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286 INSIDE THE MIND OF BTK to pick the ugly, disturbed brain of mass murderer Richard Speck, caused my mood to lighten. As mass murderers go, Speck was at the top of the cesspool. One hot July morning in 1966 in South Chicago, he butchered eight student nurses, raping several of the women before beating and stabbing them. Speck had been sentenced to twelve hundred years in prison. When I arrived on his cell block, he was in a foul mood. In the months prior to my visit, he’d managed to capture one of the sparrows that used to fly in and out of the broken windows of Stateville. He tied a string around one of its legs and turned the bird into his pet. The guards would watch him sitting in his cell for hours at a time talking to it, feeding it scraps of bread. Prison officials were mildly astonished to observe this coldblooded killer’s kinder, gentler side. Over time, however, the novelty wore off, and Speck, who was violating prison rules prohibiting inmates from having pets, was informed that the bird would have to go. So he untied the string from its tiny leg, held the animal in his hand for a few brief seconds, and just when it appeared that he would set it free, crushed the bird in his hands, tossing the bloodied carcass into a large fan, sending feathers and bird guts throughout the cell block. “GO FUCK YOURSELF” were the first words out of Speck’s mouth when I entered the chain-link holding pen where he sat on a filing cabinet, waiting for me. After a few more obscenity-laced descriptions of all the activities he wanted to perform on my mother, I looked at him and said, “It’s OK, Richard. I don’t have to be here. I’ve got plenty of other things to do.” I stood up, preparing to leave, then glanced over at one of the prison administrators who organized the interview. “Damn,” I said with a wink. “I wanted to ask this son of a bitch how the hell he fucked all those eight nurses. Because whatever Richard’s eating, I want some of it.” Speck shut his big dirty mouth and looked at me as though he couldn’t believe what he’d just heard me say. He took the bait almost as soon as I tossed it at him. “I didn’t fuck all eight of them,” he said, alarmed that I didn’t have my facts straight. “Who the hell fucks eight women in one sitting?” By the time I finally walked out of that holding cell, Speck had blabbed for nearly seven hours, walking me through all the wretched
Meeting BTK: An Exclusive Interview 287 days of his life, providing me with an intimate look into the evolution of this twisted killer. Something told me that I wouldn’t enjoy the same luxury with Dennis Rader. I was fairly certain that he’d pretend to weep over the memory of his victims. And odds were that he’d also be respectful and polite because he believed the two of us shared some sort of professional camaraderie. But the bottom line was this: if he grew miffed or upset at any moment during the interview—which often happened during these sessions—he could pull the plug, and I’d be unable to do anything to stop him. All he’d need to do would be to shout for a guard, who would walk over and flick a switch on the video camera. And that would be it. Game over. Welcome to the brave new world of criminology, I mumbled to myself, then felt the soft tug of sleep pull me away.
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Q Inside the Mind of BTK The True S
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Q CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Intr
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Q Acknowledgments I am indebted to
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Q Introduction It began in the autu
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Introduction 3 By 1979, I was in th
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Introduction 5 and autopsy reports,
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Introduction 7 permits. And, just a
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Q 1 Somewhere inside my head, the m
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My Lifelong Hunt for BTK 15 what ma
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My Lifelong Hunt for BTK 17 what re
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My Lifelong Hunt for BTK 19 It was
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My Lifelong Hunt for BTK 21 up all
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Q 2 The sun had yet to appear in th
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My Lifelong Hunt for BTK 25 be nece
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My Lifelong Hunt for BTK 27 to Wich
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My Lifelong Hunt for BTK 29 But he
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My Lifelong Hunt for BTK 31 Althoug
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Q 3 Iglanced back down at the polic
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My Lifelong Hunt for BTK 35 of thei
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My Lifelong Hunt for BTK 37 But now
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My Lifelong Hunt for BTK 39 Cruiser
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My Lifelong Hunt for BTK 41 Police
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My Lifelong Hunt for BTK 43 Within
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Q 4 One down, three to go,” I tol
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My Lifelong Hunt for BTK 47 The vic
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My Lifelong Hunt for BTK 51 running
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My Lifelong Hunt for BTK 59 In the
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Q 5 It was getting late. When I loo
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My Lifelong Hunt for BTK 63 From so
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My Lifelong Hunt for BTK 67 Steve u
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My Lifelong Hunt for BTK 69 murder
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My Lifelong Hunt for BTK 71 detecti
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Q 6 The next morning, I awoke at 5:
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My Lifelong Hunt for BTK 75 For Wic
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My Lifelong Hunt for BTK 77 ing for
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My Lifelong Hunt for BTK 79 As a ch
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My Lifelong Hunt for BTK 85 my opin
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Q 7 How do you trap a shadow? Where
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My Lifelong Hunt for BTK 93 I sugge
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My Lifelong Hunt for BTK 101 he can
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My Lifelong Hunt for BTK 103 first
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My Lifelong Hunt for BTK 105 1974,
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My Lifelong Hunt for BTK 107 “In
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A C T T W O The Capture and Arrest
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Q About the Authors John E. Douglas
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INDEX 343 Q Quantico, Virginia, 2,
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Dennis L. Rader, from boy to family
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Joseph Otero, undated photo, murder
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