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The Serial Killer That STUMPED The FBI _ Israel Keyes · The conspiracy

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Speaker 1: He alluded detection for over a decade, with no clear
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Speaker 1: victim profile, no clear connection to his victims, seemingly random
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Speaker 1: killings spanning the entire country, and is regarded as one
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Speaker 1: of the most methodical and elusive serial killers of the
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Speaker 1: twenty first century. A man who defied every FBI profile
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Speaker 1: and left no trace when the deed was done, Yet
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Speaker 1: all the while, he was just a normal guy that
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Speaker 1: no one suspected. This is the story of serial killer Israel, Keys, crime, conspiracy, cults,
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Speaker 1: Israel Keys was reportedly born in Richmond, Utah, on January seventh,
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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight, and he was the second born to
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Speaker 1: Heidi and John or Jeff Keys, and his nine other
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Speaker 1: siblings included America, Autumn, Rose, Charity, Hosanna, and Sunshine. Sounds
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Speaker 1: like names of kids people are coming up with nowadays.
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Speaker 1: I tell you what, It's just like they see something
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Speaker 1: in the room and they're like, we're gonna name him
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Speaker 1: doctor Pepper. But anyway, they are getting insane and it
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Speaker 1: needs to be addressed. But I digress. So Jeff Israel's
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Speaker 1: father was once a Mormon missionary, but had largely lost
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Speaker 1: faith in mainstream religion and society as a whole by
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Speaker 1: the time he became a father, and Heidi and Jeff
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Speaker 1: decided to raise their family in the wilderness as they
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Speaker 1: despised government interference on top of modern medicine and public schools,
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Speaker 1: so they were quite literally off the grid. So being
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Speaker 1: off the grid, each of the children were delivered at
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Speaker 1: their home and self sufficiency was a virtue. So when
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Speaker 1: Keyes was around five years old, the family packed up
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Speaker 1: and moved to an isolated plot of land in the
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Speaker 1: forests of Colville, Washington, and Jeff supposedly built their cabin
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Speaker 1: by hand and initially continuing Jeff's tradition, the family were
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Speaker 1: members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day
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Speaker 1: Saints in Utah, or the LDS Church, but shortly after
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Speaker 1: the move to Washington, they left the LDS or Mormon
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Speaker 1: faith in favor of the Christian Identity movement, which is
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Speaker 1: not to be confused with just Christians in general. This
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Speaker 1: Christian identity movement had racist, white supremacist beliefs, and Heidi
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Speaker 1: and Jeff became devout followers and joined a local church
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Speaker 1: called the Arc, where it was preached that white people
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Speaker 1: are God's true chosen people. Okay, all right, And the
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Speaker 1: church also held many anti Semitic and anti government fews,
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Speaker 1: and as you can imagine, life in the congregation was
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Speaker 1: rather strict and extremist, and the children attended services that
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Speaker 1: taught racial hatred. Just just crazy to believe, just teaching
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Speaker 1: little kids how to be racist. It just doesn't click
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Speaker 1: in my mind. But it's not my life. I'm reading
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Speaker 1: about someone else's. So the Keys family lifestyle did away
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Speaker 1: with modern amenities and culture and an effort to uphold
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Speaker 1: their religious beliefs. Not unlike that of the Amish. Not
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Speaker 1: saying Amish are racist bigots. By the way, they like
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Speaker 1: live off the grid like the Amish people, and that's it.
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Speaker 1: That's the only similarity there. I just want to make
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Speaker 1: that very clear. Amish people pretty awesome. So they remained
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Speaker 1: cut off from society as a whole, and Key's childhood
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Speaker 1: home in Colville was a one room cabin that lacked
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Speaker 1: running water, plumbing, and electricity, and it was so small,
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Speaker 1: in fact, that many of the children had to sleep
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Speaker 1: outside of the cabin intense regardless of weather conditions. And
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Speaker 1: the Keys kids learned that family virtue of self sufficiency
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Speaker 1: at a very young age, and they hunted wild animals
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Speaker 1: for food, chopped firewood, and worked on neighboring farms for
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Speaker 1: money and to help the family out in their extreme poverty,
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Speaker 1: and their everyday life was geared towards survival and necessity
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Speaker 1: rather than play and proper schooling and homeschooling was the
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Speaker 1: closest thing to a formal education that they got. And
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Speaker 1: while homeschooling can be very effective, my husband was homeschool
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Speaker 1: and he is a literal savant genius, that's usually only
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Speaker 1: the case if the education is actually done right, because
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Speaker 1: it seems that in this particular situation, it was more
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Speaker 1: about restriction than true learning. So it's like they learned
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Speaker 1: the bare minimum and they were completely sheltered from the
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Speaker 1: rest of the world, so it's almost like they were
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Speaker 1: born and raised in a different time period. So when
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Speaker 1: they got out in the real world. It was not
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Speaker 1: the same thing. Bit of a shock, you could say.
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Speaker 1: So as Keyes grew up, he found himself in a
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Speaker 1: bubble of religious extremism through the ever watchful eyes of
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Speaker 1: his parents and deeply influenced by the family's involvement with
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Speaker 1: the Christian Identity churches. But the Keys family eventually left
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Speaker 1: the Arc to join the Christian Israel Covenant Church, which
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Speaker 1: Israel later described as militia like sounds like a tree,
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Speaker 1: and they blended more racist theology with a focus on
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Speaker 1: armed training and readiness, and Israel would become proficient with
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Speaker 1: guns at a very early age and learned to stockpile
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Speaker 1: food and weapons. So it's just it's a big it's cult.
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Speaker 1: It's a cult essentially, it's fear mongering. It's it's end
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Speaker 1: of the world is coming. It's this one guy knows
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Speaker 1: everything and only he's the guy. You know. Only God
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Speaker 1: can talk to me because I know everything. And it's
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Speaker 1: definitely not to get all your money and to go
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Speaker 1: buy a private jet and fly off to fricking Hawaii
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Speaker 1: or something. So religious passion, racism, and a growing love
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Speaker 1: of guns actively surrounded Israel, and it was also through
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Speaker 1: this church and their close proximity as neighbors, that the
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Speaker 1: keyho family would become friends of the Keys family, and
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Speaker 1: the key Hoose were a physical representation of these militant ideals. Now,
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Speaker 1: Shavi Keijo, who was five years older than Israel, would
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Speaker 1: later be arrested with his brother Cheney in nineteen ninety
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Speaker 1: seven after a somewhat famous incident involving a police shootout,
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Speaker 1: and he was also convicted of multiple murders in which
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Speaker 1: he killed a gun dealer and the dealer's wife and daughter,
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Speaker 1: and was sentenced to reconsecutive life sentences. And keys close
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Speaker 1: proximity to such violent individuals and ideology certainly had an
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Speaker 1: effect on him. So it turns out growing up in
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Speaker 1: a racist militia doomsday call in all that good for kids.
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Speaker 1: So even in his early childhood, Israel had already begun
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Speaker 1: to demonstrate concerning behaviors because he was obsessed with guns,
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Speaker 1: and by his own admission, he hunted anything with a
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Speaker 1: heartbeat as a boy, killing animals of all shapes and
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Speaker 1: sizes just for the thrill, not for necessity to eat,
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Speaker 1: just because he liked it. Red flag number one and
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Speaker 1: red flag number two is that he was no stranger
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Speaker 1: to animal tours as well, because Keys was once seen
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Speaker 1: tying a cat to a tree and tying it to death,
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Speaker 1: to the horrors of those who watched. And animal cruelty
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Speaker 1: is of course a potentially early indicator of psychopathy, and
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Speaker 1: Red flag number three was petty crimes were all too
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Speaker 1: common for Israel when he was younger, and he was
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Speaker 1: actually known to break into his neighbor's houses just to
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Speaker 1: rob them, stealing guns and various other items, and he
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Speaker 1: allegedly stockpiled these stolen weapons in a cash at his house,
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Speaker 1: and when this was discovered, he was forced to return
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Speaker 1: the weapons and apologize. And Keys would also vandalize by
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Speaker 1: shooting at neighbors' houses with a BB gun and setting
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Speaker 1: fires in the woods. Ooh, youth arsonist. Red flag number
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Speaker 1: I'm just going to say forty at this point. So
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Speaker 1: those that had the opportunity to cross paths with this
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Speaker 1: little piece of shit psychopath during his early to mid
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Speaker 1: teens noted a kind of creepiness to him, and one
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Speaker 1: girl who knew him said that being around him quote
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Speaker 1: unquote made her skin crawl, and certainly, reaching over six
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Speaker 1: feet tall in height at the age of fourteen made
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Speaker 1: him fairly physically imposing, which intimidated other kids, and he
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Speaker 1: once bragged about skinning a deer while it was still alive.
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Speaker 1: What after which point most of the kids from the
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Speaker 1: congregation and the few neighbors he had it didn't want
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Speaker 1: much to do with him. Kind of crazy that, you know,
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Speaker 1: these racist militant to doomsday weirdos are creeped out by
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Speaker 1: the kid that. I mean, obviously all the things he's
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Speaker 1: doing is crazy, but even they're like, whoa, dude, that's
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Speaker 1: a bit too much. Okay, we're cool with being racist militants,
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Speaker 1: but maybe layoff, maybe lay off the fire, all right.
