Speaker 1: What motivates a serial killer? For some, it's sheer hatred
Speaker 1: against humankind.
Speaker 2: He was punishing those who had the good fortune. You're
Speaker 2: raised in a warm, loving home.
Speaker 1: Some of these murderers seek revenge for an abusive childhood.
Speaker 3: They're destroying them out of a need for vengeance.
Speaker 1: And then there are others who just simply love to kill.
Speaker 4: Israel Keys killed because he enjoyed it. You got a
Speaker 4: journaline rush from it. You love the thrill of it.
Speaker 1: What creates these cold blooded monsters? What drives their work? Psyche?
Speaker 1: Now the actual voices and visions of serial killers?
Speaker 4: Once I started, you know, and there was nothing else.
Speaker 1: Like it, plunges deep inside their complex and twisted mind.
Speaker 1: February first, twenty twelve. It's a cold winter's night in Anchorage.
Speaker 1: A heinous crime is about to be committed. Eighteen year
Speaker 1: old Samantha Koenig is working alone at the common Ground's
Speaker 1: coffee hunt.
Speaker 4: A little bit before closing time that night, A tall
Speaker 4: man in a dark coat walked up to the window
Speaker 4: and he ordered an Americano coffee. And he stood there
Speaker 4: and watched as Samantha turned around and made it. When
Speaker 4: she turned back around, he had pulled a gun on her.
Speaker 1: Shocked and surprised, Samantha raises her hands as if being
Speaker 1: held up.
Speaker 4: He tells her it's a robbery. She kind of steps back, surprised.
Speaker 4: He then ends up coming in through the window, climbs
Speaker 4: in through the window and ties her up with some
Speaker 4: zip ties, and then forces her at gunpoint out of
Speaker 4: the coffee stand and walks her back to his car.
Speaker 1: The abductor's name is Israel Keys. He is a serial
Speaker 1: killer responsible for a steady string of brutal murders for
Speaker 1: more than a dozen years.
Speaker 4: Keys didn't have a real victim profile. He was pretty
Speaker 4: unusual for serial killers. He didn't have a certain race,
Speaker 4: or a certain age, or certain sex that he targeted.
Speaker 4: He was much more random. It was more opportunity crimes
Speaker 4: with him, just who happened to be at the wrong
Speaker 4: place at the wrong time, And for Samantha Konig, she
Speaker 4: was at the wrong place at the wrong time. Keys
Speaker 4: had decided that he was going to rob this particular
Speaker 4: common Grounds coffee shop. That's originally what he planned on doing,
Speaker 4: just robbing it, but when he got to it, when
Speaker 4: he saw Samantha, he changed his mind and decided to
Speaker 4: take her.
Speaker 1: Gees tries to keep his captive calm by telling her
Speaker 1: it's only a kidnapping. He's going to hold her for ransom.
Speaker 1: He takes Samantha Kney to the shed next to his
Speaker 1: home and binds and gags her. Incredibly, his living girlfriend
Speaker 1: and ten year old daughter are in the house just
Speaker 1: several feet away.
Speaker 4: He took her into the shed, closed it up, tied
Speaker 4: her up in there, left her in the shed. He
Speaker 4: then actually got information from her and went to her
Speaker 4: house where her truck was parked outside to get her wallet,
Speaker 4: to get her ATM card and some other things. Came
Speaker 4: back to the shed where she was still subdued, and
Speaker 4: then that's when he raped her.
Speaker 1: Still Samantha praise, she will survive horror, Hoping it's only
Speaker 1: a kidnapping, she gives Keys her ATM pin number, But
Speaker 1: she'd never had a chance. Once Keys made up his mind.
Speaker 1: Back at the coffee hut, Keys strangles the helpless young woman.
Speaker 4: Well, he enjoyed the thrill, the adrenaline rush of it.
Speaker 4: He enjoyed having control over his victims. He enjoyed seeing
Speaker 4: their fear. He raped his victims.
Speaker 5: We know that.
Speaker 1: Astoundingly. After the murder, Keys immediately returns to his normal life.
Speaker 4: So after he kills Samantha, he drink a glass of wine,
Speaker 4: calmly went back into the house where his daughter was
Speaker 4: sleeping and his girlfriend was sleeping, and later on that
Speaker 4: very morning, they all leave for a pre planned vacation.
Speaker 4: They fly to Houston and then drive to New Orleans
Speaker 4: for a cruise.
Speaker 1: For a one week cruise, Keys doesn't have time to
Speaker 1: just of Samantha's body.
Speaker 4: Prior to the trip, before leaving, he had put Samantha's
Speaker 4: body in a cabinet in the shed, the thought being
Speaker 4: that it's so cold an anchorage in the middle of
Speaker 4: winter that her body would be perfectly preserved there while
Speaker 4: he was gone.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, a frenzied hunt begins for Samantha. Her dad launches
Speaker 1: a grassroots campaign to find his daughter. Upon returning home Israel,
Speaker 1: Keys calmly checks back on Samantha's corpse.
Speaker 4: When he gets back, Samantha's bodies frozen solid in the cabinet.
