prospect, stalk them, and then develop like an elaborate fantasy of bondage, sex, and murder around them. So Dennis had his his thing. I mean you'll see as we get into all the different murders that he he did. He had his thing. He would routinely bind, torture, and strangle his victims. And most of them, majority of them were women. He had, I guess, like a crime kit. And in this kit, it was a gun. There were knives, hoods, cords, tape, plastic bags, gloves,

and like various tools that he would use to break into people's houses. And again, I mean, I think it's obvious, but he really put a lot of thought into this. When he would arrive at victims' houses, he would cut the phone lines and either just knock on their door or break into their homes. He would often like hold his victims up at gunpoint and just kind of, well, yeah, he would force them to obey. He would often lie to the victims, telling them that he was a quote unquote, wanted man who was on the run.

Sometimes he would leave evidence at the scene, like semen, but at the time it was unclear like what kind of sexual acts were involved in his killings. And you know, there was no like DNA testing or anything like that yet. So the semen like, they're like, there's semen, too bad we can't do anything with it. And then in some of his later murders,

he would transport the body from the scene of the crimes. The Oteros were a Latin family who had like, had just moved into Dennis's neighborhood. And the family compromised of Jose Otero who's 38 his wife Julie she was 33 and then they had five children including Josephine who was 11 and Joey who was nine now Dennis he was watching them for a little bit before deciding like to you know murder them okay great before the murders even took place, Dennis stalked Julie and Josephine for weeks

to like learn their daily routines, what they were doing each day, where they were going, when they would come home, when no one was home, you know, all of that. Yeah. So once he like followed them for a while,

figuring out what their routine was, he devised a plan to like surprise Julie and Josephine at their home. On the morning of January 15th, 1973 at 8.20 in the morning, Dennis, he broke into the Otero, their home, but he was surprised because he saw that Mr. Otero and Joey were at the home, but the other three kids, they were at school. And like, normally they weren't going to be there. You know, he had been following them. This was not their routine. So he was like, what the fuck are these people doing here? But it didn't matter.

He went ahead with the crime anyway. Dennis started off by telling the four Oteros that he was a quote, wanted man, and then led them into the bedroom at gunpoint where he tied them all up with rope that he had prepared. Joseph and Joey were put on the floor while Julie and Josie were on the bed. Dennis restrained the wrists and the feet of the parents. Joseph's head was covered with a plastic bag which he bound with ropes but Joseph I guess ended up chewing a hole through the bag so he was kind of able to like you know get out of the fucking bag so he's able to like chew a hole through it and he's like gasping for air and unfortunately like Dennis realizes this so he gets another bag and he puts it over his head which caused Joseph to like slowly suffocate to death.

Ugh, I know. Dennis tried strangling Julie. Okay, so he strangles her and then he thinks like she's dead, but she's not dead. She wakes up and she's like screaming. She's yelling. She's, you know, she's trying to get away. And then she starts begging with Dennis like

please like let her son Joey go let him go let him go Dennis not there just like he's not there okay because he just proceeds to strangle her to death with the rope in front of the freaking kids once both parents were dead he used a plastic bag stuffed with two t-shirts to suffocate Joey and he just it was said like he just watched him die slowly like next Dennis led Josie into the basement where he I'm sorry he hanged her with a noose from a pipe. I'm so sorry. I know. The police, they found evidence of semen

near Josie's partially clothed body. The bodies were ultimately discovered by the three older kids who had been at school during the time of the murders. So sad. No, I was gonna say, could you imagine? No, couldn't imagine coming home. Mm-mm.

Well, only a few months after the Otero murders, on April 4th, 1974, Dennis broke into the home of 21-year-old Catherine Doreen Bright. So he, Dennis, had like entered through the porch screen door, and then he was like hiding in her bedroom just waiting for her. So at 2 p.m. she had come home with her 19-year-old brother. His name was Kevin. They came home. Dennis was surprised, you know.

