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Inside the Crimes of Serial Killer Israel Keyes (9/21/26) · Beyond The Horizon

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the program. On
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  Speaker 1: this episode, we're going to talk about one of the
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  Speaker 1: most cold, calculating, scary serial killers that has ever popped
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  Speaker 1: up on the scene. And that person is Israel Keys. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is a man who, of his own admission, was
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  Speaker 1: two separate people. a man that was able to join
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  Speaker 1: the military, join the army, and get through all of
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  Speaker 1: that without people really suspecting that he was living a
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  Speaker 1: double life. And he was able to go on with
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  Speaker 1: his killing spree for quite some time. According to authorities,
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  Speaker 1: they suspect that he killed at least 11 people, and
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  Speaker 1: there might be more. One thing is for sure. This
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  Speaker 1: was a calculating man, a man who planned things out
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  Speaker 1: in advance, so much so that he would fly into places,
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  Speaker 1: bury kill kits, fly away, and then whenever the feeling
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  Speaker 1: came upon him and he felt like he needed to
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  Speaker 1: murder again, he would fly into a different airport, drive
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of miles to where these kill kits were located,
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  Speaker 1: and then kill somebody and disappear into the night. So
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  Speaker 1: let's get into this article from December 30th of 2012
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  Speaker 1: when all of this was first cracking off when he
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  Speaker 1: was first captured. This article was authored by Maureen Callahan,
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  Speaker 1: published the New York Post. Headline, The Hunt for the
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  Speaker 1: Perfect Serial Killer. By last August, residents of Essex, Vermont,
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  Speaker 1: a small community of just 19,000, had come to accept
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  Speaker 1: that their beloved neighbors, Bill and Lorraine Currier, would not
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  Speaker 1: be coming back. Nearly 15 months had elapsed since the
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  Speaker 1: Curriers were last seen leaving work at 5 p.m. on
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  Speaker 1: June 8th of 2011. Bill, 49, and Lorraine, 55, both
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  Speaker 1: worked in health care. Bill, in animal care at the
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  Speaker 1: University of Vermont, and Lorraine in patient financial services at
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  Speaker 1: a practice in Burlington. So you're same old kind of
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  Speaker 1: folk that would live next door to you, right? Typical
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  Speaker 1: people going about their lives, just trying to live, enjoy their,
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  Speaker 1: you know, golden years almost. 49, 55, starting to work
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  Speaker 1: towards retirement, you know. Certainly didn't deserve the fate that
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  Speaker 1: was visited upon them by Israel Keyes. They had been
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  Speaker 1: married since 1985. They had no children but loved animals
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  Speaker 1: and often let their birds fly through their modest home,
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  Speaker 1: a single-story structure with white siding and a dark green door.
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  Speaker 1: The Curriers were typical Vermonters. Lorraine, with long red hair,
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  Speaker 1: parted down the middle and no makeup, Bill with his
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  Speaker 1: love of Simon and Garfunkel, and playing guitar. Bill and
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  Speaker 1: Lorraine were also notoriously punctual and rarely took vacations. So
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  Speaker 1: when neither showed up to their respective jobs that next day,
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  Speaker 1: a Thursday, their co-workers were concerned. Lorraine's colleagues called over
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  Speaker 1: to Bill's office, and by the middle of the day,
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  Speaker 1: word got to Bill's sister, Diana, who called Essex police.
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  Speaker 1: By 10 o'clock that night, cops were all over the
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  Speaker 1: courier's house. Now, it was very out of character, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: for them not to be able to be contacted. They
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  Speaker 1: weren't the kind of people who were always out on
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  Speaker 1: vacations or, you know, traveling around. They were pretty localized people.
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  Speaker 1: And when you can't get a hold of somebody that
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  Speaker 1: you can always get a hold of pretty much, it
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  Speaker 1: certainly sets off alarm bells. And then when you find out,
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  Speaker 1: you know, their boss can't get a hold of them
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  Speaker 1: or they're not showing up for their responsibilities, when you
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  Speaker 1: know that they're a very responsible person, it's definitely scary time.
