Detective 1: Didn't sleep much last night?
Keyes: [laughs] No, not that
K: I needed a good work out apparently
K: I had muscles sore this morning I didn't even know I had
D1: Really?
D2: Which muscles?
D1:That's a good thing you didn't get a [unintelligible]
K: That reminds me of like those, uh, late night infomercials that used to sell those machines that shock your abs and stuff
D1: Oh!
D2: [laughs]
K: Like that only–
D1: [unintelligible] ..bought one of them?
K: No, Kimberly did /D1: Oh./
K: But I tried it once
D2: Did you get ripped from it?
K: No [creepy laugh]
Hey you and welcome, my name is Mike and in this video, we're gonna talk about a fella by the name of Israel Keyes
Israel Keyes here. He's not a nice man, and he did a lot of
unpleasant things
Was not a nice man. It's believed that he killed up to a dozen people before he was finally caught
Right, we'll get into it. It's a lot to get into so let's
On February 1st
2012 18 year-old Samantha Koenig was working the late shift at the common Gran's expresso coffee stand in Anchorage, Alaska
She had been working there about a month was a popular worker and she was well-liked by the regulars at this stage in his
career
Israel Keyes was stalking four locations not people looking for places to murder
Easily and he had settled on the common grounds espresso stand
It was open later than other coffee stands making it an easier target
Keyes had chosen that night in particular as he had tickets to take a cruise to Mexico from
Louisiana the very next day at his home also in Anchorage in his shed
He placed two heaters to keep it warm and spread tarp on the floor to deal with any blood
Shortly before 8:00 p.m. After listening to his traffic scanner when he heard something big was happening on the other side of Anchorage
Which would draw the police away?
Israel Keyes pulled over his face a ski mask and approached the common grounds coffee stand
He planned on robbing the place but he didn't even know how many people worked there
Unfortunately, it was just
Samantha
He walked up and calmly ordered an Americana
Samantha prepared the drink but when she turned around to hand it to him
He's pointed a handgun at her. He told her to turn off the lights and
Then climbed through the window and inside the coffee stand he told her to get on her knees as he bound her
She said her father was going to be there at any moment to pick her up
He hesitated but eventually pushed her gagged at the door to his car. He
Put her in the passenger seat and told her he was going to hold her for ransom
He then drove to his house
Israel Keyes was born in 1978 in Richmond
Utah to parents who were Mormon and was homeschooled when the family moved to the state of, Washington
They began to attend the arc a Christian identity church with pretty racist and anti-semitic views
He later admitted to sexually assaulting a young girl in Oregon sometime between 1996 and 1998
When he would have been 18 to 20 years old
20 he joined the army. He served at Fort Lewis, Fort Hood and in Egypt
He was known for his heavy drinking and his love of the insane clown posse
in
2000 he was honorably discharged from the Army and it was during this time. He proclaimed he was an atheist
He said his first murder victim was in 2001
while he lived in Neah Bay, Washington
Though it is unknown who his first victim was
He's also claimed to have murdered a couple while he was living in Washington and
Alluded to them being buried in a location near a valley Keyes further claimed
He had committed 4 murders in total while living in Washington state from 2001 to
2007 but gave investigators very little to go on
Alluding to two separate murders in either 2005 or 2006
In
2007 Israel Keyes moved to Anchorage, Alaska here
He established Keyes construction and began working as a contractor
he seemed like a very normal person regular Joe dedicated to his business on a Limon to his daughter and girlfriend a
Quiet guy who generally kept himself, but keep to himself. He did not by that time Israel
Keyes was already a serial killer bank robber and
Everything in between his hero was Ted Bundy and they did share a number of similarities
from Anchorage
He would travel to locations in the United States always wanting to keep the attention away from him committing murders and other
unspeakable acts
Israel Keyes planned murders well in advance and took extraordinary action to avoid detection
He placed murder bags around the country filled with shovels guns and ammunition
Keyes would later admit kidnapping a woman on the East Coast in April 2009
Who he said was taken across state lines and buried in upstate, New York
Authorities suspect a victim may have been 49 year-old Deborah Feldman
Also ran the time Keyes robbed a bank interpolate, New York
in June 2011 Israel Keyes flew from Alaska to Chicago and then rented a car and drove more than
900 miles to the small town of Essex, Vermont
On the night of June 8th Keys broke into the home of bill and Lorraine Currier
Subdued them took them to another location where he shot Bill and sexually assaulted Lorraine before strangling her
