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Top 5 Bingeable SCARY STORIES • Killer Next Door Edition - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Today's video is a collection of five fan favorite stories
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  Speaker 1: In March of twenty fifteen, sixty eight year old Tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: Samsonova was having renovations done to her home in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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  Speaker 1: A friend of hers, seventy nine year old Valentina Ulenova,
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  Speaker 1: had heard about Tamara's renovations and she approached her and said,
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  Speaker 1: do you want to stay with me while that's getting done.
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  Speaker 1: Tamara was very thankful immediately said yes, and as soon
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  Speaker 1: as she moved in, she immediately started picking up the
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  Speaker 1: slack by cleaning up the house and doing the dishes
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  Speaker 1: and made sure she always cooked food for her friend
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  Speaker 1: because she wasn't able to pay rent. After a couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks, the renovations on Tamara's home were complete, but Tama.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't want to leave. She was really enjoying living.
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  Speaker 1: With Valentina, and so she asked Valentina would it be
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  Speaker 1: okay if she stayed a little bit longer. Valentina was
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  Speaker 1: a little bit reluctant, but did ultimately say okay, that's fine.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of months go by and Tamara is showing
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  Speaker 1: no sign that she plans on leaving Valentina's home anytime soon,
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  Speaker 1: and Valentina is getting increasingly frustrated with that reality. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: in late July twenty fifteen, Valentina confronts Tamara and says,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta go, and Tamara just says, no, I'm not leaving.
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  Speaker 1: This causes a huge fight, but at the end of it,
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  Speaker 1: Tamara still doesn't leave. So for a couple of days
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  Speaker 1: the women just do not speak to each other. The
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  Speaker 1: silence is finally broken on July twenty third, when the
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  Speaker 1: women get into a fight about some empty cups in
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  Speaker 1: the sink that one of them was supposed to clean
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  Speaker 1: but they didn't, and they thought about whose responsibility it
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  Speaker 1: was to do the dishes, and then of course the
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  Speaker 1: whole subject comes up again of Valentina saying you shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: even be here. You need to leave, and Tamra's like, no,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to leave, and so another big blowout
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  Speaker 1: fight happens. But at the end of this fight, Tamara
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  Speaker 1: finally concedes and says, Okay, I get it.
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  Speaker 2: I need to leave.
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  Speaker 1: Just give me a couple of days and I'll be
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  Speaker 1: out of your hair. Immediately, the tension is gone in
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  Speaker 1: the room. They're no longer fighting, and Valentina is happy
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  Speaker 1: that she's finally going to get her apartment back, and
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  Speaker 1: Tamara says, look, I'll make us dinner tonight. I'll go
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  Speaker 1: out and get some food. Tamara leaves the apartment and
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  Speaker 1: goes to a pharmacy and gets a whole bunch of
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  Speaker 1: sleeping pills, and then she gets the ingredients to a
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  Speaker 1: particular salad that she knows Valentina really likes.
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  Speaker 2: She goes back she starts.
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  Speaker 1: Making dinner, and as she's making this salad, she crushes
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  Speaker 1: up the sleeping pills and mixes the powder with the
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  Speaker 1: salad dressing and gives that to Valentina, and Valentina, who's
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  Speaker 1: very hungry, eats the whole salad and doesn't notice anything
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  Speaker 1: is wrong. As soon as Tamara was sure Valentina had
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  Speaker 1: eaten the entire salad, Tamara just goes.
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  Speaker 2: Up to her room and goes to bed.
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  Speaker 1: A couple hours later, at about two in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: she goes back down to the kitchen and she sees
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  Speaker 1: Valentina is passed out on the ground.
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  Speaker 2: Tamor goes up to her.
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  Speaker 1: And sees that she's still breathing, which was a disappointment
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  Speaker 1: because she wont to die from taking all these sleeping pills.
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  Speaker 2: But it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: She takes out her hack saw that she had borrowed
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  Speaker 1: from the neighbor earlier in the day, and proceeds to
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  Speaker 1: butcher Valentina, and she makes special care as she's cutting
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  Speaker 1: her into pieces to remove her lungs and not damage them,
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  Speaker 1: because Tamara had a taste for human lungs, it was
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  Speaker 1: actually her favorite food. She took Valentina's head and she
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  Speaker 1: put it into a big pot of water and began
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  Speaker 1: boiling that to eat it. The rest of her was
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  Speaker 1: cut up into as smaller pieces as she could get them,
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  Speaker 1: and then wrapped in a shower curtain and placed in
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  Speaker 1: various bags. As Valentina's head and lungs are being cooked
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  Speaker 1: on the stovetop, Tamara begins making dozens of trips from
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  Speaker 1: the apartment, down the stairs, out the front door, all
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  Speaker 1: the way down to the lake that was near their property,
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  Speaker 1: where she would dispose of the body parts before coming
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  Speaker 1: back and getting more. Valentina's hips and legs were apparently
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  Speaker 1: too heavy to haul all the way down to the lake,
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  Speaker 1: so she took them to a nearby forest. Tamara's final
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  Speaker 1: trip sees her carrying a big silver pot, inside of
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  Speaker 1: which is Valentina's hit, or at least whatever is left
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  Speaker 1: of it after Tamara was done eating most of it.
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  Speaker 2: Four days later, on July twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Seventh, a young couple that was living in the same
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  Speaker 1: apartment complex as Tamara and Valentina were out for a
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  Speaker 1: walk with their dog out near that lake and as
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  Speaker 1: they're walking, their dog takes off running and stops in
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  Speaker 1: front of this huge bag.
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  Speaker 2: That it's sniffing and pawing and trying to open.
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  Speaker 1: And the owners of the dog try to call it back,
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  Speaker 1: but they can't get it to get away from this bag,
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  Speaker 1: and so the owners walk over and they kind of
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  Speaker 1: poke the bag. They can see it's pretty heavy, and
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  Speaker 1: they open it up and they find a human torso
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  Speaker 1: and it's Valentinas.
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  Speaker 2: When the police show up, the first thing they.
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  Speaker 1: Do is they go to Valentina's apartment and they're surprised
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  Speaker 1: to find Tamara living there, and they're kind of sensitive
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  Speaker 1: with her, and they say, your friend, your relative was
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  Speaker 1: just found deceased, and we need to look around the apartment.
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  Speaker 1: Tamara was completely indifferent. She did not care they had
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  Speaker 1: just discovered her body, and she didn't care that they
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  Speaker 1: were searching the apartment. It was like she knew someday
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  Speaker 1: this was going to happen. During the search, the police
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  Speaker 1: officers quickly find blood all over the bathroom and in
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen. They even find the hacksaw she used that's
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  Speaker 1: got blood on it. And they find Tamara's diary that's
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  Speaker 1: sitting next to this book about black magic, and the
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  Speaker 1: police are horrified when they see that the diary contains
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  Speaker 1: meticulous notes that Tamara had kept of all of the
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  Speaker 1: ritualistic killings she had perpetrated over the past twenty years,
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  Speaker 1: and there was fourteen of them, and almost all of
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  Speaker 1: them were motivated by Tamara's desire to cast spells that
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  Speaker 1: she apparently was reading about in these black magic books
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  Speaker 1: she had, and virtually all of these spells required human
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  Speaker 1: flesh for other human.
