Bind. Torture. Kill. The Inside Story of BTK, the Serial Killer Next Door
12 hrs. 21 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Roy Wenzl
Author
Tim Potter
Author
L. Kelly
Author
Laviana Hurst
Narrator
Alexander Sharonov
Narrator
Alexander Sharonov
Description
His story stuns the imagination. America’s most elusive maniac. A serial killer who inspired Thomas Harris and Stephen King. A key character in the TV series “Mindhunter.” He made a police officer—who caught him 30 years later—become one, dedicating his life to that purpose. For three decades, from 1974 to 2005, this cruel serial killer terrorized the residents of Wichita, Kansas. All his victims—women, men, and even children—were bound in complex knots, and then strangled. The killer called himself BTK (bind, torture, kill—bind, torture, kill). Under this nickname, he terrorized the county for years and enjoyed corresponding with the police through the local newspaper.
When he was finally caught, everyone was shocked: it turned out that the brutal sadist and strangler was Dennis Rader—a loving husband and father, a member of the Boy Scouts organization, and a respected parishioner at the local church. The BTK story is unique not only because of the maniac’s identity. In the 1970s, when the first loud murders by the strangler began, Kenny Linder was a local teenager. An impressionable boy wanted to become a police officer in order to hunt killers and villains like that. Nobody suspected that it would be precisely he—30 years later—who would catch BTK, dedicating his entire professional life to this. For years, Linder played a cat-and-mouse game with the maniac, waiting for him to make a mistake.
The carefully reconstructed police investigation underlying the book shows how hard it is to catch a serial killer—even living in the same city with him.
When he was finally caught, everyone was shocked: it turned out that the brutal sadist and strangler was Dennis Rader—a loving husband and father, a member of the Boy Scouts organization, and a respected parishioner at the local church. The BTK story is unique not only because of the maniac’s identity. In the 1970s, when the first loud murders by the strangler began, Kenny Linder was a local teenager. An impressionable boy wanted to become a police officer in order to hunt killers and villains like that. Nobody suspected that it would be precisely he—30 years later—who would catch BTK, dedicating his entire professional life to this. For years, Linder played a cat-and-mouse game with the maniac, waiting for him to make a mistake.
The carefully reconstructed police investigation underlying the book shows how hard it is to catch a serial killer—even living in the same city with him.
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