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Inside the Mind of America’s Most Meticulous Serial Killer · Weird Darkness:True crime & The unexplained

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Speaker 1: What motivates a serial killer? For some, it's sheer hatred
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Speaker 1: against humankind.
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Speaker 2: He was punishing those who had the good fortune to
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Speaker 2: be raised in a warm, loving home.
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Speaker 1: Some of these murderers seek revenge for an abusive childhood.
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Speaker 3: They're destroying him out of a need for vengeance.
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Speaker 1: And then there are others who just simply love to kill.
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Speaker 4: Israel Keyes killed because he enjoyed it. He got the
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Speaker 4: adrenaline rush from it. He loved the thrill of it.
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Speaker 1: What creates these cold-blooded monsters? What drives their work psyche? Now,
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Speaker 1: the actual voices and visions of serial killers.
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Speaker 5: Once I started, you know, there was nothing else like it.
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Speaker 1: Plunge us deep inside their complex and twisted minds.
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Speaker 6: February 1st, 2012. It's a cold winter's night in Anchorage.
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Speaker 1: A heinous crime is about to be committed. 18-year-old Samantha
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Speaker 1: Koenig is working alone at the Common Grounds coffee hut.
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Speaker 4: A little bit before closing time that night, a tall
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Speaker 4: man in a dark coat walked up to the window
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Speaker 4: and he ordered an Americano coffee. And he stood there
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Speaker 4: and watched as Samantha turned around and made it. When
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Speaker 4: she turned back around, he had pulled a gun on her.
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Speaker 1: Shocked and surprised, Samantha raises her hands as if being
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Speaker 1: held up.
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Speaker 4: He tells her it's a robbery. She kind of steps back, surprised.
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Speaker 4: He then ends up coming in through the window, climbs
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Speaker 4: in through the window, and ties her up with some
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Speaker 4: zip ties and then forces her at gunpoint out of
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Speaker 4: the coffee stand and walks her back to his car.
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Speaker 1: The abductor's name is Israel Keyes. He is a serial killer.
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Speaker 1: responsible for a steady string of brutal murders for more
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Speaker 1: than a dozen years.
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Speaker 4: Keyes didn't have a real victim profile. He was pretty
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Speaker 4: unusual for serial killers. He didn't have a certain race
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Speaker 4: or a certain age or a certain sex that he targeted.
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Speaker 4: He was much more random. There's more opportunity crimes with him,
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Speaker 4: just who happened to be at the wrong place at
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Speaker 4: the wrong time. And for Samantha Koenig, she was at
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Speaker 4: the wrong place at the wrong time. Keys had decided
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Speaker 4: that he was going to rob this particular Common Grounds
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Speaker 4: coffee shop. That's originally what he planned on doing, just
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Speaker 4: robbing it. But when he got to it, when he
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Speaker 4: saw Samantha, he changed his mind and decided to take her.
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Speaker 1: Keys tries to keep his captive calm by telling her
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Speaker 1: it's only a kidnapping. He's going to hold her for ransom.
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Speaker 1: He takes Samantha Koenig to the shed next to his home.
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Speaker 1: and binds and gags her. Incredibly, his live-in girlfriend and
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Speaker 1: 10-year-old daughter are in the house just several feet away.
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Speaker 4: He took her into the shed, closed it up, tied
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Speaker 4: her up in there, left her in the shed. He
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Speaker 4: then actually got information from her and went to her
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Speaker 4: house where her truck was parked outside to get her wallet,
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Speaker 4: to get her ATM card and some other things. came
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Speaker 4: back to the shed where she was still subdued. And
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Speaker 4: then that's when he raped her.
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Speaker 1: Still, Samantha prays she will survive this horror. Hoping it's
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Speaker 1: only a kidnapping, she gives Keyes her ATM PIN number.
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Speaker 1: But she never had a chance once Keyes made up
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Speaker 1: his mind back at the coffee hut. Keyes strangles the
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Speaker 1: helpless young woman.
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Speaker 4: Well, he enjoyed the thrill, the adrenaline rush of it.
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Speaker 4: He enjoyed having control over his victims. He enjoyed seeing
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Speaker 4: their fear. He raped his victims, we know that.
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Speaker 1: Astoundingly, after the murder, Keyes immediately returns to his normal life.
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Speaker 4: After he kills Samantha, he drank a glass of wine calmly,
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Speaker 4: went back into the house where his daughter was sleeping
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Speaker 4: and his girlfriend was sleeping. And later on that very morning,
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Speaker 4: they all leave for a pre-planned vacation. They fly to
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Speaker 4: Houston and then drive to New Orleans for a cruise,
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Speaker 4: for a one-week cruise.
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Speaker 1: Keyes doesn't have time to dispose of Samantha's body prior
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Speaker 1: to the trip.
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Speaker 4: Before leaving, he had put Samantha's body in a cabinet
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Speaker 4: in the shed. The thought being that it's so cold
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Speaker 4: in Anchorage in the middle of winter that her body
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Speaker 4: would be perfectly preserved there while he was gone.
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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, a frenzied hunt begins for Samantha. Her dad launches
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Speaker 1: a grassroots campaign to find his daughter. Upon returning home,
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Speaker 1: Israel Keyes calmly checks back on Samantha's corpse.
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Speaker 4: When he gets back, Samantha's body's frozen solid in the
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Speaker 4: cabinet there. It's difficult to get it out, actually. Takes
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Speaker 4: the body out, thaws it out with heaters, has sex
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Speaker 4: with the corpse.
