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Episode four opens with the not-so-trusty ADT

man creeping around inside someone's home.

He turns the corner and is met with the homeowner who is busy doing dishes at the kitchen sink.

At this point, we can infer that the ADT serviceman is becoming BTK or already has submitted to some of his deep-seated and guarded urges of binding, torturing, and killing a victim or victims.

But he is actually working in his ADT capacity during this scene and he's not setting up to commit a murder.

Well, I think that's what they're trying to imply is, oh, we know this guy is a murderer.

We know he's planning out murders.

Is he going to kill this woman?

And then we find out, nope, he's doing his ADT job and telling her how he would secure the house.

Yeah, and

what's interesting here, too, is the methods that Dennis Rader would ultimately use, right?

He would use a lot of his time that he was supposed to be studying.

Remember, he was continuing his education.

He would use that time to be away from his wife and say that he's studying or he's going to the library, that he was at the college campus.

But a lot of those times he's out trolling and stalking victims or future projects, as he called them.

And then his capacity as the ADT man allows him into the homes of many people day after day, where he is getting used to the layout of people's homes.

He's getting used to being inside of their homes.

And we know that with the exception of his

first murders, a lot of the times he was breaking into the homes when the victim would be gone and staying and waiting for them to return home and then intercept them, ambush them when they come through the front door.

Back on the road, Bill Tench and Holden Ford exit their very cool dark gray 1971 Plymouth satellite.

They are in Richmond, Virginia to interview serial killer Monty Rissell.

They are discussing how Monty killed the victims with Tench

quizzing Holden Ford prior to going in.

Rissell likely had severe abandonment issues and a deep hatred for women.

His mother was married and divorced twice by the time he was 12.

His biological father left the home when Ristle was seven.

Then the family moved from his hometown of Wellington, Kansas.

The family was moving around.

This is when Rissell was already robbing and raping from the ages of 14 to 17.

So once again, here, Captain, this is another real life killer, real-life serial killer that is depicted in the series.

A little bit more about his crimes.

On August 4th, 1976, Monty Rissell, who later says that he was angry with his ex-girlfriend after seeing her with another man.

He says that he spotted 26-year-old Aurora Marina Gabor,

who was living in the same apartment complex as Ristle on Armistead Street in Alexandria, Virginia.

Ristle claimed he grew angry with her after she allowed him to have sex with her.

Again, these are his words.

Remember, these guys lie about just about everything.

And she made it seem like she enjoyed it.

So he drowned her in a nearby ravine.

Later, Rissell pled guilty to five murders.

Three of his victims were stabbed, two drowned.

He became eligible for parole in 1995.

And since then, he has received an annual parole review every November.

And thankfully, each time he has been denied.

Isn't this the serial killer that asked them for big red?

Yes, he is.

And I like Tench's straightforward approach to the interview.

He tells Ristle that they are trying to figure out why people like Ristle do what they do.

Ristle says he would like to know as well.

This is intriguing too, here, Captain, because this is something that we find with a lot of these types.

Tench saying we want to figure out why you do what you do, and Ristle replying, yeah, I would like to know as well.

And when we spoke with John Douglas, that was a question I had asked him:

is it true that your findings are that these guys want to talk to you just as much as you want to talk to them?

Because some of them don't understand why they are the way that they are.

Well, you have to remember when Dahmer is caught and the FBI is talking to him,

they basically tell him,

you know, you can make a deal with us.

You can get something in return.

And all he asks for is, can you help me figure out why I am the way I am?

Well, to this, in the scene here, Rissell asks the agents if they're going to try to find a cure.

He tells them that he's not really interested in talking with the feds, and Tench fires up a dog.

This is cigarette number 18

in series one, season one.

And Tench threatens to just leave.

Then Rissell describes the first murder for the road agents.

So he wants to talk, even though he claims that he doesn't.

Rissell says that he stabbed the second victim because after he had abducted her, she would not shut up.

But he let one victim go because when she was upset after he abducted her, she explained that her father recently died of cancer.

This seemed to touch Ristle or affect him in a way that he chose to let her go.

After this, the road agents get into a little tiff once back in the car.

Bill Tench is pointing out how Ristle is an Olympic-class liar.