He was like not expecting this brother to come, right? But he ends up surprising the two. Dennis like walks out. He has a gun in his hand and he's holding them at gunpoint. And then again, he's telling them that he's a wanted criminal and that he needed a car, food and money

because he was on his way to New York. Dennis then forced the guy, Kevin, to restrain his sister, with a rope and then he moved Catherine into the bedroom where he like proceeded to tie her down. So while in the bedroom Catherine was like fighting back obviously she's fighting and fighting and like Dennis was trying to strangle her but then he gets really frustrated because Catherine was fighting back too much. She was pretty good. She was like really fighting him and I guess it made Dennis really upset because he could not seem to get her to stop. Dennis ended up you know stabbing her three times like in her back and her lower stomach because she was putting up too much of a fight. I guess

then Dennis and Kevin got into a fight because you know Kevin was trying to fight back trying to fight this guy off and then unfortunately Dennis shot him in the head twice and then strangled him and then miraculously Kevin got away by pretending to be dead. So he wasn't dead he was just laying there pretending to be. And then when the coast was clear, Kevin got up and like fled the scene. I guess a few months later between the Catherine Bright murder and his next murder, Dennis had wrote a letter detailing the Otero killing

that he ended up stashing in an engineering book that he left at the Wichita Public Library. So Dennis wouldn't murder again, I mean, as far as we know, until three years later on March 17th, 1977. This is when he would kill 25-year-old Shirley Ralford. So Dennis was actually pursuing a different potential victim at this time.

And I guess that victim luckily she wasn't home that day so then Dennis was like I'll pivot could you imagine holy shit well Dennis saw um Shirley's five-year-old son Steve he's walking home and Dennis was like I'll just follow this kid home so follows the kid home Dennis knocks on the front door and little Steve answered. Dennis pretended to be a detective and little Steve let him in. And when Dennis got inside, that's when he discovered that there were two other children who were also inside. Well, once Dennis was inside, he turns off the TV and then he turns down the blinds.

Surely she was in her bedroom. She comes out and she sees Dennis. She, you know, freaks her out. Dennis then pulls out his gun, holds her up at gunpoint, and then orders the children into the bathroom. He ties up all the kids in the bathroom and then locks them inside. He then gets Shirley, takes her into the back bedroom. It's unclear what Dennis did next, and like whether he sexually assaulted Shirley or not. Detectives later, they would find semen next to Shirley's body. So, you know, it's safe to assume he probably did.

But what we do know is that he uh tied her up or something and then uh they smoked a cigarette together or he smoked a cigarette and must have like gave it to her at some point but there was like a cigarette put out at the scene and he had restrained her to the bed with rope you know and then at some point she had thrown up because there was vomit at the scene which understandable. Then he ended up strangling her with a rope and then putting a plastic bag over her head. Meanwhile all of like the kids were like screaming in the bathroom. I guess Dennis, he had planned to kill the kids but they had managed to escape before he could get to them. So like police come to the scene

and stuff but like there isn't much they can do this is a time when there wasn't dna and like you know all that jazz like how they solved crimes i don't freaking know so wild so months later on december 18th 1977 dennis murdered 25 yearyear-old Nancy Jo Fox. He entered her home when she wasn't home. Well, first, you know, like with all of his victims, he would like usually follow them and like learn their routines and stuff. So like he would know when they weren't home. And then when they weren't home, he would go inside and like cut the phone lines,

which he did with Nancy. Like I guess he had been stalking Nancy for quite some time. And when she returned home from her job, she was working at the jewelry store. Dennis jumped out and surprised her at gunpoint in her kitchen. He told her that he had a sexual issue and he needed to tie her up and rape her. Hey, I have a sexual issue. I'm sure those weren't the exact words, but it was something along those lines. So Dennis had allowed Nancy to like take

off some of her clothes in the bathroom and then ordered her to get into the bedroom and like it was just different. He didn't really let anyone else do that so you know something happened inside. Once they were in the bedroom that's where he tied her up and then he got undressed now while they're like in the bedroom together he like starts to strangle her with his belt but then he starts confessing to her he's like i killed the otero family he's confessing things to her he just obviously he's sick but i guess he was so excited he just needed to tell somebody. I don't know. Well, Nancy would end up dying. And, you know, when police came out to the scene and whatnot, Dennis's semen was found on Nancy Jo's nightgown,