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Speaker 1: Then, in a horrifying turn, Keyes makes a successful ransom
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Speaker 1: demand by sending a photo of the young woman made
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Speaker 1: up to appear alive. He applies makeup, sews her eyes
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Speaker 1: open with fishing line, and poses the body alongside an
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Speaker 1: edition of the Anchorage Daily News magazine from four days earlier.
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Speaker 4: And then ultimately ends up cutting her up into pieces,
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Speaker 4: dismembering the body to get rid of it. Puts the
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Speaker 4: body parts in trash bags and hauls them to a lake,
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Speaker 4: a frozen lake near Anchorage and cuts a hole in
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Speaker 4: the ice, drops the bags into the water, weighs them
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Speaker 4: down and lets them sink to the bottom of the lake.
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Speaker 1: On March 6th, with her ATM card in hand, Israel
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Speaker 1: Keyes flies to Las Vegas and rents a car. And
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Speaker 1: a dramatic chase begins. At this point, police think they
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Speaker 1: are tracking a kidnapper. They have no reason to believe
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Speaker 1: he is a serial murderer. They have no clues to
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Speaker 1: his identity and no concept of the enormous depth of
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Speaker 1: his crimes. Keyes is a 34-year-old psychopathic serial killer. And
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Speaker 1: like so many of these monsters, he's able to commit
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Speaker 1: these grisly crimes while still carrying on a normal life.
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Speaker 4: Somehow he was able to just maintain this dual existence,
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Speaker 4: having these two separate identities, the one of the family man,
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Speaker 4: the devoted father, and the one as the killer.
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Speaker 1: Detective Malcolm Ryman encountered these types of violent psychopaths for
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Speaker 1: over 30 years as a New York City Police Department
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Speaker 1: homicide investigator. He specialized in sexual predator and serial killer cases.
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Speaker 3: People expect to see serial killers as being some type
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Speaker 3: of drooling, maniac, creepy, maniacal person. And it's not really
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Speaker 3: the case. And what you'll often find is they're charming, articulate, friendly,
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Speaker 3: normal people.
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Speaker 1: The FBI defines psychopathy as a personality disorder manifested in
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Speaker 1: people who use a mixture of charm, manipulation, intimidation, and
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Speaker 1: sometimes violence to control others and satisfy their own selfish needs.
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Speaker 1: Psychopathic serial murderers have no empathy for their victims and
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Speaker 1: no remorse for their crimes. And sadly, they're surprisingly hard
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Speaker 1: to spot.
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Speaker 4: Israel Keyes had his own business. He had a construction business.
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Speaker 4: All his clients reported that he seemed very normal. He
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Speaker 4: seemed very friendly most of the time. He seemed nothing
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Speaker 4: unusual about him. The neighbors reported he just seemed like
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Speaker 4: a normal, friendly guy from all appearances.
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Speaker 1: But Israel Keyes is far from normal. He sets out
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Speaker 1: from Las Vegas on a determined drive across the Southwest.
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Speaker 1: He heads through Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Along the way,
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Speaker 1: he stopped several times to withdraw ransom money from Samantha's
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Speaker 1: ATM account.
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Speaker 4: When he made the withdrawal, there would be a ping, basically,
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Speaker 4: on the investigator's system. They would know the card's been
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Speaker 4: used at this location. So they would rush to the location,
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Speaker 4: but of course by the time they got there, Keyes
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Speaker 4: was long gone. He was off in another town somewhere else.
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Speaker 1: Investigators still have no idea who the kidnapper is, what
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Speaker 1: kind of car he's driving Or if Samantha is with
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Speaker 1: him on his journey. Meanwhile, Samantha's disappearance has now gained
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Speaker 1: national attention, fueled by her father's relentless efforts to save
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Speaker 1: his daughter. Israel Keyes is cleverly staying one step ahead
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Speaker 1: of law enforcement. But then, the man known as the
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Speaker 1: most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century makes an
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Speaker 1: uncharacteristic mistake. And police uncover shocking truths about this heartless
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Speaker 1: serial killer. Alaska serial killer Israel Keys abducts 18-year-old Samantha
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Speaker 1: Koenig and brutally rapes and murders the young woman. He
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Speaker 1: stashes her body in a cabinet and calmly leaves on
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Speaker 1: a family vacation. Upon his return, he dismembers the corpse
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Speaker 1: and drops the remains in a frozen lake, but still
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Speaker 1: convinces her father and the police she's only been kidnapped. Now,
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Speaker 1: law enforcement is tracking Keyes through the southwest United States
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Speaker 1: by the use of Samantha's ATM card, hoping she is
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Speaker 1: still alive. What's going on inside the warped mind of
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Speaker 1: this killer, and what drives him towards these heinous acts?
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Speaker 1: Keyes is energized by his crime and craves more thrills.
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Speaker 4: Well, in addition to using the ATM card while he
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Speaker 4: was in Texas, Keyes also decided he was going to
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Speaker 4: rob a bank. This is something he'd done before. He'd
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Speaker 4: robbed several banks before in the past. He found a
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Speaker 4: house in a small town in Texas, Salado, Texas. He
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Speaker 4: broke into the house, burglarized it for what he could,
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Speaker 4: and then set it on fire. And the point of
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Speaker 4: setting it on fire was for diversion. So in other words,
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Speaker 4: he planned on the fire drawing out the police from
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Speaker 4: the nearby town so that he could then go to
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Speaker 4: the town and rob the bank, which he did. He
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Speaker 4: went and robbed the bank in Salado, Texas.