After a surprise car accident, the boys are at a bar.

It looks like they are taking down some whiskeys neat.

Tench is smoking cigarette number 19.

Bill starts telling Holden that he and his wife Nancy adopted a kid.

In real life, Robert Ressler had three kids, none that were adopted.

Back at the office, the agents are talking with Dr.

Wendy Carr about Monty Russell.

They stumble into a conversation about triggers, stresses, and control.

Dr.

Carr is explaining that these men, what they are experiencing is normal.

However, they process it differently.

The way that they process their life experiences is not normal.

Then we see Bill Tench on the front porch of his home smoking where he tries to hug his son before leaving the house with Holden.

They go back to see Monty Bristol once again.

This time they bring, you nailed it, Captain, Big Red Soda with them as he had requested.

Ristle talks about his upbringing, the divorce, the moving around, physical abuse.

He says that no one wanted him.

They learn that Ristle sees himself as the real victim here.

And we find that time and time again with some of these serial killers that some of them they see themselves as victims and then they victimize people in their adult life.

Now it's back to roadtime teaching, and the agents are in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where we hear motive, means, and opportunity.

What plus why equals who.

This is all part of their teachings.

Outside of the police station, Tench fires up a dog.

Cigarette number 21.

The agents are approached by an officer.

He explained that he had recovered a victim.

So this victim is Beverly Gene Shaw, age 22.

The police think that the victim was stored somewhere before later being found in the local dump.

The victim's wrists were removed post-mortem.

Now, we wanted to figure out if this was a real case.

This is one of those ones here, Captain, that's a little bit more difficult to determine if it's real, but it certainly has the markings of being potentially real or connected to some real cases.

So I found this from refinery29.com.

And it says, according to a 1988 article in the Altoona Mirror, on June 2nd, 1979, a 22-year-old woman named Betty Jean Shade had a fight with her live-in boyfriend, Charles Butch Salt.

She was planning on leaving him.

Still, she went on a drive with Salt, his brother Michael, and his sister, Catherine.

Salt and Shade went on a walk so they could talk,

but when they didn't return, Catherine went searching for her brother and found him beating Shade to death.

Shade died of head and stab wounds.

The trio then transported Shade's body to the garbage dump three days after the killing.

The name Beverly Jean may also be in regard to a murder that took place in Dallas, potentially, Dallas, Texas, in 1970.

This is Billie Jean Hope was the victim, mother of three and a popular suburban housewife.

She was murdered in her large mansion.

The crime to this date remains unsolved, though new information, which emerged in 2016, brought in another suspect.

This was Beverly Jean's ex-brother-in-law.

For those that have watched the series and watched this particular episode, and as this case plays out for the agents on Mindhunter, you can see the similarities in the two cases that we just discussed.

Holden explains to the Altoona cops that they need to focus on what they know about the victim.

And they deliver a short, vague profile saying white male loner who hunts at night, who will likely kill again.

But this also shows how local law enforcement is treating the locals.

with too much respect.

They're not treating this as a homicide investigation.

they're almost pampering some of these individuals that should be suspects yeah and this with this short vague profile i think what this is meant to do on the show is to show the agents

their lack of experience at this time right that they're not seasoned profilers by this time really what they're doing is white male loner who who hunts at night is super vague, obviously, but it also would just fall into with what little they know at the time and we know that the way that this is going to play out does not involve someone who's out hunting for a victim at night yeah i agree with you and also disagree with you because yes and experience when it comes to profiling the killer that they're looking for but i i think this shows like before the case when when holden says hey we're in the dark well they're not in the dark anymore Maybe they're not completely in the light, but that door has cracked open.

And you see that their experience and basically the path of their thought ways are coming through in the interrogation of this case during the show and shows that they're a couple steps ahead of where they were

in previous investigations.

And this reminds me with some of the talks we've done with serial killer experts.

And they talk about a lot of the different myths that surround serial killers.

And you hear it there: white male loner who hunts at night.

In fact,

there's a case where

out in New Jersey, the Garden State Parkway murders.

The two women were killed in the early morning hours, and police there said that one of the detectives said it couldn't be the work of a serial killer.

Meanwhile, this is still unsolved.

It has the markings of a serial killer.

