Vickie died of strangulation before the paramedics arrived.Bind, Torture, Kill: the mantra that haunted Kansas.įew cases in recent memory send a chill down the spine quite like the crimes of Dennis Rader, the serial killer next door, better known as the BTK killer. He discovered his wife’s brutalized body when he got home. Her car was found the same day two blocks away.Īs Bill Wegerle, Vickie's husband was on the way home for lunch when he passed Rader driving his wife's car away from their home. He threw a few souvenirs into his briefcase, grabbed her car keys, and left in her car. When she stopped moving, he rearranged her clothes and took three photos of her.īecause there had been so much noise and because she had claimed her husband was on his way home he left promptly. She prayed as Rader strangled her to death with a nylon socking. Rader said she fought harder than any of his other victims scratching him on his face and neck. When Vicki broke loose from fabric Rader had tied her up with in her bedroom, a loud, intense fight ensued with the outside doors and windows wide open and dogs barking in the yard. He told the hysterical mother, begging him to stop, that he was going to tie her up. 357 Magnum and ordered her into the bedroom. Once inside, using a fake instrument to pretend he was checking the telephone lines, he pulled out a. She allowed him inside to check her lines. To scope out the surroundings, he went to nearby homes to inform residents that they would be working on the phone lines.Īs Rader approached Vicki's home he heard her playing the piano for her two year old son. Carrying a briefcase and wearing a Southwestern Bell hard he posed as a telephone repairman. September 16, 1986, he changed into his ' hit clothes' (clothes he would get rid of afterwards) and drove his car to Vicki’s house a before lunchtime. Rader called Vicki ' Project Piano' because she loved to play the piano, and he heard her music as stalked her for three week. She volunteered to watch children in the church nurseries. Vicki attended two churches, the Lutheran Church, because it was her faith and a Methodist Church because it was a neighborhood church. When she became pregnant she began providing child care from her home. She loved children and enjoyed visiting with other mothers about parenthood. Vicki Wegerle, a 28 year old wife and mother, was a calm, kind, quiet person who never raised her voice. True Crime Book Watch! Watch for new True Crime books as they are published!

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