The American Serial Killer Guidebook

By Elton Morgan

Join host Elton Morgan as he investigates the lives, crimes, and motivations of America's most prolific serial killers. Help support the ONLY Native American-owned and hosted serial killer podcast in ... more

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January 06, 2024 S2E6 BTK Part 6 - #8 Marine Hedge and #9 Vickie Wegerle - The Nude Church Photoshoot
Season 2 Episode 6 - BTK Strangles Marine Hedge Then Drives Her Nude Body to His Church for a Photoshoot - Murders Vickie Wegerle Then Passes Her Husband in Her Car a Block Away.
Dennis Rader lived in a modest home at 6220 Independence Street in a quiet neighborhood in Park City, Kansas. It’s a neighborhood like any other, with the exception that a serial killer lived there, raising a family and enjoying what many would consider an everyday life. Rader was a friendly, outgoing person who sometimes took walks and would wave and say hello to his neighbors as he passed by, and it was on one of these evening strolls that he spotted Marine Hedge, who lived only six doors down from where he and his family called home.
Over the years, Rader would enjoy his evening strolls, and he often saw 53-year-old Marine Wallace Hedge working in her yard, but she was never too busy to throw him a friendly “Hello” as he and his daughter walked by. Although Dennis Rader and Marine Hedge lived on the same block, he never knew her name until seeing it on the news after he killed her. He often referred to her as “Marie” anytime his wife mentioned her working in her yard. Marine worked as the second-shift supervisor at a coffee shop at Wesley Medical Center, where Rader had seen her a few times, so he dubbed her “Project Cookie.”
On the afternoon of April 26th, 1985, Dennis Rader took his son and Cub Scout pack on an overnight camping trip. It was on this trip that Rader slipped away, drove into town, and took the life of his neighbor of over 30 years. After her death, it took almost a year and a half before BTK would strike again.
At the time, Dennis Rader worked for the security company ADT, and when he wasn’t on a job site, he liked to use his time and company vehicle to cruise the neighborhoods in what he called his “trolling phase,” looking for potential victims. It was one of these afternoon excursions on a warm day in June of 1986 when Rader spotted Vickie Wegerle exiting her gold 1978 Monte Carlo and walking into her house. He took to her instantly and decided to pay her another visit many weeks later.
On a hot evening near the middle of July, Rader parked a few blocks away and took a summer stroll past her house, but as he passed by, he could hear music coming from the open windows. Once he came even to the house, he saw her through the front window sitting at her piano, playing what he considered some of the most beautiful music he had ever heard. At this moment, all other potential projects were put on hold, and BTK made “Project Piano,” as he referred to Vickie Wegerle, his main priority.
Two months later, on September 16th, 1986, around 11 am, Rader, dressed as a telephone repairman, visited Vickie Wegerle’s neighbors, telling them he would be working on the phone lines in the area. He then went to Vickie’s house, where she played piano while her 2-year-old son played in the playpen.
Rader knocked, and after checking on her son, she walked up to the open screen door. He told her he was working on phone lines in the neighborhood, and thinking him legitimate, she let him in. After showing him to the phone near the dining room, Rader pretended to test the line before pulling out his .357 Magnum. Vickie told Rader her husband was on his way home for lunch, so he quickly strangled her before escaping in her car.
Only one block away, while driving home for lunch with his wife and son, Vickie Wegerle’s husband, Bill, noticed an unknown man pass him in his wife’s car.
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December 03, 2023 S2E5 BTK Part 5 – The One Who Barely Got Away – The Ghostbusters Task Force is Formed
S2E5 BTK Part 5 – The One Who Barely Got Away –
The Ghostbusters Task Force is Formed

On an unseasonably cool Saturday evening in April of 1979,
death stalked 63-year-old Anna Williams and her 24-year-old granddaughter, Rebecca, in a small house next to a gulley at 615 South Pinecrest St. in Wichita, Kansas. Dennis Rader, also known as BTK, was excitedly hiding in her closet, waiting for Mrs. Williams to come home so that he could finally complete Project Pinecone, his codename for their brutal murders he had been anxiously planning for months. Unfortunately for Rader, fate would step in for both women in unbelievable ways, sparing their lives.
