Story of Bondage, Torture: Tale Told to Frighten Women and Children

Taunting the media and police, the BTK Killer stalked potentially dozens of women and killed 10 people before he was finally caught. Unlike most serial killers, he went through waiting periods between kills, including one period that lasted eight years before he struck again. "Bind them. Torture them. Kill them." That was what the BTK Killer did, what he bragged about in his letters and poems to the media, and what he fantasized about. The BTK Killer gained fame and frightened the...
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Taunting the media and police, the BTK Killer stalked potentially dozens of women and killed 10 people before he was finally caught. Unlike most serial killers, he went through waiting periods between kills, including one period that lasted eight years before he struck again. "Bind them. Torture them. Kill them." That was what the BTK Killer did, what he bragged about in his letters and poems to the media, and what he fantasized about. The BTK Killer gained fame and frightened the public through his taunting letters, using grammar so terrible authorities believed it was done on purpose or part of a code. Despite killing his last person in 1991, the BTK Killer wasn't caught until 2005, nearly 15 years later, when his massive ego led to his arrest. One of his taunting letters was sent in on a floppy disk containing metadata that led the authorities to his front door