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The Unforgivables

BTK Dennis Rader — Part 1

The Unforgivables

The Unforgivables

True Crime, Christopher Watts, Tv & Film, Education, Chris Watts, Crime, Investigation, Confessions, True Crime Time, Watts Family Murder, Ted Bundy

4.7878 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

To satisfy the deviancy that fuelled his sexual fantasies, the deeply visceral urge to troll, stalk and brutally victimize lasted for three decades, leaving 10 dead and the citizens of the largest city in Kansas afraid of what could be waiting inside their own homes in the light of day – or of what may be lurking outside of them at night…. This is the story of Dennis Rader, otherwise known as BTK.

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0:00.0

This morning, Wichita, Kansas is waking up to a nightmare it thought was over.

0:05.0

BTK has resurfaced after 25 years of silence.

0:10.0

And good evening, we have exclusive details, a new communication that could be from the serial killer BTK

0:16.2

Now this is a story you'll only see on cake and today's message is eerily similar to a postcard

0:21.1

cake received. BTEK is a cake viewer and has been for years.

0:24.7

He has communicated with us since the 70s

0:26.8

and it continues today.

0:28.4

We know he is watching and we know he is listening.

0:31.5

And to him we say, the message has been received and passed on.

0:35.0

The Monster as he had written in his first October 1974 letter to the Wichita Eagle in vegan newspaper goes on and go on

0:47.8

it did to satisfy the deviancy that fueled his sexual fantasies. The animalistic urge to troll, stalk, and brutally

0:56.0

victimized lasted for three decades, leaving ten dead and the citizens of the largest city

1:00.7

in Kansas, afraid of what could be waiting inside of their homes in the light of day, or what may be lurking outside of them at night.

1:08.0

The police were very reserved as they are, they continue to be to this day with information about the case, and a lot of it was based on rumor but one thing that people did know was that he cut the phone cord so when we came home the first thing you did is check the dial tone so that you knew that at least that hadn't occurred.

1:24.0

We kept our basement door locked because another rumor was that he got in through basements,

1:28.0

although that doesn't seem to be true.

1:29.7

So everything we did was very much designed to protect ourselves from this kind of boogie man.

1:36.7

Every citizen of Wichita seemed to have had a connection to one of the murders.

1:40.7

In the Midwest, everyone seemed to have known somebody who knew somebody.

1:44.3

What no one seemed to know, though, was who was terrorizing neighborhoods in the city along the

1:47.8

Arkansas River, whose MO was to break in, cut the phone line, and then bound, torture, and kill his victims, or PJs, as he called

1:56.8

his projects.

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