SERIAL MURDERER: Israel Keyes Part 4

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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kJ here, back for a not other episode of Unspeakable.
But are you shook us? Because this is two in
one week? What is going on here? This just must
be an accident the hell it is? No, I decided,
I said, no, I'm not gonna make them wait another week.
I'm wrapping this up in the same week, So Tuda,

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you're getting two in one week. So this is going
to be part four and the finale of the Israel
Keys series. So if you haven't listened to one through three,
make sure you stop right now, go back and listen
so that you're not completely confuzzled on what is going
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So don't forget that. Now, let's jump in and let's
get this thing finished. So far, we have identified three

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victims that Israel keys had for certain murdered, Samantha Koenig,
Bill Currier, and Lorraine Courier. But as I mentioned, these victims,
all three of them were all from the previous year
that he was doing this confessing. But Israel had specifically
stated he had been a different man for fourteen years.
So the interviews continued, and what made this case now

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extraordinarily difficult to work with was the sheer number of
people listed as missing or found murdered, combined with Israel's
extensive travel habits. While there were three confirmed victims, Israel
would eventually confess to a total of eleven murders, which meant, Look,
I'm not good at math, but I can subtract three

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from eleven and that's going to give me eight people
that are unaccounted for. Eight families without any information on
their loved one's disappearance or possible murder. Eight families out there,
probably frustrated, heartbroken, and just left in the dark of unknowns. Police,
as well as most of us, want answers who were they?

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I mean, this is the least this guy could do,
considering everything that he was now admitting to. And something
rather frustrating while listening to his confessions was that he
continued to hold information as a bargaining chip. There was
no doubt if you listen to these there is no
doubt he wanted the credit for these people's deaths, but

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he wanted to control the narrative before sharing any further information.
And what do I mean by this, I'm gonna summarize.
I'm gonna summarize it all up for you because the
FBI tapes, I'm gonna tell you now, the FBI portions,
the ones that they released were excruciatingly boring. Okay, I mean,
I'm not even gonna play the audio because it was

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excruciatingly boring, but basically, before he confessed, he wanted insurance
from the FEDS that the details of his crimes weren't
made public. And this was so incredible. It's like, what
do you mean You're gonna tell us but you don't
want this to become public. All these victims are known

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to be victims. People know their loved ones are missing,
people know that horrible things happen to them. What do
you mean you want us to keep it from the public.
So oftentimes, when horrible people plead guilty at the last
minute to cases they know will make headlines, it's not
for the victims. And I hope that you will recognize that.

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If you didn't before, maybe from this point forward recognize it.
When they wait until the very last minute, it's not
for the victims. It's for their own ego. That is
why they do it. They don't want the people that
they care about to know who they really are and
really were when they committed these crimes. Israel was willing

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to talk, but only if the information wasn't released to
the public, and so they continue to play this cat
and mouse game for months, trying to pry the name
of eight more people out of his mouth, and Israel
knew he held the power of information, but the police
continued to interview him and share bits of information with

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him in hopes that he would spill more as well. So,
for example, during one session, an investigator advised him that
some testing had been done on one of his kill kits,
and it came back that they actually did have his print,
specifically a perfect right thumb print, and he says, yeah, right,

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and he like laughs condescendingly, okay, sure whenever they told
him this, but when investigators were like, no, man, really really,
he kind of cocks back in a seat and he goes, wow,
I'm impressed. Well, disappointed in myself, but still impressed. That's
how he looked at this. So he knew that he
was quote unquote good because he had gotten away with

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so many, But now the pressure was on. Could police
identify him in the other killings before he gave up
more information or confessed, because that would certainly strip him
of his power or of his bargaining chip. So eventually
he did give some information for the FBI to work

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with and some timeframes, but not everything. So here's what
all was extracted overall, in location and date order according
to Israel. But it's going to take us back to Oregon.
And in the years nineteen ninety seven or nineteen ninety eight,
it wasn't one hundred percent clear, but he admitted that

