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0:00on this edition of MSNBC reports
0:02something drove me to do this normal
0:04people just don't do this for more than
0:0630 years he lived Among Us father scout
0:09leader serial killer I am ptk I'm the
0:13guy there after now exclusive jailhouse
0:15recordings obtained by NBC News reveal
0:18the Twisted mind and motives of the
0:20notorious killer Dennis Raider the man
0:23called BTK that's been a big thing with
0:26me it's having bound and tith his own
0:29chilling words reveal the monster inside
0:31the man still craving attention I really
0:34feel pretty good I feel like I'm like a
0:36star right now no remorse little emotion
0:40he just talks like he's coming home from
0:42a day at the office tears only for
0:46himself you can't go
0:48out out fresh air walk your dog hug your
0:52wife a minute by minute year-by-year
0:55account of Raiders crimes and the
0:57shattered families left behind
1:00a beautiful loving kind gentle person
1:05being murdered and dumped out in the
1:07ditch like a bag of dirty laundry
1:09sentenced to life Nancy and all of his
1:12victims will be waiting with God and
1:15watching him as he burns in Hell you'll
1:18hear new details about the capture of
1:20the killer who eluded police for three
1:22decades what nailed him was his huis he
1:25went too far Ed Magnus with exclusive
1:27tapes that take us inside the mind of
1:30BTK he's just evil evil personified and
1:35now with confessions of BTK here is
1:37Stone Phillips good evening what was so
1:41remarkable about the capture of the
1:42serial killer called BTK was that the
1:44man himself seemed so unremarkable when
1:47police announced this father of two
1:49Dennis raer was the killer who had
1:51prayed on parents children women the
1:53mystery only deepened who is he what
1:56drove him tonight videotapes of a
1:59conversation with a killer broadcast for
2:01the first time might provide some
2:03insight this jailhouse interview
2:05disturbing as it is might also offer
2:07insight to the families of btk's victims
2:09who have struggled for decades with the
2:11painful question why here's Ed
2:16[Music]
2:18Magnus Joseph Otero a champion boxer and
2:22Air Force veteran killed at 38 his wife
2:25Julie proud mother of their five
2:27children was 34
2:30their daughter Josephine was just 11
2:32years old and Son Joseph Jr was nine
2:36Kathy bright pretty and popular whose
2:38life ended when she was
2:4021 Shirley vianne 24 and the mother of
2:44three sang in her church
2:46choir Nancy Fox worked two jobs to try
2:49to get ahead she was
2:5125 Marine hedge mother of four was
2:5553 Vicky waggly cared for children in
2:58her home including her her own to she
3:01was
3:0228 Dolores Davis a grandmother and
3:05secretary retired at age 62 just months
3:09before she was
3:10murdered 10 innocent people murdered to
3:14satisfy the Twisted needs of one selfish
3:17man a man who for more than 30 years
3:20frustrated police taunted the media and
3:23terrorized the citizens of Witchita
3:25Kansas BTK seemed uncatchable everyone
3:30wondered who he was where he was when a
3:32most unlikely man who' lived among them
3:35all along Dennis Raider was
3:38arrested I am
3:41BTK I'm I'm the guy there after 100% on
3:45this program you'll see new information
3:48that offers insight into the Deviant
3:50mind of Dennis Raider if I had never
3:52gotone into sexual fantasies really off
3:54the deep in I never became what I was he
3:57is just the most unique unprecedented
4:02combination of
4:05perversion packaged to look like a human
4:07being but I've ever seen him you'll hear
4:09his excuses on why he says he had to
4:12kill uh they fantasies are what got me
4:15in trouble I just went from one fantasy
4:18to bigger and bigger bigger PR soon was
4:20involved in murder and then that fueled
4:23the next one and it just went on and on
4:25there is one denst rator and that's a
4:27murderer that's a coward all told in an
4:30appallingly matter OFA Manner and put a
4:33gar over his neck and pulled up on it
4:36that's when I guess factor x whatever
4:37the monster to or totally then there's
4:40no monster in him he is the monster
4:42himself tonight an exclusive jailhouse
4:46interview with the man who named himself
4:48BTK for his propensity to bind torture
4:52and kill his victims we'll examine
4:54Dennis Raider's three decades long reign
4:56of terror and the exhaustive police
4:59investigation that finally caught him
5:01we'll also get an inside look at a man
5:04with two lives a husband a father a cub
5:07scout leader and church president living
5:09unassumingly in his community but also a
5:12man who secretly hunted down and killed
5:1510 innocent people and then bragged
5:17about it in his insatiable thirst for
5:20attention all right this interview
5:22obtained by NBC news after it was
5:25completed was conducted by a Harvard
5:27trained forensic psychologist Robert
5:29Mand
5:30who performs more than a 100 evaluations
5:32for criminal and civil cases each year
5:35he was hired by the defense team to
5:37assess Raiders sanity go farther why
5:39don't you just shut it down I say I
5:41can't I can't this specific conversation
5:44took place just a couple of hours after
5:46Raider had pleaded guilty to 10 counts
5:48of murder in June and put on what many
5:51people thought was a chilling
5:52performance in court as you listen to
5:55what he says from behind bars to see
5:57what light it may shed keep in mind
5:59Raider knew he was being taped and knew
6:01that it might be seen on National
6:03Television if you're looking for remorse
6:06from the BTK killer you won't find it
6:08here really I was just a little
6:09embarrassed in front of the world uh but
6:13uh not totally
6:15and you know I it didn't bother me too
6:18bad uh you know I had I could relax a
6:20little bit I had water to drink so I I
6:23didn't really feel too bad about it
6:25Dennis Raider was a HomeTown boy one of
6:27four Sons raised in the Witchita area by
6:30churchgoing Lutheran parents but while
6:32Raider appeared a clean-cut high school
6:35senior in this 1963 yearbook his
6:38writings speak of his already having
6:40bizarre sexual fantasies he kept them
6:43hidden as he served his country in the
6:44Air Force then married a girl from home
6:47in
6:471971 but a couple of years later Raider
6:50could no longer keep those fantasies
6:52locked only in his mind his obsession
6:55with sex and bondage evolved into
6:58deviant violent Acts carried out on real
7:00people and ultimately led to murder I
7:04got this fantasy I started working out
7:05this fantasy in my mind and once that
7:08potential that person become a fantasy I
7:10can just loop loop it over I lay in bed
7:13at night thinking about this person the
7:16events and how it's going to happen and
7:17it become a real almost like a picture
7:19show you know I wanted to go ahead and
7:21produce it and direct it and go through
7:23with it no matter what the costs were
7:25the the
7:26consequences uh this that was going to
7:28happen one way or another maybe not that
7:30day but it was going to happen no one
7:32knows for sure why Raider had to kill to
7:35fulfill those fantasies but in this
7:37interview with the psychologist Raider
7:39says that he picked his first victims
7:41members of the ottero family utterly at
7:44random in late
7:461973 he recently had been laid off from
7:48a job and says he was feeling down and
7:51out at the time and had begun trolling
7:54as he put it in certain neighborhoods
7:56including along Edgemore Drive where the
7:58otos lived well that neighborhood I
8:02guess became a what I call a
8:04haunt as I call it I had special appeal
8:08to it I've been there I started knowing
8:10the roads I knew the people you I drive
8:12by watch Cars people pull out of their
8:14homes and people go wrote telephone
8:16numbers down wrote addresses down this
8:19is how it really started right here is
8:21by hunts the that area the edore area
8:24was my first big haunt Julia Tero her
8:27husband and their five children lived on
8:29Edmore then and it was just Mrs otero's
8:32terrible misfortune that she happened to
8:34catch Dennis Raider's eye while he was
8:36driving down her street she came out of
8:39the house and took the kids to school so
8:40I followed him to school and I thought
8:43well that's a corner house that's a
8:45possibility and I was in between work
8:48Idle Hands what is it Idle Hands what's
8:52Workshop yes and all these things seem
8:54to happen most the time when I had Idle
8:56Hands M uh I had just lost a job
9:00cessa uh that was demoralizing to me so
9:03anyway they became a potential Target uh
9:06so they were convenient convenient uh
9:09how did they fuel the sexual fantasy
9:11then was theref about Mrs auro is
9:14attractive and then I saw Josephine too
9:17Josephine was the oto's 11-year-old
9:20daughter so I must have had that
9:23somewhere in my mind a younger person
9:24that must have locked in on me it would
9:26be nearly 2 months before Raider Act did
9:29on the sexual fantasy involving Mrs
9:31Otero and her daughter which he says
9:34began brewing in his brain and when he
9:37finally did it would establish his
9:39pattern of brutality and deception
9:41toward all of his victims Raider broke
9:44into the home of the objects of his
9:46obsession in January
9:481974 he says he entered the home that
9:51day a very anxious man though he
9:53recounts the story with a strange lack
9:56of emotion we were all stream you know
9:59and and all sudden I already cut the
10:02phone line I already cut the phone line
10:03and and it's funny cuz I left my knife I
10:06left the Cutters
10:08there and I can't had come back and get
10:10those later but uh I then the door
10:12opened so here I am you know so do I
10:15just walk out the back door and they
10:16call the police or I go for it and I
10:19went for it chilling details of his
10:21first killings and of his victim's final
10:24words Mrs lero had woke up and uh and
10:28she actually said said um have God God
10:31have mercy on your soul when confessions
10:34of BTK
10:38continues when Dennis Raider broke into
10:40the otero's home even though he was
10:42brandishing a gun he says the family
10:45didn't take him too seriously at first
10:48what happened once they saw you okay
10:51well they thought it was a joke uh I
10:52went in I think it was a younger or t
10:54they were all in the kitchen they were
10:55making sandwich male or female no it was
10:58a younger the bo Junior Joseph Raider
11:01says to keep the family calm he made up
