pull off the perfect crime and it doesn't exist. >> the arrogance was part of his downfall. >> we're not getting any communication from the police department. something is happening. something is going on this guy, this is the killer. >> so i finally looked at him and said, come on, just tell us who you are. and he said, i'm btk btk had killed seven people, including two children. >> he was taunting law enforcement with clues, but police were no closer to discovering his identity. although he left his dna at two murder scenes, dna testing and tracing did not yet exist, so the killing would go on until a stunning twist that would finally end the terror that's in part two of btk. i'm donnie wahlberg. thanks for watching. good night

she was chosen. >> since she lived down the street from me. i could watch the coming and going quite easily snuck into the house. she wasn't there. i went back to one of the bedrooms and hid. >> welcome to very scary people. donnie wahlberg after torturing and killing seven people, demented serial killer btk contacted police to boast about his brutal acts. he threatened more victims would follow. his real identity was

still a complete mystery. he dared cops to find him. the city of wichita was on edge. wichita police form a secret task force of seasoned detectives to track down btk. they need to capture him before he kills again. here is part two of btk, the taunting. >> wichita, kansas was in the middle of america, and nobody locked their doors. was a great little town to be from the morning of january 15th, 1974 was just a regular school day in the otero household until the unthinkable happens. >> an intruder enters their home and commits atrocities against this innocent family. >> i saw my parents bodies. it just felt like somebody had ripped my chest wide open and

pulled my heart out and investigators are trying to piece together the evidence and find the killer. >> when in april, another brutal killing when the crime scene investigators found the dna stain on the female clothing, they collected it. >> but there was no dna testing at that time. and so they packaged it properly, sealed it up, and put it with the rest of the evidence. >> in wichita instantly changed. it wasn't an innocent city anymore. >> killer breaks in. he's he's lying in wait, and he's thinking he will be able to subdue her and do whatever he wants and fill his fantasy. >> btk studied a lot about police techniques. he knew that the police basically were looking for a common m.o. >> the btk nomenclature bind torture, kill. and that's how

he wanted to be known so he then sits down and creates a very elaborate letter that he will then send to kake-tv the writer who claimed to be btk, admitted to the murders of the otero family. >> shirley and nancy fox. he admitted to and gave details of all of those homicides. >> we have an individual who apparently has the uncontrollable desire to kill. at times, this individual is responsible for seven murders in our city. >> nobody knew where, when, why or who is going to be next

the idea behind the ghostbusters was to have people that didn't have any impressions of the investigation up to that point, who could put some fresh eyes on it? >> you're going to look at it from, hey, do we need to go back out and re-interview people? >> could we possibly have interviewed somebody with important information we missed the first part of the ghostbusters was just getting the case together. >> the case was all over the police department. it was in boxes. it was in folders in people's houses. the ghostbusters brought order to a dispersal of records. >> part of the work was establishing a department. >> database. we would look at, for example, there was a certain gun which was used in one of the killings. and so we did research on all those kind of guns, found every person who

ever bought such a gun in the united states, and that went into a database. the fbi said there has to be a pattern to these crimes. one of the detectives thought that the killer was choosing certain house numbers to kill people. i built a database for them that tracked how far, let's say sex offenders lived from crimes. >> they did a fantastic job. i mean, they ran down leads, incredible leads. they never gave up. they tried every lead. it was just. they just ran out. the leads ran out. >> i wondered if there is a pattern. why can't i find it? the point is, these killings were random. there was no pattern. he would see somebody decide. i think i'd like to kill them there was no connection between the victims. there was no connection between addresses. it's all random. >> she was chosen. i went

through the different phases stocking face and said she lived down the street from me. i could watch the coming and going quite easily after a seven year hiatus, a very long cooling off period for a serial killer, btk resumes in 1985 with the killing of a 53 year old woman named maureen hedge, a neighbor of his who actually lived right down the street he will cut the phone line he will enter the house and he will wait for her to come home. >> she didn't come home for quite a while, and when she did, she came in with a man. and the two of them were talking. >> they hang around, watch tv. he grows impatient as he sits in a closet or something waiting for her. eventually her

