[Unidentified Male:] I waited 28 years for this day. Rest in peace. I would just like to thank everybody.
[Andrea Koppel, Cnn Correspondent:] The BTK killer took his mother's life. Family members of those murdered react to the arrest of a suspect. We have new developments in the case. Also two years ago, I introduced you to some remarkable children in Ethiopia, lone survivors of families stricken with AIDS. Later this hour, I'll talk to two people who are changing lives quite literally in Ethiopia and show you how some proof these kids are growing up. And on a lighter note, we are counting down to tonight's Academy Awards. We are live from the red carpet. Hello and welcome to CNN LIVE SUNDAY. I'm Andrea Koppel. We'll have all that and more after this check of the headlines. The Associated Press reports that Syria captured Saddam Hussein's half-brother and Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan al Tikriti was handed over to Iraq in an apparent good will gesture. Al-Hassan was number 36 on the U.S. military's 55 most wanted Iraqis list. A full report from our Nic Robertson in Baghdad is coming up in 10 minutes. In the wake of Friday's deadly suicide blast in Tel Aviv, Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is putting blame on Syrians and Palestinians. Mr. Sharon says the Islamic jihad in Syria carried out the attack but suggests Palestinians share the blame because they did not take, quote, practical measures against terrorism. Pope John Paul II misses the Sunday blessing at the Vatican for his first time as pontiff. The traditional angelus blessing was conducted without him at St. Peter's Square, but the pope, who is recovering from a tracheotomy, did appear to faithful at his hospital window today. Tracking a serial killer in Kansas. After 31 years, 10 victims and thousands of tips and DNA samples, today, there is more information about the needle in a haystack search that ended with Friday's arrest of Dennis Rader. Rader remains in custody this afternoon, accused of being Wichita's infamous BTK. That's the nickname the killer gave himself which stands for bind, torture and kill. Larry Hatteberg, who is an anchor with CNN affiliate KAKE, has been following the case quite literally since the very beginning. He joins us from Wichita Kansas. Larry, I'm hoping that you can clarify for our viewers some of the information that I know your station KAKE broke yesterday and then we've been trying to sort of go back and forth. Let us get to the bottom of the daughter's involvement in her father's arrest. Was the daughter's DNA involved in the arrest? Did she cooperate? What do we know about that?
[Larry Hatteberg, Kake Anchor:] The daughter's DNA was involved in the arrest, but not necessarily directly. What we do know is that police and FBI obtained the daughter's DNA. Now, how they obtained that is still subject to some conjecture here, but we do know they obtained her DNA and in the family part of the DNA strand, it was a match, so that they knew someone in her family was BTK. Now, just how they went about obtaining that, that is still subject to some conjecture here. We are working on that aspect of the story and we will certainly have more on that later just as soon as we verify it.
[Koppel:] Sure.
[Hatteberg:] But I can tell you that the daughter did not turn her father in.
[Koppel:] OK.
[Hatteberg:] That did not happen.
[Koppel:] OK.
[Hatteberg:] That way.
[Koppel:] Larry, we know that BTK resurfaced about a year ago and he sent like a package to your station. He sent letters and what not to the "Wichita Eagle," one of your local papers. Do we know how police managed to narrow the field to him in the last year?
[Hatteberg:] Well, the police department always said it was vital to keep BTK communicating and we feel in some of the last few communications, that he made some mistakes, that he made an error. Just exactly what that error was again, we are working on that aspect of the story, but we believe it was part of the communications that helped the police lead them to the fact that this man was, in fact, BTK. We know that in the past four weeks, they really narrowed it down. In the past five days, it got very tight. And then what you're looking at now are some of the early victims, unfortunately, from the 1970s and 1980s. But in the last four or five days, they really narrowed it down because we, as reporters, could tell that the police department was really tightening down. We knew something was happening and then all of a sudden, about noon Friday, we knew that they had
[Btk. Koppel:] You and I were chatting before this broadcast and you said that the police and some of the people in the community who knew Dennis, but didn't realize, of course that it was him or at least he's accused of this, that he had a Jekyll Hyde personality.