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Speaker 1: The anonymous murderer continues across the Southwest. But finally, investigators
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Speaker 1: catch a break. It's an uncharacteristic slip-up for a killer
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Speaker 1: whose precise planning has kept him under the radar for
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Speaker 1: many years. At one of his ATM withdrawals, the security
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Speaker 1: camera catches a glimpse of Key's rental car. It's a
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Speaker 1: white 2012 Ford Focus.
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Speaker 4: And it wasn't until they got the video of his
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Speaker 4: rental car that they had something concrete they could actually
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Speaker 4: search for. So then the FBI put out a bolo
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Speaker 4: beyond the lookout for this 2012 white Ford Focus.
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Speaker 1: On March 13th, a Texas highway patrolman spots the white
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Speaker 1: Ford in the parking lot of a Quality Inn motel
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Speaker 1: in Lufkin, Texas.
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Speaker 4: He's got in the car, drove off, and they pulled
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Speaker 4: him over. In the car, they found, in addition, obviously,
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Speaker 4: to the the strangeness of this driver having an Alaska
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Speaker 4: driver's license. They also found Samantha Koenig's cell phone. They
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Speaker 4: found Samantha Koenig's ATM card, a gun, cash with ink
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Speaker 4: stain on it from robbery. And they knew they had
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Speaker 4: their guy.
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Speaker 3: Before we ask any questions, we must understand your rights.
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Speaker 7: You have the right to remain silent.
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Speaker 6: Anything you say can be used against you in court.
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Speaker 6: You have the right to talk to a lawyer for.
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Speaker 4: Advice before we ask you questions.
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Speaker 7: You have the right to have a lawyer with.
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Speaker 5: You during questioning. If you cannot afford a lawyer, we
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Speaker 5: will be appointed.
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Speaker 4: For you before any questioning.
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Speaker 1: The Anchorage police and the FBI interrogate Keyes, still having
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Speaker 1: no idea he may be involved in any other murders. Sadly,
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Speaker 1: on March 31, 2012, He gives a gruesome confession of
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Speaker 1: Samantha Koenig's torture and murder. And then the complex psychology
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Speaker 1: of Israel Keyes begins to unveil. He hints that there
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Speaker 1: are other victims, many other victims.
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Speaker 8: There is no one who knows me or who has
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Speaker 8: ever known me who knows anything about me, really.
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Speaker 4: They know they're going.
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Speaker 8: To tell you something that does not line up with
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Speaker 8: anything I tell you because... I'm two different people, basically.
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Speaker 8: And the only person who knows about what I'm telling you,
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Speaker 8: the kind of things I'm.
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Speaker 4: Telling you, is me. How long have you been two
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Speaker 4: different people? A long time.
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Speaker 6: 14 years.
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Speaker 1: Over the next nine months, investigators attempt to piece together
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Speaker 1: other crimes Keyes may have committed. More than 40 hours
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Speaker 1: of complex interrogation and psychological maneuvering reveals a killer with
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Speaker 1: a shockingly precise method for serial murder.
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Speaker 9: In the case of Israel Keyes, even after he was arrested,
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Speaker 9: he still felt the need to try to control the situation,
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Speaker 9: control law enforcement, and make the situation as beneficial for himself,
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Speaker 9: despite the fact that he was apprehended as a serial killer.
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Speaker 4: So, for example.
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Speaker 9: He was only willing to give very limited information to police,
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Speaker 9: even though they had arrested him. So he was willing
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Speaker 9: to negotiate, but he had very specific stipulations associated with
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Speaker 9: all of the information he was willing to give out,
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Speaker 9: and he was only willing to give out more once
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Speaker 9: the stipulations were fulfilled.
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Speaker 1: Investigators hope he'll cooperate and help bring closure to the
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Speaker 1: victims' families, while Keyes often focuses on receiving coffees and cigars.
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Speaker 10: First of all, do I get a cigar today? What
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Speaker 10: I can do is I can give you something. We'll
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Speaker 10: get that.
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Speaker 11: Cigar.
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Speaker 4: There was a bank robbery in Tupper Lake. That was
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Speaker 4: me and I'm.
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Speaker 5: Sure it was probably the only bank robbery in that
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Speaker 5: town for a while.
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Speaker 1: Security cam photos confirm Keyes' account. The investigators and Keyes
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Speaker 1: share a laugh about using real hair for his disguises.
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Speaker 1: Keyes' response is chilling.
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Speaker 4: You use real hair. Why don't you buy real hair?
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Speaker 4: You don't have to buy real hair to get real hair.
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Speaker 4: Fair enough, I guess. You just take it, don't.
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Speaker 6: You?
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Speaker 4: Hair is free. Everything's free if you take it. He
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Speaker 4: wanted to have control. He seemed to enjoy toying with
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Speaker 4: the investigators as well. He would generally allude to certain
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Speaker 4: crimes without giving details or specifics, leaving the investigators wanting
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Speaker 4: more and more from him and kind of drawing them
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Speaker 4: along that way.
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Speaker 1: Interrogating these cunning serial killers can be very challenging for investigators.
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Speaker 1: Detectives call the interrogation room the box.
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Speaker 3: When I'm in the interview room, when I'm in the
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Speaker 3: box with the serial killer, Before I go in there,
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Speaker 3: I want to know everything about that person. I want
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Speaker 3: to know every intricate detail about that person's life. I
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Speaker 3: want to know about the traumatic things that happened in childhood.
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Speaker 3: I want to know about previous crimes. I want to
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Speaker 3: know everything about them. I want them to feel transparent.
