Ripped from the Headlines
November 1st, 2004




You may have caught the Law & Order: SVU episode about this case a couple weeks ago. Even the fictionalized version doesn’t prepare you for how creepy this BTK killer is. (“BTK” stands for “bind, torture, kill,” and is the moniker he goes by.

BTK was a serial killer working out of the Midwest in the ’70s He dropped off the radar after 1986, but resurfaced in June, 2004 when he sent two letters to police. Then last week he sent in a third letter.

Scary stuff.

  1. Reaganesque November 1, 2004 at 8:25 pm

    Any predictions?

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  2. Brian Engler November 2, 2004 at 6:44 am

    I grew up in Wichita and remember the BTK scare. The killer would cut the phone lines of his victims so they couldn’t call the police. For years, the first thing my dad would do when we returned home is run inside and check for a dial tone.

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