Aug. 27, 2025

SERIAL MURDERER: Israel Keyes Part 4

SERIAL MURDERER: Israel Keyes Part 4
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Season 7

The finale on Israel Keyes examines his psyche, confirmed victims, and the ongoing pain of families seeking justice while revealing his manipulative tactics and chilling methods in his crimes.

Chapters
01:50 Two in One Week
14:49 Israel Keyes' Confessions
20:42 Israel's Troubling Background
28:33 The Courtroom Escape Attempt
34:07 Israel's Disturbing Artwork
39:59 The Dark Final Thoughts

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Sources

  1.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq-ku1JHuGg
  2.  https://abcnews.go.com/US/missing-vermont-couple-baffles-police-neighbors/story?id=13837448
  3.  https://www.uvmhealth.org/medcenter/search?keys=fletcher%20allen%20healthcare&page=1
  4.  https://namus.nij.ojp.gov/case/MP11677
  5. https://charleyproject.org/case/william-scott-currier
  6.  https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/states/oregon/rape-rate-statistics
  7.   https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/uploads/legal-documents/2011-09-0220supplemental20printed20case20contents.pdf
  8. https://allthatsinteresting.com/samantha-koenig
  9.    https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2018/05/18/unsealed-interviews-detail-two-lives-of-alaska-serial-killer-israel-keyes/
  10.    https://www.cnn.com/2013/02/07/justice/alaska-serial-killer-note
  11.      https://www.doenetwork.org/mp-geo-canada-females.php
  12. https://allthatsinteresting.com/samantha-koenig
  13. https://alaskapublic.org/news/2012-12-05/police-release-detailed-account-of-koenig-murder
14 https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/article/marshals-use-taser-keyes-after-he-leaps-courtroom-rail/2012/05/23/#:~:text=By%20Lisa%20Demer,%22Get%20him!%22
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Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast where I tell

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not your girl. Listening discretion is advised. Hey y'all, it's

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kJ here, back for a not other episode of Unspeakable.

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But are you shook us? Because this is two in

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one week? What is going on here? This just must

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be an accident the hell it is? No, I decided,

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I said, no, I'm not gonna make them wait another week.

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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

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to be part four and the finale of the Israel

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Keys series. So if you haven't listened to one through three,

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make sure you stop right now, go back and listen

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so that you're not completely confuzzled on what is going

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to be going on today? Also, are y'all listening to

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Crime War Weekly. That's our new show that Jem and

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I are doing, and it's going to be true crime

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headlines that are happening all over the US as well

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as sometimes abroad. So go look down in the description.

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It's linked in the description. You can go follow that

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show and then you can get another episode each week

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and you can listen to stuff that's happening currently as well.

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So don't forget that. Now, let's jump in and let's

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get this thing finished. So far, we have identified three

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victims that Israel keys had for certain murdered, Samantha Koenig,

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Bill Currier, and Lorraine Courier. But as I mentioned, these victims,

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all three of them were all from the previous year

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that he was doing this confessing. But Israel had specifically

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stated he had been a different man for fourteen years.

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So the interviews continued, and what made this case now

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extraordinarily difficult to work with was the sheer number of

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people listed as missing or found murdered, combined with Israel's

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extensive travel habits. While there were three confirmed victims, Israel

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would eventually confess to a total of eleven murders, which meant, Look,

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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

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that are unaccounted for. Eight families without any information on

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their loved one's disappearance or possible murder. Eight families out there,

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probably frustrated, heartbroken, and just left in the dark of unknowns. Police,

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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,

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considering everything that he was now admitting to. And something

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rather frustrating while listening to his confessions was that he

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continued to hold information as a bargaining chip. There was

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no doubt if you listen to these there is no

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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.

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And what do I mean by this, I'm gonna summarize.

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I'm gonna summarize it all up for you because the

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FBI tapes, I'm gonna tell you now, the FBI portions,

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the ones that they released were excruciatingly boring. Okay, I mean,

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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

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from the FEDS that the details of his crimes weren't

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made public. And this was so incredible. It's like, what

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do you mean You're gonna tell us but you don't

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want this to become public. All these victims are known

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to be victims. People know their loved ones are missing,

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people know that horrible things happen to them. What do

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you mean you want us to keep it from the public.

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So oftentimes, when horrible people plead guilty at the last

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minute to cases they know will make headlines, it's not

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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.

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When they wait until the very last minute, it's not

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for the victims. It's for their own ego. That is

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why they do it. They don't want the people that

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they care about to know who they really are and

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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

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the public, and so they continue to play this cat

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and mouse game for months, trying to pry the name

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of eight more people out of his mouth, and Israel

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knew he held the power of information, but the police

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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,

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for example, during one session, an investigator advised him that

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some testing had been done on one of his kill kits,

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and it came back that they actually did have his print,

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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

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him this, but when investigators were like, no, man, really really,

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he kind of cocks back in a seat and he goes, wow,

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I'm impressed. Well, disappointed in myself, but still impressed. That's

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how he looked at this. So he knew that he

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was quote unquote good because he had gotten away with

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so many, But now the pressure was on. Could police

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identify him in the other killings before he gave up

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more information or confessed, because that would certainly strip him

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of his power or of his bargaining chip. So eventually

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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

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all was extracted overall, in location and date order according

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to Israel. But it's going to take us back to Oregon.