Speaker 4: There is some difficult to getting it out. Actually, he
Speaker 4: takes the body out, faws it out with heaters, has
Speaker 4: sex with a corpse.
Speaker 1: Then, in a horrifying turn, Keys makes a successful ransom
Speaker 1: demand by sending a photo of the young woman made
Speaker 1: up to appear alive. He applies makeup so's her eyes
Speaker 1: open with fishing line and poses the body alongside an
Speaker 1: addition of the Anchorage Daily News from four days earlier.
Speaker 4: And then ultimately ends up cutting her up into pieces,
Speaker 4: dismembering the body to get rid of it, puts some
Speaker 4: body parts in trash bags and hauls them to a lake,
Speaker 4: a frozen lake near Anchorage and cuts a hole in
Speaker 4: the ice, drops the bags into the water, weighs them down,
Speaker 4: and lets him sink to the bottom of the lake.
Speaker 1: On March sixth, with their ATM card in hand, Israel
Speaker 1: key As flies to Las Vegas and rents a car,
Speaker 1: and a dramatic chase begins. At this point, police think
Speaker 1: they are tracking a kidnapper. They have no reason to
Speaker 1: believe he is a serial murderer. They have no clues
Speaker 1: to his identity and no concept of the enormous depth
Speaker 1: of his crimes. Keys as a thirty four year old
Speaker 1: psychopathic serial killer, and like so many of these monsters,
Speaker 1: he's able to commit these grisly crimes while still carrying
Speaker 1: on a normal life.
Speaker 4: Somehow, he was able to just maintain this dual existence
Speaker 4: having these two separate identities, the one of the family man,
Speaker 4: the devoted father, and the one as the killer.
Speaker 1: Detective Malcolm Rieman encountered these types of violent psychopaths for
Speaker 1: over thirty years as a New York City Police Department
Speaker 1: homicide investigator. He specialized in sexual predator and serial killer cases.
Speaker 3: People expect to see serial killers as being some type
Speaker 3: of drooling, maniac, creepy, maniacal person, and it's not really
Speaker 3: the case, and what you'll often find is charming, articulate, friendly,
Speaker 3: normal people.
Speaker 1: The FBI defines psychopathy as a personality disorder manifested in
Speaker 1: people who use a mixture of charm, manipulation, intimidation, and
Speaker 1: sometimes violence to control others and satisfy their own selfish needs.
Speaker 1: Psychopathic serial murderers have no empathy for their victims and
Speaker 1: no remorse for their crimes, and sadly, they're surprisingly hard
Speaker 1: to spot.
Speaker 4: Israel Key's had his own business in a construction business.
Speaker 4: All his clients reported that he seemed very normal. He
Speaker 4: seemed very friendly most of the time. He seemed nothing
Speaker 4: unusual about him. The neighbors reported seemed to seem like
Speaker 4: a normal, friendly guy from all appearances.
Speaker 1: But is Israel Keys is far from normal. He sets
Speaker 1: out from Las Vegas on a determined drive across the Southwest.
Speaker 1: He heads through Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Along the way,
Speaker 1: he stops several times to withdraw ransom money from Samantha's
Speaker 1: ATM account.
Speaker 4: When he made the withdrawal, there would be a king
Speaker 4: basically on the investigator's system. They would know the card's
Speaker 4: been used at this location, so they would rush to
Speaker 4: the location. But of course, by the time they got there,
Speaker 4: Keys is a long time. He was off in another
Speaker 4: town somewhere else.
Speaker 1: Investigators still have no idea who the kidnapper is, what
Speaker 1: kind of car is driving, or if Samantha is with
Speaker 1: him on his journey. Meanwhile, Samantha's disappearance has now gained
Speaker 1: national attention, fueled by her father's relentless efforts to save
Speaker 1: his daughter. Israel Keys is cleverly staying one step ahead
Speaker 1: of law enforcement. But then the man known as the
Speaker 1: most meticulous serial killer of the twenty first century makes
Speaker 1: an uncharacteristic mistake and police uncovers shocking truths about this
Speaker 1: heartless serial killer. Alaska's serial killer Israel. Keys abducts eighteen
Speaker 1: year old Samantha Koenig and brutally rapes and murders the
Speaker 1: young woman. He stashes her body in a cabinet and
Speaker 1: calmly leaves on a family vacation. Upon his return, he
Speaker 1: dismembers the corpse and drops the remains in a frozen lake,
Speaker 1: but still convinces her father and the police she's only
Speaker 1: been kidnapped. Now, law enforcement is tracking Keys through the
Speaker 1: southwest United States by the use of Samantha's at M card,
Speaker 1: hoping she is still alive. What's going on inside the
Speaker 1: warped mind of this killer and what drives him towards
Speaker 1: these heinous acts. Keys is energized by his crime and
Speaker 1: craves more thrills well.
