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exploits weren't first page anywhere. he says it all made him feelichy. >> zpi read that in the paper. i always thought, i like it. but should i? and i think i reached a point in life the kids were gone, i was kind of bored. >> and something else, rader knew a local lawyer was writing a book about him or about btk, that is. that didn't sit too well either with the man who had such an enormous appetite to draw attention to himself. rader felt only he could do justice to his story. >> eventually i was going to tell the story in my terms, not his terms. that's factual. they didn't know how i worked and i moved around the projects, the hots, how i took my victims. they didn't know how that worked. i could really stir the morning up with that google media by showing pictures and puzzles and playing a game with them.
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>> tracking the dogs, they are somewhat territorial as well as vicious. >> that's him, interviewed by a local tv station t. killer, himself, right there on the screen for all wichita to see. who would ever suspect this public servant was actually the monster btk, whom everyone feared? but it was in that job that at least some people saw a darker side to dennis rader. dee stewart, a long-time acquaintance of rader's has a good friend that reported to him in the compliance department this friend, he says, found him controlling and belligerent. >> there were times when he yes, ma'amed at her in front of other employees. he demeaned her. he told her she would never be as smart as he was. >> reporter: but she says he could turn his good and bad sides on and off. >> he could be berating her, screaming at her, if the phone rang and it was a member of his family, he turned into ward cleaver. >> reporter: dr. fox said this apparent jekyll and hyde is
suspect. hef gave no signs. >> said they find out eventually, because it seems dennis rader couldn't stand say staying silent forever. >> i can show pictures of puzzles and play a game with them. i don't have to go out and kill anybody at this time. >> after years of silence, btk emerges from the shadows. more clues for police. more heart break for victim's families. >> mom's house had been broken into. we didn't know what happened to her. >> that is a trip to hell. >> when "confessions of btk" continues. at ally bank no branches equals great rates.
bridge. of course, police didn't know then who had done it. jeff davis says he slipped into dispair and depression that destroyed his marriage and worse. >> i would go to bed every night for the better part of five years and i prayed to god that he'd let me die. >> reporter: colors davis' driver's license and social security card had gone missing. that was certainly the kind of. btk did to his murder victims. there were other assets that strayed from his usual m-o. until rader was caught and police announced dolores davis as the tenth victim, her son was left to wonder. >> i guess there was the remote possibility that there was some phantom serial out there, but honestly, i never connected it with btk. >> how dennis rader led police straight to his door. >> we said, we got him "confessions of btk" continues in a moment.
truth? >> no, i thought thigh would. i thought they wanted me to finish the story. i really thought i had a rapport with them. you no e. i really did. >> doesn't that seem kind of dumb? >> well, yeah, it does. >> to believe the police would tell you the truth about something like that? >> he's been playing games with us for 30 years, you think we're going to shoot straight with you? i don't think so. >> reporter: so naturally the police lied and told the killers they couldn't trace a disc to him and waited to see if he would fall for it, with i he did. rader's last communication is a commuter disc filled with more taunts and puzzles. he sent it to a local television station. the police were able trace it to a dennis at the computer at rader's church. by googleing the church name and dennis, police quickly zeroed in on dennis rader. >> what nailed him, ultimately, was the last floppy disc he sent? >> what nailed him is huberis,
he went too far. >> reporter: police also used a under surveillance tape from that home depot to figure out the person who dropped off the btk letter was driving a car registered to dennis rader's son. but to make certain they had their man, they needed a dna match. so authorities got a warrant for a tissue sample from rader's daughter on time at a kansas medical clinic. tests showed it was a close match to the evidence drawn from the crime scenes. it was now early in the week of february 21st, 2005, and former police chief remembers quite well when he got the news he had waited more than 30 years to hear. >> it simply said, we got him. he said, it's just a matters of time. we got him. >> locked up, choked up. >> that sunday was the lowest day of my life is there tears from a killer, not for his victims. when "confessions of btk" continues.
back and next to the doll was a copy of the driver's license of one of btk's victims, nancy fox. a hands-made word puzzle, which investigators now see contains a group of letters spelling d rader and the numbers of his address. it all put wichita's serial strangleer front and center again, just how he liked it. >> was that exciting to you? was it sexually exciting to you? >> not sexual, but the media attention, i listened to the news, i'd get pretty excited reading the paper. >> did you ever think you were going to get caught? >> no, no no, this guy was not going to get caught. absolutely not. no. i didn't want to get caught. i wanted to put everything on floppys to a cd, to a safe deposit or a hiding home and i could always bring it back out. >> many have speculated that rader's repeated messages were, indeed, a cry to be captured. but james fox says, it's just
milwaukee. who dissected dead animals as a child then later murdered and dismembered 17 young men and boys. but why would anyone ever suspect a man like dennis rader, consider his substantial involvement with his local lutheran church. paul carlstadt has known rader for 30 years and he was an exemplary member for years. >> he will run the sound system, be an usher, count the money after the service, if something was to be done, dennis was able to help. >> reporter: as hard as this may be able to believe, the serial killer considers himself a relidge jusz person. >> do you pray? >> yes, i do. i read the bible daily. it helps not only just for spiritual, a lot of it is good meanings and good concepts, things that you can use if life. >> even serial killers can believe in god.
radio the fbi was up to something in his town. >> and i thought, well, you know, maybe something is coming down, shall i run? but where would i have ran if they were after me. i just took a calculated guess that that was something else. >> reporter: then at mid-day, the killer went home for lunch. >> i drove home and just as soon as i got, started to turn down the road, i saw this whole line of police cars, i thought, oh, that's not good. it's just, they were right on me that quick. i thought maybe it was a traffic stop. as soon as one was behind me with red lights and sirens, i knew that was it. >> with that, dennis lind rader, the man believed to be btk was finally in custody after 31 years. >> i got to tell you, they told me to lay down. i sprawled out. they grabbed me with the handcuffs and stuck me in the car. mr. rader, do you know why you are going downtown?