lieutenant landwehr assigned vicki wegerle's cold-case murder to myself and my partner, dana gouge. he have ever, "this is a btk case. i know it is. that's how i want you to work it." ♪ ♪ when bill wegerle came home that day for lunch, he walked through the house looking for his wife, vicki. 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 vicki'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. ♪ ♪ singular: it was january of 2004, which was the 30th anniversary of the otero murders, and the wichita eagle decided to run a story