i really do love you. sounds like a pretty heartfelt love letter. now, she tells her story for the very first time. will you believe her? let us know on the dateline chat line. i was fighting for my life. it s a remarkable case. a mother missing for more than ten years as her family waited, wondered, hoped. she had been kidnapped, held dangerous by a prisoner. other believe she was really captive to something else her own dangerous emotions. tonight, see what you think. which story will you believe? here s edie magnus. on april 4, 2005, a texas
we continue with confessions of btk. here is anne curry. when wichita police learn two children and their parents have been murdered, they of course looked atliest suspects. people who knew the family. police were about to learn they were dealing with a serial killer, a man three decades later would offer details about his crimes 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 began by stalking. the stalking stage is when you start learning more about your victims, potential victims. went to the library, looked up their names, address, cross referenced and called them a
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.
[ male announcer ] sustainable solutions. fedex. solutions that matter. confessions of btk continues on msnbc reports. here again is stone phillips. he spent years stalking and killing innocent people. then dennis rader, known only as btk, seemed to stop. he gradually disappeared from the headlines he craved. and that is something he now says he could not tolerate. here again, edie magnus.
he talks like he s coming home from a day at the office. tears only for himself. go out in fresh air, walk your dog. hug your wife. a minute by minute, year by year account of rader s crimes and the shattered families left behind. a beautiful, loving, kind, gentle person being murdered and dumped out in a ditch like a bag of dirty laundry. sentenced to life. nancy and his victims will be waiting with god and watching him as he burns in hell. you ll hear new details about the capture of the killer who eluded police for three decades. what nailed him was his hubris. he went too far. edie magnus with exclusive tapes that take us inside the mind of btk. he s just evil, evil personified. and now, the confessions of btk, here is stone phillips. good evening.