This Weeks Episode

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Marine Wallace Hedge, 53, was a quiet, dependable second-shift supervisor at the medical center coffee shop. Originally from Arkansas, she had moved to Kansas with her late husband. She was widowed the previous year. She was described as a kind, petite, well dressed woman with a charming southern voice. She was a devoted mother to her three daughters, one son, and grandchildren. She enjoyed bingo,

Rader didn't expect Marine to be home so soon, so he was surprised to find her 1976 Monte Carlo there already. He cut the telephone lines outside before he quietly entered her house. He looked throughout but she wasn’t inside. When he heard the door rattle, he hid in a bedroom closet.

Marine came home with a male friend she had known for years after an evening of bingo. Her friend stayed until 1AM

When she slept during the early morning hours, Rader went into her bedroom. When he flipped on the bathroom lights to see her better, she woke up and screamed. He immediately jumped on her bed to strangled her to death with his hands or "throttle" her as he called it.

He stripped her nude and put her on a blanket. As he went through her personal items he contemplated how he was going to get her ou