11:04a story about why he was there Mr
11:07actually stepped up and told him I was
11:09to come in for some uh food I was wanted
11:12in California or wanted I needed some
11:14food and water and some money and
11:18transportation that was my Roose to kind
11:20of calm him down he kind of laughed a
11:22little bit he said well this is a joke
11:24who said you were my brother-in-law
11:26Raider says the family bought his lie
11:28about being on the run from the law and
11:30not wanting to hurt them and so at
11:33gunpoint they acques to his tying up all
11:36four of them mother and father and
11:38younger son and daughter without a
11:40struggle so they were cooperating with
11:42you 100% And that's probably was their
11:45demise if they probably struggled and
11:46fought with me that would have been a
11:48different story but they felt fairly
11:50comfortable so that's what I was going
11:52to do as Raider tells this story like he
11:55does so often he paints his own conduct
11:57in the best possible light
12:00so he says he took pains to make his
12:02victims feel even more comfortable by
12:04actually loosening some of the binds
12:06around their hands and feet I'm trying
12:08to comfort them as much as I could to
12:10keep him quiet because you actually were
12:12worried about it both okay well yeah go
12:16I'm a bad guy I care for people you know
12:18have concerns for people so and I hadn't
12:22really crossed that path yet where I was
12:23going to kill the people yet so I was in
12:25still that concern mode what you're
12:27seeing here is a very
12:30early form of a future serial killer
12:33who's still trying to decide what it is
12:35he's going to get out of these
12:36crimes we asked James Allen Fox one of
12:40the nation's leading criminologists and
12:42a professor at Northeastern University
12:44to give his analysis of this interview
12:47he has studied serial killers for 25
12:49years and has written numerous books his
12:51most recent one on serial killers
12:54includes BTK he wants to fulfill his
12:57fantasy but it's necessary for them to
13:00feel excessive suffering at this stage
13:03he hadn't yet made a decision to kill I
13:05had all control
13:06completely uh and then I and then went
13:09in the other room and I thought do I do
13:12I just leave or what they already know
13:14me my my face so I went back and put a
13:17plastic bag over mr's head and and put a
13:21garnet over his neck and pulled up on it
13:23and that's when it they really hit the
13:25fan then cuz they all could see what I
13:27was doing Raider describ tries first
13:29strangling the mother and father while
13:32their 9-year-old son and 11-year-old
13:34daughter watched although he is
13:36describing acts of unspeakable cruelty
13:39his voice is utterly devoid of emotion
13:42which makes listening to it that much
13:43harder kids were watching this yes they
13:45were watching it they were screaming and
13:47hollering did you want to move them from
13:49the scene at all no no I had to get in
13:52control they it was really noisy they
13:54were you know they were screaming and
13:57the noises bother yeah noises bother me
13:59and I the mail man will be out there or
14:00somebody be walking by so I had to
14:02control it very quickly he says he found
14:04the noise annoying because only looks at
14:08these events from his own perspective
14:10this is all a script designed to please
14:14him because remember it was almost like
14:16these people weren't real they were just
14:18actors and they didn't matter What
14:21mattered was his enjoyment and the kid
14:23screaming was just taken away from his
14:25enjoying all of this stuff how can he
14:27how can he get aroused with all these
14:30kids screaming he completely dehumanizes
14:33yes the
14:34kids Sarah Kell are very good at that
14:37that makes it possible for them to kill
14:39it was just something that I had to
14:42do uh once I started with M ter I knew I
14:46had to do all I had to do all four of
14:48them uh it's like an execution once you
14:51started there was Witnesses you had to
14:53do it all the way around for someone who
14:56seems so callous you might assume Raider
14:58was always always a cooly efficient
15:00killer but the way he tells it Raider
15:03didn't have a clue how much force it
15:04took to end a life and so tried several
15:08times to strangle Mrs Otero only to have
15:10her wake up again during the woman's
15:13last desperate struggle for
15:15Consciousness Raider says she was fully
15:17aware he was snuffing out the lives of
15:19her husband and two children in what he
15:23says were her last words to him Mrs
15:25otero's Humanity shines against the
15:28Killer inhumanity
15:29Mrs lero had woke up and U and she
15:33actually
15:34said have God God have mercy on your
15:37soul that's what she
15:39said put her
15:41down
15:45permanently this woman who probably
15:49knows now that she might be going to
15:53die she is generous with you asking God
15:58to have mercy on you Soul mhm
16:01yeah yeah pretty generous
16:05thing to
16:07tell kill you that's killed and tortured
16:11her
16:12family and is about to do the same to
16:15her Raider eventually took young
16:18Josephine Otero down to the basement of
16:20her home and hanged her from a pipe the
16:24police found Sean near Josephine's
16:27body and going forward
16:31Recollections of what he had done with
16:33these victims fueled his desire to do it
16:36again Raider says now the whole
16:39experience left him quaking well I was
16:41really un not a sexual High I was just
16:44scared High I was really nervous swea
16:47and I had sweat running off me all over
16:48the place and I just you I had gloves on
16:52I had PE clothes they were just full
16:54water
16:56sweat was really my clothes were just so
16:59sweat very nervous not like a master
17:02criminal at all this was my first my
17:05first time that i' never crossed that
17:08barrier several hours later Charlie ooto
17:12then 15 and his sister Carman then 13
17:15came home from school as I walked
17:17through the back door I noticed the
17:19kitchen was in disarray um things were
17:22on the floor didn't look right and I
17:24yelled out as anybody home that's when I
17:27heard my sister cry out to come quick I
17:30ran through the hallway down to the
17:31bedroom and I found Carmen with my
17:34parents uh my father was tied up his
17:37eyes were bulging his tongue was about
17:38bit off my mother was on the bed she
17:42didn't even look like my mother and uh I
17:45looked at my dad and I could I could
17:47smell the death and the fear in the room
17:50Charlie and Carmen had not seen what had
17:52happened to their younger brother and
17:54sister when they were taken to the
17:55police station they say they told police
17:58to make sure Jo Jose Jr and Josephine
18:00did not enter the home so I was telling
18:02the police the whole time go to Josie
18:05and Joey's school and keep them from
18:07coming home I do not want them to come
18:09home and find the house the way it is
18:11with police everywhere
18:13we were afraid of of what they would see
18:17um we were at the police department for
18:19quite a while and we kept asking them
18:20you know did you get a hold of the
18:22little ones and finally they they
18:24finally told us you don't have to worry
18:26about that um um were killed also when
18:30they told me about Josie and Joey I just
18:33died inside after that day I lost my
18:36religion instantly the minute I saw my
18:38mother I said there cannot be a God not
18:40only can there not be a God but I hate
18:42him if he is a God if there is
18:44one a despair not difficult to
18:47understand from a man whose mother
18:49father sister and brother were
18:51slaughtered in their own home horribly
18:54and
18:55inexplicably while the oos were the
18:57first they would not be the last people
18:59to fall victim to Dennis Raiders hellish
19:02World more bodies more suffering loved
19:05ones more questions about who he was why
19:09he was doing
19:13this probing deeper into a dark mind I
19:17don't think it was actually the person
19:18that I was after I think it was the
19:19dream it just an object that's how it
19:21work a catted mouse game with the police
19:24begins when confessions of BTK continues
19:28when Witchita police learned that two
19:30children and their parents had been
19:32murdered they of course looked at the
19:34likeliest suspects people who knew the
19:36family police however were about to
19:38learn that they were dealing with a
19:40serial killer a man who three decades
19:42later would offer details about his
19:44crimes and his callousness in tapes
19:47never broadcast before again Edie
19:52Magnus after murdering four members of
19:55the Otero family Dennis Raider spent the
19:58next several years killing again and
20:00again and again his next three victims
20:03were all young women in this interview
20:06with the psychologist Raider dismisses
20:08each victim as a project he says he'd
20:11Begin by stalking stalking stage is when
20:14you start learning more about your
20:15victims potential victims uh went to the
20:18library I looked up their names that
20:20address cross reference and called them
20:22a couple of times drove F there whenever
20:24I could and each time he struck Raider
20:27said he was armed with what he calls his
20:30hit kit kit contain what uh plastic bags
20:34rope tape uh knife gun all those would
20:38be the kit they' be where I could have
20:39them in the house and gather them up
20:41tools that would come to define the work
20:43of BTK the victims were often discovered
20:46bound with tape or rope tied in unusual
20:49knots you had to have the control which
20:51is the bonding that's been a big thing
20:53with me my sexual fantasy is if I'm if
20:57I'm going to kill a victim or do
20:59something a victim is have them bound
21:01and
21:02tied um now somewhere along the
21:07line in my dreams I had what they call
21:10torture
21:11chambers and to relieve your sexual
21:13fantasies you have to go to the the kill
21:163 months after the ottero murders in
21:18April of
21:191974 Raider's next victim was Kathy
21:22brigh a 21-year-old college student once
21:26again he' selected her randomly while
21:28driving down her street as he told the
21:30court in June and I saw her go in the
21:32house with somebody else and I thought
21:34that's a possibility Raider's plan was
21:36to lie in wait and overtake Cathy when
21:38she came home but the plan went ay when
21:41she unexpectedly showed up with her
