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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. How many serial killers are
- 0:09Speaker 1: walking amongst us? How many serial killers yet to be caught?
- 0:16Speaker 1: Has a prolific serial killer been caught on tape? And
- 0:21Speaker 1: are their more bodies? I Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories.
- 0:26Speaker 1: Thank you for being with us. The search for Samantha
- 0:30Speaker 1: Konig leads to a local park as the kidnapper leaves
- 0:34Speaker 1: a photo for police. What happened to Samantha? Little did
- 0:40Speaker 1: Samantha's father know that photo that was left along with
- 0:44Speaker 1: a ransom note. It had Samantha a picture with braids,
- 0:53Speaker 1: and her dad immediately knew Samantha never wore her hair
- 0:58Speaker 1: like that. Little did her dad know at the time
- 1:02Speaker 1: he got the ransom note and he saw the polaroid
- 1:07Speaker 1: that Samantha was dead in the photo, her eyes stitched
- 1:14Speaker 1: open and makeup artfully applied. How many serial killers are
- 1:21Speaker 1: lurking amongst us? This guy is Ciryl Keys, one of
- 1:27Speaker 1: the most prolific serial killers to ever stalk our country.
- 1:34Speaker 1: Very rarely is a serial killer caught on tape. But
- 1:37Speaker 1: listen to this.
- 1:38Speaker 2: She was out on the river and it's like, remember
- 1:44Speaker 2: you can flow down the people who do it on
- 1:46Speaker 2: interviewers and so, and it's just hang out.
- 1:51Speaker 3: It's this more remote spot. She was like the last
- 1:53Speaker 3: one in her group, grabbing dura puller.
- 2:04Speaker 4: On the shore.
- 2:05Speaker 1: He speaks of abducting one of his first victims. So
- 2:09Speaker 1: casually you are hearing the voice of a prolific serial
- 2:15Speaker 1: killer that's taught our country for so long, and the
- 2:20Speaker 1: bodies weren't even connected. Authorities didn't realize one guy is
- 2:26Speaker 1: responsible for a murder wave. Joining me an all star panel.
- 2:31Speaker 1: Before I let you hear more of the prolific serial
- 2:34Speaker 1: killer Israel Keys, I want to introduce a longtime friend
- 2:40Speaker 1: and colleague. As you may know, I was on HLN
- 2:45Speaker 1: for many many years and one of our star producers
- 2:48Speaker 1: was Andrew Eiden aka Drew Eiden, who joins us tonight.
- 2:55Speaker 1: He is now co host of the Deviant podcast. Andrew,
- 3:01Speaker 1: thank you for being with.
- 3:02Speaker 5: Us, Thanks for having men.
- 3:03Speaker 1: This Israel Keys. Do you hear how casually he's describing.
- 3:09Speaker 1: He says, she was out on the river, a river
- 3:12Speaker 1: you can float down with enerviews, and she was near
- 3:16Speaker 1: the end. It's just like the slowest gazelle, Drew. The
- 3:21Speaker 1: slowest gazelle is the one the Hyena grabs yep, and
- 3:25Speaker 1: that's exactly what he does. I mean, if a Hyaena
- 3:28Speaker 1: could talk, it would be him. And he so casually grabs,
- 3:33Speaker 1: like describes grabbing her as the rest of the group
- 3:36Speaker 1: goes await, It's like, you know, yeah, drove through McDonald's,
- 3:39Speaker 1: I got a diet code. Yeah, are you surprised? And
- 3:42Speaker 1: how casual he is.
- 3:43Speaker 5: It's it's really shocking, honestly, when you listen to when
- 3:46Speaker 5: you listen to the hours of his conversations with authorities,
- 3:50Speaker 5: the thing that is so mind boggling is the is
- 3:54Speaker 5: the callous, cold, detached demeanor with which he outlines all
- 3:59Speaker 5: of his car and even some of the crimes that
- 4:01Speaker 5: he doesn't really confess to right he What we learned
- 4:04Speaker 5: listening to him talk to police is that he loves
- 4:06Speaker 5: to walk right up to the edge of a confession
- 4:08Speaker 5: and then stop right short of giving them the information
- 4:11Speaker 5: they need.
- 4:12Speaker 1: Okay, hold on, Drew aka Andrew Eiden, hold on just
- 4:17Speaker 1: a moment. We talked about this over and over on
- 4:22Speaker 1: the NG Show at Ahlman, Let Me go to Daryl
- 4:25Speaker 1: Cohen Darryl Cohen, courum superstar, former felony prosecutor, now a
- 4:30Speaker 1: defense attorney. You can find him at Cohen Cooper EASTEP
- 4:36Speaker 1: and Allen Darryl. How many times did we have I mean,
- 4:42Speaker 1: a full fledged criminal, just a bad guy and he,
- 4:48Speaker 1: and it's typically a he. People say, why do you
- 4:51Speaker 1: hate man? I don't hate man. I just hate men
- 4:53Speaker 1: that commit violent crimes. He would go all the way
- 4:57Speaker 1: up to the moment and say something like, yeah, we
- 5:00Speaker 1: were driving along and I looked out at the wind,
- 5:02Speaker 1: and I heard a gun shot and at that moment,
- 5:08Speaker 1: that one critical moment. As Andrew is describing leg all
- 5:13Speaker 1: the way up to the moment of the murder and
- 5:16Speaker 1: then backs off Nancy.
- 5:19Speaker 6: So often because most or at least many of those
- 5:23Speaker 6: who have committed Thesehenus crimes cannot admit it to themselves.
- 5:28Speaker 6: They believe that what they were doing was a story.
- 5:30Speaker 6: They were the fairy tale. They were wonderful people. And
- 5:34Speaker 6: oh my gosh, I don't know how that happened. The
- 5:36Speaker 6: gun went off. I didn't have the gun, did I really? Maybe? Sure?
- 5:40Speaker 6: Maybe perhaps these people?
- 5:43Speaker 1: Yeah, was that me that pulled the trigger? And you
- 5:45Speaker 1: know another thing, and I want to know if you've
- 5:48Speaker 1: noticed this. Bobby Chaconne is joining a special Agent FBI.
- 5:53Speaker 1: Former special agent now screenwriter for Criminal Minds, and I
- 5:56Speaker 1: want to clue you into a new documentary you can find.
