Blind Torture Kill may have been captured!!!!!

pr_capone

For those of you who dont know who BTK is give this link a look

http://www.catchbtk.com/

Police have someone in custody at the moment and have said that they are 90% sure that they have caught him.
The news here has non-stop coverage at the moment.

w00t!

Kansas District Overbeer

kls

link does not work,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,BTK??

pr_capone

copy and paste... works just fine for me

here ya go, a copy and paste of his history

HISTORY
Jan. 15, 1974: Joseph and Julie Otero, 38 and 34, were strangled in their home at 803 N. Edgemoor in Wichita, Kan. along with two of their children, Josephine, 11, and Joseph II, 9. The family car was later found in a store parking lot at Central and Oliver. Within a few days, police released a sketch of a suspicious man seen near the Otero home the morning of the murders.

April 4, 1974: Kathryn Bright, 21, was stabbed to death in her home at 3217 E. 13th in Wichita. Kathryn's brother, Kevin, survived the attack despite being shot twice.

October 1974: The Wichita Eagle-Beacon newspaper received a letter from a person claiming to have killed the Oteros and included details of the crime scene that only the killer could have known. The author signed with these "code words": bind them, torture them, kill them: BTK. (Many details of BTK's letters have been withheld by police and reproductions are rarely seen.)

March 17, 1977: Shirley Vian, 24, was found bound and strangled in her home at 1311 S. Hydraulic in Wichita.

Dec. 8, 1977: Nancy Fox, 25, was found bound and strangled in her home at 843 S. Pershing in Wichita. BTK's voice was captured on tape when he called a police dispatcher to report the homicide from a payphone at the intersection of Central and St. Francis.

Jan. 31, 1978: A letter containing a poem written with a child's printing set on an index card arrived at the Wichita Eagle-Beacon. The poem, which was patterned after a "Curly Locks" nursery rhyme, referred to the Vian homicide. The writer also referred to a mysterious "factor x."

Feb. 10, 1978: A letter from BTK arrived at Wichita's KAKE-TV station claiming responsibility for the deaths of Vian and Fox, as well as another unnamed victim. The letter included a poem titled "Oh! Death to Nancy." The poem adapted lines from a folk song called "Oh, Death." Police Chief Richard LaMunyon soon announced that a serial killer was at large and threatening to kill again.

April 28, 1979: The killer waited inside the home of 63-year-old Anna Williams at 615 S. Pinecrest in Wichita, but left before she returned. He later sent Williams a letter letting her know he had planned to kill her but had gotten tired of waiting for her to return home. Police believed the killer was targeting the woman's daughter.

Aug. 15, 1979: Wichita residents listened to repeated radio and television broadcasts of the voice of the BTK strangler from the 1977 phone recording. Police received 110 tips during the first day the broadcasts aired.

Mid-1980s: A new BTK investigation was opened by a group known as "The Ghostbusters," which spent three years employing new techniques including DNA testing, computer database searches and psychological profiles.

Sept. 16, 1986: Vicki Wegerle, 28, was strangled in her home at 2404 W. 13th in Wichita. The family car was found two blocks away in the 1300 block of N. Edwards.

January 1988: The wife of Wichita murder victim Phillip Fager received a letter from a man claiming to be BTK. The letter mentioned the killing of Fager and his two daughters but denied responsibility for the crimes. While the Fager murders were very similar to BTK's, experts disagree whether BTK was responsible. A local man named Bill Butterworth was tried in the Fager murders but was acquitted.

March 19, 2004: A letter arrived at the Wichita Eagle containing a photocopy of Vicki Wegerle's driver's license and three pictures of the crime scene that apparently were taken by her killer. (Relatives said the license was the only thing missing from Wegerle's home.) The BTK case was once again a full-scale investigation.

April 7, 2004: An anonymous letter containing a photo of an unidentified baby was received by Wichita's KSN-TV station. Apparently believing it could be a clue from BTK, the station immediately publicized the photo in an attempt to identify the baby. Apparently it was unsuccessful.

May 5, 2004: Wichita's KAKE-TV station received a multi-page letter from BTK, with the heading "The BTK Story" and a chapter titled "P.J.'s." The letter also included word puzzles and hints at his method of gaining access to the homes of his victims.

June 17, 2004: The Wichita Police Dept. received a letter from BTK that apparently included more details of the Otero murders.

July 17, 2004: A suspicious letter was discovered at the main branch of the Wichita Public Library and turned over to the FBI. It was eventually determined to be an authentic communication from BTK, although the contents have not been revealed.