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he really started all of this massive crime spree with
a rape. He admitted to sexually assaulting a teenage girl
on the Dushutz River near Bend, Organ, And he did
speak in some detail about his own feelings of that incident,
which started with this abduction of that young girl. In

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his teenage years, I want to tell you a little
bit about Israel. He renounced the Christian faith and he
began to dabble in Satanism, and part of that satanism
included planning a Satanic ritual that would be a killing
that would involve a young woman. So at that time,
he was working near a popular tubing site, you know

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where people jump in their inner tubes and they float
down the river and drink a beer or whatever and
enjoy the warm sun and the water. Well, this happened
to be prime hunting grounds, and one day he stood
on that very beach along the river and was watching
as people floated by, and eventually he waded out into

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the water and he grabbed a girl who happened to
be the last girl in her group of tubers. He
said that she was between the ages of fourteen and eighteen,
if he had to guess, and that she had sandy
blonde hair. So he grabs her and he pulled her ashore,
and at that point he grabbed hold of her and
he drug her into a remote campground bathroom. Now, he

(08:07):
mentioned that he was really struck by this kidnapping, specifically
because he said he could tell that she was scared,
but she kept talking to him and about random things.
She kept saying things like, look, I'm not gonna tell anybody,
I won't tell anybody, amongst all the other like random
things that she was saying. So he was just kind
of struck she was talking to me, Well, yeah, Israel,

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maybe she was so scared that she was trying to
keep him calm, or maybe to keep herself calm, or
something to make her humanized, to make her just a girl,
that maybe he wouldn't want to hurt her. But once
he got her in that bathroom, he tied her up
with ropes and he viciously raped the young lady. And

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once he was satisfied. He planned originally to strangle her
to death, and then he was gonna dump her in
what he called a toy will pit because he figured
no one would be looking there for a long while.
Hopefully she would decompose and any DNA evidence would be
gone by that point. And he was also prepared with
knives that he was going to use in his satanic
killing ritual. But for some reason, even he didn't know why,

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he decided to let her go. He didn't commit the ritual,
he didn't kill her, and afterwards, when he was reviewing
what he had done, he decided she would be the
only person that he would ever let go again. So
who is she? Israel? We're all wondering. I know you're wondering.

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I was wanting to tell us who is it? Well,
he kept the name again a bargaining chip. Someone's daughter
was either holding the rape unmentioned or he didn't really
let her go. That's really what we're left to decide.
The truth was yet to be revealed. I can tell

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you this per the FBI database, which you know. I
went there and I looked at it because that's who
I am as a person. I want to go look
myself I pulled up rapes in Oregon between nineteen eight,
ninety eight and nineteen ninety nine, and the rapes mentioned
to police in that data set was absolutely zero. Now,

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in true transparency, the stats on the site were also
zero up until twenty thirteen, so I doubt that that's accurate.
But this could have been data on reported rapes. We
should know, or if you don't know, I'll teach you this.
A lot of rapes do not go mentioned to police.
They don't even know about it, and that's scary when

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you look at the numbers of that are reported in
current times, most of them go unreported. So after this
Israel joined the army, which was confirmed, and it made
sense too, because according to his timeline, he didn't attack
anyone for three more years after this girl was savagely raped.

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And if he was in the military, which was confirmed, obviously,
we know why it made sense. He had taken a
high school equivalency test and joined the army, and the
reasoning behind that was because he was intrigued by the
idea of learning survival skills to live off the land,
to go undetected. Hmm. I wonder why now, while I

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was in the army, he was able to make friends
with other soldiers, and drinking became a common pastime. I
wouldn't say that that's uncommon. You know, you're trying to
make friends with people that you may go to battle with,
and drinking helps to relax the situation and take off
the edge. But at one point during his army time,
he was stationed in Egypt for about six months, and

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per his own admissions, he would often go to Tel
Aviv to service the prostitutes. But as far as killing,
he never said he did. He would just go to
mess around with these prostitutes. But then in two thousand
and one, after he was discharged from the army, from
what I understand, it was a medical issue that he
was discharged for. Originally, when I first recorded, I wasn't

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sure why, but I continued to research and I did
read somewhere that they said that it was a medical issue.
But he was back on the prow once he was
discharged from the army. So now this takes us to
Washington in two thousand and one, and this is where
he says he committed his first murder. Now, this was
done after moving to the Macaw Reservation near Nia Bay.

