Welcome to very scary people. Im donnie wahlberg. The Serial Killer known as btk began terrorizing the city of wichita, kansas, in 1974, stalking and savagely killing his victims in their homes, then Taunting Police and reporters with disturbing letters detailing the carnage. Demented, elusive, btk was actually hiding in plain sight, but his true identity and motive would remain a mystery for decades. It all began on an ordinary day with the otero family. This is part one of btk bind, torture, kill. Rader i came to the back door, cut the phone lines, waited at the back door had reservations about even going or just walking away, but pretty soon, the door opened and i was in. Jordan the otero family was a family of seven, headed by Father Joseph and his wife, julie. They had both been born in puerto rico, but they moved to new york as children and there, they met in high school. Otero my family was your typical military family. My father was an air force sergeant, and my mom was a stayathome mother, good catholic woman. They had five children, ranging in age from 15 all the way down to 9. We were all into school. My father expected us to get good grades, and we stayed pretty athletic and into sports. Hard workers, good parents, Kids Doing Well In School really, not a care in the world. Otero we came to wichita, kansas, in the 70s because my father had retired overseas and was looking for work. He worked on jet engines, and that was the reason the otero family moved here in 1973, was the number of Airplane Factories we have in wichita. Otero my dad found a job at cook airfield. It was a small, familyowned airfield on the outskirts of wichita, and he was hired as a mechanic. Hatteberg wichita, kansas, was in the middle of america, and nobody locked their doors. It was a great little town to be from. January 15, 1974 started out different. I asked my dad to take me to school early that day so that i could get an extra study hall in. My brother and sisters, danny and carmen, they went with me. Joe drops those three older kids at school, and he returns back home and joins his wife, julie, in getting the two younger kids ready for school. Theyre doing typical stuff making school lunches, gathering backpacks, getting ready for julie to drop those kids off, when the unthinkable happens. Singular he goes into the house. He draws his gun. One of the first things that he does is cut the telephone cord, and then he tells them that he just wants their car and some money and if he can tie them up and he can get the money in the car, hell leave them alone. Relph the killer bound mr. Otero and then neutralized him pretty quickly. Singular he tied up the parents, and then he tied up the kids, and then, when they were all in his control, he started to strangle the father. He strangled the mother. They were both in bedrooms. And then he strangled the boy, and then he took the young girl down into the basement. Otero i walked home by myself that day, and it was a very long, cold, windy walk, as is typical of wichita winters. I went into the back door through the kitchen, and i opened up the door, walked in the house, and i saw my mothers purse. It was thrown over. All the belongings were strewn about, which was totally out of character for my mother, and i yelled out, is anybody home . At that point, one of my siblings yelled out, charlie, come quick mom and dad are playing a bad trick on us. I saw my brother and my sister, daniel and carmen, with my parents bodies, and my heart it just felt like somebody had ripped my chest wide open and pulled my heart out. We tried to use the phone, it didnt work, so i took carmen and danny outside. And we stayed out in the front yard, and danny went next door to use a phone, called the police. 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And the chaplain looked at me and said joey and josie were in the house also and that they were deceased. I pretty much went blank after that. It wasnt til very late in the evening that we even found out the children were involved, and thats what changed everything. Jordan this attacker took out the parents and the Little Brother all by suffocation and strangulation, which is a very slow, handson style of killing. Its very personal, and because its slow, unlike shooting or stabbing, you have the option at any moment of releasing your hands and saving the persons life. The terror on the face becomes enmeshed with sexual arousal, so the process of dying is what turns him on, not a sexual act itself. Relph it was clear that he wanted josephine. I think hed have killed 10 people in that house if theyd have been between him and josephine. He obviously spent the most time with josephine. Josephine was moved to the basement of the house. And she was hung. That was so sad and so so horrible and so callous and so cold that he would do what he did to a child. Singular he masturbated at the scene, which becomes significant in terms of forensics because hes leaving behind dna samples. Otis a lab investigator took samples of that semen, put it in a paper bag, stapled it shut, and turned it in as evidence because there was no scientific testing to do. 1974, that went on a shelf in an evidence facility. I dont think people knew how to spell dna much less from a lawenforcement Point Of View much less knew what the value is to preserve that, but there is one thing policemen did know and the investigator was an incredible imagination for you dont know what you dont know, but he knew he had to preserve that. Jordan he didnt rape the mother. He didnt even do sexual acts on the mother postmortem. The idea that his focus was on the 11yearold girl really indicates to me that hes fundamentally a pedophile. Morton with josephine otero, he said, when i saw her bound out of the car and up the stairs, i knew i just had to have her. Oconnor josie was a little girl. If that isnt a pedophile, i dont know what is. Foulston four people getting killed at home with two young children. That was the beginning of his quest to be on The Dark Side and to do this kind of thing. January 15, 1974, wichita instantly changed. It wasnt an innocent city anymore. It became a city that was afraid. Relph Law Enforcement at the time were looking at it as, is this a oneoff . What is this . There was just no reason to slaughter this family. Otero from what i understand, the police were wondering if my fathers activities overseas had anything to do with their demise and what had happened to him, so there was a lot of questions about overseas