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SERIAL KILLER: The BTK Strangler Monster |Bind, Torture, Kill| Part 1 of 2
Bind them. Torture Them. Kill Them.
A three step process in fulfiling one man’s sick and demonic sexual fantasies. So why share the story? Why do we give these monsters more attention and discussion? Because they took the lives of people who aren’t here to speak up any longer, yet we can. And we will, and we’re here to make sure nobody celebrates this monster, but rather- we can study and learn how to stop any future monsters from taking innocent lives.
Here at Fire Eyes Media, Jen and I strive to be better victim advocates each case we share. For this purpose, we will be leaving out some graphic details per our discretion.
In Part 1 of 2, we dive right in to the timeline of the crimes and then we'll return in Part 2 all about who BTK is (yes, he's still alive).
Jules takes the helm on this series! Don't forget to listen to Friday's Weekly Dispatch- Jen takes the helm this week!
Shout out the listeners who recently left us a 5 star review and rating! Jen and I celebrate each one!
Jen will be at Advocacy Con in Indiana the end of March as a guest speaker and creator.
Jules will be attending the True Crime Awards UK in London in June- Missing in Hush Town has been name a finalist for Podcast Rookie of The Year!
Jules & Jen will both be creators at True Crime Podcast Festival in Boston in July- use Hush20 for a 20 percent off code! Come hang out with us!
Jules & Jen will both be at Crime Con in Denver in September!
hey...you matter.
SERIAL KILLER: The BTK Strangler Monster |Bind, Torture, Kill| Part 1 of 2
Bind them. Torture Them. Kill Them.
A three step process in fulfiling one man’s sick and demonic sexual fantasies. So why share the story? Why do we give these monsters more attention and discussion? Because they took the lives of people who aren’t here to speak up any longer, yet we can. And we will, and we’re here to make sure nobody celebrates this monster, but rather- we can study and learn how to stop any future monsters from taking innocent lives.
Here at Fire Eyes Media, Jen and I strive to be better victim advocates each case we share. For this purpose, we will be leaving out some graphic details per our discretion.
In Part 1 of 2, we dive right in to the timeline of the crimes and then we'll return in Part 2 all about who BTK is (yes, he's still alive).
Jules takes the helm on this series! Don't forget to listen to Friday's Weekly Dispatch- Jen takes the helm this week!
Shout out the listeners who recently left us a 5 star review and rating! Jen and I celebrate each one!
Jen will be at Advocacy Con in Indiana the end of March as a guest speaker and creator.
Jules will be attending the True Crime Awards UK in London in June- Missing in Hush Town has been name a finalist for Podcast Rookie of The Year!
Jules & Jen will both be creators at True Crime Podcast Festival in Boston in July- use Hush20 for a 20 percent off code! Come hang out with us!
Jules & Jen will both be at Crime Con in Denver in September!
hey...you matter.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Bind them, torture them, kill them, a three step process
and fulfilling one man sick and demotic sexual fantasies. So
why share the story, Jewels? Why are you going to
give this monster more attention and more discussion, Because you, guys,
he took the lives of people who aren't here to
speak up for themselves any longer to tell their story.
Yet we can't, and we will and we'll learn from this.
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We'll study this, we'll discuss it so that maybe one
day we can prevent another monster from taking another innocent
life in the future. Hey guys, it's Jewels and this
is True Crime and Headlines with Jewels and Jen. Are
you ready here at Fireeyes Media? You know, Jen and
(00:44):
I always strive to be better victim advocates each case
we share. And I've learned a lot in the three
seasons that we've been doing true Crime and Headlines. And
I'm not afraid to admit that I was not the
best victim atquit when I first started, and so I
always believe that you have to always continue to educate yourself.
No better, be better, do better. So here we are
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redoing the BTK serial Killer episode and I'm taking out
some gruesome details that I originally put in when I
did it the first time because my heart told me
to and it's not appropriate and it wasn't serving victim rights.
I'm also signed up to go through training to become
a certified victim advocate, So the more I know how
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to do better, the more I'll be better for not
only our victims, but also the people consuming true crimes.
So at my discretion, I will be leaving out some details,
specifically surrounding the children victims. We're going to do something
a little bit different today. I'm going to first tell
you the timeline of the crimes, and then we're going
to follow the path of the investigators and how they
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caught BTK. Then we'll meet BTK, dive into his background,
his family, his psyche, etc. So meet me in Kansas
in the night teen seventies where it all began. January fifteenth,
nineteen seventy four. Julia Otero thirty three and Joseph Otero
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thirty eight, originally from Puerto Rico and raised in New York,
and their five children, had just begun settling into their
lives in Wichita, Kansas, where they had moved just six
months prior. You know Julie and Joseph. They were childhood sweethearts.
Joseph was retired military who had moved the family around
different states in different countries, so the family was no
stranger to new places. However, they were last in Panama
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and felt the move to the Midwest was a bit
of a shock. They went from sunny and warm with
a lifestyle outside to being indoors with the cold and
the snow. On January fifteenth, nineteen seventy four, Julie and
Joseph's oldest kids. So we have Charlie, Carmen, and Danny
say goodbye to their parents and head off to school,
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just as they had done every school day prior. Josie,
eleven years old and her brother Joey, nine years years old,
are the youngest of the siblings and they're still at
home with their parents in the morning. Now. I'm not
positive if they weren't going to be going to school
later as well, but Charlie does tell Daily Mirror that
the family was very focused on academics and he asked
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his dad if he could go to school early so
he could do a study session before school for an
upcoming test. So we can assume the older siblings likely
went to school that had an earlier start time as well,
so that leaves us at home with mom and dad.
You know, Julie and Joseph and the two youngest Josie
and Joey Junior. They're all home, and so is their
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family dog named Lucky. Now, Lucky was always inside the
home or supervised. So when fifteen year old son Charlie
o'tero returns home from school along with his two siblings,
sister Carman and brother Danny, and observes that Lucky is
outside the house, he instantly knows that something is a
right now. Remember this is Kansas in January, so there's
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snow on the and as he enters the home, what
he observes looks like something out of a home invasion textbook.
Mom Julie's purse is open on the stove and items
taken out and strewn about the kitchen and on the floor.
