nothing ever to hint at that that something could be amiss with my father. >> paula was a member of dennis rader's. >> my dad and my mom met in the fall of 1970. >> rader's mother knew her and knew that dennis was coming home from the military. and she wanted paula to meet him. >> he had just got back from the air force. they started dating. they got married nine months later in may of '71. >> i think he fell in love, and they were two good christian kids who wanted to get married in the right way, so there was nothing unusual about it. >> when dennis marries paula, she obviously has no idea that dennis has already been having fantasies, and maybe even obsessions about harming other people, killing other people, tying them up, et cetera. >> he's already looking inside people's houses. he's stalking people. he's already breaking into people's homes. he's already living a double life. >> he knew before he met my mom what he was probably capable of. >> reporter: you think he knew then? >> well, yeah. i mean, why did he get married? was it because he didn't want to be that other person or did you just