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  Speaker 2: Components, and so she would kill these people.
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  Speaker 1: She would use their bodies to cast these spells, and
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  Speaker 1: then afterwards she would consume them, not because that had
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  Speaker 1: anything to do with the spell, but because she liked
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  Speaker 1: the way people tasted, in particular human lungs. The police
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  Speaker 1: arrest Tamara, who doesn't put up a fight. She says, yep,
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  Speaker 1: you got the right person. I did all this while
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  Speaker 1: Tamara was on trial, like she.
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  Speaker 2: Was in a great mood.
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  Speaker 1: She told the judge, I hope you give me a
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  Speaker 1: really severe punishment. I expect to die in prison. She
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  Speaker 1: was seen blowing kisses to reporters. It was like she
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  Speaker 1: was just totally out of touch, or maybe she literally
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  Speaker 1: knew this was going to happen and just didn't care anymore. Tamra,
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  Speaker 1: who would be nicknamed the Granny Ripper by newspapers over
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  Speaker 1: the course of this trial, was given a life sentence,
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  Speaker 1: and to this day she is still sitting in jail.
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  Speaker 1: Here is the surveillance footage of Tamara disposing of Valentina's body,
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  Speaker 1: as well as some shots of Tamara during her trial.
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  Speaker 1: After spending twenty one years in the US Army, a
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  Speaker 1: man retires and moves to Central Florida with his wife
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  Speaker 1: and young son. Although his family had plenty of money
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  Speaker 1: because he had a pension coming in and his wife
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  Speaker 1: still worked full time, he just got bored really quickly
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  Speaker 1: after moving to Central Florida and decided he would just
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  Speaker 1: take a job doing something just to stay occupied, and
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  Speaker 1: so he ended up taking a job at.
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  Speaker 2: A highway gas station.
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  Speaker 1: One of the primary reasons he chose this particular job
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  Speaker 1: is because the owners of the gas station didn't care
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  Speaker 1: if his son came along to help him stock shelves
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  Speaker 1: and hang out behind the cash register.
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  Speaker 2: And so for years, that's just how it went.
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  Speaker 1: The man would work at the gas station and his
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  Speaker 1: son would tag along. Even after his son became a
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  Speaker 1: teenager and you'd think might be wanting to do other things, well,
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  Speaker 1: the town was so small there was almost nothing to do,
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  Speaker 1: so his son still came along well into his teenage years.
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  Speaker 1: One night in nineteen ninety, his son, who was fifteen
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  Speaker 1: years old at the time, was at the station and
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  Speaker 1: he was actually taking a break, sitting outside on a
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  Speaker 1: picnic table. He was reading a magazine, drinking a mountain dew,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, it's dark out, and he notices out
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  Speaker 1: of the corner of his eye that there is a
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  Speaker 1: woman walking off of the highway towards the gas station.
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  Speaker 1: It was a very quiet night at the time, so
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  Speaker 1: there's no cars getting gas, there's nobody there, and there's
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  Speaker 1: not really anybody even driving on the highway, and so
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  Speaker 1: that's why she really stood out to him. And he
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  Speaker 1: turns and he notices her, and he thinks to himself,
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  Speaker 1: you know, no one ever walks to our gas station.
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  Speaker 1: We're on a highway. Everybody drives here, so she must
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  Speaker 1: have broken down, and she must be coming here to
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  Speaker 1: try to use our phone to call a tow truck
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  Speaker 1: or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: So the woman is walking across the lot.
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  Speaker 1: Coming closer and closer to the gas station, and the
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  Speaker 1: boy at this point has turned his attention back to
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  Speaker 1: his magazine, but he would say later that he kept
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  Speaker 1: looking up and keeping an eye on her because there
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  Speaker 1: was something.
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  Speaker 2: Off about her.
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  Speaker 1: The woman ultimately walks right behind him and goes in
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  Speaker 1: the door into the gas station. Doesn't acknowledge the boy,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't say hi to him, just walks straight inside, and
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  Speaker 1: she starts walking up and down the aisles of the
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  Speaker 1: gas station. Now, from where the boy was sitting, it's
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  Speaker 1: all glass, so he could clearly look in and see
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  Speaker 1: his father behind the counter, and he could see the
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  Speaker 1: head of this woman as she walked in and around
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  Speaker 1: all these aisles. And as soon as the woman was
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  Speaker 1: in the store, kind of pacing around the aisles, the
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  Speaker 1: boy put his magazine down and was just watching, and
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  Speaker 1: he noticed that she was not really shopping. She was
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  Speaker 1: just looking down for a few seconds, wouldn't pick anything
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  Speaker 1: up so she wasn't buying anything, and she would look
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  Speaker 1: up at the counter where his father was and she
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  Speaker 1: would just stare at him, and then she'd look back
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  Speaker 1: down at what she was doing, and she would go
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  Speaker 1: through all the aisles, and at some point the woman
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  Speaker 1: just kind of abandons this phony I'm pretending to shop
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  Speaker 1: routine and just walks up to the counter. Now nobody
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  Speaker 1: else is in the store. There's nobody else coming in,
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  Speaker 1: and so the boy could actually fairly clearly hear what
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  Speaker 1: she was saying to his father. And she told his
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  Speaker 1: father that she had broken down and she needed a ride,
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  Speaker 1: and could he drive her to Old Kala, which was
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  Speaker 1: the next big town north of this gas station. And
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  Speaker 1: the boy would say that his father acted very strangely,
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  Speaker 1: because his father is normally incredibly pleasant with all the customers.
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  Speaker 1: He's very chatty, even like he talks to everybody who
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  Speaker 1: comes in the store. But as soon as this woman
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  Speaker 1: had gone in, his dad had seemed kind of dismissive
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  Speaker 1: and almost rude to this woman. And when she was
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  Speaker 1: talking to him asking for a ride, he just said, no,
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  Speaker 1: I won't give you a ride. The woman is annoyed
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  Speaker 1: by how quickly she's been shot down, but instead of
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  Speaker 1: just taking no for an answer, she.
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  Speaker 2: Turned and looks at the boy, the boy.
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  Speaker 1: Who's sitting out on the bench, who's looking right at her,
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  Speaker 1: And she points at the boy and she says, what
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  Speaker 1: about him?
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  Speaker 2: Is he your son? Can he give me a ride?
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  Speaker 1: The boy notices that his father, who's not within her eyesight,
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  Speaker 1: is looking at his son, going no, Like whatever she
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  Speaker 1: wants from you, you're gonna say no to it. And
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  Speaker 1: the boy's a little bit confused by this because he's
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  Speaker 1: still trying to understand why his dad was so against
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  Speaker 1: helping this woman, because she clearly needs our help or
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  Speaker 1: someone's help. But he just took his dad at face value,
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  Speaker 1: and when the woman's pointing at him, he knew the
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  Speaker 1: boy that if she came over and asked him, he
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  Speaker 1: would say no. But it wouldn't come to that because
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  Speaker 1: the boy's father would say to the woman, no, my
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  Speaker 1: son's not going to give you a ride. You need
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  Speaker 1: to leave here immediately. Do not come back. Leave, we're
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  Speaker 1: not going to help you. She's furious, she's cussing him out.