We can't prove that because we don't know who did it, but the detective said it can't be.

It's not a serial killer because a serial killer would have killed them at night.

And, well, they sorry, detective, but they kill any time of day.

Back to the show, they go out to this dump site where Holden says that the victim was disposed of just like a piece of trash.

And unfortunately, we've seen that in so many cases that we've covered here in the garage.

The officer says folks loved Beverly Jean.

At the body recovery site, the agents want to, they say they want to talk to the man who found the body.

They do go to this man.

They talk with him.

He looks shady.

He has a record.

He tells the agents that he waited until the next morning to report finding the body.

He says part of that was because he does have a police record and he thought they would be looking at him.

Holden and Tench talking about the case and the likely perpetrator.

It

like Holden Ford here is thinking that this is probably the work of a sequence killer.

That's what they're calling serial killers before they coined the term.

Right.

This would go along with the white male loaner who hunts at night.

But then Bill Tench is reminding Holden that nine times out of ten, it's the husband or boyfriend.

It's not a serial killer.

Back at the office, the agents are talking with Dr.

Wendy Carr.

They start to getting into figuring out the differences between organized and disorganized killers.

And the episode ends with the agents getting a stern talking to by the boss man at the bureau.

And then he tells them that Congress is interested in their research and they are getting $385,000 in funding for their research.

So ladies and gentlemen, let the mind hunting begin.

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Episode five opens up at Park City, Kansas.

We see our ADT serviceman off duty, out of uniform, mailing a letter with very thick black gloves on.

This, of course,

we know to be true, right?

We know that BTK, aka the ADT serviceman, did communicate with both the local news and police.

He sent letters to both newspaper and television outlets.

One of the letters, and we went through a lot of this in our BTK coverage here, but one of the letters was the I Did It letter, which arrived in October of 1974 when Raider sent the I Did It letter to the Wichita Eagle using the pseudonym BTK, taking responsibility for the Otero murders and offering details about the crime not previously made public.

Series one

is supposed to start off and take place mostly in 1977, but Raider,

we know Rader did communicate with the police in 1977.

So not the I did it letter from 1974, but we have a communication that was not a letter.

It was on December 9th, 1977, one day after he killed Nancy Fox.

Dennis Rader called police from a payphone and told them they would find Fox's body at her home.

But for a letter communication to line up here, I believe it is the how many do I have to kill letter that Rader mailed on February 10th, 1978 to KAKE

News, a Wichita television station claiming responsibility for the Otero murders along with those of Catherine Bright, Shirley Relford, and Nancy Fox.

He suggested many possible names for himself in this letter, including BTK, and demanded media attention, saying, How many do I have to kill before I get a name in the paper or some national attention?

The letter was traced to a copy machine at the Wichita State University Library, where we do know that Dennis Rader was a student at that time.

So,

you know, he went undetected, unidentified for so long.

But you have some information on this guy, right?

Like

the I Did It Letter, I think they kind of just dismissed that.

And they were looking at other suspects in the Otero murders.

And that is why Raider, for, well, really, Captain, for a multitude of reasons, he kept reaching out to them.

He wanted to get his name in the paper.

He wanted his moniker, BTK, to be known and feared, but he also wanted BTK to get credit for some of these murders.

So he goes undetected for so long, but your unidentified serial killer, you know, a few things about him.

You know that he is male.

You know that he wears glasses.

And

he's someone that uses the copy machine at Wichita State University.

Well, you also know he's white.

In 1977, there were approximately 18,000 students and faculty at Wichita State University.

And we know that the perpetrator wears glasses because

he dropped his glasses at Nancy Fox's house.

A murder and that he deemed Project Foxhound.

Small detail that may have been on purpose or just a matter of happenstance.

Having never been to Park City, Kansas, but the ADT man mails the letter at a blue postal box on on North Third Street.

Here again, losing my mind.

I'm looking at the details in the background, but I found North Third Street to be interesting because one of the things that I found incredibly annoying and just frankly dumb about Dennis Rader was how he seemed to be shocked that the police failed to pick up on subtle commonalities in his murders.

Rader wanted the police to be able to connect these murders.

Again, it goes back to him wanting credit for it.