- 6:00Speaker 1: It's called After the Fall Little Old Did Bobby and
- 6:04Speaker 1: I know we were both in New York the day
- 6:07Speaker 1: off September eleven, and this is his painstakingly put together
- 6:11Speaker 1: documentary about that day. Bobby Chacone also helped fish the
- 6:19Speaker 1: body as I recall, dismembered in black plastic trash bags
- 6:24Speaker 1: out of an icy lake. It was you there, you
- 6:29Speaker 1: go on top of that ice, trying to pull up
- 6:34Speaker 1: the body parts of that Alaskan burist to cement the Koenig.
- 6:38Speaker 1: That was you, Bobby Chacone, What do you make of
- 6:42Speaker 1: what Drew is telling us about how Israel Keys the
- 6:46Speaker 1: serial killer will go all the way up to the
- 6:48Speaker 1: point of the murder and then back off. And you
- 6:51Speaker 1: know what I've noticed also, Bobby, as you and I
- 6:53Speaker 1: have discussed, they very often won't admit that they sexually
- 6:56Speaker 1: assaulted a victim, rape, sonomy, the whole thing. They leave
- 7:01Speaker 1: that part out. It's like they're more worried about that
- 7:05Speaker 1: than they are about the murder.
- 7:07Speaker 4: Yeah, it's really interesting where they draw the lines, right,
- 7:09Speaker 4: because they're so irrational when you try to figure out
- 7:12Speaker 4: the lines they want to draw. In this particular case,
- 7:14Speaker 4: when we were going up there to recover Samantha, we
- 7:17Speaker 4: were told that she had been dismembered and she was
- 7:20Speaker 4: in five separate pieces weighted down. But we were also
- 7:23Speaker 4: told that Keys made a demand that he did not
- 7:26Speaker 4: want that part of it leaked. He didn't want the
- 7:28Speaker 4: part that she had been dismembered leaked to the press,
- 7:30Speaker 4: so we had to be very careful. Normally we recover
- 7:32Speaker 4: a victim like this, we would bring each body part
- 7:35Speaker 4: up in a separate body bag for the medical examiner.
- 7:38Speaker 4: They don't like those commingled when they do their analysis.
- 7:41Speaker 4: But in this case we put Samantha Oll in one
- 7:43Speaker 4: bag and brought it to the surface because the media
- 7:45Speaker 4: was at the shorelines with cameras and stuff, and we
- 7:48Speaker 4: didn't want to clue them in because Keys made that
- 7:50Speaker 4: demand that he didn't mind know that getting out there,
- 7:53Speaker 4: that you know, he sexual assaultant and murdered her, but
- 7:56Speaker 4: he didn't want his eleven year old daughter to know
- 7:58Speaker 4: that he had dismembered her. Really strange line that these
- 8:01Speaker 4: guys draw us.
- 8:02Speaker 1: Sometimes security cam at the coffee shop where she worked.
- 8:06Speaker 1: It was a little pop up in the middle of
- 8:08Speaker 1: a parking lot. Really, there is a shopping center around it,
- 8:13Speaker 1: a strip center, but the snow was so high at
- 8:18Speaker 1: that time no one within the center saw Keys approach
- 8:23Speaker 1: the pop up. These are the last known images of
- 8:27Speaker 1: Samantha Koenig, who was thrilled about the possibility of becoming
- 8:32Speaker 1: a veterinarian making money there at the coffee shop. I
- 8:37Speaker 1: guess he didn't want his daughter or anyone else to
- 8:41Speaker 1: know that he dismembered her. As to the sex attack,
- 8:45Speaker 1: that he blared loud music so no one inside the
- 8:50Speaker 1: home could hear him out in a hut outdoors raping her.
- 8:55Speaker 1: No one could hear Samantha screaming. And I guess did
- 8:59Speaker 1: he not want doctor Bethany Marshall joining us, renowned psychoanalyst,
- 9:04Speaker 1: author of deal Breaker and star of Paris in Love
- 9:09Speaker 1: Doctor Bethany interesting that he didn't want anyone to know
- 9:14Speaker 1: he had dismembered Samantha, and Samantha is one of many.
- 9:18Speaker 1: That's how I found out about Israel Keys is through
- 9:21Speaker 1: Samantha Koenig investigation, and through Bobby Chacone and now through
- 9:25Speaker 1: Andrew Iden. But it's interesting doctor Bethany, the choices serial
- 9:31Speaker 1: killers make about what they want publicized and what they
- 9:35Speaker 1: want to keep secret.
- 9:36Speaker 7: You know, it makes sense to me, Nancy, the questions
- 9:39Speaker 7: you've been asking, because first of all, he starts to
- 9:42Speaker 7: tell the story to the investigators and then he backs off.
- 9:46Speaker 7: I think he's doing that because he's trying to create
- 9:48Speaker 7: some excitement in the room and trying to kind of
- 9:51Speaker 7: tease them like cat and mouse. Look, the excitement he
- 9:54Speaker 7: had before was raping and killing. This is like small potatoes.
- 9:57Speaker 7: It's all he can get, but he's going to get
- 9:59Speaker 7: it as much as he he can. In the interview,
- 10:02Speaker 7: the fact that he is leaving out the sex assaults
- 10:06Speaker 7: is because he's trying to minimize the heinous nature of
- 10:10Speaker 7: what he did, and he doesn't want the public to
- 10:13Speaker 7: know that he dismembered Samantha Koenig because psychopaths are grandiose.
- 10:19Speaker 7: You know, he may feel that he's saying that he
- 10:23Speaker 7: doesn't want his daughter to find out, but I think
- 10:25Speaker 7: there's an inherent narcissism in psychopaths that's a part of
- 10:28Speaker 7: the disorder, and on some level, they sort of feel
- 10:31Speaker 7: proud of their acts. They feel they have fantasies that
- 10:34Speaker 7: they maybe celebrated may go down in history, but oh
- 10:38Speaker 7: this dismember part doesn't make him look so good. So
- 10:41Speaker 7: he's kind trying to prop up his image a little bit.
