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Police seek necklace linked to BTK
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Police seek necklace linked to BTK
Wednesday, January 5, 2005 Posted: 5:14 PM EST (2214 GMT)
WICHITA, Kansas (AP) -- A serial killer known as BTK may have taken a necklace from one of his victims in 1977 and given it to a woman he was dating at the time, authorities said Wednesday.
The killer has sent several letters to police since resurfacing last March after years of silence. Police said that in one recent communication, he said he took items from the crime scene after killing Nancy Fox on December 8, 1977.
Police are looking for a necklace described as a gold chain with two pearls. Authorities are asking anyone who may have seen the necklace or received a similar necklace as a gift in December 1977 or early 1978 to call the BTK tip line.
"It is not that unusual for serial killers to take mementos from the scene and perhaps the value to them is to help refresh their memory and relish the occasion," said Howard Brodsky, a Wichita psychologist who assisted in the BTK investigation in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The killer's self-coined nickname stands for "Bind, Torture, Kill." He is linked to eight unsolved homicides that terrorized Wichita, the first in 1974.
Police have received more than 5,000 tips since the killer resurfaced.
Brodsky said the idea that BTK had a girlfriend surprised him.
"Him trusting another woman doesn't go with my model of who he is, not necessarily that my model is correct," he said.
In March, The Wichita Eagle received a letter with information on an unsolved 1986 killing. The letter contained a copy of the victim's driver's license and photos of her taken after she was slain.
It was the first communication from the killer in more than two decades, and police said it linked him to an eighth slaying.
The other seven people were slain in the 1970s, with BTK claiming responsibility for those deaths in letters to the newspaper and a television station.
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Copyright 2005 The Associated Press.
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