which was taken off at this point and was like found next to her. The next day on his way to work for ADT, the home security company, he was working for them. He ended up calling the police from a pay phone and told them that they would find Nancy Fox's body at her home. A few months later in 1978 Dennis I guess he wrote a sarcastic poem called Shirley Locks and he sent it to the Wichita Eagle newspaper and it was like describing Shirley's murder. Yeah I guess he was a poet. So he sends that and then he sends another letter and it's titled O Death to Nancy. I think it's mimicking the song O Death by Ralph Stanley

I think but he was mocking once again Nancy's murder so killer is on the loose and he's mocking everybody so it's just like not great it's not great it's not ideal this is not great and then also like during this time he's murdering but he's also really busy like and I he's just like really busy because he's like working different jobs Dennis's and he also was receiving different degrees for instance in like 1979 he graduated from Wichita State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Administration of Justice. I mean he's doing a lot. Dennis worked at Coleman Company as an assembler and he worked at ADT installing security systems for many of the people who feared getting murdered by a serial killer who was on the

loose. The media had called this serial killer the BTK killer. A lot of people were scared so they're calling up ADT to get the security systems installed. Gosh, and it's Dennis. It's literally Dennis. Dennis also served as a census field operations supervisor. Yeah, the census people. Oh God. Also, he was a dog catcher, a compliance officer, a cub scout leader, and the eventual president of the local chapter of the Christ Lutheran Church in Wichita.

Yeah. So he was just like very involved with the community which gave him like all the leverage too. So then seven years go by, most likely because like Dennis was like raising his family it's believed, but seven years go by. And on April 27th, 1985, Dennis murdered his 53-year-old neighbor, Marin Hedge. Yeah, his neighbor. I guess the two of them, they had lived on the same block for over 30 years in Park City. And he was like, I'm a killer. So Dennis was at a Boy scout meeting the night that like this took place and he told the scout people the boy scouts like i gotta leave early i got a

headache you know and i gotta go home and i gotta get some medicine he goes out right and he goes to a local bowling alley and he gets a beer and while he's there he's drinking beer and he like spills some of the beer on him on himself because he wants to appear drunk then he calls a cab pretending to be drunk and he takes it back to park city so dennis sees like maren's car in her driveway so he's assuming that she's home look this is hold on i gotta go back to the drunk thing because i kind of got hung up on that for a minute i was like why is he trying to pretend that he's drunk? My assumption is like, it's an alibi, right? Like, oh, he was at the bowling alley and he was drunk. That's why he took a cab. I don't know. I'm kind of like, I kind of don't get it. I'm missing something, obviously. Anyways, he sees Marin's car's in the driveway. So he's like, she's home. So he goes and he cuts

the phone lines and like, you know, outside of her house house and then he walks through the back door and realizes that she wasn't there so he decides to just wait for her and he waits for her in her bedroom until early in the morning like she ends up returning back to her home close to like 1 a.m but she returns with a man so Dennis is hiding in the bedroom closet all the way until 1 a.m., but she returns with a man. So Dennis is hiding in the bedroom closet all the way until 1 a.m. And he's waiting until this man leaves. And then she like goes to sleep. Once he thinks she's asleep,

Dennis jumps on Marin and like chokes her to death. Once Marin is dead, Dennis then drags her body outside and then puts it in the trunk of her own car. He then drove her to the Christ Lutheran Church where he was the council president. He then covered the windows in black plastic so no one could see like what he was doing and then he takes her body and puts it in the church basement. So when he's in there in the basement all alone he's now like taking photographs. Now he's a photographer. He's taking photographs of the of her body and like putting her body in

different poses taking pictures and then when he was done he puts her back into the trunk of the car and then dumps her body in a ditch along a dirt road near her home. This guy is beyond sick. Maren's body was found like a week later on May 5th. So Dennis's next victim was 28 year old Vicky Lynn Wiglerly. She was 28 right? She was a mother of two and Dennis had been stalking her. He would walk by her house and like, I guess she would be playing the piano and he would just like listen to her playing the piano. He was just following her everywhere she went.

