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I teach first-year document reviewers about the BTK Killer

The very first slide is about how he didn't realize a floppy...
slate low-t theater
  11/19/17
This guy also thought the cops wouldn't lie to him LJL: h...
primrose chapel
  11/19/17
Why do serial killers have this compulsive need to communica...
french corn cake
  11/19/17
My guess is selection bias. There are probably a ton of ser...
primrose chapel
  11/19/17
I think they’re compelled to raise the stakes to get better ...
shaky boyish home juggernaut
  11/19/17
Narcissism. They get a boner thinking about police who are i...
Frisky milk
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Vibrant business firm
  11/19/17
The ones who do want to get caught. If they're good at it t...
slate low-t theater
  11/19/17
This is great. This is really mentally ill stuff
razzmatazz roast beef field
  11/19/17
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cordovan chest-beating travel guidebook puppy
  11/19/17
The last piece of evidence they needed to get a warrant was ...
mind-boggling flesh school cuckold
  11/19/17


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Date: November 19th, 2017 9:10 AM
Author: slate low-t theater

The very first slide is about how he didn't realize a floppy disk had slack space with a deleted word doc on it. Cops found the doc and found the metadata that said the doc belonged to "Dennis."

He would have gotten away with murder if it weren't for metadata. I want you to get away with murder, I finish.

Review. Code. Next.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802373&forum_id=2#34722547)



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Date: November 19th, 2017 9:15 AM
Author: primrose chapel

This guy also thought the cops wouldn't lie to him LJL:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/the-floppy-did-me-in/283132/

There was also one document (from BTK) with a question: Would it be secure for the murderer to communicate with police via a floppy disk? "Be honest," the note urged. It instructed police to place a classified ad in the paper with the message, "Rex, it will be OK," if it were, in fact, safe.

Investigators, recognizing the opportunity, ran the requested ad. Two weeks later, on February 16, 2005, a package containing a floppy disk arrived at KSAS-TV in Wichita.

Detectives got to work:

The disk contained one valid file bearing the message “this is a test” and directing police to read one of the accompanying index cards with instructions for further communications. In the “properties” section of the document, however, police found that the file had last been saved by someone named Dennis. They also found that the disk had been used at the Christ Lutheran Church and the Park City library.

Landwehr says Rader had taken pains to delete any identifying information from the disk. But he made the fatal mistake of taking the disk to his church to print out the file because the printer for his home computer wasn’t working.

“It’s pretty basic stuff,” Landwehr says about the reconstruction of the deleted information. “Anybody who knows anything about computers could figure it out.”

A simple Internet search turned up a Web site for the church, which identified Dennis Rader as president of the congregation

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802373&forum_id=2#34722567)



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Date: November 19th, 2017 9:24 AM
Author: french corn cake

Why do serial killers have this compulsive need to communicate with the police. Morons.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802373&forum_id=2#34722600)



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Date: November 19th, 2017 9:27 AM
Author: primrose chapel

My guess is selection bias. There are probably a ton of serial killers we don't know about who are careful enough not to get caught/leave a pattern and smart enough to STFU about it after they "retire." So every time we know about a serial killer, it's some dipshit who wanted to send a floppy disk to the police.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802373&forum_id=2#34722609)



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Date: November 19th, 2017 9:30 AM
Author: shaky boyish home juggernaut

I think they’re compelled to raise the stakes to get better kicks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802373&forum_id=2#34722613)



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Date: November 19th, 2017 9:32 AM
Author: Frisky milk

Narcissism. They get a boner thinking about police who are investigating them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802373&forum_id=2#34722616)



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Date: November 19th, 2017 10:17 AM
Author: Vibrant business firm



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802373&forum_id=2#34722707)



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Date: November 19th, 2017 11:00 AM
Author: slate low-t theater

The ones who do want to get caught. If they're good at it they start to get angry they keep getting away with it. So they start playing a new game.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802373&forum_id=2#34722917)



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Date: November 19th, 2017 11:16 AM
Author: razzmatazz roast beef field

This is great. This is really mentally ill stuff

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802373&forum_id=2#34722975)



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Date: November 19th, 2017 11:23 AM
Author: cordovan chest-beating travel guidebook puppy

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802373&forum_id=2#34723006)



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Date: November 19th, 2017 11:33 AM
Author: mind-boggling flesh school cuckold

The last piece of evidence they needed to get a warrant was a partial DNA match with his daughter's pap smear.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3802373&forum_id=2#34723043)