Dennis Rader: BTK Part I

Killer Psyche

Wondery | Treefort Media

True Crime, Exhibit C

4.6 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In the first half of this two-part episode, retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong explores the case of Dennis Rader, also known as BTK. Over 17 years, Rader tortured and murdered 10 people, while playing a game of cat and mouse with law enforcement and the media. Candice digs into how one of the most infamous killers in history, was able to mask himself as loving father, church group president, and a government worker until his arrest in 2005.

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0:00.0	Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to Killer Psyche early and ad free right now.
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0:19.0	A listener note, this episode contains adult content and is not suitable for everyone. Please be advised. In November 1973, the simple act of pulling out of a dryer.
0:30.0	In November 1973, the simple act of pulling out of a driveway sealed the fate of the Otero family of Wichita, Kansas.
0:40.4	The driver, 34-year-old Julie Otero and her 11-year-old daughter Josephine
0:45.8	were leaving their home in the family station wagon
0:48.7	when a man named Dennis Rader spotted them.
0:52.3	The 28-year-old Rader spotted them.
0:52.8	The 28-year-old Rader had recently been fired from what he described as his dream job and
1:00.2	had been driving the streets for hours, almost as if he was looking for something to distract him.
1:07.0	And Julie and Josephine Otero were exactly the distraction that Rader had been looking for.
1:15.0	The Oteros had recently moved to Kansas from New York.
1:20.0	Julie's husband, Joseph, had recently retired after 20 years in the Air Force and chose to relocate
1:27.4	to Wichita so that he could continue working in the aviation industry as a plane mechanic and flight instructor.
1:35.8	The family of seven had only been in their new home for six weeks
1:40.9	when Rader fixated on them.
1:44.0	Rader followed Julie for a month studying her routine.
1:49.0	He learned when her husband went to work
1:51.0	and when she returned from taking the youngest children to school.
1:55.0	Their predictable schedule gave him confidence to move forward with his plan.
2:02.0	On the morning of January 15th, his plan.
2:03.0	On the morning of January 15, 1974,
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