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And in the years nineteen ninety seven or nineteen ninety eight,

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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

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a rape. He admitted to sexually assaulting a teenage girl

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on the Dushutz River near Bend, Organ, And he did

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speak in some detail about his own feelings of that incident,

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which started with this abduction of that young girl. In

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his teenage years, I want to tell you a little

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bit about Israel. He renounced the Christian faith and he

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began to dabble in Satanism, and part of that satanism

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included planning a Satanic ritual that would be a killing

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that would involve a young woman. So at that time,

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he was working near a popular tubing site, you know

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where people jump in their inner tubes and they float

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down the river and drink a beer or whatever and

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enjoy the warm sun and the water. Well, this happened

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to be prime hunting grounds, and one day he stood

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on that very beach along the river and was watching

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as people floated by, and eventually he waded out into

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the water and he grabbed a girl who happened to

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be the last girl in her group of tubers. He

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said that she was between the ages of fourteen and eighteen,

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if he had to guess, and that she had sandy

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blonde hair. So he grabs her and he pulled her ashore,

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and at that point he grabbed hold of her and

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he drug her into a remote campground bathroom. Now, he

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mentioned that he was really struck by this kidnapping, specifically

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because he said he could tell that she was scared,

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but she kept talking to him and about random things.

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She kept saying things like, look, I'm not gonna tell anybody,

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I won't tell anybody, amongst all the other like random

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things that she was saying. So he was just kind

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of struck she was talking to me, Well, yeah, Israel,

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maybe she was so scared that she was trying to

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keep him calm, or maybe to keep herself calm, or

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something to make her humanized, to make her just a girl,

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that maybe he wouldn't want to hurt her. But once

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he got her in that bathroom, he tied her up

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with ropes and he viciously raped the young lady. And

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once he was satisfied. He planned originally to strangle her

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to death, and then he was gonna dump her in

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what he called a toy will pit because he figured

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no one would be looking there for a long while.

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Hopefully she would decompose and any DNA evidence would be

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gone by that point. And he was also prepared with

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knives that he was going to use in his satanic

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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,

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he didn't kill her, and afterwards, when he was reviewing

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what he had done, he decided she would be the

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only person that he would ever let go again. So

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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,

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he kept the name again a bargaining chip. Someone's daughter

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was either holding the rape unmentioned or he didn't really

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let her go. That's really what we're left to decide.

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The truth was yet to be revealed. I can tell

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you this per the FBI database, which you know. I

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went there and I looked at it because that's who

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I am as a person. I want to go look

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myself I pulled up rapes in Oregon between nineteen eight,

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ninety eight and nineteen ninety nine, and the rapes mentioned

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to police in that data set was absolutely zero. Now,

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in true transparency, the stats on the site were also

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zero up until twenty thirteen, so I doubt that that's accurate.

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But this could have been data on reported rapes. We

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should know, or if you don't know, I'll teach you this.

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A lot of rapes do not go mentioned to police.

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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

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current times, most of them go unreported. So after this

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Israel joined the army, which was confirmed, and it made

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sense too, because according to his timeline, he didn't attack

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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,

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we know why it made sense. He had taken a

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high school equivalency test and joined the army, and the

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reasoning behind that was because he was intrigued by the

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idea of learning survival skills to live off the land,

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to go undetected. Hmm. I wonder why now, while I

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was in the army, he was able to make friends

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with other soldiers, and drinking became a common pastime. I

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wouldn't say that that's uncommon. You know, you're trying to

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make friends with people that you may go to battle with,

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and drinking helps to relax the situation and take off

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the edge. But at one point during his army time,

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he was stationed in Egypt for about six months, and

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per his own admissions, he would often go to Tel

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Aviv to service the prostitutes. But as far as killing,

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he never said he did. He would just go to

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mess around with these prostitutes. But then in two thousand

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and one, after he was discharged from the army, from

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what I understand, it was a medical issue that he

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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

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read somewhere that they said that it was a medical issue.

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But he was back on the prow once he was

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discharged from the army. So now this takes us to

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Washington in two thousand and one, and this is where

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he says he committed his first murder. Now, this was

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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,

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I mean, it seems kind of odd that you would

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move to a tribal land out of anywhere you could be.

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And I found that it was because of a woman,

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but not one he wanted to kill. This was one

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he actually fell in love with. He met her online

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and she was an actual tribe member of the local

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legendary whale hunters, which also again li It had me interested,

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so I did do a little more looking at that.

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pictures and the area and the people and it really

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was just really really cool. And the history of whaling

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is also detailed online on their site, and it's very

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rooted in the appreciation of nature, prayer, and using every

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portion of the whale for the good of the people.

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as a means of culture and taking care of their tribe.

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They use every ounce of that whale and nothing is

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going to ever go to waste. Now, I'll tell you

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this about me. I'm not big on killing animals, except

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by the way of them being used for food. I

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personally I like to deer hunt, I like to fish.

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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

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consume and we use every thing that we kill. And

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these people seem to be of that same mindset in

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that regard. But clearly Israel was the antithesis of respecting

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what he killed. But he moved on the land with

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his woman where they rented a home and they started

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a family, and he soon thereafter became the father to

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a baby girl. So he worked the parks and Recreations department.

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He was very well liked by the people there, and

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he was considered I think already mentioned this an excellent

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carpenter and a family man. But blending in that was

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his best game, hanging out and doing normal things all

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the while hunting people. So, as I said, he killed

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someone at this time, but he withheld the name when

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he was confessing to this, so we don't know who

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that person was. Eventually, he and baby mama would part

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ways and he would move on. He would begin dating

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another woman, which the woman that he was living with

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when he moved to Alaska. So a little bit more

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about that. His daughter was school aged when he started

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dating this other woman. The woman is actually the one

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that was moving to Alaska Israel and his daughter moved

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and followed that woman to Alaska to be with her.

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And by the way, that woman he was dating was

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a nurse practitioner, a very smart lady. My mother in

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law is a nurse practitioner, very smart doctor. Like you know,

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they they're mid level and they know their stuff. This

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wasn't just some Joe blow woman, you know that they

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shocked up together. It seemed like she had her shit together.