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Speaker 3: I want them to feel like there's nothing that they
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Speaker 3: can hide from me that either I know or I'm
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Speaker 3: going to find out.
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Speaker 1: Experienced detectives learn how to read nonverbal cues and how
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Speaker 1: to manipulate the suspect to get the information they need.
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Speaker 1: Investigators notice that Israel Keyes gets physically excited when he
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Speaker 1: talks about his kills, rapidly tapping his hands and feet
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Speaker 1: and jangling his shackles. It's a way detectives know when
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Speaker 1: he is telling the truth. With Israel Keyes, this process
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Speaker 1: is extremely difficult. Keyes agrees to continue to cooperate on
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Speaker 1: the condition that they keep his name out of the press.
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Speaker 12: We could work out some sort of agreement that, you know,
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Speaker 12: I give you all the answers on these cases.
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Speaker 6: And.
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Speaker 4: Families get closure, and you find as many.
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Speaker 13: Of them as.
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Speaker 4: Possible, and.
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Speaker 4: And in return for that, you.
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Speaker 6: Know, I.
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Speaker 12: Don't plan on being around a whole lot longer, but
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Speaker 12: a really big concern to me is.
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Speaker 4: You know, my kid's going to be around.
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Speaker 12: I don't want her to, like, type my name in
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Speaker 12: the computer and have it pop up.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't want his 10-year-old daughter to hear about his
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Speaker 1: grisly crimes.
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Speaker 4: I'm not in this for the glory. And I don't
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Speaker 4: see why the media has to get involved at all.
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Speaker 1: FBI Special Agent Jolene Godin is part of the interrogation team.
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Speaker 7: He wanted the death penalty and he wanted it fast.
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Speaker 7: Speaking generally, that was what he wanted. There were little
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Speaker 7: things along the way that he wanted. He wanted evidence
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Speaker 7: returned to family members and things like that. But big picture,
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Speaker 7: what he wanted, he wanted to avoid trials. He wanted
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Speaker 7: to avoid publicity and media. He wanted to avoid being
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Speaker 7: taken from journalists. to jurisdiction and tried in you know
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Speaker 7: multiple places and ultimately he wanted the death penalty and
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Speaker 7: he wanted it quickly he didn't want to sit in
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Speaker 7: jail for a long period of time.
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Speaker 1: Investigators tell keys he won't get the death penalty without
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Speaker 1: other victims he slowly begins to reveal information about others
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Speaker 1: he murdered. They learn that Keyes has been eluding capture
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Speaker 1: through brilliant planning. He has studied the serial killers of
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Speaker 1: the past and idolizes Ted Bundy. But they're shocked to
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Speaker 1: discover that there's never been any serial killer quite like
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Speaker 1: Israel Keyes. The FBI and the Anchorage, Alaska Police Department
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Speaker 1: are deep into the interrogation of serial killer Israel Keyes.
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Speaker 1: Keyes has already confessed to one heinous murder, but now
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Speaker 1: investigators are unraveling horrifying layers of complex and unspeakable crimes.
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Speaker 4: So Keyes viewed the entire country as his hunting grounds.
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Speaker 4: So what he would do is, even though he was
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Speaker 4: based out of Alaska, out of Anchorage, he would fly
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Speaker 4: to another city. Say, for example, he'd fly to Chicago.
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Speaker 4: Once he got there to Chicago, he would run a car.
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Speaker 4: He'd then drive that car to a different state or
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Speaker 4: through multiple states, putting on hundreds, even thousands of miles
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Speaker 4: before he got to where he actually committed the crime.
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Speaker 4: So the crime was committed thousands and thousands of miles away,
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Speaker 4: multiple jurisdictions, so it made it very difficult to try
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Speaker 4: to track him or come up with any sort of
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Speaker 4: suspect in the crimes.
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Speaker 7: Everything was meticulously planned, and our interviews with him were
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Speaker 7: the same from his standpoint.
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Speaker 14: I mean, he.
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Speaker 7: I never got the sense that he, you know, accidentally
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Speaker 7: told us something or got angry and riled up and
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Speaker 7: then something flew out of his mouth. My sense was
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Speaker 7: that he knew every time he came in kind of
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Speaker 7: what he was going to give us that day.
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Speaker 1: In the chilling interview, Keyes talks about his inspiration and
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Speaker 1: his motives.
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Speaker 15: Talk about other people like that?
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Speaker 12: I probably know every single serial killer that's.
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Speaker 6: Ever been written about.
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Speaker 4: It's kind of a hobby of mine, so.
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Speaker 12: I don't really consider myself all that different or all
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Speaker 12: that special from hundreds of thousands of other people. All
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Speaker 12: you have to do is type in a word search
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Speaker 12: on any given porn site and there's all kinds of
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Speaker 12: people who have fantasies about rape and bondage and the
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Speaker 12: kinds of things.
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Speaker 5: That I take to another level.
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Speaker 12: I think with me it's a combination of things.
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Speaker 4: It's not just about the sexual fantasies and it's not it's.
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Speaker 12: Definitely not just about the money and it's not just
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Speaker 12: about the adrenaline.
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Speaker 5: But it's all of those things together and and that's
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Speaker 5: what i get out of it and once i started
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Speaker 5: doing you know once i did it once.
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Speaker 12: I started you know and there was nothing else.
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Speaker 11: Like it.
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Speaker 1: In his intricate planning Keyes even goes so far as
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Speaker 1: to bury pre-packed murder kits in at least five states
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Speaker 1: around America.