contacts. Hatteberg as the days progressed, our Police Reporters were all over it, trying to get information. I remember the Police Chief Checking on that somehow that this could be related to drugs, but it wasnt. So they abandoned that lead. Singular they put 75 officers on the case. They contacted other Police Departments. They interrogated 800 people in the first few weeks of it. They set up roadblocks and were stopping all kinds of people, and they came up empty on everything. Jordan the perpetrator begins to come down from the high of the otero family, and he needs the thrill to come back. He focuses on a particular young woman, 21yearold Kathryn Bright. The best advice i ever got was to invest with vanguard for my retirement. The second best . Stay healthy enough to enjoy it. So i started preparing physically and financially. Then you came along and made every mile worth it. Hi mom. At vanguard youre more than just an investor, youre an owner. Helping you prepare for todays longer retirement. Thats the value of ownership. 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Hes lying in wait, and hes thinking he will be able to subdue her and do whatever he wants and fill his fantasy, which is a lot of what the crimes are about. When they came home, they were ambushed. Relph he first says hes on the run from california to new york and he just wants a car and some money. Thats an attempt to put your victims at ease. He orders kevin to tie up his sister. Then he takes kevin into another room and wants to tie him up, and they get into a terrible struggle. And kevin gets ahold of the gun. He shoves it into his stomach, he fires it, and it doesnt go off. Relph kevin believed that he had gotten ahold of the guys gun, but unknown to him, he had a second weapon. Through a series of struggles, he will shoot kevin. Jordan kevin still gets up and fights. The attacker has to shoot him twice. He thinks hes immobilized him, goes to take care of kathryn according to plan. Kevin, who is very incapacitated but still somehow aware, realizes his only hope is to get out of the house and flee and seek help. Relph kevin went out the door and probably let this guy know that this thing has totally spun out of control. Singular kathryn puts up also an incredible struggle to try to save her life. Jordan the attacker, still with kathryn fighting and fighting, has to resort to using a knife to stab her repeatedly, trying to control and incapacitate her. He stabs her seven times in one place, i believe four in another, and then he flees. Morton he walks out and walks up the street. Why would he do that . Because it doesnt bring any attention to him. Singular kathryn shes able to crawl out of her room, crawl into another room, bleeding profusely, get to the phone. She calls the operator, and the police come and they get her. Jordan an ambulance is dispatched to the address to gather up kathryn and take her to the hospital, but sadly, within hours, she dies at that hospital while kevin is trying to give a statement to the police describing the perpetrator. Foulston there was a picture that was drawn of the person mustache and a beanie kind of winter hat. Hatteberg when Kathryn Bright was murdered, no one had a clue that it was related to the oteros in any way. Otis the bright case had appeared to be more of an aggravated robbery, a homeinvasion robbery where it was chaos. There was gunshots fired, there was stabbing. It really did not compare, crimescene wise, to the oteros. Jordan so, other than the common denominator of a Home Invasion in the middle of the day, the police had no real reason to link this to the same person. Morton btk studied a lot about police techniques. He knew that the police, basically, were looking for a common m. O. , a method of operation. He would wear disguises, so if witnesses saw him, he would look different. He would speak with an accent if he talked to anybody so there would be misinformation out there because he didnt want to get caught. Otis later in 1974, towards the fall, two brothers and a friend of theirs claimed knowledge of the otero homicides. Eagle reporters found out about it and wrote a story about it. Otis and then, one day, a Wichita Eagle reporter took a phone call at his desk. The caller advised him that there was a letter at the Wichita Public Library and named a library book that the letter would be in, told the reporter, if you go get that letter and read it, i think youll enjoy it. Hatteberg and in that letter was a description of the scene at the otero house that only the killer would know about. The public didnt know about them, but the police knew about it, and they knew, oh, this guys real. This is the guy who did it. This letter was sent by the killer to make it clear, you dont have the right people. This killer didnt want anybody taking credit. Jordan he is beginning to toy with the police, basically mocking them. Thats all part of his craving need for power at all times. Mattingly he had some very detailed words about what he wanted people to know about it. He said, when this monster entered my brain, i will never know, but it is here to stay. Maybe you can stop him. I cant. He has already chosen his next victim. When you read, theres a monster inside of him, thats really not true, at least in my experience. What you see is you have somebody who has psychopathic traits there, total lack of empathy for victims. Why . How do we know he he has lack of empathy for his victims . Because he kills them. People like that they call them psychopaths. In that same letter, btk gave himself a name. Btk youll know me by the way i bind them and ill torture them and ill kill them. The btk nomenclature bind, torture, kill. And thats how he wanted to be known. Jordan he is telling you what to call him, which is simply a demonstration of his need for power and control. Singular once the Wichita Police department realize that theyre communicating with the killer, they make the decision not to publicize it because they think maybe that will keep him from killing again. They all turn out to be wrong. Morton he had another potential target. That one wasnt home. He was feeling very frustrated, and then, up the street comes this little kid carrying a grocery bag. Im currently out of the office [typing] focusing on a little bluesky thinking. Ill be taking meetings with family and friends. And checking voicemail as my activities permit. Ill connect with you after reconnecting with me. Get 1. 9 apr for 36 months plus 1,500 Purchase Allowance on a 2023 xt5