In 1974, Wichita, Kansas was shaken by a series of brutal attacks inside family homes.

Men, women, and children were bound,

tortured, and killed by a predator who called himself B.T.K. For 17 years, he terrorized the

community, claiming at least 10 victims and taunting police with disturbing letters that

detailed his crimes. Then, in 1991, the killings abruptly stopped, leaving law enforcement and the public to wonder if the killer had vanished forever.

For more than a decade, there was silence. Then, in 2004, BTK resurfaced with new messages, reigniting fear in Wichita.

But that renewed need for attention would ultimately be his downfall.

And by the following year, detectives had identified the killer as Dennis Rader, a father of two, a scout leader, and a trusted member of his church council.

Raider was the last person anyone

suspected of being a sexual sadist serial killer. But once investigators began putting all the puzzle

pieces together, it became clear that Raider's family man persona was just a mask covering the

monster beneath.

Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Crime Weekly. I'm Stephanie Harlow. And I'm Derek Lavasar.

And as you heard from the teaser, we are covering BTK today and probably for the next three

Crime Weekly episodes. So I think this will be in four parts. It could definitely be in more,

but I think we can get the basics and the really general

idea of what's happening here in four. But what do you think? I'm excited. I know, I'm excited. I had

said on Crime Weekly News when we announced that we were covering this case. I did an episode on

crime feed for discovery. So I had a little bit of an understanding of the case.

We were talking more about the drawings that BTK had released or they had they had

recovered after he was found.

But I didn't go into the details.

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