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But over the next five years, he would kill multiple

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people in Washington. Between two thousand and one and two

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thousand and five, he admitted that he killed a couple

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and he buried them in a valley during that time,

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but he didn't give their identities. Between two thousand and

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five and two thousand and six, he said he committed

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two other separate murders. One of the bodies, he said,

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was sunk in Lake Crescent, and he tied anchors to

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the bodies whenever he dropped them in. Again, he did

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not give any names, and then in two thousand and nine,

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he admitted to abducting a woman and he said this

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was going to be about the month of April he

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killed her, and then he said he buried her in

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upstate New York, but again he would not give the name.

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And then he hinted at other murders. No real specifics

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to these though, like I just gave you on the

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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

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was recovered, so that was a win for him all around.

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And then he said this quote, and I wanted direc

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quote it for you. He said, the things I've done,

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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

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mind And so it gives you a little insight to

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the mindset there that this was absolutely ownership and that

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this was his taking and he wanted to own his

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victims in every way possible. Now, some other random details

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he gave led investigators to believe that he may be

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suspect in unsolved cases that were dubbed to be done

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by the quote unquote Boca killer in Florida. So for

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my Patreon members, it's not there yet. When you're listening

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to this but soon I'm going to do a bonus

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episode on these killings, and you can be thinking about

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Israel and his possible involvement in those killings. I did

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a lot of research on this one, and I know

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that you're going to appreciate this possible link between him

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and these Boca killer cases. So while it seemed that

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he was spilling the tea on all that he had done,

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the lack of names made this not as great as

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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

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running and yapping and admitting to things, but no names,

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no physical bodies, no case. That's the reality of it.

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He could admit to killing everybody in the world, but

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if we can't prove it, then it's just talk. And

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for perspective of why I say this, imagine all of

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the people missing across the US and knowing this killer

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has been on the loose, literally everywhere, traveling extensively with

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no connection to his victims. The randomness of this makes

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it overwhelming and a little data for you to consider.

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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.

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And I'm not trying to bore you with numbers, but

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to put why this investigation would be a massive undertaking.

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Right now as we speak, California has three thousand, six

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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,

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oh my god, y'all, that's insane right now, Damn y'all.

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We got ten thousand people missing in just three states alone.

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So you can see why and how this just would

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be improbable to figure out in a short timeframe or

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even a reasonably you know, long time frame, because we

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have no specified locations and we have no known state

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specifically on some of them. So it's just hard. Jim,

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did you see what happened in Texas today?

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Wait before you tell me that, let me tell you

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what happened in New York.

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It cannot be as crazy as the case I told

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you about yesterday in Louisiana.

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About it, and with that we did. Crime War Weekly

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Now add to this a little bit of Israel's history

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while growing up, and this was learned in continued interviews

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with police and with psychologists alike. So Israel was born

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in Cove, Utah. He was in a large Mormon family,

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but he was raised in Colville, Washington, and he was

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not raised in a neighborhood either. It was an area

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of remote wilderness and it was one where the people

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that lived there were not integrated well or at all

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really with the main society. The location where they lived

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was so remote that it was impassable during the winter,

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and they would live off the grid. They lived at

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times without electricity, and allegedly some of those kids in

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the family slept in a tent for a few years.

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So when we say primitive, I'm serious. This guy was

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used to living in the land and off the land.

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The kids would do odd jobs for money, things like

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cutting firewood, or they would do random farm work for

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people that they could walk to. I guess their farms

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and then I want you to add something else to this.

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Old boy was homeschooled. I don't even doing air quotes right now,

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like what, I don't even know what that looked like.

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But no outside influences were really there. He was born

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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.

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He also spoke a little bit more about the fact

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that he was sent to church. Believe it or not,

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I was kind of surprised by that. But that church

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he speaks of doesn't really fit the bill of actual

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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,

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and they moved from what he called an amish like

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church to a more militant, militia church, and there they

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taught white supremacist values and really honed in on dehumanizing

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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

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quote unquote church, Israel spent a lot of time alone

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in the woods where he loved to hunt and fish.

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Like I told you, but he was a very quiet

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loaner company was not something that he required, and it

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was that very alone time when he would come up

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with his plans for murder. As he aged. He even

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told the FBI that he knew he knew that he

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was not normal since he was a young teen. And

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case in point, he bragged about gutting a deer alive

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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.

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He loved to watch suffering and he wanted to kill

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anything with the heartbeat his own words. So, knowing all

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of this, investigators continued to interview and try to get

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more information from Israel, but the names, he just was

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not giving them up. That said, he also was making

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his own change of plans and that he didn't plan

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on staying in prison very long. In May of twenty twelve,

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he tried to escape from a courtroom and he did

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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,

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he was able to break his leg irons. Now, if

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you haven't worked in prison, maybe you've watched some movies, whatever,

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but leg irons are legit. This is not something that

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you would easily break. So this tells me that he

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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.

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I don't know what he did, but he did something.

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And so he vaulted, literally vaulted over the courtroom railing

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into the spectator area of the courtroom and he was

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wrestled to the ground by deputy marshals and they had

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to use a taser to shock and subdue him. So

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this was just before two pm. Okay, prosecutors, defense attorneys,

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and a judge. They were all in the courtroom discussing

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setting a trial date for him. Samantha Koenig's family and

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friends were in there, as well as some media and

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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.

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It remained empty. So looking back on this, was this

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to avoid maybe an angry friend or family member from

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just losing it and attacking Israel. Or was this to

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keep Israel away from them and make sure there was

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a big enough barrier. Who knows, but whatever it was,

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it would prove a good move by the court. Israel

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while he was in court hadn't been handcuffed during this hearing.

