Rachel Brown
speaker
1,519 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 5 Aug
Rachel Brown’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons? · The Poet | 2. Where’s Ruth? · 8 Jul 2026
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The writing style alternates between nearly incoherent ramblings and sophisticated vocabulary.
Words like objurgate and damnify.
Ruth, ever the secretary, types out the letters and gives them to the cops.
She would even add in definitions of the fancier words and her guesses at what some of the abbreviations could mean.
She'd sometimes include a handwritten note to the officers.
Hi, sleuths.
Young Detective McKenna was a puzzler, a problem solver.
He was determined to unearth any clues he could find in the letters.
In June of 1979, as Ruth's letters kept coming, another woman in Wichita received a letter.
The same letter arrived at Cake TV.
Both were signed BTK.
The letter included a poem called, The letter goes,
The recipient, Anna Williams, learns from this poem that she only just escaped being BTK's eighth victim.
He broke into her home, then got impatient and left before she returned.
The Wichita PD are now hard at work stretching their poetry analysis skills on two cases and coming up short.
They start to wonder if they should look to the relatively new world of criminal profiling for some help if they really want to understand who this guy is and what he's capable of.
Then one poem arrives in the Finley's mailbox that ups the ante.
The police dig in, spending more time and resources surveilling Ruth.
And then in July, more than a year into this ordeal, the letters to Ruth seemed to slow down.
Did it work?
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