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Speaker 1: So Keys was aware of his deviants early on, and
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Speaker 1: he had said that by the time he was fourteen,
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Speaker 1: and he recognized his thoughts and behaviors weren't seen as
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Speaker 1: normal by other people. So he's aware of what he's doing,
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Speaker 1: and especially the incident noted before where he torek and
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Speaker 1: sh the cat, noting that people's reaction to it pushed
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Speaker 1: him to spend more time to himself and mask his
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Speaker 1: behaviors in the presence of others. Classic classic psychopathently and
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Speaker 1: he said quote, I've known since I was fourteen that
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Speaker 1: there were things that I thought were normal and okay
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Speaker 1: that no one else seemed to think were normal and okay.
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Speaker 1: So that's when I just started being a loner, and
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Speaker 1: people found out about some of the stuff I did,
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Speaker 1: Like my parents and parents of other kids who would
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Speaker 1: hang out with me, they would find out about some
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Speaker 1: of the stuff I did. And that's when I just
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Speaker 1: started doing stuff by myself exclusively unquote. So as he
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Speaker 1: continued to grow, so did his dark side, and he
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Speaker 1: began to cultivate what was essentially a double life. One
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Speaker 1: that would be the public facing persona that would fit
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Speaker 1: in and please his parents in those around him, and
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Speaker 1: the other that would allow his darkest desires to be
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Speaker 1: free and satisfied. And he tried to rationalize his violent
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Speaker 1: thoughts and tendencies through his religious upbringing, attempting to place
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Speaker 1: the blame on Satan or other evil powers, not taking
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Speaker 1: any sort of responsibility for his actions. But ultimately he
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Speaker 1: came to terms with the belief that violence was simply
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Speaker 1: part of who he was, and Key's strict and unforgiving
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Speaker 1: home situation left him with no healthy outlet or anything
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Speaker 1: to help prevent his troublesome psychopathic behaviors, and supposedly there's
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Speaker 1: a possibility that he was by his father as well,
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Speaker 1: though this is unconfirmed, but if true, it would certainly
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Speaker 1: have added all the more reason for anger and lack
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Speaker 1: of empathy. So Key's circumstance and influences essentially molded him
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Speaker 1: into a predator in training by his teen years, and
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Speaker 1: he would keep his deeper fantasies secret, knowing they were
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Speaker 1: socially unacceptable. And this secrecy and depth were just the
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Speaker 1: beginning of what would later manifest itself into his adult life.
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Speaker 1: And it's crazy to think how if he grew up around,
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Speaker 1: you know, some sort of where therapy was okay, or
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Speaker 1: in a loving family. It's the nature nurture argument. It's like,
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Speaker 1: I feel like maybe a little bit of this was
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Speaker 1: already in him, but the environment in which he was
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Speaker 1: raised just nurtured that character and he essentially just learned
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Speaker 1: how to hide it. And obviously I have a bias
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Speaker 1: now because I know what an evil human being he became.
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Speaker 1: But as a kid, it's it. I always have empathy
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Speaker 1: for the kid because it's like I feel like environment
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Speaker 1: is always some sort of factor. So Key's family packed
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Speaker 1: up and moved a couple times during his teens, and
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Speaker 1: the precise timings and movement of Keys and his family
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Speaker 1: are somewhat difficult to determine from various sources, but some
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Speaker 1: claim that Keys was with his family as they moved,
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Speaker 1: and others claim he went independently and potentially not at all,
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Speaker 1: so it's kind of up in the air. But regardless
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Speaker 1: of timing and whether he was with them, the locations
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Speaker 1: they moved to are confirmed. So in the mid to
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Speaker 1: late nineteen nineties, the Keys family moved to Maupin, Organ,
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Speaker 1: sorry if I'm shaying that wrong, which is a small
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Speaker 1: desert town located directly along the Dshuts River, and it
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Speaker 1: was in this town that Keys claims he committed his
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Speaker 1: first violent crime, which we'll discuss shortly. And later the
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Speaker 1: Keys family moved near an Amish community in Smyrna, Maine,
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Speaker 1: all right, if I'm saying that wrong, where they became
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Speaker 1: involved in a local maple syrup business, and eventually one
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Speaker 1: of the Key sisters wrote that the move to Maine
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Speaker 1: was part of their father's attempt to fix the older
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Speaker 1: children's behavior by removing bad influences. So the parents are
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Speaker 1: thankfully seeing how their children are acting and trying to
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Speaker 1: change it. I guess. I mean, there's you know, the
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Speaker 1: whole religious thing behind it and being racist and all that.
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Speaker 1: But you know, couldn't be that, you know, couldn't be that.
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Speaker 1: But they thought, supposedly it wouldn't be present near the
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Speaker 1: Amish community bad behavior, that is. But by the time
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Speaker 1: the family had relocated to Maine, the Keys had become
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Speaker 1: fully disconnected from them, Yet there is evidence that he
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Speaker 1: was present in the area, as at least one source
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Speaker 1: mentions that there was a neighbor that called Keyes a nice,
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Speaker 1: courteous young man. So this disconnect from the family arose
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Speaker 1: from Key's departure from their tradition, and throughout his teenage years,
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Speaker 1: Keyes struggled with the faith of his family, and he
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Speaker 1: eventually realized that he did not share the beliefs that
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Speaker 1: his parents did, and that was hard for him, considering
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Speaker 1: he had worked hard to please them for so long,
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Speaker 1: and whether that desire to please was legitimate or simply
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Speaker 1: masking is very hard to say, but he clearly wanted
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Speaker 1: some sort of validation from his parents, but by his
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Speaker 1: later teens he rebelled against them and openly renounced his
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Speaker 1: faith in Christian identity. And Keys became interested in Satanism
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Speaker 1: during this period, and this led to a serious confrontation
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Speaker 1: between him and his parents, and the response to his
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Speaker 1: blasphemy was to exile him from their home and forbid
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Speaker 1: any of his siblings from having contact with him ever again.
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Speaker 1: Yet even with the loss of his family in this way,
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Speaker 1: Keys earned a sort of freedom. Here he was no
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Speaker 1: longer bound by any rules but the ones he made
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Speaker 1: for himself, so he finally found some sort of independence,
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Speaker 1: and he later admitted that he became an atheist, and
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Speaker 1: by rejecting any sort of external morality, the stage was
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Speaker 1: set for his future violent acts to come, and he
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Speaker 1: reportedly had fully embraced his desire to kill by this
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Speaker 1: point in his life so his late teens, noting that
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Speaker 1: it was just a matter of time before he acted
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Speaker 1: on his impulses. So Key's first known violent crime was
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Speaker 1: an s that went unreported, and he was living in Maupin,
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Speaker 1: Organ at the time, sometime between nineteen ninety six to
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight, and decided to live out his fantasy
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Speaker 1: of abducting and murdering a person extremely fed up, and
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Speaker 1: his target was a young girl estimated to be between
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Speaker 1: the ages of fourteen to eighteen, who was having a
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Speaker 1: day out with friends on the Douchetes River, and according
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Speaker 1: to his confession later on, Keys watched the girl from
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Speaker 1: the tree line until she was separated from her group,
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Speaker 1: and he then waded out to her, grabbed her tube,
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Speaker 1: and pulled her to the shore at knife point, and
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Speaker 1: then he would drag her to a remote area, allegedly
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Speaker 1: a campground restroom, and he would tie her up, and
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Speaker 1: then he proceeded to as her and Keys had every
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Speaker 1: intention to murder this girl as part of a satanic
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Speaker 1: ritual he had been fantasizing about, and he told investigators
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Speaker 1: that he brought knives that he planned to use for
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Speaker 1: her gruesome killing in disposal. But the girl's cries for
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Speaker 1: help and attempts to humanize herself in the presence of
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Speaker 1: her potential killer actually made Keys hesitate. Would thank God,
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Speaker 1: what a strong woman would like always always, always cry
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Speaker 1: over help always. It's just I'm so glad that she
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Speaker 1: did that, And she would promise that she would never
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Speaker 1: tell anyone if he just let her go. And surprisingly,
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Speaker 1: her calm demeanor saved her life. And in his own words, quote,
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Speaker 1: she was pretty smart. It worked unquote and he released
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Speaker 1: the girl and sent her back on her way to
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Speaker 1: meet back up with her friends. Quote I was too timid,
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Speaker 1: I wasn't violent enough unquote, Keys would later admit, and
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Speaker 1: he would go on to say that he would not
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Speaker 1: let that happen again, and he vowed never to let
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Speaker 1: another victim escape alive. So the incident remained unreported and
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Speaker 1: was most likely unknown altogether until keyes eventual confession. So,
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Speaker 1: when Keyes was twenty years old, he decided to join
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Speaker 1: the army, and he earned his ged and traveled to Albany,
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Speaker 1: New York in nineteen ninety eight and enlisted on July ninth,
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Speaker 1: and records show that he served as a specialist while
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Speaker 1: in uniform, and Keys went through basic and then Advanced
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Speaker 1: infantry training, both of which he actually excelled at, which
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Speaker 1: isn't all that surprising given he was in a militia
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Speaker 1: when he was nine years old, and he even completed
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Speaker 1: the US Army Rangers Course, which is an elite train
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Speaker 1: a program focused on small unit tactics, endurance, and leadership.
