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  Speaker 1: On the morning of February second, twenty twelve, a young
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  Speaker 1: man pulled off a four lane highway in Anchorage, Alaska,
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  Speaker 1: into a large, snowy parking lot. He passed by dozens
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  Speaker 1: of parked cars until he arrived in front of the
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  Speaker 1: small shack that was brightly teal colored. It was a
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  Speaker 1: popular coffee shop called the Common Grounds, and this young
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  Speaker 1: man worked as a barista. After he parked his car,
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  Speaker 1: he walked up to the white door employee entrance to
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  Speaker 1: this little.
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  Speaker 2: Building and he got his key out and he went
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  Speaker 2: to unlock the door.
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  Speaker 1: But when he turned the key, he saw the door
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  Speaker 1: was already unlocked. He knew the girl who had worked
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  Speaker 1: the previous night and would have been responsible for locking
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  Speaker 1: the shop up. She was eighteen year old Samantha Koenig,
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  Speaker 1: and although she had only been on the job for
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  Speaker 1: about a month, she seemed very responsible and had never
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  Speaker 1: had any issues closing up before. The young man shrugged
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  Speaker 1: it off, though, he figured people make mistakes, and he
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  Speaker 1: went inside right away.
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  Speaker 2: He noticed that a couple of things just seemed out
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  Speaker 2: of place.
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  Speaker 1: It was like Samantha must have just left in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of her shift without even attempting to clean up.
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  Speaker 1: There were napkins on the ground, there were towels out,
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  Speaker 1: there were cups still out, and so as this young
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  Speaker 1: man is walking over to the cash register to unlock it,
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  Speaker 1: he's running through scenarios in his head about how Samantha
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  Speaker 1: could have.
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  Speaker 2: Been so sloppy, And then he reached down with his
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  Speaker 2: register key and just liked the door. The cash register
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  Speaker 2: was already unlocked.
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  Speaker 1: When he pulled the tray out, all the money was gone,
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  Speaker 1: and that's when he knew they had been robbed.
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  Speaker 2: So he called his boss.
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  Speaker 1: The night before, Samantha had asked her boyfriend Dwayne to
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  Speaker 1: pick her up after her shift at the common grounds.
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  Speaker 1: Dwayne arrived in front of the kiosk at about eight
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  Speaker 1: thirty pm, which was thirty minutes after her shift should
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  Speaker 1: have been over. Dwayne had gotten held up at his job,
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  Speaker 1: which is why he was late, and so when he
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  Speaker 1: gets there, Dwayne looks around the parking lot and he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't see Samantha anywhere. He sees the coffee shop itself
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  Speaker 1: as totally dark and looks like it's been closed up
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  Speaker 1: for the night. And so Dwayne gets out of his
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  Speaker 1: truck into the freezing cold night air, and he walked
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  Speaker 1: up to the window of this coffee shop and he
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  Speaker 1: pressed his face up to the glass to look inside,
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  Speaker 1: but there was nobody in there. Dwayne automatically went back
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  Speaker 1: to the fight he had gotten into with Samantha earlier
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  Speaker 1: in the night via text message. She had accused him
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  Speaker 1: of cheating on her. He had been kind of nonchalant,
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  Speaker 1: like he didn't care about it, and what ensued was
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  Speaker 1: a really ugly fight. And so as Dwayne is walking
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  Speaker 1: back to his truck, he's thinking to himself, maybe Samantha
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  Speaker 1: just didn't want to see him because of the fight.
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  Speaker 1: And so at the end of her shift, she got
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  Speaker 1: a ride home from her father or maybe from a friend,
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  Speaker 1: and that's why she's not here. And so Dwayne gets
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  Speaker 1: back inside of his truck and he sends a text
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  Speaker 1: message to Samantha asking if she's okay, if she's gotten home.
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  Speaker 1: But after several minutes of no response from her, Dwayne,
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  Speaker 1: even though they were fighting, he still cares an awful
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  Speaker 1: lot about his girlfriend. He decides, I just I got
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  Speaker 1: to go buy her house and make sure she's there
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  Speaker 1: and that she's okay. And so a couple of minutes later,
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  Speaker 1: he gets to her house. He goes up to the
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  Speaker 1: door and her single father, James, answers the door. Dwayne
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  Speaker 1: explains that he didn't see Samantha after her shift and
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  Speaker 1: just wanted to make sure she was here, but James says,
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  Speaker 1: she's not here.
