Inside the Mind of BTK

254 INSIDE THE MIND OF BTK
of mine, gave Lundin the green light to speak with me about those
final days of the investigation.
Lundin told me that when he learned at the meeting that Rader’s
daughter, Kerri, had attended Kansas State University—which happened
to be the same university he had attended—a light bulb went
on inside his head.
“I remembered that at K-State everyone used the student clinic,”
he said. Lundin also knew that the school’s medical center was far
enough away from Wichita that his inquiries there about Kerri Rader’s
health records wouldn’t send up so many red flags.
So on Thursday morning he drove to Manhattan, Kansas, 130
miles away from Wichita, and learned that Kerri had visited the clinic
on several occasions. Lundin returned the next day with a court order
for the young woman’s medical records and spent the weekend combing
through them, finding reference to a pap test.
The following Monday morning, Lundin returned to Manhattan
and confirmed that the tiny glass microscope slide containing a collection
of cells scraped from Kerri’s cervix still existed. It was stored,
he learned, at a nearby lab. The next morning he showed up at the lab
with another court order. Thirty minutes later, he began the drive back
to Topeka to deliver the slide to the KBI’s crime lab.
On Wednesday morning, he handed it off to the lab supervisor,
who ended up spending hours trying to remove the thin, brittle glass
cover from the top of the slide.
Thursday night, just around 7:30, Lundin was walking into Sam’s
Club in Wichita when his cell phone rang. He looked at the number
and saw that the call was coming from the crime lab.
“I remember thinking, ‘Well, here we go,’ ” Lundin told me.
He placed the phone to his ear. “I’m shaking,” said the KBI’s forensic
lab supervisor Sindey Schueler.
“What’d you get?” Lundin asked.
“I can tell you this,” said Schueler, “this girl is the offspring of
BTK.”
Landwehr was notified about the match, and he knew the hunt
was finally over. He’d found his killer. Now all he had to do was go collect
him.
The same day Kerri Rader’s pap smear was being examined by
Schueler in Topeka, Park City resident Kimmie Comer was sitting on
the couch in the front room of her house, watching Dr. Phil on TV.