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
Based upon that driver s license being missing. however, the detectives that worked it in 1986 focused really hard on the husband, thinking it was a domestic violence issue. the license had never been recovered. singular: it was january of 2004, which was the 30th anniversary of the otero murders, and the wichita eagle decided to run a story about btk. roehrman: the eagle ran a story, saying it had been 30 years since the first btk deaths. in part of the story, the reporter talked to professor beattie, a local college professor and author. when he would mention btk in his classes, his students had no idea who btk was.
Roehrman: so, a little while after the eagle had its story about the 30th anniversary of the otero deaths, a letter came into the newsroom, and the return address was bill thomas killman, the initial as in btk. inside were three pretty blurry photos of somebody lying on a floor and a driver s license. otis: my partner, dana gouge, and i are sitting in the homicide unit, working on cases. a captain came up to the unit and was holding an envelope in his hand, and he said that a reporter from the eagle newspaper said, this is a weird letter we got at the paper. it appears to have a photocopy of three polaroid pictures of some female laying on the ground inside of a house. i will never forget when dana gouge opened that letter. he looked at what he had in front of him, he slid it across the desk to me, and there were three polaroid photograph