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Speaker 1: So he was an extremely capable soldier, fit, disciplined, and
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Speaker 1: possessing great knowledge of weapons. All also the horrifying makes
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Speaker 1: of a devastating serial killer. So Keys was posted in
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Speaker 1: multiple locations during his army service from nineteen ninety eight
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Speaker 1: to two thousand and one, and he first served at
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Speaker 1: Fort Lewis in Washington as part of the first Battalion,
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Speaker 1: fifth Infantry Regimen, twenty fifth Infantry Division on the mortar
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Speaker 1: team that was malful, and later he was stationed at
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Speaker 1: Fort Hood in Texas, followed by a six month deployment
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Speaker 1: overseas to the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, and the deployment
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Speaker 1: was relatively uneventful at least from what we know, though
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Speaker 1: Keyes was able to make friends and travel the region,
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Speaker 1: reportedly patronizing Ladies of the night during his time on leave, though,
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Speaker 1: and his peers noted that he seemed to do really
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Speaker 1: well with the regimented lifestyle that the army provided, showing
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Speaker 1: no obvious signs of the darkness that would later be revealed,
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Speaker 1: at least not while they were on duty. So outside
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Speaker 1: of his excellent performance, Key's demeanor as a soldier was
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Speaker 1: generally quiet and withdrawn, and he tended to keep to
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Speaker 1: himself on base and didn't really cause any trouble, that
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Speaker 1: is until the weekend came around and he was known
21:19
Speaker 1: to be a heavy drinker when he was off duty,
21:22
Speaker 1: and he allegedly would finish entire bottles of wild turkey,
21:25
Speaker 1: which is his favorite bourbon. And there were some subtle
21:28
Speaker 1: signs that Keys possessed the capacity for violence that showed
21:32
Speaker 1: themselves in the army and were most likely just overlooked
21:35
Speaker 1: at the time, and at one point, while deployed in Egypt,
21:38
Speaker 1: he allegedly told another soldier that he would quote unquote
21:42
Speaker 1: would like to kill him red flag number one hundred
21:45
Speaker 1: and fifty two, and while in custody years later, he
21:48
Speaker 1: confessed to allegedly attempting to ask a lady of the
21:52
Speaker 1: night and a college student he met while deployed. And
21:55
Speaker 1: he also really loved Insane clown and pose and had
21:58
Speaker 1: large posters of the group hosted in the barracks. And
22:01
Speaker 1: though not necessarily an indicator of violence, the group's music
22:05
Speaker 1: does have violent references and some sparked some controversial discussion
22:09
Speaker 1: over whether or not it incites actual violence, which I
22:13
Speaker 1: don't know if that's the case. I feel like people
22:16
Speaker 1: who are violent will gravitate towards violent music and it'll just,
22:21
Speaker 1: you know, it's just something they like because they're already
22:24
Speaker 1: like that. I don't think music really makes you that way.
22:27
Speaker 1: But what do I know? I don't know. But his
22:29
Speaker 1: only major run in with the law was when he
22:31
Speaker 1: was arrested for dui in February of two thousand and one,
22:35
Speaker 1: and his record was clean other than that, and one
22:38
Speaker 1: of his army friends later noted that Key's dark side
22:41
Speaker 1: would show when he drank, but of course, at the time,
22:44
Speaker 1: none of these things were connected to any criminal activity.
22:47
Speaker 1: At worst, his antics were most likely viewed as simply
22:50
Speaker 1: blowing off some steam. So Key's service would come to
22:53
Speaker 1: an end when he was honorably discharged from the Army
22:55
Speaker 1: on July eighth, two thousand and one, at Fort Lewis,
22:58
Speaker 1: And on paper, his military career was exemplary, and he
23:01
Speaker 1: received several awards, including Army Achievement Medal recognizing his service
23:06
Speaker 1: as a gunner or assistant gunner, an Army Service Ribbon,
23:10
Speaker 1: a Marksman Badge with Rifle bar, an Expert Infantrymen Badge,
23:15
Speaker 1: and Air Assault Badge. So now that the chapter with
23:18
Speaker 1: the Army had finished, Keyes returned to civilian life, but
23:22
Speaker 1: his military experience had provided him with skills with handling
23:26
Speaker 1: weapons even better than he did when he was nine
23:29
Speaker 1: years old and utilizing stealth and extreme endurance, all of
23:34
Speaker 1: which came in handy for realizing his very dark desires.
23:38
Speaker 1: So Keys made his way back to Washington State, starting
23:42
Speaker 1: his next chapter of life on the Macaw Indian Reservation
23:45
Speaker 1: in Nia Bay, and he lived with Tammy Hawkins, a
23:49
Speaker 1: woman that he had met and begun dating while stationed
23:52
Speaker 1: at Fort Lewis. And Tammy was a member of the
23:55
Speaker 1: tribe and by the time Keys discharge, she was pregnant
23:58
Speaker 1: with his child, and Tammy gave birth to a lady
24:00
Speaker 1: in late two thousand and one, and Keys led what
24:03
Speaker 1: was by all appearances, a very stable life as a
24:07
Speaker 1: loving father and supportive partner for the next six years,
24:10
Speaker 1: which is just crazy to imagine. I mean, I just
24:14
Speaker 1: think of you know, John Wayne Gacy and BTK and
24:19
Speaker 1: Ed Camper, all these people that are like capable of
24:21
Speaker 1: living double lives. It just it blows my mind. But
24:25
Speaker 1: Israel was absolutely one of them. So Israel worked for
24:28
Speaker 1: the Macaw Tribal Council and was known as a reliable handyman,
24:32
Speaker 1: and he seemed to welcome domestic life, as neighbors recall
24:35
Speaker 1: him as polite and a quiet man who was kind
24:38
Speaker 1: and helpful, yet unknown to those around him. His darker
24:42
Speaker 1: side was ever present and growing much stronger amidst the
24:46
Speaker 1: mask of a normal life. So no longer bound to
24:49
Speaker 1: the structured life of the army, and living far from
24:51
Speaker 1: anyone who really knew him, Keyes found the freedom he
24:54
Speaker 1: needed to finally begin his killing fantasies, and he later
24:58
Speaker 1: admitted that he started killing people in two thousand and one,
25:02
Speaker 1: shortly after moving to Nia Bay. And he claimed that
25:05
Speaker 1: between two thousand and one and two thousand and six
25:07
Speaker 1: that he murdered at least four people in Washington State,
25:11
Speaker 1: all of which were crimes that were never connected or
25:14
Speaker 1: figured out. And Keys also implied that he killed someone
25:18
Speaker 1: in two thousand and one around Nia Bay and either
25:20
Speaker 1: buried or submerged the body in a remote location, but
25:24
Speaker 1: the body was never found in a related search, but
25:27
Speaker 1: was ruled in accidental death. And one of the murders
25:30
Speaker 1: was a double homicide. And Keys alleged that he abducted
25:33
Speaker 1: and killed a young couple somewhere between two thousand and
25:36
Speaker 1: one and two thousand and five, and he said that
25:38
Speaker 1: he beat the male victim to death with a shovel
25:41
Speaker 1: and straggled the female victim, then buried both bodies in
25:45
Speaker 1: an undisclosed location and these identities are still unknown and
25:49
Speaker 1: no matching missing persons case has been linked. And the
25:52
Speaker 1: other murders were of two individuals in separate incidences around
25:57
Speaker 1: two thousand and five and two thousand and six, and
25:59
Speaker 1: one of the victims' bodies was disposed of in Lake Crescent,
26:03
Speaker 1: but this body was never recovered either, and Keys did
26:06
Speaker 1: not give the names of these victims, and none of
26:09
Speaker 1: them have been identified nor connected to Keys in any
26:12
Speaker 1: meaningful way. So these initial murders went under the radar
26:16
Speaker 1: of authorities because Keys was very careful about his victim's
26:19
Speaker 1: selection and he chose random victims and left minimal, if
26:23
Speaker 1: any evidence. All the while, he continued living his life,
26:27
Speaker 1: giving no indication to anyone around him that he was
26:30
Speaker 1: now a murderer. And investigators do believe that his first
26:34
Speaker 1: murder likely occurred in that first summer Keys was in
26:37
Speaker 1: Nia Bay, and the FBI continues to look into open
26:40
Speaker 1: cases in Washington and the surrounding areas from this timeframe,
26:44
Speaker 1: just attempting to use Key's travel history as a guide
26:47
Speaker 1: and when asked why he committed the murders in Niha Bay,
26:51
Speaker 1: he replied, quote, Niabay's a boring town. Unquote what a monster.
26:58
Speaker 1: But these are all murders that potentially happened but were
27:03
Speaker 1: never actually verified. So as Keys began realizing his desires,
27:08
Speaker 1: he spent a ton of time studying other serial killers
27:12
Speaker 1: and understanding how to avoid their mistakes. And he poured
27:16
Speaker 1: over case studies in FBI publications, and he read books
27:20
Speaker 1: and articles, and he became intimately familiar with how profilers worked,
27:24
Speaker 1: and he greatly admired other killers who traveled like he did,
27:28
Speaker 1: and one in particular that Keys was fond of was
27:31
Speaker 1: none other than Ted Bundy, who he considered an influence.
27:36
Speaker 1: And Bundy also masked his true self for years and
27:39
Speaker 1: traveled between states to kill, and Key's approach to murder
27:43
Speaker 1: became obsessively calculated and methodical, and one of the biggest
27:47
Speaker 1: realizations of the risks of serial killers was holding on
27:50
Speaker 1: to weapons or souvenirs that could tie them to the
27:53
Speaker 1: crimes they commit, and also committing said crimes near where
27:57
Speaker 1: they lived, adding themselves to the susse that pool by proximity.