Charlie tells ABC's twenty twenty that this is the moment
he begins to believe that something is wrong. He says,
quote that wasn't typical in my mother at all. She
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was a very tidy person, and the kitchen, ever looked
like that, so I yelled out, I said, is anybody home?
End quote. He continues to scan the scene and waits
for his parents to respond. Meanwhile, his other two siblings
have gone into the home when Danny calls out to Charlie, quote, Charlie,
come quick, Mom and Dad are playing a bad trick
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on us. End quote. It's then that Charlie sees what
will forever change his life. He turns the corner, opens
his parents' bedroom door, and before him are his parents,
Julie and Joseph dead. Julie is on the bed and
Joseph is beside her on the floor. Charlie de brother
Danny to run next door and call the police right now,
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and the three oldest siblings go outside and wait for
the police. Charlie recalls to Daily Mirror that one of
the officers asked him if he believed his father could
do this, and it's this question which he says, would
go on to feel a lifelong distrust and attitude of
anti authority. His father was an amazing man who worked
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so hard for the family and dedicated his life to
the military. How could someone ask such a thing, he thought, Carmen, Danny,
and Charlie are taken down to the police station. While
they're waiting to find out what happens next, the siblings
continue to beg the police to bring their youngest siblings
to them. They don't want them to enter the home
and see their parents the way they did. This is
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why I believe Josie and Joey Junior had later start
times for school. The older siblings never checked the rest
of the home for Josie and Joey Junior. Now why
would they if Joey and Josie would likely still be
at school later start time, later dismissal time. It's not
until the police send in their chaplain to talk with
the oldest three Otaro kids that they learned that their
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little brother, Joey Junior, just nine, and their little sister Josie,
just eleven, were also brutally murdered. The police had not
discovered Joey Junior and Josie's bodies until they did a
sweep of the home and discovered Joey Junior in his
own bedroom suffocated with a bag over his head, and
Josie in the basement with obvious signs of sexual trauma.
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The killer confesses at his trial later that he had
been sexually fantasizing about what he would do to either
Julie or her daughter Josie, and he chose Josie. I
really wrestled with how much to share about that, so
just no. I took out a lot of details about that.
They are readily available online. I just feel a duty
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and responsibility to not go in such detail about that.
You know, Josie didn't live a long life and this
this is a story that will be told over and
over again, and I want to give her a little
bit of dignity and not but we do need to
continue to talk about this and read about it and
learn about it. But just know she was sexually abused
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and harmed before she was killed. Be warned, it's gruesome
what's coming up, and it's hard to listen. To skip
forward if you need to. I respect that decision. The
BTK killer was waiting outside the Otto home, lurking and
watching at eight thirty am. Charlie and his older siblings
were already at school when at eight forty am, the
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BTK killer cut the phone lines and waited at the
back door, wondering whether or not to go through with
his plan. The killer did not believe that Joseph O'to
was home the father, so when the back door opens
and little nine year old Joey Junior steps outside along
with dog Lucky, the killer sees his opportunity and charges
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the young boy, taking him by knife and gunpoint. The
killer then proceeds to tell the remaining family that he
is conducting a robbery, was a wanted criminal from California
and he needed a car and money. He recounts this
event during his testimony in courts and says he did
this to ease the family. He brings all four of
the Oteros into Julian and Joseph's bedroom. He ties their
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hands behind their backs and then proceeds to kill the
parents by strangulation, forcing the young children to watch. Joseph
has a plastic bag over his head, and when BTK
turns to Julie, he realizes he's never strangled someone before,
and per his own omission, he has to figure out
on the spot how much pressure to apply and for
how long, and he thinks he kills her, but instead
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he realizes he causes her to pass out, so when
she comes through again, he has to strangle her again. Now,
during his confession. Later on, the killer is recorded saying
that he tries to make mister Otero as comfortable as
he could, as mister Otero had a broken rib from
a car accident. So the killer puts a pillow under
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his torso for him, and it's then that he's realizing
that this is at a hand. He works with Julie.
You guys, the BTK killer works with the mother. Everyone
in this home has seen his face. He is not
wearing any face coverings, and so he decides he has
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to go forward with killing them all. He then takes
Joey Junior and brings him to his own bedroom, and
it's there that the killer takes the boy's life through suffocation. Next,
the killer moves eleven year old Josie downstairs. He later
admits to freedial agents that this family murder was out
of sexual motivation and that his main target was the
young girl. Josie's life ends at the hands of this
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killer as she is tied to a pipe in the
basement and hanged. According to a statement later given by
the killer, before Josie was killed, she asked the monster
what would happen to her, and he replied that she
would be in heaven soon with the others. The surviving
Otaro children would go on to be sent to New
Mexico to live and be raised by a man who
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was Joseph's friend from the military, and their lives well,
you know, they would never be the same again. The
killer then tidied the home, took Joseph Otero's car, and
left at a grocery store, and he would go on
to kill six more people, spanning over three decades without
ever being caught or was it more. We recently sat
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down with a crime analyst who claims to have cracked
the killer's word search sent to authorities years later in
two thousand and four, and she believes she's discovered more victims.
And you won't want to miss that episode coming up
later this season. So why the Oteros. Julie Ottero was
working on an assembly line at a company called Coleman.
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Coleman was known for hiring many residents of Wichita, and
among them was also the killer later to be known
by the public as bt K. Bt K would watch
Julie stalking in, spying on not just her, but her
entire family, and this is how he became infatuated with
Julie's youngest daughter, Josie. The killer later would go on
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to testify that quote, after I got into the house,
I lost control of it, but it was, you know,
in the back of my mind that I had some
ideas of what I was going to do. End quote.
Let's talk evidence he left behind. He would likely have
fingerprints and of course seminole fluid at the scene. But
we learned in season one of True Coming headlines from
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the d B. Cooper case. If you haven't listened to
that one, that's a crazy one. Go back and listen
to that. But DNA testing was not widespread and it
wasn't used in crimes until the eighties. The killer would
later refer to this as his first PJ or project,
and took two items from the homes as keepsakes. He
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took Joseph O'to's watch and a radio. April fourth, nineteen
seventy four, just a few short months after the Otero
family tragedy, the killer takes on another one of his projects,
or one of his pjs, and this time turns his
attention to twenty one year old Katherine Bray. Catherine also
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worked at the Coleman plant, which was very common for
Wichita residents in the seventies. The killer would later go
on to tell federal agents that he saw Catherine entering
her home one day, and he decided on the spot
that she would be next. The killer testified at his
trial that Catherine was in the stalking stage of his projects,
having just completed the trolling stage to find his next victim.