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  Speaker 1: At the scene, cops admitted confusion. It's a real puzzle,
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  Speaker 1: said Lieutenant George Murdy. The courier's car, a Saturn sedan,
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  Speaker 1: dark green like the accents on the home's facade, was
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  Speaker 1: missing from the garage. Bill was a big guy. At
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  Speaker 1: six feet, he weighed 220 pounds and had chronic health
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  Speaker 1: issues that required daily medication, as did Lorraine. Their medicine
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  Speaker 1: was untouched. Now that's another tell. If people were going somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: vacation or otherwise, they'd take their medicine. You gotta have
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  Speaker 1: it if you're gonna survive, right? Without it, you're in
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  Speaker 1: big trouble. So anytime somebody is missing from their home
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  Speaker 1: or office or whatever, and they don't take their medicine,
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  Speaker 1: it is very, very concerning for investigators. The cops made
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  Speaker 1: no attempt to downplay the urgency of the search or
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  Speaker 1: the likelihood that something awful had happened to Bill and Lorraine.
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  Speaker 1: were treating the home, Lieutenant Murdy said, like a crime scene.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't until a year later, in June 2012, that
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  Speaker 1: Murdy got an unexpected call from law enforcement in Anchorage, Alaska.
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  Speaker 1: They finally knew what happened to Bill and Lorraine, and
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  Speaker 1: they had never heard of anything like it. So, when
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  Speaker 1: we talk about serial killers, we talk about motive, and
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  Speaker 1: how serial killers have a quote-unquote type. Israel Keyes certainly didn't.
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  Speaker 1: And when you look at a guy like Israel Keyes
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  Speaker 1: and the randomness of the attacks, that's the most terrifying
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  Speaker 1: of all of it. A dark night in Alaska. On
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  Speaker 1: the evening of February 1st, 2012, a 34-year-old construction worker
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  Speaker 1: named Israel Keyes waited outside the Common Grounds Espresso Stand
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  Speaker 1: on East Tudor Road in Anchorage. a tiny shack of
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  Speaker 1: a store with teal-blue siding that sat in the parking
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  Speaker 1: lot of a local gym. It was already very dark.
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  Speaker 1: The sun had set at 5.06 p.m. and snowing heavily.
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  Speaker 1: Keys was waiting for the shop to close at 8 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: for the truck he knew was on its way. So
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  Speaker 1: Keys had been sitting on this place and casing it
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  Speaker 1: out and, you know, making a plan to go after
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  Speaker 1: the girl who worked there. And he knew that her
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  Speaker 1: boyfriend picked her up every night, right, from work or
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  Speaker 1: picked her up from work, so he was waiting for
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  Speaker 1: the truck to come, but he decided to go a
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  Speaker 1: different way. Keyes was a patient, deliberate, methodical man. Born
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  Speaker 1: in Utah, he had grown up Mormon, and at some
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  Speaker 1: point during his childhood, his family moved to Washington State,
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  Speaker 1: where they lived comfortably. In 1998, Keyes enlisted in the
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  Speaker 1: Army and served for two years, stationed at Fort Hood
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  Speaker 1: and in Egypt. In 2007, he relocated to Alaska where
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  Speaker 1: he started his own construction business, living with his girlfriend
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  Speaker 1: and young daughter in a white two-story house on a
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  Speaker 1: cul-de-sac in Turnagin, where they like to entertain friends and family.