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea where she is.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't spoken to her, And so the two men
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  Speaker 1: go into James's kitchen. They sit down and they start
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  Speaker 1: texting and calling Samantha to try to figure out where
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  Speaker 1: she is.
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  Speaker 2: And after a couple of.
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  Speaker 1: Minutes, Dwayne's phone lights up and it's a text message
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  Speaker 1: from Samantha, and the message clearly indicates that she's still
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  Speaker 1: very upset with Dwayne, but she's saying that she needs
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  Speaker 1: some time to think and that she's going to be
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  Speaker 1: with some friends for a couple of days, and would
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  Speaker 1: he Dwyane let her father know where she was.
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  Speaker 2: And so Dwayne shows James the.
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  Speaker 1: Text message, and Samantha's father looks at it and he's
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  Speaker 1: thinking to himself, you know, this is very uncharacteristic of Samantha.
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  Speaker 1: He had raised Samantha since she was two years old,
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  Speaker 1: and they were very close. They shared everything with each other.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't make any sense that she wouldn't contact him
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  Speaker 1: directly to say that she was going to be out
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  Speaker 1: with friends for.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of days.
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  Speaker 1: And it didn't make sense that she would ignore all
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  Speaker 1: of his phone calls and text messages when clearly he
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  Speaker 1: was worried about her. The two men stayed up super late,
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  Speaker 1: calling and texting, hoping to get more information from.
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  Speaker 2: Samantha, but she never responded.
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  Speaker 1: She never texted back, and so the following morning, when
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  Speaker 1: neither men had gotten any more messages from Samantha, James
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  Speaker 1: went to the Anchorage Police Department and filed a missing
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  Speaker 1: person report for his only daughter. After receiving this missing
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  Speaker 1: person report, an officer with the Anchorage Police Department called
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  Speaker 1: the owner of the common Ground's coffee shop to ask
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  Speaker 1: about Samantha, and the owner actually said they just got
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  Speaker 1: a call from there barista that was working at the
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  Speaker 1: kiosk that morning, and they had informed them that apparently
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  Speaker 1: there had been a robbery and no one.
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  Speaker 2: Can get in touch with Samantha. No one knows where
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  Speaker 2: she is.
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  Speaker 1: The owner told the police officer that as soon as
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  Speaker 1: she got her hands on these security footage from the
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  Speaker 1: night before, she would send it over to the police department.
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  Speaker 1: While the police waited for this footage, some officers began
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  Speaker 1: calling Samantha's friends and other family members to see if
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  Speaker 1: they knew where she was, but no one had heard
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  Speaker 1: from her, and no one knew where she was.
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  Speaker 2: No one had any information.
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  Speaker 1: Some other police officers headed over to the common Ground's
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  Speaker 1: coffee kiosk to get a look at it for themselves,
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  Speaker 1: and when they got there, there was no sign of
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  Speaker 1: a struggle outside or inside the kiosk, and inside, underneath
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  Speaker 1: the counter was a panic button that had not been pressed.
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  Speaker 1: And so even though Samantha's father thought there was something
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  Speaker 1: odd about her final text message.
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  Speaker 2: The police began.
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  Speaker 1: Operating under the theory that Samantha had robbed the kiosk
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  Speaker 1: and then left of her own accord. But what confounded
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  Speaker 1: police was how Samantha actually physically got away from the
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  Speaker 1: coffee shop. She didn't have a car that night, and
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  Speaker 1: she couldn't have just walked away because the weather was
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  Speaker 1: way too miserable and cold outside, and Anchorage is just
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  Speaker 1: not really a walkable city. And so if Samantha was
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  Speaker 1: telling the truth that she was just taking a couple
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  Speaker 1: of days to be by herself with some friends at
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  Speaker 1: their place, then why didn't any of her friends know
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  Speaker 1: where she was. This question was answered later that day
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  Speaker 1: when the owner of the coffee shop.
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  Speaker 2: Made the security footage available.
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  Speaker 1: The footage, which has no audio, picks up around eight
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  Speaker 1: pm on February first, twenty twelve, which.
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  Speaker 2: Was the night Samantha went missing.
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  Speaker 1: It shows Samantha inside of the kiosk. She's working alone,
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  Speaker 1: she's cheerful, and she's busy, and then at some point
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  Speaker 1: someone that we can't see, they're outside of the camera's range,
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  Speaker 1: comes up to the window and orders a drink.