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He also indicated that if, for whatever reason, he felt
it wouldn't work out during the trolling stage, that he
would just go on to find another victim in the
trolling stage. The killer then breaks into the home through
the back door and waits for Catherine to return home.
When she enters the home around two o'clock PM, the
killer is taken by surprise to see that she has
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a man with her, something the killer did not anticipate,
Kevin Bright, Catherine's brother. The killer charges them with a
gun and forces Kevin to tie up Catherine's hands and
feet first. He then takes Kevin into another bedroom and
proceeds to do the same to Kevin. Kevin was able
to somehow come loose from the binds, and he begins
to fight for his life, almost taking the gun from
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the killer, but the killer shoots Kevin in the head.
Watching Kevin collapse and how much blood is leaving the wound,
the killer believes Kevin to be dead. He returned to
Catherine to quote finish his project unquote. When he hears
noises from the other room, he runs over to Kevin
and shoots him again, this time knowing Kevin has died. However,
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Catherine has now managed to get loose, and the killer
and Catherine engage in a physical fight. Katherine fought like
hell to live during this. Kevin, miraculously, you guys, was
to hill alive and was able to open the front
door and run out to his car to drive and
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search for help. The killer realized that the police would
arrive soon, so when he was unable to kill Catherine
by strangling her because she was a fighter, he took
a knife and began stabbing her. He stabbed her eleven
times before she went down. He didn't know if she
was dead, but he had to take off not knowing
if she was dead. Sadly, she survived this, and I
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say sadly because she had to have multiple surgeries and
blood transfusions and she would ultimately pass away after going
through all that. From the injuries at the young age
of twenty one, but Kevin Kevin survived he was just nineteen.
CNN reports that Kevin quote said he never saw his
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sister's body and didn't learn of her death until several
days after the attacks end quote. It's important to know
that the killer was not wearing any type of face
covering for this murder either, and now we have an
eyewitness who survived. Kevin Bright later spoke bravely at the
trial of the killer by providing a victim impact statement
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calling his sister's murder and execution, and stated how proud
he was that his sister, quote fought like a hell
cat end quote. Per the killer's confession, Kevin shares regret
that she never got away from the killer, but shares
how he doesn't question whether God was ever in control.
Kevin did not have brain damage, but he does suffer
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with nerve damage for feeling heat and has nerve damage
with how he eats and digests food. He also bears
a scar on his face and on his skull from
the gunshots. Now, one more thing you'll share about Kevin,
as he said he was thankful he was there with
his sister as he would go on to know the
killer's intentions and plans, and he was able to intervene.
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In October nineteen seventy four, nine months after his first
murders of the Otero family, the killer introduced himself to
the police by taking credit for the murders. Why did
he do this? One theory is that he was so
upset that there was someone else out there confessing to
his crimes that he couldn't handle it and he had
to take credit for himself. Now what he does next
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to you, guys starts a decades long cat and mouse
taunting game between the killer and the Wichita police. The
killer makes a phone call to the local paper, the
Wichita Eagle. Newspaper employee Don Granger answers the call and
is told that there is a letter in between the
pages of an engineering book at the library. Don Granger
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informs authorities immediately, and the contents of the letter will
not end up being released to the public until another newspaper,
a fairly new newspaper, releases it. The killer has poor
grammar and writing skills and goes on to write in
park quote, I can't stop it. So the monster goes
on and hurts me as well. As society. It's a big,
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complicated game, my friend, the monster play, putting victims numbered down,
follow them, checking up on them, waiting in the dark, waiting,
waiting end quote. He then ends the letter with quote PS.
Since sex criminals do not change their mo or by
nature cannot do so, I will not change mine. The
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code for me will be bind them, torture them, kill
them BTK. You see he's at it again. End quote.
And from then on he is known as the BTK
serial Killer, and he will continue to taunt the police
throughout the next few decades through communications, souvenirs, proof of crimes,
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and even go as far to warn them ahead of
time of one of his next murderers. It's now nineteen
seventy seven. The country hasn't heard from the BTK serial
Killer in three years? Has he died? Was he in jail?
Who was he? And why did he go silent? Bind them,
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torture them, kill them? By now, the state of Kansas
is familiar with BTK, as he has taken public credit
for the Ataro murders, but not the Bright murder. One
thing that may be scarier than a serial killer is
a serial killer who is self aware and patient BTK
has sat dormant for three years doing what and why? Well,
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you guys, of course, we are going to go into
this in part two, but for now we're taking you
along the story of his crimes as they unfold, just
as the public was informed, stay with me here at
this point in March of nineteen seventy seven, nobody knows
it's your identity. Nobody knows the identity of the man
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who calls himself the BTK Killer. And it's on March seventeenth,
nineteen seventy seven, et K attempts to exit his trolling
phase and enter the stalking phase of a woman named
Cheryl Elmore Jagan, a woman who he met one evening
at a bar and enjoyed her company. He began stalking her,
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and on March seventeen, he went to her home, which
she shared with another female roommate. When BTK relays that
both women were gone, he decided to drive by another
family in the same neighborhood which he was considering stalking. However,
they were also gone, so he parked his car and
went for a walk down a nearby street called Hydraulic.
He spotted five year old Stephen Relford. Stephen was walking
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alone home from the market to pick up a few
items for his mother, Shirley Vienne Ralford. She was just
twenty four. BTK stopped the boy and pulled out a
photo and asked the boy if he knew the people
in the photo. Stephen said he did not, and he
turned to continue on home and not photo, you guys,
That was a real photo of bt K's family that
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he carried with him in his wallet, of his own
wife and his own son. BTK watched the young boy
as he went back home, thus showing BTK where he
lived unknowingly. Stephen recalls how traumatizing this event was, to
the point in which he explains that for an entire
two years after this, the boy went mute. He felt
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responsible for what happens next, as he was the one
who led BTK to his home and would ultimately open
the door. When just a few moments after returning from home,
he hears a knock at the door. Was BTK, and
he tells the boy he is a private detective and
asks where Stephen's mother is. When Stephen tells him that
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she's in bed and not feeling well, BTK pushes past
the boy turns on the television closes the blinds. Stephen's mother, Shirley,
comes out of the room and is startled to see
a strange man in her room. He quickly pulls out
a gun and has Shirley and her three yes, you guys,
three children. Stephen had an eight year old brother and
a four year old sister, and BTK moves them into
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the main bedroom. He then instructs Shirley to lock the
kids in the bathroom and give them toys and blankets,
which she does, believing that they won't be harmed if
she complies. The man then ties the bathroom door closed,
but Stephen tries to get out to save his mom,
and that's when the killer screened that he would shoot
the kid's head off if he tried that again, thus
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prompting Shirley to tell her kitsch just listen, listen to
whatever he says. The killer then tells Shirley he wants
quote to have his way with her end quote, but
proceeds to convince her that he is not referring to rape.