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I want you to know that is normal procedure to

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not have their hands done, but he was wearing those

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leg irons under the table. Israel's attorney was literally mid

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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

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and people just start screaming from the gallery. Now the

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attorney turns around, Everyone turns around to see what the

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uproar is. And this entire hearing was also recorded, so

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there is audio of this, and you can hear someone screaming,

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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

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while another woman yells out kill him. But within seven seconds,

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Israel was tackled by multiple marshals, but he continued to

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fight them right there in front of all these people,

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and that's what when never that taser was deployed and

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he was finally restrained. So this entire incident only lasted

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twenty seconds, but the emotional toll that that must have

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had on not only Samantha's family, but the others that

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were in there. It was just it had to be

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another knife to the heart that this guy continues to

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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,

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so how they broke is still a mystery. I'm saying broke,

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or how he manipulated them is still a mystery. So

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Israel's hearing was continued and he was returned back to

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the jail. So when they were interviewing about him, interviewing him,

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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,

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if there was even a one percent chance of getting away,

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it was worth the shot. And I couldn't help but

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think of his victims whenever he said that, because they

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try and they took their shot too. But Israel had

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the luxury of being stopped by a taser because the

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use of force rules apply to him. But his victims

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weren't so lucky, and when he stopped them, there were

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no rules of engagement, and he stopped them with their lives.

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00:28:23.119 --> 00:28:25.920
So while he chuckles about that, it really isn't that

450
00:28:25.960 --> 00:28:32.480
fucking funny. So what were Israel's long term plans if

451
00:28:32.480 --> 00:28:36.160
he weren't ever to be caught. Well, his ultimate plan,

452
00:28:36.359 --> 00:28:40.200
as he discussed with the investigators, was that he dreamed

453
00:28:40.240 --> 00:28:44.640
of building a dungeon in his home. And we can

454
00:28:44.720 --> 00:28:48.119
assume just by that alone that there would have been

455
00:28:48.160 --> 00:28:53.200
more victims and more time to torture them without even

456
00:28:53.319 --> 00:28:58.079
being noticed. So thank god that didn't happen. But man,

457
00:28:58.160 --> 00:29:01.240
if that didn't make my mind start re you know,

458
00:29:01.279 --> 00:29:04.519
going through a reel of killers that I've studied, and

459
00:29:04.839 --> 00:29:07.640
people who have taken other people captive and all of that,

460
00:29:07.839 --> 00:29:11.799
And what is the deal with the dungeons that you

461
00:29:11.960 --> 00:29:15.240
have to have a place so secluded and down in

462
00:29:15.279 --> 00:29:19.400
the dark. It's devilish where you purposefully can take another

463
00:29:19.799 --> 00:29:23.759
another person just to torture them and to satisfy your

464
00:29:23.799 --> 00:29:29.359
own sick needs. Well, some months and interviews would pass,

465
00:29:30.200 --> 00:29:34.440
and investigator's patients were running thin, and they were starting

466
00:29:34.480 --> 00:29:38.279
to get really short with Israel. Give us locations so

467
00:29:38.319 --> 00:29:42.039
we can recover bodies. That's what we're doing here. But

468
00:29:42.119 --> 00:29:48.599
he continued to stall. He continued wanting confirmation that the

469
00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:53.799
details wouldn't be released publicly, where his daughter would find

470
00:29:53.839 --> 00:29:59.119
out everything that he did. He didn't want his daughter

471
00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:07.119
to know what he did to someone else's daughter, daughters

472
00:30:07.160 --> 00:30:10.680
and sons. And I'm not throwing hate or shade on

473
00:30:10.720 --> 00:30:14.839
that child. Israel's daughter has nothing to do with this.

474
00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:17.519
She is a child, or was a child. This has

475
00:30:17.599 --> 00:30:21.920
nothing to do with her and her finding out how

476
00:30:21.920 --> 00:30:25.759
horrible her father was doesn't bring any joy in any way,

477
00:30:25.759 --> 00:30:27.799
and I think any grown ass adult would agree. I mean,

478
00:30:27.839 --> 00:30:32.160
this is not vengeance by a child finding out, but

479
00:30:32.240 --> 00:30:36.519
the thought that that is what his bargaining chips were about.

480
00:30:36.640 --> 00:30:42.319
He didn't want people to know who he really was. Okay, Well,

481
00:30:42.359 --> 00:30:48.000
shortly before December of twenty twelve, a judge ruled that

482
00:30:48.039 --> 00:30:52.720
the interrogations could be released to the public, and they were,

483
00:30:54.160 --> 00:30:57.920
and then on December first of twenty twelve, breaking news

484
00:30:58.000 --> 00:31:03.480
began to spread like wildfire. When prison officials went to

485
00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:07.480
go make their rounds, Israel Keys didn't meet them. At

486
00:31:07.519 --> 00:31:11.440
the bars of his cell on a Saturday night. Rolling

487
00:31:11.480 --> 00:31:15.160
into the early morning hours of a Sunday, Israel Keys

488
00:31:15.160 --> 00:31:18.240
would take his final life, and it was his own.

489
00:31:19.920 --> 00:31:23.000
Israel was found dead in his cell, having used a

490
00:31:23.000 --> 00:31:26.519
disposable razor hidden inside of a pencil to slit his

491
00:31:26.559 --> 00:31:29.440
wrists and then he used his sheets to complete the

492
00:31:29.480 --> 00:31:36.279
act by hanging. Everything that he had to tell and

493
00:31:36.359 --> 00:31:40.160
the potential to gather the names of his unknown victims

494
00:31:40.480 --> 00:31:46.359
died with him that night, and this news hit families

495
00:31:46.680 --> 00:31:51.480
of these victims that were known hard. A conviction at

496
00:31:51.559 --> 00:31:57.559
trial would have legally and publicly found him responsible for

497
00:31:57.640 --> 00:32:02.440
the death of Samantha Koenig, and that formality would have

498
00:32:02.559 --> 00:32:08.319
meant so much to her family, that legal document, that

499
00:32:08.519 --> 00:32:13.279
public assurance and finger pointing by a jury and everyone

500
00:32:13.359 --> 00:32:17.880
that they all know you did this. You did it alone.

