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    Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of BTK, the Serial Killer Next Door
    Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of BTK, the Serial Killer Next Door
    Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of BTK, the Serial Killer Next Door
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    Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of BTK, the Serial Killer Next Door

    Written by Roy Wenzl, Tim Potter, L. Kelly and Hurst Laviana

    Narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright

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    For thirty-one years, a monster terrorized the residents of Wichita, Kansas. A bloodthirsty serial killer, self-named "BTK"-for "bind them, torture them, kill them"-he slaughtered men, women, and children alike, eluding the police for decades while bragging of his grisly exploits to the media. The nation was shocked when the fiend who was finally apprehended turned out to be Dennis Rader-a friendly neighbor . . . a devoted husband . . . a helpful Boy Scout dad . . . the respected president of his church.

    Written by four award-winning crime reporters who covered the story for more than twenty years, Bind, Torture, Kill is the most intimate and complete account of the BTK nightmare told by the people who were there from the beginning. With newly released documents, evidence, and information-and with the full cooperation, for the very first time, of the Wichita Police Department's BTK Task Force-the authors have put all the pieces of the grisly puzzle into place, thanks to their unparalleled access to the families of the killer and his victims.

    Contains mature themes.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateFeb 6, 2018
    ISBN9781977372802
    Author

    Roy Wenzl

    Roy Wenzl, Tim Potter, L. Kelly, and Hurst Laviana are award-winning journalists for The Wichita Eagle, and are all intimately acquainted with the BTK case through the Eagle.

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    • 2/5
      Not very interesting.This book is the inside story of BTK the serial killer Dennis Rader who terrorized the residence of Wichita, Kansas for 31 years.I don't really like the way this book is put together. it has good information in it but for me personally this book comes off as a cops and robbers book in the form of a true crime novel. but instead of being like a real true crime novel where there is plot and story interweaved into the facts, this one is put together with just plain fact telling. There really doesn't seem to be a story to be told. Every chapter is a different fact about the case.The book revolves around the police and their case against BTK and their eventual capture of him. It seems to me like just a list of dry facts represented in chapters. Perhaps it was written this way because it was actually written by the four crime reporters who covered the story.The photos add to the facts and to the horror of the facts themselves. it is just a pity that they are in black-and-white and so small that you can barely see things such as blood stains on the walls and items used in the murders. This book should really be in larger print then a mass-market paperback.I wouldn't normally recommend a book like this but the reasons that I have listed I do not like the book are reasons that somebody else may indeed like it. So with that in mind, I would recommend this book to people who like cops and robbers, mystery, and true crime.