Shirley was indeed home ill that day, and she proceeds
to throw up, likely a combination of illness and fear,
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and the killer goes to pour her a glass of
water to give her a drink. He then lets her
smoke a cigarette to calm her, and then does the
opposite of what he said. He does indeed harm her
his way by strangling her with a cord around her neck,
all while her three little innocent children are locked in
the bathroom behind the door, the telephone rings, and according
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to the killer's confession, this causes him to spook and
he takes off, but not before leaving seamen on Shirley's
underwear next to her now lifeless body. Had the telephone
not been ringing, the killer would have remained at the
home to kill the children next, as was his original plan.
In fact, crimelibrary dot org quotes the killer proclaiming quote,
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I probably would have hung the little girl. Like I said,
I'm pretty mean, or could be. But on the other hand,
I'm very you know, I'm a nice guy. End quote.
This boy, just five, stood on the toilet on his
tippy toes to look over the door and watched helplessly
as his mother was murdered. Just nine months after Shirley's
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senseless murder, the killer contacts authorities once again. This time,
it's his intent to report his next victim, Nancy Fox.
Here's what happened. Nancy Fox was what BTK referred to
in his tape confession as his quote next project end quote. Now,
it's interesting to hear the killer speak. He speaks to
the judge in a very matter of fact tone when
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talking about the stages of serial killers and how they
go through them, almost as if he's standing before a
college course and teaching about himself and third person. The
juxtaposition of his self awareness and understanding of what he
is is, for lack of better terms, scary alarming. Now.
I say this because a judge asks BTK what he
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means when he says he saw Nancy during his patrolling phase,
and it's the way BTK explains that his trolling phase
was what most killers go through while picking their next victim.
It turns out that the judge was actually asking BTK
if he was working when he saw the Nancy because
he used the term patrolly and what he meant to
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say was trolling, and BTK corrects him and clarifies that
he was not working on a job when he spotted her.
So on December eighth, nineteen seventy seven, Nancy Fox will
become the next murder victim of BTK. Nancy Fox was
a single woman who was an incredibly hard work for
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you guys. She had two jobs. She lived alone in
a duplex. BTK began trying to learn more about her
so he could become more comfortable with killing her. Per
his own words, what's interesting is we tend to think
the less you know of someone, the more detached you become.
But btk's mo o was quite the opposite. The more
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intimate he knew their lives, the more confident he became
in killing them. Nancy's sister, Beverly Fox would later tell
ABC's twenty twenty show that Nancy was incredibly outgoing and friendly,
and she was one to speak up and give her
honest opinions. Nancy Fox was just twenty five years old
when she returns home from her job at a jewelry
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store and is ambushed by gunpoint in her kitchen by
the awaiting BTK monster. He had cut the phone lines
and told Nancy exactly the truth. He had sexual problems
and he would need to tie her up. However, he
does not indulge that he's going to kill her as
part of his sexual desires. She remains calm and goes
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to undress in the bathroom, and when she emerges into
the bedroom, BTK handcuffs her and ties her feet and
proceeds to strangle her. And while he strangles her, he
confesses everything he has done in the past to her.
Once he knew Nancy was no longer living, he proceeds
to self stimulate, then clean up, and then leave. The
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next day, BTK heads into work ADT Security. That's right,
he worked for security company. But along the way he
makes a stop at a payphone. Now it's there that
he calls the police and tells them, quote, you will
find a homicide at eight four to three South Pershing
end quote. And it's from this call that the police
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now have his voice on record. Just the next month,
in January of nineteen seventy eight, BTK again reaches out
to the Associated Press the Wichita Eagle by sending a
note on an index card. Now this time it's with
a poem, yes, a poem, and it reads quote Shirley locks,
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Shirley locks, wilt thou be mined? End quote. Now that's
a play on the nursery rhyme poem called curly Locks,
and it can't be connected that this was in reference
to victim Shirley Next. In February, the threats by BTK
are made public because he sends another letter, and this
letter he's mocking the death of Nancy through a play
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on the poem o Death that he changes his title
to say, oh, oh, death to Nancy. Now he uses
the words quote, what is that? I can see cold,
icy hands taking a hold of me. For death has come.
You all can see Hell has open its gates to
trick me. Oh death, Oh Death. Can't you spare me
over another year? I'll stuff your jaws till you can't talk.
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I'll blind your legs till you can't walk. I'll tie
your hands till you can't make a stand. And finally
I'll close your eyes so you can't see. I'll bring
sexual death until you for me BTK end quote. He
also writes the press asking quote, how many people do
I have to kill before I get my name in
the paper or some national attention? End quote, whoo wow.
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This prompts Wichita Police Chief Richard Lamonion to call a
news conference to tell the public about a new serial killer.
Alm The loose called the BTK strangler. He says, quote
we have no reason but to believe the individuals a
capability to kill again. End quote. Now we do need
to talk about the Bresha death that a sixty three
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year old woman named Anna Williams has in April and
nineteen seventy nine. BTK had reportedly marked her as his
next victim, yet when he would break it to her home,
she would not be there. He would go on to
take many of her personal items, but after a few
failed attempts to cross paths with her in her home,
he moved on. But this was not before he sent
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her personal items back to her in the mail, along
with the letter which said quote, oh Anna, why didn't
you appear? End quote, Well, you guys, here is why
Anna didn't appear. The evening BTK waited for her inside
her own home in the dark. Anna had gone to
a dance a type of community square dance that evening,
and instead of going straight home, she stopped at her
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daughter's home to visit with her. BTK was waiting in
her home for multiple hours before he became so enraged
that he left, and he left items such as rope,
wire belts and also was said to have taken some
of Miss William's jewelry. When Anna does return home that evening,
she sees a pile of items and quickly picks up
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her phone to realize that there is no dial tone.
