Hey everybody welcome to today's episode of Cold Case Murder Mini. I'm your MC Ryan Kraus and up on stage right at this moment is

Dennis Rader better known as the BTK killer which of course meant that he liked to

bind torture and kill people all around the Wichita, Kansas area.

And that's a habit that began to garner attention with the frightening attack on the Otero family

in 1974, but by 1979 had landed him in the home of an unsuspecting widow, Anna Williams, who had no idea Dennis was stalking her with the intention of murder.

So Dennis creeps to her home in darkness one evening and cuts the phone line outside.

He waits for her to arrive, but as the hours pass, he becomes enraged with her tardiness and although he continues to wait he ultimately

decide she's not going to come home so Dennis snatches up a handful of items from around the

house just enough to let Anna know someone was there, but not to rob her.

It was more personal. It was intimate, and when she saw her bedroom door open after remembering it was shut

She decided to call the police

But the phone line was dead. So she hurries to a neighbor's house and has them call the cops. Now, the police

arrived to find the extent of the wrongdoing is only some missing items of little monetary

value. So they basically file a report and call it a day.

And that was the end of that. Or was it? You see, BTK sent Anna Williams a letter in the mail several months later.

Inside were a couple of the stolen items.

Yet there was also a poem from a vicious and infamous monster, one who still longed for that night when he planned

to murder her. And you can bet your ass she was thankful for staying out late that night. But

if you're wondering where she was, if it was a steamy one-night stand, the movie theater, or even

a bar, it was none of those. She went square dancing. But if she sat wondering in the following months

who had been in her home, who had slipped in through a basement window in the night,

and more importantly, why?

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