To the local tv station. if the newspaper s not going to pay attention to him, maybe the tv station will. hatteberg: it was february 10, 1978, and i get a call from a receptionist. and her voice is quivering just a little bit. and she says, i think i have something that maybe could be important. so i walked out front, and she s holding up this letter just by the edges. it turned out to be a letter from btk. jordan: there was a poem titled oh! death to nancy. to the left of the poem was typed btk four times, and beside each, he added tiny hangman nooses. there was also a pencil drawing of a woman bound and gagged and a two-page letter with some of the words misspelled.
So i came up with a notion of doing a cop show that was r-rated. when abc s broadcast standards read our script, they went berserk. i was sitting with a pad and a pencil drawing pictures of breasts to try to show them what we would show and what we wouldn t show. grown-ups sitting in a room doodling. then we started on the language. we heard some reporter call it the lowlife with the brains of a flea and the balls of a moth. the program premiered with an advertising boycott. channel 7, shame on you! but it was such an immediate hit, that boycott lasted, oh,