serial killers is they get so cocky and they make a mistake. and that s just what happened. it was rader himself who helped bring police to his door. it started in january 2005, when rader placed a letter in a pickup truck at this home depot, which eventually made its way to police. in it rader, identifying himself only as btk, asked the police whether they could catch him if he used a computer disk to communicate. he asked the police to respond in a classified ad, and he asked them to, be honest. he actually asked the police they said no. did you really think they were going to tell you the truth? no. i thought they would. i thought they wanted me to finish the story. i really thought i had a rapport with them. i really did. doesn t that seem kind of dumb? yeah, it does. to believe that the police would tell you the truth about something like that?
desperate police devise an unusual plan, a secret message to btk. you were hoping that perhaps your killer might see it? yes. did you get any phone calls? so you re seriously proposing we change our name to sun life valley. do we still get to go skiing? sooner or later, you ll know our name. sun life financial. with advanced power, the verizon 4g lte network makes your business run faster: smartphones, laptops, tablets, mobile hotspots. but not all 4g is created equal. among the major carriers,
instead, all rader could do was complain to the psychologist about how he missed all the attention he d been receiving fr his police interrogators. they did not come saturday. they did not come sunday. sunday was probably that first sunday was probably the lowest day in all my life. i was really depressed. he called it the lowest day of his life. can you imagine? this is a man who s already been arrested. he s ripped from his family probably forever. they despise him. oh, by the way, he s killed ten people. and the lowest day of his life is when the interrogation doesn t continue? doesn t this tell us a lot about dennis rader? and next, the killer gets his day in court. will heartbroken families get peace? people use the word closure. there is no such thing. the employee of the month isss. the new spark card from capital one. spark miles gives me the most rewards of any small business credit card. the spark card earns double miles. so we really had to up our game. with spar
you know, it s like it s in the driver s seat. that s probably the reason we re sitting here. if i could say i don t want to do this and go crawl in a hole. but it s driving me. you ve actually used the term monster. there s this monster inside of you. it almost sounds like something separate and apart, like a different person. it s part of the compartment. i can switch back and forth. and once the character takes over, whatever it is it drives me onward. i don t know what it is. but criminologist james allen fox says he knows what it is. it s bunk. don t blame me, i m really a good guy. factor x i just couldn t resist. it s the monster inside of me. to use a technical term, it s poppycock. it s just an excuse. it was dennis rader making the decisions, not factor x.
several thousand others. if you were a white male between 18 and 35, you were on that list. but we couldn t match him to any other list. you will find a homicide at 843 south pershing. and they had the killer s voice on tape, of course, from that time he boldly called 911 to tell them he d murdered nancy fox. in time, the police were able to have the technical quality of that taped call enhanced. and it was played repeatedly on radio and tv. he said it was probably stupid, but he liked it. he liked the fact that it s been played over and over and over for years and years. yet even with all that exposure, nobody recognized the voice as that of a man named dennis rader. another dead end. i think i was lucky. i think i was lucky quite a bit. pretty lucky guy. pretty lucky guy. i think they got close a couple times, and i was just lucky. incredibly so, for a killer who may well have been seen several times. a handful of eyewitnesses helped