Inside the Mind of BTK, John E. Douglas
Inside the Mind of BTK, John E. Douglas
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Inside the Mind of BTK
The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer

Author: John E. Douglas, Johnny Dodd

Narrator: Jason Klav

Unabridged: 12 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/20/2020


Synopsis

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.

About John E. Douglas

John Douglas is the legendary FBI criminal profiler and former Chief of the FBI’s Behavioral Sciences Unit where he researched, investigated, and conducted interviews of some of America’s most violent criminals. Over the past half-century, he either directly worked on or had overall supervision in over 5,000 violent crime cases. He is one of the foremost experts of the criminal mind, its methods, and motivations. Douglas is a veteran of the United States Air Force and holds a doctorate degree in Education, and lives with his wife, Pamela, in the Washington, DC, area.


Reviews

Goodreads review by ♥Milica♥ on January 26, 2023

I decided to finally read this because BTK's name has been brought up a lot in the recent Idaho 4 case. I've previously seen documentaries, but this is my first book about him and I think the authors did a solid job. The audiobook version was the way to go, even with the odd Quantico pronunciation? I......more

Goodreads review by David on January 03, 2015

John Douglas is a former FBI profiler - he's written several previous bestsellers, and reminds us frequently in this book about his pioneering work as a profiler and all the other books he's written. I suspect his earlier books are better, as this one, while interesting, seemed like it was very much......more

Goodreads review by erigibbi on May 19, 2020

John Douglas è uno dei più conosciuti scrittori di true crime, indubbiamente anche grazie alla sua esperienza nell’FBI. In questo libro, Nella mente del serial killer, delinea il ritratto psicologico di BTK, serial killer che per trent’anni ha terrorizzato la città di Wichita, in Kansas, aggredendo,......more

Goodreads review by Erik on December 28, 2015

I must say I'm surprised by the negative reviews. Whatever one thinks of John Douglas & his considerable ego, where else can you find so much first-person writing by a serial killer about his own crimes, in pages which were never intended by their author to be made public (& are thus less likely to......more