21:43brother Kevin Raiders said in court he
21:45was able to get brother and sister tied
21:48up but the knots that bound Kevin were
21:50not holding were you armed with a
21:52handgun at that time also yes I had a
21:54handgun what happened when you came I
21:56actually had two handguns
21:59um well I started strangling the either
22:01the uh gett broke or he broke his bonds
22:04and he jumped up real quick like I
22:06pulled my gun and quickly shot in hit
22:09him in the head he fell over I could see
22:12the blood and Raider said he thought
22:14Kevin was dead and turned to strangle
22:17Kathy when he heard Kevin move the two
22:19men struggled again and Raider shot him
22:21for a second time in the head he then
22:24continued trying to strangle Cathy but
22:26was unsuccessful and and so stabbed her
22:29multiple times in the chest meanwhile
22:32much to Raider's surprise Kevin had
22:34somehow managed to escape though his
22:36head wounds from the gunshots left him
22:38unable to clearly describe the killer to
22:40police I thought the police were coming
22:42at that time I heard the door open I
22:44thought no that's it and I stepped out
22:47there and he I can see him running down
22:48the street so I quickly cleaned up
22:50everything that I could and left 6
22:53months later in October 1974 Raider
22:56announced himself to authorities in the
22:59first of many letters he sent to
23:00newspapers and other media Outlets
23:02communic that would come to include
23:04poems and puzzles it began a campaign
23:07that would reveal his other motive to
23:09kill publicity a twisted desire for
23:12celebrity a sick Obsession that Raider
23:15like some other serial killers had to be
23:17known and feared to get credit for all
23:20his handiwork it was Raider who came up
23:22with BTK as a name for himself I just
23:25put in one of the first letters I was
23:28always r i put it out that first I think
23:29it was just buying torture kill now I
23:32had a label on me like the like the
23:35Green River killar and Son of Sam and a
23:39whole slew of others The Boston
23:42Strangler the police now knew the
23:44murders of the Otero family and Kathy
23:46brigh were linked that they had a serial
23:48killer in their midst for tactical
23:51reasons though it would be several years
23:53before they disclosed that information
23:55to the public still they wanted to
23:58communic Comm unicate with the
23:59mysterious Strangler police quietly
24:01placed a classified ad in the big
24:03Hometown daily BTK help is available
24:07there was no response and Raider did not
24:09kill again for 3 years you know it
24:12wasn't something I just could do all the
24:13time so whenever it was convenient it
24:15would have been easier probably if you
24:17were like a spy or something where you
24:18could go sit there and watch but I
24:20didn't have that I had to work under
24:23camouflage then in March 1977 Raider
24:26struck again his victim sure vianne 24
24:29years old he said in court he'd watched
24:32her young son walk into the house and
24:35spontaneously chose that family to
24:37victimize I kind of forced myself in I
24:40just walked in just opened the door
24:42walked in and then pulled a pistol
24:44Shirley vianne was home with her three
24:46small children whom Raider coralled into
24:49a bathroom uh the kids were really
24:51banging on the door holler screaming
24:53it's horrifying to remember that Raider
24:55himself was a young father at this time
24:58his own son was not yet two but with the
25:01sounds of the Vian children in the
25:03background he said he simply worked as
25:05fast as he could comforted her a little
25:08bit and then went ahead and tigh it up
25:09and then put a bag a bag overhead and
25:12strangled her in another admission that
25:15reveals Raider's depravity he told the
25:17psychologist the thrill had little to do
25:20with the kill or for that matter with
25:22the victim herself and I don't think it
25:24was actually the person that I was after
25:26I think it was the dream uh I know
25:28that's not really nice to say about a
25:30person but they were basically an object
25:32they're just an object that's how it
25:33work I had more satisfaction building up
25:36to it and afterwards than I did the
25:38actual killing of the person many serial
25:41killers objectify their victim they
25:43dehumanize them they're tools they're
25:45instruments for their own Pleasures how
25:46does someone who is a married young
25:51father mhm objectify people and kill
25:54them the process is called
25:56compartmentalization
25:58many people able to divide the world
26:00into those they care about and love
26:03truly and everyone else who's Expendable
26:06he says that he had more satisfaction
26:09anticipating his kills and in the
26:11aftermath of killing than he did in the
26:15actual killing that's his fantasy the
26:17planning process the stalking the
26:20hunting is very enjoyable to him and the
26:26aftermath once he's killed to see that
26:28he to see what he's done that's
26:31fulfilling too that's when he would
26:32literally climax the sexual fantasies
26:36the obsession with bondage Raider claims
26:38it's been swirling in his head since he
26:40was a child he remembers being aroused
26:43as a young child when his mother would
26:45spank him Raider has written in letters
26:48which no one's sure are true that he
26:50secretly perused SNM magazines as a boy
26:54stole panties peeped in Windows he
26:56writes of hanging a cat and then a dog
27:00how does sexual
27:02fantasy and even an obsession with
27:04bondage lead to murder it doesn't
27:07necessarily what makes serial killers
27:09different than other people who might
27:11fantasize about power dominance control
27:13is that they do not have a legitimate
27:16way to satisfy their need for power so
27:19they take they take and grab that power
27:22in the most violent way at the end of
27:241977 in December Dennis Raider killed
27:27his seventh victim Nancy Fox uh broke in
27:31and waited for her to come home in the
27:33kitchen this time Raider's plans went
27:36smoothly as the single working girl who
27:38was just 25 came home alone I confronted
27:42her uh told her there I was a uh I had a
27:45problem sexual problem that I would have
27:47to tie up and have sex with her Raider
27:50said he handcuffed and tied Nancy Fox
27:53strangled her with a belt left his
27:55Telltale seamen by the body and got out
27:58without a hitch then he called the
28:00police Raider actually had the audacity
28:02to phone 911 and alert authorities to
28:05his own crime you will find a homicide
28:09at
28:10843 South persing ncy Fox sorry sir I
28:14can't understand you what is your
28:17address gave
28:2084 in the jail house interview Raider
28:23said in hindsight he thinks that call
28:25was dumb that was kind of a that was
28:27kind of an impulse really a really
28:29stupid thing to do because uh they I
28:32left my voice pattern and my voice on
28:34there and still Raider was not done
28:38communicating the following month he
28:40sent a poem written with a child's
28:42printing set on an index card to the
28:44Witchita Eagle Newspaper the poem
28:46patterned after a nursery rhyme referred
28:49to Shirley vian's murder several days
28:52later he sent another letter the most
28:54disturbing one yet the one that finally
28:57put the killer on news and put the
28:59community in a tail spin what kind of
29:02leads do you have we have absolutely
29:04nothing that will point us to any one
29:06particular
29:08individual a killer now in the spotlight
29:11he craves he absolutely terrorized the
29:13community everyone was a suspect the
29:15fear was palpable when confessions of
29:18BTK continues I sat in my office and
29:22read his account of what he had
29:24done and I wasn't ready for that it was
29:28February
29:291978 and then TV news director Ron loen
29:32was reading with disgust and revulsion a
29:35letter that had arrived in his Newsroom
29:37at cake tv there was no doubt in my mind
29:40it was from BTK in a two-page single
29:43space letter Raider using the name BTK
29:46again announced himself as a serial
29:48killer and then went even further in his
29:51bid for publicity comparing himself to
29:54Son of Sam in New York Jack the Ripper
29:56in London and the hillside Strangler in
29:58Los Angeles claiming they were all
30:00driven to kill by what he called factor
30:03x it seems senseless but we cannot help
30:06it he wrote there is no help no cure
30:10except death or being caught and put
30:12away he was making it clear that uh he
30:16wanted to be uh elevated to the serial
30:19killer Hall of Fame this is the league
30:21that he said he should be in he listed
30:2415 to 17 additional serial killers
30:28uh Infamous serial killers Through the
30:30Ages Through the Ages BTK is a
30:34student was the first thing that flashed
30:36through my mind of Serial murders along
30:39with a lurid description of the Otero
30:41killings loen says the killer was
30:43literally begging for ink a little
30:46paragraph in the newspaper would have
30:47been enough how many people do I have to
30:50kill until I get the recognition I
30:52deserve I've always thought that you
30:54know he had the uh The Misfortune given
30:57his aspiration
30:58to live in a small media Market you know
31:01he never got the attention because he
31:03lived in Witchita if he' done any of
31:05this in Los Angeles had been a different
31:07story even more chilling BTK threatened
31:11he was bearing down on murder victim
31:13number eight he said that in fact he was
31:15stalking a victim right now he picked
31:17his next victim he indicated how he was
31:20going to kill that person and then the
31:21last sentence was maybe it's you he was
31:24trying to frighten people oh definitely
31:26and he succeeded it turned out the
31:29Witchita police had been intentionally
31:31denying BTK publicity for some time
31:35profilers had warned them against caving
31:37into the Killer's demands for attention
31:39on the grounds that if he got it he'd
31:41kill again but that tactic clearly
31:44hadn't worked BTK kept on killing anyway
31:47now faced with the strangler's written
31:49threat to take yet another life the
31:51police abruptly changed
31:53strategy at that point we need to step
31:57up and say yes we recognize you as BTK
32:02uh and uh and we do have a serial killer
32:06here so police chief Richard Leman and
32:09news director Ron loen appeared on TV
32:12that February 1978 side by side BTK
32:16claims to have strangled a total of
