Keyes then forcibly walked her out of the coffee stand toward Tudor Road. Samantha broke away from Keyes and tried to run away. Keyes chased her and tackled her to the ground. He put one arm around her and pointed a gun at her body with the other hand; telling her that she needed to cooperate, that the gun had very quiet ammo and that she should not do anything to make him kill her. Keyes had previously prepared the truck for the abduction by taking the mounted tool boxes off the bed of the truck, as well as removing the license plates.
Keyes then bound Samantha in the truck and drove away. Keyes drove around town, explaining to Samantha that this was a kidnapping for ransom. Samantha told Keyes that her family did not have much money, and that Keyes was not likely to get much in ransom. Keyes convinced Samantha that if she cooperated, she would be returned to her family unharmed.
Samantha believed Keyes, and tried to talk to him in an effort to convince him to release her. At some point on the drive, Keyes realized that Samantha did not have her cell phone, which was necessary for his plan to demand ransom money by sending a text message from her phone.
He drove back to Common Grounds and re-entered the coffee stand, leaving Samantha bound in his truck. He retrieved the cell phone and got back into the truck and drove away. The text messages made it appear that Samantha just had a bad day and was leaving town for the weekend. Keyes asked Samantha for her debit card. Samantha told Keyes that she shared a bank account with her boyfriend, and that his ATM card was in the truck that they shared. Samantha told Keyes where her house was, and gave him the pin number to the ATM card.
Keyes put Samantha in the shed in front of his house, bound her, and turned the radio up in the shed so no one would hear her if she screamed. Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission. On the morning of Thursday, Feb. Her disappearance rocked the city. The FBI joined local police in the search, yet weeks went by with no leads.
In the Lower When detectives caught up with that card more than a month later, they found a year-old Alaskan man driving a rented car in Texas. His cold-blooded demeanor, coupled with the unthinkable details he was relaying, had the FBI immediately on edge: Had he done this before?
Shortly after 7 p. He had made the same drive, at the same time, several different days that week, curious about the comings and goings at the Common Grounds kiosk.
After several evenings of observation, Keyes decided to rob it. Even though the kiosk sat alongside a highly trafficked main road, there had been such heavy snowfall that the shack was obscured behind five-foot snowdrifts. The night was cold and extremely dark.
He would wait until near closing time, when there would probably be no other customers. He grabbed his coffee mug, a pair of plastic zip ties, his headlamp and his. He wore a tiny police scanner in his ear. Keyes got out of his truck and crossed the street toward the kiosk. Keyes walked up to the kiosk at five minutes to eight, just before closing, and stood at the large, open window, which he knew would have no Plexiglas, not even a screen.
He put down his empty thermos and asked the barista for an Americano. Now he had a good look: She was young, small, pretty, alone. Samantha Koenig. As she moved back and forth from the window to the espresso machine in this tiny space, about three feet wide, Keyes began silently running through his plan. Now there was a hitch: Someone was suddenly sitting in a nearby car, engine idling, watching him.
It made what he wanted to do all the more challenging. Samantha moved to the back of the kiosk and switched off the lights, then returned to the window.
Samantha stiffly moved toward the right of the window, where the register sat hidden from customers. She emptied the drawer and handed the money over. He watched Samantha while scanning the parking lot. Whoever was in that idling car finally pulled away and drove off. It was quiet now, just the soft whoosh of cars going back and forth on Tudor Road. Keyes told Samantha to get down on her knees and turn around at the window.
She did. He leaned over, binding her wrists behind her back with the zip ties. He told Samantha to move out of the way, then jumped inside. He moved his headlamp over the countertop and spotted a set of keys. Special Agent Jolene Goeden : And a short time later a man comes out. He gets in the vehicle, and he starts to drive away.
Special Agent Jolene Goeden : And once that vehicle exceeds the speed limit, he has his probable cause to pull that vehicle over. So, if Samantha is … alive … then we really need to find her quickly. Frank Russo Assistant U. Or was he someone who was just … using a credit card that he found? Special Agent Jolene Goeden : And then there were other times where you know the hair on the back of your neck stands up a little bit.