28:01
Speaker 1: And to combat this, he began crafting and burying kill
28:05
Speaker 1: kits around the country, and these were caches that he
28:10
Speaker 1: used to hide weapons, ammo, cash, zip ties, chemicals to
28:15
Speaker 1: dissolve bodies, and other tools. He was doing what he
28:19
Speaker 1: did as a little kid when he stole stuff from
28:21
Speaker 1: the neighbor's house and put them in a cash, which
28:24
Speaker 1: is essentially a place where you just store items that
28:27
Speaker 1: are usually hidden. So he was just, by all accounts,
28:32
Speaker 1: like the most premeditated murderer I've ever heard of. He
28:36
Speaker 1: was hiding cashes in places where he wasn't even looking
28:39
Speaker 1: for victims at that point yet. He was just knowing
28:42
Speaker 1: that eventually he would, but he was just doing that
28:45
Speaker 1: so he wouldn't get caught. It's just the methodology of
28:49
Speaker 1: israel Keys is absolutely insane. So the cash would be
28:53
Speaker 1: plastic buckets or bins, and he would place them in
28:55
Speaker 1: secret locations so he could dig them up whenever he
28:58
Speaker 1: wanted them for and inside these buckets were the weapons
29:02
Speaker 1: and chemicals and anything that he would want to murder someone.
29:06
Speaker 1: And thanks to this level of pre planning, he could
29:09
Speaker 1: simply arrive in an area and already have everything he
29:12
Speaker 1: needed for the kill, no need for suspicious purchases or
29:16
Speaker 1: carrying incriminating items while traveling, and sometimes these caches were
29:20
Speaker 1: buried years before being used again. Just the level of evil,
29:31
Speaker 1: and this obviously being the number one thing he thinks
29:35
Speaker 1: about all the time, is just it's insane. Like, for example,
29:39
Speaker 1: one that he planted in Essex, Vermont in two thousand
29:42
Speaker 1: and nine, he didn't use until twenty eleven for the
29:47
Speaker 1: courier murders, which we will talk about shortly. And he
29:50
Speaker 1: hid kits in several states across the US, some of
29:53
Speaker 1: which were discovered after Keys disclothed their locations, and many
29:57
Speaker 1: of which have yet to be found. So there's still
30:00
Speaker 1: god knows how many cases israel Keys cases out there
30:04
Speaker 1: in the United States. And Keys stuck to a few
30:07
Speaker 1: rules that helped him avoid detection. He never killed close
30:11
Speaker 1: to home, and he never killed in the same area
30:13
Speaker 1: more than once, unless during the same murder. And he
30:17
Speaker 1: intentionally crossed jurisdictions to take advantage of the informational gaps
30:21
Speaker 1: between law enforcement agencies, especially at the time, because it's
30:25
Speaker 1: gotten better and better over the years, but even in
30:27
Speaker 1: their nineties and early two thousands, it was still a
30:30
Speaker 1: bit dodgy. So his crimes were so scattered, both in
30:33
Speaker 1: location and time that a single killer was never suspected,
30:38
Speaker 1: and in order to fund his future murderous pursuits, Keys
30:42
Speaker 1: committed a string of bank and home robberies to steal
30:45
Speaker 1: money and various other items to sell, and at least
30:48
Speaker 1: two of these bank robberies were confirmed, one in Tupper Lake,
30:52
Speaker 1: New York in April of two thousand and nine and
30:54
Speaker 1: the other one in Azul, Texas in February twenty twelve,
30:59
Speaker 1: and the stolen fund were used to pay for airline tickets,
31:01
Speaker 1: rental cars, gas, and any and all other expenses occured
31:05
Speaker 1: in the murder of innocent people. But he also had
31:08
Speaker 1: a legitimate construction business which also provided extra funds that
31:12
Speaker 1: helped his process. So Key's relationship with Tammy had begun
31:16
Speaker 1: to fall apart in two thousand and six and the
31:19
Speaker 1: couple parted ways, though Laney would split time between the
31:22
Speaker 1: two of them, and not long after, he began a
31:25
Speaker 1: new relationship with a woman named Kimberly Anderson around two
31:28
Speaker 1: thousand and seven, and she was a nurse practitioner from Alaska,
31:32
Speaker 1: and the relationship progressed fairly quickly, turning sirious after a
31:36
Speaker 1: very short time, and when Kimberly decided to move back
31:39
Speaker 1: to Alaska for work. Keys decided to follow, so Keyes
31:43
Speaker 1: and Laney moved along with Kimberly to Anchorage, Alaska, where
31:47
Speaker 1: they settled into the city's turn again neighborhood, which was
31:50
Speaker 1: home to many professionals and a state Superior Court judge.
31:54
Speaker 1: And Keyes immediately got to work starting up a business,
31:57
Speaker 1: and he founded Keyes Construction to make use of his
32:00
Speaker 1: extensive construction and handyman skills and advertised himself as a
32:04
Speaker 1: reliable contractor for home projects. And he built decks and
32:08
Speaker 1: fences and remodeled kitchens and more, and clients viewed him
32:12
Speaker 1: as competent and efficient, earning himself a good reputation for
32:16
Speaker 1: his craftsmanship in the community. And he continued to uphold
32:20
Speaker 1: his former image of adoring father and devoted partner once again,
32:24
Speaker 1: even though now that was different with a different partner.
32:27
Speaker 1: The Keys spoke lovingly about his daughter to coworkers and neighbors,
32:31
Speaker 1: and the family had pet pugs who were well taken
32:34
Speaker 1: care of, and Keys had even built a special ramp
32:37
Speaker 1: for them so they could easily walk from the back
32:39
Speaker 1: porch down into the yard. So by all accounts, they
32:42
Speaker 1: just appeared like a very normal, nice family, which just
32:46
Speaker 1: makes all of this extra horrifying. And people who interacted
32:50
Speaker 1: with Keys knew him as friendly yet just like an
32:53
Speaker 1: unremarkable guy, because he worked really hard to not draw
32:56
Speaker 1: too much attention to himself, and he was generally light
33:00
Speaker 1: and just soft spoken, and a local attorney who hired
33:03
Speaker 1: him for his handyman services said quote, I never got
33:07
Speaker 1: any bad or weird, scary, odd vibe from him in
33:11
Speaker 1: any way, shape or formquote. He was just seen as
33:14
Speaker 1: a dependable and spent lots of time caring for Laney,
33:18
Speaker 1: often taking her on trips, and Keyes also loved the outdoors,
33:23
Speaker 1: which is not uncommon for people in Alaska, because he
33:25
Speaker 1: loved fishing, he loved hiking and kayaking and camping, and
33:29
Speaker 1: his apparent passion for being in the wild and his
33:31
Speaker 1: survival skills helped him fit right into Alaskan culture, and
33:35
Speaker 1: anyone who knew him recognized the importance he placed on
33:39
Speaker 1: his family relationship, which is why so many were at
33:42
Speaker 1: a loss for words when his crimes would eventually come
33:45
Speaker 1: to light. But beneath that nice, normal guy exterior, Keyes
33:49
Speaker 1: continued to indulge in his dark fantasies, and between two
33:53
Speaker 1: thousand and seven and twenty twelve. His time in Anchorage,
33:57
Speaker 1: specifically he executed some of his most carefully planned and
34:01
Speaker 1: far reaching murders, Extending that time frame to include a
34:04
Speaker 1: few extra years. He traveled extensively from October two thousand
34:09
Speaker 1: four to March twenty twelve, with at least thirty five
34:12
Speaker 1: multi state trips, many of which were to hunt for victims,
34:17
Speaker 1: and his strategy for these trips was a well oiled machine,
34:22
Speaker 1: as he would fly to a given location, rent a
34:25
Speaker 1: car nearby, and then drive hundreds or thousands of miles
34:29
Speaker 1: to his target area. So this just separated his place
34:33
Speaker 1: of entrance from the crime scene and the crime and
34:36
Speaker 1: he also paid for everything in cash and removed the
34:39
Speaker 1: battery from his cell phone to prevent it from being tracked.
34:42
Speaker 1: And on the road, Keys carefully made sure he kept
34:45
Speaker 1: a low profile, and it worked, as he was able
34:48
Speaker 1: to travel between multiple states throughout these years completely under
34:51
Speaker 1: the radar of the authorities, and oftentimes he would combine
34:56
Speaker 1: family visits and vacations with scouting for his next victim
35:00
Speaker 1: and prepping for the deed. And in retrospect, it's unclear
35:03
Speaker 1: if these visits and trips actually served the dual purpose
35:07
Speaker 1: of seeing family and relaxing while scouting, or if the
35:10
Speaker 1: sole purpose was to scout while hiding that intention. And
35:14
Speaker 1: when the FBI finally mapped out the totality of keys travels,
35:18
Speaker 1: they found that unsolved murders and disappearances seemed to align.
35:22
Speaker 1: And Keys was very patient when looking for his victims,
35:25
Speaker 1: waiting for just the right moment of opportunity, and he
35:28
Speaker 1: preferred places like campgrounds, parks and cemeteries or boating docks
35:33
Speaker 1: as they were very remote, quiet places where potential victims
35:37
Speaker 1: could be alone, and he'd stake out these areas sometimes
35:40
Speaker 1: for days, holding out for that perfect person to come along.
