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

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Jason Klav

12 Hours 40 Minutes

Tantor Media

July 2020

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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.

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  • Anonymous

    The author insists on projecting his thoughts into the heads of the victims when there’s no way to know what they were thinking. It’s presumptuous and disrespectful to the dead — they lost their life, they do not deserve to have their thoughts usurped. The author also cannot apparently bring himself to admit how utterly wrong he and his fellow profilers were in this case. He tries to handwave it once by saying his profiles were only as good as the information given, but that’s blaming other people for his own failed cold reading. He cannot take responsibility for his mistakes. Never does he admit that all profiling is somewhere between fortune telling and a guess, and that the only reason profilers look like they know what they’re doing is we never hear about their failures. We should be, especially in this case, because the profile was utterly useless, and probably actively harmful by misdirecting resources. The narrator consistently mispronounces words that should be simple, usually words that have silent syllables. His delivery is inconsistent. I’m glad I didn’t pay for this.

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  • Neil Purcell

    Not the first book I've listened to about BTK. This one, at first, appears to gloss over the details of the crime, telling everything from the investigation standpoint, but then later in the book, it comes back around and gives Rader's perspective. That was pretty interesting how the book returned to these cases like this. However, I would still recommend Hurst Laviana's "Bind, Torture, Kill" over this one. In fact, if you've already read or listened to that one (or any other BTK book), there's no point in the redundancy here, unless you just really need to hear it from the guy who investigated the case. I got this as a VIP selection and wouldn't have listened to it otherwise.

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  • Anonymous

    um Audible Inc presents ??? hmmm kinda seems odd it would start that way, as for the story it's a documentary and the audio quality was meh. the narrator sounded like he was detached (which given its about a serial killer) but the sound was kinda echoish (?) or sounded like it was read in a box.

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  • Kristi R.

    Although the information is interesting, the narration is flat and monotonous.

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  • Dylan C.

    The fascinating subject matter is all that saves this. The writing is mediocre at best. Douglas often contradicts his own claims and assumptions - sometimes even in the next sentence. Purple prose is sprinkled throughout just to pull you out from really contemplating the horrendous crimes. I'm not sure if the narrator was trying to match Douglas's own speech, but it's flat and stilted. Sentences are often broken with no rhyme or reason as if they lost their place in the script.

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  • Sandy S.

    Excellent to listen to - well written and well read. Interesting and, at times, gruesome read BUT great if you're into this sort of thing like I am. Would highly recommend especially to any criminology buffs/students

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  • Joseph Cushman

    Interesting

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  • Dietmar B.

    The story was great to read, but the authors narcissistic need to self promote was nauseating. The narrator was weird. Still I am glad I read it.

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  • Michael C.

    The narrator kept mispronouncing Quantico. He would pronounce it Kwan Tee Coe lol

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  • Anonymous

    The number of mispronouncations was embarrassing.

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