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A timeline from 1974 to present surrounding the BTK case:
_ Jan. 15, 1974: Joseph Otero, 38, and his wife, Julie, 34, are strangled in their home along with two of their children, Josephine, 11, and Joseph II, 9.
_ April 4, 1974: Kathryn Bright, 21, is stabbed to death in her home. Police later conclude she was a BTK victim.
_ October 1974: The Wichita Eagle-Beacon gets a letter from someone taking responsibility for the Otero family killing. The message included crime scene details.
_ March 17, 1977: Shirley Vian, 24, is found tied up and strangled at her home.
_ Dec. 8, 1977: Nancy Fox, 25, is found tied up and strangled in her home. The killer's voice is captured on tape when he calls a dispatcher to report the crime.
_ Jan. 31, 1978: A poem, referring to the Vian killing, is sent to The Wichita Eagle-Beacon.
_ Feb. 10, 1978: A letter from BTK is sent to KAKE-TV claiming responsibility for the deaths of Vian and Fox, as well as another unnamed victim. Police Chief Richard LaMunyon announces a serial killer is at large and has threatened to strike again.
_ Aug. 15, 1979: Police get more than 100 tips in the first day of radio and TV broadcasts that repeat the voice of the BTK strangler from the 1977 recording.
_ April 28, 1979: BTK waits inside a home, but leaves before the 63-year-old woman who lives there returns. He later sends her a letter letting her know he was there.
_ Mid-1980s: A group known as "The Ghostbusters" takes on the then cold case and during the next three years employs new DNA testing techniques, database searches and psychological profiles.
_ Sept. 16, 1986: Vicki Wegerle, 28, is strangled in her home. The family car is found nearby.
_ March 19, 2004: A letter arrives at The Wichita Eagle containing a photocopy of Wegerle's driver's license and photos of her body. Police link it to BTK.
_ April 2004: Wichita police subpoena information from the Wichita Eagle's BTK Internet discussion board.
_ May 5, 2004: KAKE-TV receives a letter with photocopies of a business identification card of a former Southwestern Bell employee and an ID badge of a former Wichita's public schools employee.
_ June 2004: Wichita police receive a letter describing the 1974 Otero family killings.
_ October 2004: Wichita police obtain a letter dropped in a United Parcel Service Inc. box. The correspondence contained jewelry.
_ Dec. 1, 2004: Wichita police arrested a man on minor charges and test his DNA for a connection to the BTK serial killings. He is later released on bond.
_ December 2004: A package containing the driver's license of Nancy Fox, who was killed in 1977, is found by a Wichita resident in a neighborhood park.
_ Jan. 12, 2005: The man whose DNA was tested in December sues three media organizations, including The Associated Press. The AP is dropped from the defamation lawsuit in early February.
_ Jan. 25, 2005: KAKE-TV receives a postcard that leads police to a suspicious cereal box in a rural area northwest of Wichita, and asks an earlier missing communication. The postcard was from "S Killett" with the address of the Otero family.
_ Feb. 3, 2005: KAKE-TV gets another postcard, this one thanking them for its quick response. Police said they later found the missing communication No. 7.
_ Feb. 16, 2005: A different Wichita TV station, KSAS-TV, receives an apparent BTK message. The manila envelope contained a piece of jewelry and a letter. The letter's return address said "PJ Fox."
_ Feb. 25, 2005: Police and other authorities surround a home in Park City, a Wichita suburb.
_ Feb. 26, 2005: After receiving several more letters, authorities announce the arrest of BTK.