Her line has been cut. She has a forethought to
flee her apartment immediately. Now police can go off of
btk's usual mo and believe it was a mismurder attempt
by BTK, But it wouldn't be until she receives her
belongings back in the mail along with that letter that
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it's then confirmed she cheated death. Now here's a poem
that she received in the mail from BTK along with
that letter. Now the poem is called Louisa and it's
crossed out and it's replaced with Anna. Just as Anna
received a package with his letter, so does news station
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kak E TV, and they receive a written plan of
what BTK was intending to do at Miss Williams home. Now,
later that year, the authorities release btk's voice calls to
the police. They now need the public's help as they
believe it must be a Wichita resident. They ask everyone
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to listen to the audio and to please call in
with any tips or leads. The police received hundreds of tips,
yet none of them led down any credible roads and
it won't be for another seven years until BTK strikes again,
or so we think. Join us again next week as
we conclude our two part series of the BTK serial Killer.
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This is True Crime and Headlines. Thank you for being here.
I'm Jules Gen. We'll be back on Friday for weekly dispatch.
You're wanted, you're loved, and you deserve to be here.
Take care, guys. Fireeyes Media
Bind them, torture them, kill them, a three step process
and fulfilling one man sick and demotic sexual fantasies. So
why share the story, Jewels? Why are you going to
give this monster more attention and more discussion, Because you, guys,
he took the lives of people who aren't here to
speak up for themselves any longer to tell their story.
Yet we can't, and we will and we'll learn from this.
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We'll study this, we'll discuss it so that maybe one
day we can prevent another monster from taking another innocent
life in the future. Hey guys, it's Jewels and this
is True Crime and Headlines with Jewels and Jen. Are
you ready here at Fireeyes Media? You know, Jen and
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I always strive to be better victim advocates each case
we share. And I've learned a lot in the three
seasons that we've been doing true Crime and Headlines. And
I'm not afraid to admit that I was not the
best victim atquit when I first started, and so I
always believe that you have to always continue to educate yourself.
No better, be better, do better. So here we are
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redoing the BTK serial Killer episode and I'm taking out
some gruesome details that I originally put in when I
did it the first time because my heart told me
to and it's not appropriate and it wasn't serving victim rights.
I'm also signed up to go through training to become
a certified victim advocate, So the more I know how
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to do better, the more I'll be better for not
only our victims, but also the people consuming true crimes.
So at my discretion, I will be leaving out some details,
specifically surrounding the children victims. We're going to do something
a little bit different today. I'm going to first tell
you the timeline of the crimes, and then we're going
to follow the path of the investigators and how they
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caught BTK. Then we'll meet BTK, dive into his background,
his family, his psyche, etc. So meet me in Kansas
in the night teen seventies where it all began. January fifteenth,
nineteen seventy four. Julia Otero thirty three and Joseph Otero
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thirty eight, originally from Puerto Rico and raised in New York,
and their five children, had just begun settling into their
lives in Wichita, Kansas, where they had moved just six
months prior. You know Julie and Joseph. They were childhood sweethearts.
Joseph was retired military who had moved the family around
different states in different countries, so the family was no
stranger to new places. However, they were last in Panama
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and felt the move to the Midwest was a bit
of a shock. They went from sunny and warm with
a lifestyle outside to being indoors with the cold and
the snow. On January fifteenth, nineteen seventy four, Julie and
Joseph's oldest kids. So we have Charlie, Carmen, and Danny
say goodbye to their parents and head off to school,
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just as they had done every school day prior. Josie,
eleven years old and her brother Joey, nine years years old,
are the youngest of the siblings and they're still at
home with their parents in the morning. Now. I'm not
positive if they weren't going to be going to school
later as well, but Charlie does tell Daily Mirror that
the family was very focused on academics and he asked
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his dad if he could go to school early so
he could do a study session before school for an
upcoming test. So we can assume the older siblings likely
went to school that had an earlier start time as well,
so that leaves us at home with mom and dad.
You know, Julie and Joseph and the two youngest Josie
and Joey Junior. They're all home, and so is their
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family dog named Lucky. Now, Lucky was always inside the
home or supervised. So when fifteen year old son Charlie
o'tero returns home from school along with his two siblings,
sister Carman and brother Danny, and observes that Lucky is
outside the house, he instantly knows that something is a
right now. Remember this is Kansas in January, so there's
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snow on the and as he enters the home, what
he observes looks like something out of a home invasion textbook.
Mom Julie's purse is open on the stove and items
taken out and strewn about the kitchen and on the floor.
Charlie tells ABC's twenty twenty that this is the moment
he begins to believe that something is wrong. He says,
quote that wasn't typical in my mother at all. She
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was a very tidy person, and the kitchen, ever looked
like that, so I yelled out, I said, is anybody home?
End quote. He continues to scan the scene and waits
for his parents to respond. Meanwhile, his other two siblings
have gone into the home when Danny calls out to Charlie, quote, Charlie,
come quick, Mom and Dad are playing a bad trick
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on us. End quote. It's then that Charlie sees what
will forever change his life. He turns the corner, opens
his parents' bedroom door, and before him are his parents,
Julie and Joseph dead. Julie is on the bed and
Joseph is beside her on the floor. Charlie de brother
Danny to run next door and call the police right now,
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and the three oldest siblings go outside and wait for
the police. Charlie recalls to Daily Mirror that one of
the officers asked him if he believed his father could
do this, and it's this question which he says, would
go on to feel a lifelong distrust and attitude of
anti authority. His father was an amazing man who worked
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so hard for the family and dedicated his life to
the military. How could someone ask such a thing, he thought, Carmen, Danny,
and Charlie are taken down to the police station. While
they're waiting to find out what happens next, the siblings
continue to beg the police to bring their youngest siblings
to them. They don't want them to enter the home
and see their parents the way they did. This is
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why I believe Josie and Joey Junior had later start
times for school. The older siblings never checked the rest
of the home for Josie and Joey Junior. Now why
would they if Joey and Josie would likely still be
at school later start time, later dismissal time. It's not
until the police send in their chaplain to talk with
the oldest three Otaro kids that they learned that their
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little brother, Joey Junior, just nine, and their little sister Josie,
just eleven, were also brutally murdered. The police had not
discovered Joey Junior and Josie's bodies until they did a
sweep of the home and discovered Joey Junior in his
own bedroom suffocated with a bag over his head, and
Josie in the basement with obvious signs of sexual trauma.
