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[Music] once I started you know and there was nothing else like it what are you holding in your hands
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now these are items that were seized out of Israel Key's jail cell has the public ever been shown this
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before no these skulls are drawn in blood the blood where do you believe the blood
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came from I think it was Israel's blood Israel Keys is a serial killer who hid his crimes for many years he was
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meticulous uh he was incredibly bright uh and he was incredibly lethal and the significance of 11 skulls what is that
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we believe that 11 is the total number of victims I don't think anybody in his family his friends his relationships his
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spouses had any idea what he was doing it gives me the chills to think I had talked to him had known him that's where
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I got um my kicks I guess was being able to live two different lives and have no
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one have a clue unless you heard him talk about the murders you would not know that he was a serial killer with
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kit it wasn't about a particular victim it was about a location why did he pick these
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folks I didn't it was just random Samantha Koenig is an 18-year-old girl who was uh raised and lived in Alaska
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she went to high school here she worked at the coffee stand she was a young girl
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working her job I I'm terrified of what she went through at this point Samantha is just
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she's making coffee she has no idea her entire life is about to change in a horrible way
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no people never expect stuff to happen he would wait until he had the victims under control and then that's when I
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think the the real monster came out there's a specific way I wanted things done very specific way I wanted
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things to happen and uh and I have the whole thing planned out I have everything I need to do it he loved to
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travel every time i' Drive I'd be looking for places good places to do stuff you'll see locations in Seattle
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Gresham Oregon Port Angeles Washington he would rent cars he would drive thousands of miles he would take people
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from one state and he would bury them in other states San Diego Tijana Salt Lake
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City Utah Cleveland Ohio Edmund Washington Fort Wayne Indiana there are potential victims wherever Israel Keys
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traveled do you believe that this weapon somewhere in the United States may have
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been used to kill someone it's possible I had big plans for that [Music] we know that there are families out
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there whose loved ones um died at the hands of Israel keys right now we're just trying to find
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[Music] them [Music] [Music] in February of 2012 the residents of Anchorage Alaska were shaken by a
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frightening mystery it basically looked like someone just literally walked out of their shift it was the evening of
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February 1st when 18-year-old Samantha kig vanished after her night shift at this roadside espresso stand she went to
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work that day expecting to go home going to her boyfriend and her dad Michelle Tasker is a family friend her boyfriend
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was supposed to pick her up that night but that didn't happen multiple calls went
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unanswered several hours later her boyfriend's cell phone lit up with a message from Samantha's phone the text
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messages said something to the effect of I'm going on vacation I'm tired you know
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that she was just going away and she just left but we knew she hadn't left that wasn't her character so they knew
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something was wrong something was terribly wrong and the next day investigators watched it all unfold on
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security camera video FBI special agent Jolene Goden soon joined the team trying
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to find Samantha what are we looking at this is Samantha 8:00 P.M is closing time so
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she's doing all of her normal things that she would do to to get ready for closing that's when a masked man walked
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up to to the window he wanted much more than just coffee so Samantha's over at the window here she handed something to
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the customer she backs up and this is where you see Samantha do this you see her raise her
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arms when you raise your hands like that it's usually cuz somebody's doing this something exactly what started as an
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apparent robbery suddenly took a darker turn she turns the lights off do you think her as salent said turn off the
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lights yes at this point you see an individual jump in through the window uh right through the window right
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through the window have you ever seen something like that before no and then you see two individuals walk
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away it it looks like an abduction as the news spread say please help find my daughter Samantha's Father
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James kig went public I don't know if my daughter's being fed taken care of if she's still alive if she's getting any
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sleep as time went on there was a tremendous amount of fear uh about what happened and and who was in our
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community that could do something like this the FBI joined the Anchorage Police Department in looking at family and
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friends did you have a sense you were getting to know this young woman yes yes FBI special agent cat Nelson learned
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everything she could about Samantha and the people she knew she seemed like she had a very very good spirit like she was
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a very kind individual caring about others um you could tell that she had a lot of friends that cared about her a
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lot Samantha's boyfriend was quickly ruled out as a suspect there was no obvious lead in this case and it ped so
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many um barriers for us in the beginning as to where to start looking for her 10 days after Samantha disappeared a
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vigil was held hundreds of people came what else can we do Flyers hand out flyers ask
