"In the beginning, I put a plastic bag over Mr. Otero's head, and then strangled him to death. How many people do I have to kill before you let me get published?"
- Dennis Reid, BTK
American BTK perverted murderer
For 30 years, 10 corpses, and 3 English letters B-T-K, these numbers and letters started in 1974, making the residents of Kansas panic and restless, and it was not until 2005 that they breathed a sigh of relief. B is for binding, T is for abuse, and K is for killing. Binding (Bind), Torture (Torture), Killing (Kill), these are the evil deeds committed by the perverted murderer who calls himself "BTK".
Victim photo
January 15, 1974, in the evening hours. Fifteen-year-old Charlie came home after class to find something was wrong because it was too quiet at home. So he went to his parents' room, only to find that his father Otero's wrists and ankles were tied, and he had already died of anger, as was his mother. When the police arrived at the murder scene, they found two more bodies, namely Charlie's 9-year-old brother Joseph and 11-year-old sister Josephine. The cause of death of all four was: strangulation, and the murderer was BTK.
The police investigation found that BTK first tied Charlie's mother and two young children, then strangled Joseph with a hood in the bathroom, and then hanged Josephine in the bedroom, and finally strangled the child's body. Mother. Just when BTK was about to escape, Charlie's father Otero returned home, so he kept doing it, knocked Otero to the ground unexpectedly, put a plastic bag on him, strangled him alive, and then escaped without a trace.
High-energy warning, the following are the live photos of some victims!
Three more people were killed over the next three years. From 1974 to 1991, the killer, who called himself "BTK", killed a total of 10 people, ranging in age from 11 to 62. The police said that the BTK crime process almost always broke into the victim's home first, cut off the phone line and hid. When the victim returns home, the victim's hands and feet are tied with telephone wires.
After controlling the victim's movements, he would first torture and strangle the victim, wait for them to wake up, then continue, and finally strangle them to death. Sometimes even strangling them slowly. What is outrageous is that BTK killing is like "culling" animals! If the victim is emotional before being killed, BTK will give them a glass of water, or let them smoke to calm down, and then kill.
He also locked the victim Otero's child in the bathroom and used toys and blankets to soothe his emotions before attacking the child's father. Before another female victim was killed, BTK put a pillow on her to make her comfortable.
Since then, BTK has been wandering around the city looking for targets. After selecting a suitable target for the crime, he will be like a ghost, hiding in the dark or watching the victim secretly in the middle of the night.
A girl who escaped death, Judy. Skel said that BTK had targeted her and her roommate. She said, "I remember turning on the kitchen light and walking into the kitchen, looking up and seeing a man peeking from the back window! He turned and left. "
"We hid under the kitchen table for safety, I managed to call the police and waited under the table until the sun came out."
After figuring out the other party's work and rest, BTK will disguise as a telephone repairman, fugitive, and private detective to enter the victim's home, threaten them with a pistol, tell them that he has a problem with sexual fantasies, and will bind them and rape them. However, BTK did not rape the victimized women. Instead, they strangled them with belts or stockings, masturbated on their bodies, and took some of their personal belongings away as "trophies" to keep, and then went home as if nothing had happened.
Since the BTK perverted murderer has never been caught, people in the small town are panicking and the wind is rising. The first thing many people do when they walk in the door is to see if the phone line is still there. Some people will call home first, but once the line is blocked, they will call the police!
Murder cases continued to occur, and the discussion topics of the residents of the small town were almost always, "Who will BTK's next target be?"
After BTK committed the first murder case in 1974, he would leave clues behind to play cat-and-mouse with the police. He was bold enough to call the 911 report line by himself and confessed that he had killed a man who lived outside 6 houses. Neighbor. But the police couldn't find the killer. His letters to the police were discontinued in 1979 and disappeared for 25 years.