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  Speaker 1: And when you hear his ex talk about him and
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  Speaker 1: people who knew him talk about him, nobody had any
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  Speaker 1: idea the kind of monster he was. Sure, he was
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  Speaker 1: a bit odd sometimes, but nobody understood him. the monster
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  Speaker 1: that was lurking beneath the skin. On this night in February,
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  Speaker 1: Keyes walked up to the drive-thru and asked the lone
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  Speaker 1: barista on duty for an Americano. Then, shimmied his way
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  Speaker 1: inside the window. He was wearing a mask and a hoodie,
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  Speaker 1: and he had a gun. And there's little chance 18-year-old
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  Speaker 1: Samantha Koenig was able to absorb what was happening. 100%,
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  Speaker 1: going to shock. Nobody expects this, right? You're getting this
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  Speaker 1: guy a coffee, next thing he's sliding in the window
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  Speaker 1: and holding you at gunpoint. Keys worked in seconds, and
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  Speaker 1: before she knew it, Koenig was subdued and zip-tied and
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  Speaker 1: down on the floor of the shack with Keys. They
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  Speaker 1: stayed there like that for a bit. Koenig's boyfriend, Dwayne Tortolani,
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  Speaker 1: was due to pick Samantha up at closing time. Keyes
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  Speaker 1: had been bored with going after lone targets and had
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  Speaker 1: recently begun challenging himself with couples, but something this night
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  Speaker 1: made him reconsider. He grabbed Koenig and pulled her up,
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  Speaker 1: and through the shack sat adjacent to a large six-lane highway,
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  Speaker 1: and there was little in the way of vegetation or
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  Speaker 1: construction or anything, really, that could obscure this armed kidnapping
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  Speaker 1: from view. Only the shop's security cameras caught the masked
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  Speaker 1: man taking Koenig away. Keyes was that good, and he
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  Speaker 1: knew it. He really was very, very thorough with his
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  Speaker 1: murders and killings up until this point. He started to really, like,
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  Speaker 1: lose it with Koenig. The kidnapping of Samantha was really
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  Speaker 1: the point where Keys was going to get caught. First
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  Speaker 1: of all, this was his hometown. You don't shit where
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  Speaker 1: you eat, right? And when you start killing people close
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  Speaker 1: to home, and you're a serial killer, chances are you're
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  Speaker 1: going to get cracked. Two weeks later, the Koenig family
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  Speaker 1: had hope. Dwayne received a text message with directions to
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  Speaker 1: a specific site at a local dog park, where he
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  Speaker 1: could expect to find a ransom note. He did. On
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  Speaker 1: one side was a photo the abductor had taken of Samantha,
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  Speaker 1: tied up, with a copy of the Anchorage Daily News
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  Speaker 1: dated February 13, 2012, proof of life. On the other
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  Speaker 1: side was a typed-out note, a demand for $ 30, 000 to
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  Speaker 1: be deposited directly into Samantha's account. and this was the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of the end for Israel Keys. Once you start
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  Speaker 1: having a digital footprint, once you start using debit cards
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  Speaker 1: and leaving a map, you're going to get caught. The
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  Speaker 1: Koenigs complied. By now, all of Anchorage's 380 cops were
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  Speaker 1: on the case, as was the FBI. The ransom note
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  Speaker 1: was good news. A demand for money delivered electronically meant
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  Speaker 1: the abductor would soon be leaving digital footprints. And just
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  Speaker 1: before midnight on March 8th, 2012, Samantha's ATM card pinged
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  Speaker 1: for the first time from the lower 48 from a
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  Speaker 1: bank in Wilcox, Arizona. So this guy, in his insanity,
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  Speaker 1: thought he'd be able to get away with using this
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  Speaker 1: debit card. And somewhere in Wilcox, an FBI agent got
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  Speaker 1: the call, jumped out of bed, and raced to that location,
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  Speaker 1: where he would find nothing because just after midnight on
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  Speaker 1: March 9th, 2012, Samantha's ATM card pinged again, this time
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  Speaker 1: from a bank in Lordsburg, New Mexico, a one-hour drive away.
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  Speaker 1: Surveillance video from both banks showed little. The figure seemed
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  Speaker 1: to be a man, but he was wearing layers upon
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  Speaker 1: layers of clothing and likely to make himself look heavier,
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  Speaker 1: as well as a full face mask and glasses. Only
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  Speaker 1: one vehicle, however, was caught on tape at both locations
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  Speaker 1: within this time frame, and so the FBI knew they
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  Speaker 1: were looking for a man of average height driving a
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  Speaker 1: white 2012 Ford Focus, likely headed east on the I-10 corridor.
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  Speaker 1: So the investigators start putting everything together, right? They start
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  Speaker 1: putting the pieces together. They get the ransom request. That
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  Speaker 1: ransom request is fulfilled. The money is deposited. And now
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  Speaker 1: when the unsub starts using that money, well, they're able
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  Speaker 1: to track them, right? On March 13th, up in Anchorage,
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  Speaker 1: Alaska officer Jeff Bell got a call. Electronic alerts had
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  Speaker 1: gone out to cops in the south and southwest, and
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  Speaker 1: a police officer had spotted a white 2012 Ford Focus
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  Speaker 1: in the parking lot of Equality Inn in Lufkin, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: An undercover had been sitting on the vehicle around the clock.