[Hatteberg:] He really did have a Jekyll Hyde personality. From all of the people who we've been talking to in the Park City area, in one side of his personality, he was the president of his Lutheran church. We was known as a do-be in the church. They said that he would do anything in the church. He was well-liked. He dressed nicely. He was neat. He would pass the collection plate. He would run the sound system, whatever needed to be done in the church. But in his official capacity there as a compliance officer there in Park City, some people really hated the guy and felt that he was not only not doing his job, but he was doing more than just a job. At one point, he would measure people's grass in the front yard and tell them that their grass was too high. We got that little report. We had one report of a woman said where he opened the woman's front door and walked in a little ways and said, "by the way, don't forget, you have a court date tomorrow." How scary would that be?
[Koppel:] That is scary. You know what else I find scary is what you said KAKE has confirmed and that is that Dennis went to Wichita State University and graduated with a degree in criminal justice administration.
[Hatteberg:] Exactly and that fits what the police department had always thought, that this gentleman had a police and a military background. And they had developed that information over a number of years and in investigating this case. The other interesting thing about this is what the police department thought, for example, particularly former police chief Richard Lamunyon, he always said, he said BTK never left this community. He was always part of the community. He was going to the mall with us. He was eating dinner with us. He was our next door neighbor and those are prophetic words because that is absolutely what happened. BTK never left this community. The question is, why did he stop killing for those 18 years or did he stop killing for those 18 years? There are a lot of questions here that we need to have answered that we don't know yet. This is a story that's going to keep going and going and going. There is a long road left on this story.
[Koppel:] Oh, boy. Well, listen, Larry Hatteberg, we thank you for your insight and if, in fact, this is the man I'm sure there is a lot of relief felt amongst the people of Wichita. Thank you so much.
[Hatteberg:] And you can see it right here in the newspaper, "BTK is arrested."
[Koppel:] Well, he hasn't been tried yet, but they certainly hope that he is the guy.
[Hatteberg:] They certainly do, but there is a huge relief in Wichita.
[Koppel:] Thanks so much.
[Hatteberg:] Sure.
[Koppel:] Well, families, as you can imagine of the victims, reacted with applause and fresh anguish to word of Rader's arrest. Since the announcement, people now say 62-year-old Deloris Davis whose murder had been unsolved for years, was the last person killed by BTK. Davis was abducted from her home in January 1991. her strangled body was found two weeks later.
[Jeff Davis, Victim's Son:] It's going to take a while to reconcile the fact that my mom spent her last few minutes on this earth at the hands of the lowest form of social sewage on the ladder of evolution and it's hard to accept that that's what she last saw when before she died.
[Koppel:] Prosecutors say the death penalty will not apply in BTK case. The killings occurred before 1994, when capital punishment was reinstated in Kansas. Joseph and Julie Otero and two of their children were the first BTK victims back in 1974. Their surviving son who found the bodies says justice is not being served.
[Charlie Otero, Parents, Siblings Killed:] I, myself, believe that an eye for an eye and I think that, you know he, he deserves the death penalty for what he did to my family and to the other women and then, once again, here we go with the legal matters of prior to 1994, no death penalty. Stuff like that. You know, I mean, the law is the law, I understand that, but what is the difference? The guy killed the people in '94. He can be put to sleep, but the guy who killed somebody in 1993 can't? I mean, there is no justice there.
[Koppel:] CNN's Aaron Brown will have more on catching BTK tomorrow in a special edition of NEWSNIGHT. That's at 10:00 p.m. Eastern. On the Gulf coast of Florida, searchers today braved torrential rains to look for a missing girl. Nine-year-old Jessica Marie Lunsford vanished from her own bedroom on Wednesday night. CNN's Sara Dorsey is live in Homosassa Springs, with a new development in this case. Hi there, Sara.