- 10:44Speaker 1: There going down in history. He's going nowhere but straight
- 10:47Speaker 1: to hell. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Back to you,
- 11:01Speaker 1: Darryl Cohen talking about this guy trying to build suspense
- 11:06Speaker 1: as he tells his story. Normally I would tell somebody
- 11:09Speaker 1: that said that, well, you're crazy, because most criminals are
- 11:12Speaker 1: really dumb. They're not building suspense. They're just idiots. This
- 11:18Speaker 1: guy eluded police for decades. He had killed kits hidden
- 11:25Speaker 1: all over the country. He was never caught. He had
- 11:28Speaker 1: multiple mos modus operadi method of operation. He would stalk campgrounds,
- 11:33Speaker 1: he would stalk RV camps, he would hang out at
- 11:37Speaker 1: rivers like the victim we were just hearing about. But
- 11:40Speaker 1: then you've got a case like Samantha Koenig. I mean,
- 11:44Speaker 1: this guy probably is did lead authorities on as he
- 11:51Speaker 1: was telling his story.
- 11:53Speaker 6: Well, Nancy, he knew exactly what he was doing. He
- 11:55Speaker 6: was both bright, he was cunning, he was intelligent, vicious
- 12:01Speaker 6: and a sociopath, a psychopath.
- 12:04Speaker 4: He was all the.
- 12:04Speaker 6: Paths other than a good one. He knew how to
- 12:08Speaker 6: elude the police. He also knew how to elude all
- 12:11Speaker 6: the other law enforcement agencies because he didn't do it
- 12:15Speaker 6: every day, every week, every month. There was no pattern
- 12:19Speaker 6: to his pattern, if that makes any sense. So he
- 12:23Speaker 6: was able to I can.
- 12:24Speaker 1: Tell you this much. I guarantee you there are more bodies.
- 12:28Speaker 1: What can we learn? What can we glean from hearing?
- 12:33Speaker 1: You'll have to hold your nose to do it, but
- 12:35Speaker 1: listen to Israel Keys.
- 12:44Speaker 8: Depends what your definitely said.
- 12:47Speaker 9: So the first time you had sex with somebody against
- 12:50Speaker 9: their room?
- 12:53Speaker 8: No, but that was the first time, I answer, like,
- 13:02Speaker 8: had someone tied up, you know, like was ready to
- 13:05Speaker 8: actually kill do that?
- 13:07Speaker 1: You know? Did you hear what he just said? And
- 13:09Speaker 1: by the way, he's laughing at snickering during the whole thing.
- 13:13Speaker 1: Was this the first time you sex assaulted somebody?
- 13:15Speaker 10: Uh?
- 13:15Speaker 1: No, but it's the first time I took it to
- 13:18Speaker 1: that level, like to kill them. Yeah, to do that.
- 13:22Speaker 1: And he's laughing, he's snickering as he is saying that.
- 13:25Speaker 1: But let's let's take it back. How long had this
- 13:28Speaker 1: guy been committing murder's list?
- 13:31Speaker 9: Like you said, got to the Army, and anytime i'd
- 13:35Speaker 9: get to where I had downtime, or you know, if
- 13:38Speaker 9: I if I would leave Nian Bay, get out of
- 13:40Speaker 9: Nian Bay, and all that.
- 13:43Speaker 4: Stuff was still there.
- 13:44Speaker 9: You know, like every time i'd drive and make a
- 13:48Speaker 9: drive somewhere.
- 13:48Speaker 2: I'd be looking for places, good places to do stuff.
- 13:55Speaker 1: I guarantee you to Andrew Iden, now, co host of
- 14:00Speaker 1: Deviant Podcast, I guarantee you there are more dead bodies
- 14:04Speaker 1: out there we haven't found yet, but the fact that
- 14:07Speaker 1: he was in the army. Has he been traced back
- 14:11Speaker 1: to wherever he was stationed, and has there been a
- 14:14Speaker 1: search for missing women, because it's always occasionally there'll be
- 14:18Speaker 1: a murdered man who was with a woman, but he
- 14:22Speaker 1: typically prayed on those that were weaker, less powerful, less
- 14:26Speaker 1: cunning than he. Andrew, have we heard of any searches
- 14:32Speaker 1: in the various places where he was stationed.
- 14:35Speaker 5: So what I can tell you is that the FBI
- 14:37Speaker 5: and all of the agencies that have been involved in
- 14:39Speaker 5: this case from the jump, they've gone to extreme lengths
- 14:43Speaker 5: to track down and talk to people that knew keys
- 14:46Speaker 5: in the army, So they have infiltrated his entire unit.
- 14:49Speaker 5: They've talked to his friends. They've talked to his fellow soldiers,
- 14:52Speaker 5: so they've gone into that corner of his life to
- 14:55Speaker 5: see if they can flip over some rocks and see
- 14:57Speaker 5: if there's anything to find. The other thing that I
- 14:59Speaker 5: can tell you is when you talk to the FBI,
- 15:01Speaker 5: you know that video of Israel Keys in that interrogation
- 15:04Speaker 5: room that's dated twenty twelve. However, this case is still
- 15:08Speaker 5: considered active and open. When you talk to the FBI
- 15:10Speaker 5: about it, they are very clear, we need information. Is
- 15:14Speaker 5: this a guy that's ever come across your radar. There's
- 15:16Speaker 5: so much still that we don't know. So this is
- 15:19Speaker 5: not a case that is just in the rear view.
- 15:21Speaker 5: This is still very much an active investigator.
- 15:22Speaker 1: Samantha Koenig, a beautiful young barista at an Alaska and
- 15:26Speaker 1: coffee stand, suddenly goes missing that evening. Her father realizes
- 15:32Speaker 1: it's way too late for her to have been gone
- 15:36Speaker 1: all day and not spoken to him, and he raises
- 15:40Speaker 1: the alarm. Samanth the Koenig just one of so so
- 15:44Speaker 1: many victims. I'm wanting to hear him speaking about how
- 15:50Speaker 1: he finds his victims.
- 15:52Speaker 4: I'ms out with.
- 15:54Speaker 11: And that place that there's staked out one actually two
- 15:59Speaker 11: or three nights. And then I had a park, a
- 16:05Speaker 11: couple of parks here in town that I could ride
- 16:07Speaker 11: my bike too at those staked out And yeah, there's
- 16:14Speaker 11: still a couple of gowns during on a shovel stashed
- 16:18Speaker 11: their own.
- 16:18Speaker 1: He's describing one of his many, many kill kits that
- 16:22Speaker 1: he had stashed all around the country. Andrew Iiden, host
- 16:28Speaker 1: of Deviant Podcast, explained.