32:18seven women it was loan himself who
32:21broke the story of BTK to the community
32:24during that newscast loen who never
32:27talked public about these events before
32:29discussing them with us became in effect
32:32live bait the police said I guess based
32:35again on their talk with their
32:36behavioral people that this is a cry for
32:38help this guy has more that he wants to
32:40say we'd suggest that you do the story
32:43so that it has someone that he might
32:45choose to communicate with again how did
32:47you feel
32:48about offering yourself up as someone
32:52who would be willing to communicate with
32:54this deranged mass murderer well you
32:58know you want to help so if he wanted to
33:00write letters and they came to my
33:02attention why not it was quite a risk
33:05BTK had already murdered seven people
33:08and loen could end up getting far more
33:10than just a letter in the mail but there
33:12he sat what kind of leads do you have
33:15asking questions of chief leion for
33:18which there were no good answers very
33:20honestly we have no solid leads at all
33:23it was horrific news everything changed
33:26for me uh everything changed forever in
33:28witch loen says the effect of the
33:31bombshell announcement on this gentle
33:33family oriented city was instantaneous
33:37he absolutely terrorized the community
33:39everyone was a suspect girlfriends were
33:42concerned about their boyfriends there
33:43were parents who turned in their
33:45children the fear was palpable hoping
33:48BTK would contact him the police brought
33:51Lo and inside the investigation loen was
33:54provided a photo of a possible suspect
33:57and a police police revolver that gun
33:59creeped me out it was the tangible
34:02reminder that there was a killer out
34:04there and that at some level the police
34:06thought that he might be coming to see
34:08me just what was it that drove Dennis
34:10Raider to bind torture and kill so many
34:13innocent people Dr Factory x is probably
34:16something we never know in his jail
34:18house interview Raider blamed his murder
34:21spree on that mysterious Force he has
34:23always claimed was Way Beyond his
34:25control factor x something that's I use
34:29it um I actually think I'm maybe
34:32possessed with demons uh I was dropping
34:34on my head when I was a kid I've talked
34:36to
34:37some theological Christian people and
34:40some of those people are really strong
34:41they actually think well the Bible says
34:43that that there's
34:44demons and within you or come into you
34:48uh that's the only thing I can figure
34:49out I have you
34:51know you know something drove me to do
34:54this you know normal people just don't
34:55do this you can't stop it I can't stop
34:58it it's just it controls me you know
35:00it's a it's it's like it's in the
35:03driver's
35:04seat you that's probably the reason
35:06we're sitting here you know I could just
35:08say no I don't want to do this and go
35:10crawl in a hole but it's you know it's
35:12it's it's driving me you've actually
35:15used the term monster that there's this
35:18monster inside of
35:20you it almost sounds like that's
35:22something separate and apart like a
35:23different person yeah it's it's part of
35:26the compartment it's like switch back
35:28and forth and once this character takes
35:30over whatever it is it drives me
35:33onward
35:35uh know what it is but criminologist
35:38James Allen fox says he knows what it is
35:41it's bunk don't blame me I'm really a
35:43good guy but factor x I just couldn't
35:46resist it's the monster inside of me uh
35:49to use a technical term it's a
35:52poppycock it's just an excuse it was
35:55Dennis Raider making decisions not
35:58factor x he speculates at one point that
36:00he was dropped on his head yeah and that
36:03might have done something sure he'd like
36:05to believe that too it's someone else's
36:07fault there are lots of kids that fall
36:09off tricycles and fall out of cribs and
36:12they bang their heads and they don't
36:15have factor x or go on killing sprs it's
36:19just a way to deflect blame danst Raider
36:22is someone who's
36:24selfish uh narcissistic
36:28committed to his own Pleasures committed
36:31to fulfilling his sexual fantasies no
36:33matter who he hurts in the process in
36:361978 of course nobody knew what Raiders
36:39excuses were all they knew was that BTK
36:42was out there a seven-time murderer who
36:44was promising in his factor x Manifesto
36:47that he was about to take another
36:49innocent life so the investigation went
36:52into high gear unprecedented and yet
36:54unsuccessful for many years even though
36:57know he was right under their
37:00noses desperate police devise an unusual
37:03plan a secret message to BTK you were
37:06hoping that perhaps your killer might
37:08see it did you get any phone
37:12calls BTK was waiting waiting waiting
37:16waiting it was 1979 and Ron loen was
37:19studying yet another package from the
37:22mysterious serial killer at large in
37:24Witchita this one which arrived in loen
37:27TV news room more than a year after BTK
37:29had last been heard from was announcing
37:32not another murder but a failed attempt
37:35he broke in the glass he was in the
37:38basement
37:39waiting the intended victim a
37:4163-year-old woman Raider had been
37:44stalking unexpectedly spent the night
37:46out which saved her life but Raider made
37:49sure everybody knew he was still Prime
37:51to commit murder sending the media that
37:53package containing some personal items
37:55he'd stolen from her home and including
37:58one of his trademark poems which was a
38:01poem of death uh he said that he was
38:04disappointed she didn't come home that
38:06he intended to kill her Raider now
38:08claims in this interview with the
38:10psychologist that this woman wasn't the
38:12only one that got away is it safe to say
38:16that there are at least a few lucky
38:18people out there there's a lot of lucky
38:20people out there who you didn't kill
38:22that you had didn't need make of the
38:23house they come home or for some reason
38:26I didn't go there's a lot lucky people
38:28out there yes there have been more
38:30probably if I would have succeeded him
38:33I'm almost guarantee it after that
38:36failed murder attempt Wah's most famous
38:39and sought-after Strangler seemed to
38:41disappear from the scene after 5 years
38:44and seven bodies he stopped
38:46communicating in
38:471979 and the police simply couldn't find
38:50him despite a Manhunt unprecedented in
38:52scope that went on for years who spent a
38:55lot of their money working on this case
38:57and no one complained not one bit we
39:00first met former Witchita police chief
39:02Richard Lan last year before Dennis
39:04Raider was arrested and he talked quite
39:07candidly about the failure to catch BTK
39:10on his watch I think the community was
39:12probably as frustrated as I was and I
39:14don't think they were mad I think they
39:16had kind of the same feeling I did hey
39:17they're doing everything that they can
39:20possibly do to catch this guy lanan says
39:23they' tried everything from
39:24old-fashioned detective work to some
39:26ideas that sounded downright nutty we
39:29were trying to get this guy to
39:30communicate but did you feel at the time
39:33like I don't care how wacky it sounds
39:36let's try it anything short of of
39:38Psychics I wasn't into
39:41psychics but he was into trying a
39:43technique that as far as we know has
39:45never been attempted by law enforcement
39:47before or since the police once arranged
39:51to have a subliminal message one devised
39:53by profilers inserted into a local
39:56evening new newscast at cake tv to
39:59viewers the subliminal message looked
40:01like this just a flash of light but slow
40:05it down and there it was now call the
40:07chief and you were hoping that perhaps
40:10your killer might see it did you get any
40:12phone calls did anybody subconscious get
40:15tapped at all no we didn't get anything
40:17out of it wherever he was the killer
40:19could not or would not be reached even
40:22when the police got a break and were
40:24able to track down a letter BTK sent
40:26from a photo copier at Witchita State
40:29University they still couldn't catch him
40:31turns out Raider was a student there
40:33studying criminal justice we tracked the
40:37communication that he sent us to that uh
40:39copy machine that was at the activity
40:41center and we had detectives go back to
40:43Z Rock's company and they confirmed
40:46that's where it came from but he was on
40:48a list with several thousand others if
40:49you were a white male between 18 and 35
40:52you were on that list but we couldn't
40:55match him to either on any other list
40:57you will find a homicide at
41:00843 South virging and they had the
41:03Killer's voice on tape of course from
41:05that time he boldly called 911 to tell
41:08them he'd murdered Nancy Fox in time the
41:11police were able to have the technical
41:13quality of that taped call enhanced and
41:16it was played repeatedly on radio and TV
41:19he said it was probably stupid but he
41:21liked it he liked the fact that it's
41:23been played over and over and over for
41:25years and years yet even with with all
41:27that exposure nobody recognized the
41:30voice as that of a man named Dennis
41:32Raider another dead end I think I was
41:35lucky I think I was lucky quite a bit
41:37pretty lucky guy pretty lucky guy I
41:39think they got close a couple times I
41:41was just lucky incredibly so for a
41:43killer who may well have been seen
41:45several times a handful of eyewitnesses
41:48helped police make sketches of how they
41:50remembered the suspect but the drawings
41:53weren't especially helpful because
41:55nobody could quite agree on what BTK
41:57looked like as DNA matching evolved
42:00during the 1980s the police tried to use
42:02that technology to catch their killer
42:04more than 200 samples were taken from
42:07men living near the victims who fit
42:09btk's profile and compared to the seen
42:12they' preserved from several of the
42:13crime scenes nobody matched you had DNA
42:18evidence yes you had his voice on tape
42:22yes and you just couldn't get him
42:24couldn't get him you had the best
42:27Behavioral Science Minds in the country
42:30mhm helping you develop a profile of who
42:32he was and what he might do and you
42:34couldn't ever anticipate him could never
42:37anticipate him still lanan says now that
42:40while they didn't know anything about