501
00:32:17.960 --> 00:32:21.480
It's not speculation, it's not a guess, it's not just

502
00:32:21.920 --> 00:32:25.319
it could have been. Everybody would have known you did this,

503
00:32:26.000 --> 00:32:28.960
and you know you did it Israel, but everybody else

504
00:32:29.200 --> 00:32:31.599
would know, and they would hear what kind of person

505
00:32:31.640 --> 00:32:37.119
you were. But now that would never happen. The chance

506
00:32:37.160 --> 00:32:41.759
to say publicly the horrors their child suffered and for

507
00:32:41.880 --> 00:32:44.279
him to have to be judged in front of everyone

508
00:32:44.720 --> 00:32:47.599
was something that they wanted as much as they needed it.

509
00:32:48.880 --> 00:32:52.359
And now it was over. The air was sucked out

510
00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:55.680
of their lungs once again upon hearing this news, and

511
00:32:55.720 --> 00:33:00.440
it's just not fair. Luckily you and I we weren't

512
00:33:00.440 --> 00:33:04.319
in that position. We didn't we didn't have to. You know,

513
00:33:04.359 --> 00:33:06.319
we can look at this and say, oh, good, he's dead.

514
00:33:06.359 --> 00:33:08.240
He's a piece of shit anyway, I'm glad he's dead.

515
00:33:08.519 --> 00:33:13.359
But don't forget that the victims and their families, they

516
00:33:14.319 --> 00:33:17.160
still had that opportunity that they were looking forward to

517
00:33:16.960 --> 00:33:21.079
to address it and for the world and the legal

518
00:33:21.119 --> 00:33:23.839
system to acknowledge it. And it was just stripped from

519
00:33:23.920 --> 00:33:28.599
them by the very person who stripped their child from them.

520
00:33:29.599 --> 00:33:36.640
It's unfucking fair. Well, officials would search his cell and

521
00:33:36.680 --> 00:33:41.519
this would uncover more than just a suicide scene, because

522
00:33:41.559 --> 00:33:47.039
they found some items that were quite disturbing, including paintings.

523
00:33:47.599 --> 00:33:50.759
And the paintings were disturbing for a multitude of reasons,

524
00:33:51.200 --> 00:33:54.640
but most prominently was the fact that they were painted

525
00:33:54.960 --> 00:34:00.400
with his own blood. While the creep factor in this

526
00:34:00.799 --> 00:34:05.400
is very high, it was also the number of them

527
00:34:05.960 --> 00:34:09.960
that was extremely jarring to investigators because guess how many

528
00:34:10.039 --> 00:34:16.079
paintings in his blood? There were eleven, the exact number

529
00:34:16.079 --> 00:34:20.880
of victims that Israel admitted to killing, So investigators believed

530
00:34:20.920 --> 00:34:23.360
that this was not a coincidence and that there was

531
00:34:23.440 --> 00:34:28.679
one for each victim. Eleven separate white sheets of paper

532
00:34:29.480 --> 00:34:32.480
with primitive looking skulls on each one, all of the

533
00:34:32.559 --> 00:34:36.840
skulls having round eyes and two round nostrils, and all

534
00:34:36.880 --> 00:34:40.679
of the mouths on them straight across, with no emotion.

535
00:34:40.840 --> 00:34:43.480
This was not art like you might think he had skill. No,

536
00:34:43.679 --> 00:34:47.440
it was very primitive, almost childlike looking drawing if it

537
00:34:47.440 --> 00:34:51.880
weren't so evil. And all of the skulls had crosses

538
00:34:52.239 --> 00:34:55.440
on their foreheads that looked very similar to when Catholics

539
00:34:55.480 --> 00:34:58.880
get their ashes. It looked just like that on the forehead.

540
00:35:01.000 --> 00:35:04.199
Only one of the paintings had words on it, and

541
00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:07.079
it said It was at the bottom, and it said

542
00:35:07.800 --> 00:35:12.960
we are one. And I wondered, personally, there is no

543
00:35:13.119 --> 00:35:15.320
record of this, nor is there anyone else who has

544
00:35:15.320 --> 00:35:18.000
said this. This is just my own curiosity. I wonder

545
00:35:18.039 --> 00:35:20.199
if that was maybe a hint to that he may

546
00:35:20.199 --> 00:35:24.000
have cannibalized at some point, because a lot of these

547
00:35:24.119 --> 00:35:27.719
killers that admit to cannibalizing say that they wanted to

548
00:35:27.800 --> 00:35:31.519
consume and become one with their victims. And I've always

549
00:35:31.519 --> 00:35:34.800
been curious as to what that meant. But that's exactly

550
00:35:34.880 --> 00:35:37.559
where my mind went. If you'r's w somewhere else, that's cool,

551
00:35:37.559 --> 00:35:40.239
email me, let me not message me or whatever. But

552
00:35:40.519 --> 00:35:43.719
it's not so far fetched. And I'm not saying that

553
00:35:44.199 --> 00:35:50.000
for grandiose storytelling. I'm genuine in this. We've all seen

554
00:35:50.119 --> 00:35:53.360
Dahmer and heard about Dahmer, so that's what I wondered

555
00:35:53.519 --> 00:35:57.199
what that meant. And then there was only one painting

556
00:35:57.280 --> 00:36:00.440
out of the eleven that was not a skull. Now

557
00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:03.599
to me, the painting looks like a sand dollar, and

558
00:36:03.639 --> 00:36:05.679
I'm going to I'll post this on Patreons. Y'all can

559
00:36:05.679 --> 00:36:07.280
look through them and you can see and assess and

560
00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:11.800
see what you see. Sometimes different lenses of looking at