- 16:30Speaker 5: This is a guy that would bury home deboat buckets
- 16:33Speaker 5: full of Dreno guns, ropes, chains. He'd bury them in Vermont,
- 16:38Speaker 5: he'd bury them in Wisconsin, he'd bury them in Wyoming.
- 16:41Speaker 5: And he would do that years in advance. And so
- 16:45Speaker 5: you know, he'd bury these, go back to Alaska, live
- 16:47Speaker 5: his life for days, weeks, months, years, and then go
- 16:51Speaker 5: back to Vermont, dig up that bucket, take it to Essex, Vermont.
- 16:55Speaker 5: And ultimately when he killed the couriers Bill in the rain,
- 17:00Speaker 5: you know that was with a kill kit that he
- 17:02Speaker 5: had buried years ahead of time. So that's really the
- 17:05Speaker 5: crux of this meticulous nature that we talk about.
- 17:07Speaker 1: All And you know, Bobby Chaconne joining us, former special
- 17:10Speaker 1: agent with the FBI, screenwriter his new documentary After the
- 17:15Speaker 1: Fall which is an amazing work regarding nine to onein
- 17:19Speaker 1: one he and I'm both in New York the day
- 17:22Speaker 1: of September eleven. His story is amazing. After the fall,
- 17:27Speaker 1: Bobby talking about what Andrew Iiden is describing, It's hard
- 17:34Speaker 1: to catch a guy like this. There's no connection to
- 17:38Speaker 1: the victims, which that makes it Aneela and Haystack start
- 17:41Speaker 1: with he is killing people all across the country. There's
- 17:45Speaker 1: no region that has been immune to israel keys, and
- 17:49Speaker 1: he hunts his prey like a wolf. And then he
- 17:54Speaker 1: has these kill kits already created and hidden buried all
- 17:59Speaker 1: around the country.
- 18:00Speaker 4: Sure, and from an investigator standpoint, think of it because
- 18:03Speaker 4: we've seen cases where when you see when we find
- 18:05Speaker 4: a victim that's bound with rope or chain or something
- 18:08Speaker 4: like that, and we can tell, oh, this might have
- 18:10Speaker 4: been bought at a nearby, say home depot or hardware store,
- 18:12Speaker 4: we go out and we ask them to look at
- 18:14Speaker 4: their video from the last three months, six months, whatever.
- 18:17Speaker 4: Think about that. He's actually avoiding that investigative step because
- 18:21Speaker 4: these things will purchase probably years in advance and hidden,
- 18:24Speaker 4: so he knew not to buy these things locally and
- 18:27Speaker 4: not to buy them recently. But because that's what investigators do,
- 18:30Speaker 4: because often we see, oh, they trace the receipt or
- 18:32Speaker 4: they trace something that was bought at a home depot,
- 18:34Speaker 4: and there's the killer on the video and the home
- 18:36Speaker 4: depot buying the things that they used it. So he
- 18:39Speaker 4: knew to avoid that. When I went that homicide school,
- 18:41Speaker 4: I was working so many mafia cases in New York
- 18:43Speaker 4: that they sent me to the NMBD homicide School. You
- 18:45Speaker 4: draw a VND diagram. One circle contains the life of
- 18:48Speaker 4: the victim and all the people involved in that life,
- 18:51Speaker 4: and the other one, the other circle is the geographic
- 18:54Speaker 4: location where the victim is found or murdered and where
- 18:57Speaker 4: those two overlap. That's where your pool of suspect might
- 19:00Speaker 4: come in. Now he's new to stay random to his
- 19:03Speaker 4: victim and random to the geographic location. That puts him
- 19:07Speaker 4: outside of most In ninety five percent of the investigative
- 19:11Speaker 4: avenues that you're going to follow, he's going to be
- 19:13Speaker 4: outside of those because he's not related to the victim.
- 19:15Speaker 4: He doesn't have what most serial killers have. He doesn't
- 19:18Speaker 4: have that victimology, and he doesn't have the geographic kill zone.
- 19:23Speaker 4: So those two things he knew to avoid and to
- 19:25Speaker 4: stay random, and that was a big part of his success.
- 19:28Speaker 1: Yes, because in many, many cases where we have serial killers,
- 19:31Speaker 1: their mo never deviates. They are in the same region.
- 19:36Speaker 1: There is a way to connect them to their victims.
- 19:39Speaker 1: You know, he's been stalking them. He's a grocery store boy,
- 19:42Speaker 1: he delivery guy, the yard man. There is a way,
- 19:48Speaker 1: even though tangentle, that you can connect the killer to
- 19:52Speaker 1: multiple victims. Not in this case. Speaking of Israel Keys,
- 19:57Speaker 1: listen from the horse's.
- 19:58Speaker 4: Mouth, it's not in anything.
- 20:01Speaker 7: It's just ropes or something pulled.
- 20:02Speaker 4: That is that the milk chokes. And he said, well,
- 20:05Speaker 4: that's what the weeds for milk jokes. How many milk jokes?
- 20:08Speaker 4: And they're going to move around, no, how many milk
- 20:12Speaker 4: chokes talking about it.
- 20:17Speaker 7: At least four or five parta.
- 20:22Speaker 6: Just for one body.
- 20:23Speaker 12: Yeah, well, Scott Peterson, you didn't have to go to
- 20:29Speaker 12: all that trouble making those cement blocks to wait down
- 20:32Speaker 12: the body of your wife, Lacy Peterson and her unborn
- 20:36Speaker 12: son Connor.
- 20:37Speaker 1: You know, take a page out of Israel Key's book.
- 20:39Speaker 1: You just use milk jugs. You know, when you think
- 20:44Speaker 1: of the callous nature of the planning, the pre planning
- 20:49Speaker 1: before your victim has even been murdered, You're already planning
- 20:55Speaker 1: to weight down their body in water to hide the
- 21:00Speaker 1: body or destroy evidence. What could be more cold, more calculating.
- 21:08Speaker 1: Just think about it. As he is spotting these victims,
- 21:11Speaker 1: he's already made weights to hold their bodies down underwater.
- 21:17Speaker 1: Joining me now, a very special guest, a renowned medical examiner,
- 21:22Speaker 1: the chief medical Examiner at Terrance County. That's fort worth,
- 21:26Speaker 1: never a lack of business for him. Also a prestigious
- 21:30Speaker 1: lecturer at the Burnett School of Medicine at TCU, Doctor
- 21:34Speaker 1: Kendall Crown's, Doctor Kendall Crowns, thank you for being with us.