Again, I was like, how did he have the time? He has his own family. He had a job, he was getting degrees. He was like doing all this shit and he fricking found the time, okay? He did because he put a job, he was getting degrees. He was like doing all this shit and he fricking found the time. Okay, he did. Because he put a lot of thought into this murder. He referred to this murder as the PJ project.

I don't know, I don't know. But this one was like a passion project of his, I guess. Dennis would show up at Vicky's door at 10 a.m. on September 16th, 1986. And when he shows up, he tells her that he's the telephone repairman. Ugh, I hate it. I hate it because it's like, fuck, I would let them in.

I mean, I'm not gonna now. I'm not gonna now. Nope, don't try it because I'm not gonna. But like, oh, you're the telephone repairman? Oh, great, you know? Ugh. Anyways, so he tells her he's the telephone repairman? Oh, great, you know. Oh. Anyways, so he tells her he's a telephone repairman. She lets him in.

Once he's inside, I guess that's when he like cuts her phone line. So once he cuts her phone line, he then holds her up at gunpoint. And then, you know, he's able to get her, tie her up. She was able to like fight him off, but he's a big boy, big gross guy. So he takes a rope and he chokes her with it and he ends up choking her to death. So once she was dead, he took photographs and then he like rearranged her clothes, rearranged her body, took photos, then took photos of like her nude body, just all in different positions. And then he ends up leaving in Vicky's car. So he leaves in Vicky's car. And while he's driving, Vicky's husband is like driving back to the house. So he spots Vicky's car

and he's like, oh my God, is that my wife's car and he couldn't make out who the driver was but he's like that's my wife's car so Vicky's husband gets home and that's where he finds his two-year-old son was alone in the living room and he's like what the fuck and he's like searching the house and he ends up finding Vicky on the floor behind the bed in their bedroom so he rushes his wife to the hospital, but sadly, a few hours later, she was pronounced dead. So while this was happening, Dennis was like getting rid of, you know, any evidence.

And he parked the car a few blocks away from Vicky's home. Then he went to his house and he like changed his clothes, you know, got rid of any evidence on himself. So by 1991 Dennis decided that older women would be like better victims because to him they were more vulnerable than the younger women. So he's like I'm going to pivot now to more mature women. So on January 19th Dennis kills 62 year old Dee Davies. So this time Dennis like devised an intricate plan. He was on a weekend boy scout camping trip and came up with like an excuse to slip away. He then drove his car to his parents house to change into his hit clothes. Then he left his car at the Baptist church in

Park City and would then like carry out like the rest of his plan on foot. So he went to Delores's house and waited outside until he could tell that she had fallen asleep. Then he used a cement block that he found, you know, he's like, oh, there's a cement block. And he ends up breaking the glass on her back door. Because of this loud commotion, Dolores wakes up. She comes out of her bedroom and that's where she sees Dennis. He said that same old lie that he had been like saying for a while that he, you know, he was like a wanted man.

I don't know why he liked that so much. Well, I think because like then when police are searching for him they'd be like oh he's a wanted man on the run so he must not be from around here you know I think that's what it was all about but anyways he said he was a wanted man he needed money he needed food and he needed a car that's what he tells Dolores and then he ties her up in her bedroom where he just like fucking fucked with her until like he strangled her to death. Dennis then took Dolores' body and put her into the trunk of her own car. And he hid her body along with some evidence at a lake near some trees. But he drove like Dolores' car back to her house

and then wiped it down, trying to get rid of any fingerprints, you know? And then he went back to the church and got his own car. Then he returned to the body to put in his own car and then dispose of it again under a bridge in Sedgwick County. Well, then it's not over because Dennis then like changes back into his scout uniform and then joins back up with the Boy Scouts group.

