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Btk as a name for himself. >> i just put it in one of the first letters. i think it was just bind, torture, kill. now i had label on me. like the green river killer and son of sam and whole slew of others, the boston strangler. >> the police now knew the murders of the otero family and kathy bright were linked. they had a serial killer in their midst. for tactical reasons though it would be several years before they disclose that 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...

>> he had broken a glass. he was in the basement waiting. >> the intended victim, a 63-year-old woman he had been stalking unexpectedly spent the fight out. saved her life. but he made shire everybody knew he was still prime to commit murder, sending the media that package containing some personal items he had stolen from her home and including one of his trademark poems. >> which is a poem of death. he said he was disappointed she didn't come home. >> that he intended to kill her. >> raider now claims in this interview with a psychologist that this woman wasn't the only one that got away. >> ...

The two men struggled again and rader shot him a second time in the head. he tried again to strangle kathy but was unsuccessful so stabbed her multiple times in the chest. meanwhile much to rader's surprise kevin managed to escape. though his head wounds from the gunshots left him unable to clearly describe the killer to police. >> i thought the police were coming at that time. i heard the door open, i thought that's it. and i stepped out there and he -- i could see him running down the street. so i quickly cleaned up everything that i could and left. >> six months later in october 1974 rader ...

>> 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...