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  Speaker 2: Samantha clearly turns to them.
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  Speaker 1: Acknowledges their drink order and turns and begins making this drink.
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  Speaker 1: And then after she's done making it, she turns to
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  Speaker 1: give it to this person, and immediately Samantha steps back
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  Speaker 1: and puts her arms up, and then seconds later she
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  Speaker 1: reaches over and turns off the lights inside of the kiosk,
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  Speaker 1: and then she gets down on her knees with her
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  Speaker 1: back to the window. She stays in that position, not talking,
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  Speaker 1: not moving for about a minute before she slowly stands
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  Speaker 1: up and walks down the kiosk towards the cash register.
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  Speaker 1: She opens it up, she scoops some money out of it,
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  Speaker 1: then she walks back to the window and appears to
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  Speaker 1: hand it to a shadowy figure on the other side
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  Speaker 1: of the window, and then Samantha turns kneels again with
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  Speaker 1: her back to the window. Two more minutes go by
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  Speaker 1: before this person outside the window leans their entire upper
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  Speaker 1: body inside of the coffee shop. They reach down and
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  Speaker 1: they appear to tie Samantha's hands. Now, because it was
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  Speaker 1: dark inside of the kiosk, the footage winds up being
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  Speaker 1: extremely grainy, and there's no way to identify who this
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  Speaker 1: figure is, although it's fairly obvious that it's a male.
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  Speaker 1: He's wearing a big sweatshirt and he's got a hat
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  Speaker 1: pulled down low over his face. After this mystery man
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  Speaker 1: is done tying Samantha's hands, he leaps through the window
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  Speaker 1: and then shuts the window behind him, and then he
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  Speaker 1: stands Samantha up.
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  Speaker 2: He puts a gun into her back. Then he marches
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  Speaker 2: her out the employee door and then out across the
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  Speaker 2: lot all the way to a white pickup truck where
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  Speaker 2: he puts her inside and they drive off. Well.
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  Speaker 1: For the next couple of days, the police and also
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  Speaker 1: the FBI, who had been called in to be a
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  Speaker 1: part of this investigation, they just kept hitting dead end
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  Speaker 1: after dead end because there was no evidence. All they
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  Speaker 1: had was the surveillance footage that was too grainy to
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  Speaker 1: tell who this guy was that took Samantha. Meanwhile, Samantha's father, James,
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  Speaker 1: had rallied the support of nearly all three hundred thousand
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  Speaker 1: people that lived in Anchorage to go out and look
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  Speaker 1: for his daughter. His efforts were so profound it had
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  Speaker 1: attracted major news outlets across the country, and suddenly his
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  Speaker 1: daughter's story had grabbed national headlines everywhere. This led to
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  Speaker 1: strangers donating thousands of dollars to fund a reward for
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  Speaker 1: anybody that had information about Samantha's whereabouts. But despite this
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  Speaker 1: reward growing in size every single day and the national
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  Speaker 1: news media becoming increasingly more interested in this case, no
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  Speaker 1: one came forward with useful information that led to developments
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  Speaker 1: in this case, and Samantha never got in touch with
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  Speaker 1: Dwayne or her father. Then, on February twenty fourth, so
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  Speaker 1: three weeks after Samantha's gone missing and no one's heard
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  Speaker 1: from her, Dwayne got a text message from Samantha's phone
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  Speaker 1: and it was directing him to a particular sign inside
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  Speaker 1: of a nearby public park. And so Dwayne and James
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  Speaker 1: read this text, they shared it with the police department,
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  Speaker 1: and then they raced to this park and actually beat
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  Speaker 1: the police there by.
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  Speaker 2: About fifteen minutes.
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  Speaker 1: And so Dwayne and James they walked through the gates
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  Speaker 1: and they start walking down this main trail and they
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  Speaker 1: stop in front of the sign. It was actually a
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  Speaker 1: bulletin board, and tacked on the bulletin board was a
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  Speaker 1: ziploc bag, inside of which was a typed ransom note,
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  Speaker 1: and on the ransom note literally xeroxed onto it was
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  Speaker 1: a black and white photo of Samantha, and in this photo,
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  Speaker 1: Samantha looks kind of dazed, like she's got a blank expression,
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  Speaker 1: and she's not really looking at the camera.
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  Speaker 2: She's looking just to the side of the camera.