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Speaker 4: Israel Keyes put so much thought and preparation and planning
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Speaker 4: into his crimes, he would use what he called kill kits.
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Speaker 4: These were five-gallon plastic buckets. He would then put certain
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Speaker 4: things in the buckets that he wanted to use for
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Speaker 4: his crimes.
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Speaker 16: He would put guns in the buckets. He would put
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Speaker 16: ammunition in the buckets. He would put zip ties in
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Speaker 16: the buckets. He would put tape in the buckets, flashlights,
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Speaker 16: whatever he thought he would need. He'd then seal up
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Speaker 16: the bucket and bury it in the ground. He did
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Speaker 16: this in multiple states.
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Speaker 4: He did it in New York, he did it in Vermont,
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Speaker 4: he did it in Washington, he did it in Alaska.
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Speaker 4: Then he would return to these sites, sometimes years later,
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Speaker 4: and dig up the bucket, get the items out, and
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Speaker 4: then use them.
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Speaker 14: For the crimes.
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Speaker 1: He even included caustic chemicals like Drano and lye to
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Speaker 1: help dispose of the bodies. The kids allowed him to
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Speaker 1: travel without any weapons or tools to avoid security concerns
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Speaker 1: at airports. Keyes referred to his kids as buried treasures.
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Speaker 1: Investigators find that Keyes uses guns to control his victims,
24:03
Speaker 1: but that's not how he likes to kill. Keyes takes
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Speaker 1: investigators through the killing of Bill and Lorraine Currier in Essex,
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Speaker 1: Vermont in June of 2011. 4,000 miles from Anchorage. It's
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Speaker 1: a typical stalk and kill murder for this ruthless predator.
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Speaker 4: The Curriers were chosen mostly at random. And I say
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Speaker 4: mostly at random because there was a little bit of
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Speaker 4: a criteria involved. Not for the victims themselves, not for
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Speaker 4: the Curriers themselves. but for their home. Keyes had certain
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Speaker 4: things he was looking for that particular night. He wanted
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Speaker 4: a one-story building. He wanted a home with an attached garage.
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Speaker 4: He wanted a home that it looked like there weren't
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Speaker 4: any children there. And unfortunately for the Curriers, their home
24:54
Speaker 4: fit the profile to a T. He called it a
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Speaker 4: blitzkrieg attack. He broke in through the garage. No one
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Speaker 4: could see him. It was an attached garage. So he
25:03
Speaker 4: broke in the window in the garage door, broke into
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Speaker 4: the kitchen of the house, immediately stormed into the Keyes' bedroom.
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Speaker 4: It surprised them, subdued them, and took them away.
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Speaker 1: But Keyes says he was unhappy. It didn't go according
25:17
Speaker 1: to his plan, and he had to shoot Bill Currier.
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Speaker 4: He typically liked to strangle his victims to death. It
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Speaker 4: was kind of a more personal murder. Hands-on, literally, the killing.
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Speaker 4: So in the case of Bill Currier, the murder victim
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Speaker 4: in Vermont, he was shot and killed, which is very
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Speaker 4: unusual for Keyes to do, and the reason why Keyes
25:38
Speaker 4: did it is Bill Currier was not cooperating, not following directions. Ultimately,
25:44
Speaker 4: it was a loss of control of the situation. There
25:47
Speaker 4: was screaming and shouting and was not following instructions, not
25:51
Speaker 4: following directions from Keyes. And this loss of control angered Keyes.
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Speaker 4: It pissed him off. And he reacted violently, shot him
25:59
Speaker 4: multiple times.
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Speaker 1: Keyes states he was disappointed because he had other plans
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Speaker 1: for Bill Currier.
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Speaker 4: He never specified what the other plans were, but implied
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Speaker 4: in that is that there was definitely some sort of
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Speaker 4: torture that was in mind.
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Speaker 1: This idea of power and control often runs through the
26:20
Speaker 1: motives of many serial killers. For years, researchers have tried
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Speaker 1: to identify and categorize what creates and drives these monsters.
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Speaker 1: Israel Keyes fits in the categories of seeking power and control,
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Speaker 1: as well as the sheer thrill of killing. Sex and
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Speaker 1: torture are also common elements of serial murders, but these
26:45
Speaker 1: components are not always involved.
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Speaker 3: I see really two basic types that I've dealt with,
26:51
Speaker 3: and the first type being a sexual predator hunter. He's
26:56
Speaker 3: going out and hunting down victims seeking them out and
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Speaker 3: deriving some type of sexual pleasure in victimizing them. And
27:06
Speaker 3: then you have another type of serial killer who's exacting
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Speaker 3: some type of revenge. It's a revenge killer. They're getting
27:13
Speaker 3: revenge from rejection, alienation, perceived slights against a group of people,
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Speaker 3: and they're destroying them out of a need for vengeance.
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Speaker 1: Keys seems to fit into the sexual predator-hunter category. while
27:29
Speaker 1: another brutal serial killer from the Ukraine falls into the
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Speaker 1: revenge category. Anatoly Onoprienko took the lives of at least
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Speaker 1: 52 innocent victims. A 12-gauge shotgun was his weapon of choice.
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Speaker 2: A serial killer who was not oriented toward sexual homicide
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Speaker 2: so much as just plain misanthropic, killing one person after
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Speaker 2: the other would be this fellow, Anatoly Onoprienko, from the Ukraine.