Their disappearance remained a mystery until Israel's confession. However, the location of their bodies it remains unknown to this day
Israel Keyes never gave law enforcement an exact number of his victims. It's believed to be around 12
But it would be his last victim Samantha Koenig that would prove to be his undoing
After taking her keys drove Samantha to the house
He shared with his girlfriend and young daughter and tied her up in a shed next to the house
He managed to do this unnoticed somehow by his girlfriend
he told Samantha he would kill her if she screamed and
Then he turned on the radio in the shed to cover up any noise
She made he then left and after getting information from Samantha
He broke into Samantha's boyfriend's truck and stole her debit card
His plan was to ransom her and then have the ransom paid into her bank account and he would withdraw from it
He then returned to his house poured himself a glass of wine and went back to the shed
He then sexually assaulted her while choking her till he killed her
After he was finished with her he wrapped her body in a term and stuffed her in a cabinet in the freezing shed
By then it was morning and he woke his daughter for school and called a cab to get to the airport
Where he flew to New Orleans on a cruise, he booked months earlier
After his cruise was over Israel Keyes drove to Texas where he rubbed unburned a house
He then robbed a branch of the National Bank of Texas after that. He drove to Houston and flew back to Anchorage On
February 19th Keyes returned to his home
removed Samantha's body from the cabinet and had sex with her frozen corpse a
few days later
he applied makeup to Samantha's face to make her appear alive sewed her eyes open with fishing line and
Photographed her with a recent newspaper. He then included the photo with a ransom note to Samantha's family
Telling them to deposit thirty thousand dollars into Samantha's bank account if they wished to see alive again
he then texted Samantha's boyfriend from her phone giving him directions to a dog park where he left a photo on the demands a
Few days later Israel cut up Samantha's body and dumped her remains in Matanuska Lake near Anchorage
In early March Keyes flew to Las Vegas rented a car and drove to Arizona where he used Samantha's debit card to withdraw
$400 Keys wore a disguise when he made the transactions
But an ATM security camera recorded an image of the white Ford Focus rental car. He was driving
The image did not capture the license plate, but it was clear enough to determine the make and model of the car
Two days later on March 9th
keys withdrew money from an ATM in Texas and the FBI alerted Texas law
enforcement officials to be on the lookout for a white Ford Focus on
March 13th a Texas Highway patrolman spotted a white Ford Focus parked at a motel
When keys left the motel the officer followed him and noticed the car was traveling three miles over the speed limit
Using this as an excuse the police officer pulled him over and asked Israel for his driver's license
When Israel gave him his Alaskan driver's license the officer then called for backup
He knew this was the guy in the car police found a dye stained roll of bills from a bank
robbery the mask keys war while withdrawing the money from the ATMs a gun and
Samantha's debit card, they arrested Israel Keyes and a few days later
They flew him back to Anchorage at first Israel Keyes refused to talk to investigators, but on March 31st
He admitted to abducting
Samantha Koenig from the coffee stand
He said he would give authorities more details eventually on the murder of Samantha and his many other crimes
But he would only talk if they could promise to keep the details from the press
He didn't want his daughter to read about everything. He had done to Samantha
When the federal prosecutor pressed keys on whether or not Samantha was dead or alive
He told him she was dead. He said I'll tell you everything you want to know
I'll give it blow-by-blow if you want
I have lots more stories to tell he did agree to tell the
Investigators the details of the abduction and murder of Samantha Koenig as well as where to find her body and a few days later
Police recovered her remains from Matanuska Lake. It's not the news family and friends were hoping for
Which police announced today? They found a body they believed to be Samantha koenings in Matanuska Lake out in the valley
Channel twos Jason Lam was there as investigators drove into the frigid waters this evening
And he now joins us live from the common grounds coffee stand where Samantha was abducted more than two months ago Jason
Maria the place that became so well-known as the headquarters in the search for Samantha Koenig has tonight
Become a makeshift memorial you can
He then told them that the many many murders
He had committed on May 23rd keys appeared before a United States District Judge in her federal court
For a hearing to set a trial date
partway through the hearing
He's broke free from his steel leg shackles and jumped over the railing into the first row of seats in the gallery area
deputies tackled Keyes and used a taser to subdue him
Keyes: Right, but I mean... still, even still from my perspective, um...