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  Speaker 1: The driver was a white male, 30s, average height, average build.
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  Speaker 1: Police were ordered to tail the car and pull it
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  Speaker 1: over at the first possible opportunity. And when they did,
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  Speaker 1: for speeding, they found Israel Keyes, who had been asked
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  Speaker 1: to produce his driver's license, Alaska. The cops also found
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  Speaker 1: Samantha Koenig's ATM card and cell phone, along with the mask,
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  Speaker 1: a gun, and a dye pack. Keyes had robbed a
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  Speaker 1: bank in Texas a few weeks back. So he was
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  Speaker 1: a notorious bank robber as well. And he used the
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  Speaker 1: bank robberies to fund his trips to go on these
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  Speaker 1: killing sprees. But Up until this point, he was very careful,
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  Speaker 1: very thorough, and didn't leave one single bit of evidence,
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  Speaker 1: and was changing up his M.O. He went after couples,
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  Speaker 1: he went after single people, hell, he even went after men.
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  Speaker 1: He had done this before. Bell and his partner, Detective
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  Speaker 1: Monique Dahl, were immediately booked on the red-eye. By the
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  Speaker 1: time they reached the courthouse where Keyes was to be arraigned,
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  Speaker 1: they had been up for almost 50 hours straight. Bell
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  Speaker 1: and Dahl walked into the interview room where Keyes was
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  Speaker 1: handcuffed and waiting. He definitely gave you a chilly feeling,
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  Speaker 1: says Bell, a 17-year veteran who was also a member
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  Speaker 1: of the FBI's Safe Streets Task Force and Anchorage SWAT team.
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  Speaker 1: Detective Dahl and I both had that sense. The hair
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  Speaker 1: on the back of your neck stands up. We knew
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  Speaker 1: Samantha likely did not have a good outcome. Some people
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  Speaker 1: you can just look at and say to yourself, this
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  Speaker 1: is a cold-blooded SOB. And when you see pictures of
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  Speaker 1: people or, you know, interviews with these killers, it's very
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  Speaker 1: apparent that their eyes are just dead. And Israel Keyes
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  Speaker 1: certainly personified that. It was like looking into the eyes
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  Speaker 1: of a great white shark. Just empty nothingness. There's nothing
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  Speaker 1: I can do to help you, he said. Israel Keyes
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  Speaker 1: didn't confess to the abduction of Samantha Koenig until sometime
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  Speaker 1: around March 30th. when he was back in Alaska in custody.
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  Speaker 1: State prosecutors presented keys with overwhelming evidence. They searched his
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  Speaker 1: house and seized his computer, which contained news footage of
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  Speaker 1: Koenig's disappearance and the ongoing search. I just needed to
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  Speaker 1: sit down in a room with him and say, we
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  Speaker 1: know you did this. We're going to convict you of this,
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  Speaker 1: says prosecutor Kevin Feldes, to explain to him why he's
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  Speaker 1: going to go away for federal kidnapping. Within a matter
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  Speaker 1: of hours, Keyes confessed. He'd taken Samantha that night and
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  Speaker 1: threw her in his truck, stashed her in the shed
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  Speaker 1: near his driveway, then sexually assaulted and strangled her. And
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  Speaker 1: that was one of this guy's moves, right? He would
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  Speaker 1: snatch girls, sexually assault them, women, strangle them, and then
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  Speaker 1: bury them or leave them in an abandoned area where
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  Speaker 1: nobody would find them. Keyes left her body there for
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  Speaker 1: two weeks while he went on a cruise out to
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans. When he returned, he took that photo of
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  Speaker 1: Samantha holding the newspaper dated February 13th, having preserved her
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  Speaker 1: remains so expertly that he fooled even the FBI. Then
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  Speaker 1: he dumped her body in a lake. So he had
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  Speaker 1: her body for two weeks. When he gave the proof
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  Speaker 1: of life that we talked about earlier, she was already dead.
