Monster: BTK - Episode 1

Le Monstre

iHeartPodcasts and Tenderfoot TV

True Crime

4.7 • 716 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

January 1974. Four members of a family are killed in their home in Wichita, Kansas. Investigators are mystified. Nothing like this has ever happened before in Wichita. Little did they know, this was just the beginning.

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0:00.0	Hey LeMonster listeners, it's Matt Frederick from Stuff They Don't Want You to know.
0:06.7	The newest season of Monster is out now, and it's terrifyingly good.
0:12.2	It's called Monster BTK.
0:15.3	It's produced by the same teams at Tenderfoot TV and IHeart podcasts that brought you Atlanta Monster, Monster
0:22.1	the Zodiac Killer, and Monster D.C. Sniper. This season, Monster delves into one of the most
0:28.6	notorious serial killers of all time, BTK. In the 1970s and 80s, this killer stole the lives of
0:37.3	at least 10 people.
0:39.2	But as you'll discover in the show, that number may be higher.
0:43.5	Follow along with award-winning journalist Susan Peters as she speaks with victims' families,
0:48.5	local law enforcement, and with those who knew the killer personally.
0:53.5	What follows is episode one of Monster BTK.
0:58.1	If you want more, you can get early access to the first six episodes on IHeart True Crime Plus.
1:05.5	Enjoy.
1:15.6	I remember that day like it was yesterday. I was walking home, the snow was knee-deep, and the wind was blowing pretty hard.
1:22.6	And I walked into the backyard. We had a wood fence with a gate. So I went through the yard and my dog, lucky.
1:30.3	He was outside in the snow and he was never outside.
1:33.3	I'm like, what are you doing out here, boy?
1:35.3	He looked at me and wagged his tail and opened up a kitchen door and went into the back.
1:40.3	When I walked in the house, I looked at the stove.
1:43.3	It had my mom's purse on it.
1:45.0	All the stuff was stowed out.
1:47.0	That's not how my mom kept the house.
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