He wants to make a name for BTK.

Rader almost treats these clues for the cops as ways that they can create links between his crimes.

But they are so subtle that nobody would pick up on any of this stuff.

And frankly, they're just dumb.

When they, law enforcement and the media, did not pick up on these.

and broadcast them to the public, he had to announce himself to the world, coming up with many monikers that the media could call him.

And it's so desperate and frankly pathetic that he's creating his own name, sending, not just creating his own name, sending a long list of suggestions of names to be called.

So here the postal box is on North 3rd Street.

Years after being caught, he has said things that the cops missed.

Right?

Look, oh, I fooled him.

The cops missed this or the cops missed that.

One of those claims that Dennis Rader makes is the number three and its unknown importance to the killer.

Yeah, but at the end of the day, they caught you.

So those little details they missed.

Who cares?

You're caught.

You lost.

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Silence of the Lambs novelist Thomas Harris has said that the character of Francis Dollarheide in his 1981 novel Red Dragon is partially based on the then unidentified BTK killer.

The 2004 Law and Order Special Victims Unit episode Scavenger is based on the case.

And episode 15 of season one of Criminal Minds titled Unfinished Business is based on the BTK murders.

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So now the boys go back to Altoona, Pennsylvania to work on that Beverly Gene case.

Bill Tench is angry at the office, the police office, because

they let the murdered woman's boyfriend know in advance that they would be coming to talk to him.

Years later, John Douglas would be promoted to unit chief of the investigative support unit.

So, this is where I think that maybe

the genesis of these profilers

actively working cases may have started, right?

Because we're seeing they're out to teach

the police station and the officers, and they keep kind of catching these cases along the way.

Well, when John Douglas is promoted to this unit chief of the investigative support unit, that's pretty much all this unit does.

They go out to other locations and work hand in hand with the local authorities on a case that

needs their help, needs their assistance for any number of reasons.

Sometimes it's an unsolved case.

Sometimes they have the guy, but they need to come up with ways to get him to confess or better ways of finding more evidence

tying him to the crime.

Bill Tench explains to the boyfriend of the murder victim, his name is Benjamin, that they are from a particular unit at the FBI and that they investigate murders that exhibit a sexual component.

His words, we investigate murders when there is a sexual angle.

That's his exact words.

Benjamin starts crying.

This has an effect on the investigators.

The cops believe that Benjamin is a victim.

Holden Ford seems bothered by Benjamin's crying, and Bill Tench says he doesn't believe the crying at all.

He thinks it's just a show.

And it's 11 minutes into this episode before we see Bill Tench smoking a cigarette.

So it looks like he's cutting back.

Tench then schools Holden and the Altoona cop a bit, explaining why the killer of Beverly Jean is local and not some traveling madman.

Next, we have a car ride with Holden and Dr.

Wendy Carr discussing psychopaths.

They discuss if the victim had some kind of sexual power and control over the boyfriend Benjamin.

Carr points out that this murder and the details of such exhibits two different presentations.

This is her starting to put put together that we may be dealing with more than one person being responsible for this murder.

When we're back at the office, the basement office, so cozy down there in the basement at Quantico.

A little more cozy than a garage.

Some more information from the background.

You can see a map behind Holden Ford and Tench.

And they have 21.

This is how many I could count.

So if this number is not accurate, my apologies.

But it looked like there were 21 push pins in this United States map.

And I'm guessing that each push pin represents a killer that they would like to interview.

So pausing the frame and zooming in,

I could identify a few of the names that were tacked onto these push pins.

One is Brutus, Jerry Brutus, serial killer.

One is Corona, a serial killer from California.

All of these, the ones that I could identify were California cases because I couldn't see other parts of the map.

And I didn't want to try to guess the serial killers

from other locations.

Mullen is one.

Manson is one, and Greenwood.

Greenwood was a killer in.

California as well.

So now that they have this idea that we might be dealing with more than one person being responsible for the murder, they want to talk to Frank Janderman.

So this is the brother-in-law of the boyfriend.

They want to talk to him because he has a record.

He's got a history of violence.

So Janderman is the brother-in-law of the boyfriend and suspect Benjamin Cartwright.

And during this interview process, Tench has a cigarette.