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  Speaker 1: She storms out and slams the door. She starts cussing
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  Speaker 1: at the boy, and she walks off. The whole time
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  Speaker 1: she's turning around and flipping them off and screaming profanities
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  Speaker 1: at them, but she ultimately walks off, and the dad
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  Speaker 1: kind of followed her, out standing next to his son
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  Speaker 1: as she walks off, and the boy asked his dad, like,
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  Speaker 1: what was her deal? Why did that happen? Why did
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  Speaker 1: you Why did you not want to help her? And
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  Speaker 1: the dad just said, I don't know. There was just something.
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  Speaker 1: There was something off about her, and I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how to place it, but I did not want her
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  Speaker 1: around you.
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  Speaker 2: I knew I didn't want to give her a ride.
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  Speaker 2: I knew she had to go.
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  Speaker 1: A year later, the boy is in his room when
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  Speaker 1: he hears his dad in the other room yelling for
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  Speaker 1: him to come in here and look at the TV.
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  Speaker 1: So he runs into the TV room and on the
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  Speaker 1: TV is the same woman from.
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  Speaker 2: The gas station. Better known as Eileen Warnos.
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  Speaker 1: She was a serial killer who used to pick up
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  Speaker 1: her male victims at gas stations in Florida. It's unclear
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  Speaker 1: whether the boy or the boy's father were her next victims,
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  Speaker 1: but by the time she had shown up at that
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  Speaker 1: gas station, she had already killed four people and Following
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  Speaker 1: that interaction with them at the gas station, she had
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  Speaker 1: gone on to kill three more people, including someone in Okalla, Florida,
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  Speaker 1: which was the town she had.
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  Speaker 2: Asked them to give her a ride to. Eileen had
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  Speaker 2: been caught. That's why she was on TV and she
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  Speaker 2: was later sentenced to death.
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• 15:32
  Speaker 1: she have the radio on or the TV? And Zavannah
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: was like, no, why, And the friend would tell her
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: that all over the news right now there was this huge,
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: terrible traffic accident that had happened in their town, and unfortunately,
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: Zivanna's son, Zoran, who she was waiting for to come home,
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: was apparently involved in this accident. Zavannah let out a
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: strangled cry when she heard this, and then just dropped
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: what she was using to make food and turned and
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: ran out the door. And when she did, her neighbor
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: who was outside saw her emerge and yelled out to her,
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: you know, hey, is everything okay? And Savannah, as she
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: literally just continued running towards the road, she basically blurted
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: out to the neighbor that her son was hurt and
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: she was going to the hospital, and this neighbor watched
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: as Savannah just ran.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Down the road, turned the corner and disappeared.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: Savannah did not have a car of her own, and
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: so literally she was going to run to the hospital
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: to make sure her son was okay. A little while later,
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: that same neighbor who had just watched Savannah disappear around
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: the corner, heard a knock on their door, and so
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: the neighbor went to the door. They opened it up,
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: and they were totally shocked at who they saw standing outside.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: It was Zavannah's son, Zoran, who did not appear to
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: be hurt in any way. But before the neighbor could
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: ask any questions about this, Zoran, who looked visibly confused.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: Said to the neighbor, you know, hey, have you seen
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: my mom.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: We were supposed to meet and have dinner together, and
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: it's just totally unlike her to disappear without telling me
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: where she was going. The neighbor just stared at Zoron
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: for a second, having no idea what was going on here,
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: and then the neighbor was like, well, wait a minute,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: you know, Zoron were you in a car accident, and
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Zoren's like, no, what are you talking about? And then
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: the neighbor kind of filled Zoron in about how they
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: had seen his mother run outside and she had mentioned
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: how her son had been in this car accident and
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: she literally ran to the hospital. Zoron was just as
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: mystified by this as the neighbor was, and so Zoron
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: just grabbed his phone and called the hospital to see
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: if his mother was there. But when the hospital picked up,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: they would tell Zoron that his mother was not there.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: She had not been there all day and two. Even
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: though they had heard reports about this car accident in town,
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: there had not been any car accident victims brought to
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: the hospital at all that day. And so by the
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: end of that night, when Zoron really had no idea
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: what had happened to his mom, where she was, or
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: you know, what was going on with this car accident thing,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: he just did the only thing he could think to do,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: which was go to the police and report his mother missing.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Nine days later, on May sixteenth, when still Savannah was
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: missing and the police had no idea what happened to her,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: there were no new leads, nothing on this day, a
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: fifty six year old reporter named Vlado Teneski, who actually
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: happened to live not that far away from where Savannah lived.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: He got a call from one of his police sources,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: and the source would tell him that Zavannah had actually
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: just been found, even though this was not public information,
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: and unfortunately, Zavanna was dead. Her body, which had been
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: beaten and strangled and stabbed, had been found wrapped up
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: in plastic and dumped in this illegal dumping area not
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: far from the town's football stadium. The source told Vlado
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: that when her body was searched, they discovered she still
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: had valuables on her person, and so that kind of
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: ruled out the possibility that this was a robbery gone wrong,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: which was the initial theory about what they were seeing. However,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: when police had done an initial probe into Savanna's life
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: to figure out who this victim was, they discovered that
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: she was just this poor old cleaning lady who had
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: no namies to speak of, and so it really just
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: made no sense that she was the victim of such
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: an obviously brutal and intimate murder that was not financially motivated,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: at least not on the surface, Flatto thanked a source
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: for all the information and then hung up. Flatdo's source
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: had sounded really shocked by this murder as he was
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: telling Bladdo, But now Asvladdo was sitting here thinking about
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: what he had just been told, he wasn't really shocked
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: as much as he was suspicious. He felt like something
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: just was off about this murder. You know, maybe Zivana
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: appeared to be this poor old cleaning lady with no enemies,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: but in reality, maybe that wasn't who she was. Maybe
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: she was leading a secret life that got her killed,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: or maybe she had stumbled upon something she was not
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: supposed to see and that got her killed. You know,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Vlado had no idea, but he just felt like, you
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: know what, there's something off about this and it needs
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: to be investigated. Now, Vladdo had a reputation in town
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: for being this very aggressive and kind of fearless journalist
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: who had no problem diving headfirst into some of the
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: really murky stories that could involve corruption or misuse of power,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: and he would get to the bottom of it, and
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: he would publish these articles where he spoke really critically
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: about the government, about police, about anybody really who was
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: in a position of power. But as a result of
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: conducting himself this way. Over his thirty year career, Vlado
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: had been threatened with violence many many times for things
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: he had written or things he was about to write.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: But even though Vladdo knew this Zavannah murder case had