- 21:38Speaker 1: When a body is weighted down in this manner, as
- 21:41Speaker 1: you hear Israel Key say, so deep, the fish don't
- 21:47Speaker 1: even go down that far. He has this very well planned.
- 21:51Speaker 1: With the body down at the bottom of a body
- 21:53Speaker 1: of water, what will that do to the evidence? Over
- 21:58Speaker 1: a period of.
- 21:59Speaker 13: Time in the depths of a lake, the body will
- 22:03Speaker 13: continue to decompose. If it's cold, it'll decompose at a
- 22:06Speaker 13: slower rate. But you'll also get fish and other aquatic
- 22:11Speaker 13: creatures that will eat at the body. So eventually the
- 22:13Speaker 13: body will skeletonize. The problem is with weighting the body down.
- 22:17Speaker 13: You have to have enough weight to compensate for when
- 22:20Speaker 13: the body decomposes and the gas formation begins, the body
- 22:24Speaker 13: will bloat or swell up like a balloon and then
- 22:27Speaker 13: will float back up to the top of the surface.
- 22:30Speaker 13: I've seen people weighted down with paint cans that still
- 22:33Speaker 13: float up, cinder blocks, they'll still float up. Even a
- 22:37Speaker 13: gentleman that was wrapped in a carpet and shoved in
- 22:39Speaker 13: a trash can that was a duct tape shut, he
- 22:42Speaker 13: still bobbed up once he decomposed enough. So you have
- 22:45Speaker 13: to have enough weight to compensate for the decomposition and
- 22:48Speaker 13: it'll still float up. But if they're underneath the water
- 22:52Speaker 13: for a long enough period of time, they will decompose, skeletonize,
- 22:55Speaker 13: and all the evidence will disappear.
- 22:57Speaker 10: James Koenig tries to be patient. By twelve thirty PM,
- 23:01Speaker 10: he's on the phone with the Anchorage Police Department reporting
- 23:03Speaker 10: his eighteen year old daughter, Samantha missing. He tells police
- 23:06Speaker 10: his daughter never came home the night before from her
- 23:09Speaker 10: job at common Grounds Espresso. Patrol officers begin asking questions
- 23:12Speaker 10: in the area. No signs of a break in, no struggle,
- 23:15Speaker 10: no blood. Getting a look at surveillance video, police see
- 23:18Speaker 10: a masked man jumping through the window of common Grounds
- 23:21Speaker 10: and leading Samantha away.
- 23:23Speaker 1: Samantha Koenig's case brought a great deal of notoriety to
- 23:28Speaker 1: the killer. Little did authorities realize at the time of
- 23:31Speaker 1: her disappearance they were dealing with a very cunning serial killer.
- 23:37Speaker 10: Listen just before eight pm closing time at common Grounds
- 23:40Speaker 10: Coffee in Anchorage, Alaska, Israel Keys walks up to the
- 23:43Speaker 10: parking lot kiosk and orders an Americano coffee. Eighteen year
- 23:46Speaker 10: old Samantha Koenig is finishing up her shift and it
- 23:49Speaker 10: looks like Keyes might be her last customer. Turning to
- 23:52Speaker 10: hand the man his coffee, Samantha Kenig sees the gun
- 23:54Speaker 10: in his hand. Keyes tells her it's robbery to turn
- 23:57Speaker 10: off the lights. Key's reaches in and quickly at zip
- 23:59Speaker 10: top Cunning's hands behind her back and climbs through the
- 24:02Speaker 10: window into the kiosk.
- 24:05Speaker 1: And what is so amazing here? To dtor Bethany Marshall's
- 24:09Speaker 1: Psychoalla's joining us out of la is this is brazen
- 24:14Speaker 1: There as you can see are parking lights illuminating the area.
- 24:22Speaker 1: It's right on a very busy thoroughfare street. There's a
- 24:27Speaker 1: huge snowbank about six to twelve feet tall surrounding the
- 24:32Speaker 1: coffee shop. So many people didn't see what was going on.
- 24:36Speaker 1: But that takes a lot of hootspot to go in
- 24:41Speaker 1: where people can see you and attack the barista and
- 24:47Speaker 1: lead her out.
- 24:48Speaker 7: Nancy Israel Keys was becoming increasingly emboldened to act out
- 24:54Speaker 7: his sexual fantasies, his killing fantasies with these victims. So
- 24:59Speaker 7: he starts out in the army, you know, just kind
- 25:01Speaker 7: of trolling around looking for possible sites. But this becomes
- 25:05Speaker 7: a compulsion that's so deeply baked into his DNA that
- 25:10Speaker 7: he's thinking about it all the time, and it becomes
- 25:13Speaker 7: very ritualized. The search extends to all over the United States,
- 25:17Speaker 7: and it's almost as satisfying to search for victims to
- 25:22Speaker 7: bury the kill kits as it is to actually act
- 25:26Speaker 7: out the crime. But by the time he gets to
- 25:29Speaker 7: Samantha Konig, he's graduated. It's where people could see him.
- 25:34Speaker 7: He stitches her eyes open, he makes braids with her hair.
- 25:39Speaker 7: He does it in a shed right outside his family home.
- 25:42Speaker 7: So at this point It's like he's getting not only
- 25:47Speaker 7: more and more emboldened, but it's like a sex addict
- 25:51Speaker 7: that starts out going to strip clubs and then they
- 25:54Speaker 7: kind of rape somebody, and then pretty much they start
- 25:58Speaker 7: graduating to children and kitty porn because they need more
- 26:02Speaker 7: and more and more in order to excite them. And Nancy,
- 26:07Speaker 7: these interviews that we're seeing, I think he's talking sort
- 26:11Speaker 7: of calmly and matter of fact because he imagines he's
- 26:15Speaker 7: now the expert on killing. He's the world's leading expert.
- 26:20Speaker 7: It's kind of like a car collector who maybe has
- 26:23Speaker 7: two hundred cars and he's walking someone around and said,
- 26:26Speaker 7: you know, this one is made in nineteen sixty eight,
- 26:28Speaker 7: and this is special stitching, and look at the paint job,
- 26:32Speaker 7: and that person knows their stuff. Israel Key feels like
- 26:36Speaker 7: he knows his stuff. So he's going to take time
- 26:39Speaker 7: with his interview so he can kind of educate the world.
