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On Sunday, June 9, 2004, a Wichita man spotted something strange on the southeast corner of

First and Kansas streets downtown.

Duck taped to a stop sign was a clear plastic bag containing a brown envelope.

The man collected the package and continued on his way to work.

He discarded the tape and bag as it walked, but kept the envelope to show his supervisors when he

arrived.

Typed on the front were the words BTK filled Graham.

Inside the envelope was several photocopied pages that had been reduced in size.

One listed the 13 chapter titles for the BTK story, but Chapter 8, M.O. ID, Ruse had been blacked out.

An accompanying sketch depicted a bound woman hanging naked from a rope, along with the caption,

The Sexual Thrill is My Bill.

BTK's unique signature was scrawled in the corner.

The remaining pages were marked C1, indicating they were part of the first chapter of the

BTK story A Serial Killer is Born.

The long rambling passage read like a personal diary entry.

Titled Death on a Cold January Morning, it began. If a person happened to be out one of these

cold mornings in a certain part of Wichita, that is, the Northeast part on a particular

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