BREAKING: 2-PART SPECIAL "I SURVIVED BTK SERIAL KILLER" part 1

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

A young nurse, separated from her husband, joins friends and co-workers for an evening out after their shift. She's standing alone as her friends dance when she's approached by a well-dressed man. They dance and then continue their conversation. He says his name is Bob White and would like to see the nurse again. She agrees and a few days later, the pair meet at a local coffee bar type restaurant.

A few strange comments, and a few odd questions later, the nurse realizes she has made a mistake. Her contact with this strange man must end. Then the nurse make a stunning discovery. Bob White is really Dennis Rader.

Gina Rodriquez is the nurse and she joins Nancy Grace to tell her story of how she met and survived BTK, the sadistic serial killer that held Wichita and the nation captive in a decades long nightmare.

Joining Nancy Grace Today:

Gina Rodriguez - Had a coffee date with BTK in Wichita February 1974
Dale Carson- High Profile Criminal Defense Attorney (Jacksonville), Former FBI Agent, Former Police Officer (Miami-Dade County), Author: "Arrest-Proof Yourself”, DaleCarsonLaw.com, Twitter: @DaleCarsonLaw
Dr. Joni Johnston - Forensic psychologist and private investigator, performs risk and threat assessments on violent offenders, Author: “Serial Killers: 101 Questions True Crime Fans Ask”, Drjonijohnston.com
Sheryl McCollum - Cold Case Investigative Research Institute Founder, ColdCaseCrimes.org, Host of new podcast: Zone 7, Twitter: @ColdCaseTips
Sheriff Eddie Virden - Osage County, Assembled the BTK task force, www.ocso.net

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0:00.0	I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new coal case podcast, Zone 7.
0:04.1	We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors, and nationally recognized experts that are in my Zone 7.
0:11.4	The group of professionals that I've called on to help me work hundreds of cases
0:15.7	you've heard of and thousands you haven't. We are going to solve these cases on air together.
0:22.0	Listen to zone 7 on the I Heart Radio app,
0:25.0	the Apple Podcast app,
0:27.0	or wherever you listen to your favorite podcast. Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
0:37.0	Have you ever cheated? Have you ever cheated death? I have. I can think of twice. Once when a witness pulled a long gun on me and my investigator and I jumped off a porch.
0:57.0	And the other, when I nearly drowned and my now husband saved me. I can think of those two times I cheated death.
1:06.6	There are a lot of near hit stories aren't there.
1:11.7	Well you are about to meet a woman who has without a doubt she
1:19.9	to death in the form of BTK, bind, torture, kill. The dog catcher turned serial
1:30.8	killer Dennis Rader. That's right. This woman met up with him for a date of sorts. She got a six sense just before they left alone and she lived
1:50.0	to tell the story. This coming out now, apparently the dog catcher turned serial killer
1:59.4	believed investigations into him were cooling off just days before Sheriff Eddie Verden
2:07.8	announces a national task force to connect him to unsolved cold cases. Now remember
2:16.7	BTK, Dennis Rader, is lounging right now while we're all working. He's lounging getting three hots and a cot.
2:26.8	No threat of the death penalty writing his memoirs speaking to authors and admirers who have apparently fallen under his
2:35.6	spell yes that's true he's lounging right now but watch out BTK because some jurisdictions still have the death penalty.
2:46.7	Talking about old Sparky, the needle, don't get too comfy.
2:51.8	I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us here on
2:55.8	crime stories and on Series X-Sim 111. First of all, take a listen to this.
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