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around if you know somebody who knows something get them to talk we just need some sort it's that one lead that one
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tip that's going to bring her home as friends and family fan out across Anchorage to try to find Samantha
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the question is could she also be out here somewhere in the Alaskan wilderness then finally after three agonizing weeks
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that's when the text came in that said there was a ransom note and where to go the text to Samantha's boyfriend was as
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mysterious as her disappearance it said to look in Connor Park under pick of Albert it also said ain't she pretty we
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just got up and just ran and everybody took off to the park one of the girls kind of noticed something on the
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bulletin board I walk up and there's a picture of a missing dog named Albert and right underneath is a plastic bag
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with a looked like a clipping and a photograph in it didn't touch it we called the police that note contained a
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picture of Samantha and a long typed out message that talked about putting $30,000 into Samantha's bank account
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that account was connected to Samantha's debit card which the kidnapp Napper had
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and the photo which has not been made public was of Samantha holding a newspaper I believe it was dated
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February 13th so well after Samantha's abduction so the hope of course is that Samantha is alive Samantha's dad
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deposited $5,000 into her account several hours later a man makes an ATM withdrawal using Samantha's card he has
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a covering over his face um dark clothing he has gloves on his hands I so it's there's very little you can tell
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investigators rushed to the ATM but we too late missing the suspect by minutes one week later another ATM
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withdrawal is made this one is very different this withdrawal occurs in Wilcox Arizona nearly 4,000 miles away
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and then a short time later we have one in Lordsburg New Mexico then Umble Texas and then
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Shephard Texas he's heading east he's heading east we can see that he's moving across the I 10 Corridor but the suspect
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had made a crucial mistake during the ATM withdraw in Arizona a white Ford Focus can be seen in the background that
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information was pushed out to to law enforcement across that entire Corridor then on March 13th a State Trooper
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notices a vehicle matching that description in a Texas Hotel parking lot in a short time later a man comes out he
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gets in the vehicle and and he starts to drive away the trooper follows and once
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that vehicle exceeds the speed limit he has his probable cause to pull that vehicle
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over and when he asks the driver for identification he ultimately presents him with an identification card for
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Israel keys and who the heck is Israel Keys Israel Keys was not even on our radar that trooper's instincts were
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spoton a search of the car uncovered Samantha's ID her debit card her cell phone and a gun along with a disguise
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that matched the man in the ATM photos at this point we believe we have our guide but now the FBI wanted to know
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what had Israel Keys done with Samantha kig the race is on because we still don't have Samantha we have him but we
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don't have Samantha so if Samantha is alive then we really need to find her quickly
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[Music] [Music] in March 2012 2 weeks after Israel Keys was arrested in Texas he was extradited
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to Anchorage Alaska at the point we didn't really know you know was he the the one who took and kidnapped Samantha
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kig or was he someone who was just using a credit card that he found FBI agent Jolene Goden says investigators
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initially didn't know what to make of keys what was it like to look into the eyes of Israel keys I spent a lot of
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time with Israel Keys you could be in a room with him and it was like you were in the room with your neighbor I think I
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B it at Walmart and then there were other times where the hair on the back of your neck stands up a little
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bit investigators scrambled to learn everything they could about Israel Keys the man did he have a criminal record I
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believe he had a a DUI but that was it no no crimes of violence in his history no sex offenses in his history nothing
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like that he's a 34 year-old man from Alaska who has a construction business small kind of quiet life even one of my
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colleagues at the US attorney's office used him as a handyman one of your colleagues hired him to do some work
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sure this is someone you felt comfortable giving a key to your house so he could go there when you weren't
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there to fix things an Anchorage resident since 2007 Keys lived in this house with his girlfriend and his
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10-year-old daughter from a previous relationship neighbors say he didn't stand out nothing suspicious at all
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except for that he worked hard but investigators had suspicions and one very pressing question we started off
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with where is Samantha no one knew if Samantha con was still alive Anchorage assistant us attorney Frank Russo and
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his colleagues knew time was of the essence he would have been sitting right here so they confronted Keys about
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Samantha once we heard what he had to say and went from being a very happy day as a prosecutor to one of the worst I've
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ever had we ended up hearing a confession Keys admitted he had killed Samantha so we wanted to find out why he
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did what he did but before he would say more one of the lawyers got you this Keys began what would become a pattern
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for giving information he wanted an americano coffee from Starbucks he wanted a Snickers bar and he wanted a
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particular cigar ultimately Keys lays out the entire story of of how the Abduction of Samantha occurred the video