Like nothing happened. He's like, hey guys. Yeah, I just popped out for like two seconds. Isn't that wild? I'm back now. Hi. And then the next night, he once again went back to the body

and like photographed it, just took pictures of it in different situations. Police then found Dolores's body like a few weeks later on February 1st. So there were like other potential victims that many believe Dennis were responsible for killing. The first was 16 year old Cynthia Kinney. Cynthia was last seen on June 23rd, 1976. She was at the Osage, Osage, Osage, Oklahoma. And she was at the laundromat in this town. Three things that connected Dennis

to Cynthia's disappearance were, one, Dennis was in the area for a Boy Scout trip at the time of her disappearance. Two, ADT alarms were also being installed across the street from the laundromat where Cynthia went missing and again Dennis was like a regional installer for the security company and then three Dennis had I guess a particular fantasy about kidnapping a girl from a laundromat. So yeah, Dennis would deny any involvement, but many people suspect it's because a murder in Oklahoma

could result in the death penalty. Whereas like there was no death penalty in Kansas and like where his other murders had taken place. So many think like he didn't want to confess because he didn't want the death penalty because he's a little chicken shit and didn't want to get the death penalty meanwhile all of his other victims got the death penalty like because of his dumb fuck i i i hate this guy he's a little chicken he acts like he's so big and bad but he's a little baby. He's a big old fucking baby. The second potential victim of Dennis was 22 year old Shauna Beth Garber. Shauna was found murdered in McDonald County, Missouri

on December 2nd, 1990. Her remains were actually not identified until 2021 she had been raped strangled and hogtied using six different types of cords and shauna had gone missing on november 3rd of 1990 and like it was unsolved for a really long time it wasn't in until 2023 that authorities actually named Dennis as the prime suspect because there was photographic evidence of the crime found in one of his journals. So I think it's pretty safe to assume that uh he did it. Yeah yeah. So what now? Well we jump 13 years later. It's 2004. So by 2004, like the investigation into this BTK killer had run cold. The local news was saying that the killer was most likely either dead or in prison because like nothing has happened in a long time. So when Dennis hears this, he wants attention.

He initiates a series of 11 communications with the media and the police. So the first of these communications came in March of 2004 when the Wichita Eagle received a letter from a quote, Bill Thomas Kilman, BTK. This Bill Thomas Kilman was claiming to have murdered Vicky on September 16th, 1986. So at the time, authorities weren't necessarily sure Vicky had been a victim of this BTK guy,

but the letter included photographs of the crime scene and even a photocopy of Vicky's driver's license. So from there, there was actually DNA taken from Vicky's fingernails, like underneath her fingernails. And that gave police new evidence, which led them to DNA testing hundreds of men. But unfortunately, like there was no match at the time. There was no one in their system with like any connection to this DNA they found. So then in May of 2004, Dennis sent another letter, this time to the television station, KAKE, or K-A-K-E,

but it's in Wichita. And the letter included chapter headings of the BTK story with also fake IDs in a word puzzle. I know, what in the fuck is going on? How did he have the time? Well then on June 9th there was a package that was found taped to like a stop sign at the corner of First and Kansas Road in Wichita and the package it had graphic descriptions of the Otero murders as well as a sketch labeled the sexual thrill is my bill. Dennis included a chapter list for a proposed book named the BTK story which like mimicked a story written in 1999 by court tv crime writer David Lohr.

The first chapter was titled a A Serial Killer is Born. He was just trying to like make fun of like everyone, pretty much. There you go. And then in July of that same year, there was a package that was dropped into a return slot at like the local public library. It contained like all kinds of bizarre material,

including a claim that BTK had killed 19 year old Jake Allen in Argonia, Kansas when in fact this 19 year old named Jake Allen he had died by suicide but in this thing they were claiming that BTK did it, maybe as a distraction or something, I don't know. And then October of 2004, Dennis left a manila envelope in a UPS box in Wichita. And the envelope contained images of children being like tortured and bound. And then there was a poem that was threatening

the lead investigator at the time, his name was Lieutenant Ken and there was an autobiography of Dennis with like multiple fake and made up details. It was an autobiography of the BTK killer, but like none of it applied to Dennis. He was a storyteller, I guess. Then in December of 2004, Wichita police got another package from BTK.

