welcome to very scary people. i m donnie wahlberg. the serial killer known as btk began terrorizing the city of wichita, kansas, in 1974, stalking and savagely killing his victims in their homes, then taunting police and reporters with disturbing letters detailing the carnage. demented, elusive, btk was actually hiding in plain sight, but his true identity and motive would remain a mystery for decades. it all began on an ordinary day with the otero family. this is part one of btk: bind, torture, kill. rader: i came to the back door, cut the phone lines, waited at the back door had reservations about even going or just walking away, but pretty soon, the door opened and i was in. jordan: the otero family was a family of seven, headed by father joseph and his wife, julie. they had both been born in puerto rico, but they moved to new york as children and there, they met in high school. otero: my family was your typical military family. my father was an air force
welcome to very scary people. i m donnie wahlberg. after torturing and killing seven people, demented serial killer btk contacted police to boast about his brutal acts. he threatened more victims would follow. his real identity was still a complete mystery. he dared cops to find him. the city of wichita was on edge. wichita police form a secret task force of seasoned detectives to track down btk. they need to capture him before he kills again. here is part two of btk: the taunting. hatteberg: wichita, kansas, was in the middle of america, and nobody locked their doors. it was a great little town to be from. jordan: the morning of january 15, 1974, was just a regular school day in the otero household until the unthinkable happens. an intruder enters their home and commits atrocities against this innocent family. i saw my parent s bodies it just felt like somebody had ripped my chest wide open and pulled my heart out. jordan: and investigators are trying to piece
january 15, 1974 started out different. i asked my dad to take me to school early that day so that i could get an extra study hall in. my brother and sisters, danny and carmen, they went with me. joe drops those three older kids at school, and he returns back home and joins his wife, julie, in getting the two younger kids ready for school. they re doing typical stuff making school lunches, gathering backpacks, getting ready for julie to drop those kids off, when the unthinkable happens. singular: he goes into the house. he draws his gun. one of the first things that he does is cut the telephone cord, and then he tells them that he just wants their car and some money and if he can tie them up
Much less knew what the value is to preserve that, but there is one thing policemen did know and the investigator was an incredible imagination for you don t know what you don t know, but he knew he had to preserve that. jordan: he didn t rape the mother. he didn t even do sexual acts on the mother postmortem. the idea that his focus was on the 11-year-old girl really indicates to me that he s fundamentally a pedophile. morton: with josephine otero, he said, when i saw her bound out of the car and up the stairs, i knew i just had to have her. o connor: josie was a little girl. if that isn t a pedophile, i don t know what is. foulston: four people getting killed at home with two young children. that was the beginning of his quest to be on the dark side and to do this kind of thing. january 15, 1974, wichita instantly changed.
Jordan: the morning of january 15, 1974, was just a regular school day in the otero household until the unthinkable happens. an intruder enters their home and commits atrocities against this innocent family. i saw my parent s bodies it just felt like somebody had ripped my chest wide open and pulled my heart out. jordan: and investigators are trying to piece together the evidence and find the killer when, in april, another brutal killing. otis: when the crime-scene investigators found the dna stain on the female clothing, they collected it, but there was no dna testing at that time. and so they packaged it properly, sealed it up, and put it with the rest of the evidence. and wichita instantly changed. it wasn t an innocent city anymore. killer breaks in. he s lying in wait. and he s thinking he will be able to subdue her and do whatever he wants and fill his fantasy.