42:41Dennis Raider they knew a lot about BTK
42:45after uh he went dormant and stopped
42:47killing the theory was and everyone was
42:49saying well he's in prison uh or maybe
42:52he has an illness or something happened
42:54and I never I never bought that I was
42:56convinced
42:57he was one of us we had him pegged in
42:59terms of the type of individual we were
43:01looking for we had everything but a name
43:03in the jail house interview with the
43:05psychologist which we showed former
43:07Chief lanan Dennis Raider was openly
43:10scornful of local law enforcement and
43:12the police or the Keystone Cops and
43:15disdainful of all their years of effort
43:17you know they traced a lot of stuff down
43:19they traced The copier down the copers I
43:21used out at WSU but they couldn't make
43:24the connection from there they had 30
43:26some years to break it they couldn't do
43:27it the taxpayers are paying the money
43:29for CRA County they really need to have
43:31I think a sharper punch although they
43:33tried they tried they tried but were you
43:35offended when you heard him say the
43:38witch cops couldn't close his case I'm
43:43not offended by anything he
43:45says uh at all it's all about him uh I
43:49know that the police officers did
43:51everything in their power I know that
43:52they finally caught him with everything
43:54you know about him now
43:57do you think that you should have been
43:59able to get him I'd like to tell you yes
44:02I really don't think we could have done
44:03any more than we did he called the
44:05Witchita police the Keystone Cops I
44:08heard that uh again that's just Dennis
44:12Raider because what he was saying is to
44:14allow the witto police to catch him you
44:16know would be demeaning to him and it
44:19just bugs him it just drives him crazy
44:21so therefore he has to belittle the
44:23police department in order to elevate
44:25himself the conventional wisdom was that
44:27somehow he was so smart because he
44:29always stayed one step ahead of the
44:31police I don't think he's smart at all
44:34we're not talking about a genius here
44:36you know we're not talking about a
44:37Hannibal Lector type individual I think
44:40he was just more lucky than anything uh
44:42in terms of what he did because he did
44:44it in such random fashion and because
44:46there was no connection between them and
44:48because he did it alone uh and it was so
44:51sporadic and it was over such a long
44:53period of time and probably most
44:56important lonan says is that Raider
44:58apparently told absolutely no one about
45:01what he had done I don't think he even
45:02joked about it I don't think he said oh
45:04I could be a stranger type thing I don't
45:05think so year after year went by and the
45:09once hot BTK investigation eventually
45:12became a Cold Case by the mid 80s the
45:15Elite Police Unit created to hunt down
45:17the killer closed up shop once the
45:19city's Public Enemy Number One BTK
45:22became part of witch Legend and what was
45:26Dennis Raider doing all those years
45:28hiding in plain
45:30sight those who knew the killer best
45:33were there hints of his secret life
45:36wouldn't those closest to Dennis Raider
45:38his wife his children have had to know
45:42something when confessions of BTK
45:45continues he spent years stalking and
45:47killing innocent people and then Dennis
45:49Raider known only as BTK seemed to stop
45:53he gradually disappeared from the
45:54headlines he craved and that is
45:57something he now says he could not
45:59tolerate here again Edie
46:04Magnus after BTK disappeared in
46:071979 police would spend 25 more years in
46:11a frustrating search to try to capture
46:13him did you ever look around oh always
46:16BTK Ron loan knew could be anyone
46:20anywhere just listen to what the former
46:22witcha news director told us about the
46:24killer a year before BTK was C I think
46:28this guy is uh probably a lot more
46:30normal than anybody thinks he told us
46:32that it was easy after he after he
46:34killed someone he just uh assumed his
46:37rightful place in the world he's a
46:39person who has been walking in that
46:42community and he's really The Stranger
46:44Beside You today that all sounds
46:46positively prophetic because that's just
46:49what Dennis Raider was doing all those
46:51years hiding in plain sight raising his
46:54children going to church getting a
46:56degree in his Spare Time attending
46:58Kansas State University home football
47:00games start in fact loen who took a look
47:03at Raiders interview with the
47:05psychologist says the serial killer is
47:07even more ordinary than he imagined his
47:10family is so wonderfully Kansas his
47:15daughter was a high school golf champion
47:17his son is I think in the Navy his his
47:20wife sings in the church choir uh has a
47:24a job in a uh in a convenience store
47:28their average people uh making a a
47:31simple good life together boy you you
47:32would never pick him out of a
47:35crowd uh I I thought there would be
47:37something that would be more evident but
47:39he was just as beige as beige could be
47:44Mike Fitch knew Raider when they were
47:46both employees at ADT where Raider
47:49worked for nearly 15 years installing
47:51home security systems he remembers
47:54Raider as a stickler for Perfection
47:56making making his customers happy was
47:58Raiders top priority even if he could be
48:00cranky and critical of others I
48:02definitely didn't want to get on his
48:04wrong side till I was intimidated by him
48:06when I first started working but fit
48:08says he saw no hint of Raiders violent
48:11side we' sit around and have popcorn
48:14before he went home and what could be
48:16more solid American citizen than being
48:18active in his young son's boy scouts I
48:20sh Dennis up as a cub scout leader
48:23fellow scouting leader Bob Monroe says
48:25Dennis Raider always set a good example
48:28for the boys in his troop and for
48:30Raider's own son who went on to be an
48:32eagle scout you say he took part in
48:34everything that we did in scotting and
48:36with his son which is very important in
48:38Cub scotting that you do work with your
48:40boys and so I considered him to be a
48:42very good parent and a very good scout
48:44leader at that time of course contrary
48:46to the common assumption that serial
48:48killers are generally loners or social
48:51outcasts criminologist James fox says
48:54they can often seem to be one of us many
48:57serial killers have families and and uh
49:02children and
49:04friends and no one suspects them because
49:07they have this ordinary normal appearing
49:10life and what people don't know about is
49:13the darker side the Hidden Side so you
49:17can be someone who binds tortures and
49:21kills one minute and has a seemingly
49:25normal life the next
49:28absolutely we've seen it time and time
49:31again John Wayne gasy of Chicago who
49:34murdered 33 young men appeared normal
49:37enough he was once named JC's Man of the
49:40Year Ted Bundy considered Charming was a
49:43law student and socialized in political
49:45circles until he was caught he killed at
49:48least 33 women in five different states
49:51on the other hand New York's David
49:52burkowitz AKA Son of Sam who shot six
49:56was alone owner and so too was Jeffrey
49:58dmer of Milwaukee who dissected dead
50:01animals as a child then later murdered
50:04and dismembered 17 young men and boys
50:07but why would anyone ever suspect a man
50:10like Dennis Raider consider his
50:12substantial involvement with his local
50:13Lutheran Church Paul carlstead has known
50:16Raider through the church for 30 years
50:19and says he was an exemplary member he
50:21will be an usher he will uh run the
50:23sound system he'll count the money after
50:25the service if something needs to be
50:28done uh Dennis was always available to
50:30help as hard as this may be to believe
50:34the serial killer told the psychologist
50:35in his interview that he considers
50:37himself a religious person do you pray
50:41yes I
50:44do study the Bible daily and that helps
50:47uh not only for not only just for
50:50Spiritual a lot of it's good meanings in
50:52it good Concepts things that you can use
50:54in life even serial killers can believe
50:56in God this is not inconsistent with the
50:59kind of person who can fulfill his
51:02sexual fantasies who feels he has the
51:04right to do it with people whom he
51:06dehumanizes objects
51:08things and Dr fox sees special
51:11significance in Raider taking over as
51:14the president of his church congregation
51:16just weeks before he was caught being in
51:19charge being in control
51:21Power uh
51:24importance is a is a theme in his life
51:28that's why he pursued this role in the
51:29church in 1991 Raider had found a day
51:33job that could give him control and
51:35power too he was made a compliance
51:38officer Raider was now Ironically in
51:41charge of making certain others follow
51:43the letter of the law in Park City just
51:45north of Witchita his duties included
51:48making sure homeowners complied with
51:50various local ordinances like keeping
51:52their grass cut their yards free of
51:54junked cars or their dog dogs from
51:57running wild who' been tracking it down
51:59the dogs are somewhat territorial as
52:00well as vicious that's him being
52:02interviewed by a local TV station the
52:05killer himself right there on the screen
52:07for all witch to see who would ever
52:10suspect this public servant was actually
52:13the monster BTK whom everyone feared but
52:17it was in that job that at least some
52:19people saw a darker side to Dennis
52:21Raider D Stewart a longtime acquaintance
52:24of Raiders has a good friend who
52:26reported to him in the compliance
52:27Department his friend she says found him
52:30controlling and belligerent there were
52:32times when he when he yelled at her in
52:34front of other employees um he demeaned
52:37her he told her she would never be as
52:38smart as he was but she says he could
52:41turn his good and bad sides on and off
52:43he could be berating her he could be
52:45screaming at her and if the phone rang
52:48and it was a member of his family he
52:49turned into Ward Cleaver Dr Fox Says
52:52this apparent Jacqueline Hyde
52:54personality is classic for many serial
52:57killers I don't believe there are two
52:58Raiders in one body it's just that we
53:01all have a range in our personality and
53:05someone like Dennis Raider Point indeed
53:09has two different shades sides to his
