Dennis Rader, the notorious serial killer known as BTK, has had his former home in Park City, Kansas searched by investigators hoping to tie him to more unsolved cold case murders.
Oklahoma authorities search a property formerly owned by the Wichita serial killer BTK. a Lawrence man pleads guilty in a fatal DUI crash. Topeka city leaders try to tackle a growing homeless problem. and Kansas schools call off classes due to broken AC systems. More inside.
photocopies of vicki wegerle laying dead in her home. also, with those three polaroids, was a photocopy of her missing kansas driver s license and the initials btk. that symbol was not out in the public. and seeing that btk symbol on a piece of paper with pictures of vicki was bone-chilling. singular: about a week later, lieutenant ken landwehr, who s in charge of the murder investigation, has a press conference. the wichita police department on friday received information from the wichita eagle and received a letter in the mail referenced the homicide of vicki wegerle on september 16, 1986. the letter contained copies of photographs
lieutenant landwehr assigned vicki wegerle s cold-case murder to myself and my partner, dana gouge. he didn t say at all, nor would he have ever, this is a btk case. i know it is. that s how i want you to work it. when bill wegerle came home that day for lunch, he walked through the house looking for his wife, vicki. when he found her body, she had been bound. he used a knife to cut some of the bindings off of her as he called the police. they transported her to a hospital, and life-saving efforts didn t work, and she d been strangled to death. when we reviewed the initial investigation of vicki s murder, we realized that her kansas driver s license had been missing. lieutenant landwehr had told us that his belief on the case was that it probably was not the husband,
it was even scarier because, when he resurfaced, no one had known that he committed the murder of vicki wegerle until he resurfaced. so then we re like, what other ones are there? singular: btk wanted attention. he wanted attention for his crimes. he wanted recognition. so lieutenant landwehr decided, we want to set up communication with him. we want to perhaps establish some sort of connection with him. kenny landwehr was a natural for that position. a lot of kenny s press conferences were always planned, and it was part of a plan to keep btk communicating, keep him sending information to us, keep him talking. this is one of the most challenging cases that i ve ever been involved with,