date will leave. she'll go to bed and then he comes out, surprises, shocks maureen hedge and kills her this one was different, however, after he strangled her, he removed her body and transported it from her home to the basement of the local lutheran church. >> he poses the body. he photographs it. he's going to save those souvenirs for later. and then he throws her body in a ditch, so much like a piece of trash. so his m.o. is actually shaping and changing and morphing over time. >> this is a change again, in his m.o., because he was also selecting an older victim because he was now older and he wanted to be able to physically control the

person. >> btc's next murder occurred in 1991 with a 62 year old victim, dolores davis i had cased the place before, and i really couldn't figure out how to get in, and she was in the house, so i finally just selected a concrete block and threw it through the plate glass window he didn't mess around on this one. >> he just threw a big block through the window while she was sitting there reading and he will attack her and kill her. remove her. he will take her to a bridge out in the county under the bridge, where it will become light. and he's running out of time, so he has to leave her and he will come back the next night with a mask

that he will put on her. he'll take pictures. that body is discovered by a boy walking his dog the next day by this time, he's been killing for almost 20 years or so. >> but now he's in his 40s. he's aging out. he's learned from his crimes. he's been fought against overpowered. he has made a lot of mistakes. he wants to make sure he still gets away with it. a welcome to times square that's not a bud light. >> cheers that was so embarrassing. >> new year's eve live with anderson and andy. live coverage starts at eight on cnn. streaming live on max. >> it's the most wonderful time with verizon. >> trade in any phone, any condition. it's your last

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department. before he was a lieutenant, he was a patrol officer and he was assigned to that initial ghostbusters task force, which was to look at the btk case in the late 90s, our homicide unit started looking at some cold cases and picking out cases that might be dna solvable. now that we have this dna science coming on board, lieutenant landwehr assigned vicky wiggly's cold case murder to myself and my partner, dana gouge. he didn't say at all, nor would he have ever. this is a btk case. i know it is. that's how i want you to work it. when bill wegovy came home that day for lunch, he walked through the house looking for his wife, vicky. when he found her body, she had been bound. he used a knife to

cut some of the bindings off of her, as he called the police. they transported her to a hospital and life saving efforts didn't work and she'd been strangled to death. when we reviewed the initial investigation of vicky's murder, we realized that her kansas driver's license had been missing. lieutenant landwehr had told us that his belief on the case was that it probably was not the husband. based upon that driver's license being missing. however, the detectives that worked it in 1986 focused really hard on the husband, thinking it was a domestic violence issue the license had never been recovered it was january of 2004, which was the 30th anniversary of the otero murders in the wichita eagle decided to run a story

about btk. >> the eagle ran a story saying it had been 30 years since the first btk deaths in part of the story, the reporter talked to professor beattie, a local college professor and author, when he would mention btk in his classes. his students had no idea who btk was. >> 30 years had passed. this is sort of fading into wichita's history, and there was a lot of speculation. well, he's probably dead. or he left the state or, you know, all of this is is in the past, btk read the story, and he noted in there that people were saying, you know, that he was dead. beattie said. he was writing a book about this. and that really

bothered btk because he felt that nobody could write his story other than himself, that he had to be the one to do it. and this aggravated him. if anybody's going to tell my story, i'm going to do it. >> when he saw that story, he decided, i'm back. i'm starting up again. nobody. in 2004 expected that so a little while after the eagle had its story about the 30th anniversary of the otero deaths, a letter came into the newsroom and the return address was bill thomas. >> killman. the initialism btk inside were three pretty blurry photos of somebody lying on a floor and a driver's license. >> my partner, dana gouge and i are sitting in the homicide unit working on cases. a captain came up to the unit and was holding an envelope in his hand, and he said that a

