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BTK: Untold Stories

BTK: Untold Stories

Previously untold stories about American serial killer Dennis Rader who killed 10 people between 1974 and 1991 in the Wichita, Kan., metro area.
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Season 15 of 5 Episodes

  • The serial killer taunts authorities by sending many communications to a WAKE TV in Wichita, Kan., during the 1970s and after re-emerging in 2004.

  • Forensic psychologist Katherine Ramsland, who spent five years communicating with BTK after he was incarcerated, tells the chilling story of how an ordinary farm boy became a bloodthirsty killer.

  • After his mother is strangled in an unsolved murder, devastated Jeffrey Davis receives two highly disturbing letters -- read publicly for the first time -- from the same mysterious author, who would eventually be revealed as BTK.

  • Detectives take viewers on a journey into the psychopath's mind by sharing examples of how BTK meticulously cataloged his fantasies and crimes.

  • After years of anguish, BTK's daughter, Kerri Rawson, finally speaks and writes about what it was like to learn her beloved father is actually a notorious serial killer.
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Previously untold stories about American serial killer Dennis Rader who killed 10 people between 1974 and 1991 in the Wichita, Kan., metro area.

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