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So why was he there. I was curious about this because,
I mean, it seems kind of odd that you would
move to a tribal land out of anywhere you could be.
And I found that it was because of a woman,
but not one he wanted to kill. This was one
he actually fell in love with. He met her online

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and she was an actual tribe member of the local
legendary whale hunters, which also again li It had me interested,
so I did do a little more looking at that.
And it is a beautiful tribal land area where this is,
and I've never been there, but I looked at the
pictures and the area and the people and it really

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was just really really cool. And the history of whaling
is also detailed online on their site, and it's very
rooted in the appreciation of nature, prayer, and using every
portion of the whale for the good of the people.
And it's really neat how precious this is to them

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as a means of culture and taking care of their tribe.
They use every ounce of that whale and nothing is
going to ever go to waste. Now, I'll tell you
this about me. I'm not big on killing animals, except
by the way of them being used for food. I
personally I like to deer hunt, I like to fish.
But you can be damn sure. I don't just go

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kill for the fun of killing. We eat, and we
consume and we use every thing that we kill. And
these people seem to be of that same mindset in
that regard. But clearly Israel was the antithesis of respecting
what he killed. But he moved on the land with
his woman where they rented a home and they started

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a family, and he soon thereafter became the father to
a baby girl. So he worked the parks and Recreations department.
He was very well liked by the people there, and
he was considered I think already mentioned this an excellent
carpenter and a family man. But blending in that was
his best game, hanging out and doing normal things all

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the while hunting people. So, as I said, he killed
someone at this time, but he withheld the name when
he was confessing to this, so we don't know who
that person was. Eventually, he and baby mama would part
ways and he would move on. He would begin dating
another woman, which the woman that he was living with

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when he moved to Alaska. So a little bit more
about that. His daughter was school aged when he started
dating this other woman. The woman is actually the one
that was moving to Alaska Israel and his daughter moved
and followed that woman to Alaska to be with her.
And by the way, that woman he was dating was

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a nurse practitioner, a very smart lady. My mother in
law is a nurse practitioner, very smart doctor. Like you know,
they they're mid level and they know their stuff. This
wasn't just some Joe blow woman, you know that they
shocked up together. It seemed like she had her shit together.
But over the next five years, he would kill multiple

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people in Washington. Between two thousand and one and two
thousand and five, he admitted that he killed a couple
and he buried them in a valley during that time,
but he didn't give their identities. Between two thousand and
five and two thousand and six, he said he committed

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two other separate murders. One of the bodies, he said,
was sunk in Lake Crescent, and he tied anchors to
the bodies whenever he dropped them in. Again, he did
not give any names, and then in two thousand and nine,
he admitted to abducting a woman and he said this

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was going to be about the month of April he
killed her, and then he said he buried her in
upstate New York, but again he would not give the name.
And then he hinted at other murders. No real specifics
to these though, like I just gave you on the
other ones. He did boast at one point though, that

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one additional victim's death was ruled accidental after the body
was recovered, so that was a win for him all around.
And then he said this quote, and I wanted direc
quote it for you. He said, the things I've done,
I don't feel bad for them. I did them for myself.