reporter from the eagle newspaper said, this is a weird letter we got at the paper. it appears to have a photocopy of three polaroid pictures of some female laying on the ground inside of a house. i will never forget when dana gouge opened that letter, he looked at what he had in front of him. he slid it across the desk to me and there were three polaroid photograph photocopies of vicki wegerle laying dead in her home also with those three polaroids was a photocopy of her missing kansas driver's license and the initials btk. that symbol was not out in the public. and seeing that btk symbol on a piece of paper with pictures of vicki was bone chilling. >> about a week later, lieutenant ken landwehr, who's

in charge of the murder investigation, has a press conference. >> wichita police department on friday received information that the wichita eagle had received a letter in the mail. uh, referenced the homicide of vicki wegerle on september 16th, 1986. the letter contained copies of photographs and personal item about miss wegerle. we have also been able to determine that this communiqué most likely came from btk we begin tonight with a killer on the loose, a madman still out there taunting police and reporters. >> he's known as the btk killer because he binds, tortures and kills his victims for more than 30 years, wichita has lived in fear of those initials. and tonight, it seems he has surfaced yet again, sending new clues about who he is and the lives he's taken.

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old. >> and it's not that he's too old to murder, but remember, it's the power and control that really fuels him. he launches this new cat and mouse game with the police and the local media and the public to basically say, this is the 30th year anniversary and guess who's back? >> it was even scarier because when he resurfaced, no one had known that he committed the murder of vicki wegovy until he resurfaced. so then we're like, what other ones are there btk wanted attention. >> he wanted attention for his crimes. he wanted recognition. so lieutenant landwehr decided we want to set up communication with him. we want to perhaps establish some sort of connection with him. >> kenny landwehr was a natural for that position. a lot of

kenny's press conferences were always planned, and it was part of a plan to keep btk communicating, keep him sending information to us, keep them talking. >> this is one of the most challenging cases that i've ever been involved with and i find that the individual that is doing this would be very interesting to talk to those type of conversations or those types of communications are carefully choreographed and scripted. >> you can't make any mistakes in those situations. >> we knew that we were getting through to him and he was actually listening to us. >> the killer unleashed a flurry of communications to local media. three of them delivered to television station k, a first. >> he sent the chapter book where he wanted to write his own story in one of the communications to station k, a k e the killer recently

detailed a list of possible chapter titles as if he were writing his own story about this case. >> he couldn't stand the idea of someone else writing his story. he was also giving suggestions on what kind of chapters there should be in the book, how to break out his story into different chapters for the audience to read. the first section seems to describe how the killer stalks a victim. some words are easy to find. prowl spot, victim follow fantasies. >> the names of the chapters were even frightening, let alone the 13th chapter. will there be more? >> he'd obviously put a lot of thought into this. the question was how did he want his story to end? that's the one thing nobody knew, and then nobody knew what he had in mind another mysterious postcard

sent to kake today, one that could be from btk. >> then, after the puzzles came, the postcards. the postcards to kake tv with clues. go to the corner of this street and this street and you will find a cereal box under a stop sign in the cereal box will be another clue. well, we sent a reporter right out there. sure enough, there was a cereal box. >> inside of the cereal box. there were several things, but the most disturbing thing was a doll, almost like a barbie type doll bound the way that btk had bound the little otero girl in the basement. we are all very seasoned homicide detectives, and we were all shocked. >> recent communications from

btk have included several items of jewelry. there was jewelry included in the post toasties box that was left on north seneca street as well, and communication number seven in the package receipt yesterday by ksas. fox 24, the postcard in there talked about some of the crimes and also commented that the media or the police haven't talked about the home depot drop he made btk had pulled into the parking lot of the home depot, put a cereal box in an employee's truck bed, the employee found it called dispatch, who called me, and we went and recovered that, and it was more taunting with dolls and stolen jewelry. >> on the plus side, home depot had cameras covering their parking lot they had to shut down their store and their system in order to obtain videotape.

