Case 337: Test A.rtf (Part 1/4)
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🗓️ 7 March 2026
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Summary
[Part 1 of 4]
*** Content warning: child victims ***
The quiet suburban life of Wichita, Kansas, was shattered in 1974 when four members of the Otero family, Joe, Julie and their two youngest children, Josie and Joey, were found brutally murdered in their home.
Nine months later, a letter was discovered inside a public library book that contained detailed, accurate, insider-knowledge about the crime. Worse still, the writer claimed responsibility for the murders and threatened to kill again.
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| 0:00.0 | Our episodes deal with serious and often distressing incidents. |
| 0:17.8 | If you feel at any time you need support, please contact your local crisis centre. |
| 0:23.4 | For suggested phone numbers for confidential support and for a more detailed list of content |
| 0:28.9 | warnings, please see the show notes for this episode on your app or on our website. |
| 0:35.3 | Today's episode involves crimes against children and won't be suitable for all listeners. |
| 0:45.5 | Hello, Charlie Otero called out. Is anybody home? |
| 0:51.6 | It was around 3.30pm on Tuesday, January 15, 1974, and 15-year-old Charlie had just returned |
| 0:59.3 | home from school. The Otero family of Seven lived on the corner of East Murdoch Avenue and |
| 1:05.9 | North Edgemore Street in the quiet eastern suburbs of Wichita, Kansas. Their modest whitewood frame bungalow |
| 1:13.7 | should have been full of life that afternoon. Thirty-eight-year-old patriarch Joe Otero was taking time |
| 1:21.5 | off work as an airplane mechanic and flight instructor to recover from a car accident that had left |
| 1:26.9 | him with several cracked ribs. |
| 1:29.8 | His 33-year-old wife Julie had been temporarily laid off as an assembler at a camping equipment factory |
| 1:36.2 | until business picked up again. The couple's four youngest children, nine-year-old Joey, 11-year-old Josie, 13-year-old Carmen, and 14-year-old Danny should have been home from school by the time Charlie arrived. |
| 1:52.9 | Instead, he was met with an inexplicable silence. |
| 1:58.3 | A few other things had struck him as odd. |
| 2:07.9 | His mother's beige 1966 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser Station wagon was missing from the driveway, |
| 2:14.5 | but the garage door was wide open, allowing the blustery winter wind to sweep snow inside. |
| 2:20.5 | Charlie figured she must have rushed out and forgotten to close it, though it was unlike his meticulous mother to be so careless. He also noticed Lucky the Otero's large, short-haired, |
| 2:28.2 | brown boxered dog had been left outside alone in the backyard. Lucky disliked the cold and was usually only let out when |
| 2:37.1 | guests visited, since he was protective and barked at strangers. The inside of the Otero |
| 2:44.6 | home appeared mostly neat and orderly, though several items were noticeably out of place. |
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