EP. 226- SERIAL KILLER: BTK (Bind Torture Kill) | Pt. 2: The Murders

Murder In America

Blood In The Sink Productions

True Crime

4.8 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 144 minutes

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For 31 years, the city of Wichita lived in terror of a ghost. Between 1974 and 1991, Dennis Rader – the mild-mannered family man, church leader, and compliance officer – murdered ten people in a series of meticulously planned home invasions that still haunt the American true-crime landscape. He didn’t just kill. He staged elaborate, sadistic “projects”: cutting phone lines, waiting patiently in closets, binding entire families with cords pulled from venetian blinds, torturing them for hours, and strangling them one by one while the others watched in helpless horror. This is the story of how a monster hid in plain sight for three decades. - Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eTYeCoYyxm58DXXdoFbHQyWHlWbcH9iKGIefFcQToW4/edit?tab=t.0 Listen to our new show, "THE CONSPIRACY FILES"!: -Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/5IY9nWD2MYDzlSYP48nRPl -Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-conspiracy-files/id1752719844 -Amazon/Audible - https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/ab1ade99-740c-46ae-8028-b2cf41eabf58/the-conspiracy-files -Pandora - https://www.pandora.com/podcast/the-conspiracy-files/PC:1001089101 -iHeart - https://iheart.com/podcast/186907423/ -PocketCast - https://pca.st/dpdyrcca -CastBox - https://castbox.fm/channel/id6193084?country=us - Stay Connected: Join the Murder in America fam in our free Facebook Community for a behind-the-scenes look, more insights and current events in the true crime world: https://www.facebook.com/groups/4365229996855701 If you want even more Murder in America bonus content, including ad-free episodes, come join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/murderinamerica Instagram: http://instagram.com/murderinamerica/ Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/people/Murder-in-America-Podcast/100086268848682/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MurderInAmerica TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@theparanormalfiles and https://www.tiktok.com/@courtneybrowen Feeling spooky? Follow Colin as he travels state to state (and even country to country!) investigating claims of extreme paranormal activity and visiting famous haunted locations on The Paranormal Files Official Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheParanormalFilesOfficialChannel - (c) BLOOD IN THE SINK PRODUCTIONS 2025 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?
0:04.0	Not much to it, is there?
0:06.0	Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich.
0:11.0	Mmm, that is good.
0:13.0	Now that's what Asani should sound like.
0:15.0	Go all crisp in with walkers.
0:18.0	Delicious.
0:20.0	Warning, the following podcast is not suitable for all audiences.
0:24.0	We go into great detail with every case that we cover
0:26.4	and do our best to bring viewers even deeper into the stories
0:29.1	by utilizing disturbing audio and sound effects.
0:32.1	Trigger warnings from the stories we cover
0:33.9	may include violence, rape, murder, and offenses against children. This podcast is not for
0:39.9	everyone. You have been warned. In last week's episode, we talked about the life of Dennis Raider,
0:47.4	a man from Wichita, Kansas, who appeared to be a good, upstanding citizen. He came from a decent home.
0:56.7	He went to church. He was involved in Boy Scouts. He got an education and married a good woman. But beneath this facade, Dennis was
1:03.7	plagued with a violent sexual obsession. For years, he fantasized about binding, torturing, and killing women.
1:12.0	And finally, in 1974, after decades of ruminating on these thoughts, he acted on them.
1:19.1	After stalking Julie Otero and her 11-year-old daughter, he broke into their home.
1:24.8	And over the next two hours, he bound, tortured, and killed four members of the
1:30.3	Otero family. But the high from his horrific actions didn't last long. And just a few months later,
1:38.1	he was already on the hunt for his next victim. Her name was Kathy Bright, and she was just 21 years old. In the middle of the day in April
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