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and he can get the money in the car, he'll 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 mother's purse. it was thrown over. all the belongings were strewn about, which was totally out of character for my mother,

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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 he's on the run from california to new york and he just wants a car and some money. that's 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 doesn't go off. relph: kevin believed that he had gotten ahold of the guy's 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. ♪

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and that they were deceased. i pretty much went blank after that. it wasn't 'til very late in the evening that we even found out the children were involved, and that's what changed everything. ♪ jordan: this attacker took out the parents and the little brother all by suffocation and strangulation, which is a very slow, hands-on style of killing. it's very personal, and because it's slow, unlike shooting or stabbing, you have the option at any moment of releasing your hands and saving the person's 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.

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he thinks he's 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 doesn't bring any attention to him. ♪ singular: kathryn -- she's able to crawl out of her room, crawl into another room,

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♪ btk: so i just started going through the neighborhood. i'd been through back alleys, knew where some certain people live. while i was walking, i met a young boy. ♪ jordan: it's march 17, 1977, and shirley vian, a 26-year-old mom with three young children, is sick in bed with the flu. because she's so sick, all of the children have stayed at home that day. she sends her 5-year-old son, steven, down the street to the local grocery store to pick up some soup for her and the kids to eat. ♪ relph: on his return, he's walking back, and he's approached by a man who shows him a picture of a mother and a child, says, "do you know where these people live?" he says he's a private investigator working a case.

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it wasn't 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 one-off? what is this?" there was just no reason to slaughter this family. otero: from what i understand, the police were wondering if my father's 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 wasn't. 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.

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♪ she does come home. she's eating a hamburger. ♪ and he bolts out of the closet. when nancy finds this man standing in front of her, she actually tells him to get out of her house. relph: he thought she was spunky because she was like, "i'm gonna call the police." and he said, "that ain't gonna do you no good. the phone's already taken care of." jordan: she stands up to him. this really just feeds his fantasy because he is going to make sure she knows who's boss. he tells her that he's suffering from sexual problems and that she needs to help him with that and that if she cooperates, nothing bad will happen to her. singular: and this is the first time really that he is actually in control of the situation and he can actually act out what he had fantasized about doing. and she was like, "well, let's get this over with

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and crawl out, running for help to the neighbors. relph: her neighbor comes over, and shirley is found. she has a bag over her head. she's got a ligature around her neck. there's attempts to save her, but she's gone. there will be a letter that arrives later on that specifically says the vian kids were very lucky. he had every intention of killing those kids, too. the phone call and breaking the window basically saved the little kids' lives. ♪ jordan: btk has now struck for the third time, and police who would be working these cases would be looking for patterns and similarities. once again, there was no real physical evidence. the child who witnessed the intruder come in gave a fairly vanilla description of a white man dressed in a suit. the victimology is completely different. the killer's behavior is completely different.

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other than strangulation in the first and the third, it just doesn't seem that the same person would be responsible for all three attacks. otis: however, the binding of the victim on her legs and her arms are what keyed the police department in to matching that one to the otero case. the knots were the same. the rope was kind of the same. so that one was lumped into the btk cases at that point. relph: we knew of m.o., but certainly, we hadn't come to appreciate what's called "signatures," things that a killer does just for themselves. certainly, some of the binding of some of his victims was just for him. it didn't further the completion of the crime. otis: i believed this guy had to be just as smart as us when it came to ways to catch him -- fingerprints and hairs and fibers -- because he was being very, very careful not to give us any. jordan: with this third attack, it wasn't well-planned.

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btk wrote, "i find the newspaper not writing about the poem on vian unamusing. there's a psycho running loose, strangling mostly women. there are seven in the ground. who will be next? the writer, who claimed to be btk, admitted to the murders of the otero family, shirley vian, nancy fox. he admitted to and gave details of all of those homicides. relph: there was no confusion anymore that all these cases were connected. singular: kake realized they had a big story, but they took it to the police department. hatteberg: chief lamunyon looked at the letter, and he said basically that it was time to release the letter because we now had a serial killer. singular: lamunyon made the decision at that point to go on television and announce that there was a serial killer in wichita by the name of btk.

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