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The killer confesses at his trial later that he had
been sexually fantasizing about what he would do to either
Julie or her daughter Josie, and he chose Josie. I
really wrestled with how much to share about that, so
just no. I took out a lot of details about that.
They are readily available online. I just feel a duty
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and responsibility to not go in such detail about that.
You know, Josie didn't live a long life and this
this is a story that will be told over and
over again, and I want to give her a little
bit of dignity and not but we do need to
continue to talk about this and read about it and
learn about it. But just know she was sexually abused
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and harmed before she was killed. Be warned, it's gruesome
what's coming up, and it's hard to listen. To skip
forward if you need to. I respect that decision. The
BTK killer was waiting outside the Otto home, lurking and
watching at eight thirty am. Charlie and his older siblings
were already at school when at eight forty am, the
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BTK killer cut the phone lines and waited at the
back door, wondering whether or not to go through with
his plan. The killer did not believe that Joseph O'to
was home the father, so when the back door opens
and little nine year old Joey Junior steps outside along
with dog Lucky, the killer sees his opportunity and charges
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the young boy, taking him by knife and gunpoint. The
killer then proceeds to tell the remaining family that he
is conducting a robbery, was a wanted criminal from California
and he needed a car and money. He recounts this
event during his testimony in courts and says he did
this to ease the family. He brings all four of
the Oteros into Julian and Joseph's bedroom. He ties their
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hands behind their backs and then proceeds to kill the
parents by strangulation, forcing the young children to watch. Joseph
has a plastic bag over his head, and when BTK
turns to Julie, he realizes he's never strangled someone before,
and per his own omission, he has to figure out
on the spot how much pressure to apply and for
how long, and he thinks he kills her, but instead
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he realizes he causes her to pass out, so when
she comes through again, he has to strangle her again. Now,
during his confession. Later on, the killer is recorded saying
that he tries to make mister Otero as comfortable as
he could, as mister Otero had a broken rib from
a car accident. So the killer puts a pillow under
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his torso for him, and it's then that he's realizing
that this is at a hand. He works with Julie.
You guys, the BTK killer works with the mother. Everyone
in this home has seen his face. He is not
wearing any face coverings, and so he decides he has
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to go forward with killing them all. He then takes
Joey Junior and brings him to his own bedroom, and
it's there that the killer takes the boy's life through suffocation. Next,
the killer moves eleven year old Josie downstairs. He later
admits to freedial agents that this family murder was out
of sexual motivation and that his main target was the
young girl. Josie's life ends at the hands of this
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killer as she is tied to a pipe in the
basement and hanged. According to a statement later given by
the killer, before Josie was killed, she asked the monster
what would happen to her, and he replied that she
would be in heaven soon with the others. The surviving
Otaro children would go on to be sent to New
Mexico to live and be raised by a man who
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was Joseph's friend from the military, and their lives well,
you know, they would never be the same again. The
killer then tidied the home, took Joseph Otero's car, and
left at a grocery store, and he would go on
to kill six more people, spanning over three decades without
ever being caught or was it more. We recently sat
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down with a crime analyst who claims to have cracked
the killer's word search sent to authorities years later in
two thousand and four, and she believes she's discovered more victims.
And you won't want to miss that episode coming up
later this season. So why the Oteros. Julie Ottero was
working on an assembly line at a company called Coleman.
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Coleman was known for hiring many residents of Wichita, and
among them was also the killer later to be known
by the public as bt K. Bt K would watch
Julie stalking in, spying on not just her, but her
entire family, and this is how he became infatuated with
Julie's youngest daughter, Josie. The killer later would go on
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to testify that quote, after I got into the house,
I lost control of it, but it was, you know,
in the back of my mind that I had some
ideas of what I was going to do. End quote.
Let's talk evidence he left behind. He would likely have
fingerprints and of course seminole fluid at the scene. But
we learned in season one of True Coming headlines from
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the d B. Cooper case. If you haven't listened to
that one, that's a crazy one. Go back and listen
to that. But DNA testing was not widespread and it
wasn't used in crimes until the eighties. The killer would
later refer to this as his first PJ or project,
and took two items from the homes as keepsakes. He
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took Joseph O'to's watch and a radio. April fourth, nineteen
seventy four, just a few short months after the Otero
family tragedy, the killer takes on another one of his projects,
or one of his pjs, and this time turns his
attention to twenty one year old Katherine Bray. Catherine also
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worked at the Coleman plant, which was very common for
Wichita residents in the seventies. The killer would later go
on to tell federal agents that he saw Catherine entering
her home one day, and he decided on the spot
that she would be next. The killer testified at his
trial that Catherine was in the stalking stage of his projects,
having just completed the trolling stage to find his next victim.
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He also indicated that if, for whatever reason, he felt
it wouldn't work out during the trolling stage, that he
would just go on to find another victim in the
trolling stage. The killer then breaks into the home through
the back door and waits for Catherine to return home.
When she enters the home around two o'clock PM, the
killer is taken by surprise to see that she has
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a man with her, something the killer did not anticipate,
Kevin Bright, Catherine's brother. The killer charges them with a
gun and forces Kevin to tie up Catherine's hands and
feet first. He then takes Kevin into another bedroom and
proceeds to do the same to Kevin. Kevin was able
to somehow come loose from the binds, and he begins
to fight for his life, almost taking the gun from
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the killer, but the killer shoots Kevin in the head.
Watching Kevin collapse and how much blood is leaving the wound,
the killer believes Kevin to be dead. He returned to
Catherine to quote finish his project unquote. When he hears
noises from the other room, he runs over to Kevin
and shoots him again, this time knowing Kevin has died. However,
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Catherine has now managed to get loose, and the killer
and Catherine engage in a physical fight. Katherine fought like
hell to live during this. Kevin, miraculously, you guys, was
to hill alive and was able to open the front
door and run out to his car to drive and
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search for help. The killer realized that the police would
arrive soon, so when he was unable to kill Catherine
by strangling her because she was a fighter, he took
a knife and began stabbing her. He stabbed her eleven
times before she went down. He didn't know if she
was dead, but he had to take off not knowing
if she was dead. Sadly, she survived this, and I
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say sadly because she had to have multiple surgeries and
blood transfusions and she would ultimately pass away after going
through all that. From the injuries at the young age
of twenty one, but Kevin Kevin survived he was just nineteen.