>> you can't see him, but you can see the car come in. you can see an individual get out of the car, and then you can see something being placed in the pickup of this employee. and then the car drives off detective ralph, who knew a lot about cars, tried to identify the car. >> we had captured his vehicle at a home depot, and we knew from the photograph that he was driving a jeep cherokee that was the very first piece of evidence from btk that we got on our own that wasn't given to us. >> and that was that was a huge breakthrough. >> they say things take time and effort, but it's worth the wait. >> i can tell i'm so excited. >> i believe twitter brought the world together and the

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department every once in a while, saying, i'm going to take out an ad in the classifieds, and i'm going to give you a clue. >> so lieutenant landwehr read the classifieds and would answer him in the classifieds. >> one of the communications that he sent us, btk, asked if we could trace a floppy disk. and in that communication, he asked us to be honest. >> he writes, be honest. i don't know what he was thinking. if he had bumped his head that day or what the hell he was thinking. so he asked us to put it in the paper. rex, it'll be okay. and so we put it in the paper. rex. it'll be okay. >> that was meant to be. oh, don't worry about it. we would never be able to trace that. so he sends it the amusing thing to me was, is that he told law enforcement, to be honest and we weren't. >> i head out to pick up the

package. we get to the fox station. there's more jewelry in it. there's a note in it, and the floppy disk. we rush the floppy disk to our computer guy, randy stone. the computer guy puts it in the computer. >> when i think about it, you still get goosebumps because i was present when the disk went into the computer. the mistake that btk made was he made a copy of that test file, and once he copied it, it locked in identifiers in the computer. gibberish. i vividly recall going through. and then you see dennis, and then you see christ lutheran church, the message on the disk had been created at the christ lutheran church in park city. >> we used google and googled the church. it shows the church where it's at in park city, and then it shows the officers of the church and dennis rader

was listed as the congregational president. >> sure enough, right there, president of the congregation, dennis rader. they had their man once. >> they said that, dennis, i can tell you, some of us were already cheating our way to the car because we knew we were going. >> detectives, leave the wichita police department, drive up to park city, go to his house and see in the driveway. parked is the vehicle that they had picked up on the video from the home depot parking lot. now they know that that is the vehicle and it's just one more piece confirming that they're on the right track. >> once detective ralph and detective snider found the black jeep cherokee in the driveway, we were fairly, fairly confident that this was our guy, this dennis rader guy was btk. i can tell you that

detective ralph was ready, and a couple of us were prepared to help him park down the street, walk up, knock on the door, and when he comes to the door, we're going to grab him lieutenant landwehr said. and we're not going to do that. i need somebody to sit on the house. we're going to send undercover people up to start surveillance, and i need everybody else to come back to the task force office so we can figure out how we're going to do this. >> this is the killer. what kind of background or history does this person have? what kind of twisted life has this person led? >> dennis rader was born in 1945, in kansas, and his family then later moved to park city, kansas. he had three younger brothers. he was the oldest, and that was very important to him, and that he thought of himself as a very responsible son. >> we don't have any evidence at all that he was horrifically

abused. he had married parents, as far as we can tell. nothing bad ever happened to young dennis rader at the same time, he had early on this penchant for doing a couple of things that were somewhat unusual. >> someone in the family had these true detective type magazines from the 1950s where you would see women on the cover. maybe they were tied up, or maybe they were looking at an attacker who was off screen in horror, and he was exposed to them, and he found them stimulating. he started making drawings of sort of mummy like figures where there would be women with lines across them, as if they were being tied up. >> he talked about from a young age, some family members being out on a farm where they had killed a chicken, and that chicken had to be tied to a

stump before they cut its head off. and he described being aroused by that he was aware from a very young age that he had these sexual fantasies, which were completely abnormal, that he was what outsiders would call perverted, that he had paraphilias and urges that nobody else shared, and he fostered them. >> he didn't talk to others about them. he never went to a psychiatrist or a psychologist to try to figure out where these urges were coming from. he simply harbored them and knew that at some day he would act on them. >> andy anderson, take a seat. look at this. you're wet, disheveled. there's debris hitting you. >> why do you have that on your phone? >> i watch it all the time. hey, listen, we need to be ready for new year's eve. there could be an ice storm or

