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Speaker 1 (00:06):
We interrupt this program for a KCTU five news alert.
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'm r J.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Dickens with me Ryan Terry. Moments ago, the a press
conference in the city called Count the City Council Chambers
at City.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hall concluded.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
After fifty five minutes of speech making, we finally came
down to an announcement of what a lot of Witchitans
have been waiting for for well over thirty years, and
it went something like this.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Yesterday afternoon, agents for the dav I Asians from the FDI,
members of the Wishtoc Police Department arrested Dennis Rader, fifty nine,
in the White Male.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
In Park City, Kansas to the murders and Joseph Otero,
Julia Otero, josephin Otero, Joseph o' taro Junior, Captain Bright Shirley,
Vianne Rulper, Nancy Fox, and Vicky Wegger. He was arrested
(01:23):
for a first degree murder of all those victims. He's
being held.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
At this time and I just disclosed location.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
When we'll be approaching the district Duringy's office next week
reverence chargers to see if the charges will be fid.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I guess this individual, I uh thank you very much
for your support, and I'll.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Turn back over to your grown with you.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
In the early months of two thousand and five, a
decade's long manhunt in Wichita, Kansas was coming to an end.
For thirty one years, the mysterious serial killer known as
bt K bind Torture Kill had a looted capture, but
a fatal mistake would finally unmask him. On February twenty fifth,
two thousand and five, Wichita police moved in on their
(02:30):
prime suspect, fifty nine year old Dennis Rader, as he
drove home for church in the quiet suburb of Park City. Raider,
a seemingly ordinary husband, father, church council president, and city
code enforcement supervisor, was pulled over and arrested mere blocks
from his house. Officers swarmed the area with helicopters overhead
(02:50):
and even an armored vehicle at the ready. After decades
of fear and frustration, law enforcement finally had BTK in
their custody. The trap that caught Raider had been set
by his own hubris. In the spring of two thousand
and four, after years of silence, BTK had resurfaced, sending
a letter to the Wichita Eagle on the thirtieth anniversary
(03:12):
of his first murders. That letter included crime scene photos
and a victim's missing driver's license, instantly proving the infamous
killer was active again. Over the next year or so,
Raider taunted police and media with a series of cryptic messages,
word puzzles, dolls staged like victims, and packages containing souvenirs
(03:33):
of his crimes. Detectives recognized this renewed contact as an
opportunity once he raised his head again and started gaming
taunting the police, that's a very positive development. Retired FBI
profiler Greg McCrary observed, if he had been in communicato,
this case may have never been solved. The break came
when Raider, in one of his notes, unwittingly asked police
(03:56):
if a computer floppy disc could be traced SSPT to
continue his deadly game. He believed the authorities when they
publicly answered no. February two thousand and five, Raider mailed
a floppy disc to a local TV station and ultimately
sealed his fate. Data embedded in the disc was quickly
analyzed by forensic experts. Investigators found metadata on the floppy
(04:20):
disc linking it to Christ Lutheran church in Wichita and
a user named Dennis. This astonishing clue led directly to
Denis Raider, a church congregation president who fit the profile
and had long been on a list of potential suspects.
Within days, DNA evidence covertly obtained from Raider's twenty six
(04:40):
year old daughter's medical records confirmed a family match to
seamen left at a BTK crime scene. Armed with this evidence,
police prepared to make an arrest on that fateful Friday.
As Raider headed home, a swarm of officers converged on
his location. They stopped his vehicle and ordered the balding,
bespectacled man out of it. Raider's demeanor at the time
(05:01):
was eerily calm. When an officer asked if he knew
why he was being arrested, Dennis Raider smirked and replied coolly, Oh,
I have suspicions why it was as close as he
came to, admitting in that moment that the jig was up.
Neighbors watched in shock as the soft spoken compliance officer,
a man who had cheerfully waved them on morning walks
(05:22):
and routinely cited them for minor code violations, was led
away in handcuffs. Inside Raider's home and office, investigators later
found a trove of incriminating evidence what Raider chillingly called
his mother load, including victims driver's licenses, personal items, as
well as lured photographs of Raider dressed in women's clothing
(05:43):
and bondage gear taken during his crimes. News of the
arrest spread quickly that evening. Wichita's mayor announced a press
conference for the next day, cryptically signaling developments in the
BTK investigation. By the time Dennis Raider's name hit the airwaves,
the city was in collective disbelief. Pastor Michael Clark of
(06:04):
Christ Lutheran Church recounted how four detectives arrived at the
church with a search warrant shortly after the arrest, asking
who had used the office computer. When they revealed that Raider,
the church's own council president, had been arrested as bt K,
the pastor was stunned into repeating the news three times
to be sure he had heard right. The world changed
(06:24):
that very moment, Pastor Clark later told his horrified congregation. Indeed,
for the Raider family and the entire Wichita community, everything
had changed in an instant. What you just heard was
(06:44):
a preview of Resolved. The cases that did not fade
into mystery. The killers were caught, the truth came out,
but the stories they're just as wild. Here the full
episode and more like it, only on Patreon. Go to
patreon dot com, slash Unresolved pod and subscribe now, or
(07:04):
click on the link in the show notes
We interrupt this program for a KCTU five news alert.