35:44
Speaker 1: And Key said that he would usually let the victim
35:47
Speaker 1: come to me by selecting spots that people naturally passed
35:51
Speaker 1: through but were usually isolated, and if he was proactive
35:54
Speaker 1: in scouting houses, he chose easily accessible locations with avoidable
35:59
Speaker 1: security and no additional people like children or watchful neighbors
36:03
Speaker 1: or dogs to alert an opportunity. Was the driver here
36:07
Speaker 1: rather than the specific type of victim, because he did
36:11
Speaker 1: not discriminate on that person, just that the time was
36:14
Speaker 1: right with no one to witness. And because of this specifically,
36:19
Speaker 1: he had no consistent victim profile, at least in the
36:22
Speaker 1: traditional sense, and the victims varied in age, gender, and ethnicity,
36:27
Speaker 1: and he later claimed that he had a specific rule
36:29
Speaker 1: against harming children, which allegedly arose from his daughter, and
36:34
Speaker 1: it's true that no confirmed victims were children, but many
36:38
Speaker 1: remain unsure if this was genuine or part of Keys
36:41
Speaker 1: just games that he loved to play. And Keys also
36:43
Speaker 1: made sure to fully cover his tracks, and he disposed
36:46
Speaker 1: of bodies in secluded areas, sometimes sinking them in bodies
36:50
Speaker 1: of water or using chemicals to dissolve them. And as
36:53
Speaker 1: mentioned before, he didn't hold on to keepsakes like the
36:56
Speaker 1: murder weapon or items from the victims and made sure
37:00
Speaker 1: they were moved and never found. And though Israel effectively
37:04
Speaker 1: hid his criminal life, he still had his demons in
37:07
Speaker 1: his personal life, and he never quite kicked his drinking
37:10
Speaker 1: habit from the army, and that was coupled with severe
37:13
Speaker 1: bouts of seasonal depression, especially being in Alaska where it's
37:16
Speaker 1: dark a lot at the time, and this naturally took
37:19
Speaker 1: a toll on his relationship with Kimberly, and the two
37:22
Speaker 1: would split sometime in twenty eleven, but before the split.
37:26
Speaker 1: There was allegedly an evening in which Kimberly took the
37:28
Speaker 1: bottle away from Keys and he threatened to you know
37:32
Speaker 1: what to himself because of it, and he later admitted
37:35
Speaker 1: to spending time with ladies of the night at some
37:38
Speaker 1: point during his travels and even potentially in Alaska. Though
37:42
Speaker 1: he never confessed to specifically murdering a lady of the night,
37:46
Speaker 1: the FBI did have their suspicions considering his patterns. Yet
37:51
Speaker 1: even with these struggles, friends and neighbors would never have
37:54
Speaker 1: guessed that these were more than just hiccups in an
37:57
Speaker 1: otherwise well adjusted individual. Bill and Lorraine Courier were a
38:01
Speaker 1: married couple in their fifties living in Essex, Vermont, and
38:05
Speaker 1: Bill was an animal care technician known for his love
38:09
Speaker 1: and dedication to helping animals, as well as always offering
38:12
Speaker 1: a hand to neighbors. And Lorraine worked at Fletcher Allen
38:15
Speaker 1: Healthcare and was known and loved for her caring demeanor
38:19
Speaker 1: and patience. And they had lived a quiet and happy
38:22
Speaker 1: life together since their marriage in nineteen eighty five, and
38:25
Speaker 1: they had no children of their own, but took special
38:28
Speaker 1: care of their pets, and they were the sort of
38:31
Speaker 1: people who loved their jobs and never missed work without notice.
38:35
Speaker 1: So Keys targeted the couriers at random on June eighth,
38:39
Speaker 1: twenty eleven, based on the fact that their house had
38:42
Speaker 1: an easy way to enter through the garage, and some
38:45
Speaker 1: sources also note he was looking for a place that
38:48
Speaker 1: had a couple living in it with no kids and
38:51
Speaker 1: no dogs, and he flew from Alaska to Chicago just
38:55
Speaker 1: a few days prior, rented a car, and then drove
38:58
Speaker 1: over one thousand miles to Vermont in search of his
39:01
Speaker 1: next victims. He was the epitome of a patient serial killer.
39:07
Speaker 1: And this is the location I mentioned before that Keys
39:10
Speaker 1: had buried one of his kits a couple years prior.
39:14
Speaker 1: So on the night of the eighth, the Keys went
39:16
Speaker 1: up to the house wearing a headlamp and carrying a gun,
39:19
Speaker 1: and he first cut their phone line and disabled their
39:22
Speaker 1: alarm system, and then he broke a window to get
39:25
Speaker 1: into the attached garage and made his way into the
39:27
Speaker 1: main house from there, and the couple was asleep in
39:31
Speaker 1: their bed, and he woke them up at gunpoint to
39:33
Speaker 1: subdue them with zip ties for their wrists, and they
39:37
Speaker 1: obeyed his demands despite their fear and Keys did allow
39:41
Speaker 1: them to get dressed and put their slippers on to
39:43
Speaker 1: help them get over the glass as he moved them
39:46
Speaker 1: to their nineteen ninety six Saturn, and then he drove
39:49
Speaker 1: them in their car to an abandoned farmhouse that he
39:52
Speaker 1: had chosen earlier as the murder spot. So grabbing Bill,
39:56
Speaker 1: he dragged him into the house and bound him downstairs,
40:00
Speaker 1: and as he did, Lorraine tried to escape, but he
40:02
Speaker 1: chased her down and brought her inside as well, but
40:05
Speaker 1: to a separate area, and Bill kept calling out, quote unquote,
40:10
Speaker 1: where's my wife, after which Keys him to death, and
40:14
Speaker 1: he then focused on Lorraine, and he would first ask
40:18
Speaker 1: her and then move on to strengthen her, which would
40:21
Speaker 1: knock her unconscious at some point, and when she woke
40:24
Speaker 1: up again, she again fought for her life, which Keys
40:28
Speaker 1: later noted that she was quote unquote feisty, but in
40:33
Speaker 1: the end he strank her to death. And after he
40:36
Speaker 1: committed the murders, Keys placed their bodies in trash bags
40:40
Speaker 1: and hid them under debris, and he poured draino on
40:43
Speaker 1: top of their bodies to try and decompose them quicker,
40:47
Speaker 1: and then drove the courier's car to an apartment complex,
40:50
Speaker 1: abandoned it and returned to get his rental car, and
40:54
Speaker 1: he allegedly stole a handgun from the courier's residence, which
40:58
Speaker 1: he hid with his own weapon and remaining materials back
41:01
Speaker 1: into the cash and placed it in a reservoir in Parishville,
41:05
Speaker 1: New York. So the next day, when Bill and the
41:07
Speaker 1: rain both failed to show up to work, coworkers immediately
41:10
Speaker 1: knew something was wrong, and police went to their home
41:13
Speaker 1: and saw signs of home invasion, including the broken glass
41:16
Speaker 1: and cut phone line and missing car and personal gun,
41:19
Speaker 1: But both Lorraine's glasses and Bill's insulin were still in
41:22
Speaker 1: the house, which was odd and a major search and
41:25
Speaker 1: investigation would begin, but no solid leads could be found
41:29
Speaker 1: at the time, and their abandoned car was found a
41:31
Speaker 1: few days later, but it offered very few clues and
41:35
Speaker 1: the case would go cold, and it wasn't until Key's
41:38
Speaker 1: later confession that the truth would come to light. But
41:41
Speaker 1: their bodies would never be recovered, and the farmhouse that
41:44
Speaker 1: was the scene of the crime was demolished and the
41:46
Speaker 1: debris was sent to a landfill before police ever knew
41:49
Speaker 1: it took place there, and a statement was released in
41:52
Speaker 1: honor of Bill and Lorraine's bravery that night, saying, quote
41:56
Speaker 1: they fought to the end unquote. So. Samantha Knegg was
41:59
Speaker 1: a barista from Anchorage, Alaska, born on August thirtieth, nineteen
42:03
Speaker 1: ninety three. She was a smart and sociable young woman
42:06
Speaker 1: known for her warm smile and bubbly personality. And she
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Speaker 1: had grown up in Anchorage and had dreams of joining
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Speaker 1: the Navy to become a nurse. And she was dating
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Speaker 1: a young man named Dwayne and living with her dad, James,
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Speaker 1: who believed the world revolved around her. So Samantha worked
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Speaker 1: a light shift at the small roadside coffee shop known
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Speaker 1: as Common Grounds, and she did that to earn money
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Speaker 1: that she put towards her dream as she figured out
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Speaker 1: her next steps in life. And for whatever reason, Keyes
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Speaker 1: decided to break his own rule on February first, twenty
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Speaker 1: twelve and abduct Samantha on his own turf. So that
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Speaker 1: evening she was working the stand alone and just before
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Speaker 1: eight pm, after closing time, Keys came up to the
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Speaker 1: window wearing a ski mask and ordered a coffee, and
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Speaker 1: as Samantha turned around to hand him the drink, Keys
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Speaker 1: pulled out a gun and he told her it was
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Speaker 1: robbery and asked her to turn off the lights, and
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Speaker 1: once she did, he climbed through the window and bound
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Speaker 1: her hands, and then he led her across the street
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Speaker 1: towards his white pickup truck, but she attempted to escape,
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Speaker 1: and that's when Keys would tackle her and threaten her
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Speaker 1: with the gun to force her cooperation, which she gave
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Speaker 1: and walked with him to the truck, all the while
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Speaker 1: assuring her that this was for a ransom and that
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Speaker 1: he wasn't going to hurt her in order to keep
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Speaker 1: her calm. And he then realized that Samantha's cell phone
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Speaker 1: was still back at the stand, so he went back
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Speaker 1: to get it and also took the cash from the
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Speaker 1: register and locked up the stand. So with Samantha's cell
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Speaker 1: in his hands, he sent a text to her boyfriend
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Speaker 1: and her employer to give them the impression that she
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Speaker 1: needed to get out of town for a few days
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Speaker 1: in an attempt to stop them from looking for her.
