couldn t close this case? i m not offended by anything he says. at all. it s all about him. i know that the police officers did everything in their power. i know that they finally caught him. with everything you know about him now, do you think that you should have been able to get him? i would like to tell you, yes. i really don t think we could have done any more than we did. he called the wichita police the keystone cops. i heard that. again, that s just dennis rader, because what he was saying is, to allow the wichita police to catch him, you know, would be demeaning to him. and it just bugs him. it just drives him crazy. so, therefore, he has to belittle the police department in order to elevate himself. the conventional wisdom was that somehow he was so smart, because he always stayed one step ahead of the police. i don t think he s smart at all. we re not talking about a genius here. you know? we re not talking about a hannibal lecter-type individual.
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 file 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 richard lamunyon remembers quite well when he got the news he d waited more than 30 years to hear. simply said, we ve got him. he said it s just a matter of time. we ve got him. locked up and choked up. that first sunday was probably the lowest day of all my life. tears from a killer but not for his victims. copd makes it , so i wasn t playing much of a role in my own life, but with advair, i m breathing better so now i can take the lead on a science adventure. advair is clinically proven to help significantly improve lung function.
blood pressure we continue with confessions of btk. here s ann curry. when wichita police learned that two children and their parents had been murdered, they, of course, looked at the likeliest suspects, people who knew the family. police, however, were about to learn that they were dealing with a serial killer. a man who three decades later would offer details about his crimes and his callousness in tapes never broadcast before. again, edie magnus. after murdering four members of the otero family, dennis rader spent the next several years killing again and again and again. his next three victims were all young women. in this interview with a psychologist, rader dismisses each victim as a project. he says he begins by stalking them. the stalking stage is when you start learning more about your victims, potential victims. i went to the library, looked up their names, address, cross referenced, called them a couple of times, drove by there whenever i could.
because it seems dennis rader couldn t stand staying hidden forever. if i could just show them pictures and puzzles and playing a game with them. i didn t even have to go out and kill anybody this time. after years of silence, btk emerges from the shadows. more clues for police. more heartbreak for victims 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. ouncer ] to the 5:00 a.m. scholar. the two trains and a bus rider. the i ll sleep when it s done academic. for 80 years, we ve been inspired by you. and we ve been honored to walk with you to help you get where you want to be. because your moment is now. let nothing stand in your way. learn more at keller.edu.
kansas. dennis rader was 58, still living in the house on independence street, still a compliance officer for park city, still an active member of the christ lutheran church. he d been married 32 years. his son and daughter were all grown up now. and the other dennis rader? the brutal strangler who had so far gotten away with all those murders all that time and he hadn t been heard from in 25 years? btk was retiring. he was going to go off the face of the earth. or so he says. soon enough, an excuse to grab the limelight would come again. the newspaper ran an article about the mysterious serial killer, known only by the name he d given himself, btk, for bind, torture and kill, and who had committed his first murder 30 years earlier. of course, it was all so long ago. rader found his exploits weren t even front page news anymore. he says it all made him feel a little itchy.