Wichita ? The family living in a home where the BTK killer strangled a couple and their children 31 years ago is asking the public for some privacy.

Buffy Lietz, 47, said she realizes that the bungalow where she and her family live is interesting to people because Joseph and Julie Otero and two siblings, Josephine, 11, and Joseph II, 9, were found dead in the home Jan. 15, 1974.

But Lietz said the phone calls, knocks at the door and gawkers have brought stress to her family. The attention has worsened since BTK resurfaced last March after nearly 25 years of silence.

Lietz is tired of seeing her address in media reports of the BTK case; photos of her house have appeared on Internet sites; and people park across the street and stare.

“It feels creepy,” she said.

But Lietz said she wants people to know:

“There’s no bloodstains,” Lietz said. “Couldn’t find any DNA, even if you wanted to.”

And the pipe in the basement where the serial killer hung 11-year-old Josephine Otero is plastic, she says. “So I have a feeling that it must not be the (original) one.”

Lietz said even before the renewed attention, she would find children looking into her back door.

“You need to go home,” she would tell them. “You’re trespassing.”

Lietz is asking the public to treat her family and their house with the same respect and courtesy they would expect at their own homes.

She and her family have received repeated phone calls and knocks at the door from media outlets, documentary crews, even visitors from overseas wanting to get inside her home.

For the most part, the answer is no.

She hung up five times on “America’s Most Wanted” before relenting this past December, when cameramen, makeup people, crime-scene re-enactors and host John Walsh came to the home. She said she felt pressured — but also obligated — to help the show because she thought it might help find the killer.

She said she understands that the media is just doing their jobs, but she finds the gawkers rude.

She and her husband, Greg, bought the home several years ago. She said the previous owner told them someone had died there, but they were unaware of the BTK connection.

It wasn’t until The Eagle published a story about noteworthy Wichita places and mentioned hers, she says, that she learned her house’s history.

Some of her teenage daughter’s friends wouldn’t come to the house because of its history, making her daughter — who no longer lives there — feel ostracized. And they decorated the home on their first Halloween and bought candy. Trick-or-treaters visited other homes on the block, but none came to their door.

The house, built in 1947 according to property records, has had at least five other families live there since the murders.

It’s not the same home that the Oteros briefly inhabited, she wants to stress. Over the years, “people have wallpapered, they’ve painted, they’ve changed the doors.”

She said she’d like to move to a warmer, drier climate but she has concluded she can’t put the house up for sale because she would get “ghoulish” people who want to tour it only to see the scene of the infamous murders.

Charlie Otero, who was 15 the day he and two other siblings found their murdered family, has said he would like to return to the house someday “just to feel their souls, if I could, just to be in touch with them for one second.”

But if he came to her door, Lietz said, she would tell him that it is no longer the home he remembered. She would be reluctant to let him in.

“You really can’t go home again,” she said.