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

So we are here for part four of the Dennis Raider BTK case. And as always, I'm going to give you a quick recap of where we're at so far. So by the end of spring 1985, Dennis Raider was a married father of two now. He was also a scout leader, a church volunteer, and an AVT employee, a perfect citizen from an outside view. He was also

a sexual sadist serial killer known as BTK. So over the previous 11 years, he had murdered eight

people, Joseph, Julie, Joey, and Josephine Otero, Kathy Bright, Shirley V. Ann Ralford, Nancy Fox, and

Marine, his neighbor. So his eighth victim,

Marine had lived just down the street from where Rader lived with his family. Until then,

he had always targeted strangers, but now he was killing someone from his own neighborhood.

It was a sign that he was escalating, breaking his own rules, losing control.

That's right. So to steady himself, Rader threw his energy into work and family life.

Before the end of 1985, he received a promotion at ADT and he was busier than ever.

But no matter how full his schedule looked on the outside, the darkness never truly left.

The fantasies still called to him.

And by the summer of 1986,

Dennis Raider was ready to kill again. So that's where we are so far. However, before we

dive in to today's episode, we wanted to say happy Thanksgiving to everybody, because Thanksgiving's

coming up, and we happen to be off next week.

I know. It feels weird. Yeah, it does feel weird. I feel like we haven't had a week off

in probably a year since last Christmas Thanksgiving time. That's right. So you guys will see,

we'll be hearing this on the 21st, watching it on the 24th. Thanksgiving is on the 27th. So this is a blackout

week for us. And it is weird. It's definitely weird because usually when we take vacations or

whatever, we just record double the episodes to get it done. But it is important to decompress.

It is important to step away for a little bit.

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