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.