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'm r J.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Dickens with me Ryan Terry. Moments ago, the a press
conference in the city called Count the City Council Chambers
at City.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hall concluded.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
After fifty five minutes of speech making, we finally came
down to an announcement of what a lot of Witchitans
have been waiting for for well over thirty years, and
it went something like this.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Yesterday afternoon, agents for the dav I Asians from the FDI,
members of the Wishtoc Police Department arrested Dennis Rader, fifty nine,
in the White Male.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
In Park City, Kansas to the murders and Joseph Otero,
Julia Otero, josephin Otero, Joseph o' taro Junior, Captain Bright Shirley,
Vianne Rulper, Nancy Fox, and Vicky Wegger. He was arrested
(01:23):
for a first degree murder of all those victims. He's
being held.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
At this time and I just disclosed location.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
When we'll be approaching the district Duringy's office next week
reverence chargers to see if the charges will be fid.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I guess this individual, I uh thank you very much
for your support, and I'll.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Turn back over to your grown with you.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
In the early months of two thousand and five, a
decade's long manhunt in Wichita, Kansas was coming to an end.
For thirty one years, the mysterious serial killer known as
bt K bind Torture Kill had a looted capture, but
a fatal mistake would finally unmask him. On February twenty fifth,
two thousand and five, Wichita police moved in on their
(02:30):
prime suspect, fifty nine year old Dennis Rader, as he
drove home for church in the quiet suburb of Park City. Raider,
a seemingly ordinary husband, father, church council president, and city
code enforcement supervisor, was pulled over and arrested mere blocks
from his house. Officers swarmed the area with helicopters overhead
(02:50):
and even an armored vehicle at the ready. After decades
of fear and frustration, law enforcement finally had BTK in
their custody. The trap that caught Raider had been set
by his own hubris. In the spring of two thousand
and four, after years of silence, BTK had resurfaced, sending
a letter to the Wichita Eagle on the thirtieth anniversary
(03:12):
of his first murders. That letter included crime scene photos
and a victim's missing driver's license, instantly proving the infamous
killer was active again. Over the next year or so,
Raider taunted police and media with a series of cryptic messages,
word puzzles, dolls staged like victims, and packages containing souvenirs
(03:33):
of his crimes. Detectives recognized this renewed contact as an
opportunity once he raised his head again and started gaming
taunting the police, that's a very positive development. Retired FBI
profiler Greg McCrary observed, if he had been in communicato,
this case may have never been solved. The break came
when Raider, in one of his notes, unwittingly asked police
(03:56):
if a computer floppy disc could be traced SSPT to
continue his deadly game. He believed the authorities when they
publicly answered no. February two thousand and five, Raider mailed
a floppy disc to a local TV station and ultimately
sealed his fate. Data embedded in the disc was quickly
analyzed by forensic experts. Investigators found metadata on the floppy
(04:20):
disc linking it to Christ Lutheran church in Wichita and
a user named Dennis. This astonishing clue led directly to
Denis Raider, a church congregation president who fit the profile
and had long been on a list of potential suspects.
Within days, DNA evidence covertly obtained from Raider's twenty six
(04:40):
year old daughter's medical records confirmed a family match to
seamen left at a BTK crime scene. Armed with this evidence,
police prepared to make an arrest on that fateful Friday.
As Raider headed home, a swarm of officers converged on
his location. They stopped his vehicle and ordered the balding,
bespectacled man out of it. Raider's demeanor at the time
(05:01):
was eerily calm. When an officer asked if he knew
why he was being arrested, Dennis Raider smirked and replied coolly, Oh,
I have suspicions why it was as close as he
came to, admitting in that moment that the jig was up.
Neighbors watched in shock as the soft spoken compliance officer,
a man who had cheerfully waved them on morning walks
(05:22):
and routinely cited them for minor code violations, was led
away in handcuffs. Inside Raider's home and office, investigators later
found a trove of incriminating evidence what Raider chillingly called
his mother load, including victims driver's licenses, personal items, as
well as lured photographs of Raider dressed in women's clothing
(05:43):
and bondage gear taken during his crimes. News of the
arrest spread quickly that evening. Wichita's mayor announced a press
conference for the next day, cryptically signaling developments in the
BTK investigation. By the time Dennis Raider's name hit the airwaves,
the city was in collective disbelief. Pastor Michael Clark of
(06:04):
Christ Lutheran Church recounted how four detectives arrived at the
church with a search warrant shortly after the arrest, asking
who had used the office computer. When they revealed that Raider,
the church's own council president, had been arrested as bt K,
the pastor was stunned into repeating the news three times
to be sure he had heard right. The world changed
(06:24):
that very moment, Pastor Clark later told his horrified congregation. Indeed,
for the Raider family and the entire Wichita community, everything
had changed in an instant. What you just heard was
(06:44):
a preview of Resolved. The cases that did not fade
into mystery. The killers were caught, the truth came out,
but the stories they're just as wild. Here the full
episode and more like it, only on Patreon. Go to
patreon dot com, slash Unresolved pod and subscribe now, or
(07:04):
click on the link in the show notes
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