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of that confession had never been made public before in it Kei says he pointed a 22 caliber pistol
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at Samantha I remember asking him you know why did you pick that coffee cart at that time and he just simply said
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well it was open late meaning he chose her completely at random Keys said as they walked off into the night Samantha
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Broke Free and ran he chased after her and tackled her he indicates that his plan is to hold her for ransom
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suggesting to Samantha that that if she cooperates he'll release her she'll be able to to go home it was all a lie
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instead Keys drove Samantha to his home chained her up in his shed and sexually assaulted her keys then strangled her to
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death Keys family the FBI later determined knew nothing about the horrors that had just taken place he was
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talking about the murder of this girl like someone else would discuss what they had
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for lunch within hours of murdering Samantha Israel keys left Anchorage for a Caribbean vacation with his family and
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where did he leave Samantha where was she where was her body Samantha was in the shed uh at his house keys didn't
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return until 2 weeks later it was then that he posted the ransom note and texted Samantha's boyfriend knowing she
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was already dead Keys told investigators he had driven some 35 Mi north of Anchorage to
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manusa Lake where over the course of three trips he disposed of Samantha's remains he had drilled a hole and went
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ice fishing in the lake and he had tied it up with bailing wire and weights and he had placed parts of her body down the
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lake as he fished I remember asking him did you catch any fish and he said yeah I caught fish and I said what did you do
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with the fish and he said well I took them home and ate them and for me that that just
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turned my stomach it took the FBI's dive team 10 hours to recover Samantha's body
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I remember I was the one who told both Samantha's mom and dad and that was that was a bad
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day kig family friend Michelle Tasker he has a daughter and you did that to somebody else's daughter I don't
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understand you have the right to talk to a after talking to Keys investigators realized
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they had a depraved killer on their hands and that Samantha was likely not Key's only victim I'm two different
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people basically how long have you been two different people long time 14 years and that tells
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you what that he had been a serial killer for 14 years special agent Catherine knew every
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aspect of Key's life needed to be examined Cleveland Ohio so she started a deep dive into his paper trail cell
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phone records Financial records anything we could find out about his background his travels anything that would just
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tell us a better story about him it was starting to look like Keys could have victims across the United States we know
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that Israel Keys travel to places such as Washington California Wyoming Texas Vermont we'll get the whole story
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eventually and he teased his interrogators with details of other murders I'll tell you about everything
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I'll give you every single gory detail you want but before Keys would agree to do that he wanted something
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extraordinary in return I want an execution date for you yes and he said I want a promise that I'll get the death
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penalty if you do that then I'll tell you about all the people I killed what we said is the more murders you give us
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the more likely it is that they're going to want to impose the death penalty on you but without a guarantee of death
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Keys was reluctant to say anything more so give me something to work with hold a
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bunch of your cards back but give me a card finally Keys folded all right I'll give you two bodies and a
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name can you imagine being inside the same room with Israel Keys watch more of the FBI interrogation at 48
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[Music] hours.com hey Isel how you doing all right eat no cand bar they are odd moments to see swear
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off those cand it's in the fridge I'm going to eat it investigators casually bonding with
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their interview guest get him a cigar and let so we got you over here awesome wow cigar
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for in some ways to The Outsider it looked like you guys were in a way befriending a serial
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killer yeah you give me like an hour on the internet really but there was method to this
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madness says assistant us attorney Frank Russo it was just the act that we had to
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put on when we went in that room it was just trying to kind of do anything we could to get
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information Israel Keys voluntarily granted two dozen interviews to various investigators in the seven months after
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his arrest is it true he could have walked out at any time sure FBI special agent Jolene Goden I think he wanted to
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tell the story he wanted to talk about what he did even my own family pretty much assum I did he enjoyed the rush he
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enjoyed the thrill of it that strategy paid off when Keys gave up the names of two victims a married
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couple more than 4,000 mil from Anchorage in Vermont he gave us the names of the people we wrote them down
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and what was the couple's name Bill and Lorraine Courier do your Intel guys immediately try to find out if there's a
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missing couple absolutely what do you learn right away that bill and the rain are missing and have been missing for
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some time correct Bill and L rain Courier are a couple that lived in Essex Vermont nothing stands out really about
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them they were just kind of living their life the couriers vanished on a night in
