since. the police once arranged to have a subliminal message, one devised by profilers, inserted into a local evening newscast at kake-tv. to viewers, the subliminal message looked like this. just a flash of light. but slow it down, and there it was. now, call the chief. and you were hoping that perhaps your killer might see it. yes. did you get any phone calls? no. did anybody s subconscious get tapped at all? no, we didn t get anything out of it. wherever he was, the killer could not or would not be reached. even when the police got a break and were able to track down a letter btk sent from a photocopier at wichita state university, they still couldn t catch him. turns out, rader was a student there studying criminal justice. we tracked the communication that he sent us to that copy machine that was at the activity center. and we had detectives go back to xerox company, and they confirmed that s where it came from. but he was on a list with
he s been playing games with us for 30 years. you think we re going to shoot straight with you? i don t think so. so, naturally, the police lied and told the killer they couldn t trace a disk to him and waited to see if he would fall for it, which he did. rader s last communication was a computer disk filled with more taunts and puzzles. he sent it to a local television station. the police were able to trace it to a dennis and a computer at rader s church. by googling the church name and dennis, the police quickly zeroed in on dennis rader. what nailed him ultimately was the last floppy disk. what nailed him was his hubris. he went too far. police also used a surveillance tape from that home depot to figure out that 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 file at a kansas
a streaker would run around without anything on. it s not their fault they couldn t catch him. that was a mistake. tina brown we will comes us back. she has a look at this morning s must read opinion pages. you re watching morning joe brewed by stars bucks. 1,400 lbs of cargo. but only one can do it while driving on electricity.