Speaker 4: In addition to using the ATM card. While he was
Speaker 4: in Texas, Key's also decided he was going to rob
Speaker 4: a bank. This is something he'd done before. He'd robbed
Speaker 4: several banks before in the past. He found a house
Speaker 4: in a small town in Texas to ledo Texas. He
Speaker 4: broke into the house, burglarized it for what he could,
Speaker 4: and then set it on fire. And the point is
Speaker 4: setting it on fire was for diversion, So, in other words,
Speaker 4: he planned on the fire, drawing out the police from
Speaker 4: the nearby town so that he could then go to
Speaker 4: the town and rob the bank, which he did and
Speaker 4: rob the bank in Leigo, Texas.
Speaker 1: The anonymous murderer continues across the Southwest, but finally investigators
Speaker 1: catch a break. It's an uncharacteristic slip up for a
Speaker 1: killer whose precise planning has kept him under the radar
Speaker 1: for many years. At one of his withdrawals, the security
Speaker 1: camera catches a glimpse of keys rental car. It's a
Speaker 1: white twenty twelve Ford Focus.
Speaker 4: And it wasn't until they got the video of his
Speaker 4: rental car that they had something concrete that could actually
Speaker 4: searched for. So then the FBAI put out of a
Speaker 4: polo beyond the lookout for this twenty twelve white Ford Focus.
Speaker 1: On March thirteenth, a Texas Highway patrol and spots the
Speaker 1: White Ford in the parking lot of a quality in
Speaker 1: motel in Lufkin, Texas.
Speaker 4: He's got in the car, drove off, and they pulled
Speaker 4: him over. In the car they found an addition, obviously
Speaker 4: to the strangeness of this driver, having an Alaska driver's license.
Speaker 4: They also found Samantha Koonig's cell phone. They found Samantha
Speaker 4: Konigs atm card, a gun cash with the inkstand on
Speaker 4: it from robbery, and they knew they had their.
Speaker 6: Before we ask any questions, listeners stand your rights.
Speaker 4: You have the rights will be in silent. Anything you
Speaker 4: say can use the usty board.
Speaker 1: Do you have the right to talk to a lawyer
Speaker 1: for advice before.
Speaker 5: We ask you questions?
Speaker 3: You have the right to have a word with you
Speaker 3: during question if you cannot afford a.
Speaker 7: Lawyer who will be appointed for you affording questions.
Speaker 1: The Anchorage police and the FBI interrogate Keys, still having
Speaker 1: no idea he may be involved in any other murders. Sadly,
Speaker 1: on March thirty first, twenty twelve, he gives a gruesome
Speaker 1: confession of Samantha Koenik's torture and murder, and then the
Speaker 1: complex psychology of Israel Keys begins to unveil. He hints
Speaker 1: that there are other victims, many other victims.
Speaker 8: There is no one who knows me or who has
Speaker 8: ever known me, who knows anything about me. Really, they
Speaker 8: know they're going to tell you something that does not
Speaker 8: line up with anything I tell you because I'm.
Speaker 4: Two different people basically.
Speaker 8: And the only person who knows about what I'm telling
Speaker 8: you the kind of things I'm telling.
Speaker 9: You is me.
Speaker 4: How long have you been too?
Speaker 5: Different people?
Speaker 4: A long time? Fourteen years.
Speaker 1: Over the next nine months, investigators attempt to piece together
Speaker 1: other crimes Keys may have committed. More than forty hours
Speaker 1: of complex interrogation and psychological maneuvering reveals a killer with
Speaker 1: a shockingly precise method for serial murder.
Speaker 10: In the case of Israel Keys, even after he was arrested,
Speaker 10: he still felt the need to try to contry the situation,
Speaker 10: control law enforcement, and make the situation as beneficial for himself,
Speaker 10: despite the fact that he was apprehended as a serial killer. So,
Speaker 10: for example, he was only willing to give very limited
Speaker 10: information to police even though they had arrested him. So
Speaker 10: he was willing to negotiate, but he had very specific
Speaker 10: stipulations associated with all of the information he was willing
Speaker 10: to give out, and he was only willing to give
Speaker 10: out more once the stipulations were fulfilled.
Speaker 1: Investigators hope he'll cooperate and help bring closure to the
Speaker 1: victims' families. While Keys often focuses on receiving coffees and cigars.
Speaker 9: First of all, do I get a cigar today?
Speaker 4: What I can do is I can give you something.
Speaker 4: Get that cigar. There was a bank robbery in tupper Lake.
Speaker 6: That was me, and I'm sure it was probably the
Speaker 6: only bank robbery in that town for a while.
Speaker 1: Security cam photos confirm Key's account. The investigators and Keys
Speaker 1: share a laugh about using real hair for his disguises.
Speaker 1: Key's response is chilling your.
Speaker 6: Use real hair when you buy real hair.
Speaker 4: You don't have to buy real hair to get real hair.
Speaker 9: Fair enough, I guess you just take it. Hairs free.
Speaker 9: Everything's free if you take it.
Speaker 4: He wanted to have control. He seem to enjoy toying
Speaker 4: with the investigators as well. He would generally allude to
Speaker 4: certain crimes without giving details or specifics, leaving the investigators
Speaker 4: wanting more and more from him and kind of drawing
Speaker 4: them along that way.
Speaker 1: Interrogating these cunning serial killers can be very challenging for investigators.