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June 2011 leaving their family bewildered we love them both with all our hearts we're devastated by their
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disappearance and in fear for their lives after interviewing neighbors police Drew this sketch of a possible
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suspect police say this composite sketch of a man who may have been seen driving
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the couple's dark green Saturn sedan is a big break but the case went cold for nearly a year until Keys laid out the
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road map of what had happened he flew into Chicago and he drove East he intended on that trip to commit a
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homicide he didn't know who it would be yet on that trip key stayed at this hotel in Essex Vermont while there he
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dug up a bucket similar to this one that he had buried a few years prior so this is just the standard
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orange Home Depot bucket for the first time the FBI is showing 48 Hours these are several boxes
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of 22 ammunition the contents of what keys like to call a kill cash so he would preposition these caches in and
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then when the urge Came Upon him if he happened to be in that state he had his tools of Destruction ready to go correct
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or he'd plan a trip to a particular State knowing he already had a cash there he didn't know who he was going to
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kill but he already knew that he had the items there that he needed we have the silencer for the 22 we have a wood stock
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for a 22 a plastic stock for a 22 uh a portion of a 22 rifle and then we have the drum magazine the 22 had a number of
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22 caliber bullets that's correct you ever seen anything like this in your career no the cash used in The Courier
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attack has never been found but Keys told the FBI where they could find this a weapon he had used in Vermont this is
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a silencer that heys actually constructed himself with his murderous Tools in hand Keys went hunting for
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victims and found himself Outside The Courier house I decided was going to look for a house with a couple in it I
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was looking for a fairly easy way to get into the garage and there was the first
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house I found that had all those things he just happens to take a walk from his hotel into a neighborhood and this
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unsuspecting couple just living their lives is about to have a monster at their door yeah the monster didn't knock he's
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very quickly in the house he restrains bill in the rain very quickly you just make sure they know right away who's in
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charge and immediately tie them up and then he moves them to their car and he drives them to an abandoned Farmhouse
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that he had scoped out earlier Keys attacks line first she's upstairs in the bedroom he had restrained uh Bill
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downstairs but the couriers were not going down without a fight Phill's yelling for his wife Bill ultimately
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starts to break free from the restraints and Keys has to go back downstairs in order to restrain him again and what
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happens down there there's a struggle that ensues so I knew I was either going to have to knock him out or just kill
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him he saw the gun he started to say something and it just pissed me off and I just started pulling the
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trigger do you think this silencer might have been used in the murder of Bill career I think it's very likely Keys
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then strangled Line Courier and left the couple in the basement of the abandoned
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farmhouse did anyone ever find these bodies no a short time after this happened the house
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ended up being demolished and it was taken to the landfill we made numerous attempts at the landfill it was a I
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believe a 10 or 12 week search at the landfill the FBI was searching in an attempt to find them but we were not
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able to recover their bodies but as meticulous as Keys was in covering his tracks he slipped up this is the one
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item in all the things that we found belonged to keys that actually had his fingerprint on it there's a perfect
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right Thum print for is Keys yeah right no there is I don't have the lab wow yeah I'm impressed well I'm
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disappointed in myself mostly but I'm sorry what other Clues had keys left behind what other murders had he
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committed investigators began focusing on his time in Washington State where Keys was raised a place where he would
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admit to killing at least four more people go sh Str we'll get the whole story eventually how do you think Israel Keys
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went undetected for so long see more of what keys called his kill cash on Facebook at 48
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[Music] hours far back as I can remember but you know that's where I get a lot of the ideas either
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fishing or out hunting and see somebody in the woods to understand Israel Keys you have
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to go deep into the vast remote Wilderness where he was raised the place where he lived off and on for more than
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20 years Washington State how many people in the state of Washington do you believe Israel Keys
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killed we believe he killed four victims total in Washington state FBI special agents Ted holla and colen Sanders first
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question keys in 2012 they have spent 8 years investigating his life and crimes in
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Washington searching for more victims this is like a horror movie isn't it it's very much like a horror
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movie the opening scenes of Key's life took place in a secluded cabin outside the small town of
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cville he grew up poor uh he grew up in a large family there were 10 children in
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all and they kind of live apart from society John where are we heading now so we're heading north out of out of
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calville we're going to go see if we can find uh where Israel key grew up just right up here on the right John Smith
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and his wife Desiree knew Israel Keys when he was a teenager Desiree hasn't been in this area since she was
