Lamunyon told KAKE on Friday that the similarities in those killings "gave us pause to believe there was some connection" to BTK, though authorities could never definitely pinpoint a link. The cereal box contained jewelry and a brick. In January, KAKE received a postcard believed to be from BTK that led to a cereal box near where the two bodies were found. Those deaths have never been linked to the BTK case, though authorities said there were many similarities. Her body was found beneath a bridge in Sedgwick County, her hands, feet and knees bound with pantyhose. The autopsy showed she had been strangled.ĭavis was taken from her home January 19, 1991, after a brick was thrown through a sliding glass door. Hedge's body was found along a dirt road in Sedgwick County in May 1985, eight days after she was abducted from her home. KAKE reported that Hedge once lived on the same block as the person of interest. The victims of two unsolved killings - Dolores Davis and Marine Hedge - were Park City residents. Wichita police, the FBI, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the district attorney's office and the Park City mayor refused to comment about the developments. The former chief added: "I'm confident that necessary warrants were drawn in advance, before the individual was taken into custody for interview, and subsequent items have been taken as a result of the search warrant."
"You want to make sure - 100 percent - that if you are, in fact, focusing on an individual, he is the individual that you want," he said. Richard Lamunyon, the former Wichita police chief who pledged in the 1970s that the killer would be caught, told KAKE that authorities were focusing "in on a single individual," and that they were being extremely cautious with what they could release to the public. People walk their dogs, kids play on their bikes - it's really normal. "I don't even want to think that it could possibly be real," the neighbor, who gave his name as Greg, told KAKE.
One neighbor in Park City expressed shock about the developments. A Wichita police bomb squad truck, SWAT trucks and dozens of police cars and other emergency vehicles lined the street. Outside the home in Park City, authorities cordoned off the street and investigators combed the area.
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The BTK case - at least eight killings, dating back to 1974 - has come under renewed scrutiny in recent months, with the killer taunting law enforcement through a series of letters. ET) Saturday, to be attended by police officials, the district attorney, Wichita's mayor and City Council members, the mayor's office said. No arrests have been made, and no charges have been filed.Ī news conference is scheduled for 10 a.m. Sources said the person of interest was questioned for several hours Friday, and that they were growing increasingly confident that the 30-year investigation may be nearing an end. The killer calls himself BTK, for "bind, torture and kill," a pattern he has followed with most of his victims. (CNN) - Authorities questioned a "person of interest" in the BTK killer investigation Friday, and converged on a home in Park City, Kansas, just outside Wichita, sources told CNN.ĬNN affiliate KAKE, a Wichita station that the killer has sent letters to in the past, said authorities were awaiting results of DNA tests to see whether they could be linked to the case.
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