Inside the Mind of BTK

The Capture and Arrest of BTK 193
She removed her blue housecoat and pink nightie, then lay down
on her stomach, on top of the bed. In his entry, Rader noted that her
head faced east and her feet pointed west. As he wrapped black electrical
tape around her hands and arms, she vomited on the floor. He
walked into the kitchen and fetched her a glass of water. She drank it
and once again attempted to talk him out of raping her. Rader was
unmoved by her plea and taped her feet to the railing at the west end
of the bed, then continued wrapping more tape around her ankles and
knees.
Suddenly the telephone rang. Vian explained that it was probably
her friend, calling to inquire about when she should drop by to take
her to the doctor. Something about the ringing phone caused the children
to begin crying again.
“Plans changed . . . Plans changed,” Rader noted.
He wrote that in a flash, he looped a piece of cord around Vian’s
neck, which seemed to surprise her. She moaned about the tension,
begging for somebody to help her. But nobody could hear her except
for Rader, who watched as her face changed from red to blue, then
from purple to dark purple. He decided to wrap additional cord
around her neck, observing that if he relied on what he’d originally
used, she might “come too” in the same way that Josephine Otero had
during his initial attempts to kill her.
After a few minutes, he pulled a plastic bag over Vian’s head, then
tied her nightie around her neck to keep it tight. He masturbated as
she thrashed atop the dirty sheets, her life slowly seeping away. Then
he fled the house.
He ended his write-up of the murder with a lament over not being
able to kill Vian’s children. If only he’d had more time, he fretted. If
he had, he had intended to use “a rough hemp rope for the girl and
more plastic bag for the boys.”
Nine months later in December, he struck again. This time his victim
was a twenty-five-year-old woman named Nancy Fox, whom he
first spotted in November while trolling the streets for victims. He
quickly learned her name and that she held two jobs—working at a
local law firm and at a jewelry store—by rifling through the contents
of her mailbox.
In an effort to get a close-up look at Fox, Rader tracked her to the
store and purchased some cheap jewelry out of a display case from a
clerk; all the while he eyed Fox working in a back room. For the next