Now we go go back to the hotel room where Bill Tench and Holden Ford examine the case file.

Tench is obviously annoyed that they have to share a room while on the road.

Because of the mutilation to the body of the victim, Holden Ford seems stuck on the idea of a sequence killer.

Tench rips another butt during this scene.

Eventually, Rose, this is Benjamin's sister, and Frank's wife goes to the police and confesses to some kind of involvement.

So all three were involved in killing Beverly Jean.

Well, and they also tape her confession, and when it's played back to the doctor, she actually is the one that realizes that her involvement is deeper and maybe even darker than what she's confessing to.

And we discussed some of the similarities to those other cases.

This is from the Altoona Mirror that I referenced earlier.

We have information that in this case of Betty Gene Shade,

that the victim died from head and stab wounds.

The

three, the trio, which is the brother and sister and the

boyfriend, live and boyfriend, transported Shade's body to the garbage dump three days after the killing.

And it's very similar that one of the perpetrators, the living boyfriend in this real life story, did return to the body to further mutilate it while she was before she was found.

In the real life case, police first arrested Catherine and Michael Salt, then arrested Charles, who was on a Greyhound bus.

to Pittsburgh, trying to get away, travel to Pittsburgh.

Though the jury sentenced Charles Salt to death, the trial judge overruled the decision and gave him a life sentence.

He's currently serving out his sentence in the state correctional institution in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.

Episode six opens once again in Park City, Kansas.

Here we see the ADT serviceman watching TV and incessantly tying knots and untying them.

There is a woman with him in the living room, and presumably she is his wife, and she is tending to the child.

The ADT serviceman scenes, cold opening, whatever you want to call them.

I've seen it online.

I think this is even a better description.

They refer to him as the creepy cold opening.

You have to kind of try to piece things together on these scenes because there's often little to no talking at all in the scene.

This, of course, all rings true for the ADT serviceman, known to us as Dennis Rader, the nightmare of Wichita, the bind, torture, kill, BTK serial killer.

Dennis Rader was married and has two children.

What involvement any of these three have with Dennis Rader today

as he wastes away in a prison cell is not known to a great extent publicly.

Oh, and something from earlier here, Captain,

at ADT, Raider was nicknamed the blue bookman by his coworkers because he always followed the rules and scolded others for doing as much as making small talk during work hours.

Yeah, I think you mentioned that in episode two.

We do know that on May 22nd, 1971, Dennis Rader married Paula Dietz, and then they had two children, Carrie and Brian.

Rader was arrested driving from work to his home to have lunch with his wife in Park City a little after noon on February 25, 2005.

On February 28th, he was charged with 10 counts of murder.

And on June 27, 2005, at a scheduled trial date, Rader changed his plea to guilty.

He described the murders, which he referred to as projects in detail to the court and made no apologies.

Later in July, this is July 26th of 2005, Dietz was granted an emergency divorce from Dennis Rader.

And we have to point out here that all of Dennis Rader's known crimes or the crimes that he has confessed to were committed while he was married.

Well, and we don't know the complete arc of Mindhunter because it was scheduled to last five seasons.

But we think what is being set set up by these little BTK

glimpses is that eventually it will come to a head, and then the FBI will be going after and capturing BTK, and that would be the end of the series.

Right.

And remember, it was the local authorities that cracked the case and discovered the identity of BTK.

I think my guess is that they were attempting to go for

the one that John Douglas couldn't catch.

Right.

To show, like,

it's almost like you're showing the ultimate good guy or the hero versus the ultimate evil bad guy.

And he's tormented because he cannot catch BTK.

And if you read Douglas's BTK book, he openly talks about the frustration of trying to profile BTK

because he says that

there were closed-door arguments when they would get their team together and try to profile BTK.

They couldn't agree on a lot of portions of the profile.

Is John Douglas's book called Inside the Mind of BTK?

Yeah, yeah.

And he does interview him at the end of the book, but he talks about the frustration of not being able to catch him and then these arguments sometimes that got very heated between different agents working the case on trying to get inside of the mind of BTK.

A little more from his life here, personal life, in 2019, Raider's daughter, Carrie Rawson, published her book, A Serial Killer's Daughter, My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming.

where she goes over her childhood and Raider's role and such.

