Dennis Rader (BTK killer)

I am the important one.

I'm the one that's responsible.

And you need to get a handle on this one because this could happen again.

People were very careful in terms of they would not go home alone, specifically women.

It became just a way of life.

I mean, no one was necessarily mad, but everyone was certainly aware that we had a serial killer.

He wanted to brag about it.

He wanted to make sure that we, the police, found it undisturbed, and he wanted us to see his work and wanted us to realize the type of quote-unquote monster we were dealing with.

The thought process was, we won't give him credit for it with the idea that this will prompt a communications from him.

And it did.

Good afternoon.

This morning, Cake TV was contacted by the person who police say they believe murdered four members of the Joseph Otero family in January of 1974.

He wanted us to know that he was in control and that we had no control over him.

And this was the message that he was trying to convey to the community.

We were confident that number five was Kathy.

Bright was stabbed to death in her home.

The victim's brother was shot twice in the face by the attacker.

It comes back to the method of operation, the way he broke into the house.

He broke the back window.

He cleaned the glass up.