- 26:42Speaker 7: Be the celebrity, be at the center of things. Like
- 26:44Speaker 7: I said earlier, go down in history. This is a
- 26:48Speaker 7: part of the ritual is talking about it.
- 26:51Speaker 1: You know, let's just cut the chase here to Bobby
- 26:54Speaker 1: Chico and former Special Agent FBI and then to Drew Eiden,
- 26:58Speaker 1: co host of Deviant Bobby Chacone, you know that as
- 27:05Speaker 1: he is telling his story to authorities, he's getting turned
- 27:09Speaker 1: on as he's sitting there underneath that table. I don't
- 27:14Speaker 1: want to know what's under that table. I guarantee you.
- 27:17Speaker 1: As he's telling his story, he's reliving the rapes and
- 27:21Speaker 1: the murders.
- 27:23Speaker 4: Oh sure. And you know that by his posture and
- 27:26Speaker 4: by his attitude, his language. And I think he's enjoying
- 27:28Speaker 4: the fact that several of the investigators in the room
- 27:32Speaker 4: or women, and I think he's getting off on that
- 27:34Speaker 4: as well. I think this is his As doctor Bethany
- 27:37Speaker 4: mentioned earlier, this is kind of his last guest. He
- 27:39Speaker 4: knows he's he's nobody. He's not getting out, and what
- 27:43Speaker 4: little joy he can get, his psychosexual joy he can get,
- 27:47Speaker 4: is going to come in.
- 27:49Speaker 1: This by Bobby, get real from plays as if you
- 27:53Speaker 1: hadn't already been real. How many times have you sat
- 27:56Speaker 1: across from a defendant light Keys? Actually I don't know
- 27:59Speaker 1: that there is another defendant like Keys, but a definant
- 28:02Speaker 1: similar to Keys. And you know, as you're talking to
- 28:06Speaker 1: him and he's giving his story, he's getting turned on.
- 28:10Speaker 1: I don't guess you need your mind to go to
- 28:13Speaker 1: that extent about exactly what's happening under that table. But
- 28:17Speaker 1: you know it's true. It's oh really because you and
- 28:23Speaker 1: I know what a murder saying is really like. It's
- 28:26Speaker 1: not like in the movies. It's horrible, but he likes it.
- 28:32Speaker 4: Yeah, And at that point, I mean, you can see
- 28:34Speaker 4: a candy bar that they brought to him, you know,
- 28:36Speaker 4: on the table there. I mean, look, what what they're
- 28:39Speaker 4: doing is they are hyper focused. You know, Nancy, there's
- 28:41Speaker 4: a prosecutor in there that they're hyper focused at getting
- 28:44Speaker 4: him on the record to say things that are going
- 28:46Speaker 4: they're going to be able to use against him in
- 28:48Speaker 4: a court in proceedings. So all of that other stuff
- 28:51Speaker 4: is kind of you have to deal with it, but
- 28:53Speaker 4: you kind of put it aside because you need to
- 28:55Speaker 4: get the admissions, you need to get the confessions, you
- 28:57Speaker 4: need to get the statements he's going to say out
- 28:59Speaker 4: of his mouth. You can't kind of extrapolate it. You
- 29:02Speaker 4: have to get him to say those things. So you
- 29:05Speaker 4: ask him the question eight different times, get him to
- 29:07Speaker 4: say the words I kill them, you know, and that
- 29:10Speaker 4: kind of thing. So they're hyper focused on that and
- 29:11Speaker 4: the rest of that stuff you just have to deal
- 29:14Speaker 4: with kind of on the side in the background, and
- 29:17Speaker 4: to get him.
- 29:17Speaker 1: To okay, you know what, maybe you can set it aside.
- 29:20Speaker 1: Bobby Chaconne, but Andrew Iden, the co host of a
- 29:26Speaker 1: deviant podcast. Every time you play these caught on tape
- 29:32Speaker 1: videos and audio, you know that as he is describing
- 29:38Speaker 1: the rapes and the murders, he's reliving it in his mind,
- 29:43Speaker 1: and as doctor Bethany calls it, his arousal is full on.
- 29:49Speaker 1: So just keep that in mind when you're watching him,
- 29:53Speaker 1: because that's where he's coming from. That's the way his
- 29:56Speaker 1: mind works. To rape and murder somebody and murder the
- 30:02Speaker 1: husband and murder the boyfriend or whoever else is around.
- 30:05Speaker 1: That's his idea of dinner hythm.
- 30:08Speaker 5: Yeah, And in fact, you know, when you look at
- 30:10Speaker 5: him having these conversations with law enforcement in the interrogation room,
- 30:13Speaker 5: you can see that. And one of the things we
- 30:15Speaker 5: learned in talking to Jeff Bell, who was a detective
- 30:18Speaker 5: in that room with the Anchorage PD. He told us
- 30:21Speaker 5: in the process of doing this this series is that
- 30:24Speaker 5: the chair that Key sat in there was a there
- 30:27Speaker 5: was a day that they were sitting in a wooden chair,
- 30:29Speaker 5: and he said, Key scratched the wood off of the
- 30:32Speaker 5: arms of the chair while he was retelling the story.
- 30:36Speaker 5: And he said, you could see the hair on his
- 30:38Speaker 5: arms standing up. And so it was apparent to Jeff Bell,
- 30:42Speaker 5: who's writing that video, that he was seeing this all
- 30:45Speaker 5: unfold while Keys was telling him.
- 30:47Speaker 1: This crime stories with Nancy Grace Andrew. I I'm totally
- 31:00Speaker 1: going to listen to every every single episode of Deviant
- 31:04Speaker 1: because when you were just describing, it's your Keys scratching
- 31:08Speaker 1: the wood on the chair as he's telling the story Jackie,
- 31:13Speaker 1: you know, Jackie and our producer actually had to get
- 31:19Speaker 1: rid of the shivers are off.
- 31:21Speaker 5: Yes, well, I was gonna say, I think oftentimes when
- 31:23Speaker 5: we talk about these stories, oftentimes there's a lot of
- 31:25Speaker 5: hyperbole involved in about in describing these things. But everything
- 31:30Speaker 5: that Israel Keys is is a real life horror film
- 31:34Speaker 5: from start to finish.
