I'm sorry this happen to society.... ...Good luck with your hunting.

YOURS, TRULY GUILTILY.

P.S. Since sex criminals do not change their M.O. or by nature cannot do so, I will not change mine. The code words for me will be ...Bind them, Torture them, Kill them, B.T.K., you see be at it again. They will be on the next victim.”

On August 4, 1974, three months after the Otera killings, the partially dressed body of 21 year old Kathryn Bright was found in her home located at 3217 E. 13th Street. Just as in the Otero case, she had been bound with cord and strangled. She had also been brutally stabbed multiple times.

Evidence found on the Bright murder scene allowed police to quickly accredit the killing to the BTK killer. There were also suggestions that police may have found a "murder kit" in a nearby truck hidden under a tarp (some think that BTK may have hidden under the tarp when police arrived and then slipped away unnoticed, leaving the kit containing rope and wire cutting tools, behind).

Another key piece of evidence resulting from the Bright murder is a witness. Kevin Bright, the brother of Kathryn Bright, was at the Bright home when the killing occurred. Kevin struggled with the attacker and was strangled and shot in the head. He feigned death and when BTK subsequently noticed that he was still alive, he was shot again - in the head. Remarkably, Kevin survived and even remained conscious. When the BTK Killer's attention was diverted, Kevin fled the scene to seek help.

Kevin later recounted how BTK had told him that he was "a wanted man in California and was seeking a car to escape". Kevin also stated that BTK had casually commented, "Hey, haven't I seen you at the University?" Almost 3 decades later, Kevin would hold the unique distinction of being the only victim to survive a BTK attack.

N early three years later, on March 17, 1977, Wichita police received a call for assistance at 1311 South Hydraulic Street. When they arrived, they found the body of 26 year old Shirley Vian. As with the other victims, she was partially undressed, bound with cord, and had a plastic bag placed over her head. They found her three young children, alive, locked in a nearby closet. Tragically, one of the children, 5-year old Steve Relford, later told police in a haunting statement, that he had witnessed the entire incident by peeking through the keyhole in the door. Police attributed the killing to BTK but were puzzled as to why the serial killer was deviating from normal tendencies ascribed to serial killers - particularly, why had he waited 3 years before killing again.

On December 8, 1977, almost 9 months after the Vian murder, police received yet another call. The call, which was later traced to a phone booth in downtown Wichita near Coleman Industries, instructed police to go to 843 South Pershing Street. The caller relayed information from a driver's license he claimed to have taken off of a woman he had just murdered. When police entered the home they found 25 year old Nancy Jo Fox dead on the living room floor. They concluded that she had been killed the night before and that she had been torturously strangled and revived repeatedly. Police concluded that Nancy Jo had not been raped. Police also noticed that there were no defensive wounds on the victim. They began to feel that the lack of defensive wounds on this victim and all the previous victims seemed to indicate that the killer had a superb control on his victims - either by force or by deception. He was either someone they knew or someone whom they felt comfortable allowing into their homes.

The last regular communication with BTK occurred in 1979 after which he went dormant for several years. In his previous communications, he pleaded for publicity and made it clear that he wanted to gain national attention along the lines of the Hillside Strangler and Jack the Ripper. Since the murders had suddenly ceased, police assumed the killer must have died or been imprisoned. Most crime investigators and criminal psychologists had previously thought that it was literally impossible for serial killers to stop their murder sprees by their own free will.

“How many do I have to kill, before I get my name in the paper or some national attention? Do the cops think that all those deaths are not related? Yes, the M.O. is different in each, but looks at the pattern that is developing. The victims are tied up _ most have been women _ phone cut _ bring some bondage mater sadist tendencies _ no struggle, outside the death spot _ no witnesses except the Vian's kids...

After a thing like Fox, I come home and go about life like anyone else. And I will be like that until the urge hits me again...”

In 1984, 5 years after the last regular communication, police set up a task force called "the Ghostbusters". This task force began examining the BTK evidence. They discovered that all murders had been committed within a few miles of each other leading them to the conclusion that the killer was from the immediate area. They also discovered that some of the letters had been ingeniously run through copy machines making them impossible to trace. But, it was determined that one of the copies was made in the Wichita State University Libraryleading them to believethat possibly a student or ex-student may be involved.

In April of 1985, Marine Hedge was found dead. Her body had been removed from the scene of the crime and disposed of. Police realized that the evidence found indicated that the BTK killer could have been responsible, although this method of removing the body from the scene differed from the killer’s previous modus operandi. They certainly were not confident in their assumption though. They began to wonder if the original killer had returned or if a copycat killer was stepping into his place.

O n September 16, 1986, Bill Wegerle returned to his home shortly before noon and found his wife, 28-year old Vicki Wegerle, strangled and sprawled on their bedroom floor. Police were summoned to the 2400 block of West 13th Street to investigate the murder where they determined that nothing had been stolen and that the only item missing from the house was Vicki's driver’s license. Although the circumstances appeared similar to the previous BTK killings, since 7 years had passed since the last communication, the police still wondered if there was no connection to the BTK killer. The connection would be soundly made almost 15 years later.

Six years later, in January of 1991, the body of Delores Davis was found near a river in rural Sedgwick County. Police inferred that she had been abducted from her home, strangled, and her body transported and dumped in the remote rural area. The police concluded that the BTK Killer was the most likely suspect. Almost 20 years after the first murder, the BTK Killer was still at work.