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: the potential to once again put him in hot water
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: with the powers that be, he still felt like it
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: was his responsibility to dive into this thing and get
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: to the truth. So, feeling determined, Flado grabbed his notebook
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: and pen and he walked out the front door of
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: his house and he made the several minute long walk
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: over to Savanna's house, and when he got there, her
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: son Zoran opened the door, and a few minutes later,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Vladdo and Zoron were sitting in the kitchen talking about
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: what had happened. Zoron told Vlado all about how he
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: came home, discovered his mom wasn't there, and then he
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: went to the neighbor's house and.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: They explained how, you know, they had seen Savannah running
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: off to.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: The hospital to go look for Zoron. But Zoren's like,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: I'm not hurt. I didn't get into a car accident
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: what's going on here? And as Zorn spoke, Flado took
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: lots of notes and asked lots of follow up questions.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: And by the end of this interview, when Vlado felt
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: like he knew everything there was to know about Zavanna,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: he felt like he actually had a pretty good working
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: theory as to what actually happened to Savannah. And the
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: reason he felt like his theory could be accurate had
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: to do with what Zoran told Flatdo his mother did
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: for a living, that she was a cleaning lady. Now,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: it took Flatto a couple of days to put together
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: his story. He had to go out and interview dozens
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: more people in the neighborhood, but finally on May nineteenth,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: so just three days after Savannah was found murdered, Flatto
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: published a story in the newspaper, and the stories explosive
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: headline read a serial killer stocks Cassevo. In the story,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Vlado says that Zefonana's murder was very likely not in
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: isolated killing. Instead, her murder was likely linked to two
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: other murders of two other women, and these two other
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: victims looked an awful lot like Zavana. Literally, they were poor,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: older women, who were also cleaning ladies, and so that
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: was why when Vlado was talking to Zoron, and Zoron
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: described how his mother was, what she did for work,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: what she looked like, that Vlado started to remember these
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: other victims and he put it all together. The other
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: two victims were sixty four year old Mitra Simjanoska, who
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: was murdered in two thousand and five, and the other
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: victim was fifty six year old Lubitza Lukoska, who was
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: murdered in two thousand and seven. Now, Vlado's story was
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: totally explosive because what he's saying is that there is
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: a serial killer that is on the loose.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: In this town.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: But this story was also highly explosive because Vlado spoke
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: very critically about the police who were involved in this investigation. Specifically,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: he pointed out that the five and seven murders of
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: those two other women, those had been totally mishandled because
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: arrests had been made in at least one of those cases,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: and clearly whoever they arrested was innocent here, and so
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: the police just totally dropped the ball, at least in
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Flatdo's opinion. And when the police read Vladdo's story. They
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: were very upset at him because he was so critical
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: of them. However, the police also did see that Vladdo
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: had managed to uncover a lot of new details from
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: all of his interviews with witnesses and people in the
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: neighborhood that did seem to paint a picture of this
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: potentially really being a serial killer, not individual isolated killings,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: and so the police, based on Vladdo's story, would actually
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: begin investigating a serial killer. In their midst they linked
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: all three murders and they began basically a new investigation. However,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: at the same time they began this new investigation, Vladdo
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: began to notice that he was being tailed all the
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: time by police. He would be out in town doing
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: his job, you know, reporting and interviewing people, and they'd
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: just be a police officer standing somewhere in the distance
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: watching him. But Vladdo had anticipated that no matter what,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: he was likely going to face some sort of blowback
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: from the police, and so he just kind of accepted
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: that they were going to watch him and maybe try
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: to intimidate him, but it wasn't going to bother him.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Because he had done his job.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: He had reported the story the best that he could,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: and if they wanted to watch him from a distance,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: they could do that. By early June, so about two
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: weeks after Zavana had been found murdered, the police in
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: this new serial killer investigation they were doing, had narrowed
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: down their suspect pool, which was in the hundreds, down
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: to just three people, and they felt like they were
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: very close to making an arrest about a month later,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: on June twentieth, So by this point Vladdo is still
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: being trailed by police all the time, but the police
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: have not come out publicly and said anything about the
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: serial killer case. They're just continuing their investigation. But on
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: this day, June twentieth, Vladdo's editor at the newspaper got
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: a call from a police officer telling the editor they
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: were about to make an arrest in the serial killer case.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: And as soon as their conversation ended, the editor called
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Vlado to tell him the news, but when he called Bladdo,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Vladdo didn't pick.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Up, which was very unusual.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Vladdo always answered his calls, and the editor was also
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: thinking to himself how strange it was that this officer
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: had contacted him and not Vladdo. Like, why aren't you
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: going to the guy writing the stories and telling him
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: about this new development.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Why are you coming to me?
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: The editor would continue to try calling Vladdo several more times,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: but Laddo never answered, and so ultimately the editor just
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: kind of assumed that Vladdo must be busy, you know,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: interviewing someone, or maybe more likely, he had already learned
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: about this imminent arrest and he was on scene ready
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: to capture in real time this arrest that was about
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: to take place. Meanwhile, on a quiet street in Cassevo,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: the police had surrounded this very modest, two story home
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: that was very overgrown.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Up front.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: It was surrounded by tall fir trees and all the
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: windows had heavy drapes covering them up. And then, once
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: the police felt like they had totally surrounded this building,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: a team of officers walked up onto the porch and
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: knocked on the door and yelled out that they were
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: police and whoever was inside to come out with their
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: hands up. And for a moment it was just silent
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: and tense, and then the police on the porch heard footsteps.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Inside the house.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: They had their guns ready to go, and then the
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: door slowly opened up and this man, who seemed very
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: unthreatening and kind of confused, stepped out onto the porch
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: and the police immediately arrested.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Him and took him away.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: A few minutes later, back at the newspaper headquarters, Vlado's
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: editor got another phone call, and when he answered, it
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: was the same police officer who had called before to
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: warn him about this upcoming arrest, except this time the
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: officer was calling to say the arrest had been made.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: They had caught their serial killer, and then he told
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: the editor the name of the person they arrested, and
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: when the editor heard the name, he dropped the phone
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: and shock these serial killer was Vlado. It would turn