53:12personality and he hides from the people
53:14in his life the dark
53:19negative brutal wouldn't those closest
53:22to Dennis Raider his wife his children
53:26have had to know something nope we' like
53:30to believe that we we think it's
53:33incomprehensible that those
53:35closest wouldn't
53:37know John W gasey was bearing bodies in
53:40the crawl space of his home while he
53:43lived in that house with his wife and
53:45there was a horrible odor coming from
53:46the crawl space and she'd ask him about
53:48it what's that odor and he would say it
53:51was sewer gases and he would take care
53:53of it and she believed him Dennis
53:55Raider's wife would never suspect he
53:58gave no
53:59signs they'd find out eventually because
54:02it seems Dennis Raider couldn't stand
54:05staying hidden forever I can just really
54:08stir the Hornet stuff by just showing
54:10them pictures and puzzles and playing a
54:11game with them I don't even have to go
54:13out and kill anybody this time after
54:15years of Silence BTK emerges from the
54:18Shadows more clues for police more
54:21heartbreak for victim's families mom's
54:24house had been broken into and we didn't
54:26know what happened to her that is a trip
54:28to hell when confessions of BTK
54:32continues January 2004 in Witchita
54:35Kansas Dennis Raider was 58 still living
54:39in the house on Independence Street
54:41still a compliance officer for Park City
54:44still an active member of the Christ
54:46Lutheran Church he'd been married 32
54:48years his son and daughter were all
54:50grown up now and the other dentist
54:53Raider the brutal Strangler who' so far
54:56gotten away with all those murders all
54:58that time and hadn't been heard from in
55:0025 years BTK was retired he was he was
55:04going to go off the face of the Earth or
55:05so he says soon enough an excuse to grab
55:09the Limelight would come again the
55:11Witchita Eagle published an anniversary
55:13article about the mysterious serial
55:15killer known only by the name he'd given
55:18himself BTK for buying torture and kill
55:22and who had committed his first murders
55:2330 years earlier of course it was all so
55:27long ago Raider found his exploits
55:29weren't even Front Page News anymore he
55:32says it all made him feel a little itchy
55:35that really stirred it uh I read that in
55:37the paper and I thought I always thought
55:39you know I'd like to bring this back out
55:40again but should I
55:43uh and I think I've reached the point in
55:45their life the kids were gone you know
55:48not really bored but kind of bored and
55:50something else Raider knew a local
55:52lawyer was writing a book about him or
55:54about BTK that is
55:57that didn't sit too well either with the
55:58man who had such an enormous appetite to
56:01draw attention to himself Raider felt
56:04only he could do justice to his story
56:07eventually I was going to tell a story
56:08in my terms and not his terms uh they
56:11already had the killings and so that's
56:14factual but they didn't know how how I
56:16worked and moved around the projects the
56:19haunts uh outc victims they didn't know
56:22how that worked I can just uh really
56:24stir the Hornet n up with
56:26through the media by just uh showing
56:29them pictures and puzzles and playing a
56:30game with him so in March 2004 Raider
56:34made contact not just signaling that he
56:36was still around but far more ominously
56:39sending what appeared to be proof of yet
56:42murder another young woman whose death
56:45had never been conclusively linked to
56:47BTK the innocuous looking piece of mail
56:50landed on Witchita Eagle reporter Hurst
56:52Lana's desk copied the envelope copied
56:55the letter took the letter straight to
56:56the police department did you read it
56:58there's nothing to read there are no
56:59words on it I thought it was crime scene
57:01photographs that some crackpot had
57:04gotten a hold of them on the Internet or
57:06something the pictures appeared to be
57:07pictures of a dead woman her body had
57:10been posed several different ways these
57:12were clearly not police photos and there
57:15was something else a photocopy of a
57:17driver's license think you werly
57:19driver's license and I immediately knew
57:22this probably came from Vicky werley's
57:24killer in SE setember 1986 Vicky wagerle
57:28a young mother was found tied up and
57:31strangled in her home and a trophy had
57:33been taken in this case her driver's
57:35license so police had naturally
57:37suspected BTK but there were differences
57:40too especially that the killer had never
57:42publicly boasted about it afterward as
57:44was his pattern now all these years
57:47later in addition to the copies of the
57:49photos and the driver's license there
57:51was the envelope they came in the return
57:53address at Bill Thomas kilman BTK and
57:57that's when we realized this may be the
58:00real deal tell me about that moment it
58:03was just total
58:05disbelief that he was still here Lavana
58:09agreed to give the police two days to
58:11nail it down and then broke the story
58:14The Ghost was back police could now say
58:17that more than 17 years earlier Vicky
58:19werly had indeed been btk's eighth known
58:23victim so by resurfacing in in 20 2004
58:27and sending a a letter with a photograph
58:31driver's license of a victim say I'm
58:34still here you never caught me and I've
58:36been here all along his need for
58:39attention is apparently un unquenched I
58:42absolutely thought that that this was
58:44the tip of the iceberg former Witchita
58:46TV news director Ron loen made that
58:48prediction to us almost a year before
58:51Dennis Raider was caught and sadly when
58:53it was all over he'd be proven right
58:56there had been two more murders never
58:58before connected to BTK that brought the
59:01total number of his victims to 10 in
59:042004 Raider was still hiding evidence
59:07about his murder of marine hedge she
59:09lived on his block and they knew each
59:11other in court Raider described how
59:14after bowling one evening in
59:161985 he broke into her house and waited
59:18for her to come home and she screamed
59:21and I jumped on the bed and strangled
59:23her
59:23manually rather than leaving her body
59:26Raider changed hiso confusing police at
59:29the time killed her in her house put her
59:32in the trunk of her car took her to his
59:35church put her on a blanket tied her up
59:38in different bonding situations took
59:41pictures of her then put her back uh in
59:44the trunk and took her out and dumped
59:45her it was the middle of the night he
59:47had a key because he was uh one of the
59:49uh leaders of the church marine hedge's
59:52body was later found buried under some
59:54leaves and branches in this ditch
59:57several miles from her home and even as
1:00:00his Persona BTK reemerged in 2004 Raider
1:00:05was also hiding evidence about his last
1:00:07victim Dolores Davis whom he killed in
1:00:101991 he'd seen her out in the yard
1:00:13working and uh
1:00:16had sexual feelings her son Jeff talked
1:00:20to us recently after viewing Raider's
1:00:22interview with the psychologist she was
1:00:26a very kind
1:00:28considerate empathetic
1:00:31gentle person given the
1:00:35circumstances of her death I think she
1:00:40kept her class and her dignity and her
1:00:43Poise right up to the end all right so
1:00:46you used a concrete block to break the
1:00:48window in court Raider said he used a
1:00:50concrete block as a battering ram to
1:00:53crash through Dolores Davis's lighting
1:00:54glass door and enter her home uh removed
1:00:57her handcuffs and uh and then tight her
1:01:00up and then and then eventually
1:01:03strangled her Raider then took her body
1:01:06from the house authorities knew only
1:01:08that she was missing probably kidnapped
1:01:11a best or dead at worst so that kind of
1:01:15started the clock on a
1:01:1813-day seemingly 13th century time frame
1:01:22where we didn't know what happened to
1:01:23her and that that is
1:01:26that is a trip to Hell 13 days later his
1:01:29mother's body was found under a bridge
1:01:32but of course police didn't know then
1:01:34who' done it Jeff Davis says he slipped
1:01:36into Despair and depression that
1:01:38destroyed his marriage and worse I would
1:01:41go to bed every night for the better
1:01:44part of 5 years and I prayed to God that
1:01:47he'd let me
1:01:49die Dolores Davis's driver's license and
1:01:52social security card had gone missing
1:01:55that was certainly the kind of thing BTK
1:01:57did to his murder victims but there were
1:02:00many other aspects of this crime that
1:02:02strayed from his usual so until Raider
1:02:05was caught and the police announced
1:02:06Dolores Davis as the 10th victim her son
1:02:10was left to wonder I guess there was the
1:02:13remote possibility that there was some
1:02:15Phantom seral out there but honestly I
1:02:18never connected it with
1:02:20BTK how Dennis Raider LED police
1:02:22straight to his door he said we've got
1:02:25him confessions of BTK continues in a
1:02:29moment would he kill again that was the
1:02:32question consuming much of Witchita
1:02:34Kansas in the weeks after serial killer
1:02:37BTK announced himself in 2004 following
1:02:40years of Silence I definitely lock my
1:02:42doors at night till I find out more here
1:02:44in the Heartland fear of the unknown
1:02:47monster among them penetrated yet a new
1:02:49generation my mom's going to watch out
1:02:51for my little sister more people were
1:02:53learning karate buying guns beefing up
1:02:56security systems and looking at
1:02:58strangers with a suspicion not felt in
1:03:00years in his jailhouse interview Raider
1:03:03now claims he didn't know he was having
1:03:06this effect but I didn't realize the
1:03:09city really lived in fear that bad all I
1:03:12see little spurts of it on the news
1:03:14women come home and look under their
1:03:15doors and uh under their beds and just
1:03:18Lally lived in fear I didn't realize
1:03:20that I had that attention I Dro dropped
1:03:23my jaw and I had a pad of paper and I
1:03:25made a note and I just scroll liar once
1:03:28again even with the Learned psychologist
1:03:31there he's playing a game at the very
1:03:33least says criminologist James Fox
1:03:36Raider is being completely disingenuous
1:03:39he says for the serial killer the fear
1:03:41is all part of the Twisted fun part of
1:03:44the enjoyment that serial killers have
1:03:46is not just manipulating the victims
1:03:49tying them up but manipulating a