K: I mean come on, let's face it. Yeah, what happened yesterday.. Ooh I'm a bad guy, I tried to escape, but uh..
K: Let's be honest, nobody really thought I was a good guy before that, so...
[CREEPY ASS LAUGH]
K: It's not like me escaping suddenly makes me "untrustworthy." I was kind of untrustworthy before that, so
[CREEPER LAUGH]
K: I was–I was concerned about the media coverage, not really thinking about the effect it would have on the things we discussed
K: thinking more about, you know, that is my bottom line. I didn't want a bunch of press and.. didn't want a bunch of drama and, uh...
K: Honestly I could've lived with the drama as long as I had been successful in escaping, and, uh..
K: since I didn't, now I'm like man I really wish I hadn't created all this drama
[WHAT AN ASSHOLE]
He expressed no remorse whatsoever for any of the crimes he committed
K: Where are they at with the–I mean, did they find the bodies yet?
Detective 1: [unintelligible]... football field.. [unintelligible]
Detective 2: they're making–they're making progress. But it's just, uh, it's..
K: It could still be, like, a proper week or something
D2: Yeah, it definitely... /D1: They're not gonna stop/
K: Tenacious...
D2: One of the best analogies I've heard for it, it's more like an archeological dig
D2: It's just going through and trying to toss some things... /K: Right/ ...until you find what you think you're looking for.
K: Yeah, that's a lot of trouble for... [unintelligible]
K: I almost feel guilty
[DOUCHEBAG CACKLE]
K: I'm costing the taxpayers a lot of money over finding this
K: If I just kept my mouth shut hehEHAhehe
D1: But that's how committed the, you know, the FBI– /K: No, I understand. They... you know../
K: Well, it sounds like they've got it. They've got the area they've just got to find them, and...
Investigators who question keys said he was arrogant and sometimes seemed bored while relating to details of his crimes
But when talking about an abduction or murder he'd get excited and sit on the edge of his seat
K: Certain aspects of this that, you know, yeah there's no way around it, but you know...
K: As far as... different things that were done with the bodies and... the sexual assault stuff
K: that type of stuff I just don't.. I don't see...
K: Like, you know, if that has to be part of the hearing, then...
K: I would... We've got to figure out something different
In late November he's met again with investigators, but by the end of the interview he seemed distracted and
told them he might be willing to talk to them the following week two days later at
5:57 a.m. A prison guard performing a security check
Noticed a strange red colored streak on the floor of cell three
Israel Keyes was found lying face down in his cell covered in blood
He was pronounced dead at
613 a.m
He had slit opened his left wrist along the vein and a razor blade attached to a pencil was found under his body
Wanting to make sure he got an a-plus and killing himself. He's laid on his stomach and tied a bedsheet noose around his neck
Then with his left leg bent back. He tied the other end of the sheet around his left ankle
This ensured that when he lost consciousness due to blood loss
The force of his leg lowering back down to the bed would tighten the noose around his neck and strangle him
Police officials still have not determined how Keyes obtained a razor blade while locked in his cell
Israel Keyes died doing what he loved
killing, but
now the
investigators would never know about
his many many more victims that he never told him that or the locations of
the bodies that were hidden across the United States
Keyes left a four-page suicide note on a yellow legal pad
So saturated with his blood it was unreadable until the FBI restored most of it
Though it didn't hold much in the way of information regarding his crimes or anything the police can use
Man who says he killed four people in Washington and four others across the country was held today Israel Keyes family and their pastor
Drove to the funeral home from East, Texas
But no one else attended before he killed himself in his Alaska jail cell Keyes admitted to investigators
He murdered a couple in Vermont last year
He also raped and murdered an anchorage barista and dismembered her body in February
Rocky's family stepped out of their van and filed into the funeral home before the service today
his mother four sisters and their husbands attended
Keyes six other siblings and former Colville neighbors never made it. I'm sure just then
Infamy surrounding the whole event is would greatly discourage those. That would have come
And
So ends the long tragic and horrific
story of Israel Keyes
psychopath murderer someone who held the key information on a long list of cold cases that will now
Likely never be solved
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Thank you again so much Mike