Wichita, Kansas was typically quiet for over a decade; in 2004, anxiety and fear swirls again. Dennis Rader(Gregg Henry), an all-American, church-going, devoted husband and model citizen had a dark and deep secret. Between 1974 and 1991, he tortured and murdered at least ten people in and around Wichita. The hunger of his former notoriety, awakens when Robert Beattie(Maury Chaykin)lets it be known he is writing a book about the BTK killer. The previous murders turned into one of the most infamous of cold cases until a new letter arrives at a local newspaper...the monster inside Rader rears its head again. Detective Jason Magida(Robert Forster)and the police department must stop the terrifying serial killings from starting all over again. The hunt is on. Being made-for-TV, there are no gruesome murder scenes, which I would have welcomed. Also in the cast: Michael Michele, Mimi Kuzyk and Mike Turner.

John Dunsworth ... Jim Lahey of Trailer Park Boys has a few different appearances in the movie.As the Reverand of the church BTK goes to and speaks several lines but there is no mention he is in the movie.just seemed odd to me.I am from Halifax and enjoyed seeing a few people I knew in the film and of course recognizing locations.I did also see a few other people I knew from just seeing them around not really knowing them but there is no mention of them either.For some reason I never heard of this movie until this week and it is 2 years old. I normally am pretty on top of what movies are out there but this one slipped me by and it was a local movie for me also.I rather enjoyed watching it but does have a bit of the stereo-type of a Canadian film look to it but very glad to watch it and will again with my wife at a later date.

While the Variety reviewer did not liked this version of the BTK story, I found it to be a good, but not exciting, movie. The lead investigator does the role with almost a Jack Webb approach and his narration is also reminiscent of Webb. The movie spends relative little time rehashing the murders and focuses on the actual hunt and capture. It also features Gregg Heny as Dennis Rader and plays the role well, especially as he resembles, through makeup, the killer. It is his chilling take on the killer that makes this movie worth watching. The movie combines characters and simplifies the events, but stays, mostly on track with the actual events.

The Story of BTK was a complete misrepresentation of actual facts. In a rush to get a story out, MANY facts were blurred, or altogether made up. A scene retelling the 70's attempt to place subliminal messages in newscasts to have BTK contact the police is depicted as happening in 2005. Events happening in the daytime are shown at night. At one point it is implied that Wichitans were turning against each other as suspects to BTK. If anything, the community was unified in its desire to find the person responsible for terrorizing their families. The pivotal piece of evidence, the note relating to the floppy disk, is shown being found in the back of a truck at home depot, when it was actually thrown away at the employees home, but not disposed of. It was at their home that the evidence was found. Probably the most disturbing element of this story, is the minute amount of time spent on the victims. The story is alleged to be taken from Robert Beattie's book "A Nightmare in Wichita". If that was the case, the producers of this story would have known the bulk of this book was dedicated to telling the stories of the victims, not the killer. At least they got the letters B T and K right.........