This one was found in Murdoch Park and it contained the driver's license of Nancy Fox as well as a doll that was bound at the hands and feet with a plastic bag that was like tied over its head in January of, Dennis tried leaving a cereal box in the bed of like a pickup truck that was parked at Home Depot in Wichita. But I guess like when the owner of the truck came out of Home Depot, he sees like the cereal box and he like grabs it and just like, the fuck is that doing in here? And like tosses it. So that didn't work out but it was later retrieved from the trash after like dennis had asked he'd asked about the cereal box in a follow-up message to police he was like did you

get my cereal box question mark question mark they're like no we didn't get your cereal box but there were surveillance footage that showed a figure they couldn't make out who but it was a person driving a black jeep cherokee who was leaving the cereal box in the pickup truck so this was great because now they had like a car make a model black jeep cherokee okay they're like fuck yeah like that's something okay and then in february of that year there were more postcards that were sent to that television station cake and another cereal box with a bound doll inside was found in like a rural location so at one point during Dennis's communications uh with police he asked if he could put his writings on a floppy disk and if they could trace the floppy disk back to him now Now, mind you, when he's communicating with police,

they don't know it's actually Dennis, you know? It's just like anonymous. But this anonymous writer was like, hey, if I put stuff on a floppy disk, will you be able to track it back to me? Like genuinely asking this. And the police replied in a newspaper ad. It was like in the Wichita Eagle.

And they're like, like no we can't we can't trace it back to you so Dennis got the bright idea to send a purple 1.44 megabyte Memorex how you say it Memorex whatever he sends a floppy disk to KSAS TV in Wichita and along with it he sends a letter a necklace I had like a large medallion and a photocopy of the cover of rules of prey which is a novel by john sanford and it's about a serial killer so police they get their hands on this floppy disk and they're able to get the metadata on the floppy disk and it's from they realize it's from like a deleted microsoft word document and on this document it included the words christ lutheran church also the document was marked as last

modified by dennis you so he must have been using the church computer huh oh you stupid fuck so great for investigators because now they got something to work with right so they do some digging and they discover that the president of the church council was a man named dennis raider oh this must have been such a win they're like finally they get like dennis's address and they send out a win. They're like, finally. They get like Dennis's address and they send out a guy to go do like a drive by. And they see that like parked right outside

of Dennis's house was a black Jeep Cherokee. Just like the one they saw in the surveillance footage. Oh yeah, they got their guy. You know, these clues, you would think they would just pull up and be like, we got our guy, guy case closed they provided like strong circumstantial evidence but they needed concrete or they wanted more concrete evidence to arrest dennis what they do bailey well hold on let me tell you so police obtained a warrant to dna test a pap smear that dennis's daughter her name's Carrie she had done a pap smear at like Kansas State Medical Clinic so they get her DNA and they test it and it reveals that there's a familial

match to the DNA that was found under Vicky's fingernails one of the victims and this DNA match was enough to arrest Dennis Rader thank god she'd got pap smear. I think I said this in one of my old videos, but it's so true. Like if you ever get attacked and like, which I hope never happens to any of us, but if it does happen, scratch the shit out of these people. Get as much DNA under your freaking fingernails as you possibly can. Okay. I'm paranoid as hell, but I'm always thinking about that. Like just scratch, just fucking scratch. I hope it never happens, but you know. So on February 25th, 2005,

Dennis Rader was arrested while driving near his home in Park City. A police officer asked Dennis, like if he knew why he was being arrested. And Dennis responded with like, Oh, I have a suspicion why? Oh yeah, oh yeah. I hate him. He's gross. Various law enforcement agents, including Wichita police, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the FBI,

and ATF agents. They all searched his home, his vehicle, his church, his office at city hall, and the main branch of the park city library and there was a lot of evidence seized but there were like some of it was like black pantyhose computer equipment the trophies they found and like the next morning police chief norman williams declared like to the public that the bottom line was that BTK was arrested. Little did they all know it was a guy that like everyone knew. Could you imagine?