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It's better for me to keep them to myself, their
mind And so it gives you a little insight to
the mindset there that this was absolutely ownership and that
this was his taking and he wanted to own his
victims in every way possible. Now, some other random details

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he gave led investigators to believe that he may be
suspect in unsolved cases that were dubbed to be done
by the quote unquote Boca killer in Florida. So for
my Patreon members, it's not there yet. When you're listening
to this but soon I'm going to do a bonus
episode on these killings, and you can be thinking about

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Israel and his possible involvement in those killings. I did
a lot of research on this one, and I know
that you're going to appreciate this possible link between him
and these Boca killer cases. So while it seemed that
he was spilling the tea on all that he had done,
the lack of names made this not as great as
you would think. It's not you know, you think you

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hit a goal mine whenever you have a killer just
running and yapping and admitting to things, but no names,
no physical bodies, no case. That's the reality of it.
He could admit to killing everybody in the world, but
if we can't prove it, then it's just talk. And
for perspective of why I say this, imagine all of

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the people missing across the US and knowing this killer
has been on the loose, literally everywhere, traveling extensively with
no connection to his victims. The randomness of this makes
it overwhelming and a little data for you to consider.
Currently right now, in twenty twenty five, the top three

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states for missing people are California, Florida. In Texas right now.
And I'm not trying to bore you with numbers, but
to put why this investigation would be a massive undertaking.
Right now as we speak, California has three thousand, six
hundred and nineteen people missing, Texas two thousand, seven hundred

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and forty nine, Florida two thousand, four hundred and twenty four. Like,
oh my god, y'all, that's insane right now, Damn y'all.
We got ten thousand people missing in just three states alone.
So you can see why and how this just would

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be improbable to figure out in a short timeframe or
even a reasonably you know, long time frame, because we
have no specified locations and we have no known state
specifically on some of them. So it's just hard. Jim,

(20:03):
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Now add to this a little bit of Israel's history
while growing up, and this was learned in continued interviews
with police and with psychologists alike. So Israel was born
in Cove, Utah. He was in a large Mormon family,
but he was raised in Colville, Washington, and he was
not raised in a neighborhood either. It was an area

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of remote wilderness and it was one where the people
that lived there were not integrated well or at all
really with the main society. The location where they lived
was so remote that it was impassable during the winter,
and they would live off the grid. They lived at

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times without electricity, and allegedly some of those kids in
the family slept in a tent for a few years.
So when we say primitive, I'm serious. This guy was
used to living in the land and off the land.
The kids would do odd jobs for money, things like
cutting firewood, or they would do random farm work for

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people that they could walk to. I guess their farms
and then I want you to add something else to this.
Old boy was homeschooled. I don't even doing air quotes right now,
like what, I don't even know what that looked like.
But no outside influences were really there. He was born
the second of ten children, and that alone would lead

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me to believe that attention was spread thin amongst the kids.
He also spoke a little bit more about the fact
that he was sent to church. Believe it or not,
I was kind of surprised by that. But that church
he speaks of doesn't really fit the bill of actual
godliness in my humble opinion. But I'm gonna explain why

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and you can decide. But basically, his parents became fundamentalist Christians,
and they moved from what he called an amish like
church to a more militant, militia church, and there they
taught white supremacist values and really honed in on dehumanizing
people who didn't agree with their views. And that's not God,

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that's hate. So when he wasn't at home or in
quote unquote church, Israel spent a lot of time alone
in the woods where he loved to hunt and fish.
Like I told you, but he was a very quiet
loaner company was not something that he required, and it

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was that very alone time when he would come up
with his plans for murder. As he aged. He even
told the FBI that he knew he knew that he
was not normal since he was a young teen. And
case in point, he bragged about gutting a deer alive
when he shot it purposefully to not kill it humanely

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like that was his goal, was to make the animal suffer.
He loved to watch suffering and he wanted to kill
anything with the heartbeat his own words. So, knowing all
of this, investigators continued to interview and try to get
more information from Israel, but the names, he just was

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not giving them up. That said, he also was making
his own change of plans and that he didn't plan
on staying in prison very long. In May of twenty twelve,
he tried to escape from a courtroom and he did
actually make some ground. So while he was in court,

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this is what a routine hearing that he was there for,
he was able to break his leg irons. Now, if
you haven't worked in prison, maybe you've watched some movies, whatever,
but leg irons are legit. This is not something that
you would easily break. So this tells me that he
in some way had the ability to somewhat manipulate these