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: out that Vlado appeared very professional and calm on the outside,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: but inside he was full of rage, specifically at his mother,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: who he viewed as this terrible, cruel person, and after
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: she died in two thousand and two, Vlado became obsessed
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: with this idea of getting revenge on his deceased mother,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: and the way he decided he would do that would
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: be by killing random women who just kind of looked
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: and seemed an awful lot like his mother, i e.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: They were poor, older and cleaning ladies. His three victims,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Mitra in two thousand and five, Lubitza in two thousand
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: and seven, and Zivanna in two thousand and eight, had
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: all personally known Vlado's mother, and so Vlado had actually
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: used that connection to gain each of his victims trust,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: and then once he had their trust, he would lure
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: them away to strangle, stab, and beat them to death.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: In Vlado's explosive newspaper story, he lied about a whole
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: bunch of things just to throw the police off. Like,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: for example, he made up that he spoke to a
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: witness who claimed to have seen Zavannah get into a
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: car with two men right before she vanished. Flatto did
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: not see that that was just a total lie designed
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: to confuse the police. Vlado had also been the one
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: to plant that story on the radio about Zavannah's son Zoron,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: being in this terrible accident. You know, that had caused
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Zevanna to run out of her house and be vulnerable
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: to be scooped up and killed, which is exactly what
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Vlado wanted. He had called the radio station and told
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: them about this accident, and because he had previously worked
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: for that radio station, they believed him without doing any
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: fact checking and broadcast the story, and so really that
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: whole radio broadcast was just a very intentional trap by
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Vlado to kill Savannah. But what ultimately got Vlado caught
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: was in the article he wrote, he left in some
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: really specific details that the police had not revealed to
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: the public, and so basically by including these in the story,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: it meant Vlado had had an inside scoop into what
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: was really going on. Like, for example, Vlado said that
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: all three of these women who had been killed by
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: the serial killer had been strangled to death by telephone.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Cords that were left at the scene.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: But again, the police had not revealed that to the public,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: and so when they read the story, they actually became
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: very suspicious of Vladdo and thought he could be involved
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: in these murders. And so when Vlado felt like the
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: police were trailing him just to intimidate him, in reality,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: the police were trailing Vlado because they thought he could
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: be the murderer, and eventually, when they got a DNA
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: sample from Vlado, it was confirmed that their suspicions.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Were right, he was the killer.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: After Vladdo's arrest, he was immediately charged with two of
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: the three murders. And the police were getting ready to
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: charge him with the third and they were even looking
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: at a fourth victim potentially that maybe Vlado had killed
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: as well, but they weren't entirely sure yet. But on
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: June twenty third, so just three days after Vladdo's arrest,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: he died in jail in a way that really didn't
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: make any sense. Vlado had drowned in a small bucket
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: of water inside of his jail cell, while there were
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: three other people inside of that jail cell with him,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: who all said they didn't notice it happening. Officially, Vladdo's
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: death was ruled a suicide, and after his death, all
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: of the murder investigations were closed. On a late winter
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: afternoon in nineteen eighty five, a Canadian border security guard
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: stood at the border between New York State and Ontario, Canada,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: and as he looked out at the dozens of cars
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: lined up at his checkpoint, he felt an enormous amount
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: of responsibility because for him, working at border security was
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: not just about checking people's passports. It was also about
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: making sure dangerous criminals from the United States did not
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: flee their country and enter Canada. And today there was
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: one particular dangerous criminal from the United States. That this
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: guard was on high alert for a thirty year old
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: man named Alex Mangle. A few days earlier, Alex Mangle
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: had been stopped by a police officer near New York City,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: and during this traffic stop, Alex had somehow taken the
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: police officer's gun and shot the officer in the head,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: killing them.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: And then Alex had fled, and he was still on
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: the run.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: And so now law enforcement was concerned that because New
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: York was only six hours from the Canadian border, that
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: it was very possible that Alex might try to flee
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: into Canada to escape persecution. And so US and Canadian
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: law enforcement and border security were on the lookout for
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Alex Mangle. And he was this thirty year old white
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: man with thinning brown hair and a wispy mustache.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: And so all day long that.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Canadian border security guard looked very closely at every person
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: who came through his checkpoint to see if they were
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Alex Mangle. He would see a family on their way
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: to visit relatives in Canada. He would see a couple
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: on their honeymoon. He would see a man with a
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: car full of camping supplies, and a middle aged woman
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: traveling alone, and all these different people from all walks
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: of life, but none of them looked anything like Alex Mangle.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: And so by the end of his shift, after checking
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: dozens and dozens of cars and looking at every person,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: he felt certain that Alex Mangle had not slipped through
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: his checkpoint, and so he clocked out and he went home.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: A few days later, on March second, a police officer
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: was patrolling this parking lot right outside of a shopping
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: mall in Ontario, Canada, which was located about an hour
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: and a half away from the border. And during his patrol,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: at some point he noticed there was this one car,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: a white Toyota, that had been loitering in the area
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: for quite a while, and so he.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Decided to drive over and see what was going on.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: And when he got there, he looked inside the vehicle
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: and he saw someone sitting on the passenger seat, and
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: he was a white man, probably in his thirties, with
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: thinning brown hair and a wispy mustache. And this officer
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: immediately recognized the guy as being the wanted criminal Alex Mangle,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: and so the officer immediately called for backup, and then
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: he parked his car, got out and approached the white
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Toyota where this guy was sitting with his gun drawn.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: And as the officer approached the passenger side door, the
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: man inside turned noticed the officer jumped into the driver's seat,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: fired up the car, and the Toyota sped out of
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: the parking lot, and so the officer he jumps back
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: in his cruiser and he takes off after him, and
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: before long it was like the entirety of the police
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: force in Toronto was a part of this high speed
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: chase to catch the sky. And eventually they funneled the
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: car into a dead end street and the white Toyota
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: crashed into a stop sign, and then the man inside
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: with the mustache and the thinning brown hair pops out
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: and immediately everybody sees, yep, that's Alex Mangle. He didn't
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: put up a fight at that point, he was taken
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: into custody. However, despite how relieved law enforcement was to
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: have this cop killer in custody, they realized they didn't
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: understand something. How was it that Alex Mangle got past
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: border security and got into Canada. Everybody was on high
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: alert looking for him.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: What happened?
