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One night in early January 1991,

62-year-old Dolores Davis noticed one of her beloved cats pawing at the window,

as though there was something on the other side of the glass it wanted to catch.

She peered out the window but saw nothing.

Then another one of her cats caught her eye.

He was jumpy on edge, like he knew something she didn't.

A shiver skittered down her spine.

Something was not right.

Delors called her son Jeff.

She told him there might be someone lurking outside her home.

Jeff assured her nothing was a miss. Her imagination was getting the better of her.

He calmed her fears and said good night.

Of course Jeff had been mistaken.

Someone was outside Dolores's window, hiding in the darkness just out of sight.

And a few days later, on January 18, 1991, Dolores Davis became the final victim of the serial killer known as BTK. Hi, I'm Greg Polson, and this is serial killers.

Today we're going to continue our deep dive into the life of Dennis Rader, who nicknamed himself BTK, bind, torture, kill.

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