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

So before we get started, as always, I'm going to give you a recap of last episode because it's been a week.

But Derek, do you want to say something?

Yeah, we had talked before we started recording this one because many of you already know BTK

and we just wanted to give you a heads up.

We're going to give you as many details about these cases.

Stephanie prides herself on going as deep as possible.

But there are details about some of the crimes, especially against children, where we're going to talk about it.

But Stephanie and I have decided not to go into the detail of every single one because, frankly, it's not needed.

Just for our own well-being and yours too.

Yeah.

Because it's bad.

It's horrific.

I mean, you can look it up if you want. The details are out there. You don't need to. And you're, and you're going to understand what we're saying when we say it. But. Yep. There are specific crimes against children where you're going to get the point. But if you're sitting there going, well, why aren't they going into how horrific it really was? We're accomplishing what we want here.

We're telling you the story.

But we have children.

A lot of you out there have children. We don't have to rehash every single detail of what he did to these kids. It's just not worth it for us. That's not what we're here to do. So we wanted to at least give you that heads up at the top of the show to let you know as we go through some of his crimes.

There may be certain omissions intentionally. So when we had talked about it, I agree with Stephanie. This is not, we didn't want to put it in there. So that's all I had. So Dennis Rader spent most of his life trying to control two sides of himself, the good and the bad, the white hat and the black hat, as he put it. The white hat went to church, got married,

had kids, tried to live a normal life, but the black hat never really went away. It thrived on fantasies of control, bondage, and power over others. By late 1973, the black hat had taken

over, and Dennis Raider started prowling neighborhoods

looking for the ideal victim. The moment came when he spotted a woman and two young children

leaving their Wichita Kansas home. He decided he would kill all three of them, naming his plan

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