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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 ab...

♪ welcome back to "very scary people." btk, "bind, torture, kill," was the name he gave himself after confessing to the otero family murders. btk threatened he would kill again, but as time passed and there were no new victims, police wondered if he had moved on to torment another city -- until march 1977. ♪ singular: almost three years after he committed the kathryn bright murder, he has gone out again for a kill. again, the m.o. is slightly different here. morton: he targeted a house where there was two females, and he wanted to see if he could kill two females at the same time. he went ...

>> then in march 1977 rader struck again. his victim shirley vian, 24 years old. he said in court he watched her young son walk into the house and spontaneously chose that family to victimize. >> kind of forced myself in. just walked in, opened the door and walked in and pulled a pistol. >> shirley vian was home with her three small children whom rader corralled into the bathroom. >> the kids were really banging on the door, hollering, screaming. >> it's horrifying to remember that rader himself was a young father at this time. his own son was not yet 2. but with the sounds of the vian childre...

First letters. i was surprised i put it out there. i think it was just, bind, torture, kill, and then i had a label on me. like the green river killer, son of sam, a whole slew of others. the boston strangler. >> the police now knew the murders of the otero family and kathy bright were linked. but they had a serial killer in their midst. for tactical reasons, it would be several years before they disclosed the information to the public. still, they wanted to communicate with the mysterious strangler. police quietly placed a classified ad in the big hometown daily, btk, help is available. there...