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paula in 1971. they would have two children. from what we know, he was a devoted father and husband. >> dennis rader's longtime jobs. and he had two of them really were working as a crew chief for adt security, a job where he got to wear a uniform and be a security expert and then later, of course, the compliance officer for the town where he lived, where he went around basically enforcing codes on barking dogs and how high your grass is and whether or not you have an unregistered vehicle in your driveway. >> dennis rader was also a very steadfast member of his church for decades. christ lutheran church. by january of 2005, he had become the president of the congregation. and that means taking care of a lot of business and running council meetings and all of that. so he could not have had a higher

standing inside of his faith. >> it was like, oh, my god, this is the person that's been doing this. this guy who's a hyper religious involved with this church and loves the boy scouts and does all this. and this is the killer he was busy. >> i mean, his son was an eagle scout. he used to take his son to all those campouts they have to do. his daughter was also involved in all kinds of things that he was involved in her life as well. we knew he had to be involved in his own life. and matter of fact, we stated the reason he stopped was because life caught up with him. i was not surprised that he was able to compartmentalize this away from his family. so his family had no idea. >> this is not uncommon for these serial killers to talk about having the good side, or the bad side, or the evil side and the good side. i mean, they

do dichotomize themselves, but even have one serial killer that had himself in three different parts. you know, his work life, his home life and his killing life. so they are able to compartmentalize. that's a tactic that they have, that they're able to do, and they kind of pride themselves on it. >> law enforcement went about stalking dennis rader for a week. we had like a war room where we started investigating rader. >> we went back to the task force and sat around and then began to discuss what our plan was going to be. >> lieutenant, plan versus what we need is dna. now we have those three dna samples that we have been in storage for now, 31 years. the otero crime scene, the fox crime scene, and the wegovy crime scene. >> we're talking about following him, seeing if he'll drop a fork in a restaurant, or if he'd smoke a cigarette and throw it down. by this time, we

knew dennis rader had a daughter, and his daughter had attended college at kansas state university. one of the agents that was working with us knew that that campus and said, they have a women's clinic on campus for the students. maybe we can look for the pap smear of her. >> we had a lot of discussion about it, and ultimately the decision was made that the privacy interests were outweighed by the law enforcement interests in catching a serial killer. we had presented it to a judge to get court approval, and then we were able to obtain that pap smear and do that reverse dna about 24 hours later, lieutenant langer took a phone call from the dna scientist who said, i can't tell you that dennis rader is your killer. >> but i can tell you that the father of carrie rader is btk

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take him down on the side of the road. we'd attempt to arrest him if he would have resisted. it had been a bad day for him. >> these things are now moving very quickly. it was planned and orchestrated. everything was in order dennis rader gets up, goes through his routine, gets in his truck and goes about his job. >> that morning. he always leaves for lunch at exactly 1215 to go home, take some two minutes to get there. >> they'd done enough surveillance that we were very familiar with his routine by this point. he came down the road. he was coming from work. the truck went down the road and i slammed my car and drive. >> police cars pull in around him, stop him, tell him to get out. >> we got him out of the car. we put him on the ground. we handcuffed him we stood him up. and in the very back of our

line of police cars was lieutenant landwehr in the back seat of a ford taurus. dennis rader was put in the back seat right next to kenny landwirth, and they look at each other. >> hello, mr. landwehr. hello, mr. rader, landry says you know why you're here. he says, i have a pretty good idea. >> we had staged the interview with dennis rader far in advance of him being in that room. we had a camera and obviously audio and video recording going on literally in three hours and 15 minutes. >> it got to a point where ken was finally talking to him about dna and where we could get dna from. >> i know that btk is the father of your children. i'm your children. i know that no doubt it's a done deal. the tests were done. >> he basically said, well, you got me. and he still wouldn't say it. so i finally looked at