Speaker 1: Detectives call the interrogation room the box.
Speaker 3: When I'm in the interview room, when I'm in the
Speaker 3: box with the serial killer, before I go in there,
Speaker 3: I want to know everything about that person. I want
Speaker 3: to know every intricate detail about that person's life.
Speaker 4: I want to know about.
Speaker 3: The traumatic things that happened in childhood. I want to
Speaker 3: know about previous crimes. I want to know everything about them.
Speaker 3: I want them to feel transparent. I want them to
Speaker 3: feel like there's nothing that they can hide from me
Speaker 3: that either I know or I'm going to find out.
Speaker 1: Experienced detectives learn how to read nonverbal cue and how
Speaker 1: to manipulate the suspect to get the information they need.
Speaker 1: Investigators notice that Israel Keys gets physically excited when he
Speaker 1: talks about his skills, rapidly tapping his hands and feet
Speaker 1: and jangling his shackles. It's a way detectives know when
Speaker 1: he is telling the truth. With Israel Keys, this process
Speaker 1: is extremely difficult. Keys agrees to continue to cooperate on
Speaker 1: the condition that they keep his name out of the press.
Speaker 7: We can work out some sort of a dreament that
Speaker 7: you know, I give you all the answers on these cases.
Speaker 4: Families get closure, You find his news.
Speaker 7: As many of them as possible, and and in return
Speaker 7: for that, you know, I you.
Speaker 6: Know, I don't plan on being around a hole lot longer,
Speaker 6: But of.
Speaker 4: Being concerned to me, is you know my kid's going
Speaker 4: to be around. I don't want her to.
Speaker 1: Like type my name into computer and it pop up late.
Speaker 1: You know, he doesn't want his ten year old daughter
Speaker 1: to hear about his grisly crimes.
Speaker 7: I'm not for glory, and.
Speaker 8: I don't see why the media has to get involved
Speaker 8: at all.
Speaker 1: FBI Special Agent Jolene Godin is part of the interrogation team.
Speaker 5: He wanted the death penalty, and he wanted it fast.
Speaker 5: It was speaking generally, that was what he wanted. There
Speaker 5: were little things along the way that he wanted, you know,
Speaker 5: he wanted evidence, return to family members and things like that.
Speaker 5: But big picture, what he wanted. He wanted to avoid trials.
Speaker 5: He wanted to avoid publicity and media. He wanted to
Speaker 5: avoid being taken from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and tried in
Speaker 5: you know, multiple places. And ultimately he wanted the death
Speaker 5: penalty and he wanted it quickly. He didn't want to
Speaker 5: sit in jail for a long period of time.
Speaker 1: Investigators tell Keys he won't get the death penalty without
Speaker 1: other victims. He slowly begins to reveal information about others
Speaker 1: he murders. They learn that Keys has been eluding capture
Speaker 1: through brilliant planning. He has studied the serial killers of
Speaker 1: the past and idolizes Ted Bundy. But they're shocked to
Speaker 1: discover that there's never been any serial killer quite like
Speaker 1: Israel Keys. The FBI and the Anchorage, Alaska Police Department
Speaker 1: are deep into the interrogation of serial killer Israel Keys.
Speaker 1: Keys has already confessed to one heinous murder, but now
Speaker 1: investigators are unraveling horrifying layers of complex and unspeakable crimes.
Speaker 4: So Keys view the entire country as his hunting grounds.
Speaker 4: So what he would do is, even though he was
Speaker 4: based out of Alaska, Okay, out of Anchorage, he would
Speaker 4: fly to another city a say, for example, he fight
Speaker 4: a Chicago, Okay. Once he got there to Chicago, he
Speaker 4: would rent a car. He'd then drive that car to
Speaker 4: a different state or through multiple states, putting on hundreds
Speaker 4: even thousands of miles before he got to where he
Speaker 4: actually committed the crime. So the crime was committed thousands
Speaker 4: and thousands of miles away multiple jurisdictions, so it made
Speaker 4: it very difficult to try to track him or come
Speaker 4: up with any sort of suspect in the crimes.
Speaker 5: Everything was meticulously planned and our interviews with him were
Speaker 5: the same. From his standpoint. I mean, he I never
Speaker 5: got the sense that he accidentally told us something or
Speaker 5: got anger and riled up and then something flew out
Speaker 5: of his mouth. He My sense was that he knew
Speaker 5: every time he came in kind of what he was
Speaker 5: going to give us that day.
Speaker 1: In the chilling interview, Keys talks about his inspiration and
Speaker 1: his motives other people like that.
Speaker 7: I probably know every single serial killer that's being written
Speaker 7: about this kind.
Speaker 4: Of a hobby around.
Speaker 7: I don't really consider myself all that different and all
Speaker 7: that special from hundreds of thousands of other people. All
Speaker 7: you have to do is type in a word search
Speaker 7: on any given porn site, and you know there's all
Speaker 7: kinds of people who have fantasies about rape and bondage
Speaker 7: and you know, kinds of things that I take it
Speaker 7: to another level.
Speaker 4: I think with me, it's a combination of things.
