good catholic woman. -they had five children, ranging in age from 15 all the way down to 9. we were all into school. my father expected us to get good grades, and we stayed pretty athletic and into sports. hard workers, good parents, kids doing well in school really, not a care in the world. otero: we came to wichita, kansas, in the 70s because my father had retired overseas and was looking for work. he worked on jet engines, and that was the reason the otero family moved here in 1973, was the number of airplane factories we have in wichita. otero: my dad found a job at cook airfield. it was a small, family-owned airfield on the outskirts of wichita, and he was hired as a mechanic. hatteberg: wichita, kansas, was in the middle of america, and nobody locked their doors. it was a great little town to be from.
based upon that driver s license being missing. however, the detectives that worked it in 1986 focused really hard on the husband, thinking it was a domestic violence issue. the license had never been recovered. singular: it was january of 2004, which was the 30th anniversary of the otero murders, and the wichita eagle decided to run a story about btk. roehrman: the eagle ran a story, saying it had been 30 years since the first btk deaths. in part of the story, the reporter talked to professor beattie, a local college professor and author. when he would mention btk in his classes, his students had no idea who btk was.
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it wasn t an innocent city anymore. it became a city that was afraid. relph: law enforcement at the time were looking at it as, is this a one-off? what is this? there was just no reason to slaughter this family. otero: from what i understand, the police were wondering if my father s activities overseas had anything to do with their demise and what had happened to him, so there was a lot of questions about overseas contacts. hatteberg: as the days progressed, our police reporters were all over it, trying to get information. i remember the police chief checking on that somehow that this could be related to drugs, but it wasn t. so they abandoned that lead. singular: they put 75 officers on the case. they contacted other police departments. they interrogated 800 people in the first few weeks of it.
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