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leg irons to make them not work like they're supposed to.
I don't know what he did, but he did something.
And so he vaulted, literally vaulted over the courtroom railing
into the spectator area of the courtroom and he was
wrestled to the ground by deputy marshals and they had

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to use a taser to shock and subdue him. So
this was just before two pm. Okay, prosecutors, defense attorneys,
and a judge. They were all in the courtroom discussing
setting a trial date for him. Samantha Koenig's family and
friends were in there, as well as some media and
some law personnel, but for some unknown reason, no one

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in the gallery was allowed to sit on the front row.
It remained empty. So looking back on this, was this
to avoid maybe an angry friend or family member from
just losing it and attacking Israel. Or was this to
keep Israel away from them and make sure there was
a big enough barrier. Who knows, but whatever it was,

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it would prove a good move by the court. Israel
while he was in court hadn't been handcuffed during this hearing.
I want you to know that is normal procedure to
not have their hands done, but he was wearing those
leg irons under the table. Israel's attorney was literally mid
sentence saying, our position is that at this particular juncture,

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we're not and then right then there's a cut in
and people just start screaming from the gallery. Now the
attorney turns around, Everyone turns around to see what the
uproar is. And this entire hearing was also recorded, so
there is audio of this, and you can hear someone screaming,
get him, get him. The deputies were all screaming get back,

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get back, and the spectators are all in an uproar
while another woman yells out kill him. But within seven seconds,
Israel was tackled by multiple marshals, but he continued to
fight them right there in front of all these people,
and that's what when never that taser was deployed and
he was finally restrained. So this entire incident only lasted

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twenty seconds, but the emotional toll that that must have
had on not only Samantha's family, but the others that
were in there. It was just it had to be
another knife to the heart that this guy continues to
terrify and hurt people. Something else. They looked into this.

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The leg irons were checked prior to him leaving the jail,
so how they broke is still a mystery. I'm saying broke,
or how he manipulated them is still a mystery. So
Israel's hearing was continued and he was returned back to
the jail. So when they were interviewing about him, interviewing him,
he does mention this, and it was afterwards he's laughing

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about the situation. He like chuckles and he says, look,
if there was even a one percent chance of getting away,
it was worth the shot. And I couldn't help but
think of his victims whenever he said that, because they
try and they took their shot too. But Israel had
the luxury of being stopped by a taser because the

(28:08):
use of force rules apply to him. But his victims
weren't so lucky, and when he stopped them, there were
no rules of engagement, and he stopped them with their lives.
So while he chuckles about that, it really isn't that
fucking funny. So what were Israel's long term plans if

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he weren't ever to be caught. Well, his ultimate plan,
as he discussed with the investigators, was that he dreamed
of building a dungeon in his home. And we can
assume just by that alone that there would have been
more victims and more time to torture them without even

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being noticed. So thank god that didn't happen. But man,
if that didn't make my mind start re you know,
going through a reel of killers that I've studied, and
people who have taken other people captive and all of that,
And what is the deal with the dungeons that you
have to have a place so secluded and down in

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the dark. It's devilish where you purposefully can take another
another person just to torture them and to satisfy your
own sick needs. Well, some months and interviews would pass,
and investigator's patients were running thin, and they were starting
to get really short with Israel. Give us locations so

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we can recover bodies. That's what we're doing here. But
he continued to stall. He continued wanting confirmation that the
details wouldn't be released publicly, where his daughter would find
out everything that he did. He didn't want his daughter

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to know what he did to someone else's daughter, daughters
and sons. And I'm not throwing hate or shade on
that child. Israel's daughter has nothing to do with this.
She is a child, or was a child. This has
nothing to do with her and her finding out how

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horrible her father was doesn't bring any joy in any way,
and I think any grown ass adult would agree. I mean,
this is not vengeance by a child finding out, but
the thought that that is what his bargaining chips were about.
He didn't want people to know who he really was. Okay, Well,

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shortly before December of twenty twelve, a judge ruled that
the interrogations could be released to the public, and they were,
and then on December first of twenty twelve, breaking news
began to spread like wildfire. When prison officials went to