Speaker 7: It's not you know, it's not just about the sexual
Speaker 7: fantasies and it's not it's definitely not just about the money,
Speaker 7: and it's not just.
Speaker 4: About the adrenaline.
Speaker 7: But it's all of those things together, and that's what
Speaker 7: I get out of it. And once I started doing,
Speaker 7: you know, once I did it, once I started, you know,
Speaker 7: and there was nothing else like it.
Speaker 1: In his intricate planning, Keys even go so far as
Speaker 1: to ury pre packed murder kits in at least five
Speaker 1: states around America Israel.
Speaker 4: Keys put so much thought in prop and planning into
Speaker 4: his crimes. He would use what he called kill kits.
Speaker 4: These were five gallon plastic buckets. He would then put
Speaker 4: certain things in the buckets that he wanted to use
Speaker 4: for his crimes. He would put guns in the buckets.
Speaker 4: He would put ammunition in the buckets. He would put
Speaker 4: zip ties in the buckets. He would put tape in
Speaker 4: the buckets, flashlights, whatever he thought he would need. He'd
Speaker 4: then seal up the bucket and bury it in the ground.
Speaker 4: He did this in multiple states. He did it in
Speaker 4: New York and in Vermont. He did it in Washington,
Speaker 4: he did in Alaska. Then he would return to these sites,
Speaker 4: sometimes years later, and dig up the bucket, get the
Speaker 4: items out, and then use them for the crime.
Speaker 1: He even included caustic chemicals like dreno and lyne to
Speaker 1: help dispose of the bodies. The kits allowed him to
Speaker 1: travel without any weapons or tools to avoid security concerns
Speaker 1: at airports. Keys referred to his kits as buried treasures.
Speaker 1: Investigators find that Keys uses guns to control his victims,
Speaker 1: but that's not how he likes to kill. Keys takes
Speaker 1: investigators through the killing of Bill and Lorraine Courier in Essex, Vermont,
Speaker 1: in June of twenty eleven, four thousand miles from Anchorage.
Speaker 1: It's a typical stalk and kill murder for this ruthless predator.
Speaker 4: The couriers were chosen mostly at random, and I say
Speaker 4: mostly at random because there was a little bit of
Speaker 4: a criteria involved, not for the victims themselves, not for
Speaker 4: their carriers themselves, but for their home. He's had certain
Speaker 4: things he was looking for that particular night. He wanted
Speaker 4: a one story building. He wanted a home with an
Speaker 4: attached garage. He wanted a home that it looked like
Speaker 4: there weren't any children there. And unfortunately for the Couriers,
Speaker 4: their home fit the profile to a t. He called
Speaker 4: it a blitzkrieg attack. He broke in through the no
Speaker 4: one could see him. He was attached garage, so he
Speaker 4: broke in the window in the garage door, broke into
Speaker 4: the kitchen of the house. Immediately stormed into the key's
Speaker 4: bedroom and surprised them, subdued them, and took them away.
Speaker 1: But Keyes says he was unhappy it didn't go according
Speaker 1: to his plan and he had to shoot Bill Currier.
Speaker 4: He typically liked to strangle his victims to death. It
Speaker 4: was kind of a more personal murder, hands on literally
Speaker 4: the killing. So in the case of Bill Currier as
Speaker 4: the murder victim in Vermont, he was shot and killed,
Speaker 4: which is very unusual for keys to do. And the
Speaker 4: reason why keys did it is Bill Currier was not cooperating,
Speaker 4: not following directions. Ultimately, there's a loss of control of
Speaker 4: the situation. There was screaming and shouting and was not
Speaker 4: following instructions, not following directions from keys, and this loss
Speaker 4: of control anger Keys. It pissed him off and he
Speaker 4: reacted violently shot him hoped times.
Speaker 1: Keyes states he was disappointed because he had other plans
Speaker 1: for Bill Carrier.
Speaker 4: He never specified what the other plans were, but implied
Speaker 4: in that is that there was definitely some sort of
Speaker 4: torture that was in mind.
Speaker 1: This idea of power and control often runs through the
Speaker 1: motives of many serial killers. For years, researchers have tried
Speaker 1: to identify and categorize what creates and drives these monsters.
Speaker 1: Israel Keys fits in the categories of seeking power and control,
Speaker 1: as well as the sheer thrill of killing. Sex and
Speaker 1: torture are also common elements of serial murders, but these
Speaker 1: components are not always involved.
Speaker 3: I see really two basic types that I've dealt with,
Speaker 3: and the first type being a sexual predator hunter. He's
Speaker 3: going out and hunting down victims, seeking them out and
Speaker 3: deriving some type of sexual pleasure in victimizing them. And
Speaker 3: then you have another type of serial killer who's exacting
Speaker 3: some type of revenge. It's a revenge killer. They're getting
Speaker 3: revenge from rejection, alienation, perceived slights against a group of people,
Speaker 3: and they're destroying them out of a need for vengeance.
Speaker 1: Keys seems to fit into the sexual predator hunter category,
Speaker 1: while another brutal serial killer from the Ukraine falls into
Speaker 1: the revenge category. Anatotally Onoprienko took the lives of at
Speaker 1: least fifty two innocent victims. A twelve gage shotgun was
Speaker 1: his weapon of choice.
