suspect. hef gave no signs. said they find out eventually, because it seems dennis rader couldn t stand say staying silent forever. i can show pictures of puzzles and play a game with them. i don t have to go out and kill anybody at this time. after years of silence, btk emerges from the shadows. more clues for police. more heart break for victim s families. mom s house had been broken into. we didn t know what happened to her. that is a trip to hell. when confessions of btk continues. at ally bank no branches equals great rates.
manifesto that he was about to take another innocent life. so the investigation went into high gear, unprecedented and yet unsuccessful for many years. even though he was right under their noses. desperate police devise an unusual plan, a secret message to btk. you were hoping that perhaps your killer might see it. yeah. did you get any phone calls? when confessions of btk continues. bring us your aching.
bridge. of course, police didn t know then who had done it. jeff davis says he slipped into dispair and depression that destroyed his marriage and worse. i would go to bed every night for the better part of five years and i prayed to god that he d let me die. reporter: colors davis driver s license and social security card had gone missing. that was certainly the kind of. btk did to his murder victims. there were other assets that strayed from his usual m-o. until rader was caught and police announced dolores davis as the tenth victim, her son was left to wonder. i guess there was the remote possibility that there was some phantom serial out there, but honestly, i never connected it with btk. how dennis rader led police straight to his door. we said, we got him confessions of btk continues in a moment.
rader said in hindsight he thinks that call was dumb. that was kind of a that was kind of an impulsive or really stupid thing to do because i left my voice pattern and my voice on there. and still rader was not done communicating. the following month he sent a poem written with a child s printing set on an index card to the wichita eagle newspaper. the poem patterned after a nursery rhyme referred to shirley vian s murder. several days later he sent another letter. the most disturbing one yet. the one that finally put the killer on the news and put the community in a tailspin. what kind of leads do you have? we have absolutely nothing that will point us to any one particular individual. a killer now in the spotlight he craves. he absolutely terrorized the community. everyone was a suspect. the fear was palpable. when confessions of btk continues. plaque psoriasis.
he went too far. reporter: police also used a under surveillance tape from that home depot to figure out the person who dropped off the btk letter was driving a car registered to dennis rader s son. but to make certain they had their man, they needed a dna match. so authorities got a warrant for a tissue sample from rader s daughter on time at a kansas medical clinic. tests showed it was a close match to the evidence drawn from the crime scenes. it was now early in the week of february 21st, 2005, and former police chief remembers quite well when he got the news he had waited more than 30 years to hear. it simply said, we got him. he said, it s just a matters of time. we got him. locked up, choked up. that sunday was the lowest day of my life is there tears from a killer, not for his victims. when confessions of btk continues.