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 people of Wichita were on edge.
BTK, a serial killer whose alias stood for Bind, Torture, Kill, was actively hunting people in their city.
Just months earlier, he'd killed a mother in her home at night.
At around 10.30 that evening, Ruth's phone rings.
In an interview Ruth later gave to Cake TV, she said the conversation was fine at first.
Ruth hadn't gone by her maiden name, Smock, since the 1940s, when she did, in fact, live in Fort Scott, Kansas.
Then he started asking me about this incident.
The man on the phone asks, You still have your brand?
Ruth had been assaulted by a stranger in her apartment when she was 16 years old.
Attacked, incapacitated, and branded with a hot iron.
The man who did it had never been caught.
The guy on the phone tells her he works for a construction company tearing down buildings.
In his work, he'd found a newspaper clipping from 1946 about the attack.
The newspaper had published Ruth's high school photo under the word branded.
The coverage had humiliated her, making her private trauma the talk of her hometown.
She had told very few people in her life in Wichita about the attack.
He demands payment to keep the story quiet.
She has three weeks.
He says he'll call back then and expect her to pay up.
The caller's words didn't rhyme, but they soon would.
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