561
00:36:11.840 --> 00:36:14.320
things and all of our different experiences in life make

562
00:36:14.400 --> 00:36:16.639
us see different things, which is interesting because it can

563
00:36:16.679 --> 00:36:19.239
open up different avenues. So at this point we know

564
00:36:19.400 --> 00:36:23.559
of Samantha, Bill and Lorraine, which now leaves us eight

565
00:36:23.599 --> 00:36:28.000
people unaccounted for. Keep that in mind. There was also

566
00:36:28.079 --> 00:36:31.559
a suicide note which rambled on It was very hard

567
00:36:31.559 --> 00:36:35.599
to read. It was found under his body and it

568
00:36:35.639 --> 00:36:38.119
was written in a combination of pencil and ink on

569
00:36:38.159 --> 00:36:42.280
this yellow legal pad. So the FBI took that messy

570
00:36:43.039 --> 00:36:47.440
rambling note and they had it cleaned up to be

571
00:36:47.440 --> 00:36:51.440
analyzed more and It did not confirm any new murders,

572
00:36:51.599 --> 00:36:54.159
nor did it list any of the names of the

573
00:36:54.199 --> 00:36:57.039
ones that he had admitted to. I mean shit, the

574
00:36:57.119 --> 00:36:58.719
least he could have done was name him before he

575
00:36:59.079 --> 00:37:00.880
killed himself. But no, he's not going to do that.

576
00:37:01.119 --> 00:37:04.199
He's not going to do that. Well. They also looked

577
00:37:04.239 --> 00:37:06.559
into the words because they wanted to see were there

578
00:37:06.599 --> 00:37:10.960
any hidden messages that it may contain, or maybe some

579
00:37:11.039 --> 00:37:14.519
type of coding in there. But they read it was

580
00:37:14.519 --> 00:37:17.639
four pages long. They read through all of it, and

581
00:37:18.719 --> 00:37:22.280
they didn't find anything. There was no hidden messages there. Now,

582
00:37:22.360 --> 00:37:25.800
portions of the note seemed to be describing how it

583
00:37:25.920 --> 00:37:29.559
feels to take a life, and then he goes on

584
00:37:29.800 --> 00:37:32.440
in other portions to express how much he hates Americans.

585
00:37:33.119 --> 00:37:34.719
So I was going to read you a couple of

586
00:37:34.760 --> 00:37:37.480
the excerpts from it. Again, it's much longer than this,

587
00:37:37.719 --> 00:37:39.880
but just to give you some insight, and these are

588
00:37:39.880 --> 00:37:44.039
direct quotes. I'm not ad libbing this. I looked into

589
00:37:44.079 --> 00:37:47.519
your eyes. They were so dark, warm and trusting, as

590
00:37:47.559 --> 00:37:50.880
though you had not a worry or care. The more

591
00:37:51.000 --> 00:37:54.559
guileless the gaze, the better potential to fill up those

592
00:37:54.679 --> 00:37:58.480
pools with your fear, your wet lips were a promise

593
00:37:58.639 --> 00:38:02.880
of a secret, unspoken, nervous laugh. It burst like a

594
00:38:02.920 --> 00:38:05.719
pulse of blood from your throat. There will be no

595
00:38:05.800 --> 00:38:09.760
more laughter here. Your face framed in dark curls like

596
00:38:09.760 --> 00:38:13.719
a portrait, the sun shone through highlights of red. What

597
00:38:13.920 --> 00:38:17.119
color I wonder? And how straight up will it turn?

598
00:38:17.239 --> 00:38:22.960
Plastered back with your sweat of your blood. Forget the

599
00:38:23.000 --> 00:38:26.079
lady called luck, she does not abide near me, for

600
00:38:26.119 --> 00:38:30.360
her powers don't extend to those who are deceased. Soon

601
00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:33.639
now you'll join those ranks of the dead, or your ashes.

602
00:38:33.679 --> 00:38:37.119
The wind will soon blow, family and friends will shed

603
00:38:37.119 --> 00:38:40.000
a few tears, portend, it's off to heaven you go.

604
00:38:41.039 --> 00:38:43.639
But the reality is you were just bones and meat,

605
00:38:44.119 --> 00:38:48.480
and with your brain dyed, also your soul. So that's

606
00:38:48.599 --> 00:38:52.440
just some insight to the darkness and the callousness of

607
00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:55.480
the way he thought of these people. And then these

608
00:38:55.480 --> 00:38:58.519
comments were some of the comments on Americans and the

609
00:38:58.599 --> 00:39:03.639
American working man. Quote land of the free, land of

610
00:39:03.679 --> 00:39:07.719
the Lye, land of Scheme American eyes, and he wrote

611
00:39:07.760 --> 00:39:09.960
that twice, Land of the free, land of the Lye,

612
00:39:10.360 --> 00:39:15.039
land of Scheme, American eyes. Consume what you don't need stars,

613
00:39:15.079 --> 00:39:18.760
you idolize, pursue what you admit is a dream and

614
00:39:18.800 --> 00:39:21.840
it's American die. Punch in the clock and sit on

615
00:39:21.880 --> 00:39:25.159
your ass playing stupid ass games on your phone. Paper

616
00:39:25.199 --> 00:39:28.039
on your wall says you got smarts, but you still

617
00:39:28.039 --> 00:39:31.360
crawl like the vermin you are. Once your precious power

618
00:39:31.400 --> 00:39:36.840
grid's blown. Okay, all is over. Words are flaccid and weak.

619
00:39:37.719 --> 00:39:40.559
Back it with action, or it all comes off as cheap.

620
00:39:41.719 --> 00:39:44.639
Watch close while I work. Now, feel the electric of

621
00:39:44.639 --> 00:39:51.000
my touch. Open my trembling flower or your petals, I'll crush.