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Speaker 1: And Keys then drove her to his property and brought
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Speaker 1: her to a small shed behind the main house, and
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Speaker 1: there he would essay Samantha and strap her to and
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Speaker 1: he would reveal in his confession that he killed her
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Speaker 1: just hours after the abduction and then left her body
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Speaker 1: there to go back into the house and be with
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Speaker 1: Kimberly and Laney as if nothing had happened, because at
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Speaker 1: this point they were still together. And a few hours later,
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Speaker 1: Keyes and Laney left for a cruise out of New
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Speaker 1: Orleans and they flew into Texas together and then drove
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Speaker 1: to New Orleans for the cruise. So Samantha's family reported
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Speaker 1: her missing when Dwayne found the coffee stand abandoned and
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Speaker 1: received the suspicious text, and a massive search began for her,
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Speaker 1: along with the FBI investigation, but no one suspected Keys
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Speaker 1: even slightly, and surveillance footage had caught only a masked figure,
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Speaker 1: and the text had misled people to believe it was
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Speaker 1: someone she knew, or perhaps she did just leave on
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Speaker 1: her own. And as the search for Samantha escalated, Keyes
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Speaker 1: enjoyed himself on a leisurely trip like the piece of
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Speaker 1: shit he is, and he returned from vacation on February seventh,
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Speaker 1: tee to find that the case was still a hot topic,
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Speaker 1: so he decided to see if he could get a
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Speaker 1: ransom out of her loved ones, and he took her
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Speaker 1: body out of the shed, which was still there the
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Speaker 1: entire time he was on vacation with Kimberly still at
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Speaker 1: the house, but it had been preserved from the cold,
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Speaker 1: and he would put makeup on her face and her
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Speaker 1: eyelids open to make her appear still living, and then
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Speaker 1: he would prop her up, and he would grab a
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Speaker 1: recent copy of the Anchorage Daily News and held it
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Speaker 1: up next to her and took a picture. And the
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Speaker 1: ransom note demanded thirty thousand dollars to be put into
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Speaker 1: Samantha's bank account for her quote unquote safe return, and
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Speaker 1: Keys texted Dwayne on February twenty fourth about the location
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Speaker 1: of the note. So desperate at the very thought that
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Speaker 1: she could still be alive, the family raised the funds
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Speaker 1: through community help and some savings and deposited the money.
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Speaker 1: The exact amount seems to vary between sources. Some claim
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Speaker 1: the full amount, others like a partial amount of five
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Speaker 1: thousand dollars into her account. But right after the photo,
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Speaker 1: Keys would dis her remains and sink them into the
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Speaker 1: Matanuska Lake, hoping her body was never to be found,
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Speaker 1: or at least not until the water thought in the spring,
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Speaker 1: and with the ransom money now safely in her account,
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Speaker 1: Keyes felt a surge of confidence, though perhaps misplaced, and
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Speaker 1: he set off on another trip, and this time through
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Speaker 1: the Southwest, using Sarah's debit card to withdraw the cash
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Speaker 1: along the way, and the withdrawals were obviously caught on
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Speaker 1: atm cameras showing a disguised man, but one of them
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Speaker 1: cut a glimpse of a Ford focus, a rare mistake
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Speaker 1: for Keys. So police and the FBI would eventually recover
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Speaker 1: Samantha's remains in early April, and hundreds of people would
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Speaker 1: gather around for her celebration of life on the twenty
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Speaker 1: second at West High School in Anchorage, and the murder
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Speaker 1: itself deeply shook the city because the coffee stand was
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Speaker 1: a regularly visited location, highlighting the severe flaws of the
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Speaker 1: current public safety and a memorial plaque was placed at
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Speaker 1: the Matanuska Lake in Samantha's honor, dedicated to her and
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Speaker 1: eventually to all the victims of Keys, and she is
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Speaker 1: remembered as a young woman full of life, cut too
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Speaker 1: short by an absolute monster. But at this point Israel
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Speaker 1: Keys was still a free man. Deborah Feldman was a
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Speaker 1: forty nine year old woman from Hackensack, New Jersey, and
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Speaker 1: she vanished under mysterious circumstances on April eighth, two thousand
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Speaker 1: and nine, after having last been seen at her home,
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Speaker 1: and her case had long been unsolved and she was
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Speaker 1: considered a missing person. But after his capture, Keys told
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Speaker 1: the FBI that he murdered a woman on the East
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Speaker 1: Coast and buried her body in upstate New York in
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Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, and though he never explicitly said
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Speaker 1: her name, as was common for him to leave victims unnamed,
47:54
Speaker 1: he gave enough blues that led the FBI investigators to
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Speaker 1: become relatively confident that Deborah was the victim. The Key's statements,
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Speaker 1: along with cell phone records and travel records, line up
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Speaker 1: with her disappearance, and he was known to be retrieving
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Speaker 1: a cash in that area at the time, and reportedly,
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Speaker 1: when shown a picture of Deborah, he replied, quote, I'm
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Speaker 1: not ready to talk about that one unquote. And Deborah's
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Speaker 1: body has not yet been found, but the FBI officially
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Speaker 1: considers her a likely victim, effectively making her keys fourth
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Speaker 1: confirmed victim, and searches have been conducted and investigators still
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Speaker 1: hope that her remains may be found by unsuspecting hikers
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Speaker 1: or loggers someday, but the case remains open until then.
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Speaker 1: But it's a note that Keys seemed to be guarded
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Speaker 1: and asked about specific unsolved cases because it was clear
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Speaker 1: that he didn't want to give away everything that he did,
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Speaker 1: potentially leaving some of his murders forever missing the key
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Speaker 1: to conclusively being tied to him. In one case in
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Speaker 1: particular that seemed to draw attention regarding Keys was the
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Speaker 1: disappearance of twelve year old Julie Harris from Colville, Washington
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Speaker 1: on March third, nineteen ninety six, and she was a
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Speaker 1: special Olympics athlete who had two prosthetic feet that were
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Speaker 1: found in a nearby river and her remains were found
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Speaker 1: in the woods in April of nineteen ninety seven, and
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Speaker 1: the case was unsolved and Keyes was allegedly living in
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Speaker 1: the area at the time. At the very least it
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Speaker 1: was an area he grew up in, and when he
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Speaker 1: was questioned about it, he never admitted to the murder,
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Speaker 1: but he mentioned that he had heard about that, and
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Speaker 1: investigators viewed his lack of willingness to say more as suspicious,
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Speaker 1: and the case hasn't been linked to Keys necessarily, but
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Speaker 1: he remains a possible suspect. And then there's Susan Lyle,
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Speaker 1: who was a nineteen year old college student who disappeared
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Speaker 1: on March second, nineteen ninety eight, from the State University
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Speaker 1: of New York at Albany campus after her shift at
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Speaker 1: Babbage's computer store, and she allegedly took a bus back
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Speaker 1: to campus got off near her dorm where she was
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Speaker 1: last seen, but she was never seen again and she
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Speaker 1: was reported missing the next but her credit card was
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Speaker 1: used that afternoon to take out twenty dollars, and her
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Speaker 1: boyfriend said that they were the only two that knew
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Speaker 1: the pin for the card, but his alibi checked out,
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Speaker 1: though he was never truly ruled out as a suspect
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Speaker 1: due to his later lack of cooperation with authorities, and
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Speaker 1: Key's role in this comes from the coincidence that Suzanne's
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Speaker 1: disappearance happened just before his enlistment into the army in April,
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Speaker 1: but there are no direct links to him other than
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Speaker 1: this circumstantial timing, and this case remains unsolved. And then
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Speaker 1: there's Giovanna Tyler, who disappeared in March two thousand and
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Speaker 1: four after last having been seen at her home, and
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Speaker 1: the twenty nine year old Native Alaskan woman had a
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Speaker 1: husband and four children, though the relationship with said husband
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Speaker 1: was allegedly strained at the time and he has been
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Speaker 1: cooperative with authorities. And Key's relation to this disappearance is
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Speaker 1: that Tyler was allegedly at the Nia Bay Police station
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Speaker 1: at the same time he was, just a month before
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Speaker 1: her disappearance. So the chance over lad app led investigators
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Speaker 1: to ask Keys about it, and he neither confirmed nor
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Speaker 1: denied being involved in that case, and the case is
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Speaker 1: still unsolved and he still remains a suspect. And then
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Speaker 1: there was fifty two year old Randy Gornburke who was
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Speaker 1: taken from a Boca Ratone, Florida shopping center in broad
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Speaker 1: daylight on March twenty third, two thousand and seven, and
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Speaker 1: she was discovered shot to death later that day. And
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Speaker 1: her death is the first in a series of three
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Speaker 1: crimes committed by the Boca Killer. And the second crime
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Speaker 1: was the kidnapping of an unnamed woman and her toddler
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Speaker 1: son from the same shopping center on August seventh, two
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Speaker 1: thousand and seven, and she was able to catch a
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Speaker 1: glimpse of her killer, though he wore a mask and
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Speaker 1: described him as a tall man with long hair and
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Speaker 1: athletic build, generally matching Key's appearance, but she was released
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Speaker 1: from the situation unharmed. And then the third crime was
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Speaker 1: the murder of forty seven year old Nancy Bokikio and
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Speaker 1: her seven year old daughter, Joey Bokikio Hauser, and they
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Speaker 1: were killed in the parking lot of a shopping center
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Speaker 1: in their car on December twelfth, two thousand and seven,
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Speaker 1: and there's no direct evidence tying Keys to these crimes,
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Speaker 1: but the sketch provided by the victim that got away
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Speaker 1: bears a striking resemblance to Keys, leading some to consider
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Speaker 1: him as a suspect. And then, a week after Keys
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Speaker 1: murdered Samantha Koenig, a fifty eight year old man named
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Speaker 1: Jimmy Tidwell disappeared in Texas after his night shift as
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Speaker 1: an electrician, and in one of the confirmed bank robberies
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Speaker 1: that Keys committed, he allegedly wore a hard hat and
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Speaker 1: hair that resembled Tidwell's hard hat and hair, and this
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Speaker 1: led to the theory that Keys crossed pass with Tidwell,
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Speaker 1: killed him and took his hat and hair to use
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Speaker 1: as a disguise, and again no direct evidence ties Keys
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Speaker 1: to the disappearance other than the familiar disguise, and he
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Speaker 1: was in Texas around that time and Tidwell's case is
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Speaker 1: still unsolved. So the FBI believes that Keys ultimately murdered
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Speaker 1: eleven people in total, based on the evidence that they have,
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Speaker 1: including interviews and travel records, and another bit of evidence
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Speaker 1: is the drawing of eleven skulls Keys made with his
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Speaker 1: own blood along with the pentagram in his cell, and
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Speaker 1: the FBI views each skull as representing one of his victims,
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Speaker 1: using the fact that Keys claimed at one point that
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Speaker 1: he had killed quote unquote, less than a dozen people,
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Speaker 1: and they have publicly stated quote we believe that eleven
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Speaker 1: is the total number of victims unquote, and some authorities
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Speaker 1: believe that the number could be higher, citing that Keys
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Speaker 1: did travel internationally and hinted that he may have killed
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Speaker 1: outside of the country, but there is no concrete evidence
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Speaker 1: of this, and Keys remained in control of that information.
