Posted on 02/25/2005 3:56:17 PM PST by TexKat
February 25--KAKE News has learned a "person of interest" is being questioned in connection with the BTK case.
A search of a Park City home is underway.
An FBI spokesperson in Kansas City says agents are assisting Wichita police with an investigation.
Stay with KAKE News for updates on this breaking story.
Why did I even ask.....LOL!
Dog Catcher Explains the "Bind" part, maybe
OK. Like your tagline. How can some support a family as a dogcatcher?
According to Fox the police have announced a news conference for 10am and they've named it a "BTK" conference.
The FBI is also involved so maybe they're confident.
CNN is saying that they are confident.
They said he is a head of a church. whatever that means
Did he ever live in the Bay Area...(Zodiac)
FBI Agents Converge On Park City Home
POSTED: 4:54 pm CST February 25, 2005
UPDATED: 5:56 pm CST February 25, 2005
WICHITA, Kan. -- Police have received a possible break in the BTK serial killer investigation.
KMBC's Peggy Breit reported that a man was questioned Friday, although Wichita police are not calling him a suspect, only a "person of interest."
Police and FBI agents converged on the home of a 59-year-old suburban Wichita man Friday morning. The man being questioned is a city inspector in Park City, which is seven miles north of Wichita.
BTK stands for bind, torture and kill. It's a nickname the killer gave himself. BTK has been linked to eight unsolved murders between 1974 and 1986
The case resurfaced in recent months when police and media outlets received notes purportedly from the killer.
One source told KMBC that DNA testing led investigators to question the Park City man.
Wichita police said they will hold a news conference at 10 a.m. Saturday to make an announcement about the BTK case.
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Mayor announces BTK news conference
Updated 6:15 p.m.
Wichita Mayor Carlos Mayans announced this afternoon that a news conference concerning the BTK investigation will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday.
District Attorney Nola Tedesco Foulston and Chief of Police Norman Williams will be there.
The announcements followed an afternoon of police activity in Park City.
A Wichita Police bomb unit truck, two SWAT trucks, FBI and ATF officers and other law enforcement were deployed in Park City near the intersection of I-135 and 61st Street North.
The activity has been centered on a residential area north of the fast-food restaurants and other businesses that line 61st street.
Neighbors said law enforcement vehicles began appearing about 11 a.m., a bomb crew arrived about 11:30 a.m., and the area was filled with officers by noon.
A woman on the block says one of her neighbors was taken away by officers early in the day.
There was no explosive, police confirmed, and at 6 p.m., the bomb squad truck pulled out.
In downtown Wichita this afternoon and evening, several uniformed officers have been standing outside Wichita City Hall, including on the top of the parking garage adjacent to the building, which houses the Police Department.
For more on this story, visit Kansas.com for updates, and see Saturday's Eagle.
Americas Amber Alert News Center (California USA) -- Potential breaking news in the Wichita Kansas serial murders. BTK ... Bind Torture Kill person of interest has been arrested for questioning and the Police have called a press conference Saturday.
Thirty year case may be near a close in Kansas. DNA has been taken from the suspect and results will come soon.
FBI has interviews with community members, family members, victims families while the labs are working overtime tonight to compare forensic samples with crime scene evidence.
BTK — Bind Torture Kill initials given as the nickname, which the killer coined. BTK has been linked to eight unsolved homicides in Wichita area between the years 1974 and 1986.
BTK breaking news in this case as police announced a search is under way of a home in Park City, north of Wichita, where they hope to tie evidence to crime scene evidence and forensic samples from the murders. If positive this may linked this strong person of interest to the killer
Team Amber Alert Breaking BTK Bind Torture Kill Arrest Made In Wichita Kansas.
Posted on Friday, February 25 @ 18:36:31 CST by CAadvisory
Bloggers over at Kansas.com are saying there's some connection to this church: http://www.christ-lutheran.org/people/
Thanks for all your efforts...I want to toss out something..and first, up front, I have NO, ZERO, NADA, ZILCH knowledge of criminal profiling, but I did sleep through a freshman psychology course in 1964.....if, for whatever reason, he wants to get caught, the behavior of this guy, a master manipulator.. would suggest that he would first turn himself in at a TV station..give them a whole bunch of interviews....then arrange to have them document his surrender to the police...
you have MAJOR FReepmail
I am searching on that name, but have not come up with anything thus far.
You do good work!!!
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