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: And so police were baffled until they searched that white
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Toyota Alex had been driving on the night that Alex
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: shot and killed that police officer near New York City.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: He immediately fled to this wooded area and hit out overnight,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: and then the next day when he got up, he
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: was walking around and he happened to pass by this
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: commercial building and as he was looking at it, he
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: saw this middle aged woman whose name was Beverly Capone,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: come out of the building and make her way towards
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: her car, and she was all alone, and so Alex
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: walked up to her and abducted her at gunpoint, and
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: then he drove her to this cabin out in the
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: woods that he knew would be totally isolated. No one
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: was there, and once they got there, he murdered her.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: And then once she was dead, he stole her clothes
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: and put it on, and also cut off her face
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: and her scalp and put those on as well. He
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: was literally wearing her skin and hair. And he hopped
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: in that white toyota and he drove up to the
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Canadian border, and amazingly, he got through the checkpoint into
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Canada without anybody noticing. It would turn out that Canadian
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: border secure guard who all day was checking for Alex Mangle,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: did actually see Alex Mangle. He just didn't recognize him
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: because Alex Mangle was wearing Beverly Capone's face, hair, and clothes,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: and so he thought he was just a middle aged.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Woman traveling alone, and he led him on through.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: And so police would figure this whole thing out when
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: they searched that white Toyota, because they would find lying
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: on the floorboard was Beverly's dress, scalp and face. Alex
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: was deported back to the US. However, before he could
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: stand trial, he attempted to escape a prison transport and
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: in the process got shot to death by police. However,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: that was not the end of Alex's story. Following his death,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: officers continued to investigate him and also his property, and
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: at some point during a search of his property, they
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: would discover all these photos of unidentified women, along with
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: these maps where these very isolated places in New York
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: and Pennsylvania were circled, and nobody knows what they mean.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Police have not conclusively linked Alex to any other murders,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: but he does remain a suspect in several cases. And
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: in fact, many investigators believe Alex was actually a serial killer. However,
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: we'll probably never know how many people Alex actually killed
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: because he took all of his secrets to the grave.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: On the morning of February second, twenty twelve, a young
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: man pulled off a four lane highway and Anchorage, Alaska,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: into a large, snowy parking lot. He passed by dozens
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: of parked cars until he arrived in front of the
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: small shack that was brightly teal colored. It was a
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: popular coffee shop called the common Grounds, and this young
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: man worked as a barista there. After he parked his car,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: he walked up to the white door employee entrance to
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: this little building and he got his key out and
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: he went to unlock the door, but when he turned
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: the key, the door was already unlocked. He knew the
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: girl who had worked the previous night and would have
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: been responsible for locking the shop up. She was eighteen
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: year old Samantha Koenig, and although she had only been
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: on the job for about a month, she seemed very
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: responsible and had never had any issues.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: Closing up before.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: The young man shrugged it off, though he figured people
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: make mistakes and he went inside right away, he noticed
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: that a couple of things just seemed out of place.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: It was like Samantha must have just left in the
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: middle of her shift without even attempting to clean up.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: There were napkins on the ground, there were towels out,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: there were cups still out. And so as this young
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: man is walking over to the cash register to unlock it,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: he's running through scenarios in his head about how Samantha
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: could have been so sloppy, and then he reached down
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: with his register key and just liked the door.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: The cash register was already unlocked.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: When he pulled the tray out, all the money was gone,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: and that's when he knew they had.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: Been robbed, and so he called his boss.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: The night before, Samantha had asked her boyfriend Dwayne to
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: pick her up after her shift at the common grounds.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Dwayne arrived in front of the kiosk at about eight
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: thirty pm, which was thirty minutes after her shift should
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: have been over.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: Dwayne had gotten held up at his job, which is
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: why he.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Was late, and so when he gets there, Dwayne looks
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: around the parking lot and he doesn't see Samantha anywhere.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: He sees the coffee shop itself as totally dark and
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: looks like it's been closed up for the night. And
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: so Dwayne gets out of his truck into the freezing
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: cold night air, and he walked up to the window
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: of this coffee shop and he pressed his space up
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: to the glass to look inside, but there was nobody
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: in there. Dwayne automatically went back to the fight he
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: had gotten into with Samantha earlier in the night via
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: text message. She had accused him of cheating on her.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: He had been kind of nonchalant, like he didn't care
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: about it, and what ensued was a really ugly fight.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: And so as Dwayne is walking back to his truck,
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: he's thinking to himself, maybe Samantha just didn't want to
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: see him because of the fight.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: And so at the end of her shift, she.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Got a ride home from her father or maybe from
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: a friend, and that's why she's not here. And so
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Dwayne gets back inside of his truck and he sends
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: a text message to Samantha asking if she's okay, if
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: she's gotten home, But after several minutes of no response
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: from her, Dwayne, even though they were fighting, he still
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: cares an awful lot about his girlfriend. He decides, I
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: just I got to go by her house and make
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: sure she's there and that she's okay, and so a
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: couple minutes later he gets.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: To her house. He goes up to the door and
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: her single father, James, answers the door.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Dwayne explains that he didn't see Samantha after her shift
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: and just wanted to make sure she was here, but
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: James says, she's not here.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: I have no idea where she is. I haven't spoken
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: to her.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: And so the two men go into James's kitchen. They
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: sit down and they start texting and calling Samantha to
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: try to figure out where she is. And after a
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: couple of minutes, Dwayne's phone lights up and it's a
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: text message from Samantha, and the message clearly indicates that
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: she's still very upset with Dwayne, but she's saying that
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: she needs some time to think and that she's going
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: to be with some friends for a couple of days
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: and would he Dwyane let her father know where she was.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: And so Dwayne shows James the text message and Samantha's
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: father looks at it and he's thinking to himself, you know,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: this is very uncharacteristic of Samantha. He had raised Samantha
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: since she was two years old, and they were very close.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: They shared everything with each other. It didn't make any
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: sense that she wouldn't contact him directly to say that
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: she was going to be out with friends for a
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: couple of days, and it didn't make sense that she
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: would ignore all of his phone calls and text messages
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: when clearly he was worried about her. The two men
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: stayed up super late, calling and texting hoping to get
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: more information from Samantha, but she never responded. She never
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: texted back, and so the following morning, when neither men
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: had gotten any more messages from Samantha, James went to
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: the Anchorage Police Department and filed a missing person report
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: for his only daughter. After receiving this missing person report,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: an officer with the Anchorage Police Department called the owner
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: of the common Ground's coffee shop to ask about Samantha,
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: and the owner actually said they just got a call
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: from there barista that was working at the kiosk that morning,
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: and they had informed them that apparently there had been
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: a robbery and no one can get in.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: Touch with Samantha. No one knows where she is.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: The owner told the police officer that as soon as
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: she got her hands on the security footage from the
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: night before.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: She would send it over to the police department.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: While the police waited for this footage, some officers began
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: calling Samantha's friends and other family members to see if
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: they knew where she was, but no one had heard
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: from her, and no one knew where she was.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: No one had any information.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Some other police officers headed over to the common Ground's
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: coffee kiosk to get a look at it for themselves,
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: and when they got there, there was no sign of
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: a struggle outside or inside the kiosk, and inside, underneath
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: the counter was a panic button that had not been pressed.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: And so even though Samantha's father thought there was something
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: odd about her final text message, the police began operating
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: under the theory that Samantha had robbed the kiosk and
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: then left of her own accord. But what confounded police
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: was how Samantha actually physically got away from the coffee shop.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: She didn't have a car that night, and she couldn't
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: have just walked away because the weather was way too
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: miserable and cold outside, and anchorage is just not really
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: a walkable city. And so if Samantha was telling the
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: truth that she was just taking a couple of days
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: to be by herself with some friends at their place,
