Inside the Mind of BTK

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One down, three to go,” I told myself, sliding the
stack of crime reports from the Otero murders back to its original spot
on the library table.
Next up was the pile of papers containing every imaginable
detail of the April 4, 1974, murder of Kathy Bright, a twenty-oneyear-old
assembly line worker at the Coleman Company. Owing to
the fact that BTK had left behind an adult survivor who could possibly
identify him, this was the one homicide for which he never
directly claimed responsibility in his taunts to the media up to this
point. It wasn’t until almost two years after BTK’s bombshell communiqué
in February 1978 in which he informed the city that a serial
killer was on the loose that police finally linked Bright’s murder
to him.
In the taunting letter, he wrote, “You guess the motive and the victim.”
By the winter of 1979, investigators had combed through every
unsolved murder between 1974 and 1977 and finally concluded that
several elements of Bright’s killing bore a sick resemblance to those
found in BTK’s other known kills.
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