Aug. 21, 2004: The Wichita Police Dept. announced that the folklore song 'Oh, Death' was used in an English literature class at Wichita State University during the 1970s, taught by Dr. P.J. Wyatt. Since BTK used an adaptation of that song in a 1978 letter, police theorized BTK had a relationship of some kind with Wyatt, who died of cancer in 1991.

Aug. 26, 2004: New details regarding the Anna Williams case of 1979 were released by the Wichita Police Dept.

Nov. 30, 2004: The Wichita Police Dept. revealed new information about BTK's alleged background.

Dec. 14, 2004: A package containing the driver's license of victim Nancy Fox was found in Wichita's Murdock Park by a nearby resident. Reports indicate that nearly a week earlier on Dec. 8, an unknown man called a local QuickTrip convenience store to draw attention to the package. The park was immediately searched by police, however nothing was found.

Jan. 5, 2005: The Wichita Police Dept. released information regarding a missing necklace that was apparently taken from Nancy Fox by BTK.

Jan. 24, 2005: At catchBTK.com, the entire content of BTK's first letter was published for the first time anywhere.

Jan. 27, 2005: The Wichita Police Dept. recovered a suspicious cereal box that was apparently left by BTK. The box was found as a result of a letter received by KAKE-TV instructing them where to look. The letter also indicated that another communication could be found elsewhere, allegedly left a few weeks earlier. Wichita police were also able to locate that communication, although details have not been released.

Feb. 3, 2005: KAKE-TV received another letter thought to be from BTK. It was quickly turned over to the Wichita Police Dept.

Kansas District Overbeer

kls

Holy crap,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,let us know when it is announced that it is for sure the *&&$###@

sf

http://abcnews.go.com/US/LegalCenter/story?id=532509&page=1

Possible Suspect Questioned in BTK Serial Killer Case

Police Search Home That May Be Linked to Case

By RICHARD ESPOSITO

Feb. 25, 2005 —
Police are questioning a possible suspect in the BTK serial killer case that has terrorized Wichita, Kan., for decades, ABC News has learned.

The person, who was taken into custody at about noon today, has not been charged in the case.

BTK — the nickname, which the killer coined, stands for Bind, Torture, Kill — has been linked to eight unsolved homicides that occurred in Wichita between 1974 and 1986.

The killer remained silent for 25 years until last March, when authorities believe he sent The Wichita Eagle a letter that detailed an unsolved 1986 slaying and contained the victim's driver's license and photos of her body. BTK has since sent various letters to police and the media that have been authenticated by the FBI.

ABC News has learned that along with this significant development in the BTK serial killer case, a search is under way of a home in Park City, north of Wichita, that also may be linked to the killer.

Although investigators had no confirmation yet that the person being questioned is in fact the killer, police do say they are questioning "a person of interest" and that person is clearly being treated as suspect. Additional law enforcement sources say this person is one who is a very strong suspect.

However, investigators are expected to proceed carefully in their investigation. They have been flooded with false leads over the years and want to make sure that no mistakes are made as they try to bring a decades-old manhunt to a conclusion.

ABC News' Pierre Thomas and Jason Ryan at the Justice Department contributed to this report.

pr_capone

Thanks for the additional info!

Kansas District Overbeer

mouthy

Lets hope it is the right one THIS time- I understand they made a mistake & are being sued .

pr_capone

UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BTK News Conference Scheduled Park City KAKE News

BTK News Conference Scheduled

11:00 p.m.

February 25-- A 10 a.m. news conference is scheduled in Wichita tomorrow to discuss the BTK case. Sedgwick County District Attorney Nola Foulston and Police Chief Norman Williams will take part in the conference. Also scheduled to take part are Congressman Todd Tiahrt and KBI Director Larry Welch. Families of BTK victims will also be in attendance.

Law enforcement sources tell KAKE News "they've got their man". A person of interest was taken in for questioning today. The man is 59-years-old. Wichita State University records show he graduated in 1979 with a degree in Administration of Justice.

Searchers spent several hours at a home in Park City this afternoon.

An FBI spokesperson in Kansas City says agents are assisting Wichita police with an investigation.

KAKE News will have live coverage from City Hall beginning at 8 a.m. Saturday, including live coverage of the news conference.

simplesally

Glad they caught this guy.

jgnat

Ever played hide-and-go-seek so well that nobody found you? Boring. This BTK guy obviously gets off on the publicity. I don't think the police as much caught him, as that he made it a little easier for them to find him.

Blind Torture Kill may have been captured!!!!!

By RICHARD ESPOSITO

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