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. Rader was a friendly, outgoing person who sometimes took walks and would wave and say hello to his neighbors as he passed by, and it was on one of th ..read more

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. Williams to come home so that he could finally complete Project Pinecone, his codename for their brutal murders he had been anxiously planning for months. Unfortunately for Rader, fate would step in for ..read more

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. Dennis Rader had begun preparations for “Project Foxhunt” long before this fateful night, even going so far as to visit her work more than once to get a better idea of who she was. Rader felt no need to change his methods and ..read more

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. Not only did Rader strip and murder this poor woman, but he locked her three children up in the bathroom just feet away forcing them to listen as their mother was bru ..read more

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. Believing the chaos of the Otero’s murders was the reason he didn’t feel satisfied, Rader felt that if he could ensure things went according to plan with Kathryn Bright, which he called Project Lights Out, he could satisfy his hellish urges and possibly quit his deadly pastime. Not only ..read more

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. Dennis Rader, a married father of two, an Air Force veteran, Park City employee, president of his church council, and boy scout leader, a seemingly normal man and pillar of his community terrorized Wichita Kansas for over 30 years as the serial killer known as BT ..read more

S2E5 BTK Part 5 – The One Who 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. Williams to come home so that he could finally complete Project Pinecone, his codename for their brutal murders he had been anxiously planning for months. Unfortunately for Rader, fate would step in for both wo ..read more

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. Dennis Rader had begun preparations for “Project Foxhunt” long before this fateful night, even going so far as to visit her work more than once to get a better idea of who she was. Rader felt no need to change his methods and ..read more

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. Not only did Rader strip and murder this poor woman, but he locked her three children up in the bathroom just feet away forcing them to listen as their mother was bru ..read more

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. Believing the chaos of the Otero’s murders was the reason he didn’t feel satisfied, Rader felt that if he could ensure things went according to plan with Kathryn Bright, which he called Project Lights Out, he could satisfy his hellish urges and possibly quit his deadly pastime. Not only ..read more