In this episode, hear Dennis Rader, known as the BTK killer, describe his crimes in open court after pleading guilty to ten murders. Speaking in a calm and methodical manner, Rader explains how he selected, stalked, and killed his victims as the judge questions him about each case.

The episode also includes Rader’s statement at sentencing, delivered before he received ten consecutive life sentences. Presented from the public record, this audio offers a disturbing look at one of America’s most notorious serial killers speaking for himself inside the courtroom.

Listener discretion is advised. This episode contains descriptions of murder, violence, and disturbing criminal behavior.

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In this episode of Tape & Testimony, we hear Alex Murdaugh’s first recorded interview with police on the night his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, were found shot to death at the family’s Moselle property.

Sitting inside a police vehicle at the crime scene, Murdaugh walks investigators through his version of the night — where he says he was, what he says he found, and what he told police in the earliest moments of the investigation.

This is one of the first official recordings from a case that would become one of the most watched criminal trials in America.

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