Suspect in BTK Killings in Police Custody
GRACE: "Bind, Torture, Kill," the BTK killer is back. Last night, we took to the airwaves asking you to help with John Walsh.</s>JOHN WALSH, "AMERICA`S MOST WANTED": This is him coming out after 30 years and saying, "I`m not as famous as Ted Bundy. I`m not as famous as the Hillside Strangler. I want my 15 minutes of shame, 15 minutes of infamy, and he is absolutely torturing this community and absolutely breaking the hearts of the victims` families."</s>GRACE: Tonight, a possible break: CNN affiliate KAKE reports a "person of interest" in custody for questioning. Tonight, a search of the person`s home being conducted as we speak. This is a live search of what`s going down. With us, FBI agent and profiler Candice DeLong, defense attorneys Daniel Horowitz and Ed Sapone, prosecutor Deborah Robinson. Let`s get right down to it. Ed Sapone, what does it mean?</s>ED SAPONE, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Well, I think this person should not say anything to the authorities. In this country, we have a Fifth Amendment...</s>GRACE: OK, hold on. Hold on, Ed.</s>SAPONE: ... and we should exercise that.</s>GRACE: I`m going to come back to you before you start preaching the Fifth Amendment. I`m talking about "person of interest." You have got eight dead bodies. Suddenly, 20 years later, Candice DeLong, somebody sends police the victim`s driver`s license from 20 years ago. We got a guy in custody as a person of interest. What is a person of interest?</s>SAPONE: A person we want to arrest.</s>GRACE: Candice DeLong?</s>DELONG: Well, it actually seems to be a new term that...</s>GRACE: I heard it in Peterson.</s>DELONG: Right. The first time I heard it was after the Richard Jewell fiasco in the Atlanta bombings many, many years ago.</s>GRACE: Yes, that stunk.</s>DELONG: Right. The fact that they have been issued an arrest warrant, I think, is very significant. When we arrested the Unabomber, or when we searched his cabin, we only had a search warrant and were hoping to find something in the cabin that we could eventually arrest him, which, of course, we all know what happened there. In this case, they actually were issued an arrest warrant. And that gives me hope that they have very good reason to believe this individual may very well have committed the crimes and be</s>BTK. GRACE: You know, out to Daniel Horowitz. Daniel Horowitz, what we`ve learned so far -- and these are reports, they`re flying -- we understand the person in custody that`s being questioned -- he has not been formally charged -- is married, has a family, 59-years-old, and is gainfully employed with a, quote, "ordinary job." What do you think, Daniel?</s>DANIEL HOROWITZ, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Nancy, I think they`ve got him. Remember back in December they had the wrong person. But I thought then, and I think now, that the BTK killer purposely led the police to the wrong guy. He probably left some clues. It wasn`t just a random person, probably somebody...</s>GRACE: He`s smart.</s>HOROWITZ: ... within BTK`s sphere of influence and friends. You know, this is a strange serial killer, Nancy. He can act normally. And in his missives to the press, he talks about trying to control this demon within him. He`s really, truly a split between that killing psychotic and a normal person.</s>GRACE: You know, when you just said those words, "demon within him," Candice DeLong, this guy has been begging cops to find him. Describe for the viewers the missives he has been sending, not only to police, but to radio and TV stations.</s>DELONG: Well, since the beginning when -- actually in the `70s, when he initially was committing these crimes, he started taunting the police, communicating with them, giving them information proving that the person that was sending them the information was, in fact, the person that committed the crimes. Then he goes underground for several years and then re-emerges with all this communication, although not claiming any recent crimes, sending them the driver`s license of the woman he supposedly killed in 1985. I have to say, the age, 59, in my mind -- and we studied this case when I was in profiling school 20 years ago -- 59 to 62, 63, perfect age when a figure of...</s>GRACE: For what? Perfect age for what?</s>DELONG: What the profile was then...</s>GRACE: Oh.</s>DELONG: ... for the age of the person, for how old he would be right now, late 50s, early 60s.</s>GRACE: Got you.</s>DELONG: Fits perfectly.</s>GRACE: Quickly to Ed Sapone, before we get to the trial, OK, before you jump ahead to what he should do at trial, tell me, this guy right now is just a person of interest. Can he walk out of the police station if he wants to?</s>SAPONE: Absolutely not. I mean, the police have him in there for questioning. He has a choice, either submit to the questioning or not. But I can tell you this, Nancy, there`s an arrest warrant. There`s probable cause for this individual. He`s not going anywhere anytime soon.</s>GRACE: OK. According to Ed Sapone, the guy cannot just get up and leave. To me, that sounds like he`s under arrest, sounds like he is the target. But tonight police are only saying that he is a "person of interest." Remember, they said that about Scott Peterson, too, and he just got sentenced to the death penalty. I want to tell you that Jessica`s father has now been hooked up. He`s ready to speak. We`re going to come right back to Jessica Lunsford`s father down in Florida. But very quickly as we go to break, "Trial Tracking": The 16-year-old girl, Sarah Johnson, remember her, the Idaho girl on trial for her parents` double murder? Well, today in court, a crime scene expert explained the mom and dad`s blood spatter.