- 31:36Speaker 4: I mean, look at Nancy. If you look at that
- 31:38Speaker 4: video there you see on the left that Jolene I
- 31:41Speaker 4: believe that's Jolene the FBI case A check. But you
- 31:44Speaker 4: can look at her posture, look at how she's you
- 31:46Speaker 4: can almost see how how repulse she is by this,
- 31:50Speaker 4: her hands are by her sides, by her sides, or
- 31:52Speaker 4: hands are in her lives. I mean you, as a
- 31:55Speaker 4: normal person, you know, being in the presence of such evil,
- 31:58Speaker 4: you you are affected by you repulse by it.
- 32:01Speaker 1: Of course, somebody like Israel Keys has to have the
- 32:06Speaker 1: perfect let me just say, perfectly outfitted vehicle.
- 32:11Speaker 10: Listen, the truck Israel Keys is driving has been temporarily
- 32:15Speaker 10: modified before he left the house. He removed the permanent
- 32:18Speaker 10: toolbox from the back and took off both license plates.
- 32:21Speaker 10: Keys demand Samantha Cone give him her ATM card, but
- 32:24Speaker 10: she tells him it's in the truck she shares with
- 32:27Speaker 10: her boyfriend at their house. Keys drives to his house,
- 32:30Speaker 10: ties up coning in the shed, turns up the radio,
- 32:32Speaker 10: allows that nobody can hear her scream, then leaves to
- 32:35Speaker 10: retrieve her ATM card from her truck. As Keys is
- 32:38Speaker 10: retrieving the ATM card, Samantha Cooney's boyfriend sees him and
- 32:41Speaker 10: shouts Ducking into the house and gets some help. He
- 32:43Speaker 10: tries to confront the man messing with his truck, but
- 32:46Speaker 10: when he comes out of the house, he's is gone.
- 32:49Speaker 1: A narrow escape, but yes, he does escape, but what
- 32:52Speaker 1: about Samantha. Listen.
- 32:53Speaker 10: Samantha Coning is tied up in his shed in back
- 32:56Speaker 10: of the home Israel Keys shares with his girlfriend and
- 32:59Speaker 10: her daughter. When Keys arrives back at the shed, he
- 33:02Speaker 10: sexually assaults Samantha Konig twice. Then first thing in the morning,
- 33:06Speaker 10: he strangles her to death and puts her body in
- 33:08Speaker 10: a freezer. Then leaves with his girlfriend for a pre
- 33:12Speaker 10: booked family cruise vacation, leaving out of New Orleans.
- 33:15Speaker 1: Okay, that's like putting the leftovers from dinner into the
- 33:19Speaker 1: freezer then heading out on vacation. He did that to
- 33:23Speaker 1: Samantha's body, but he wasn't done yet. Listen.
- 33:27Speaker 10: Returning from his two week family vacation, Israel Keys removes
- 33:31Speaker 10: the now frozen corpse of Samantha Konig, using a hairdryer
- 33:35Speaker 10: to thaw her out. He uses makeup and braids her
- 33:38Speaker 10: hair to take a proof of life photo he's going
- 33:40Speaker 10: to use for the ransom. Taking a picture of Samantha,
- 33:43Speaker 10: Israel Key's arm is seen holding a copy of the
- 33:46Speaker 10: Anchorage Daily News from February twelfth. He places a black
- 33:49Speaker 10: and white copy of the photo in his ziplock baggy
- 33:52Speaker 10: with a ransom demand of thirty thousand dollars deposited into
- 33:55Speaker 10: the account of Samantha Konig and tapes it to a
- 33:58Speaker 10: missing dog poster in Connor's bog part.
- 34:03Speaker 1: And then Samantha's father is led to that park where
- 34:06Speaker 1: he sees the ransom photo and the money demand. Okay,
- 34:10Speaker 1: let me understand this, Andrew Iden joining us, co host
- 34:14Speaker 1: of Deviant podcast. He uses a hair dryer to thaw
- 34:19Speaker 1: out her body.
- 34:20Speaker 5: Yeah, the details of what he did after he got
- 34:23Speaker 5: back from that Houston that cruise are horrific. And disposing
- 34:29Speaker 5: of her body in the lake after he had pulled
- 34:33Speaker 5: her remains out of that shed, that period after the
- 34:37Speaker 5: cruise for about two weeks is truly some of the
- 34:41Speaker 5: most terrific things that I've ever read and never heard
- 34:43Speaker 5: in covering crime for twenty years.
- 34:45Speaker 1: What aspect are you describing? Are you to which you
- 34:49Speaker 1: are referring Andrew.
- 34:50Speaker 5: Well, it's the process of him dumping her body in
- 34:53Speaker 5: the lake piece by piece and basically making sure that
- 34:58Speaker 5: all of the things that he did are it up.
- 35:00Speaker 5: And it's just it's horrific. I mean, it's a horror film.
- 35:04Speaker 1: Like I mentioned before, Doctor Bethony Jump in.
- 35:06Speaker 7: If we think of raping and killing as a part
- 35:08Speaker 7: of a sexual act for him, that the whole ritual
- 35:11Speaker 7: is arousing. I think what happened is that he had
- 35:14Speaker 7: to do it right before the cruise because he knows
- 35:16Speaker 7: that he knew that on the cruise he wouldn't be
- 35:18Speaker 7: able to act out his killing homicidal instinct. It's a
- 35:22Speaker 7: little bit like with alcoholics we see sometimes the night
- 35:25Speaker 7: before they go into detox or rehab, they binge. This
- 35:29Speaker 7: was like his binge before appearing with sobriety, and he
- 35:34Speaker 7: was probably thinking about it all throughout the cruise and
- 35:36Speaker 7: planning his return.
- 35:37Speaker 1: Doctor Kendall Crowns, can't you look at a body a
- 35:40Speaker 1: determined whether it has been frozen.
- 35:43Speaker 13: You can look at a body and when someone dies
- 35:45Speaker 13: of hyper hypothermia, you can tell that there are changes
- 35:49Speaker 13: about the body that kind of turn a reddish pink color.
- 35:52Speaker 13: If a body's been frozen, the lividity or the post
- 35:56Speaker 13: mortem coloration change will be kind of a bright red color.
- 36:00Speaker 13: But beyond that, there is not really any changes that
- 36:03Speaker 13: you can see with a frozen body that are specific
- 36:07Speaker 13: to that.
