blood pressure we continue with confessions of btk. here s ann curry. when wichita police learned that two children and their parents had been murdered, they, of course, looked at the likeliest suspects, people who knew the family. police, however, were about to learn that they were dealing with a serial killer. a man who three decades later would offer details about his crimes and his callousness in tapes never broadcast before. again, edie magnus. after murdering four members of the otero family, dennis rader spent the next several years killing again and again and again. his next three victims were all young women. in this interview with a psychologist, rader dismisses each victim as a project. he says he begins by stalking them. the stalking stage is when you start learning more about your victims, potential victims. i went to the library, looked up their names, address, cross referenced, called them a couple of times, drove by there whenever i could.
and each time he struck, rader said he was armed with what he called his hip kit. contained what? plastic bags, rope, tape, knife, gun, all those would be a kit where i could have them in the house and gather them up. tools that would come to define the work of btk. victims were often discovered bound with tape tied in unusual knots. you have to have the bonding which is control which is a big thing with me. my sexual fantasy is if i m going to kill a victim or do something to a victim is have them bound and tied. now, similar along the line, in my dreams i could have what they call torture chambers and to relieve your sexual fantasies, you have to go to the kill. three months after the otero murders, in april of 1974, rader s next victim was kathy bright, a 21-year-old college student.
psychologist, rader says that he picked his first victims, members of the otero family, utterly at random in late 1973. he recently had been laid off from a job and says he was feeling down and out at the time. had begun trolling, as he put it, in certain neighborhoods. including along edgemore drive where the oteros lived. that neighborhood, i guess became a what i call a haunt. as i call it. i had special appeal to it. i had been there, knew the roads, the people. i drive by, watch cars. people pull out of their homes. people go. wrote telephone numbers down, wrote addresses down. this is how i started. right here. my haunts. that area, the edgemore area, that was my first big haunt. julie otero, her husband and their five children lived on edgemore then. it was just mrs. otero s terrible misfortune that she happened to catch dennis rader s eye when he was driving down her street.
knew the family. police, however, were about to learn that they were dealing with a serial killer. a man who three decades later would offer details about his crimes and his callousness in tapes never broadcast before. again, edie magnus. after murdering four members of the otero family, dennis rader spent the next several years killing again and again and again. his next three victims were all young women. in this interview with a psychologist, rader dismisses each victim as a project. he says he begins by stalking them. the stalking stage is when you start learning more about your victims, potential victims. i went to the library, looked up their names, address, cross referenced, called them a couple of times, drove by there whenever i could. and each time he struck, rader said he was armed with what he called his hip kit. contained what? plastic bags, rope, tape,
then married a girl from home in 1971. a couple of years later, rader could no longer keep those fantasies locked only in his mind. his obsession with sex and bondage evolved into deviant violent acts carried out on real people, and ultimately led to murder. i got this fantasy, i started working out this fantasy in my mind. once it became a fantasy, i could loop it over, lay in bed at night, thinking about the person, the events and how it s going to happen. it became like a picture show. i want to go ahead and produce it and direct it and go through with it, no matter what the costs were and the consequences. it was going to happen. one way or another. maybe not that day but it was going to happen. no one knows for sure why rader had to kill to fulfill those fantasies. but in this interview with the psychologist, rader says that he picked his first victims, members of the otero family,