It was the year of 1974 and Dennis Rader was living a double life. And While the family man was hanging porch swings, building treehouses, watching his daughter crawl up her favorite climbing tree and planting flowers along the driveway, BTK was having, what he called, ‘motel parties.’
But - his own personal motel parties weren’t enough. With the memory of the Otero murders still fresh in his mind, Rader’s desires grew, and soon enough they would be too much for him to control.
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