him and said, come on, dennis, just tell us who you are. >> say who you are. why don't you just say randi kaye elena kagan we begin tonight with breaking news in the case. >> we have just learned that dennis rader has now been booked into the sedgwick county jail. >> rader has been charged with ten counts now of first degree murder. >> today is a very historic day for the wichita police department. btk is arrested once he was caught and they did the search of his house. >> then in the crawl space area, he had a big ziploc bag that had stuff from dolores and maureen, and he had several polaroids. >> he had things in his home. and that's why people have speculated how could the wife

not know? and it's because most of the stuff was behind false drawers or false walls. so hidden. >> he told us about the cabinet in his office. the top drawer was work stuff. we opened the bottom drawer and it was full of btk memorabilia, newspaper clippings, some of his original pictures, some of his original 1970s letter to the cops. he called it the mother lode he was really prolific. >> he used to take photographs of himself. he would half bury himself. he would swing from trees. he would put masks on. he would put women's clothing on. it was despicable. disgusting sexually bereft type of stuff that you have never seen in your life. and you don't ever want to see again. and that was all involved with

that case in our minds, as this was discussed and kind of profiled down at the behavioral science unit, was really his art. and he does a lot in what we call the expressive style. he really likes that. >> he actually entered pleas of guilty to the ten homicides. and so judge waller had rader describe the murders at his guilty plea. and i believe dennis rader was more than happy to describe what he had done. >> when you went into the house, what happened then? >> well, i confronted the family, pulled the pistol, confronted mr. otero that day. >> we went to court and we listened to the testimony about how my family was killed. it was very, very hard. >> i didn't have a mask on or anything. they already could id me. >> it was once again that feeling of my chest being ripped open had come back to me

and they made a decision to go ahead and and put him down. >> he recited them like he was reading a book. and that was spine chilling everybody asked me, do you forgive him? >> all i can say is, i can't lie to you know, as far as, like, his punishment goes. i hope he lives a long, rotten life. you know, i don't forgive him. i know that's that's a problem i have as a christian. the lord knows how i feel about it. >> when i hear the name dennis rader, the first thing that comes to mind is disgust. dennis rader has never really, truly apologized for anything he's done, has never truly

apologized to the victims families, has never. i feel felt remorse for what he did. >> it was a great family. my mom was great, man. she really was. and my dad. and that's why when i do these interviews, one of the reasons why is is for one instant, my family, who've been gone for almost 40 years now, they're relevant again in today's society. they existed and the world knows they existed. and they didn't just get erased from life and swept under the carpet. they were somebody and they were worthy of life, you know? and to me, that's important. >> dennis rader was sentenced to ten life sentences. all run consecutive to one another. so he'll die in prison. he is in the el dorado correctional

facility. >> the first question that people would ask, why can't you get the death penalty for him? it's all because there was no death penalty for those times and places where these incidents occurred. this was somebody that should not have lived. i wish, i wish we had had the death penalty for him after what he did. >> he liked what he did. it may be something that's hard for us to grasp why a person would want to do that, but he enjoyed it. it wasn't his parents fault. wasn't society's fault. he just liked doing what he was doing and wished he could have done it more. it's what he wanted to do. it's what he wanted to be. and if he had his choice, that's who he would be. not the dennis rader, the husband and father compliance officer. he wanted to be. btk, the serial killer

after dennis rader's arrest, his wife was granted an emergency divorce. >> over the years, his daughters exchanged letters with her father, searching for some kind of explanation for his horrible deeds. something violent happened to him during his childhood, but rader has always insisted he was never physically or sexually abused as a child. lieutenant kenny landwehr was determined to get his man, and he did. many credit him as the reason rader was finally captured. a true hero. landwehr died in 2014 after a battle with cancer. donnie wahlberg, thanks for watching. good night and