1:03:52community and tying them up in a grip of
1:03:56Terror what's now known is that Raider
1:03:58hadn't taken a life since
1:04:001991 his explanation to the psychologist
1:04:04about why he stopped at 10 victims is
1:04:07once again chillingly matter of fact why
1:04:10aren there more why AR there more it
1:04:12seemed like as I got older uh I started
1:04:15making well physically I was just wasn't
1:04:18up to it um I knew like had fight with
1:04:21somebody you'd have to be an older
1:04:22person because just he just went into
1:04:25wouldn't be able to fight
1:04:27physically uh I don't know uh I think it
1:04:31was just starting to mellow out a little
1:04:32bit Fox believes it's probably not just
1:04:35coincidence that Raiders stopped
1:04:37committing murder around the time he got
1:04:39that job as a compliance officer now he
1:04:41really had some power now he could
1:04:43really push people around so he didn't
1:04:46have to do it with physical violence he
1:04:49could do it through his job the killer
1:04:51still lusted for notoriety however so
1:04:54after first revealing him self in that
1:04:56letter to the Witchita Eagle he sent a
1:04:58slew of letters and packages throughout
1:05:012004 and into early 2005 to local TV
1:05:05stations the police even leaving clues
1:05:07in a public park a doll with dark hair
1:05:10her face colored with makeup her arms
1:05:12bound behind her by a pair of panty hes
1:05:15her head contained in a plastic bag and
1:05:18next to the doll was a copy of the
1:05:19driver's license of one of btk's victims
1:05:22Nancy Fox a handmade word puzzle
1:05:26which investigators now see contains a
1:05:28group of letters spelling d Raider and
1:05:30the numbers of his address it all put
1:05:33witch's serial Strangler front and
1:05:35center again just how he liked it was
1:05:38that exciting to you was that sexually
1:05:40exciting to you probably the media not
1:05:43maybe sexually but the media attention
1:05:45you I listen to the news quite a bit and
1:05:47yeah I get I get pretty excited to read
1:05:49the paper did you ever think you were
1:05:50going to get caught no no no no no this
1:05:53guy was not going to get caught
1:05:55absolutely not no I didn't want to get
1:05:57caught I wanted to put everything on
1:05:59floppies they would go to a floppy to a
1:06:01CD the CD would either go to safe
1:06:03deposit or a very heighty hole and I
1:06:05could always bring it back out many have
1:06:07speculated that Raiders repeated
1:06:09messages were indeed a cry to be
1:06:11captured but James fox says it's just
1:06:14the opposite he felt Invincible
1:06:18Unstoppable and that's why many serial
1:06:20killers do communicate with the police
1:06:22not because they want to invite
1:06:24capture it's because they feel that the
1:06:27police are no match for their skill
1:06:29their
1:06:30cunning their stardom their
1:06:33Brilliance
1:06:34so what often happens in among serial
1:06:37killers is they get so cocky and they
1:06:39make a mistake and that's just what
1:06:41happened it was Raider himself who
1:06:43helped bring police to his door it
1:06:46started in January 2005 when Raider
1:06:49placed a letter in a pickup truck at
1:06:51this Home Depot which eventually made
1:06:53its way to police Raider identifying
1:06:57himself only as BTK asked the police
1:07:00whether they could catch him if he used
1:07:02a computer disc to communicate he asked
1:07:05the police to respond in a classified ad
1:07:08and he asked them to be honest he
1:07:11actually asked the police if they could
1:07:12catch you they said no they said no did
1:07:14you really think they were going to tell
1:07:16you the truth no I thought they would I
1:07:19I thought they wanted me to finish the
1:07:21story I really thought I had a rapport
1:07:24with him you know and I really did I
1:07:27mean doesn't that seem kind of
1:07:30dumb yeah it does to believe that the
1:07:33police would tell you the truth about
1:07:35something like that I mean he's been
1:07:36playing games with us for 30 years and
1:07:38you think we're not we're going to shoot
1:07:39straight with you I don't think so so
1:07:41naturally the police lied and told the
1:07:43killer they couldn't trace a disc to him
1:07:46and waited to see if he would fall for
1:07:47it which he did Raider's last
1:07:50communication was a computer disc filled
1:07:53with more taunts and puzzles he sent to
1:07:55a local television station the police
1:07:58were able to trace it to a Dennis and a
1:08:00computer at Raiders Church by Googling
1:08:03the church name and Dennis police
1:08:05quickly zeroed in on Dennis Raider what
1:08:08nailed him ultimately was the last
1:08:12floppy disc he said yeah well what
1:08:14nailed him was his
1:08:15hubris uh he went too far felce also
1:08:19used a surveillance tape from that Home
1:08:20Depot to figure out that the person who
1:08:23dropped off the BTK letter was driving a
1:08:26car registered to Dennis Raider's son
1:08:29but to make certain they had their man
1:08:31they needed a DNA match so authorities
1:08:34got a warrant for a tissue sample from
1:08:36Raider's daughter on file at a Kansas
1:08:39Medical Clinic test showed it was a
1:08:41close match to the evidence drawn from
1:08:43the crime
1:08:44scenes it was now early in the week of
1:08:46February 21st 2005 and former police
1:08:50chief Richard Leman remembers quite well
1:08:53when he got the news he'd waited more
1:08:55than 30 years to hear simply said we've
1:08:58got him he said it's just a matter of
1:09:00time we've got
1:09:02him locked up and choked up that first
1:09:05Sunday was probably my lowest day of all
1:09:08my life tears from a killer but not for
1:09:11his victims when confessions of BTK
1:09:17continues Dennis Raider spent the
1:09:19morning of February 25th 2005 on the job
1:09:23in Park City where is the town
1:09:25compliance officer Raider was
1:09:27responsible for things like Carling Mad
1:09:29Dogs or chewing people out if their
1:09:32grass grew too high normal work day uh
1:09:36didn't have any suspicions although I've
1:09:39been been really careful about watching
1:09:41people and actions and stuff uh I
1:09:43usually pretty good about that he says
1:09:45he noticed nothing unusual except maybe
1:09:48a moment when he overheard on his police
1:09:50radio the FBI was up to something in his
1:09:53town and I thought well know maybe
1:09:56something's coming down shall I run but
1:10:00where would I ran if they were after me
1:10:03I just took a calculated guess that that
1:10:05was something else and hope for then at
1:10:08midday the killer went home for lunch
1:10:11drove home and just as soon as I got
1:10:13started turned down there's a frontage
1:10:15road I saw this whole line of police
1:10:17cars I thought oh that's not good and it
1:10:20was just they were right on me just that
1:10:23quick I thought maybe maybe it's a
1:10:24traffic stop or something soon as I one
1:10:26them was behind me with the red lights
1:10:27and Sirens I knew that was it with that
1:10:30Dennis Lyn Raider the man believed to be
1:10:33BTK was finally in custody after 31
1:10:37years they arrested me they got out of
1:10:40the car they pulled the guns on me told
1:10:41me to lay down and I sprawled out and
1:10:44they grabbed me real quick like of
1:10:45handcuffs and stuck me in a car Mr raer
1:10:48do you know why you're going downtown I
1:10:49said I have suspicions why at first uh I
1:10:54was hoping
1:10:57it was kind of a kind of a cat and mouse
1:10:59game uh that they had a suspect but but
1:11:04it but but kind of hurt you know you
1:11:06know like you said I had the power you
1:11:08know I was a law enforcement officer
1:11:09technically and here I am these law
1:11:12enforcement officers are trying to do
1:11:13their to my duty that kind of hurt a
1:11:15little bit but before long Raider in his
1:11:18self-obsessed arrogance was talking up a
1:11:20storm and says in this interview with
1:11:22the psychologist he actually was having
1:11:24a good time connecting to the police
1:11:27officers also during the interrogation
1:11:29it seems as though you were
1:11:32enjoying being one of them at times it's
1:11:36almost like colleagues Talk Shop
1:11:38camaraderie comaraderie you know yeah we
1:11:41talk shop uh I know a lot of police
1:11:43terminology I know how they do things so
1:11:46yeah it's kind of a bonding type thing
1:11:48you talk you enjoy it on any level uh
1:11:51yes I did yeah all I knew was sunk or
1:11:55soon would be but yeah I enjoyed it and
1:11:57and once uh once the confession was out
1:11:59and I admitted who I was then then the
1:12:01bonding really started you know I just
1:12:04really opened up and you know we shared
1:12:07jokes and everything else it's just like
1:12:09we were buddies he's proud of what he
1:12:11done uh he was having in a perverse way
1:12:15fun talking with his uh his colleagues
1:12:18the police what do you make of the
1:12:20camaraderie he says he enjoyed with all
1:12:23of the police officers who were
1:12:24interrogating him when he was arrested
1:12:27well it it implies a certain degree of
1:12:30um of of control here on the situation
1:12:33I'm a good guy they're a good guy we're
1:12:34all the same profession here I work law
1:12:36enforcement technically and he was a
1:12:38want toe cop it makes him feel better to
1:12:40to think of them as peers but however
1:12:42much Raider may have imagined he was
1:12:44still in control the reality was just
1:12:47the opposite Richard Leman who once
1:12:49headed up the department Raider
1:12:51dismisses as the Keystone Cops says the
1:12:54script was going very way now were they
1:12:57in fact playing him absolutely these
1:12:59these officers that were interviewing
1:13:01him were handpicked they had studied him
1:13:04they knew the characteristics they were
1:13:06playing to his ego to his strength they
1:13:08were bringing him up making him think
1:13:10that you know hey we're buddy buddies
1:13:13then just as quickly they shut him down
1:13:15the interview ended the attention
1:13:17stopped and the officers went home it
1:13:20was only then Raider tells the
1:13:22psychologist that the reality of his
1:13:24past and the impact on his future
1:13:27finally started to sink in was there any
1:13:30way of of getting out of this you know
1:13:33is there any possible way and I thought
1:13:35no there is any way they just got too
1:13:37much on me and then most of my thoughts
1:13:39went back to my family you know how my