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  Speaker 1: But his technique in preserving the body was so advanced
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  Speaker 1: that the FBI thought she was alive even. So that
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  Speaker 1: just goes to show you how thorough this man was.
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  Speaker 1: You could see the adrenaline coursing through his body as
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  Speaker 1: he recounted the murder, Felde says. This didn't seem to
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  Speaker 1: be a case of someone who had never done this before.
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  Speaker 1: And as an investigator, that's very concerning, right? You get
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  Speaker 1: somebody in the interrogation room, you sit someone down and
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  Speaker 1: start having a talk with them, and before long, you
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  Speaker 1: understand that you're dealing with somebody who, more than likely,
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  Speaker 1: has murdered a very large amount of people. A killer's
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  Speaker 1: two lives. Investigators had also found news coverage of the
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  Speaker 1: Currier case in Vermont on the same computer, but it
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  Speaker 1: took weeks for Keyes to confess to that killing. He
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  Speaker 1: expressed great concern for the privacy and well-being of his
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  Speaker 1: friends and family, and though it sounds odd, it did
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  Speaker 1: not surprise investigators. Most serial killers have not only friends
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  Speaker 1: and family, but a kind of love, however deformed and
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  Speaker 1: utilitarian it is for them. That's certainly something that we
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  Speaker 1: have seen. I mean, look at the serial killers that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we've talked about. A lot of these guys
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  Speaker 1: are married, have families, and they have this second life.
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  Speaker 1: And for most of these people, their families are a
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  Speaker 1: cover so they can continue, you know, living their life
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  Speaker 1: of murder and mayhem. Because nobody ever expects it to
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  Speaker 1: be a family man, right? It's always a drifter or
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  Speaker 1: a wanderer or the weird guy who's 50 and never
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  Speaker 1: been married. That's why it's always so scary when you
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  Speaker 1: find a chameleon like this. In some respects, serial killers
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  Speaker 1: aren't really that different from the rest of us, says
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  Speaker 1: Jack Levin, professor of sociology and criminology at Northeastern University
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  Speaker 1: in Boston. Most of us compartmentalize and draw lines between
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  Speaker 1: people we love and respect and people we don't. Why
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  Speaker 1: do serial killers select strangers? Easy, to dehumanize. An organized
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  Speaker 1: serial killer, as in the case of the fictional Dexter,
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  Speaker 1: can live with a wife and children, but he reserves
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  Speaker 1: his thrill for those he doesn't know. And you see
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  Speaker 1: that with a lot of these serial killers. There is
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  Speaker 1: no doubt that they're able to just slip into society
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  Speaker 1: and meld amongst us. Levin says that in 99% of
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  Speaker 1: these cases, family and friends are shocked to learn the truth.
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  Speaker 1: Serial killers in daily life present as utterly normal. Keyes,
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  Speaker 1: as are most serial killers, was highly interested in control,
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  Speaker 1: and once made plain his Achilles heel. Keeping his girlfriend
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  Speaker 1: and daughter away from the media, prosecutors used that as leverage.
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  Speaker 1: He especially expressed concern about his daughter in the near future,
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  Speaker 1: googling his name, what she might discover. We let him
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  Speaker 1: know that if he told us these things, we would
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  Speaker 1: be in a better position to keep the publicity under control.
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  Speaker 1: Feldes said, we tried to encourage that control. And that's
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  Speaker 1: why the world has only just heard of Israel Keys. Look,
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  Speaker 1: this was a guy who was very, very, very much
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  Speaker 1: interested in being in control at all times. He wanted
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  Speaker 1: to control the narrative. He wanted to control the outcome.