Speaker 2: Serial killer who was not oriented or sexual homicide so
Speaker 2: much as just plain misanthropic, killing one person after the
Speaker 2: other would be of this fellow on a Prianco from
Speaker 2: the Ukraine.
Speaker 1: On a Prienco's grisly crime scenes appear to express pathological
Speaker 1: rage against families, a hatred spawned by his own troubled childhood.
Speaker 1: When on a Prienco was just four years old, his
Speaker 1: mother died. His older brother stayed on with his father,
Speaker 1: but Anatoly was placed in an orphanage. Apparently this abandonment
Speaker 1: fuels his homicidal rage.
Speaker 2: He developed a hatred for how he was raised and
Speaker 2: for mankind in general. He would often invade a house
Speaker 2: in this small town places and kill all the people
Speaker 2: in the house, sometimes several all the months, and then
Speaker 2: burn the house down in order to further get back
Speaker 2: at the people who had the advantage of living in
Speaker 2: a nice home, which he never could do, so that
Speaker 2: he was punishing those who had the good fortune to
Speaker 2: be raised in a warm, loving home.
Speaker 1: Many serial killers claim they are on some kind of mission,
Speaker 1: driven by psychotic visions or voices to commit such crimes.
Speaker 1: You have to be given the right, But I can't
Speaker 1: prove who gave me the right. Maybe God gave me
Speaker 1: the right. How can I prove it? When, for example,
Speaker 1: there are six billion people on earth who claim to
Speaker 1: have seen God, but they can't prove it. But maybe
Speaker 1: I've seen God, maybe I've received a conquete tesk from Him,
Speaker 1: but I can't prove it well.
Speaker 11: Psychosis is more of there's a breaker's reality. The person
Speaker 11: used reality in a significantly different way than persons around them.
Speaker 11: They may have delusions, which are beliefs that have no
Speaker 11: basis in reality. They may experience voices that no one
Speaker 11: else around them hears. They may see things that no
Speaker 11: one else around them sees. They may be actually very disorganized.
Speaker 4: In their thought.
Speaker 11: There's a clear break with reality that generally they're seen
Speaker 11: as mental yield.
Speaker 1: Serial killers sometimes fake psychosis in order to escape the
Speaker 1: death penalty. On a Prienko try to use insanity as
Speaker 1: his defense, but the courts felt he was faking his
Speaker 1: mental illness and he was sentenced to death.
Speaker 11: There's no one course that makes an individual turn into
Speaker 11: or becoming criminals. There's all one individual path. There's different
Speaker 11: things you want to look at, and that one is
Speaker 11: the family dynamics, the relationship with the family, the mother
Speaker 11: the father, of the relationship the mother and the father
Speaker 11: have with themselves.
Speaker 1: Some experts believe Key's unconventional childhood played a role in
Speaker 1: fueling his desire to kill. Israel Keys grew up in
Speaker 1: a remote forest outside the small town of Colville, Washington.
Speaker 1: He was one of nine children. His family belonged to
Speaker 1: a strict religious group called the Arc, a church associated
Speaker 1: with racist and antisemitic theology. He was homeschooled and had
Speaker 1: little chance to socialize with other kids. He insists he
Speaker 1: wasn't abused or neglected as a child, but could the
Speaker 1: extreme isolation in his childhood be what transformed him into
Speaker 1: a monster serial killer. Israel Keys has operated completely under
Speaker 1: the radar for decades. His precise planning has allowed him
Speaker 1: to murder an untold number of victims without leaving a
Speaker 1: hint of a trail. Now investigators are interrogating the killer
Speaker 1: to attempt to determine the depth of his crimes and
Speaker 1: the motives behind his depravity. It seems a strange childhood
Speaker 1: may have played a role. Keyes grew up in the
Speaker 1: isolated woods outside of the small town of Colville, Washington.
Speaker 1: He enjoyed hunting and once remarked he would kill an
Speaker 1: anything with a heartbeat, since.
Speaker 6: I was fortunate that there were things that I thought
Speaker 6: were normal and that we're okay, that nobody got Some
Speaker 6: friends came with up when there was a cat of
Speaker 6: ours that was already getting into the trash, and they
Speaker 6: all went up in the live and took a piece
Speaker 6: of parish and cord high up through the tree and
Speaker 6: I shot it in the stomach that was getting this
Speaker 6: last time anybody went.
Speaker 11: In with.
Speaker 4: Well, when he was young, when he was about nineteen
Speaker 4: or twenty, he's committed his first violent crime against another person.
Speaker 4: He was watching a girl two being in a river
Speaker 4: in an Oregon from the woods, and he decided that
Speaker 4: you were going to a taker and killer, and he
Speaker 4: took the girl, grabbed her when she was separated from
Speaker 4: the people she was with. He grabbed her offtitude, dragged
Speaker 4: her up, and raped her, but then decided to let
Speaker 4: her go.