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  Speaker 1: And then in this picture, a man is holding a
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  Speaker 1: copy of the Anchorage Daily News newspaper that stated February thirteenth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twelve. This was a proof of life photo where
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  Speaker 1: Samantha's captor was holding up that newspaper to indicate that
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  Speaker 1: Samantha was alive as of February thirteenth. And so to
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  Speaker 1: everybody involved in this case, including Samantha's father, even though
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  Speaker 1: this is still not a good situation at all, it
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  Speaker 1: was kind of a relief to know that at least
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  Speaker 1: as of last week, Samantha was alive. As for the
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  Speaker 1: demands of this ransom note, James was told to deposit
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  Speaker 1: thirty thousand dollars into his daughter's account of me mediately
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  Speaker 1: and if he did that, she.
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  Speaker 2: Would be released six months later.
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  Speaker 1: As advised by the FBI, James deposited a portion of
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  Speaker 1: the ransom money into his daughter's account, and then the
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  Speaker 1: FBI just waited and watched because they knew if anyone
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  Speaker 1: tried to withdraw money from that account, they could track
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  Speaker 1: where the card was a few days later, three separate
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  Speaker 1: withdrawals were made within Anchorage.
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  Speaker 2: But each time the FBI got a.
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  Speaker 1: Notification about one of these withdrawals, they would rush to
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  Speaker 1: the scene, and whoever it was that had tried to
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  Speaker 1: make this withdrawal was long gone. When they pulled the
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  Speaker 1: security footage from these three different ATMs. The person that
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  Speaker 1: was making these withdraws was a man wearing a ski
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  Speaker 1: mask and big sunglasses, so they had no way to
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  Speaker 1: identify him. After these withdrawals, the account went silent for
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  Speaker 1: over a week, and in that time.
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  Speaker 2: There was no word from Samantha.
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  Speaker 1: Then on March seventh, more withdrawals were made, but they
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  Speaker 1: were in Arizona, and then New Mexico and then in Texas.
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  Speaker 2: Again, authorities would rush.
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  Speaker 1: To these ATMs, but they would get there right after
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  Speaker 1: the masked man with sunglasses had just left.
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  Speaker 2: But there was a break this time. In one of
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  Speaker 2: these valance videos from one of the Texas ATMs, they
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  Speaker 2: spotted the car this guy was getting into before he left,
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  Speaker 2: and it was a small sedan. It was a white
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  Speaker 2: Ford Focus and they saw.
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  Speaker 1: Him leave going east on a Texas highway, and so
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  Speaker 1: authorities in Texas were told to look out for this
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  Speaker 1: particular car in this part of Texas, And sure enough,
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  Speaker 1: on March thirteenth, a Texas patrolman spotted the car sitting
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  Speaker 1: in a hotel parking lot. He waited nearby until a
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  Speaker 1: man in his thirties walked out of one of the
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  Speaker 1: hotel rooms, walked down and got inside the car. And
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  Speaker 1: then this patrolman just kind of followed him and looked
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  Speaker 1: for any reason to pull him over. And as he
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  Speaker 1: had his radar gun on this guy, he noticed he
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  Speaker 1: was going two miles per hour above the speed limit,
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  Speaker 1: and so he pulled him over. The patrolman got out,
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  Speaker 1: he walked up to the driver's side window. The window
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  Speaker 1: was already down.
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  Speaker 2: The man was very calm.
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  Speaker 1: The patrolman asked him for his license, and the guy
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  Speaker 1: handed him an Alaskan license. His name was Israel Keys.
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  Speaker 1: He was thirty four years old and he lived in Anchorage.
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  Speaker 1: The patrolman knew this was the guy. He called in backup,
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  Speaker 1: and before long they were searching Keys's car. In the trunk,
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  Speaker 1: they found a ski mask, along with other clothes that
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  Speaker 1: matched the description of the guy who was making the
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  Speaker 1: draws from these different ATMs. They also found a gun,
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  Speaker 1: as well as Samantha's cell phone and debit card. After
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  Speaker 1: Keys was arrested and was brought into custody, he denied
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  Speaker 1: having any involvement with Samantha's disappearance, but after being presented
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  Speaker 1: with the overwhelming evidence that suggested otherwise, he caved and
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  Speaker 1: said yes, he would tell them the full story of
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  Speaker 1: what happened to Samantha, but they had to get him
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  Speaker 1: an Americano coffee, a peanut butter Snickers, and a cigar.
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  Speaker 1: Once he had said items, he began to speak, and
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  Speaker 1: what he said was so disturbing and so graphic.