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Speaker 1: Onoprienko's grisly crime scenes appear to express pathological rage against families,
28:13
Speaker 1: a hatred spawned by his own troubled childhood. When Onoprienko
28:18
Speaker 1: was just four years old, his mother died. His older
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Speaker 1: brother stayed on with his father, but Anatoly was placed
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Speaker 1: in an orphanage. Apparently, This abandonment fuels his homicidal rage.
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Speaker 2: He developed a hatred for how he was raised and
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Speaker 2: for mankind in general. He would often invade a house
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Speaker 2: in these small town places and kill all the people
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Speaker 2: in the house, sometimes several all at once, and then
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Speaker 2: burn the house down in order to further get back
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Speaker 2: at the people who had the advantage of living in
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Speaker 2: a nice home, which he never enjoyed. could do so
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Speaker 2: that he was punishing those who had the good fortune
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Speaker 2: to be raised in a warm, loving home.
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Speaker 1: Many serial killers claim they are on some kind of mission,
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Speaker 1: driven by psychotic visions or voices. To commit such crimes,
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Speaker 1: you have to be given the right. But I can't
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Speaker 1: prove who gave me the right. Maybe God gave me
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Speaker 1: the right. How can I prove it when, for example,
29:22
Speaker 1: there are six billion people on Earth who claim to
29:25
Speaker 1: have seen God, but they can't prove it? But maybe
29:28
Speaker 1: I've seen God. Maybe I've received a conquering task from him,
29:31
Speaker 1: but I can't prove it.
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Speaker 13: Well, psychosis is more of a break with reality. The
29:36
Speaker 13: person views reality differently. in a significantly different way than
29:43
Speaker 13: persons around them. They may have delusions, which are beliefs
29:47
Speaker 13: that have no basis in reality. They may experience voices
29:51
Speaker 13: that no one else around them hears. They may see
29:54
Speaker 13: things that no one else around them sees. They may
29:56
Speaker 13: be actually very disorganized in their thought. There's a clear
30:00
Speaker 13: break with reality. Generally, they're seen as mentally ill.
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Speaker 1: Serial killers sometimes fake psychosis in order to escape the
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Speaker 1: death penalty. Onoprienko tried to use insanity as his defense.
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Speaker 1: But the courts felt he was faking his mental illness,
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Speaker 1: and he was sentenced to death.
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Speaker 13: There's no one course that makes an individual turn into
30:26
Speaker 13: or become a criminal. There's only one individual path. There's
30:30
Speaker 13: different things you want to look at, and that one
30:32
Speaker 13: is the family dynamics, the relationship with the family, the mother,
30:35
Speaker 13: the father, the relationship the mother and the father have
30:38
Speaker 13: with themselves.
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Speaker 1: Some experts believe Keyes' unconventional childhood played a role in
30:43
Speaker 1: fueling his desire to kill. Israel Keyes grew up in
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Speaker 1: a remote forest outside the small town of Colville, Washington.
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Speaker 1: He was one of nine children. His family belonged to
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Speaker 1: a strict religious group called the Ark, a church associated
31:04
Speaker 1: with racist and anti-Semitic theology. He was homeschooled and had
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Speaker 1: little chance to socialize with other kids. He insists he
31:14
Speaker 1: wasn't abused or neglected as a child. But could the
31:18
Speaker 1: extreme isolation in his childhood be what transformed him into
31:23
Speaker 1: a monster? Serial killer Israel Keyes has operated completely under
31:28
Speaker 1: the radar for decades. His precise planning has allowed him
31:33
Speaker 1: to murder an untold number of victims without leaving a
31:36
Speaker 1: hint of a trail. Now investigators are interrogating the killer
31:41
Speaker 1: to attempt to determine the depth of his crimes and
31:44
Speaker 1: the motives behind his depravity. It seems a strange childhood
31:48
Speaker 1: may have played a role. Keyes grew up in the
31:52
Speaker 1: isolated woods outside of the small town of Colville, Washington.
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Speaker 1: He enjoyed hunting and once remarked he would kill anything
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Speaker 1: with a heartbeat.
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Speaker 15: I've known since I was 14 that there were things
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Speaker 15: that I thought were normal and that were okay that
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Speaker 15: nobody else thought were normal or okay. There were some
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Speaker 15: friends came with us and there was a cat of
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Speaker 15: ours that was.
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Speaker 4: Already getting into the trash and we all went up
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Speaker 4: into the woods and.
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Speaker 6: Well, when he was young.
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Speaker 15: When he was about 19 or 20, he's committed.
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Speaker 3: His first violent crime against another person.
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Speaker 15: He was watching.
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Speaker 11: A girl.
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Speaker 4: Tubing on a river in Oregon from the woods. And
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Speaker 4: he decided that he was going to take her and
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Speaker 4: kill her. And he took the girl, grabbed her when
33:06
Speaker 4: she was separated from the people she was with, he
33:08
Speaker 4: grabbed her off the tube, dragged her up and raped her,
33:14
Speaker 4: but then decided to let her go.
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Speaker 1: Is it just a dreadful childhood that turns these people
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Speaker 1: into serial killers? The often asked question is whether it's
33:27
Speaker 1: nature or nurture. Is it a result of their upbringing,
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Speaker 1: or are they born to kill?
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Speaker 13: That's a great question. I think that question is currently
33:38
Speaker 13: hotly debated, and it's something that's been questioned now over
33:43
Speaker 13: 250 years. Is someone born a criminal? Is someone made
33:46
Speaker 13: a criminal?
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Speaker 1: Behavioral studies theorize that the serial killer's dysfunctional childhood may
33:53
Speaker 1: lead to this, a cold-hearted lack of empathy.