Speaker 1: Is it just a dreadful childhood that turns these people
Speaker 1: into serial killers? They often asked question is whether it's
Speaker 1: nature or nurture. Is it a result of their upbringing
Speaker 1: or are they born to kill?
Speaker 11: That's a great question. I think that question is currently
Speaker 11: hotly debated, and it's something that it's been questioned now
Speaker 11: over for two hundred and fifty years. Is someone born
Speaker 11: a criminal, is someone made a criminal.
Speaker 1: Behavioral studies theorized that the serial killer's dysfunctional childhood may
Speaker 1: lead to this a cold hearted lack of empathy.
Speaker 10: Most research that I've seen has suggested it's the interact
Speaker 10: between nature and nurture. It's the biological tendencies combined with
Speaker 10: the right environment to allow them to act out on
Speaker 10: those tendencies. If they have a predisposition to, let's say,
Speaker 10: be impulsive, or be unempathetic, or to commit crimes, parents
Speaker 10: could help neutralize that. But if they have that tendency
Speaker 10: and they have very bad parents, you can imagine that
Speaker 10: that tendency could just run wild and be exacerbated.
Speaker 3: I think absolutely that there is something in eight. There
Speaker 3: is something intrinsic, something that's within somebody to become a
Speaker 3: serial killer. I think that an environmental stimuli certainly can
Speaker 3: trigger it, and there are certain traits that or occurrences
Speaker 3: that will happen to somebody that may trigger it. But
Speaker 3: the bottom line is it's got to be something within
Speaker 3: them to make them that way.
Speaker 1: Israel Keys develops his love for killing very early in life,
Speaker 1: and he continues honing his murderous craft understanding Israel Key's
Speaker 1: motives for killing presents a complex puzzle for law enforcement.
Speaker 1: Another notorious serial murderer from Great Britain displays a similar
Speaker 1: psychopathic love of killing.
Speaker 12: We understand that the police called on the owners of
Speaker 12: number one sixty three Melrose Avenue today because they owned
Speaker 12: two dogs and those two dogs might have picked up
Speaker 12: some of the bones from one ninety five Melrose Avenue
Speaker 12: and buried them.
Speaker 4: In their back garden.
Speaker 12: Police described it tonight as only a cursory search and
Speaker 12: said they will be checking other gardens in the street
Speaker 12: as well. And I think it's right to say that
Speaker 12: we have found a significant amount of human bones and
Speaker 12: also a part of a jaw with teeth.
Speaker 1: Te Dennis Nielsen is one of Great Britain's most notorious
Speaker 1: serial killers, claiming at least twelve young men as victims.
Speaker 1: Like Keys, his murders are motivated by the thrill of killing,
Speaker 1: but Nilson's crimes appear to be driven by a morbid
Speaker 1: fascination with death and extreme loneliness. He would lure young
Speaker 1: male victims back to his home, strangle them and plunge
Speaker 1: their heads underwater to be certain they were dead. He'd
Speaker 1: sometimes commit sex acts with his dead victims. Nielsen said
Speaker 1: he saved the corpses for a while.
Speaker 13: To keep him company, but at least fifteen people paid
Speaker 13: the ultimate price for Dennis Nielsen's hospitality. He killed them,
Speaker 13: He chopped up their bodies, and he then burned, boiled,
Speaker 13: or buried the pieces.
Speaker 14: Twelve of the sixteen murders happened at Nielsen's flat in
Speaker 14: Melrose Avenue, North London. Each time he hid the body
Speaker 14: under the floorboards. Nielsen was asked by police how many
Speaker 14: bodies were under the floorboards at any one time. He replied,
Speaker 14: I didn't do a stock check or anything. It's all
Speaker 14: a bit of a jumble.
Speaker 1: Like Israel Keys, Nielsen shows no mental break with reality.
Speaker 1: He displays clear and calculating thought. In nineteen eighty three,
Speaker 1: after five years of killing, plumbing clogged with human remains
Speaker 1: and the body parts found by the dogs lead to
Speaker 1: Nielsen's capture. When asked about his motive for murder, Nielsen says, well,
Speaker 1: enjoying it is as good a reason as any. In
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight, after his troubled childhood, Israel Keys joins
Speaker 1: the army. He starts to drink heavily and enjoys the
Speaker 1: company of prostitutes, but he also learns more valuable skills
Speaker 1: to help him intensify his experiences.
Speaker 4: He's enlisted in the army when he was about twenty
Speaker 4: years old. He was stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington, and
Speaker 4: so he learned survival skills. During the army, he learned
Speaker 4: how to handle weapons in the army, These sorts of
Speaker 4: skills that he would then put the use for committing
Speaker 4: his crimes later on.
Speaker 1: It was during this time he meets Tammy Hawkins, and
Speaker 1: together they have a daughter. After the army, he lives
Speaker 1: with Tammy and his daughter in the lush forests of
Speaker 1: Washington's Olympic Peninsula, and it's thought that there he puts
Speaker 1: his hunting skills to the test on human beings.
Speaker 4: So Keys would typically try to find areas that were
Speaker 4: isolated parks or one of his favorite areas to scout
Speaker 4: to stock people. He would then wait for people to
Speaker 4: show up. He would follow them and would track them
Speaker 4: as necessary, and then surprise them.
