Authorities have successfully decoded a 20 year old word puzzle by the "BTK killer". The letter contained the name of a missing teen from Oklahoma and several other clues.
The BTK killer, Dennis Rader, gave himself the name (based on "bind, torture, and kill") in a letter to Wichita television station KAKE. This was only one of several letters he hid around crime scenes and sent to news stations when he was active, including another sent to KAKE in 2004, which included an unsolved word puzzle.
That letter was sent to the Osage County Sheriff's Office on April 15 by sender who wished to remain anonymous. At first glance, the contained word puzzle seemed like an ordinary word search. When KAKE first received the letter, they managed to find the words Wichita, prowl, fantasies, ruse, spot victim, and serviceman. Further investigation has yielded new words like Cindy, Kinney, Osage, Laundry Mat, Kihekah, Elgin, Pawhuska, Oklahoma, and Cleveland. Additionally, the word puzzle contains BTK's 10 known victims and his Kansas home address.
Cynthia "Cindy" Dawn Kinney was 16 when she vanished from Osage Laundry on Kihekah Ave. in June of 1976. Her case was never solved.
"This has been available for 20 years," said News 4 Reporter, Kaylee Olivas. "It's just been hidden in plain sight."
Authorities have successfully decoded a 20 year old word puzzle by the "BTK killer". The letter contained the name of a missing teen from Oklahoma.
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