By July 1984, with no breaks in the case, investigators
developed the BTK task force nicknamed the “Ghostbusters.” With seven years’ worth of DNA evidence, lists of males who lived within 1 ¼ mile of the victims, a list of white males attending Wichita State University between 1974 and 1979, the names of everyone who checked out the engineering book where the Otero letter was found and the addition of a computer consultant to the team, investigators were able to generate 225 possible suspects.
Was Dennis Rader on any of these lists or named as a
potential suspect? Stay tuned as we find out just how close Anna Williams came to becoming BTK’s 8th victim and how close investigators really were to taking Dennis Rader off the streets.
Welcome to season 2, episode 5 of The American
Serial Killer Guidebook. Help out the show by giving us a like and subscribe so you don’t miss an episode of our in-depth series on the crimes and capture of BTK, one of America’s most notorious serial killers.
In the 70s and 80s, women would check to see if their phone
lines were cut to know if they were safe. Now that cell phones are the norm, how will you know if the boogieman is in your closet, waiting for you in the dark?
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November 06, 2023 S2E4 BTK Part 4 - #7 Nancy Jo Fox - How Many Do I Have to Kill
S2E4 BTK Part 4 - Nancy Jo Fox - How Many Do I Have to Kill
December 9th, 1977, just 16 days before Christmas, was a day that would change the lives of Dale and Ruth Fox forever. This was the day they learned their daughter; 25-year-old
Nancy Fox was the victim of a brutal murder in her small, pink, two-room duplex apartment where she’d lived alone for the last two years. Dennis Rader had begun preparations for “Project Foxhunt” long before this fateful night, even going so far as to visit her work more than once to get a better idea of who she was. Rader felt no need to change his methods and continued to surprise women when they came home only this time, he added to his repertoire.
Not long after Nancy Fox became BTK’s 7th victim, Dennis Rader began to wonder why he wasn’t getting more airtime on the news. He figured that by this time, he was a big deal in Wichita, Kansas, and decided that if they weren’t going to discuss him
voluntarily then he was going to make it happen. He didn’t just want to be a local story, he wanted national attention, and this is when things really started getting weird. Welcome to Part 4 of our series on BTK where we give an extremely detailed look into the murder of Nancy Fox and the subsequent contact of BTK with the media and investigators which starts the games Rader enjoyed
playing with law enforcement.
I’m Elton Morgan and this is The American Serial Killer Guidebook. Please help support us if you can, even if it’s just with a like, subscribe, and review because they really help the show. I don’t know about you, but I’ll be checking the closets and under the bed from now on when I get home at night.
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October 23, 2023 S2E3 BTK Part 3 - Shirley Vian Relford - Victim #6
Hello everyone and welcome to season 2 episode 3 of The American Serial Killer Guidebook. I’m your host Elton Morgan and today we will be discussing the BTK murder of Shirley Vian Relford who was unlucky enough to have her son spotted by Dennis Rader then followed effectively destroying their lives and making her his 6th victim when his first and second targets, which Rader called Project Green and Project Blackout, weren’t home.
Not only did Rader strip and murder this poor woman, but he locked her three children up in the bathroom just feet away forcing them to listen as their mother was brutally strangled. To make matters worse, her 6-year-old son watched the entire ordeal through the bathroom keyhole. Make sure to listen until the end of the episode where we will reveal some new information that is a surprising twist no one is going to expect.
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October 11, 2023 S2E2 BTK Part 2 - #5 Kathryn Bright and First Police Contact
April 4th, 1974, was a cold spring day in Wichita, Kansas, and the day that Dennis Rader, known as BTK, decided to complete his next project as he referred to his murders. His first killings of the Otero Family, which he called Project Little Mex, were less than three months prior but he now had a taste for it.
Believing the chaos of the Otero’s murders was the reason he didn’t feel satisfied, Rader felt that if he could ensure things went according to plan with Kathryn Bright, which he called Project Lights Out, he could satisfy his hellish urges and possibly quit
his deadly pastime.
Not only did things not go according to plan, but an
unexpected victim also escaped after being shot twice in the head and almost shot with his own .357 Magnum pistol. Besides a lust for killing, there is one other thing Dennis Rader had in abundance, ego.
Six months after Kathryn Bright’s murder, 3 men confessed to her killing and the attempted murder of her brother Kevin. Rader decided that he’d be damned if someone else was going to take credit for his hard work, so he made himself known to the
authorities by contacting a local newspaper which began a game of cat and mouse that lasted 30 years.