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: then why didn't any of her friends know where she was.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: This question was answered later that day when the owner
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: of the coffee shop made the.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: Security footage available.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: The footage, which has no audio, picks up around eight
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: pm on February first, twenty twelve, which was the night
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: Samantha went missing. It shows Samantha inside of the kiosk.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: She's working alone, she's cheerful, and she's busy, and then
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: at some point, someone that we can't see they're outside
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: of the cameras range.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: Comes up to the window and orders a drink.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: Samantha clearly turns to them, acknowledges their drink order and
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: turns and begins making this drink. And then after she's
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: done making it, she turns to give it to this person,
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: and immediately Samantha steps back and puts her arms up,
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: and then seconds later she reaches over and turns off
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: the lights inside of the kiosk, and then she gets
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: down on her.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: Knees with her back to the window.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: She stays in that position, not talking, not moving for
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: about a minute before she slowly stands up and walks
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: down the kiosk towards the cash register. She opens it up,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: she scoops some money out of it. Then she walks
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: back to the window and appears to hand it to
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: a shadowy figure on the other side of the window,
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: and then Samantha turns kneels.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: Again with her back to the window.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: Two more minutes go by before this person outside the
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: window leans their entire upper body inside of the coffee shop.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: They reached down and they appear to tie Samantha's hands. Now,
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: because it was dark inside of the kiosk, the footage
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: winds up being extremely grainy, and there's no way to
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: identify who this figure is, although it's fairly obvious that
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: it's a male. He's wearing a big sweatshirt and he's
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: got a hat pulled down low over his face. After
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: this mystery man is done tying Samantha's hands, he leaps
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: through the window and then shuts the window behind him,
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: and then he stands Samantha up.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: He puts a gun into her.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: Back, then he marches her out the employee door and
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: then out across the lot all the way to a
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: white pickup truck where he puts her inside and they
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: drive off.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: For the next couple of days, the police and also
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: the FBI, who had been called in to be a
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: part of this investigation, they just kept hitting dead end
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: after dead end because there was no evidence. All they
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: had was the surveillance footage that was too grainy to
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: tell who this guy was that took Samantha. Meanwhile, Samantha's father, James,
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: had rallied the support of nearly all three hundred thousand
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: people that lived in Anchorage to go out and look
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: for his daughter. His efforts were so profound it had
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: attracted major news outlets across the country, and suddenly his
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: daughter's story had grabbed national headlines everywhere. This led to
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: strangers donating thousands of dollars to fund a reward for
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: anybody that had information about Samantha's whereabouts. But despite this
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: reward growing in size every single day and the national
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: news media becoming increasingly more interested in this case, no
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: one came forward with useful information that led to developments
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: in this case, and Samantha never got in touch with
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: Dwayne or her father. Then, on February twenty fourth, So
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: three weeks after Samantha's gone missing and no one's heard
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: from her, Dwayne got a text message from Samantha's phone
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: and it was directing him to a particular sign inside
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: of a nearby public park. And so Dwayne and James
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: read this text, they shared it with the police department,
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: and then they raced to this park and actually beat
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: the police there by about fifteen minutes. And so Dwayne
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: and James they walked through the gates and they start
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: walking down this main trail and they stop.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: In front of the sign.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: It was actually a bulletin board, and tacked on the
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: bulletin board was a ziplock bag, inside of which which
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: was a typed ransom note, and on the ransom note
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: literally xerox onto. It was a black and white photo
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: of Samantha. And in this photo, Samantha looks kind of dazed,
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: like she's got a blank expression, and she's not really
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: looking at the camera.
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: She's looking just to the side of the camera.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: And then in this picture, a man is holding a
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: copy of the Anchorage Daily News newspaper that stated February thirteenth,
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: twenty twelve, this was.
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: A proof of life photo.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: Where Samantha's captor was holding up that newspaper to indicate
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: that Samantha was alive as of February thirteenth, and so
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: to everybody involved in this case, including Samantha's father. Even
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: though this is still not a good situation at all,
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: it was kind of a relief to know that at
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: least as of last week, Samantha was alive. As for
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: the demands of this ransom note, James was told to
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: deposit thirty thousand dollars into his daughter's account immediately, and
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: if he did that, she would be released six months later.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: As advised by the FBI, James.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: Deposited a portion of the ransom money into his daughter's account,
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: and then the FBI just waited and watched because they
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: knew if anyone tried to withdraw money from that account,
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: they could track where the card was a few days later,
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: three separate withdrawals were made within Anchorage. But each time
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: the FBI got a notification about one of these withdrawals,
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: they would rush to the scene, and whoever it was
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: that had tried to make this withdrawal was long gone.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: When they pulled the security footage from these three different ATMs.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: The person that was making these withdrawals was a man
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: wearing a ski mask and big sunglasses, so they.
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: Had no way to identify him.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: After these withdrawals, the account went silent for over a week,
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: and in that time there was no word from Samantha.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: Then on March seventh, more withdrawals were made, but they
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: were in Arizona, and then New Mexico and then in Texas. Again,
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: authorities would rush to these ATMs, but they would get
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: there right after the masked man with sunglasses had just left.
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: But there was a break this time.
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: In one of these surveillance videos from one of the
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: Texas ATMs, they spotted the car this guy was getting
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: into before he left, and it was a small sedan.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: It was a white forward focus and they saw him
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: leave going east on a Texas highway, and so authorities
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: in Texas were told to look out for this particular
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: car in this part of Texas, and sure enough, on
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: March thirteenth, a Texas patrolman spotted the car sitting in
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: a hotel parking lot. He waited nearby until a man
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: in his thirties walked out of one of the hotel rooms,
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: walked down and got inside the car, and then this
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: patrolman just kind of followed him and looked for any
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: reason to pull him over. And as he had his
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: radar gun on this guy, he noticed he was going
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: two miles per hour above the speed limit, and so
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: he pulled him over. The patrolman got out, he walked
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: up to the driver's side window. The window was already down.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: The man was very calm. The patrolman asked him for
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: his license, and the guy handed him an Alaskan license.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: His name was Israel Keys. He was thirty four years
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: old and he lived in Anchorage. The patrolman knew this
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: was the guy. He called in backup, and before long
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: they were searching Keys's car, and in the trunk they
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: found a ski mask, along with other clothes that matched
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: the description of the guy who was making the drawers
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: from these different ATMs. They also found a gun, as
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: well as Samantha's cell phone and debit card. After Keys
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: was arrested and was brought into custody, he denied having
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: any involvement with Samantha's disappearance, but after being presented with
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: the overwhelming evidence that suggested otherwise, he caved and said yes,
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: he would tell them the full story of what happened
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: to Samantha, but they had to get him an Americano coffee,
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: a peanut butter Snickers, and a cigar. Once he had
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: said items, he began to speak, and what he said
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: was so disturbing and so graphic. The FBI still has
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: not released the full transcript of his confession. Here is
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: the version of events based on what was made public
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: on February first, twenty twelve. Keys decided he was going
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: to rob the common Ground's coffee kiosk.
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: He walked up to the window.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: Expecting there to be some teenager working inside, and he
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: was right.
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: It was Samantha.
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: He asked her for an Americano and while she turned
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: to make his drink, suddenly his plan changed. Not only
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: was he going to steal money from inside of this
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: coffee shop, he decided he was going to steal Samantha
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: from this coffee shop. When she turned back with his
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: drink and handed it to him, he discreetly pulled his
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: gun out and aimed it at her and told her
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: this was a robbery. That's when she backed up and
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: put her hands up, and then she turned around. He
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: tied her hands. He jumped back inside and then he
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: said after he shut the window, he jammed napkins inside
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: of her mouth so she couldn't make any sound. And
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: then he marched her out the door outside into his
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: car and they took off. Once they were in the vehicle,
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: he pulled the napkins out of her mouth, and he
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: told her if she tried to escape, or if she
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: tried to flag anybody down, that he would just kill her.