- 36:08Speaker 10: After getting a confession from Israel Keys, the FBI dive
- 36:11Speaker 10: team is tasked with attempting to recover Samantha Konig's body
- 36:15Speaker 10: from frozen Matatanuska Lake. Before a search can begin, a
- 36:19Speaker 10: four foot by four foot hole is cut in the
- 36:21Speaker 10: ice with chainsaws. The FBI dive team resorts to using
- 36:25Speaker 10: sonar to guide them in low visibility, and it takes
- 36:28Speaker 10: the team of experts about ten hours to recover the
- 36:30Speaker 10: body of Samantha cone Enter.
- 36:33Speaker 1: A former FBI special agent, Bobby Chickone, now screenwriter for
- 36:37Speaker 1: Criminal Minds and creator of a new documentary After the Fall,
- 36:43Speaker 1: Bobby described what it was like out there, what you
- 36:46Speaker 1: went through trying to retrieve Samantha Koenig's body.
- 36:51Speaker 4: Well, Nancy, first of all, it was the brightest, clearest,
- 36:54Speaker 4: most beautiful day.
- 36:55Speaker 14: And that was the dichotomy of the situation, was that
- 36:58Speaker 14: we were in this immensely beautiful location with the mountains
- 37:02Speaker 14: and the snow, and we were doing this horrific mission
- 37:05Speaker 14: to recover this poor young woman.
- 37:08Speaker 4: You know, when it was tough. The conditions were tough,
- 37:11Speaker 4: but we've done this before. We certainly dived in tougher conditions.
- 37:16Speaker 4: But it wasn't that deep. It was about forty five
- 37:19Speaker 4: feet deep. The entire dive took about forty five minutes.
- 37:22Speaker 4: It wasn't a It was long to set up. You see,
- 37:24Speaker 4: whenever you're working around ice and a holes, everybody has
- 37:27Speaker 4: to be tethered in somewhere to a hard point so
- 37:29Speaker 4: if you fall in, so there's this safety considerations. But
- 37:32Speaker 4: the dive itself was not that difficult. Everything matched exactly
- 37:36Speaker 4: what Keys told us it was in the location. We
- 37:39Speaker 4: saw the five different parts that he told us about.
- 37:41Speaker 4: It was a torso there was two legs, there was
- 37:43Speaker 4: two arms that were down together as one, and that
- 37:45Speaker 4: was her head. And so those are the five pieces
- 37:48Speaker 4: that showed up on the sonar. We sent a small
- 37:50Speaker 4: mini RV down with a camera to make sure it
- 37:53Speaker 4: was human remains. And then once we did those two methods,
- 37:56Speaker 4: then I splashed the divers and that dive took about
- 38:00Speaker 4: forty five minutes. Again, like I said, it would have
- 38:02Speaker 4: taken longer, but we were able to put Samantha all
- 38:04Speaker 4: into one body bag because of the fact that Keys
- 38:08Speaker 4: had made that demand on us not to tip off
- 38:12Speaker 4: the press that she had been dismembered. But certainly when
- 38:15Speaker 4: I handled Samantha's remains, I could tell that some of
- 38:20Speaker 4: the water had washed off, and I saw the stitching
- 38:22Speaker 4: on her eyelids as I was transferring her to the
- 38:25Speaker 4: possession of the medical examiners investigators who were there taking
- 38:28Speaker 4: possession of her remains.
- 38:30Speaker 1: And then we find out in a completely differentm method
- 38:33Speaker 1: of operation than murders of Bill and Lorran Courrier.
- 38:37Speaker 10: Listen, during a vacation to Vermont, Israel, Keys burries a
- 38:41Speaker 10: five gallon orange bugget filled with zip ties, ammunition guns, silencers,
- 38:46Speaker 10: draino duct tape, and a flashlight in her remote corner
- 38:49Speaker 10: of the woodside natural area off Vermont fifteen. Over the years,
- 38:53Speaker 10: Keys has buried several killed kids in places he's been traveling.
- 38:56Speaker 10: Years later, Keys digs up the kit in Vermont out
- 39:00Speaker 10: the home of Bill and Lorraine Courier. There are no
- 39:02Speaker 10: children in the home and it's within walking distance of
- 39:05Speaker 10: his hotel.
- 39:06Speaker 1: Andrew Iiden, co host of Deviant Podcast, I've got too
- 39:11Speaker 1: many Keys as victims, and there's still so many other
- 39:15Speaker 1: victims that we don't know about, haven't found their bodies yet.
- 39:18Speaker 1: But here we see a start dichotomy in the way
- 39:21Speaker 1: he murdered and dismembered Samantha Koenig and the way he
- 39:25Speaker 1: murdered and left the couriers. Explain about the couriers.
- 39:28Speaker 5: Yeah, so Bill and the Rain would lived in Essex, Vermont,
- 39:30Speaker 5: and Israel Keys talked at length about waiting outside their home,
- 39:35Speaker 5: cutting the phone line to disable the security system, kidnapping
- 39:39Speaker 5: them essentially, and taking them a few miles away to
- 39:41Speaker 5: an abandoned farmhouse, and that's where he sexually assaulted Lorraine,
- 39:44Speaker 5: strangled her, and actually shot Bill in the midst of it.
- 39:48Speaker 5: Kind of a struggle they were having in the house,
- 39:51Speaker 5: and he left their remains there. So you're right, Bill
- 39:53Speaker 5: and the Rain in that crime is everything that Samantha
- 39:56Speaker 5: Koenig was not right. It was two, it was instead
- 39:59Speaker 5: of one. They were older, Samantha was younger. You know,
- 40:03Speaker 5: they were in Vermont, Samantha was in Alaska. So there's
- 40:05Speaker 5: really kind of a dichotomy between these two crimes, as
- 40:08Speaker 5: you mentioned with mo, they're two very different crimes in
- 40:10Speaker 5: a lot of different ways.
- 40:13Speaker 1: We know of the eleven to which he has admitted,
- 40:16Speaker 1: and we believe there is somewhere that we'll be discovered
- 40:20Speaker 1: at some point somewhere between twenty and thirty bodies Israel
- 40:26Speaker 1: Keys serial killer. Thank you so much to the guests
- 40:33Speaker 1: joining us today, but especially to you, Nancy Gray signing
- 40:37Speaker 1: off good night friend,