No crimes of violence in his history, no sex offenses in his history, nothing like that. Frank Russo : Even one of my colleagues at the U. Peter Van Sant [surprised]: One of your colleagues hired him to do some work? Frank Russo : Sure. An Anchorage resident since , Keyes lived in a house in a residential neighborhood with his girlfriend and his year-old daughter from a previous relationship.
The video of that confession had never been made public. In it, Keyes said he pointed a. Meaning, he chose her completely at random. Keyes said as they walked off into the night, Samantha broke free and ran. Special Agent Jolene Goeden : He chased after her and tackled her. It was all a lie. Instead, Keyes drove Samantha to his home, chained her up in his shed, and sexually assaulted her.
Keyes then strangled her to death. Frank Russo : He was talking about the murder of this girl like someone else would discuss what they had for lunch. Within hours of murdering Samantha, Israel Keyes left Anchorage for a Caribbean vacation with his family.
Frank Russo : He had drilled a hole and went ice-fishing in the lake. Michelle Tasker : He has a daughter. Hold a bunch of your cards back. But give me a card …. Using mind games to get a serial killer to ta…. They are odd moments to see; investigators casually bonding with their interview guest:.
Peter Van Sant : In some ways to the outsider it looked like you guys were in a way befriending a serial killer. Frank Russo : It was just the act that we had to put on when we went in that room. It was just trying to kind of do anything we could to get information. Israel Keyes voluntarily granted two dozen interviews to various investigators in the seven months after his arrest. Special Agent Jolene Goeden : I think … he wanted to tell this story. He wanted to talk about what he did.
Special Agent Jolene Goeden : He enjoyed the rush. He enjoyed the thrill of it. That strategy paid off when Keyes gave up the names of two victims, a married couple more than 4, miles from Anchorage, in Vermont.
They were just kind of living their life. But the case went cold for nearly a year, until Keyes laid out the roadmap of what had happened. On that trip, Keyes stayed at a hotel in Essex, Vermont. While there he dug up a bucket that he had buried a few years prior. Peter Van Sant : So, he would pre-position these caches and then when the urge came upon him, if he happened to be in that state, he had his tools of destruction ready to go.
Special Agent Jolene Goeden : Correct. Special Agent Jolene Goeden : We have the silencer for the We have a wood stock for a. And then we have the drum magazine, the. The cache used in the Currier attack has never been found, but Keyes told the FBI where they could find a weapon he had used in Vermont.
With his murderous tools in hand, Keyes went hunting for victims and found himself outside the Currier house. And theirs was the first house I found that had all those things.
Peter Van Sant : He just happens to take a walk from his hotel, into a neighborhood. And this unsuspecting couple just living their lives is about to have a monster at their door. And immediately tie them up. Special Agent Jolene Goeden : And then he moves them to their car. And he drives them to an abandoned farmhouse that he had scoped out earlier.
He had restrained Bill downstairs. Bill ultimately starts to break free from the restraints. And Keyes has to go back downstairs in order to restrain him again. And he started to say something, and it just pissed me off and I just started pulling the trigger.
Keyes then strangled Lorraine Currier and left the couple in the basement of the abandoned farmhouse. Special Agent Jolene Goeden : No. A short time after this happened, the house ended up being demolished. And it was taken to the landfill. It was a — I believe a 10 or week search at the landfill. The FBI was searching in an attempt to find them. But we were not able to recover their bodies.
But as meticulous as Keyes was in covering his tracks, he slipped up — leaving behind a fingerprint on an ammunition case. Special Agent Jolene Goeden : This is the one item in all the things that we found that belonged to Keyes that actually had … his fingerprint on it. What other clues had Keyes left behind? What other murders had he committed?
Investigators began focusing on his time in Washington State, where Keyes was raised; a place where he would admit to killing at least four more people. Either fishing or out hunting. To understand Israel Keyes, you have to go deep into the vast, remote wilderness where he was raised — the place where he lived off and on for more than 20 years: Washington State.
They have spent eight years investigating his life and crimes in Washington, searching for more victims. Special Agent Colleen Sanders : He grew up poor. He grew up in a large family. There were 10 children in all. And they kind of lived … apart from society.
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