Families Confront BTK In Court

Voices Wavering, Relatives Of Victims Tell Of Lingering Sorrow

(CBS/AP)  Evidence brought to the witness stand was similarly chilling, Moriarty reports. One witness displayed the toys Rader gave to three young children he locked in a bathroom while he strangled another victim, Shirley Vian.

According to testimony, Rader at times used his connections to scouting and local churches to facilitate his crimes and provide him an alibi.

For the killing of Dolores Davis on Jan. 13, 1991, Rader left a Scout camp under the guise of going home for something he forgot, Sedgwick County Sheriff Capt. Sam Houston said. Instead, Rader went to his parents' home to change out of his scouting uniform and into his dark "hit clothes."

He took the body of another of his victims, Marine Hedge, to the church he attended in Wichita, where he put black plastic over the windows to give him privacy while he took bondage pictures for his sexual satisfaction.

Rader, referring to the last two murders near the Park City home where he lived, told police: "This is not really good serial killer business. This is right at my back door. I started getting lazy the last few years."

Wednesday's testimony was peppered with the bizarre acronyms and names police said Rader used to describe his killings. He called his potential victims projects, or PJs, and gave each a name.

He initially targeted Josephine Otero, who was Hispanic, as the object of his sexual fascination, calling it Project Little-Mex. Davis had a dog kennel at her home, so he dubbed her killing Project Dogside, according to testimony.

There also was what he called the "mother lode," a locked drawer full of crime mementos that he kept stored at his work. Rader was an ordinance enforcement officer before his arrest.

But perhaps the most bizarre acronym of all was what he called AFLV, which stood for After Life Concept for Victims — fantasies he had about his victims serving him in the afterlife.

According to testimony, Nancy Fox was to be his primary mistress in the afterlife. Josephine Otero was to be his "star young maiden," while 9-year-old Joseph II would be a boy servant and male sex toy.

The details that emerged in court were wrenching for the surviving Otero children.

Carmen Otero Montoya clutched an afghan in the courtroom and nervously tapped her foot on the floor through much of the testimony. Her two brothers, Charlie and Danny, mostly crossed their arms, occasionally wiping away a tear.

But when prosecutors projected a close-up photo of Josephine on the screen, Charlie Otero became visibly flushed, buried his face on his lap and cried.