In an interview with ABC News, Carrie stated that she writes to her father and has now given him, forgiven him, but still struggles to reconcile her normal childhood with the knowledge that she was raised by the BTK killer.

Well, she's also become involved in the true crime world, and you can see her on the new Long Island serial killer documentary talking about what the family and what the children are probably going through now with the arrest of their father and husband Rex Hiraman.

I've talked to a couple of experts that seem to think that BTK doesn't have a whole lot of many days left, right?

Not too many days left for BTK,

that he's in quite bad shape and will probably pass away, die in prison this year or next year.

This aligns with

something that we know to be true here because Carrie went and visited her father in 2003, visited her father, Dennis Rader, in prison in 2020, sorry, 2023, reported him as, quote, rotting and unhappy, and saying that, quote, he's lost like seven inches and he's in a wheelchair.

That's a lot of inches to lose off your penis.

Thinking of this, though,

it saddens me because He committed these crimes.

He worked very hard because he wanted to be recognized.

He wanted the BTK to be recognized.

I don't know if he necessarily wanted to be caught, but then when he was caught, because of our fascination with him, he then gets a platform, and then he didn't really spend,

you know, a huge amount of his life behind bars.

At the 2024 Crime Con in Nashville, Tennessee, we were there.

Carrie presented excerpts from her father's journal that revealed he had sexually abused her when she was a child.

Was she not aware of that?

I don't think that she was.

And this, you know, I know that we said that they're all liars, but I also believe in what we've talked about just earlier this episode, that they the serial killers don't fully understand themselves or why they do what they do.

And Kathlyn Ramslin's BTK book, she traded letters with Dennis Rader for a long time before putting together her book.

And he states

to her

many times that he is not like other serial killers, that he actually does possess the ability to love, that he

was loved and he has loved.

And I, again,

I would spit in this man's face because and call him a liar because you can claim that, you know, he said, I never wanted to hurt my wife.

I never wanted to hurt my kids.

Getting caught, I didn't care about getting caught.

I only cared that it was going to hurt my family because I loved them.

Well, if you love them, then maybe don't go out and murder and torture other families and women and children.

This

2024 CrimeCon revelation, maybe also don't sexually abuse your child.

But I'm going to push back a little bit, though, because I do think, again, like you said, they're all liars, but you wonder because he has these time periods, these long breaks.

Is this him thinking that, well, I'm just maybe done with that life?

I committed these crimes.

I can live in this weird fantasy world in my head.

He provided for his family.

He raised his daughter.

He was around.

He

was an active member in the community.

Him more so than other killers seemed to be able to have two different lives.

I mean, am I crazy for thinking that?

No, you're not.

And that's something worth exploring.

And many people have attempted to do so, not just with BTK, but with others.

But

I guess.

I mean, I agree with everything you're saying.

Right.

My thought would be, is

all of the things you mentioned, where Dennis Rader might say that those are signs of love for

my family.

I would say, is it though, Dennis?

Or is it just your attempt to blend in?

Because, and he calls it cubism, where he talks about himself as,

I know cubism is like a form, an art form.

Don't ask me to explain that.

You don't know about the arts.

I think he called it cubing or cubism.

And what he meant by that is that he has multiple sides to him.

You can only see the front of the cube, right?

Each side or panel of the cube is a different part of Dennis Rader of BTK.

BTK is one of those parts, but you can only see the front panel, the front side of the cube.

That's what he chose to show everybody.

And that part of the cube, to me, is everything you just said.

The working, providing for your family, being a member of your community.

Yeah, he was a member of the Boy Scouts with his son, but he also pretended to have a headache to go to bed early in his tent.

And instead of going to bed, he actually snuck off, drove, murdered, tortured a woman, and then took a bunch of pictures of her with a Polaroid camera that he would keep for later that he would bring to his happy little home with his wife and two kids.

And it also goes back to the idea of all of his confessed murders, he committed them while he was married.

Well, he was already supposed to be a family man when he's doing a lot of these killings.

And then you're right, though.

I, you know, he does kind of go dormant for quite a period of time, does resurface.

We have to mention that.

He didn't get completely out of the game.

He resurfaced.