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  Speaker 2: The FBI still has not released the full transcript.
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  Speaker 1: Of his confession. Here is the version of events based
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  Speaker 1: on what was made public. On February first, twenty twelve,
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  Speaker 1: Keys decided he was going to rob the common Ground's
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  Speaker 1: coffee kiosk. He walked up to the window, expecting there
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  Speaker 1: to be some teenager working inside, and he was right.
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  Speaker 2: It was Samantha. He asked her for an.
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  Speaker 1: Americano and while she turned to make his drink, suddenly
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  Speaker 1: his plan changed.
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  Speaker 2: Not only was he going to steal money from inside
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  Speaker 2: of this coffee shop.
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  Speaker 1: He decided he was going to steal Samantha from this
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  Speaker 1: coffee shop. When she turned back with his drink and
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  Speaker 1: handed it to him, he discreetly pulled his gun out
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  Speaker 1: and aimed it at her and told her this was
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  Speaker 1: a robbery. That's when she backed up and put her
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  Speaker 1: hands up, and then she turned around.
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  Speaker 2: He tied her hands.
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  Speaker 1: He jumped back inside, and then he said, after he
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  Speaker 1: shut the window, he jammed napkins inside of her mouth
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  Speaker 1: so she couldn't make any sound, and then he marched
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  Speaker 1: through out the door outside into his car and they
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  Speaker 1: took off. Once they were in the vehicle, he pulled
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  Speaker 1: the napkins out of her mouth, and he told her
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  Speaker 1: if she tried to escape, or if she tried to
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  Speaker 1: flag anybody down, that he would just kill her. And
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  Speaker 1: so he said, she was very obedient. She was obviously
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  Speaker 1: very scared, but she was trying to do her best
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  Speaker 1: to stay composed. At some point, Keys reached over and
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  Speaker 1: took her phone and sent that text message to her boyfriend,
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  Speaker 1: informing him that she was going to be spending a
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  Speaker 1: couple of days with friends and that he should tell
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  Speaker 1: her father and then Keys told Samantha he was going
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  Speaker 1: to be holding her hostage and trying to extract some
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  Speaker 1: ransom money. Samantha told Keys that her family was very
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  Speaker 1: poor and that he wouldn't get much money out of them,
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  Speaker 1: to which Key said, don't worry about it.
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  Speaker 2: I know they'll raise money and they'll come up with
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  Speaker 2: it somehow.
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  Speaker 1: Then they drove around Anchorage for several hours, periodically stopping
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  Speaker 1: so Samantha could get out and relieve herself, other times
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  Speaker 1: so Keys could smoke a cigar. Then, around midnight, Keyes
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  Speaker 1: made his way back to his house and he pulled
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: into the driveway and he turned his Samantha and he
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: had her go in the backseat and lie down. Then
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: he put some tarps over her and he told her
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: if she tried to escape, he would kill her. And
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: then Keys got out and he walked inside of his
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: house where his ten year old daughter and his girlfriend
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: were fast asleep. And in just a few hours, Keys
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: and his daughter were scheduled to go to New Orleans
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: for a two week long luxury cruise. Keys left his
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: house and went back to his car. He put a
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: blindfold on Samantha and then led her down the driveway
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: to his shed. Once inside, he sat her down on
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: an upturned bucket in the back of the shed, and
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: then he put a rope around her neck and he
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: anchored each end of.
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: The rope to the wall so she was pinned to
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: the wall.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: Then Keys turned his radio all the way up to
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: make sure it masked any noise she might make. Even
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: though he reminded her repeatedly that if she made any
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: noise he would just kill her. By and large, she
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: was very obedient. And then he gave her a couple
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: of cigarettes to smoke and told her it was going
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: to be just fine to just chill out, that he
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: was going to get the ransom money from their family,
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: and then as soon as that was done, he would
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: let her go. He turned on some space heaters to
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: keep the space warm, and then he left and locked
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: the door. He walked back into his house and double
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: checked that his daughter and his girlfriend were still asleep.
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: They were. Afterwards, he started drinking some wine.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: And relaxing, and then after a little while he got
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: a cup of water and he went back out.
