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A notorious killer has returned from the “grave” to taunt police. The BTK Strangler - so called because he binds, tortures then kills his "prey" then claimed seven victims during the 1970s. Detectives believed the maniac was dead. But he has now revealed that he killed again eight years after his last-known slaying. Police in America……. are now dusting off their files in a bid to nail him once and for all. And helping them is Soham psychic Dennis McKenzie.
The British clairvoyant……..has visited the BTK crime scenes to build a profile of the brute……and given them (the police) crucial clues, including sketches of the killer, details of his profession and an insight into his warped mind. Police are checking the information against their vast list of previous suspects.
BTK murdered four members of the Otero family in Wichita in January 1974. Joseph and Julie Otero and son Joseph II, nine, were found bound at the wrists and ankles. Daughter Josephine, 11, was hanging by her neck from a pipe in the basement. All had been strangled with cord cut from a Venetian blind.
Three months later 21-year-old Kathryn Bright was found dead in her home. She had also been bound, had multiple stab wounds to the abdomen and ligature marks around her neck. Three years after that, in March 1977, police discovered 26-year-old Shirley Vian on her bed, partially undressed, hands and feet bound, with a plastic bag draped over her head. She had a cord wrapped tightly around her neck.
Then in December of that year someone called the Wichita emergency hotline and said: “Go to this address" You will find a homicide - Nancy Fox.” Officers discovered 25-year-old Nancy dead in her bedroom with a nylon stocking twisted round her neck.
In a series of letters, BTK claimed responsibility for all seven of the Wichita murders. It was thought he had then stopped killing. But in a remarkable development last March, he sent a letter to the local newspaper in Wichita, saying he had claimed an eighth victim. Vicki Wegerle, 28, was found strangled in her Wichita home on September 16, 1986. Police previously thought it to be the work of another killer. But included with the confession, verified as belonging to BTK by the FBI, were a photocopy of her driving licence and three pictures of her body. The letter was signed: “Bill Thomas Killman.”
During his two-week tour of Wichita, psychic Dennis visited the BTK Strangler’s crime scenes, including the Otero home. He said: “It was kind of mind-blowing, the feelings that were there.” Dennis, 50, hopes his information on BTK will help end the 30-year hunt. He said: “This is no weirdo. This is an ordinary guy who has moments of madness. It could be your next-door neighbour and you’d have no way of knowing it. I felt he’s a maintenance man or a plumber, that kind of profession. And I’m almost certain that he works for himself. He would be just an ordinary, nice guy. At least he’s a nice guy 95 per-cent of the time.”
Dennis has presented his conclusions, and three sketches, to Wichita police. Amazingly, he also managed to reproduce BTK’s signature, which he had never seen before.
Dennis admitted, though, that he’d been worried about getting a result because the murders happening such a long time ago. He said: “The biggest shock to me was not that there was a guy who’d done all of these killings - it was working on a case from 30 years ago. All I was feeling was trepidation.”
And trepidation is exactly how the people of Wichita, which has a population of around 500,000, and its neighbouring towns are feeling again now.
| Voices ordered Marsha killing |
THE horrific hammer murder of student Marsha McDonnell has alsoplayed on psychic Dennis McKenzie's mind.
He claims to have contacted the 19-year-old victim since she was bludgeoned to death near her home in Hampton, west London, last February, after a trip to the cinema.
"Marsha's killer is a local boy. I see him in a hooded top with the hood up, partially obscuring his face," said McKenzie. "He's a weird loner tormented by voices in his head. When they tell him to attack he does, hitting out at random."
McKenzie believes Marsha was the hammer maniac's FOURTH victim and all of the attacks took place within a matter of weeks.
"The first victim was a boy called Stephen," he said. "His surname is possibly Jenkins. He's around 18 or 20 but didn't report it as he wasn't badly hurt.
"I keep seeing an old-style red telephone box. Stephen was definitely attacked outside this box-in the same area where Marsha was killed."
Last March, a 16-year-old youth was arrested in connection with Marsha's murder, but not charged. He is currently detained under the Mental Health Act.