622
00:39:51.119 --> 00:39:53.800
So this is certainly, like I said, not all of

623
00:39:53.840 --> 00:39:57.639
the note, but it's again giving you that insight to

624
00:39:57.719 --> 00:39:59.840
the mind of a killer and someone who's full of

625
00:40:00.719 --> 00:40:04.280
and on top of that. A forensic psychiatrist at Vanderbilt

626
00:40:04.360 --> 00:40:07.840
University Medical Center. His name was doctor Stephen Montgomery. He

627
00:40:07.920 --> 00:40:14.199
reviewed the note and it was his opinion that in

628
00:40:14.239 --> 00:40:19.639
these writings, Israel's goal was to emphasize his own superiority,

629
00:40:19.719 --> 00:40:23.360
that he has guile and can take advantage of people

630
00:40:23.400 --> 00:40:28.360
who are naive and trusting of him. And doctor Montgomery

631
00:40:28.400 --> 00:40:32.840
was also very clear that Israel was intelligent and very

632
00:40:32.880 --> 00:40:37.480
clearly understood his behavior was wrong and He wrote the

633
00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:42.320
letter in this way so that he wanted people to

634
00:40:42.559 --> 00:40:45.119
not only find it, but he wanted them to talk

635
00:40:45.159 --> 00:40:52.079
about it, and he also wanted people Israel's goal was

636
00:40:52.119 --> 00:40:55.159
to further magnify his own self worth. Basically, it was

637
00:40:55.199 --> 00:41:01.599
a very self serving letter. And I'm no psychiatrist, I've

638
00:41:01.639 --> 00:41:05.320
never claimed to be. But the grandiose nature in which

639
00:41:05.320 --> 00:41:09.239
he attempts to write is obviously a reflection of how

640
00:41:09.239 --> 00:41:12.039
he thinks of himself and how great he is. And

641
00:41:12.079 --> 00:41:16.519
in the words of Simon Cowell back in the American

642
00:41:16.519 --> 00:41:20.519
Idol days, I find it very self indulgent. I wasn't

643
00:41:20.559 --> 00:41:22.840
as impressed by these writings. He came across as a

644
00:41:22.880 --> 00:41:26.639
pseudo intellect, and he tried to write like he was

645
00:41:26.719 --> 00:41:29.239
Ralph Waldo Emerson or some shit. But he's a he's

646
00:41:29.239 --> 00:41:32.320
an evil killer. Like that's that's all you are. Don't

647
00:41:32.320 --> 00:41:37.599
get it twisted. So for now, the FBI continues to

648
00:41:37.760 --> 00:41:41.760
try and solve those eight unsolved cases that are believed

649
00:41:41.760 --> 00:41:44.920
to have been committed by Israel Keys. So why has

650
00:41:44.960 --> 00:41:47.719
this remained so difficult even today? In twenty twenty five,

651
00:41:47.880 --> 00:41:52.360
like I said, he traveled extensively, he buried those murder

652
00:41:52.400 --> 00:41:54.400
kits or his kill cash, whatever you want to call it,

653
00:41:55.320 --> 00:41:59.880
and so he didn't travel nor check weapons on flight.

654
00:42:01.239 --> 00:42:06.159
He had no targeted victim profile. His victims were often

655
00:42:06.239 --> 00:42:10.159
chosen at random and on the spot. They ranged from

656
00:42:10.239 --> 00:42:14.880
teenagers to middle aged couples. He did at one point

657
00:42:14.920 --> 00:42:17.639
say in his interviews that he preferred victims that were

658
00:42:17.719 --> 00:42:20.800
lightweight because they were easier to dispose of, but that

659
00:42:20.920 --> 00:42:25.440
wasn't always the case, and he also said that after

660
00:42:25.480 --> 00:42:28.960
his daughter was born, he tried to avoid any situations

661
00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:32.519
where a child may be hurt. So the FBI has

662
00:42:32.599 --> 00:42:37.880
compiled the known movements and the known travels of israel

663
00:42:37.920 --> 00:42:41.000
Keys to try and narrow down areas of concentration where

664
00:42:41.000 --> 00:42:44.360
they might can figure out who these people are. Now,

665
00:42:44.400 --> 00:42:49.280
no bodies have been recovered to date, but the FBI

666
00:42:49.440 --> 00:42:52.760
has now expressed their confidence that the woman that he

667
00:42:52.840 --> 00:42:55.639
said he kidnapped and he buried in upstate New York

668
00:42:56.079 --> 00:42:58.800
is likely a woman by the name of Deborah Feldman

669
00:42:59.239 --> 00:43:03.079
who disappear around that same time. And when they were

670
00:43:03.159 --> 00:43:08.880
reviewing Israel's computers or computer they found pictures of Deborah

671
00:43:08.920 --> 00:43:12.960
Feldman on his computer. And when they took that picture

672
00:43:13.000 --> 00:43:15.599
of her and they put it in front of him

673
00:43:15.599 --> 00:43:18.159
when he was still alive, and they showed that photo

674
00:43:18.599 --> 00:43:23.559
to Israel. He reacted differently. He physically reacted whenever they

675
00:43:23.559 --> 00:43:26.599
put that photo in front of him, and they said

676
00:43:26.679 --> 00:43:29.079
he literally started to kind of shake when he saw it,

677
00:43:29.599 --> 00:43:33.559
and there's something to that that autonomic system was firing

678
00:43:33.599 --> 00:43:36.840
off when he saw her face. So this would now

679
00:43:36.920 --> 00:43:40.320
mean that four of the eleven are potentially solved, but

680
00:43:40.360 --> 00:43:44.920
this still leaves seven people. And he did mention Lake

681
00:43:44.960 --> 00:43:48.760
Crescent in Washington in one of his interviews, where he