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Speaker 1: He provided about certain crimes, intentionally withholding details for victims
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Speaker 1: that could potentially be identified because he is an evil person,
53:51
Speaker 1: and this seemingly stemmed from his concern about protecting his
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Speaker 1: mom and daughter from learning of his crimes and possible
53:58
Speaker 1: publicity they may so. As mentioned earlier, Samantha Koenig's disappearance
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Speaker 1: set a massive search and investigation in Key's ransom note,
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Speaker 1: and the deposit of the ransom money into Samantha's account
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Speaker 1: immediately flagged the account as a point of interest for
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Speaker 1: the FBI to watch. Shortly after the deposit and Samantha's
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Speaker 1: debit card was used to withdraw five hundred dollars allegedly
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Speaker 1: the daily limit for the account in Anchorage and the
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Speaker 1: withdrawal activity then moved out of state, next in Wilcox, Arizona,
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Speaker 1: on March seventh, and then onto New Mexico and then
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Speaker 1: into Texas on March twelve. But unbeknownst to Keys, who
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Speaker 1: was usually more careful than to involve himself with anything
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Speaker 1: other than cash, every time he used an ATM with
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Speaker 1: the card, the FBI was notified and informed local authorities
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Speaker 1: to be on the lookout. And then came his biggest
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Speaker 1: slip up, which was the captured footage of his rental
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Speaker 1: car the forward focus that we were talking about before.
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Speaker 1: Because he had still been careful to use at disguise
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Speaker 1: at every ATM he visited, but somehow the camera angle
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Speaker 1: of one ATM managed to record his rental car, which
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Speaker 1: gave authorities a bit of information that massively helped narrow
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Speaker 1: the search, and a bulletin was circulated amongst law enforcement
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Speaker 1: in eastern Texas. So on March thirteenth, twenty twelve, a
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Speaker 1: Texas Highway Patrol corporal named Brian Henry saw a white
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Speaker 1: Ford focus matching the bulletin's description in Lufkin, Texas, and
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Speaker 1: Corporal Henry, along with nearby Texas Ranger Stephen Rayburn, pulled
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Speaker 1: the vehicle over in the parking lot of a cotton
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Speaker 1: patch cafe and allegedly because the driver had been speeding
55:35
Speaker 1: interesting the same way Ted Bundy got caught woo the
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Speaker 1: parallels and that driver was none other than Keys himself,
55:44
Speaker 1: and they noticed that Keys acted calm but seemed on edge,
55:48
Speaker 1: and when they searched his vehicle, they discovered cash with
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Speaker 1: bright dye and clothes matching the disguise from the ATM footage,
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Speaker 1: and Samantha's cell phone, debit card and driver's license. So
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Speaker 1: Keyes was immediately arrested and taken into custody on fraud
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Speaker 1: charges from the stolen debit card, and within days he
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Speaker 1: was extradited back to Alaska. So while in custody, Keys
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Speaker 1: was confronted with the mountain of evidence connecting him to
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Speaker 1: Samantha's abduction, and reportedly he had initially denied involvement, with
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Speaker 1: claiming her belongings were tossed into his car via open window. Okay, okay,
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Speaker 1: you've moron.
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Speaker 2: You know you're under raised, you know you're not freely,
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Speaker 2: you know what you're under ras for.
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Speaker 1: Okay. But in the face of this confrontation, he confessed
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Speaker 1: to Samantha's murder on April second, providing information that only
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Speaker 1: the perpetrator would know, and in exchange for certain amenities
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Speaker 1: like cigars and coffee, and he agreed to tell investigators
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Speaker 1: where her remains were hidden. Like we talked about before,
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Speaker 1: where the FBI found them. It's because Israel told them
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Speaker 1: in April, and if he didn't, I don't think that
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Speaker 1: they ever would have found her remains. As we know,
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Speaker 1: they were recovered exactly where he described, and though horrific,
57:04
Speaker 1: this provided her family with some closure, and on April eighteenth,
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Speaker 1: twenty twelve, an Alaskan federal grand jury formerly indicted Keys
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Speaker 1: for the kidnapping resulting in death of Samantha Koenig and
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Speaker 1: for bank fraud from the use of her debit card,
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Speaker 1: and because he crossed state lines in the commission of
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Speaker 1: his crimes, it fell under federal jurisdiction, which meant the
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Speaker 1: possibility of the death penalty, and had it solely been
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Speaker 1: committed in Alaska, the state does not have a death penalty,
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Speaker 1: eliminating it as an option, but at the time, the
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Speaker 1: public was still wholly unaware of the true extent of
57:39
Speaker 1: Key's crimes, as authorities kept his confessions hidden for months
57:43
Speaker 1: as they tried to get as much information out of
57:46
Speaker 1: him as possible. So Keys was interviewed for more than
57:49
Speaker 1: forty hours by a team of FBI agents, police detectives,
57:53
Speaker 1: and federal prosecutors from April to December of twenty twelve,
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Speaker 1: and the sessions were recorded and several have been released,
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Speaker 1: and he attempted to negotiate a deal for himself from
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Speaker 1: the very start because before he would cooperate, he wanted
58:07
Speaker 1: assurances on a few key demands. One that he would
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Speaker 1: avoid trials or at least avoid being tried multiple times
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Speaker 1: in multiple jurisdictions, and two that his daughter's identity would
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Speaker 1: be kept out of the public and that family members
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Speaker 1: would be spared distressing details, and he pushed for a
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Speaker 1: swift death penalty because he had no interest in living
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Speaker 1: out his days in jail, so he just made sure
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Speaker 1: that he always felt that he was in the driver's
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Speaker 1: seat for these interviews, and Key's requests were listened to
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Speaker 1: by the prosecuting team, but no firm promises were made,
58:39
Speaker 1: as sentencing is extremely complex and would be up to
58:43
Speaker 1: a judge and jury is I may have some.
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Speaker 2: Options as far as that good.
58:49
Speaker 1: How to get you at least some information.
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Speaker 2: About well, and that's what we're trying to give you.
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Speaker 2: We tried to give you that aility. That was all
59:02
Speaker 2: the plan was. You tell us that you know where
59:07
Speaker 2: in New York, so we can work again and take
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Speaker 2: their assurances in that and then more starting those processes.
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Speaker 1: But we just need to move them forward to do
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Speaker 1: doesn't well, but they did at least agree to some
59:23
Speaker 1: smaller things in an effort to keep him talking. For example,
59:26
Speaker 1: they agreed not to immediately release certain details to help
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Speaker 1: protect his family's privacy, and at times he allegedly grew
59:33
Speaker 1: impatient with the lack of his demands being met, but
59:35
Speaker 1: he never fully stopped talking until the end, because that's
59:39
Speaker 1: how these guys are. They're just like pathetic, narcissistic, psychopathic idiots.
