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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Serial killer thread
« on: Today at 02:04:17 PM »I was in Wichita for the state wrestling tournament the day they arrested him. As we were taking the van to the arena(coliseum?) we saw all these cop cars and streets blocked off just off the highway...turns out it was BTK getting arrested.John Douglas' books mindhunter (series is based off of) and BTK are great.
There's another called cases that haunt us that isn't as good.
Douglas profile of BTK led them to come up with the idea to put the lead detective front and center and make him look like a "super cop" that was assigned to catch a "super killer" IE BTK because JD hypothesized that this would be irresistible for BTK and that BTK would engage with this "super detective" because BTK thought he was so much smarter than everyone else.
And it worked like a charm.
One of my high school baseball coaches worked for the WPD and supported getting him. I remember very distinctly him with a very big (and well deserved) crap eating grin on his face when they aired the arraignment on the radio during our field day (when we literally were prepping the fields for the season all parents and players). It was something kinda cool to have witnessed.
And yeah, to hear the whole story of how they got him was crazy. The home depot he dropped stuff off at was literally a half mile from my house growing up and we went all the time. Was kinda surreal how close he was that whole time.