1:13:41family was holding up how are they
1:13:42taking this I was the main thing just
1:13:45you know you're you're caught carinated
1:13:47and all those things that you
1:13:50enjoyed you they're gone you know you
1:13:52just just you know you have to be in the
1:13:54POS position to realize it I don't think
1:13:57normal people are outside in the world
1:13:59can visualize that you know just like
1:14:02right now you know you just you know
1:14:04touch people and hold them
1:14:07and you know your kids and
1:14:11stuff sorry let
1:14:14gone this was one of the few moments
1:14:16during the interview where Raider
1:14:18revealed any emotion when he was talking
1:14:20about himself and his family well anyway
1:14:24uh you know people don't realize that uh
1:14:28you know once you're gone you can't go
1:14:30out uh out in fresh air walk your dog
1:14:34hug your wife kiss your
1:14:36wife you know go to a movie have a pizza
1:14:40hamburger it's all gone it's all about
1:14:42him when you watch
1:14:44him do you feel anything you feel pain
1:14:49cuz every time I see him I see all of
1:14:52those victims and the tortured looks on
1:14:54their faces from all the crime scenes
1:14:55and what he actually did he left that
1:14:58part out he never mentioned him instead
1:15:01all Raider could do was complain to the
1:15:04psychologist about how he missed all the
1:15:06attention he'd been receiving from his
1:15:08police interrogators he did not come
1:15:11Saturday it's probably that that first
1:15:14Sunday was probably my lowest day of all
1:15:16my life I was really depressed he called
1:15:19it the lowest day of his life can you
1:15:22imagine this is a man who's already been
1:15:23arrested he's from his family probably
1:15:26forever they despise him oh by the way
1:15:28he's killed 10 people and the lowest day
1:15:31of his life is when the interrogation
1:15:32doesn't continue doesn't this tell us a
1:15:34lot about about Dennis Raider and next
1:15:38the killer gets his day in court will
1:15:40heartbroken families get peace people
1:15:43use the word closure there is no such
1:15:44thing when confessions of BTK
1:15:48continues the bottom line BTK is
1:15:53arrested well while Dennis Raiders sat
1:15:56in his cell with no one to satisfy his
1:15:58desire to keep talking about himself the
1:16:01police and a cast of dozens proudly
1:16:03announced his capture to the citizens of
1:16:05Witchita and the world Agents from the
1:16:09kbi agents from the FBI and members of
1:16:12the witch toop Police Department
1:16:14arrested Dennis
1:16:16Raider 59 and a white male but it wasn't
1:16:20until late June when Raider appeared in
1:16:23court for what was supposed to be the
1:16:24first day of his trial that people got a
1:16:27good look at and earful from the man who
1:16:29had killed so many people over so many
1:16:32years instead of maintaining the not
1:16:35guilty plea he'd entered earlier there
1:16:37was a surprise Mr Rider would you please
1:16:40stand with
1:16:44coun sir I have been advised it is your
1:16:47desire to enter a plea of guilty in this
1:16:50case is that correct yes sir people in
1:16:53and out of court listened a g to Raider
1:16:56as he detailed each murder in his cold
1:16:58chilling emotionless manner I manually
1:17:01strangled her when she started to scream
1:17:03Ron loen watched Raider's court
1:17:05appearance on TV people make a lot of
1:17:07the point that he didn't show any
1:17:08emotion he was showing incredible
1:17:10emotion uh the detail that he used he
1:17:14paused and he'd search for Words uh the
1:17:17graphic graphic description that he gave
1:17:19this wasn't someone who was stumbling
1:17:21who was uh nervous this was Showtime for
1:17:25him uh he couldn't have asked for a
1:17:27better stage the killer was clearly
1:17:29puffed up by his court appearance
1:17:32bragging about it afterward when he
1:17:33spoke with the psychologist it's only
1:17:35been a few hours since that hearing how
1:17:37you feeling I really feel pretty good
1:17:39it's kind of like a big burden that was
1:17:40lefted off my
1:17:41shoulders
1:17:43um and on the other hand I feel like I'm
1:17:46like a star right now as you might
1:17:48expect a certain former police chief
1:17:50would love to lower the curtain on
1:17:52Dennis Raider right now I'd like to be
1:17:55the one to be able to put him in a cell
1:17:56and turn his lights out that's what I'd
1:17:58like to do so how does someone like
1:18:00Dennis Raider get to be this way well
1:18:02that's the 64,000 question that we don't
1:18:04completely know part of it is the
1:18:06propensities that you're born with and
1:18:08part of it too is is what kind of
1:18:10environment you're growing into these
1:18:12are all the the intangibles that we
1:18:14can't predict and don't fully understand
1:18:17Raider told the psychologist he'll make
1:18:19amends in his way to his God I know it's
1:18:22personal but could you tell me what you
1:18:24pray for
1:18:27actually uh like for the other day I
1:18:30prayed for that the family would accept
1:18:33me on uh there in the
1:18:36court that they would you know you know
1:18:38accept that as forgiveness your F whose
1:18:41family my
1:18:43family and also I mentioned there the
1:18:46victim families that they would you know
1:18:48not they can forgive me but maybe
1:18:50someday they can realize you know I got
1:18:53some problems oh
1:18:56yeah there's the classic understatement
1:18:57of the world we asked Jeff Davis the son
1:19:00of Raiders last victim what he thought
1:19:02about that he does have problems all of
1:19:05which are of his own
1:19:06making he did not come from any abused
1:19:09family he can't blame any environmental
1:19:11factors he can't blame anybody or any
1:19:13sickness or being dropped on his head
1:19:16wish they dropped him a little harder he
1:19:18can't blame anything Davis who like so
1:19:21many other family members is also a
1:19:24victim of being etk wrote a book to help
1:19:26him and others cope with the trauma of
1:19:29loss and to make sure people knew how
1:19:31special his mother Dolores was I would
1:19:34be damned if her Legacy ended with her
1:19:38being murdered a beautiful loving
1:19:43kind gentle
1:19:45person and her Legacy is being murdered
1:19:49and dumped out in the ditch like a bag
1:19:51of dirty laundry for the dogs to go
1:19:53through and I was not going to let that
1:19:55happen just after Davis's book was
1:19:57published in
1:19:591996 he received a letter from a
1:20:01taxpayer who Davis now firmly believes
1:20:04was Dennis Raider it has never before
1:20:06been made public the letter said we'll
1:20:09call the serial killer The Phantom of
1:20:12Northern Sedwick County which is where
1:20:14Raider lived it also said I'm sure that
1:20:18he probably Blends in with a crowd I'm
1:20:21Jeffrey Davis son of Dolores Davis at
1:20:24Raider sentencing Davis was able to
1:20:27speak directly to the killer for the
1:20:29last
1:20:305,326 days I have wondered what it would
1:20:32be like to confront the walking
1:20:34Cesspool that took my mother's precious
1:20:37life even if you could begin to Fathom
1:20:39the depth of my hatred for you I would
1:20:41still refuse to waste any breath on you
1:20:43because that would once again allow you
1:20:45the satisfaction of being in the
1:20:46Limelight and that attention I refuse to
1:20:48allow you as of today you no longer
1:20:51exist Charlie ooto and his sister Carmen
1:20:54spoke too
1:20:55Raider you not only affected my life but
1:20:57you took away the joy of the ultimate
1:20:58grandparents aunt and uncle relationship
1:21:00my children deserve just recently I
1:21:03realized that I could not remember my
1:21:05mother's voice it was a painful
1:21:07Discovery but as I put my thoughts on
1:21:09paper it comes to me I am my mother's
1:21:12voice and I know we've been heard family
1:21:15members of other victims gave their
1:21:17thoughts on the day he dies Nancy and
1:21:20all of his victims will be waiting with
1:21:23God and watching him as he burns in
1:21:27hell when it was time for Raider to
1:21:29speak to the court he characteristically
1:21:32showed little emotion now that I've
1:21:35confessed put myself out to let
1:21:37everybody know what's going on I expect
1:21:40to heal and have life and then hopefully
1:21:44someday God will accept me and finally I
1:21:47final apologize to the victim's
1:21:50families there's no
1:21:52way that I can repay the murders were
1:21:56committed before Kansas reinstated the
1:21:58death penalty when it came time to
1:22:00sentence Raider the judge showed no
1:22:03mercy giving him the maximum sense to
1:22:06serve a term of life for which you will
1:22:08not be proo eligible until the
1:22:10expiration of 40 years Jeff Davis says
1:22:13even though he was finally able to
1:22:15confront the killer of his mother he is
1:22:18left feeling empty people use the word
1:22:20closure there is no such thing closure
1:22:23happens when you go back that moment in
1:22:26time and it doesn't happen and the
1:22:27person's still there Charlie Otero who
1:22:30also faced a hard life after the murder
1:22:32of his parents sister and brother knows
1:22:35what Davis means I would wonder about
1:22:38what they were thinking and the feelings
1:22:40that they had while this was happening
1:22:42to them you know this has been the most
1:22:43intense and challenging my family Mur
1:22:46with me daily en it never leaves me the
1:22:48memories of my family come back to me
1:22:50whenever I see a husband hug his wife or
1:22:54a father and a son play I think of my
1:22:56family and what I had lost for so long
1:23:00Charlie Otero Jeff Davis and so many
1:23:02others have wanted to know why why their
1:23:05loved ones were victims and now they
1:23:08know it was one man's inability to
1:23:10control his sexual fantasies one man's
1:23:13depraved indifference to human life and
1:23:16terrible coincidence for 10 innocent
1:23:18people who were caught in Dennis
1:23:20Raider's murderous web I keep seeing
1:23:24these Vic I keep seeing these people
1:23:26that he tortured and murdered and killed
1:23:29and and I just look at him in wonderment
1:23:34thinking how can someone just stand
1:23:36there and talk like we just had lunch
1:23:37and had a sandwich or something and just
1:23:39go on with it he he just evil evil
1:23:43[Music]
1:23:49personified that's all for now I'm Stone
1:23:51Phillips for an Curry and all of us in
1:23:53NBC News thanks for watching

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