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go make their rounds, Israel Keys didn't meet them. At
the bars of his cell on a Saturday night. Rolling
into the early morning hours of a Sunday, Israel Keys
would take his final life, and it was his own.
Israel was found dead in his cell, having used a
disposable razor hidden inside of a pencil to slit his

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wrists and then he used his sheets to complete the
act by hanging. Everything that he had to tell and
the potential to gather the names of his unknown victims
died with him that night, and this news hit families

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of these victims that were known hard. A conviction at
trial would have legally and publicly found him responsible for
the death of Samantha Koenig, and that formality would have
meant so much to her family, that legal document, that

(32:08):
public assurance and finger pointing by a jury and everyone
that they all know you did this. You did it alone.
It's not speculation, it's not a guess, it's not just
it could have been. Everybody would have known you did this,
and you know you did it Israel, but everybody else

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would know, and they would hear what kind of person
you were. But now that would never happen. The chance
to say publicly the horrors their child suffered and for
him to have to be judged in front of everyone
was something that they wanted as much as they needed it.
And now it was over. The air was sucked out

(32:52):
of their lungs once again upon hearing this news, and
it's just not fair. Luckily you and I we weren't
in that position. We didn't we didn't have to. You know,
we can look at this and say, oh, good, he's dead.
He's a piece of shit anyway, I'm glad he's dead.
But don't forget that the victims and their families, they

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still had that opportunity that they were looking forward to
to address it and for the world and the legal
system to acknowledge it. And it was just stripped from
them by the very person who stripped their child from them.
It's unfucking fair. Well, officials would search his cell and

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this would uncover more than just a suicide scene, because
they found some items that were quite disturbing, including paintings.
And the paintings were disturbing for a multitude of reasons,
but most prominently was the fact that they were painted
with his own blood. While the creep factor in this

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is very high, it was also the number of them
that was extremely jarring to investigators because guess how many
paintings in his blood? There were eleven, the exact number
of victims that Israel admitted to killing, So investigators believed

(34:20):
that this was not a coincidence and that there was
one for each victim. Eleven separate white sheets of paper
with primitive looking skulls on each one, all of the
skulls having round eyes and two round nostrils, and all
of the mouths on them straight across, with no emotion.
This was not art like you might think he had skill. No,

(34:43):
it was very primitive, almost childlike looking drawing if it
weren't so evil. And all of the skulls had crosses
on their foreheads that looked very similar to when Catholics
get their ashes. It looked just like that on the forehead.
Only one of the paintings had words on it, and

(35:04):
it said It was at the bottom, and it said
we are one. And I wondered, personally, there is no
record of this, nor is there anyone else who has
said this. This is just my own curiosity. I wonder
if that was maybe a hint to that he may
have cannibalized at some point, because a lot of these
killers that admit to cannibalizing say that they wanted to

(35:27):
consume and become one with their victims. And I've always
been curious as to what that meant. But that's exactly
where my mind went. If you'r's w somewhere else, that's cool,
email me, let me not message me or whatever. But
it's not so far fetched. And I'm not saying that
for grandiose storytelling. I'm genuine in this. We've all seen

(35:50):
Dahmer and heard about Dahmer, so that's what I wondered
what that meant. And then there was only one painting
out of the eleven that was not a skull. Now
to me, the painting looks like a sand dollar, and
I'm going to I'll post this on Patreons. Y'all can
look through them and you can see and assess and
see what you see. Sometimes different lenses of looking at

(36:11):
things and all of our different experiences in life make
us see different things, which is interesting because it can
open up different avenues. So at this point we know
of Samantha, Bill and Lorraine, which now leaves us eight
people unaccounted for. Keep that in mind. There was also
a suicide note which rambled on It was very hard
to read. It was found under his body and it

(36:35):
was written in a combination of pencil and ink on
this yellow legal pad. So the FBI took that messy
rambling note and they had it cleaned up to be
analyzed more and It did not confirm any new murders,
nor did it list any of the names of the
ones that he had admitted to. I mean shit, the

