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...January 1991, BTK allegedly strangled Dolores Davis--at 62, his oldest victim--and dumped her under a bridge. Then he apparently went into hibernation until January 2004, after the Wichita Eagle ran a 30th-anniversary story about the unsolved Otero murder mystery. Two months later, the Eagle received a letter that contained, among other things, the driver's license of Vicki Wegerle, a young mom killed in 1986. The return address read Bill Thomas Killman. His ominous initials: BTK. Since then, BTK has communicated in some form about once a month, and it was his last missive, sent...
...politics is the world’s second oldest profession (and one that—as Ronald Reagan said—bears a “striking resemblance to the first”), the charge of hypocrisy has got to be its oldest characteristic...
...MacInness family, steeped in old money, clashes with what Cruikshank calls “the oldest corporation in the western hemisphere”—Harvard—when son Eric suspiciously drowns alone in a hot tub after hours at Shad Hall, the “B-School’s” private fitness facility. The novel’s protagonist, junior finance professor Wim Vermeer, finds that his upcoming tenure review is the least of his problems...
...Intercollegiate Fencing Association (IFA) championship, which is the oldest collegiate championship event in America, boasts a unique format in which team trophies are up for grabs in all weapons...
...football team—one of the oldest in the country, playing its first game on May 14, 1874—has won seven national championships in its history...