This Is Why BTK Is One Of The Most TERRIFYING Serial Killers Ever
Hot On The Case
Breanna Heim
5.0 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of Hot On The Case, we’re diving into the chilling story of Dennis Rader, the man who called himself BTK. For over three decades, he tormented Wichita, Kansas, taunting investigators with cryptic letters and playing a sinister game of cat and mouse with the police. His ability to disappear between murders left authorities and the public on edge, wondering when and where he would strike again.
What made Rader even more terrifying was his double life. To neighbors, he was a respected church leader, a devoted husband, and an attentive father. But beneath that mask of normalcy hid a sadistic serial killer who derived pleasure from inflicting pain.
Join me as we unravel how BTK managed to evade capture for so long, and how his carefully crafted facade eventually unraveled to reveal the monster behind the mask.
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| 0:00.0 | For 17 years, a city was tormented by one of the most notorious and sadistic serial killers in American history. |
| 0:09.0 | This is apparently a father and husband in my family. |
| 0:14.0 | I work at church. I work in the scouts. And there's the dark side of me. Secret. For decades, he taunted police. He terrified a community all under the disturbing name, B.T.K. |
| 0:31.6 | B.T.K. began today's letter with a question. How many do I have to kill before I get a name in the paper or some national |
| 0:38.6 | attention? An acronym for what he would do to his victims. Bind them, torture them, and kill them. |
| 0:47.8 | Dennis Rader, the BTK killer, went uncought for over three decades. He's one of the most depraved, disturbed monsters in history, |
| 0:58.5 | and this man lived a double life. He was a pillar of his community, a leader at his church, |
| 1:05.7 | a loving husband. A man who waved at his neighbors went to work and tucked his children in at night and told them not to be afraid of monsters under their bed or in their closet, all while harboring a grotesque, dark secret. |
| 1:21.0 | Thank you so much for joining me for this week's investigation, and I just want to start out this episode of Hot on the Case with just a |
| 1:28.8 | huge thank you to each and every one of you that has ever clicked on one of my videos on |
| 1:33.7 | YouTube who has ever streamed an episode on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. This last week, |
| 1:40.3 | Hot on the Case held the number one spot on the true crime podcast chart and also was |
| 1:47.2 | sitting at the third spot for overall podcasts in the United States on Spotify. When I started this |
| 1:53.8 | podcast less than a year ago, I had zero clue what I was doing. I still have no idea what I was doing, |
| 1:59.1 | but never in my wildest dreams did I ever |
| 2:01.8 | think that something like this would happen. So I just wanted to let each and every single one of you |
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| 2:18.2 | because clearly it really, really does help push out these episodes to even more people. |
| 2:24.1 | Now, let's get in to this really dark episode. |
| 2:28.6 | My name is Brianna, and I'm hot on the case. |
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