It was not until March 2004 that he took the initiative to send a letter to a local TV station in Wichita. He put the driver's license of a murder victim and three photos of the body after the abuse in an envelope. "Bill Thomas Killman" (capitalized as BTK), he also declared in the letter that he wanted to get the attention of the entire American people. After that, BTK released some clues one after another. It was not until 2005 that the police traced the church he served from a disk sent by BTK, and BTK was revealed.
On February 25, 2005, police in Wichita, Kansas, announced the arrest of the 59-year-old suspect Reid, ending a 31-year pursuit. BTK, who bowed his head to the judge and confessed his guilt, described in detail the thrilling process of his own murder in court.
BTK: "First I put a plastic bag over Mr. Otero's head and then strangled him."
As if telling the plot of a novel, BTK deliberately raised the volume when answering the judge's question, admitting that he had used a dead body for masturbation. For BTK's perverted behavior, the prosecution released a bunch of strong evidence and photos. Some of the most notable photos are of BTK wearing a mask and tying himself to a chair, as well as a female blond wig. The prosecution also released other perverted photos, including BTK tying himself up, wearing clothes stolen from the victim's home, etc., obviously venting the pleasure brought by murdering others.
The judge asked him, "Did you hang her in the basement?"
BTK: "Yes, Judge."
The judge asked, "Did you do anything to her after that?"
BTK: "Yes, I have arousal fantasies about him."
The judge asked again: "Why do you want to kill?"
BTK: "For fantasies... sexual fantasies."
Prosecutors testified that BTK turned hundreds of photos taken from magazines and leaflets into index cards detailing various perverted sexual fantasies he dreamed of fulfilling. BTK itself also revealed that it has been expecting to kidnap and sexually abuse a number of American female stars. BTK also confessed in court that he had a "kill kit", including guns, rope, handcuffs and tape, etc. in a briefcase or bag. He said the killing was a plan, and the first victims were The above family of four.
US police remove body killed by BTK
When it comes to the mentality and behavior of serial killers, he said it like a scholar, "If you've read a lot of stories about serial killers, they have different stages, and in the stage of hooking people, they're basically looking for someone... Maybe they're hooked. Months or years, but once you have a specific target, start following."
Before BTK was arrested, Kansas Governor Sebilius revealed that DNA evidence was the key to solving the case. According to media reports, BTK's daughter Kelly suspected that her father was involved in the case and contacted the police proactively, and provided her own blood sample for the police to test. The test results show that Reid is the BTK murderer.
Sources said that after the results of the test were released, the police immediately began to closely monitor Reid (BTK) and arrested Reid on the 25th. The report pointed out that Reid has been a city picket in Pike, Kansas, since 1990, in charge of animal and abandoned vehicle control. He was also the head of a local Lutheran church and was married with two children.
BTK (Red) as city picket in 2000
Reid's arrest made the victim's family feel relieved that justice was finally served. "Every day of my life stops on the day my mother was killed," said Redford, who was a five-year-old when his mother was killed.
"After 28 years of waiting, I've finally been waiting for this day; I want to thank everyone who assisted in the arrest of the killer."
On August 18, 2005, BTK was sentenced to 10 life sentences, equivalent to a minimum of 175 years in prison, with no possibility of parole for 40 years. He and the victim's family were very emotional throughout the interrogation process, and BTK frequently wiped away tears when it came to the sad part, but the prosecution severely criticized him as a cat crying and a mouse with fake compassion! BTK solemnly said to the judge and the victim's family: "I finally want to apologize to the victim's family. I will never be able to make it up... I hope God will accept me one day."
News headlines when BTK (Reid) was arrested
Wiping away his tears, he said that his two children and his newly divorced wife were his last victims. When Reid committed the serial murders, Kansas did not have the death penalty, and it was not reintroduced until 1984, so there is no way to sentence Reid to death for life.