Speaker 1: It appears Keys murders four victims in the forests of
Speaker 1: Washington State, often disposing of the bodies in remote mountain lakes.
Speaker 1: His murders continue for more than fourteen years, and law
Speaker 1: enforcement has no idea there's even a killer at large. Then,
Speaker 1: in February twenty twelve, Keys kills Samantha Konik close to
Speaker 1: home in Anchorage, Alaska, a rare impulsive decision for this
Speaker 1: calculating murderer.
Speaker 4: So one of his rules, one of his primary rules,
Speaker 4: was not to commit these crimes where he lived, and
Speaker 4: with Samantha, he broke his own rule.
Speaker 1: This mistake of temptation has now led to his downfall.
Speaker 1: He's now under arrest and heading for trial in Anchorage.
Speaker 1: The negotiations continue to try to get more information from
Speaker 1: Israel Keys. Then suddenly, during a court appearance, he once
Speaker 1: again shocks law enforcement.
Speaker 4: During one of the hearings in court, he decided he
Speaker 4: was going to try to escape, and while the attorneys
Speaker 4: were up arguing before the judge, he bolted tried to
Speaker 4: run out of the courtroom, but before he get even
Speaker 4: clear the aisle there the courtroom, deputies tackled him and
Speaker 4: subdued him.
Speaker 1: In typical fashion, Keys shows no remorse for his escape attempt.
Speaker 12: I mean, come on, let's say say, yeah, what happened yesterday?
Speaker 4: Who I'm a bad guy?
Speaker 7: I tried to escape, but let's be honest, nobody really
Speaker 7: thought it was a good guy before that.
Speaker 1: So during months of interrogation, Israel Keys admits to killing
Speaker 1: at least nine people, but investigators fear the actual total
Speaker 1: is higher.
Speaker 5: And he was very evasive at times during interviews, and
Speaker 5: he told us when we tried to pin him down
Speaker 5: on a number, he would say it was less than twelve.
Speaker 5: But then there were things that he would say that
Speaker 5: led us to believe that less than twelve, he's simply
Speaker 5: meant eleven. And so he was quick to correct us
Speaker 5: in interviews if we had something wrong. So there were
Speaker 5: several times where we just throughout statements like you were
Speaker 5: eleven victims or things like that, and he didn't correct us.
Speaker 5: So based on that and so much additional things that
Speaker 5: he said, we believe the number is eleven.
Speaker 4: He traveled so extensively, both in the US and in
Speaker 4: other countries such long periods of time, long periods of
Speaker 4: time that authorities haven't been able to pinpoint where he
Speaker 4: was oftentimes, So the number of victims is going to
Speaker 4: be much higher than eleven. In my opinion, Israel.
Speaker 1: Keys begs the FBI for a quick death sentence, but
Speaker 1: the agents continue to press for information on other victims.
Speaker 1: Keys grows impatient with the process and decides to take
Speaker 1: matters into his own hands.
Speaker 4: On December first, twenty twelve, while he was in prison
Speaker 4: awaiting trial in the ConA case, he's slit his wrists
Speaker 4: and also used his headsheet to strangle himself as insurance
Speaker 4: to make sure he got the job done. So as
Speaker 4: he bled out and as his body shifted relaxed from leading,
Speaker 4: he rigged the sheet so that they would strangle him
Speaker 4: to make sure he did the job. So he committed
Speaker 4: suicide while in prison.
Speaker 3: In many cases with serial killers, they start a very
Speaker 3: young age, often starting in their teen years, and I
Speaker 3: think historically they never stopped. The only way that the
Speaker 3: serial killer stops historically is if they're incarcerated or they
Speaker 3: kill themselves, which somewhat often that they do commit suicide.
Speaker 1: Crumpled inside the blanket on Key his deathbed is a
Speaker 1: bloodstained suicide. Note the case of Israel, Keys reinforces the
Speaker 1: immense challenges facing law enforcements in their efforts to apprehend
Speaker 1: serial killers.
Speaker 3: Can you take a common murder case, you start at
Speaker 3: the nucleus of that person's life. Then you work your
Speaker 3: way out from there with a serial killer, often just
Speaker 3: a random person, and that person does not even figure
Speaker 3: into that investigation, and it's somebody who's completely off the radar.
Speaker 3: How you're going to find them. You have to use
Speaker 3: modern technology and you have to use old fashioned police work.
Speaker 3: You have to be absolutely relentless. You just got to
Speaker 3: keep on plugging.
Speaker 4: Keys is really unique in the world of serial killers
Speaker 4: and the amount of preparation and planning you put into
Speaker 4: his crimes. He's so meticulous in his crimes that he's
Speaker 4: really a new breed of serial killer. He was extremely deceptive,
Speaker 4: extremely cunning. You got a journaline rush from it. You
Speaker 4: love the thrill of it. If he hadn't been caught,
Speaker 4: Keys would still be out there doing it today as
Speaker 4: a serial killer and as an individual. Keys as deceptive
Speaker 4: and cunning as the devil.