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  Speaker 1: And in his... mind where he felt he was superior
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  Speaker 1: to everybody else, he really thought that he'd be able
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  Speaker 1: to keep the information from ever being public and keep
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  Speaker 1: his daughter from the shame and embarrassment of knowing what
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  Speaker 1: kind of psychopath her father was. Once Keyes was convinced
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  Speaker 1: his family would be protected, he revealed himself to be
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  Speaker 1: a whole new kind of monster, for all he had
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  Speaker 1: in common with a typical profile of a serial killer,
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  Speaker 1: Keyes was an aberration, the kind of nightmare that we
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  Speaker 1: like to think lives only in horror movies or Stephen
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  Speaker 1: King novels. Frank Russo, the assistant U.S. attorney who worked
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  Speaker 1: on the case, has said that a national expert in
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  Speaker 1: serial killers told him that Keyes was among the top
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  Speaker 1: three organizational minds he'd ever come across. Certainly leading up
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  Speaker 1: to the Sarah Koenig kidnapping and murder, he was very
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  Speaker 1: precise and one of the most thorough serial killers we
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  Speaker 1: have ever seen. But, you know, whether it was the
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  Speaker 1: drinking or just his mental state in general, whatever happened,
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  Speaker 1: he broke. And once that happened, he was much easier
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  Speaker 1: to capture. I don't want to instill fear in people,
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  Speaker 1: Feld has said. That said, when you see Israel Keyes
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  Speaker 1: and talk to him about something unrelated to his criminal activity,
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  Speaker 1: you wouldn't know he was a killer. Keyes was not
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  Speaker 1: only a killer, he was exceptionally ambitious, creating needless obstacles
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  Speaker 1: for himself along the way. Most serial killers stay close
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  Speaker 1: to home. They're familiar with the terrain, and it means
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  Speaker 1: that there's less chance of getting caught. Keyes, however, had
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: small bags filled with guns, silencers, zip ties, and other
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: weaponry buried all over the country. Whenever he felt the
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: urge to kill, he first delayed it as long as possible.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Staving off the gratification was a substantial part of the pleasure.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Then he would fly or drive to one of the
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: areas he'd preselected, dig up his kit, and choose his victims. Terrifying.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Most of these serial killers go after people who are
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: on the margins, right? People who are vagrants, prostitutes, drug addicts,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: people no one would miss. Keyes was a different cat altogether.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: He would break into homes. He would rape people, go
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: after couples, go after men. And to top it all off,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: he was into necrophilia as well. His rule? No children,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: because he was a father. Only use cash. Remember to
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: remove the battery from the cell phone whenever on the hunt.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: In the case of Samantha Koenig, he's broke almost all
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: of the strictures that kept him off the radar. He
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: kidnapped Koenig even though he felt it was risky. He
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: couldn't control the urge. He demanded a ransom be deposited
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: into her account then began using her ATM card. And
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: he killed, quite literally, in his own backyard. There is
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: no one who knows me, or who has ever known me,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: that knows anything about me, really, Keyes later told investigators.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: I'm two different people, basically. Keyes was asked for how
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: long he had been that way. He chuckled softly to himself.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: A long time, he said. Fourteen years. So think about
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: that for a minute. This dude had an unbridled fourteen
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: years of Where he could murder and kill. Flying in
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: and out of places. How many girls were found dead.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Throughout the nation at this time. That's still unsolved. Who
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: were killed in the same manner. As we see Israel Keyes.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Killing people in. Methodical murder. In June 2011. Israel Keyes
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: bought a plane ticket. And flew to Chicago. Then rented
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: a car. And drove 1000 miles to Vermont. Where he
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: did a little bit of fishing. while looking for the
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: right kind of house, off the beaten path, in his words,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: one with an attached garage for undetected egress and no
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: evidence of children or dogs. He's out here, it's like,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: what's his name? The Red Dragon, Francis Dollarhide, when he was,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: you know, scoping out homes to find people to kill.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Except this is real life, and this was a real person.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: It didn't take long for Keyes to find the Currier's house,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: and that's why they were targeted. not for who they were,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: but for where they lived. This house had a layout
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: conducive to a break-in and kidnapping, and early on the
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: morning of June 9th, 2011, Keyes executed what he called
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: a blitz attack. Having cut the phone line earlier, he
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: got in through the garage, then smashed through a window
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: and headed straight for the bedroom, guided only by the
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: small bulb on his headlamp. He had Bill and Lorraine
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: zip-tied within six seconds and left no DNA behind. Imagine,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: you're laying in bed sleeping. This dude comes creeping in