(36:57):
least he could have done was name him before he
killed himself. But no, he's not going to do that.
He's not going to do that. Well. They also looked
into the words because they wanted to see were there
any hidden messages that it may contain, or maybe some
type of coding in there. But they read it was
four pages long. They read through all of it, and

(37:18):
they didn't find anything. There was no hidden messages there. Now,
portions of the note seemed to be describing how it
feels to take a life, and then he goes on
in other portions to express how much he hates Americans.
So I was going to read you a couple of
the excerpts from it. Again, it's much longer than this,
but just to give you some insight, and these are

(37:39):
direct quotes. I'm not ad libbing this. I looked into
your eyes. They were so dark, warm and trusting, as
though you had not a worry or care. The more
guileless the gaze, the better potential to fill up those
pools with your fear, your wet lips were a promise
of a secret, unspoken, nervous laugh. It burst like a

(38:02):
pulse of blood from your throat. There will be no
more laughter here. Your face framed in dark curls like
a portrait, the sun shone through highlights of red. What
color I wonder? And how straight up will it turn?
Plastered back with your sweat of your blood. Forget the

(38:23):
lady called luck, she does not abide near me, for
her powers don't extend to those who are deceased. Soon
now you'll join those ranks of the dead, or your ashes.
The wind will soon blow, family and friends will shed
a few tears, portend, it's off to heaven you go.
But the reality is you were just bones and meat,

(38:44):
and with your brain dyed, also your soul. So that's
just some insight to the darkness and the callousness of
the way he thought of these people. And then these
comments were some of the comments on Americans and the
American working man. Quote land of the free, land of
the Lye, land of Scheme American eyes, and he wrote

(39:07):
that twice, Land of the free, land of the Lye,
land of Scheme, American eyes. Consume what you don't need stars,
you idolize, pursue what you admit is a dream and
it's American die. Punch in the clock and sit on
your ass playing stupid ass games on your phone. Paper
on your wall says you got smarts, but you still

(39:28):
crawl like the vermin you are. Once your precious power
grid's blown. Okay, all is over. Words are flaccid and weak.
Back it with action, or it all comes off as cheap.
Watch close while I work. Now, feel the electric of
my touch. Open my trembling flower or your petals, I'll crush.

(39:51):
So this is certainly, like I said, not all of
the note, but it's again giving you that insight to
the mind of a killer and someone who's full of
and on top of that. A forensic psychiatrist at Vanderbilt
University Medical Center. His name was doctor Stephen Montgomery. He
reviewed the note and it was his opinion that in

(40:14):
these writings, Israel's goal was to emphasize his own superiority,
that he has guile and can take advantage of people
who are naive and trusting of him. And doctor Montgomery
was also very clear that Israel was intelligent and very
clearly understood his behavior was wrong and He wrote the

(40:37):
letter in this way so that he wanted people to
not only find it, but he wanted them to talk
about it, and he also wanted people Israel's goal was
to further magnify his own self worth. Basically, it was
a very self serving letter. And I'm no psychiatrist, I've

(41:01):
never claimed to be. But the grandiose nature in which
he attempts to write is obviously a reflection of how
he thinks of himself and how great he is. And
in the words of Simon Cowell back in the American
Idol days, I find it very self indulgent. I wasn't
as impressed by these writings. He came across as a

(41:22):
pseudo intellect, and he tried to write like he was
Ralph Waldo Emerson or some shit. But he's a he's
an evil killer. Like that's that's all you are. Don't
get it twisted. So for now, the FBI continues to
try and solve those eight unsolved cases that are believed
to have been committed by Israel Keys. So why has

(41:44):
this remained so difficult even today? In twenty twenty five,
like I said, he traveled extensively, he buried those murder
kits or his kill cash, whatever you want to call it,
and so he didn't travel nor check weapons on flight.
He had no targeted victim profile. His victims were often

