The Poet makes a brazen attempt on Ruth’s life. The attack sets off a media firestorm, with all of Wichita hunting for the assailant. Criminal profilers are brought in to figure out who they’re up against.
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The Poet | 2. Where’s Ruth?
2026-07-08 | 34 mins.
Ruth is snatched off the street by two men in a beat up Chevy. That kidnapping rockets a somewhat lower priority stalking case right to the top of the pile.
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The Poet | 1. The Call
2026-07-01 | 39 mins.
Ruth’s stalker is relentless, calling the 47 year-old a whore and threatening to mount her face on a clock – all in rhyme. The Wichita police see something else in Ruth’s case - a potential link to their white whale: The serial killer, BTK.
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Introducing . . . The Poet
2026-06-24 | 2 mins.
Coming soon to the Binge is The Poet!
In 1977, during the BTK Strangler’s reign of terror in Wichita, a woman named Ruth Finley receives a threatening phone call from an unidentified man. He’s blackmailing her about a secret from her past. The harassment escalates to letters, then poems, then attacks. The Wichita police wonder if this is the work of BTK. But the deeper their investigation goes, the darker and stranger the questions become.
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Cut, Color, Kill | 6. Betrayal
2026-06-05 | 45 mins.
Fabio's family is divided as the killers take the stand. A secret is revealed.
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In 1977, a stranger calls Ruth Finley to blackmail her about a secret from her past. The caller escalates to stalking her on the streets, sending terrifying poems in the mail, and threatening her life. The case sets off a years-long manhunt, one of the most expensive and infamous in Wichita history, to catch the man known as The Poet.
A serial killer named BTK, with a knack for bad poetry, already had the city on edge. So when Ruth goes to the police, they start to wonder: are The Poet and BTK the same person?
The police try to protect Ruth at all costs. At one point stationing officers in the home she shares with her loving husband. Still, The Poet keeps finding ways to get to her.
At the dawn of criminal profiling and serial killers, it’ll take a whole new strategy to finally crack this case. And when they do, it opens up bigger, scarier mysteries about the human psyche.
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