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According to a report by the Associated Press on February 27, the Wichita Police Department held a grand press conference on the same day in the city hall, announcing the latest development of the outstanding "BTK killer" case. Relatives of the victims and many people who were actively concerned about the case attended the press conference. When Police Chief Norman Williams announced loudly at a press conference: "It has been confirmed that the BTK killer has been captured." The audience burst into applause, and everyone present felt that this murderous demon finally fell into Happy at the French Open. Subsequently, the leader of the "BTK homicide" task force, police officer Ken Randwell, introduced the specific situation of the case. He introduced that the suspect was named Dennis Reeder, 59 years old, and his occupation was a municipal worker in charge of the city's standard code management. He was arrested on February 25 during a traffic check and charged with seven murders and the murder of 10 people.
Accidentally arrested "BTK" killer
Although the police refused to disclose more details at the press conference, the pervasive American media still dug up some "sharp information". Redel lives in Pike, a small town about 25 kilometers north of Wichita. The arrests were made on the 25th when police investigators arrested him on the spot during a routine inspection of passing vehicles, sources said. Then, they found Redel's residence, conducted a thorough search, and searched for some suspicious items. Police cordoned off all the streets around the suspect's home, dispatched a team of demolition experts, a special forces SWAT team and dozens of police, according to local television.
Daughter kills relatives righteously
How the police suspected Ryder was naturally the focus of the entire case. In this regard, both Chief Williams and Inspector Randwell remained silent at the press conference. But the vast media of Shentong once again dug up the insider. It turned out that Redel was "betrayed" by his own daughter. His daughter, Kelly, is 26 years old. After she noticed last year that the police called on the public to provide clues to help catch the "BTK killer", she felt that her father was very suspicious, and she found more and more suspicious points, suspecting that her father was the mysterious murderer, so she took the initiative to find the police, saying Out of her suspicions, she volunteered to provide her own blood DNA sample. Not long ago, the test results showed that Kelly's DNA was more than 90% similar to the DNA information left by the "BTK killer" at the scene of many crimes. He was detained and arrested on the grounds of traffic inspection.
may escape the death penalty
At present, Reeder is being held in an undisclosed location. The police have not disclosed whether Reeder has confessed his crime, but said that the latest information will be released according to the progress of the case after the trial. It is reported that the police may bring eight counts of first-degree murder and two counts of homicide. As for what kind of punishment he will receive, it is difficult to predict at present. Raidel's crimes were heinous, but since the Kansas state law did not have the death penalty from 1972 to 1994, and the crimes Raeder was charged with occurred during that time, prosecutors said even if convicted, he could not be sentenced. death penalty.
Hypocrisy is a devil's heart
Raidel lives with his wife, and their two children have grown up and are living independently. After Raidel was arrested on suspicion of being a "BTK killer", the residents of Pike City were shocked, because they never imagined that they would live next to a cold-blooded killer for a long time. In their opinion, they are very gentle, and they are very kind, making people unable to associate with those cruel and perverted crimes. People have always regarded him as a good family man, a good father and a good husband. In addition, Raidel was the captain of the Cub Scouts (Boy Scouts composed of 8 to 10-year-old children) in his early years, and he has always been an active member of the local Lutheran church. He is also very dedicated in his work.
High-energy warning, the following are the live photos of some victims!
The first time to do evil and create a bloody murder case
The so-called "BTK killer" is actually the name given to him by this mysterious killer. BTK is an acronym for the three words "bind", "torture" and "kill" in English. The police claimed that from 1974 to 1986, the mysterious killer created 5 homicides, killing 8 people, and none of them were detected after the incident. The victims in all but the first homicide were invariably young women.
He first committed the crime in January 1974, when the Otello family in Wichita became the first victims. "BTK Killer" took advantage of the 38-year-old Mr. Otello to take his three eldest children to school, cut the telephone line of his house, and then broke into his home. The cruel demon first tied 34-year-old Mrs. Otello and two other children in the family, then strangled 9-year-old Joseph with a headscarf in the bathroom, and hanged 11-year-old Josephine in the bedroom. In the end, Mrs. Otello was strangled. Just as he was about to flee, Mr. Otello returned home, so he kept doing it, knocking Mr. Otello to the ground while he was not guarded, and then strangling him to death. This incident alarmed the local police. They urgently filed a case and launched a large-scale investigation, but they could not find any clues at all.