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Speaker 9: Most research that I've seen has suggested it's the interaction
34:00
Speaker 9: between nature and nurture. It's the biological tendencies combined with
34:05
Speaker 9: the right environment to allow them to act out on
34:08
Speaker 9: those tendencies. If they have a predisposition to, let's say,
34:12
Speaker 9: be impulsive or be unempathetic or to commit crimes, parents
34:17
Speaker 9: could help neutralize that. But if they have that tendency
34:21
Speaker 9: and they have very bad parents, you can imagine that
34:24
Speaker 9: that tendency could just run wild and be exacerbated.
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Speaker 3: I think absolutely that there is something innate. There is
34:30
Speaker 3: something intrinsic, something that's within somebody to become a serial killer.
34:37
Speaker 3: I think that an environmental stimuli certainly can trigger it.
34:44
Speaker 3: And there are certain traits or occurrences that will happen
34:50
Speaker 3: to somebody that may trigger it. But the bottom line
34:52
Speaker 3: is it's got to be something within them to make
34:55
Speaker 3: them that way.
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Speaker 1: Israel Keyes develops his love for killing very early in life.
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Speaker 1: And he continues honing his murderous craft. Understanding Israel Keyes'
35:09
Speaker 1: motives for killing presents a complex puzzle for law enforcement.
35:14
Speaker 1: Another notorious serial murderer from Great Britain displays a similar
35:18
Speaker 1: psychopathic love of killing.
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Speaker 4: We understand that the police called on the owners of No.
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Speaker 14: 163 Melrose Avenue today because they own two dogs, and
35:37
Speaker 14: those two dogs might have picked up some of the
35:39
Speaker 14: bones from 195 Melrose Avenue and buried them in their
35:42
Speaker 14: back garden.
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Speaker 17: Police described it tonight as only a cursory search and
35:46
Speaker 17: said they will be checking other gardens in the street
35:49
Speaker 17: as well.
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Speaker 14: And I think it's right to say that we have
35:51
Speaker 14: found a significant amount of human bones and also a
35:57
Speaker 14: part of a jaw with teeth attached to it.
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Speaker 1: Dennis Nilsen is one of Great Britain's most notorious serial killers,
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Speaker 1: claiming at least 12 young men as victims. Like Keyes,
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Speaker 1: his murders are motivated by the thrill of killing. But
36:18
Speaker 1: Nilsen's crimes appear to be driven by a morbid fascination
36:21
Speaker 1: with death and extreme loneliness. He would lure young male
36:26
Speaker 1: victims back to his home, strangle them, and plunge their
36:29
Speaker 1: heads underwater to be certain they were dead. He'd sometimes
36:34
Speaker 1: commit sex acts with his dead victims. Nielsen said he
36:38
Speaker 1: saved the corpses for a while to keep him company.
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Speaker 17: But at least 15 people paid the ultimate price for
36:45
Speaker 17: Dennis Nielsen's hospitality. He killed them, he chopped up their bodies,
36:50
Speaker 17: and he then burned, boiled, or buried the pieces.
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Speaker 11: Twelve of the 16 murders happened at Nielsen's flat in
36:57
Speaker 11: Melrose Avenue, North London. Each time he hid the body
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Speaker 11: under the floorboards, Nielsen was asked by police how many
37:04
Speaker 11: bodies were under the floorboards at any one time. He replied,
37:07
Speaker 11: I didn't do a stock check or anything. It's all
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Speaker 11: a bit of a jumble.
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Speaker 1: Like Israel Keyes, Nielsen shows no mental break with reality.
37:16
Speaker 1: He displays clear and calculating thought. In 1983, after five
37:20
Speaker 1: years of killing, Plumbing clogged with human remains and the
37:25
Speaker 1: body parts found by the dogs lead to Nielsen's capture.
37:30
Speaker 1: When asked about his motive for murder, Nielsen says, well,
37:34
Speaker 1: enjoying it is as good a reason as any. In 1998,
37:42
Speaker 1: after his troubled childhood, Israel Keyes joins the army. He
37:46
Speaker 1: starts to drink heavily and enjoys the company of prostitutes.
37:51
Speaker 1: but he also learns more valuable skills to help him
37:54
Speaker 1: intensify his experiences.
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Speaker 4: He's enlisted in the Army when he was about 20
38:00
Speaker 4: years old. He was stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington, and
38:03
Speaker 4: so he learned survival skills during the Army. He learned
38:07
Speaker 4: how to handle weapons in the Army, these sorts of
38:10
Speaker 4: skills that he would then put to use for committing
38:12
Speaker 4: his crimes later on.
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Speaker 1: It was during this time he meets Tammy Hawkins, and
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Speaker 1: together they have a daughter. After the Army, He lives
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Speaker 1: with Tammy and his daughter in the lush forests of
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Speaker 1: Washington's Olympic Peninsula. And it's thought that there he puts
38:29
Speaker 1: his hunting skills to the test on human beings.
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Speaker 4: So Keyes would typically try to find areas that were isolated.
38:38
Speaker 4: Parks were one of his favorite areas to scout, to
38:42
Speaker 4: stalk people. He would then wait for people to show up.
38:46
Speaker 4: He would follow them, he would track them as necessary,
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Speaker 4: and then surprise them.
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Speaker 1: It appears Keyes murders four victims in the forests of
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Speaker 1: Washington State, often disposing of the bodies in remote mountain lakes.
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Speaker 1: His murders continue for more than 14 years, and law
39:07
Speaker 1: enforcement has no idea there's even a killer at large.