No, no, couldn't imagine. It's like that guy? Fuck. On February 28th, 2005, Dennis Rader was charged with 10 counts of first degree murder. And then a week later news sources reported that Dennis had confessed to all 10 murders. His bail was set to $10 million. And there was like a public defender

who was appointed to represent him. On May 3rd, Dennis was pleading not guilty. But then on June 27th, like the scheduled trial date, Dennis would end up changing his plea to guilty. And he would go on to like detail the murders, but he didn't apologize. Why would he, huh? Dennis's public defender had him evaluated by forensic psychologist Robert Mendoza to see if like an insanity defense was an option. Mendoza diagnosed Dennis with narcissistic, obsessive-compulsive, and antisocial personality disorders. He said that Dennis had a grandiose sense of self, believing that he was special and entitled to special treatment. Dennis had a pathological

need for attention and admiration, a complete lack of empathy, and a preoccupation with maintaining rigid order. Dennis's evaluation by this Dr. Mendoza was filmed and that footage was like used actually in an episode of Dateline about Dennis. You can watch it on YouTube. During his trial, he made various comments and revelations about his victims.

He said that the Otero family and Shirley Relford would serve him as sex slaves in the afterlife. Yeah. Like, really, dude? Yeah, really. He also said that he would have killed Shirley's daughter, but the phone rang and scared him off he was quoted as saying i probably would have hung the little girl okay cool thanks you know oh he also went on to say i'm pretty mean or could be but on the other hand i'm very you know i'm a nice guy what yeah that's what he said i'm a nice guy okay sure dennis went on to describe nancy joe fox's murder as quote perfect because she mostly cooperated and he had complete control over her

he also then revealed that he threw d davies was it d Davies he threw her body under a bridge but returned to it later and when he did the body was like badly decomposed so because of this he placed a feminine mask over her face and then like photographed her body to use in like his scrapbook essentially he was like the face was ugly so i put a mask over it it's like oh my god yeah yeah yeah dennis raider was sentenced on august 18th and at the sentencing you know the victim's families come up and they made statements pretty much saying like f you dude f you how could you and like Dennis just like wasn't even bothered and you know then it was his turn Dennis's time to like say something to address the court and Dennis apologized kind of in like a rambling 30 minute speech which like it's actually been described as

an example of a phenomenon seen in psychopaths where they have an inability to understand the emotional content of language. Dennis Rader was sentenced to 10 life sentences with a minimum of 175 years. Now at this time, there was no death penalty in Kansas, but since they've actually reinstated it, put him down. I say put him down they reinstated it after like they caught the worst guy ever so that's cool Dennis is still alive you know yeah to this day he's like in solitary confinement for his own protection he gets one hour of exercise a day and he gets to shower at least three times a week his cell is pretty

small and he refers to his cell as his cave and he has like no contact with other inmates because like they most likely would kill him if they had access to him would we be mad is that fucked up no come on no he's fucked up we wouldn't be mad We wouldn't be mad. We wouldn't be mad. We wouldn't mind. I'm sorry, that's mean. But is it? Not really. So forensic psychologist Dr. Catherine Ramsland, she actually was talking with Dennis for over six years while he was in prison. And together they created what she called a quote, guided autobiography. It's titled Confession of a Serial Killer, The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer. And in their communication, they developed like a code,

a codex is what he liked to call it, which allowed him to like write freely about his victims. And sure, okay, you know, and like, it was said like when this doctor was like corresponding with Dennis, she said it was like really challenging because like at one point, Dr. Ramsland had asked Dennis to describe one of his torture fantasies. And in return, like he didn't. Instead, he sent her a 14-page letter along with like newspaper clippings,