But when he was, after he was arrested and talking to the police, one thing that is good about BTK is he likes to talk about himself.

He thinks he's something special and he's happy to share that with the world.

Edmund Kemper type.

So we get to learn a lot about him.

And one thing he says is that, and this is really

just quite disgusting.

It's called a true crime show.

He says, I never stopped hunting.

I was, I always had these projects.

I just didn't go to the point of killing anybody.

Well, but that's what he says in

the new Long Island Serial Killer documentary.

BTK is saying, hey, Rex,

you're just one of me.

And I wonder if we need to go a step further because we have these categories of organized and disorganized.

And I wonder if this should be a category that they're researching is the

cubism.

The husband, father, family man, serial killer, which Rex Hiraman, Dennis Rader, the Golden State Killer, all of these types are

Gary Ridgway

as well.

I mean, you could make an argument.

Bundy was

absolutely.

Yes, exactly.

Because he usually had a significant other when he was committing a lot of his murders.

And one of his girlfriends had a child.

And

all of these types are very much of the organized type of serial killer.

Right.

The next scene here, Captain, has Dr.

Wendy Carr having a one-on-one meeting with Holden Ford and Bill Tench's boss.

This is Agent Shepard.

He offers Wendy a job heading the behavioral science unit, to which she says, no, I have a job in Boston.

So while much of the Wendy Carr character is very, very different from the real life version, a one Dr.

Ann Burgess, who, if you attended CrimeCon Denver, you already know that Dr.

Burgess is an absolute delight and a true gem.

And we will get to know her a bit more as we get to know the Wendy Carr character.

And you did a great interview with her back in the day on Off the Record, which we probably should release after part

three and four of our Mind Hunter series.

Yeah, because that's from the Stitcher days.

This would be, speaking of resurfacing, that interview should resurface, right?

There you go.

But so it's important to note here that while Dr.

Burgess was never an actual FBI agent, she did absolutely work for the FBI in a very impactful and incredibly important role for many years.

She was recruited by one of my favorites, the late, great, and brilliant Roy Hazelwood.

We have recommended his books here in the garage.

Those books are The Evil That Men Do and Dark Dreams.

Now,

I do not believe that the Agent Shepard character is supposed to be or based on Hazelwood.

There's far too many differences.

Roy Hazelwood had a much more hands-on role with the BSU than what the Shepard character has in the show, and he was both a leader and a teacher for the BSU.

Hazelwood was a profiler of sex crimes.

In 1980, Roy Hazelwood developed the distinction between organized and disorganized murderers, a concept that is still used by law enforcement to help apprehend criminals.

He also defined the six categories of rapist.

There's the power reassurance, power assertive, anger retaliatory, anger excitation, opportunistic, and gang.

Of the six types of rapist, categories of rapists, he says that the anger excitation excitation is by far the most dangerous and the hardest to capture.

And Roy Hazelwood also offered the theory that there is no cure for pedophilia or sexual sadist.

He did some very important work, and those are books that do not get enough recognition.

They're not looked to as much as

Douglas's books or Robert Russell's books.

The Wendy Carr character does not accept the job, and Shepard tells her to take her time.

She's absolutely one of my favorite characters in this whole series.

If she didn't win an award, she should have.

Her character is fantastic.

The actress that plays Wendy Carr is fantastic.

All three of the main characters,

their acting skills are incredibly impressive.

And really, the way that they kind of orchestrate and choreograph their movements, their facial expressions, and their their reactions to each other's characters throughout the different scenes

is something that I think I had to go back and see a second time during this exercise here to fully appreciate.

The next scene, we go to an interrogation room in Altoona.

Continuing on with their investigation, Bill Tench has some questions for one of our murder suspects.

Holton Ford is recording this interview.

Tench is getting verbally aggressive with Benjamin or Benji, as they're calling him by this point.

Remember, this is Beverly Gene's supposed boyfriend.

Tench wants to know why

would you do that to Beverly Gene Benji?

A fractured jaw, two black eyes, 14 stab wounds, and the list goes on and on.

All right, I want to thank you for joining us here in part three of our Mind Hunter series.

So much more to get to.

Stick around for the finale.

And until then, be good, be kind, and don't litter.

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