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Speaker 1: Then in February 2012, Keyes kills Samantha Koenig close to
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Speaker 1: home in Anchorage, Alaska. A rare impulsive decision for this
39:23
Speaker 1: calculating murderer.
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Speaker 4: So one of his rules, one of his primary rules
39:31
Speaker 4: was not to commit these crimes where he lived. And
39:35
Speaker 4: with Samantha, he broke his own rule.
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Speaker 1: This mistake of temptation has now led to his downfall.
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Speaker 1: He's now under arrest and heading for trial. In Anchorage,
39:47
Speaker 1: the negotiations continue to try to get more information from
39:51
Speaker 1: Israel Keyes. Then suddenly, during a court appearance, he once
39:55
Speaker 1: again shocks law enforcement.
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Speaker 4: During one of the hearings in court for Keyes, he
40:02
Speaker 4: decided he was going to try to escape. And while
40:05
Speaker 4: the attorneys were up arguing before the judge, he bolted,
40:09
Speaker 4: tried to run out of the courtroom. But before he
40:12
Speaker 4: could even clear the aisle there, The courtroom deputies tackled
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Speaker 4: him and subdued him.
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Speaker 1: In typical fashion, Keyes shows no remorse for his escape attempt.
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Speaker 4: I mean, come on, let's face it. Yeah, what happened yesterday? Ooh,
40:27
Speaker 4: I'm a bad guy. I tried to escape, but let's
40:30
Speaker 4: be honest.
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Speaker 15: Nobody really thought I was a good guy before that, so.
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Speaker 1: During months of interrogation, Israel Keyes admits to killing at
40:41
Speaker 1: least nine people. But investigators fear the actual total is higher.
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Speaker 7: He was very evasive at times during interviews, and he
40:50
Speaker 7: told us when we tried to pin him down on
40:53
Speaker 7: a number, he would say it was less than 12.
40:54
Speaker 7: But then there were things that he would say that
40:58
Speaker 7: led us to believe that by less than 12, he
41:00
Speaker 7: simply meant 11. And so he was quick to correct
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Speaker 7: us in interviews if we had something wrong. So there
41:05
Speaker 7: were several times where we just threw out statements like,
41:08
Speaker 7: you are 11 victims or things like that, and he
41:10
Speaker 7: didn't correct us.
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Speaker 4: So.
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Speaker 7: Based on that and so much additional things that he said,
41:16
Speaker 7: we believe the number is 11.
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Speaker 4: He traveled so extensively, both in the U.S. and in
41:21
Speaker 4: other countries, for such long periods of time, long periods
41:25
Speaker 4: of time that authorities haven't been able to pinpoint where
41:28
Speaker 4: he was oftentimes. So the number of victims is going
41:31
Speaker 4: to be much higher than 11, in my opinion.
41:35
Speaker 1: Israel Keyes begs the FBI for a quick death sentence,
41:39
Speaker 1: but the agents continue to press for information on other victims.
41:44
Speaker 1: Keyes grows impatient with the process and decides to take
41:47
Speaker 1: matters into his own hands.
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Speaker 4: On December 1st, 2012, while he was in prison awaiting
41:55
Speaker 4: trial in the Koenig case, Keyes slit his wrists and
42:01
Speaker 4: also used his head sheet to strangle himself as insurance
42:05
Speaker 4: to make sure he got the job done. So as
42:07
Speaker 4: he bled out and as his body shifted, relaxed from
42:13
Speaker 4: the bleeding... He rigged the sheets so that they would
42:15
Speaker 4: strangle him to make sure he did the job. So
42:17
Speaker 4: he committed suicide while in prison.
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Speaker 3: In many cases with serial killers, they start at a
42:22
Speaker 3: very young age. They often start in their teen years.
42:27
Speaker 3: And I think historically, they never stop. The only way
42:31
Speaker 3: that a serial killer stops historically is if they're incarcerated
42:36
Speaker 3: or they kill themselves, which somewhat often they do commit suicide.
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Speaker 1: Crumpled inside the blanket on Keyes' deathbed is a blood-stained
42:47
Speaker 1: suicide note. The case of Israel Keyes reinforces the immense
42:53
Speaker 1: challenges facing law enforcement in their efforts to apprehend serial killers.
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Speaker 3: When you take a common murder case, you start at
43:05
Speaker 3: the nucleus of that person's life. Then you work your
43:07
Speaker 3: way out from there with a serial killer, They're often
43:11
Speaker 3: just a random person, and that person does not even
43:14
Speaker 3: figure into that investigation. And it's somebody who's completely off
43:18
Speaker 3: the radar. How are you going to find them? You
43:20
Speaker 3: have to use modern technology, and you have to use
43:23
Speaker 3: old-fashioned police work, and you have to be absolutely relentless.
43:27
Speaker 3: You just got to keep on plugging.
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Speaker 4: Keyes is really unique in the world of serial killers
43:31
Speaker 4: in the amount of preparation and planning he put into
43:34
Speaker 4: his crimes. He was so meticulous in his crimes that
43:38
Speaker 4: he's really a new breed of serial killer. He was
43:41
Speaker 4: extremely deceptive, extremely cunning. He got adrenaline rush from it.
43:46
Speaker 4: He loved the thrill of it. If he hadn't been caught,
43:49
Speaker 4: Keyes would still be out there doing it today. As
43:53
Speaker 4: a serial killer and as an individual, Keyes was deceptive
43:56
Speaker 4: and cunning as the devil.
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Speaker 6: Thank you.