On February 25, after the "BTK" suspect was arrested, Charlie Otello, the survivor of the Otello murder, was very excited. He said that the tragic scene of the tragic murder of his parents and siblings still made him unable to do so. Gain peace of mind, especially since the killer has yet to be brought to justice. "I've always wanted to question the killer, why did he kill my whole family? I have to get the truth," he said.
Suddenly disappeared after the eighth murder
Because the first crime was "successful", and the police could not find him at all. The "BTK Killer Maniac" became more and more courageous, and then successively killed 4 people, and all of them were women. Catherine Bright, 21, was hacked to death in her home in April 1974. In March 1977, 24-year-old Shelly Vian was strangled to death after being tied up in her home. In December 1977, 25-year-old Nancy Fox was murdered in her home in exactly the same way as Wei An.
In September 1986, 28-year-old Vicky Wiegler was strangled to death in her home. In addition to tying up and strangling the victim, the murderer also committed the crime in the same way: every time he cut the telephone line first, and then raided the owner to commit the crime. After the killing, he would write a letter to the Wichita City Newspaper, in which he declared that he was the murderer and provided some information that only the killer himself knew, thus proving that what the writer said was true.
In 1979, "BTK Killer Maniac" wrote the last letter to the local media. He first analyzed his motive for killing, saying that a mysterious force drove him to "kill a lot" and he couldn't resist. He wrote in the letter: "I can't sense when this demon entered my brain, but I know it will come, maybe you can stop it, but I can't. It has chosen the next one for me. Victim, although I do not know who she will be. I will not know the identity of the unfortunate victim until I read your newspaper the next day, but by then it will be too late."
In 1986, he made the fifth shocking murder, killing the eighth victim, 28-year-old mother Vicky Wigler. Since then, this murderous demon seems to have evaporated from the world. People knew where he went, and even the police suspected he was dead or in jail for other crimes.
Unwilling to be lonely, "writing a book" reveals a fox's tail
However, 30 years after the first bloody case, 25 years after sending the last anonymous letter, and 18 years after disappearing, this criminal who had been tracked down by the police but disappeared without a trace actually "reappeared" in March 2004. Killed two people, and used his old trick again: sending emails to news outlets such as newspapers or TV stations in Wichita, on the one hand, to ridicule the incompetence of the police, on the other hand, to create greater panic.
In these letters, the guy revealed that he was born in 1939. In addition, he also revealed that he had worked on the railway, but he did not disclose where he was born or lived in the letter, only that his family moved frequently and always lived near the railway. In order to prove that what he said was true, the "mystery" also sent four photos with the letter, one of which was a photo of the deceased's car license plate, and the other three were photos of the deceased's body. In early February 2005, this guy sent three letters in a week to KAKE TV in Wichita, full of provocative words.
The reappearance of the mysterious killer after 18 years of disappearance has attracted the attention of the local police, who have restarted the investigation of these unsolved murders. In early December 2004, the police held a press conference, calling on the public to actively provide clues to help the police capture the arrogant "BTK killer". On January 19, 2005, the FBI Crime Laboratory released the results of an examination of mail received by the news media since 2004, confirming that at least two letters must have been sent by the murderer. Moreover, the car license plate of the deceased that he showed in the letter was also a genuine license plate taken in that year, not a later imitation. These further suggest that the person who sent the mysterious mail must be "BTK".
The police took some clues from these clues and finally determined the breakthrough direction of the investigation. And her daughter's righteous killing of her family made the police 31 years of painstaking tracking finally completed. This arrogant "BTK" killer finally showed his fox's tail because of his overconfidence. At this time, it has been 31 years since his first murder!
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According to the information of some serial killers, most of them have had tragic childhood experiences. They have outstanding intelligence and are very good at hiding. Some of them are even very charming. They have deformed personalities and have the power to control their desires, so that they can distort their thoughts at will. into a terrifying reality.
Are there such people around you?
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