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    Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer
    Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer
    Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer
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    Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer

    Written by Johnny Dodd and John Douglas

    Narrated by Jason Klav

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    This dramatic and compelling true-crime psychological thriller provides an in-depth, behind-the-scenes narrative of one of the most bizarre and terrible serial killers stories in US history. For 31 years a man who called himself BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) terrorized the city of Wichita, Kansas, strangling and sexually assaulting a series of women (and one child), taunting the police and the community with frequent letters, communications, crime scene photographs, property stolen from his victims, bragging about his crimes in correspondence to local newspapers, tv, and radio stations, describing himself as a "psychotic and sexual pervert" who claimed that "I can't stop it." After he seemed to disappear for nine years, he suddenly reappeared, complaining that no one was paying enough attention to him, that he had committed crimes for which he had not been given credit. When ultimately captured, using many techniques suggested by Douglas himself, BTK was shockingly revealed to be a 61 year old married man, cub scout leader, President of his church, with two children, who worked as a Code Compliance officer for the Wichita city government, harassing citizens about their lawns and garbage preparation, "a glorified dog catcher...a bureaucratic bully". John Douglas was first called into the case as an expert profiler in 1980 and has been deeply involved in the case and all its principal players ever since. After Rader was arrested he was able to obtain the only exclusive interview since sentencing, as well as exclusive interviews with family, friends, and the police. As a result, he's able to reveal news-breaking new information about why Rader did what he did, and why he stopped for a long period before surfacing again. Douglas tells the whole incredible story and also draws from it a program for new and improved police methodology to prevent such serial killers from remaining at large, including early intervention in childhood development, and more community involvement in apprehension.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJul 20, 2020
    ISBN9781705261606
    Author

    Johnny Dodd

    Johnny Dodd has been a writer at People magazine for a decade and has reported on some of pop culture's biggest stories. His work has appeared in dozens of magazines, but stories of personal triumph -- those of others and his own -- are his favorite beat. He lives in Santa Monica, California.

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    • 4/5
      Love the book....can't stand the narrator....can't even finish audio book

      3 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Excellent. Except for ONE thing. It's not pronounced QuanTEEKO! Drove me nuts! Doesn't anyone listen before they publish the audiobooks? Otherwise he was a really good narrator. Didn't pronounce "conquistadors" correctly either. Hence only 4 stars. I'm nice that way.

      Great information. Written well and interesting. That part I give 5 stars.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Quan-teek-o?? Not sure why this wasn’t listened to before published. Too many words mispronounced it was hard to get through. Good book though.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Nice audiobook, incredible story!
      The voice is a bit monotone which makes the whole audiobook difficult to follow

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Great book, but absolutely terrible narrator. You should probably learn how to say Quantico if you are hired to narrate an FBI Agent's book...

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      If you can overlook the narrator's butchering of the English language you will find another thoroughly enjoyable and informative book from John Douglas.
    • 5/5
      As always, the author does an amazing job of explaining and describing the events and his valuable insights. I truly believe that people like John Douglas make this world a better place.
    • 5/5
      Absolutely riveting. John Douglas is a legend with an enormous arsenal of knowledge and expertise.