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OT: BTK Captured?


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You trying to confess something here, slappy? Just turn yourself in.

Me turn myself in? Look Bob, I've grown weary of covering up for you. Care to explain to the rest of the board what you were doing in Kansas 20 years ago?

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news conf. about this on right now

Yep, sounds like they got him. Speaking of which, has anyone seen TomShane around here since this announcement?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6988048/

WICHITA, Kan. - Police said Saturday they have arrested a suspect they believe is the notorious BTK serial killer, who terrorized Wichita throughout the 1970s and then resurfaced about a year ago after 25 years of silence.

"The bottom line: BTK is arrested," Wichita Police Chief Norman Williams said at a news conference in Wichita with some of the victims' family members.

The BTK killer -- a self-coined nickname that stands for "Bind, Torture, Kill" -- has been linked to eight killings committed between 1974 and 1986.

Officials did not immediately provide the name of the arrested person, and prosecutors said no charges have been filed.

Prosecutor Nola Foulston said that while there is no statute of limitations for homicide, the death penalty would not apply to any crime committed before 1994, when the death penalty was introduced in Kansas.

BTK resurfaces after 25 years

The BTK killer sent letters to media about the crimes in the 1970s, but stopped for more than two decades before re-establishing contact last March with a letter about an unsolved 1986 killing.

Since then, authorities said the killer has sent at least eight letters to the media or police, including three packages containing jewelry that police believed may have been taken from BTK's victims. One letter contained the driver's license of victim Nancy Fox.

The new letters sent chills through Wichita, but also rekindled hope that modern forensic science could find some clue that would finally lead police to a killer most thought was dead or safely locked in prison for some other crime.

Thousands of tips poured in, and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation conducted hundreds of DNA swabs in connection with the BTK investigation.

Investigators searched a house in a Wichita suburb Friday and seized computer equipment, but police, prosecutors and the FBI all declined to comment Friday about the activity or any possible connection to the BTK case.

A source with knowledge of the investigation who spoke on condition of anonymity said surveillance gave police their "first big piece" of recent evidence, leading authorities to a vehicle and the suspect.

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