(42:06):
chosen at random and on the spot. They ranged from
teenagers to middle aged couples. He did at one point
say in his interviews that he preferred victims that were
lightweight because they were easier to dispose of, but that
wasn't always the case, and he also said that after
his daughter was born, he tried to avoid any situations

(42:29):
where a child may be hurt. So the FBI has
compiled the known movements and the known travels of israel
Keys to try and narrow down areas of concentration where
they might can figure out who these people are. Now,
no bodies have been recovered to date, but the FBI

(42:49):
has now expressed their confidence that the woman that he
said he kidnapped and he buried in upstate New York
is likely a woman by the name of Deborah Feldman
who disappear around that same time. And when they were
reviewing Israel's computers or computer they found pictures of Deborah
Feldman on his computer. And when they took that picture

(43:13):
of her and they put it in front of him
when he was still alive, and they showed that photo
to Israel. He reacted differently. He physically reacted whenever they
put that photo in front of him, and they said
he literally started to kind of shake when he saw it,
and there's something to that that autonomic system was firing

(43:33):
off when he saw her face. So this would now
mean that four of the eleven are potentially solved, but
this still leaves seven people. And he did mention Lake
Crescent in Washington in one of his interviews, where he
had a small aluminum boat that he said he would
use to hide a body before he dumped her. And

(43:56):
the lake, by the way, that's one of the deepest
lakes in the US. So as you can imagine, nobody
has ever been recovered from that one, none in all
the years that have gone by. The Green River in
Wyoming is where he also had hidden one of his
kill kits, so they are of the thinking right now
that a victim may be there as well. Finally, he

(44:23):
was known to travel to Canada a lot, but during
one of the interviews he said something that is just
mind blowing. He said, well, yeah, I went to Canada,
but Canadians don't count. Whenever he was asked if he
ever killed anyone there? So did he kill Canadians? We
don't know. So I hate to say this, but sorry,

(44:47):
you know, Sorry, Israel, they matter to me. They matter
even if they're from Canada. And I went and I
looked at the it's called the Dough Network for like
John Doe, you know, the Dough Network for missing and unidentified.
I focused on females in Canada, just out of curiosity,
and the numbers are staggering, justin Alberta alone from nineteen

(45:11):
ninety one to twenty ten, because I kind of honed
in on that time frame. There are fourteen There are
fourteen missing people in Canada, and one of them I
don't know why, but she caught my attention. Her name
was Jay Reagan. She's sixteen years old and she's got
that sandy blonde hair, and for some reason, I was
just drawn to that girl. I wonder. It just makes

(45:34):
you wonder. And I'll put the link to that site
in the show notes so you can go click on
it and go look at all of their faces if
you want to, because there's faces to these missing people.
There are people that was just an Alberta police are
still trying to gather information still on Israel keys and
whose possible victims may be. And I just want to
tell you this. There is a contact number that you

(45:55):
can call and that number is one eight hundred call FBI.
You never know, you may hold the key to something
that you don't realize. So that's what happened to Israel.
I know a lot of people had messaged and said, ooh,
you know, I hope he gets prison justice. Well, I
guess that's pretty much what we have to work with

(46:16):
is a suicide. But thankfully he can no longer physically
hurt anyone and no future victims will be made by
his hands. And I don't have much to say about him,
as he doesn't deserve the time nor the spotlight for
being evil. And I love to tell these stories because

(46:36):
I like to talk about these victims and maybe we
can find some, but spotlighting him it just sucks, you know,
But you have to know you're bad guy if you're
gonna think like you're bad guy, and what they possibly
have done. And when he committed his suicide, he proved
once and for all that no killer ever dies a hero,
just a coward and while Israel believed in Satan, I

(47:00):
believe in the power of Jesus, and I believe that
he was with every victim, known and unknown in their
worst moments, and that he cradled them through their fear.
That's what I choose to believe. And while it's hard
to believe this, I'm actually going to conclude on a

(47:21):
positive note this episode because in the end, I'm positive
that his suicide saved the taxpayers money, which is the
only good thing he probably ever did.

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