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15 yes this could be it yeah I remember it being long and Steep and kind of headed up the mountain side and yeah it
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was completely impossible through most of the winter it was built to be completely off the grid to be completely
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isolated from society no radio no television no electricity nothing nothing the keys family attended a
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church that preached Christian identity theology a philosophy John and Desiree were also raised on but have since
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disavowed Christian identity theology is very white supremacist um they come from
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the perspective that the other races are subhuman so with Israel keys specifically he could dehumanize anybody
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if they rejected his worldview schooled at home cut off from the outside world Keys was socially awkward very quiet uh
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very loner is uh standoffish it's it's hard to explain how he made me feel but I felt unsafe
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being near him so one specific conversation about killing a deer um he said that the initial shot didn't kill
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it and so when he arrived he started to got the thing while it was alive this is
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interrogation audio of keys describing himself I've known since I was 14 that there were things that that I thought
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were normal and that were okay that nobody else seems to think were normal and okay yes but just when Keys
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committed his first murder is still an open question whose picture are you holding my daughter Julie Marie Harris
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she was 12 years old and disappeared on March 3rd 1996 Sheri odard says her daughter Julie
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a Special Olympics athlete with prosthetic feet vanished from koville while waiting for a ride to church then
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I went up and down every street in this town and screamed her name and there was
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no Trace there was no Trace Israel Keys then 18 years old lived in the area at the
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time Julie's prosthetic feet were discovered at the mouth of the C River the next year her skeletal remains were
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found we asked Israel Keys about Julie Harris and her death and he said he was aware of it but that he was not involved
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in it I remember the name I don't remember the details of the story Keys told investigators the birth of his
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daughter convinced him to never Target children something kind of changed in the way I thought and
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I didn't want to do anything that would mess with with kids or whatever but Key's daughter was born
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after Julie Harris was murdered 48 Hours Tracked Down friends of Julie who had never spoken with law
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enforcement one of those friends told us she remembers Keys talking to Julie at the pool where she often swam and that
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Julie ended up giving him her address and phone number have you heard this no I did not I know that does that sound
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tantalizing as a possible clue like any other lead that we have we would want to investigate it fully we
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would certainly be be interested in talking with her people have wondered if your daughter was the very first victim
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of Israel keys and I'm wondering that too despite the Intrigue surrounding Julie Harris Keys claims his first
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attempted murder came in 1997 or 1998 when he abducted and sexually assaulted a young woman near Bend Oregon it was
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weird I me she was scared but also just talking it's like about random stuff I don't know it was weird I I was just
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convinced that I had screwed up that time in Oregon because you know I I I let her go he indicated he never let
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another go after that sometime after that assault Keys joined the US Army our investigation lent us to believe that he
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was a model Soldier and excelled in the Army Keys told investigators he waited until he completed a three-year stint in
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the Army before he stalked his next victim when you told us it wasn't long when you got out of the military that
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he killed somebody and it was that sort of feeling that you needed to do something it was hard to
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resist Nia Bay at the farthest Northwestern tip of Washington is best known as home to the mcot tribe
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legendary Whale hunters Keys moved here after marrying a tribe member he met online they started a family he lived
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there he rented the house out Eric Johnson worked with keys at The Parks and Recreation Department this is a shop
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here the blue part the blue part that was his shop that's where he worked yeah there are reminders of Key's skilled
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carpentry all around town including this structure he was a great Family Guy a smart guy gifted Carpenter
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you know well spoken an upstanding member of the communing member of the community yeah I would do
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something and then I would go back like business as usual and go out with friends go out to bars you know for all
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the years they've known me they actually don't know me at all really about 60 Mi southeast of Nia Bay is
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another spectacular location one of the deepest lakes in the United States which
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investigators suspect is also a watery grave you guys know about Lake Crescent in Washington he revealed to us that one
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of the Washington State victims was actually uh their body was sunk in this particular Lake I think that lake is 5
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to 700 ft deep here's a picture of Israel Keys's boat sometime in 2005 or 2006 Keys had a body in this boat any
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idea who this person may be any idea how this person was killed no how long did the body last and a freshwater lake in
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the last months of 2012 special agents Hala and Sanders were hopeful that Keys would give them more information on who
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is at the bottom of this Lake but the Killer had another plan I can't be satisfied sitting in prison for all my
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life I'd rather go out while I still have some sanity good [Music] [Applause] [Music]
