Marine Hedge, a 53-year-old Caucasian woman from Park City, Kansas, was murdered on April 27, 1985, in Wichita. Her neighbor, Dennis Rader, later identified with the BTK killings, planned the attack under what he called Project Cookie and stalked her movements beforehand. On the night of the murder Rader broke into Hedge’s home and hid inside. After she returned with a male companion and that man left, Rader waited until the early morning, turned on a bathroom light, then attacked Hedge in her bedroom and manually strangled her to death.

Following the killing Rader transported Hedge’s body to his church, posed her in bondage positions and photographed her, then placed the body in a remote ditch, covering it with black plastic sheets and other materials he had prepared. The proximity of the victim and killer, the premeditation described as Project Cookie, and the use of prepared materials at the dump site are key disturbing details in this case.

Did anyone in Park City or Wichita at the time notice suspicious activity around neighbors or churches that night or in the days beforehand?