Welcome to part 2 of our coverage of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer. Make sure to subscribe so you don't miss an episode of our multi-part coverage and join us on our journey as we explore the demented actions of a seemingly normal family man, devoted member of his church, and public servant on season 2 of The American Serial Killer Guidebook.
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October 07, 2023 S2E1 BTK Part 1 - The Otero Family - Victims #1-4
Dennis Rader a.k.a. BTK
On a cold winter morning in January of 1974, a killer
stalked the Otero family of Wichita, Kansas. Little did they know that by the
time school let out that day, the lives of four members of the Otero family
would be brutally taken and those of the three surviving children would become
a never-ending nightmare. Dennis Rader, a married father of two, an Air Force
veteran, Park City employee, president of his church council, and boy scout
leader, a seemingly normal man and pillar of his community terrorized Wichita
Kansas for over 30 years as the serial killer known as BTK which stands for
Bind them, Torture them, Kill them.
Come with me as we follow in the steps of Dennis Rader that
fateful morning and then those of investigating officers as they worked to identify
the monster that tore the young family apart. Justice eluded the surviving
members of the Otero family for over 3 decades but thanks to an arrogant mistake
on the part of Dennis Rader, and good old-fashioned police work, BTK was
finally put where he belongs, behind bars for life.
Welcome to season two. I’m your host Elton Morgan flying
solo this season, my wife Cherish is pursuing other endeavors, and this…is The American Serial Killer Guidebook.
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June 06, 2022 Ep. 12 Perez Deshay Reed - The Crescent Moon Killer - America's Newest ALLEGED Serial Killer
Let me start by saying that the subject in this week’s episode is innocent until proven guilty and any and all crimes discussed are crimes ALLEGED to have been committed by Perez Deshay Reed. At this point in the investigation and trial process, we are calling him the alleged Crescent Moon Killer until jurisprudence has run its course.
To date, Reed has allegedly killed 7 innocent victims who were simply unlucky enough to cross his path. Some were complete strangers while others were known to use drugs with Reed but regardless of their relationship, they all ended up with bullets from a .40 cal Smith & Wesson pistol in their heads.
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May 22, 2022 Ep. 11 Gerald and Charlene Gallego - The Sex Slave Killers Part 2
In part two of our episode, we take you on a journey into a marriage made in hell... Barely five feet tall, sweet, and innocent looking, Charlene Gallego used all of her charms to beguile pretty teenage girls and young women into the back of a van, where her lethal husband, Gerald, lay waiting. A killer couple bound together by secrets, lies, and sex slave fantasies... Married multiple times and still in his early thirties, Gerald Gallego found the perfect companion in Charlene. Over a grisly period of twenty-six months, their bloody and brutal rampage of kidnapping, rape, and murder spanned three states and claimed eleven lives.
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May 14, 2022 Ep. 10 Gerald and Charlene Gallego - The Sex Slave Killers Part 1
Gerald and Charlene Gallego made for terrifying partners in crime. An attractive brunette, Charlene Gallego had no trouble luring innocent youths into her car with the promise of work or marijuana. An unquenchable serial killer, Gerald Gallego would later rape and murder them at remote locations instead.
The serial killer couple terrorized the city of Sacramento for two long years before carelessness got them caught. Their California killing spree from 1978 to 1980 left nine women raped before being bludgeoned or shot to death, and one man killed outright. Disturbingly, most of the victims were teens. One was pregnant.
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April 24, 2022 The Pickaxe and Sledgehammer Killings of Ángel Maturino Reséndiz aka The Railroad Killer
Angel Leoncio Recendiz aka The Railroad Killer who, throughout the 90s, brutally and I mean brutally raped and murdered 16 people but is suspected of killing as many as 23 or more. He was known as The Railroad Killer because of his penchant for riding the rails around the United States choosing his victims simply based on how close to the railroad tracks their homes were.
For almost 13 years he traveled the country choosing victims at random raping, murdering, and then robbing innocent men and women before either jumping back on the train or stealing their vehicle and dumping it in San Antonio Texas before sneaking back across the border into Mexico until his next murderous expedition into the US. After a short stint on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list, Resendiz turned himself into Texas authorities before being convicted of murder and sentenced to death. In 2006, Resendiz paid his debt to society with his life by lethal injection in the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville Texas.
Stay tuned to hear details of his horrific crimes and remember you can listen to all of our episodes on our website at TASKG.org. Now that all of that is out of the way, let’s get to the good stuff.
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