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Dec 13, 2023 · Charlie Otero was 15 when his parents and two of his siblings were brutally murdered by serial killer “BTK” Dennis Rader. 9PM: #ABC2020 #MyFatherBTK 7:23 pm · 1 Feb 2019
Dennis Rader describes the Otero family murders. WICHITA, Kansas -- Judge Gregory Waller: In regards to count one, please tell me in your own words what you did on the 15th day of January in 1974 here in Sedgwick County, Kansas that makes you believe you are guilty of murder in the first-degree. Dennis Rader: On January 15th 1974, I maliciously ...
Jan 30, 2019 · Charlie Otero was 15 when his parents and two siblings were murdered by the notorious BTK serial killer. Otero today shares how he overcame feelings of revenge and his message of redemption.
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- Sean Dooley,Jenner Smith,Alexa Valiente
Aug 31, 2018 · Scroll down to see what authorities uncovered. [Photo: Oxygen] The Otero family murders. On the morning of January 15, 1974, Rader forced his way inside the Otero family home and murdered 33-year-old Julie Otero, her husband Joseph, 38, and their 9-year-old son, Joseph Jr., and 11-year-old daughter, Josephine.
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- January 15, 1974: Rader Kills Four Members of The Otero Family
- April 4, 1974: Rader Strikes Again
- October 1974: The Killer Introduces Himself to Police
- March 17, 1977: BTK Murders A Mother of Three
- December 8, 1977: BTK Reports His Next Victim
- January 31, 1978: The Killer Reaches Out with A Poem
- February 10, 1978: The BTK Threat Is Made Public After Another Letter
- April 28, 1979: Another Target Narrowly Misses Becoming The Next Victim
- August 14, 1979: BTK’s Phone Call Is Broadcast
- The “Ghostbusters” Task Force Forms
A 28-year-old married Air Force veteran, Rader makes the plunge into infamy after severing a phone line and entering the East Wichita home of Joseph and Julie Otero, the latter a former coworker at the Coleman equipment company. Along with strangling the two homeowners, Rader kills two of their young children, leaving three older siblings to discov...
Kathryn Bright, another Coleman employee, returns home with her brother Kevin to find Rader waiting with a gun. Kevin somehow survives a gunshot to the head, but he is unable to save his sister, who Rader stabbed to death.
After one young man allegedly confesses to killing the Oteros with two friends, an editor at The Wichita Eagle receives a strange phone call that directs him to a mechanical-engineering book at the Wichita Public Library. Police find the book and a letter wedged inside, which reads, in part, “Those three dude you have in custody are just talking to...
Entering a home by way of the 5-year-old child who opens the door, Rader barricades the boy and his two siblings in the bathroom before strangling their mother, Shirley Vian. The children eventually escape and provide police with a vague descriptionof the intruder.
After binding and strangling 25-year-old Nancy Fox, Rader heads to a pay phoneto point police to his handiwork. “You will find a homicide at 843 South Pershing,” he bluntly tells the 911 dispatcher.
The Wichita Eagle receives an index card imprinted with a poemthat begins with “Shirley Locks, Shirley Locks, wilt thou be mine.” Unaware of the connection to Shirley Vian, and believing it to be a Valentine’s Day note, the mail clerk forwards the card to the paper’s classified ads department.
Apparently angered by the lack of response to his last attempt, the killer sends a more direct messageto Wichita-based KAKE-TV. “How many people do I have to kill before I get my name in the paper or some national attention?” he writes, before reeling off a list of suggested nicknames, including “The BTK Strangler,” “The Wichita Hangman” and “The A...
Rader lies in wait for Anna Williams but gives up and leaveswhen the 63-year-old woman takes too long to return home. Less than two months later, Williams learns of her brush with death when she receives several of her personal items by mail, along with a poem titled, “Oh, Anna, Why Didn’t You Appear.”
Seeking help from the public, authorities release the recording of BTK’s December 1977 phone call to report the death of Nancy Fox. Tips come pouring infrom listeners who think they recognize the voice, though no relevant information emerges.
Chief LaMunyon establishes a task force devoted to BTK’s crimes, nicknamed the “Ghostbusters” after the popular Bill Murraymovie. The task force—which includes a young officer named Ken Landwehr, who will spearhead later efforts to track down the killer—takes pains to carefully organize and preserve valuable evidence.
I Survived BTK follows Charlie Otero, who, as a teenager, discovered the bodies of his parents and two younger siblings after returning home from school on January 15, 1974. Thirty years later his family's murderer, the BTK serial killer, was discovered and brought to justice.
The victims were Joseph Otero Sr., 38; Julia Maria "Julie" Otero, 33; Joseph "Joey" Otero II, 9; and Josephine "Josie" Otero, 11. Their bodies were discovered by the family's three older children who had been at school at the time of the killings.
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