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    • 4/5
      Since I live in KS, I've heard so much about BTK, I appreciate reading about the LEO'S that worked so hard to capture him.
    • 5/5
      Very chilling and an exhaustive account of a terrible man and the talented cops that brought BTK to justice.
    • 5/5
      Very informative, well told story of the killers actions that kept him from getting caught, and the law enforcement agents that never let the case become cold. Pleasant narration.
    • 5/5
      Great book with a lot of details that I only heard from this book.
    • 3/5
      Starts off interesting but then the story gets slow. The authors include a lot of boring facts, information, and stories about the law enforcement personnel involved in hunting down BTK, even spending lots of time talking about dead ends in the case, but so much of it isn’t relevant. The book could have been written more concisely by cutting out all the filler.
    • 5/5
      Fascinating! Lots of detail and new facts I did not know.
    • 5/5
      This book blew me away. It is really amazing that the only reason he was ever caught was because he played with the police. He might never have been caught if he had just did the killings and never did anything with the news or police. He is an evil man.
    • 2/5
      Not very interesting.This book is the inside story of BTK the serial killer Dennis Rader who terrorized the residence of Wichita, Kansas for 31 years.I don't really like the way this book is put together. it has good information in it but for me personally this book comes off as a cops and robbers book in the form of a true crime novel. but instead of being like a real true crime novel where there is plot and story interweaved into the facts, this one is put together with just plain fact telling. There really doesn't seem to be a story to be told. Every chapter is a different fact about the case.The book revolves around the police and their case against BTK and their eventual capture of him. It seems to me like just a list of dry facts represented in chapters. Perhaps it was written this way because it was actually written by the four crime reporters who covered the story.The photos add to the facts and to the horror of the facts themselves. it is just a pity that they are in black-and-white and so small that you can barely see things such as blood stains on the walls and items used in the murders. This book should really be in larger print then a mass-market paperback.I wouldn't normally recommend a book like this but the reasons that I have listed I do not like the book are reasons that somebody else may indeed like it. So with that in mind, I would recommend this book to people who like cops and robbers, mystery, and true crime.
    • 5/5
      BTK is one of those True Crime books about serial killers that spends more time on those involved in apprehending the killer (law enforcement and media, mainly) than on the motivations and personal life of the serial killer, and for those looking to dwell in the dark and murky details of the deviant murderer’s inner mind (not that that’s a bad thing, mind you), this can be somewhat of a disappointment. Those expecting to spend excessive time on BTK’s origins and double-life as a sex crime serial killer and beloved father and respected member of the community will find themselves instead delving deep into the lives and relationships of those members of the police force and news media that spent decades documenting his crimes and tracking him down. This is not a knock against the book, which is expertly researched and presented, but rather a warning for those looking to become more “intimate” with BTK. The book follows the history of the BTK saga chronologically – with the occasional flashback – starting with his first kill, and to the book’s credit, the murders are described in full as they occurred, so the reader is not left to puzzle over the crime scenes along with the detectives and reporters. There are probably other books out there that focus more on the killer and his acts, but the attention to the law enforcement side offers greater detail to the extent of the manhunt, the obstacles it had to overcome, and most importantly, gives a greater appreciation as to why it took decades for them to finally track down a killer who turned out to be far less intelligent than most assumed. The book is detailed without dwelling masochistically on those details, and the occasional sidetracks the narrative takes lend a human depth to the perception of the side of the story that receives less of the spotlight. A great read that manages to be informative without descending into morbidity. Bonus points for a brief but rather unflattering behind-the-scenes cameo by John Walsh and his America’s Most Wanted sideshow.
    • 5/5
      on Monday, September 01, 2008 I wrote about this book:

      WOW! What a great book. I was sitting on the verge of my seat reading the part where they caught him. My hands were shaking!
      So amazingly written. Loved it.
      Beforehand I did not know anything about this killer.
      Now I am so glad I decided to wait cause there were other books out there but with very bad reviews..
      This book is one of the best TC serial killers books I've read for a while.

    • 4/5
      BTK ~ “bind, torture, kill”, is probably the most famous serial killer in Wichita, Kansas. Actually he might be the only serial killer in Wichita, Kansas. Like most serial killers, when not killing he was ‘normal’, husband, father, boy scout leader, and church leader. Like most serial killers though, he had these urges to kill. The reason it took 31 years to catch him was he was able to resist his urges for years at a time.

      This book is written by the reporters who covered the BTK story for “The Wichita Eagle”, not only were they familiar with the story, they also knew which police officers were most involved and were able to interview them to get the inside story they couldn’t get before Dennis Rader was convicted.

      Reading this book was almost like being there. The four reporters have put forth an excellent detailed account of the murders and the lives off all involved in this case. You could almost feel the frustration and disappointment of the officers who couldn’t solve this case.

      This is the definitive book about BTK, if you only read one book about Dennis Rader, this is the book.
    • 4/5
      BTK - short for Bind, Torture, Kill - somehow managed to elude capture for over thirty years. He left behind DNA at the scenes (although, at the time, that was pretty useless), and he communicated infrequently with the police through letters, poems, and clippings. And, for a long time, it seemed that BTK had gone dormant. Perhaps he had died, or gone to prison for another crime, or moved away. But after the local paper, the Wichita Eagle, ran a thirty-year memorial of the Otero murders, BTK's first, he resurfaced again, playing a cat and mouse game with the police officers who were desperate to capture him. In the end, two things got BTK captured: a computer disk, and his own ego.This book was written by several authors, all of whom worked at the Wichita Eagle and were involved in reporting the crime for numerous years. The police officers involved in the manhunt gave the authors a great deal of insider information for the book, which makes this read differently than most true crime books. Not only do the authors paint a picture of Dennis Rader, but they give equal (if not more) time to Ken Landwehr and the numerous other detectives involved.It's an interesting and compelling read, and it amazes me that Rader had seriously gotten away with murder, if he hadn't decided that he wanted the headlines and attention that he felt he "deserved" as a serial killer.