photographs, and recipes, as well as like a key to help decipher clues so he was like playing games with her he was like girl what did you expect that he was just gonna be like open and like tell you everything you know like of course he's gonna play games he's bored as fuck he's locked up all day and someone's interested in him someone's stroking his ego a little bit of course he's gonna be a dick but anyways Dr. Ramsland she concluded that this was his way of like retaining control she said she managed to like learn a great deal about his inner life like he apparently fixated on anything bound or knotted and he loved abandoned silos referring to them as castles and he loved the number three and his favorite color is purple i'm kidding i don't know that but like his favorite number is three wow you've learned so much she also said that he created an image of himself as a hunter or like a predator he even

referred to the killer inside of himself as the minotaur so he said at times the minotaur would go quote dark he would say that all of his violent crimes and his sexual tendencies were all because of this minotaur and he claimed that he started out as like like he referred to himself as like white hat but then periodically would be dragged to the dark side. Such a fucking eye roll. Okay, sure. Apparently like as a child, the sight of chickens about to be slaughtered aroused him, he went on to say. He told the doctor that like he fantasized about tying women down onto train tracks and like would masturbate to his father's book about the lonely hearts killer. And Dr. Ramsland explained like a lot of readers writing was often boring and like run of the mill, but then all of a sudden

it would like slip into some really dark shit, which is like, sure, I could see that, right? Sure. As Dr. Ramsland put it, quote, and all of a sudden you feel like you're suddenly in minotaur territory. It's almost like you're paddling at the surface of the water and suddenly something pulls you down. End quote. Yeah I could see that sure. Okay she also learned that he kept keepsakes from all of his victims and he would hide them all around like Wichita in what he called hidey holes. Apparently at every victim's home, he would like go through all their stuff. He would take jewelry, lingerie, IDs, and other items that he would keep for memories or like, you know, people refer to them as trophies. It was said that Dennis was motivated to work with Dr. Ramsland

because he wanted to uncover what made him go dark. But Dr. Ramsland concluded it really wasn't anything that unique. Like he came off very desperate, like he desperately wanted to be seen as someone who was very complex, special, and mysterious. But you know like he wasn't. He wasn't. She attributes his psychology to what she calls the trajectory toward violence, which is a combination of sexual impulses, desire for fame, delusions of a double life, intersecting with the opportunity to commit murders. Damn. And that my friends is today's case about Dennis Rader, the BTK killer.

There's so much to this guy. And honestly, he terrifies me, which I hate giving him or any murderer, any type of credit or power over my psyche. But this type of guy like freaks the shit out of me because like no rhyme or reason he would just spot you and be like you you're next and that is scary I don't like that I don't like this guy he was sick and he was living this full-on double life like he had a family and everything and they swear they didn't know anything and if you watch interviews and stuff i believe it i believe it like he seemed like this great loving

dad who like liked his kids and shit and he was doing some horrible stuff i just like could not fucking imagine i could you imagine no no just one day you wake up and like everyone's telling you that your husband is like this absolute psychopath. What? Oh, I feel so bad for the family. What a mindfuck that would be. Right? And then this dentist guy is just a loser. He's just a loser who wanted attention and was sick and is just a fucking loser.

Scum on the bottom of our shoes. Sucks. Wish they killed him, which is like, oops, sorry, I shouldn't say that. But like, you know, they should have. So how do we end it, friends? I don't know. This is one of those stories that reminds me to be like,

aware, aware of your surroundings, lock your doors, be careful, snoop in your husband's shit if you have to he's alone in the basement or something what are you doing what are you doing go down there go through all this shit just make sure okay she's like damn you can't trust anyone? That's lame. So yeah, that's that, huh? Sheesh. Yeah, yeah. I know I kind of left out. I'm sorry. I did leave out a lot about like the family, the personal life and stuff. Sometimes I just don't know if I include it or not. I don't know. It's about the guy. I don't know. Well, I hope you have a good day today. You make good choices. Please be safe out there. Yeah, I appreciate you guys so much and i hope to see you next time

okay okay bye