59:44
Speaker 1: And the concern for his daughter and his mother is
59:47
Speaker 1: something that many are intrigued by, especially in light of
59:50
Speaker 1: his supposed rule that he would not harm children, and
59:53
Speaker 1: he repeatedly mentioned that he did not want his mother
59:56
Speaker 1: or daughter to hear or read about the gruesome aspects
59:59
Speaker 1: of his crime. Boohoo, mother, consequences for your actions. So
1:00:05
Speaker 1: this concern very well could have been genuine, but equally
1:00:08
Speaker 1: as likely could have simply been a ploy to maintain
1:00:11
Speaker 1: control and influence people's perception of him, or maybe even
1:00:15
Speaker 1: a mix of both, but still for someone displaying psychopathic tendencies,
1:00:19
Speaker 1: it's something of note, one of the very few glimpses
1:00:22
Speaker 1: of potential remorse that Keys showed, though only geared towards
1:00:26
Speaker 1: his own family and not actual remorse for any of
1:00:30
Speaker 1: his actions against innocent human beings. And in the end,
1:00:34
Speaker 1: no formal deal was actually ever signed, and the death
1:00:38
Speaker 1: penalty was on the table, but the timeline wasn't fast
1:00:41
Speaker 1: enough for Keys, which he expressed frustration towards in his
1:00:45
Speaker 1: final months, and the repeated small favors for information like coffee, candy,
1:00:51
Speaker 1: and cigars showed just how desperate authorities were to learn
1:00:54
Speaker 1: what he was hiding. But once he began talking, he
1:00:57
Speaker 1: finally revealed the many crimes and related and that we've
1:01:00
Speaker 1: talked about throughout this video, including initially confessing to killing
1:01:04
Speaker 1: at least eight people the Courier murders, the four victims
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Speaker 1: in Washington and one in New York believed to be
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Speaker 1: Deborah Feldman and Samantha Koenig, and he hinted to more,
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Speaker 1: but the closest we got to a final number was
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Speaker 1: the clue he had told FBI regarding less than a dozen,
1:01:22
Speaker 1: and he kept most names to himself, but he did
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Speaker 1: at least provide the names of Bill and Lorraine Courier
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Speaker 1: and gave specific non public details confirming he was in
1:01:31
Speaker 1: fact the killer, and he discussed his methods, including cases
1:01:36
Speaker 1: in detail and the study of serial killers, including his
1:01:39
Speaker 1: appreciation of Bundy, and he admitted to the confirmed bank
1:01:42
Speaker 1: robberies and arson as well, and when asked about remorse,
1:01:46
Speaker 1: he demonstrated that he felt absolutely none for what he
1:01:49
Speaker 1: had done, no regrets or empathy for his victim only
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Speaker 1: potentially the impact it might have on his family. And
1:01:56
Speaker 1: he confirmed the of the teenage girl in organ which
1:02:00
Speaker 1: was his first violent crime, and he also confessed to
1:02:03
Speaker 1: stalking multiple targets that he ultimately did not follow through attacking,
1:02:07
Speaker 1: including one scenario in which he was about to kill
1:02:10
Speaker 1: a couple at sniper's range, but a police officer showed
1:02:13
Speaker 1: up and started talking to them like a guardian angel,
1:02:17
Speaker 1: and he resolved to kill the police officer as well,
1:02:20
Speaker 1: until a second one arrived, at which point he backed off.
1:02:24
Speaker 1: But Keys was incredibly calculated with his responses and the
1:02:27
Speaker 1: information he revealed in these interviews, almost toying with interrogators,
1:02:33
Speaker 1: and he regularly held back information and enjoyed the sense
1:02:35
Speaker 1: of power that it gave him, and at one point
1:02:38
Speaker 1: he even laughed as they became frustrated with him, saying, quote,
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Speaker 1: this is entertainment for me. Unquote ah hoy s, we're good.
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Speaker 1: And if he ever felt like his wishes weren't going
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Speaker 1: to be honored in regards to information he gave, he
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Speaker 1: quickly would shut down until he received assurances. So the
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Speaker 1: back and forth certainly played with interviewer's emotions, and he
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Speaker 1: truly enjoyed keeping them guessing, rarely providing enough information to
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Speaker 1: actually act upon with any level of certainty, and even
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Speaker 1: to the straightforward question of how many people he had killed,
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Speaker 1: he bounced back and forth without ever giving a solid
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Speaker 1: answer to stick with. So on May twenty third, twenty twelve,
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Speaker 1: Keys attempted to escape during a routine courtroom appearance. Similar
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Speaker 1: to Ted Bundy, This guy doesn't even have his own
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Speaker 1: his own personalities, just copying another guy. What a pathetic loser.
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Speaker 1: Not that Ted Bundy Isn't he also is, but my gosh.
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Speaker 1: But he would break free from his leg bindings and
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Speaker 1: leapt over the courtroom railing, darting towards the exit, and
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Speaker 1: he caught those in the courtroom off guard. But he
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Speaker 1: wasn't quite quick enough and was brought down by authorities
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Speaker 1: with a taser, and this led to even tighter security
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Speaker 1: for him at future hearings. But this was likely just
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Speaker 1: a foreshadowing of his future plan. Keys had no intention
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Speaker 1: of remaining in custody or serving his eventual sentence, so
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Speaker 1: Key's trial was scheduled for March too tenty thirteen, one
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Speaker 1: year after his arrest, and while awaiting the trial, he
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Speaker 1: was detained in a high security cell at Anchorage Correctional Complex.
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Speaker 1: Yet despite being under close watch, he was found dead
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Speaker 1: in his cell on December second, twenty twelve, at the
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Speaker 1: age of thirty four. And it's unclear how he managed it,
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Speaker 1: but Keys somehow acquired razor blades, and you can put
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Speaker 1: two into what he did with those. And not only
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Speaker 1: did he use those, but he would also tie together
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Speaker 1: bed sheets and you can imagine what he did with those,
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Speaker 1: and guards failed to notice until it was too late
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Speaker 1: and Keys was dead. So among the things found in
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Speaker 1: Key's cell after his death was a four page note
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Speaker 1: written with a combination of pencil and ink on a
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Speaker 1: yellow pad, and it was located underneath his lifeless body,
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Speaker 1: and it was illegible and bloodstained. And the note was
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Speaker 1: sent to the FBI lab in Virginia for processing, but
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Speaker 1: it was included that there was no hidden message or
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Speaker 1: meaning in the note about victims. But the note did
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Speaker 1: seem to be Keys owed to murder, and in it
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Speaker 1: he criticized American society and values, calling out their obsession
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Speaker 1: with meaningless things like reality TV, Vanity and the mindless
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Speaker 1: nine to five grind, just to end up in a
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Speaker 1: retirement home someday, and he also seemed to celebrate his
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Speaker 1: murders through poetry, with lines like quote, your wet lips
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Speaker 1: were a promise of a secret, unspoken, nervous laugh as
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Speaker 1: it burst like a pulse of blood from your throat.
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Speaker 1: There will be no more laughter here unquote, just furthering
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Speaker 1: the sentiment he felt in life. There was no remorse
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Speaker 1: shown in the note for his crimes as he passed
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Speaker 1: into death. And also found in his cell were the
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Speaker 1: eleven skull and one pentagram drawings found underneath his bed,
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Speaker 1: drawn with his own blood, and each skull was almost
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Speaker 1: childlike in form, and one of them had the words
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Speaker 1: we are one written beneath it. And as mentioned before,
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Speaker 1: these skulls are what led investigators to believe that Ke's
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Speaker 1: ultimately had eleven victims, one to match each skull, and
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Speaker 1: we are one could mean many things, but it possibly
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Speaker 1: meant that now with his death, he was able to
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Speaker 1: join them and be unified, or maybe that he viewed
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Speaker 1: all of the victims as part of his legacy and
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Speaker 1: the drawings represent that. But obviously there's no way to
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Speaker 1: know for certain that he's gone now, adding yet another
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Speaker 1: mystery he left behind and these skulls were not revealed
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Speaker 1: until May of twenty twenty, when the FBI released them
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Speaker 1: in hopes that it may help identify more of his victims.
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Speaker 1: But Key's death caught authorities by surprise because he had
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Speaker 1: been actively talking during interview sessions and seemed engage when
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Speaker 1: he was doing so in the weeks prior, and his
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Speaker 1: cooperation certainly didn't scream that he would be dead very soon,
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Speaker 1: and frustratingly, it left more questions unanswered than answered, and
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Speaker 1: cut off authorities from essentially the only source that could
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Speaker 1: give information regarding the crimes, as Keys had done such
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Speaker 1: a good job at concealing what he had done, and
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Speaker 1: his death was a cruel outcome for the victim's families
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Speaker 1: and for the ones that were confirmed, they were denied
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Speaker 1: justice in that Keys took the easy way out, in
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Speaker 1: that Keys took that from them, and for those unconfirmed,
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Speaker 1: perhaps they'll never truly know what becomes of their loved ones.
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Speaker 1: And the way in which Keys died leaves suspicion and
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Speaker 1: raises suspicion as well, considering he was supposedly a highly
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Speaker 1: watched inmate, and his death left so many involved in
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Speaker 1: the case with a sense of unfinished business and knowing
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Speaker 1: that there are victims out there who now may never
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Speaker 1: be identified to bring closure to their families is beyond frustrating.
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Speaker 1: But as of today, investigators are still looking into the
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Speaker 1: case and any of Keyes's potential victims. But as of
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Speaker 1: right now, that is where the case stands today. So
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Speaker 1: that is that for this video. I hope Israel Keys
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Speaker 1: is burning in a special place, a special, hot, horrible
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Speaker 1: place in hell as we speak. And my heart goes
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Speaker 1: out to every single family that was affected by this
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Speaker 1: and all of the victims and unidentified victims as well,
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Speaker 1: because I feel like I know in my heart that
1:08:22
Speaker 1: there was so many more than what we know about.
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Speaker 1: If you have any other cases you would like me
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Speaker 1: to deep dive into, let me know down below. I
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Speaker 1: always read the comments and I will see your beautiful
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Speaker 1: face in the next video. Okay, stay safe, Thank you Bye.