The American Serial Killer Guidebook

Dennis Rader a.k.a. BTK

On a cold winter morning in January of 1974, a killer stalked the Otero family of Wichita, Kansas. Little did they know that by the time school let out that day, the lives of four members of the Otero family would be brutally taken and those of the three surviving children would become a never-ending nightmare...

April 4th, 1974, was a cold spring day in Wichita, Kansas, and the day that Dennis Rader, known as BTK, decided to complete his next project as he referred to his murders. His first killings of the Otero Family, which he called Project Little Mex, were less than three months prior but he now had a taste for it...

Hello everyone and welcome to season 2 episode 3 of The American Serial Killer Guidebook. I’m your host Elton Morgan and today we will be discussing the BTK murder of Shirley Vian Relford who was unlucky enough to have her son spotted by Dennis Rader then followed effectively destroying their lives and making her his 6th victim when his first and second targets, which Rader called Project Green and Project Blackout, weren’t home...

S2E4 BTK Part 4 - Nancy Jo Fox - How Many Do I Have to Kill

December 9th, 1977, just 16 days before Christmas, was a day that would change the lives of Dale and Ruth Fox forever. This was the day they learned their daughter; 25-year-old Nancy Fox was the victim of a brutal murder in her small, pink, two-room duplex apartment where she’d lived alone for the last two years...

S2E5 BTK Part 5 – The One Who Barely Got Away –

The Ghostbusters Task Force is Formed

On an unseasonably cool Saturday evening in April of 1979, death stalked 63-year-old Anna Williams and her 24-year-old granddaughter, Rebecca, in a small house next to a gulley at 615 South Pinecrest St. in Wichita, Kansas. Dennis Rader, also known as BTK, was excitedly hiding in her closet, waiting for Mrs...

Season 2 Episode 6 - BTK Strangles Marine Hedge Then Drives Her Nude Body to His Church for a Photoshoot - Murders Vickie Wegerle Then Passes Her Husband in Her Car a Block Away.

Dennis Rader lived in a modest home at 6220 Independence Street in a quiet neighborhood in Park City, Kansas. It’s a neighborhood like any other, with the exception that a serial killer lived there, raising a family and enjoying what many would consider an everyday life...