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: through the window. Before you know it, he has a
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: gun on you and you're zip-tied. Keyes put the couriers
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: in their car and drove them to an abandoned barn.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: He removed Bill first, who was fighting as hard as
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: he could. Once in the barn, Keyes smashed Bill's head
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: in with a shovel, then shot him to death. He
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: went back to Fort Lorraine who by now had broken
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: free from her zip ties, and was frantically running towards
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Route 15. So imagine being this lady, what she must
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: have been going through? Captured, held hostage, zip tied, and
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: your husband's murdered right in front of you. Keyes tackled
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: her and dragged her back to the barn, where he
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: sexually assaulted Lorraine, then strangled her. He preferred that method
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: of killing to guns. He liked seeing his victims suffer.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Keyes then put the bodies in individual garbage bags and
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: left them in the abandoned building, which has since been demolished.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Their remains have never been found, but Keyes told investigators
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: that he had dumped the gun in a lake in
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: upstate Parrishville, New York, which was where the cops found it.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: In fact, Everything he told investigators bore out. So he
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: wasn't one of these guys that was bragging about what
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: he did. He was very matter of fact and very,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: you know, hey, this is it. This is who I
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: am and this is what I did. Although he was
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: very quiet and refused to give out identities or locations
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: on the vast majority of those he killed. His final mystery.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Samantha and the couriers, those were the only three victims
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Keyes would name, no more. We were trying to narrow
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: down when he first killed someone, and we think it
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: was 2001, after he got out of the military. Keyes
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: eventually confessed to the murder of four people in Washington
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: State and one in New York State, but he would
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: not name those victims or say when he had killed
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: them or where they were buried. The one thing that
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: investigators are certain of, however, is that Israel Keyes was
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: not crazy. He was far too methodical and organized. Feldes
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: says that Keyes struck him as smart, capable, with a
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: sense of humor, kind of ironic self-awareness that would not
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: present in a deranged individual. I agree with that. You
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: don't have to be a psychopath to be a serial killer.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: You just have to be disassociate. And that certainly was
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Israel Keyes. Israel Keyes didn't kidnap or kill people because
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: he was crazy, Detective Dahl said at a press conference.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: He didn't kidnap and kill people because his deity told
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: him to or because he had a bad childhood. Israel
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Keyes did this because he got an immense amount of
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: enjoyment out of it, much like an addict gets an
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: immense amount of enjoyment out of drugs. Serial killers, this
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: is their drug, right? This is their manna from God.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: When they murder, that's when they feel complete. That's why
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: they have to keep doing it. And that's why they
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: do it their whole lives. Investigators throughout the nation are
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: revisiting cold cases. Russo has said that in many cases,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: cops and family members alike have been resorting to Googling.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: For them, there is a grim, fascinating new Facebook page
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: founded by Samantha's father. Have you ever met Israel Keyes? Yeah,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: that's not chilling or anything. Holy cow. The last time
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Feldes spoke with Keyes was on Thursday, November 29th. On Sunday,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: December 2nd, Keyes was found in his jail cell. He
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: had slashed his wrist with a razor. Where a prisoner
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: in solitary got a hold of a razor, the Alaska
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Department of Corrections won't say. Then he strangled himself with
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: his bed sheet. Before killing himself, Keyes tortured one more person,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Prosecutor Kevin Feldes, and kept one last secret. He had
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: never planned to be taken alive, and he was going
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: to control the end of his story, leaving an untold
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: number of bodies in his wake. The most we could
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: get out of him was he killed less than 12,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Feldis says. 11 is what I've come up with, but
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: the exact number, we'll never know. Yeah, I think it's
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: a lot more than that. Now, maybe it was the 11.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: I know when he died, he drew the 12 skulls.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: And he wrote a letter and stuff like that. And
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: investigators think that the skulls were for each of the
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: people he killed. But somebody like this seems to me
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: that they would have killed a lot more people. So...
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: There you have it, folks. One of the sickest, most
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: depraved serial killers in the history of the United States.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: And that certainly is Israel Keyes. If you'd like to
• 28:59
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• 29:04
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• 29:11
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• 29:18
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• 29:21
  Speaker 1: I'll be back in a little bit with some more.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Hope that all of you are having a good one.