CNN reports that Kevin quote said he never saw his
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sister's body and didn't learn of her death until several
days after the attacks end quote. It's important to know
that the killer was not wearing any type of face
covering for this murder either, and now we have an
eyewitness who survived. Kevin Bright later spoke bravely at the
trial of the killer by providing a victim impact statement
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calling his sister's murder and execution, and stated how proud
he was that his sister, quote fought like a hell
cat end quote. Per the killer's confession, Kevin shares regret
that she never got away from the killer, but shares
how he doesn't question whether God was ever in control.
Kevin did not have brain damage, but he does suffer
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with nerve damage for feeling heat and has nerve damage
with how he eats and digests food. He also bears
a scar on his face and on his skull from
the gunshots. Now, one more thing you'll share about Kevin,
as he said he was thankful he was there with
his sister as he would go on to know the
killer's intentions and plans, and he was able to intervene.
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In October nineteen seventy four, nine months after his first
murders of the Otero family, the killer introduced himself to
the police by taking credit for the murders. Why did
he do this? One theory is that he was so
upset that there was someone else out there confessing to
his crimes that he couldn't handle it and he had
to take credit for himself. Now what he does next
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to you, guys starts a decades long cat and mouse
taunting game between the killer and the Wichita police. The
killer makes a phone call to the local paper, the
Wichita Eagle. Newspaper employee Don Granger answers the call and
is told that there is a letter in between the
pages of an engineering book at the library. Don Granger
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informs authorities immediately, and the contents of the letter will
not end up being released to the public until another newspaper,
a fairly new newspaper, releases it. The killer has poor
grammar and writing skills and goes on to write in
park quote, I can't stop it. So the monster goes
on and hurts me as well. As society. It's a big,
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complicated game, my friend, the monster play, putting victims numbered down,
follow them, checking up on them, waiting in the dark, waiting,
waiting end quote. He then ends the letter with quote PS.
Since sex criminals do not change their mo or by
nature cannot do so, I will not change mine. The
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code for me will be bind them, torture them, kill
them BTK. You see he's at it again. End quote.
And from then on he is known as the BTK
serial Killer, and he will continue to taunt the police
throughout the next few decades through communications, souvenirs, proof of crimes,
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and even go as far to warn them ahead of
time of one of his next murderers. It's now nineteen
seventy seven. The country hasn't heard from the BTK serial
Killer in three years? Has he died? Was he in jail?
Who was he? And why did he go silent? Bind them,
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torture them, kill them? By now, the state of Kansas
is familiar with BTK, as he has taken public credit
for the Ataro murders, but not the Bright murder. One
thing that may be scarier than a serial killer is
a serial killer who is self aware and patient BTK
has sat dormant for three years doing what and why? Well,
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you guys, of course, we are going to go into
this in part two, but for now we're taking you
along the story of his crimes as they unfold, just
as the public was informed, stay with me here at
this point in March of nineteen seventy seven, nobody knows
it's your identity. Nobody knows the identity of the man
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who calls himself the BTK Killer. And it's on March seventeenth,
nineteen seventy seven, et K attempts to exit his trolling
phase and enter the stalking phase of a woman named
Cheryl Elmore Jagan, a woman who he met one evening
at a bar and enjoyed her company. He began stalking her,
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and on March seventeen, he went to her home, which
she shared with another female roommate. When BTK relays that
both women were gone, he decided to drive by another
family in the same neighborhood which he was considering stalking. However,
they were also gone, so he parked his car and
went for a walk down a nearby street called Hydraulic.
He spotted five year old Stephen Relford. Stephen was walking
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alone home from the market to pick up a few
items for his mother, Shirley Vienne Ralford. She was just
twenty four. BTK stopped the boy and pulled out a
photo and asked the boy if he knew the people
in the photo. Stephen said he did not, and he
turned to continue on home and not photo, you guys,
That was a real photo of bt K's family that
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he carried with him in his wallet, of his own
wife and his own son. BTK watched the young boy
as he went back home, thus showing BTK where he
lived unknowingly. Stephen recalls how traumatizing this event was, to
the point in which he explains that for an entire
two years after this, the boy went mute. He felt
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responsible for what happens next, as he was the one
who led BTK to his home and would ultimately open
the door. When just a few moments after returning from home,
he hears a knock at the door. Was BTK, and
he tells the boy he is a private detective and
asks where Stephen's mother is. When Stephen tells him that
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she's in bed and not feeling well, BTK pushes past
the boy turns on the television closes the blinds. Stephen's mother, Shirley,
comes out of the room and is startled to see
a strange man in her room. He quickly pulls out
a gun and has Shirley and her three yes, you guys,
three children. Stephen had an eight year old brother and
a four year old sister, and BTK moves them into
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the main bedroom. He then instructs Shirley to lock the
kids in the bathroom and give them toys and blankets,
which she does, believing that they won't be harmed if
she complies. The man then ties the bathroom door closed,
but Stephen tries to get out to save his mom,
and that's when the killer screened that he would shoot
the kid's head off if he tried that again, thus
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prompting Shirley to tell her kitsch just listen, listen to
whatever he says. The killer then tells Shirley he wants
quote to have his way with her end quote, but
proceeds to convince her that he is not referring to rape.
Shirley was indeed home ill that day, and she proceeds
to throw up, likely a combination of illness and fear,
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and the killer goes to pour her a glass of
water to give her a drink. He then lets her
smoke a cigarette to calm her, and then does the
opposite of what he said. He does indeed harm her
his way by strangling her with a cord around her neck,
all while her three little innocent children are locked in
the bathroom behind the door, the telephone rings, and according
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to the killer's confession, this causes him to spook and
he takes off, but not before leaving seamen on Shirley's
underwear next to her now lifeless body. Had the telephone
not been ringing, the killer would have remained at the
home to kill the children next, as was his original plan.