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: To the shed. He went inside and he gave the
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: water to Samantha, and he said Samantha was very composed
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: She was obviously frightened, but she asked him, did you
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: speak to my father? Did you figure out.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: The ransom situation? And Keys told her that yes, I
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: talked to your father. Everything's working out fine. He's going
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: to raise the money, we're going to get you out
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: of here. Everything's going exactly to plan.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: After that, he.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: Walked up to Samantha and he unscrewed the two anchors
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: that were holding that rope up against her throat, and
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: then he cut the zip ties on her wrist, allowing
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: her to relax and set forward.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: And just kind of be at ease for a second.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: And it was very obvious that Samantha was relieved her
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: nightmare was about to be over. And then seconds later
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: Keys grabbed her really aggressively and tied her up all
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: over again, this time much more thoroughly and much more tightly.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: It had been a cruel trick when he cut her
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: handcuffs and undid her necktie. He just wanted to see
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: what she would do if she thought she was being
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: let go, when in reality he was never.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Going to let her go. There was no ransom, He
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: had not spoken to her father. It was all a
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: big lie.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: Keys told investigators that as he was tying her up
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: for that second time, he looked at her face and
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: she had this look of total resignation. He said she
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: knew what was about to happen to her. After Keys
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: tied her up, he left the shed and locked it
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: behind him. He went inside to check one more time
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: to make sure his ten year old daughter and his
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: girlfriend were still asleep.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: When they were, he went back to the shed.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: He opened it up, he went inside, and this time
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: when he stepped inside, it smelled like urine and sweat,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: and he looked down at Samantha and she was terrified.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: He walked up to her and he began to assault her,
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: and then after he was done, he was standing over
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: her getting his clothes back on, and Samantha very stoically
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: looks up at him and says, are you going.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: To kill me?
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: And he says, yes, I am, as he put on
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: his leather gloves. She tried to talk him out of it,
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: but he said there was no other way. Keys would
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: tell investigators that he was very impressed with Samantha's Bravery
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: shortly before four am, Keys drove a knife into Samantha's
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: back before choking her until she stopped moving.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: He told investigators that she never made a sound after
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: she was dead. Keys left the shed and locked it
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: behind him. He went into his house. He took a shower.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: Afterwards, he woke up his daughter and told her to
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: start getting ready because they were leaving soon for the airport.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: While his daughter was getting ready, Keys went back out
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: to the shed. He went inside. He rolled Samantha's body
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: up in a tarp and pushed her towards the back.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: He unplugged the space heaters, turned off the lights, turned
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: off the music, and then double locked the shed and
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: went back inside the house to make his daughter breakfast.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: At five am, a cab showed up at the house,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: and Keys and his daughter hopped inside, and they made
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: their way to the airport and then onto New Orleans,
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: where they went on their two week long vacation. After
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: they got back, Keys went inside of his shed. He
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: unrolled Samantha from her tarp, and by his account, she
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: still looked fairly lively, and so he dressed her in
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: some new clothes. He put lots of makeup on her face,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: He braided her hair, and then he stitched her eyelids
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: open so it gave the impression she was alive and alert,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: and then he held up a copy of the Anchorage
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Daily News next to her and then took several photos,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: creating that proof of life photo for the ransom note.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: If you want to see this photo, you can google it,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: but that's up to you. After he took these pictures,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: he chopped her body up into pieces and then disposed
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: of her in a nearby frozen lake. It would turn
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: out Samantha was not Israel Keys's first victum. He was,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: in fact a serial killer who specifically prayed on completely
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: random people because he enjoyed watching them die. Over the years,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: he had hid what he called kill kits all over
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: the United States, which were these cachets filled with weapons
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: and other tools designed to capture and kill people. This way,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: no matter where he was in the country, when he
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: had an urge to go kill someone, he would just
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: go to his nearest kill kit, dig it up, and
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: then go target a random stranger. And he didn't care
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: if you were young, old, big, small, male, female, alone
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: or in a group.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Everyone was a target of opportunity.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Keys told investigators that as soon as he saw Samantha
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: inside of that coffee kiosk, instantly he knew he was
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: going to kill her. Everything about the ransom, the robbery,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: all of it was just a lie to keep her
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: in line, to give her some hope that she might
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: get out of this alive, when in reality, the second
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: she walked outside of the doors of that kiosk, she
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: was dead. He's admitted to killing Samantha as well as
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: an older couple up in Vermont, but he would take
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: his own life in a jail cell in December of
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: twenty twelve before he named any of his other victims,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: and so to this day we have no idea how
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: many people he killed. The best guess is eleven, based
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: on a drawing he made in his jail cell, but
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: that's just a guess.
• 19:46
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