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  • Inside the Mind of BTK

  • The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer
  • By: Johnny Dodd, John Douglas
  • Narrated by: Jason Klav
  • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (153 ratings)

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Inside the Mind of BTK

By: Johnny Dodd, John Douglas
Narrated by: Jason Klav
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Summary

A dramatic and compelling true-crime psychological thriller

This incredible story shows how John Douglas tracked and participated in the hunt for one of the most notorious serial killers in US history. For 31 years a man who called himself BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) terrorized the city of Wichita, Kansas, sexually assaulting and strangling a series of women, taunting the police with frequent communications, and bragging about his crimes to local newspapers and TV stations. After disappearing for nine years, he suddenly reappeared, complaining that no one was paying enough attention to him and claiming that he had committed other crimes for which he had not been given credit. When he was ultimately captured, BTK was shockingly revealed to be Dennis Rader, a 61-year-old married man with two children.

©2008 John Douglas and Johnny Dodd (P)2009 Tantor Media
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Binding insight to a tortured mind.

A great insight into the mind of BTK. Good Narrative and Story. True crime listeners will enjoy.

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Great read

Deep inside to twisted mind , facts and numbers speak out stronger than fiction.

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Great

crazy insight into the life of an absolute nut case, would highly recommend....what a sick man.

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Great book, terrible narrator

The book’s content is great, and well written.

However, the narrator and recording quality is awful. Flat and unimaginative delivery along with a non-trivial amount of mispronunciations; there’s a terrible echo as well.

Who recorded this, did they not quality control it?

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Quite in-depth

Information good. Narrator planting. John Douglas should have done it in my opinion. But some info about Rader that I didn’t know

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Poor narration

I often find John Douglas’ books quite arrogant, understandably so, but it can still be a bit grating when he is listing off his achievements and what he predicted but law enforcement failed to detect. Saying that, I enjoyed the book overall. The big letdown, however, was the narration, with frequent mispronunciation of words such as ‘Quantico’ which really irked me.

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Fantastic

I was gripped throughout, really well paced book and the narrators voice didn’t fight with the drama of the story at all. Would definitely recommend !

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Interesting story, abysmal narration

The story itself was good, but the narration as awful. The performer is monotone throughout and mispronounces words constantly. Who pronounces Quantico and quanteeco?

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Great book

this was a great book, loved the way it was told and the detail it was told in

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Poor narration

Interesting book, but disappointingly narrated to the point of almost spoiling it. Mispronunciation frequent and monotonous tone.

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