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[Music] memories [Music] you really think I'm would to feel like when you need more
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information after 7 months of interrogations 7 months of teasing investigators with bits and pieces of
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his violent past Israel Keys decided to take one more life his own serial killer
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Israel Keys was found dead at the Anchorage Correctional Complex we received a call early in the
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morning that December 1st 2012 Israel Keys had committed suicide in his jail cell he used a disposable razor to slit
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his wrist and keys attempted to strangle himself with bedding and what was your reaction to that my reaction was a lot
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of these secrets are going to die with him now for Samantha koenig's loved ones the
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news hit like a gut punch he should have been executed now he killed himself that's great it's not what we wanted we
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wanted him to stand trial we wanted him to answer for what he did but the world's better off he's
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gone inside key cell jailers discovered a bizarre blood soaked suicide note with
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passages like Crush like a bug you still die we had hoped that that note was going to be Clues and tips for us on and
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that he was finally going to give us all of the information on the homicides and
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it really wasn't it was kind of a rant but the end of keys was by no means the end of this case a few months before his
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suicide investigators found those maob drawings he drew a series of 11 skulls and these were found
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underneath his bed in his jail cell drawn in Israel Key's own blood you have 11 skulls what does this
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mean I think this is the entirety of of his crimes and it indicates that there are seven victims we don't have
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identified prior to his death Keys had pointed the FBI to another victim there's one in New York he refused to
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provide that victim's name but investigators believe it happened when Keys took a road trip through New York
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state in the spring of 2009 so they comb through missing persons reports and Key's computer is
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this the person there in New York no her name was on your computer which your computer mine when they confronted him
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with photos one in particular rattled him it was a photo of a woman named Deborah Feldman given the way he looked
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at it and he started shaking a little bit um I would say she is definitely one of his victims Deborah Feldman is a a
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woman who went missing from new Jersey it was in 2009 her body has never been recovered we're relatively confident
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about Deborah Feldman however we do not have any forensic evidence to to make that connection according to the FBI
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that would make Deborah Feldman Key's fourth known victim along with Samantha kig and Bill and Lorraine Courier agents
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are now determined to identify the remaining seven and there are clues that point to at least two other states tell
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me about Wyoming and what was there for him the Green River in Wyoming is where Keys had buried his
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Casher is there a sense that there may be a body somewhere near that River we have a strong suspicion that Keys may
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have a victim located in that area in the late 2000s Israel Keys also spent time in California's Wine Country
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including visiting the Posh Sonoma town of heels ber in May of 2007 Keys has often talked to investigators about
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using boats and also kayaks in the disposal of bodies we know that he rented a single person kayak in hburg
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near a campground during that time in 2007 but Key's road trips weren't limited to the US in 2007 he drove along
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the Alcan Highway by himself for about a week of that year the alcen highway way
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it goes through Canada up to Alaska yes correct we know that Keys traveled to Canada quite extensively and
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specifically said that he would go to Montreal when he was asked about whether he killed anyone in Canada what did he
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say he said Canadians don't count it's been several years since Israel Keys killed
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himself the FBI hopes investigators across the country will take a second look at suspicious deaths in their area
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area they're also hoping the public can help if anyone has any information on Israel keys and his travels or if they
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have a family member that they think may have been potentially a victim of Israel
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keys that they come forward with the FBI with that information that includes the
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Lake Crescent area of Washington state where Keys told investigators he had dumped a body we absolutely want people
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to come forward who think they may have seen something connected to Israel Cas especially on this
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Lake and what about those kill caches buried throughout the country if anyone out there comes across one of these what
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should they do first for people not to not to touch too much and not to contaminate it too much and definitely
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contact local law enforcement in their Community who can then reach out to us for the FBI their focus is clear for
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me the important thing is Samantha and Bill and Lorraine and Deborah and all the victims that we don't have
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identified that's what this case is about and their commitment unwavering do you have an optimistic streak that says
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we can find answers to the other seven cases I do I absolutely do and it won't be easy by any means and it may take a
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long time but I'll never give up trying [Music] a husband found dead his wife a suspect and the
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toxicology report the common ingredient in the eye drop the eye drop when it is given orally it is very toxic this
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little bottle could be a murder weapon absolutely 48 Hours next on CBS [Music]