[Sara Dorsey, Cnn Correspondent:] Hello. Earlier this afternoon, the Citrus County sheriff's office came out telling us they had a piece of surveillance video from a nearby convenience store that showed a young girl that resembled Jessica. That video was taken early Thursday morning, about an hour before Jessica was reported missing. She was shown with a man and the officials here told the media they wanted help identifying this man to see if, in fact, that could be Jessica in the video. Just minutes ago, they came back out telling us that, in fact, that man had been identified and the young girl in the video was in fact, not Jessica. Now, the entire time that was unfolding and then again wrapped up, volunteers, hundreds of them across this area were searching for the little girl. Rain poured throughout the afternoon and these people still came out in numbers. They were fighting very bad conditions all day today, as well as trying to get through brush and wooded areas, looking for any sign of this little girl. Of course, nothing was found just yet. Police are telling us right now, they don't have a lot to go on. They are getting tips but those tips seem to be not leading them in the right direction. A lot have been sightings they say that really don't seem to have panned out. So right now, the investigation stands where it has. Unfortunately, the last couple of days, police are just waiting for the one tip that could possibly lead them to this little girl. Andrea?
[Koppel:] Such a sad story. Sara Dorsey, thank you so much. A new twist on the capture of Saddam Hussein's half-brother. The Associated Press reports Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan al-Tikriti was captured by Syrian authorities who then turned him over to Iraq as a goodwill gesture. Reports say al-Hassan was detained in Syria following the February 14th assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. CNN's senior international correspondent Nic Robertson explains now why there was a million dollar reward for al- Hassan's capture.
[Nic Robertson, Cnn Correspondent:] He was on the run for almost two years. Saddam Hussein's half brother, Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan al-Tikriti, number 36 on the list of 55 most wanted, now, captured. When these pictures were taken in 1999, he was an adviser to Saddam. Today's interim government accuses him of supervising, planning, and carrying out insurgent operations as well as killing and torturing Iranians. During the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, he was head of Iraqi intelligence becoming director of Iraqi security during the '90s. Then he fell out of favor and was placed under house arrest before being rehabilitated to presidential adviser several years later. Most on the top 55 list, including Saddam's other brothers, Bazan and Watban seen here at the same medal ceremony for presidential advisers, have already been arrested. Bazan, likely one of the first of Saddam's favored hard men to face the Iraqi special tribunal. Sabawi, who had a million dollar bounty on his head seems likely to face a similar fate. According to Iraqi intelligence sources, Sabawi has spent much of the last two years outside of Iraq, notably, they say, settling in Syria for a while. They also say he's been in regular contact with Izat Ibrahim Al-Douri, Saddam's most trusted lieutenant outside his immediate family, a man U.S. military officials say is a key figure behind the insurgency. Nic Robertson, CNN Baghdad.
[Koppel:] More violence across Iraq. The U.S. military today announced a rise in the death toll for U.S. forces. Two American soldiers killed in an insurgent attack yesterday east of Baghdad and a Marine was killed in a separate attack in the Babil province. 1494 U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq since the war began. Southeast of Mosul, eight Iraqis were killed in the town of Hamam al-Alil today when a bomb exploded at a government building. Several of the dead were Iraqi security forces. Two others were wounded in the blast. North of Kirkuk, firefighters have finally extinguished a massive blaze at an Iraqi oil pipeline. A police source says the bomb was planted to damage the pipeline yesterday. CNN is committed to providing you with the latest news and information that affects your security. Up next, there are some of our strongest allies, so why are many European nations being used by terrorists for breeding grounds to terror cells that could threaten the United States? Also-
[Unidentified Male:] I personally would not allow my family or friends to fly out of that airport now knowing what I know.
[Koppel:] Strong words from one man on the security at one of our nation's biggest airports. And consider this he's a former security screener. Plus we're going to spend a good bit of time talking about the AIDS epidemic. Hundreds of thousands of children in one country are orphans, their parents killed by the disease. We'll talk to one woman who is helping those children one at a time.