682
00:43:48.880 --> 00:43:52.199
had a small aluminum boat that he said he would

683
00:43:52.280 --> 00:43:56.559
use to hide a body before he dumped her. And

684
00:43:56.880 --> 00:44:00.000
the lake, by the way, that's one of the deepest

685
00:44:00.199 --> 00:44:03.199
lakes in the US. So as you can imagine, nobody

686
00:44:03.239 --> 00:44:05.559
has ever been recovered from that one, none in all

687
00:44:05.559 --> 00:44:09.119
the years that have gone by. The Green River in

688
00:44:09.199 --> 00:44:12.519
Wyoming is where he also had hidden one of his

689
00:44:12.599 --> 00:44:15.960
kill kits, so they are of the thinking right now

690
00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:23.039
that a victim may be there as well. Finally, he

691
00:44:23.159 --> 00:44:26.400
was known to travel to Canada a lot, but during

692
00:44:26.440 --> 00:44:28.920
one of the interviews he said something that is just

693
00:44:29.039 --> 00:44:32.440
mind blowing. He said, well, yeah, I went to Canada,

694
00:44:32.519 --> 00:44:36.639
but Canadians don't count. Whenever he was asked if he

695
00:44:36.679 --> 00:44:42.320
ever killed anyone there? So did he kill Canadians? We

696
00:44:42.400 --> 00:44:46.920
don't know. So I hate to say this, but sorry,

697
00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:49.639
you know, Sorry, Israel, they matter to me. They matter

698
00:44:50.760 --> 00:44:55.000
even if they're from Canada. And I went and I

699
00:44:55.039 --> 00:44:58.239
looked at the it's called the Dough Network for like

700
00:44:58.320 --> 00:45:01.679
John Doe, you know, the Dough Network for missing and unidentified.

701
00:45:01.719 --> 00:45:05.840
I focused on females in Canada, just out of curiosity,

702
00:45:06.320 --> 00:45:11.880
and the numbers are staggering, justin Alberta alone from nineteen

703
00:45:11.960 --> 00:45:13.920
ninety one to twenty ten, because I kind of honed

704
00:45:13.960 --> 00:45:18.320
in on that time frame. There are fourteen There are

705
00:45:18.360 --> 00:45:22.159
fourteen missing people in Canada, and one of them I

706
00:45:22.159 --> 00:45:24.280
don't know why, but she caught my attention. Her name

707
00:45:24.320 --> 00:45:28.400
was Jay Reagan. She's sixteen years old and she's got

708
00:45:28.400 --> 00:45:31.280
that sandy blonde hair, and for some reason, I was

709
00:45:31.360 --> 00:45:34.480
just drawn to that girl. I wonder. It just makes

710
00:45:34.480 --> 00:45:37.519
you wonder. And I'll put the link to that site

711
00:45:37.679 --> 00:45:39.239
in the show notes so you can go click on

712
00:45:39.280 --> 00:45:40.559
it and go look at all of their faces if

713
00:45:40.559 --> 00:45:42.880
you want to, because there's faces to these missing people.

714
00:45:43.199 --> 00:45:47.159
There are people that was just an Alberta police are

715
00:45:47.199 --> 00:45:51.119
still trying to gather information still on Israel keys and

716
00:45:51.159 --> 00:45:53.639
whose possible victims may be. And I just want to

717
00:45:53.639 --> 00:45:55.599
tell you this. There is a contact number that you

718
00:45:55.639 --> 00:45:59.519
can call and that number is one eight hundred call FBI.

719
00:46:00.280 --> 00:46:03.119
You never know, you may hold the key to something

720
00:46:03.559 --> 00:46:07.760
that you don't realize. So that's what happened to Israel.

721
00:46:08.119 --> 00:46:09.880
I know a lot of people had messaged and said, ooh,

722
00:46:10.079 --> 00:46:13.119
you know, I hope he gets prison justice. Well, I

723
00:46:13.119 --> 00:46:15.960
guess that's pretty much what we have to work with

724
00:46:16.119 --> 00:46:20.800
is a suicide. But thankfully he can no longer physically

725
00:46:20.960 --> 00:46:24.199
hurt anyone and no future victims will be made by

726
00:46:24.199 --> 00:46:28.280
his hands. And I don't have much to say about him,

727
00:46:28.679 --> 00:46:33.119
as he doesn't deserve the time nor the spotlight for

728
00:46:33.199 --> 00:46:36.800
being evil. And I love to tell these stories because

729
00:46:36.840 --> 00:46:38.519
I like to talk about these victims and maybe we

730
00:46:38.559 --> 00:46:43.480
can find some, but spotlighting him it just sucks, you know,

731
00:46:43.639 --> 00:46:45.320
But you have to know you're bad guy if you're

732
00:46:45.320 --> 00:46:47.599
gonna think like you're bad guy, and what they possibly

733
00:46:47.599 --> 00:46:51.199
have done. And when he committed his suicide, he proved

734
00:46:51.239 --> 00:46:54.320
once and for all that no killer ever dies a hero,

735
00:46:54.880 --> 00:47:00.400
just a coward and while Israel believed in Satan, I

736
00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:04.320
believe in the power of Jesus, and I believe that

737
00:47:04.360 --> 00:47:08.360
he was with every victim, known and unknown in their

738
00:47:08.400 --> 00:47:12.440
worst moments, and that he cradled them through their fear.

739
00:47:13.280 --> 00:47:18.239
That's what I choose to believe. And while it's hard

740
00:47:18.280 --> 00:47:21.480
to believe this, I'm actually going to conclude on a

741
00:47:21.519 --> 00:47:26.519
positive note this episode because in the end, I'm positive

742
00:47:27.199 --> 00:47:30.360
that his suicide saved the taxpayers money, which is the

743
00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:32.039
only good thing he probably ever did.