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: And so he said, she was very obedient.
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: She was obviously very scared, but she was trying to
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: do her best to stay composed. At some point, Keys
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: reached over and took her phone and sent that text
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: message to her boyfriend, informing him that she was going
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: to be spending a couple of days with friends and
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: that he should tell her father. And then Keys told
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: Samantha he was going to be holding her hostage and
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: trying to extract some ransom money. Samantha told Keys that
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: her family was very poor and that he wouldn't get
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: much money out of them, to which Key said, don't
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: worry about it.
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: I know they'll raise money and they'll come up with
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: it somehow.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: Then they drove around anchorage for several hours, periodically stopping
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: so Samantha could get out and relieve herself other times
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: so Keys.
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: Could smoke a cigar.
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: Then around midnight, Keys made his way back to his
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: house and he pulled into the driveway and he turned
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: his Samantha and he had her go in the back
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: seat and lie down. Then he put some tarps over her,
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: and he told her if she tried to escape, he
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: would kill her. And then Keys got out and he
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: walked inside of his house where his ten year old
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: daughter and his girlfriend were fast asleep.
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: And in just a few hours, Keys.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: And his daughter were scheduled to go to New Orleans
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: for a two week long luxury cruise.
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: Keys left his house and went back to his car.
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: He put a blindfold on Samantha and then led her
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: down the driveway to his shed. Once inside, he sat
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: her down on an upturned bucket in the back of
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: the shed, and then he put a rope around her
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: neck and he anchored each end of the rope to
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: the wall so she was pinned to the wall. Then
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: Keys turned his radio all the way up to make
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: sure it masked any noise she might make, even though
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: he reminded her repeatedly that if she made any noise
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: he would just kill her, and by and large, she
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: was very obedient. And then he gave her a couple
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: of cigarettes to smoke and told her it was going
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: to be just fine to just chill out, that he
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: was going to get the ransom money from their family,
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: and then as soon as that was done, he would
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: let her go. He turned on some space heaters to
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: keep the space warm, and then he left and locked
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: the door. He walked back into his house and double
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: checked that his daughter and his girlfriend were still asleep.
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: They were. Afterwards, he started drinking some.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: Wine and relaxing, and then after a little while he
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: got a cup of water and he went back out
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: to the shed. He went inside and he gave the
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: water to Samantha, and he said Samantha was very composed.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: She was obviously frightened, but she asked him, did you
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: speak to my father? Did you figure out the ransom situation?
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: And Keys told her that yes, I talked to your father.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: Everything's working out fine. He's going to raise the money.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: We're going to get you out of here. Everything's going
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: exactly to plan. After that, he walked up to Samantha
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: and he unscrewed the two anchors that were holding that
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: rope up against.
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: Her throat, and then he cut the zip.
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: Ties on her wrist, allowing her to relax and set
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: forward and just kind of be at ease per second,
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: And it was very obvious that Samantha was relieved her
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: nightmare was about to be over. But then seconds later,
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: Keys grabbed her really aggressively and tied her up all
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: over again, this time much more thoroughly and much more tightly.
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: It had been a crew trick when he cut her
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: handcuffs and undid her necktie. He just wanted to see
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: what she would do if she thought she was being
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: let go, when in reality he was never going to
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: let her go. There was no ransom. He had not
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: spoken to her father. It was all a big lie.
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: Keys told investigators that as he was tying her up
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: for that second time, he looked at her face and
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: she had this look of total resignation.
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: He said she knew what was about to happen to her.
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: After Keys tied her up, he.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: Left the shed and locked it behind him. He went
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: inside to check one more time to make sure his
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: ten year old daughter and his girlfriend were still asleep.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: When they were, he went back.
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: To the shed. He opened it up.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: He went inside, and this time when he stepped inside,
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: it smelled like urine and sweat, and he looked down
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: at Samantha and.
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: She was terrified. He walked up to her and he
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: began to assault her.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: And then after he was done, he was standing over
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: her getting his clothes back on, and Samantha very stoically
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: looks up at him and says, are you going to
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: kill me? And he says, yes, I am, as he
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: put on his leather gloves. She tried to talk him
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: out of it, but he said no other way. Keys
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: would tell investigators that he was very impressed with Samantha's
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: Bravery shortly before four am, Keys drove a knife into
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: Samantha's back before choking her until she stopped moving. He
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: told investigators that she never made a sound after she
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: was dead. Keys left the shed and locked.
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: It behind him. He went into his house. He took
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: a shower.
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: Afterwards, he woke up his daughter and told her to
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: start getting ready because they were leaving soon for the airport.
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: While his daughter was getting ready, Keys went back out
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: to the shed. He went inside. He rolled Samantha's body
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: up in a tarp and pushed her towards the back.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: He unplugged the space heaters, turned off the lights, turned
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: off the music, and then double locked the shed and
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: went back inside the house to make his daughter breakfast.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: At five am, a cab showed up at the house,
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: and Keys and his daughter hopped inside, and they made
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: their way to the airport and then onto New Orleans,
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: where they went on their two week long vacation.
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: After they got back, Keys went inside of his shed.
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: He unrolled Samantha from her tarp, and by his account,
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: she still looked barely lively, and so he dressed her
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: in some new clothes. He put lots of makeup on
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: her face, he braided her hair, and then he stitched
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: her eyelids open so it gave the impression she was
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: alive and alert. And then he held up a copy
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: of the Anchorage Daily News next to her and then
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: took several photos, creating that proof of life.
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: Photo for the ransom note.
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: If you want to see this photo, you can google it,
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: but that's up to you. After he took these pictures,
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: he chopped her body up into pieces and then disposed
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: of her in a nearby frozen lake. It would turn
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: out Samantha was not Israel Keys's first victim. He was
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: in fact a serial killer who specifically prayed on completely
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: random people because he.
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: Enjoyed watching them die.
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: Over the years, he had hid what he called kill
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: kits all over the United States, which were these cachets
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: filled with weapons and other tools designed.
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: To capture and kill people.
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: This way, no matter where he was in the country,
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: when he had an urge to go kill someone, he
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: would just go to his nearest kill kit, dig it up,
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: and then go target a random stranger.
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: And he didn't care if you were.
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: Young, old, big, small, male, female, alone or in a group.
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: Everyone was a target of opportunity.
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: Keys told investigators that as as soon as he saw
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: Samantha inside of that coffee kiosk, instantly he knew he was.
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: Going to kill her.
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: Everything about the ransom, the robbery, all of it was
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: just a lie to keep her in line, to give
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: her some hope.
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: That she might get out of this alive, when in reality.
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: The second she walked outside of the doors of that kiosk,
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: she was dead. Keys admitted to killing Samantha as well
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: as an older couple up in Vermont, but he would
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: take his own life in a jail cell in December
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: of twenty twelve, before he named any of his other victims,
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: and so to this day we have no idea how
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: many people he killed. The best guest is eleven, based
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: on a drawing he made in his jail cell, but
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: that's just a guess.
• 55:42
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• 55:44
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• 55:45
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