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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. ....
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 ....
I said i have some suspicions why. at first, i was hoping that it was kind of a cat and mouse game, that they had a suspect. but it kind of hurt. you know, like i said, i had the power. i was a law enforcement officer technically. here i am, these law enforcement officers were doing my duty. so it kind of hurt a little bit. before long, rader in his self obsessed arrogance was talking up a storm and says in his interview with a psychologist, he was actually having a good time connecting to the police officers. during the intergax, it seems as though you were enjoys one of them at times. always, camaraderie. camaraderie. yeah. we talked shop. i know a lot of police terminology. i know how they do things. so, yeah, it s a kind of bonding type. ....
did you enjoy that on some level? smr yes, i did. yeah. all i knew was sunk or stood with me. i enjoyed it. once the confession was out and i admitted who i was, then the bonding really started. you know, i just really opened up and, you know, we shared jokes and everything else. it s just like we were buddies. he s proud of what he s done. he was having in a per slers way fun talking with his colleagues, the police. what do you make of the camaraderie he says he enjoyed with all of the police officers who were interrogateing him when he was arrested? well, it implies a certain degree of control beyond the situation. i m a good guy. they re a good guy. we re all in the same profession here. i work law enforcement, technically. he was a wannabe cop. it makes him feel better to think of them as peers. reporter: no matter how much rader could have imagined he was in control it was just the ....
Opposite. the man he dismissed aed the keystone cops says the script was going their way now. were they, in fact, playing him? absolutely. these officers that were interviewing him were hand picked. they had studied him. they knew the characteristics. they were playing to his ego, his strength. making him think, hey, we re buddy buddies. then just as quick lib, they shut him down, the interview ended, the attention stopped the officers went home. it was only then rader tells the psychologist that the reality of his past and the impact on his future finally started to sink in. was there anyway of getting out of this? you know, is there any possible way they got too much on me. and most of my thoughts went back to my family. you know, how my family was holding umm. how are they taking this? you want to think of all those ....