In fact, crimelibrary dot org quotes the killer proclaiming quote,
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I probably would have hung the little girl. Like I said,
I'm pretty mean, or could be. But on the other hand,
I'm very you know, I'm a nice guy. End quote.
This boy, just five, stood on the toilet on his
tippy toes to look over the door and watched helplessly
as his mother was murdered. Just nine months after Shirley's
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senseless murder, the killer contacts authorities once again. This time,
it's his intent to report his next victim, Nancy Fox.
Here's what happened. Nancy Fox was what BTK referred to
in his tape confession as his quote next project end quote. Now,
it's interesting to hear the killer speak. He speaks to
the judge in a very matter of fact tone when
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talking about the stages of serial killers and how they
go through them, almost as if he's standing before a
college course and teaching about himself and third person. The
juxtaposition of his self awareness and understanding of what he
is is, for lack of better terms, scary alarming. Now.
I say this because a judge asks BTK what he
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means when he says he saw Nancy during his patrolling phase,
and it's the way BTK explains that his trolling phase
was what most killers go through while picking their next victim.
It turns out that the judge was actually asking BTK
if he was working when he saw the Nancy because
he used the term patrolly and what he meant to
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say was trolling, and BTK corrects him and clarifies that
he was not working on a job when he spotted her.
So on December eighth, nineteen seventy seven, Nancy Fox will
become the next murder victim of BTK. Nancy Fox was
a single woman who was an incredibly hard work for
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you guys. She had two jobs. She lived alone in
a duplex. BTK began trying to learn more about her
so he could become more comfortable with killing her. Per
his own words, what's interesting is we tend to think
the less you know of someone, the more detached you become.
But btk's mo o was quite the opposite. The more
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intimate he knew their lives, the more confident he became
in killing them. Nancy's sister, Beverly Fox would later tell
ABC's twenty twenty show that Nancy was incredibly outgoing and friendly,
and she was one to speak up and give her
honest opinions. Nancy Fox was just twenty five years old
when she returns home from her job at a jewelry
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store and is ambushed by gunpoint in her kitchen by
the awaiting BTK monster. He had cut the phone lines
and told Nancy exactly the truth. He had sexual problems
and he would need to tie her up. However, he
does not indulge that he's going to kill her as
part of his sexual desires. She remains calm and goes
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to undress in the bathroom, and when she emerges into
the bedroom, BTK handcuffs her and ties her feet and
proceeds to strangle her. And while he strangles her, he
confesses everything he has done in the past to her.
Once he knew Nancy was no longer living, he proceeds
to self stimulate, then clean up, and then leave. The
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next day, BTK heads into work ADT Security. That's right,
he worked for security company. But along the way he
makes a stop at a payphone. Now it's there that
he calls the police and tells them, quote, you will
find a homicide at eight four to three South Pershing
end quote. And it's from this call that the police
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now have his voice on record. Just the next month,
in January of nineteen seventy eight, BTK again reaches out
to the Associated Press the Wichita Eagle by sending a
note on an index card. Now this time it's with
a poem, yes, a poem, and it reads quote Shirley locks,
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Shirley locks, wilt thou be mined? End quote. Now that's
a play on the nursery rhyme poem called curly Locks,
and it can't be connected that this was in reference
to victim Shirley Next. In February, the threats by BTK
are made public because he sends another letter, and this
letter he's mocking the death of Nancy through a play
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on the poem o Death that he changes his title
to say, oh, oh, death to Nancy. Now he uses
the words quote, what is that? I can see cold,
icy hands taking a hold of me. For death has come.
You all can see Hell has open its gates to
trick me. Oh death, Oh Death. Can't you spare me
over another year? I'll stuff your jaws till you can't talk.
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I'll blind your legs till you can't walk. I'll tie
your hands till you can't make a stand. And finally
I'll close your eyes so you can't see. I'll bring
sexual death until you for me BTK end quote. He
also writes the press asking quote, how many people do
I have to kill before I get my name in
the paper or some national attention? End quote, whoo wow.
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This prompts Wichita Police Chief Richard Lamonion to call a
news conference to tell the public about a new serial killer.
Alm The loose called the BTK strangler. He says, quote
we have no reason but to believe the individuals a
capability to kill again. End quote. Now we do need
to talk about the Bresha death that a sixty three
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year old woman named Anna Williams has in April and
nineteen seventy nine. BTK had reportedly marked her as his
next victim, yet when he would break it to her home,
she would not be there. He would go on to
take many of her personal items, but after a few
failed attempts to cross paths with her in her home,
he moved on. But this was not before he sent
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her personal items back to her in the mail, along
with the letter which said quote, oh Anna, why didn't
you appear? End quote, Well, you guys, here is why
Anna didn't appear. The evening BTK waited for her inside
her own home in the dark. Anna had gone to
a dance a type of community square dance that evening,
and instead of going straight home, she stopped at her
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daughter's home to visit with her. BTK was waiting in
her home for multiple hours before he became so enraged
that he left, and he left items such as rope,
wire belts and also was said to have taken some
of Miss William's jewelry. When Anna does return home that evening,
she sees a pile of items and quickly picks up
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her phone to realize that there is no dial tone.
Her line has been cut. She has a forethought to
flee her apartment immediately. Now police can go off of
btk's usual mo and believe it was a mismurder attempt
by BTK, But it wouldn't be until she receives her
belongings back in the mail along with that letter that
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it's then confirmed she cheated death. Now here's a poem
that she received in the mail from BTK along with
that letter. Now the poem is called Louisa and it's
crossed out and it's replaced with Anna. Just as Anna
received a package with his letter, so does news station
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kak E TV, and they receive a written plan of
what BTK was intending to do at Miss Williams home. Now,
later that year, the authorities release btk's voice calls to
the police. They now need the public's help as they
believe it must be a Wichita resident. They ask everyone
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to listen to the audio and to please call in
with any tips or leads. The police received hundreds of tips,
yet none of them led down any credible roads and
it won't be for another seven years until BTK strikes again,
or so we think. Join us again next week as
we conclude our two part series of the BTK serial Killer.
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This is True Crime and Headlines. Thank you for being here.
I'm Jules Gen. We'll be back on Friday for weekly dispatch.
You're wanted, you're loved, and you deserve to be here.
Take care, guys. Fireeyes Media
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