Morbid - Israel Keyes Part 2

Episode Date: May 7, 2019

Here we are, back again to go even deeper into the enigma that is Israel Keyes. This guy was a true monster and the details of his confessed crimes seem almost too horrific to be real. In Part 2, we g...o deeper into his three murders that we mentioned in Part 1 and we also discuss his motivations, his quirks and plug a great investigative podcast about this case, True Crime Bullshit. Come on in, the water is murky and poisonous. Sources: https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2018/05/18/unsealed-interviews-detail-two-lives-of-alaska-serial-killer-israel-keyes/ https://abcnews.go.com/US/serial-killer-israel-keyes-suicide-letter-creepy-ode/story?id=18421558 Cowritten by Alaina Urquhart, Ash Kelley & Dave White (Since 10/2022)Produced & Edited by Mikie Sirois (Since 2023)Research by Dave White (Since 10/2022), Alaina Urquhart & Ash KelleyListener Correspondence & Collaboration by Debra LallyListener Tale Video Edited by Aidan McElman (Since 6/2025) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey weirdos, I'm Elena and I'm Ash. And this is morbid. Yeah. We are back. We are back to finish Israel Keys part two. Because part one was so much fun. Part two was apparently a huge disappointment to a lot of people. No, part one.
Starting point is 00:00:43 Or part one, I'm sorry. And also just a quick little thing, I apologize for my voice, but I told you guys, I got the croup. thanks to my kids. And I'm probably getting the crew as we speak. Thanks to yo kids. So hopefully it was either we record with my voice
Starting point is 00:01:01 sounding slightly gravely and gross or we wait like four more days to record because that was the only time it was going to work. So instead of deprive you guys we're fighting through it. Fighting through.
Starting point is 00:01:13 Yeah. Ash is in the sick ward. She's put herself here. Yeah. Well, I guess so. You win some, you lose some, am I right? My Godspeed. But yeah, we're here to talk about Israel Keys part two.
Starting point is 00:01:27 DOLS. What we're going to be doing in this episode is we're just going to hang out. Here we are. That's it. So that's all we're doing. Done. Thanks for listening. No way.
Starting point is 00:01:38 What we're going to do is we're going to go into some more detail. We're going to talk about a little bit more about Israel Keys. We're going to talk about the three murders that we went up. over pretty generally, like last time. We didn't really get into super detail last time. But I think people want details. So I'm going to give you details. He's your details. So strap in because Israel Keys is a scary motherfucker. All hands inside the ride at all times, please. Guys, if we already haven't told you how fucking awesome murder apparel is, we now have a morbid
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Starting point is 00:03:04 It's there. It's up there. It's so up there. Take a left. Do it. Murder apparel.com. Woo! So before we jump into Israel Keys, I just want to give you guys a layout of the week
Starting point is 00:03:16 and what is ahead. we will be releasing Israel on Sunday or Monday. Ash's mini will be shortly following that. And then later in the week, we are going to record that episode that I asked you guys if you would be interested in where we're going to talk about the Zach Efron Ted Bundy movie. Wicked, shockingly evil, vile, gross, nasty. I always forget. Just gross.
Starting point is 00:03:47 Super gross. That's what it called. The title is, the title is, Ew. Ew, Ted Bundy. No, just, ew. Netflix missed an opportunity. They really did.
Starting point is 00:03:57 Ew. So we'll be watching, Ew. We'll be talking about how much we dislike or like it because neither one of us has seen it yet because I have kids and it's really hard to fit time in to watch these things. So we're going to watch it.
Starting point is 00:04:12 We're going to write down some notes. We're going to compare, contrast to the real Ted Bundy case. We're going to make a Vennie. fucking diagram. We are. We're going to make a Venn diagram. I don't even remember how. We're going to have an episode where we kind of discuss it. And yeah, so we'll be putting that out later this week. So you're getting a lot of episodes this week to make up for the fact that we were kind of remiss last week.
Starting point is 00:04:34 Sorry. Because the croup. So without further ado, let's fucking get into it. Let's talk about Israel Keys. So what's interesting, we have a nice little segue. way was Israel Keys was super into Ted Bundy. Shit. Isn't that funny? I didn't even mean to do that. That's funny.
Starting point is 00:04:52 He knew about Ted Bundy, obviously, because we all do. But he also had a deeper understanding of his motives and methods. And it seemed like he almost, well, he did admire him. And he was someone who he copied whenever he could. For example, both are sexually motivated killers. Because Israel Keys is a sexually motivated killer. He will say that it is. all of his crimes. Both were very controlled in their approach to their killings until the very end
Starting point is 00:05:21 when both of them lost their shit. The differences are also kind of vast between them too, like the fact that Bundy had a very specific victim who he never strayed from, you know, young college girl, dark hair, parted in the middle. Yeah, like he'd have, he had the most, I mean, I've yet to see another serial killer that had that specific of a victim. And didn't stray from it. Right. But Israel seemed to be kind of a fairly equal opportunity killer. You know, like we talked about last time that his really only, his only caveats with that would be kids. He didn't want to kill a dog.
Starting point is 00:05:57 No moms. And he didn't really want to kill moms. Like he didn't want anything to do with like, you know, full-blown families, I think. So he mainly went after, you know, middle age, single, or elderly, you know. So that's definitely different. Both held down girlfriends during their crime sprees at one point or not. another. Oh, damn. Liz with Bundy.
Starting point is 00:06:18 Bundy. And Israel was dating the mother of his child, Tammy, for the beginning of his crime spree. Oh, really? Yeah. And then he had a living girlfriend when he, even when he kidnapped Samantha Koenig, he had a living girlfriend. So they were both able to hold down relationships. And the living girlfriend didn't know anything about her being in the doghouse out back?
Starting point is 00:06:40 No. Because she was in a shed out back. And he just locked the shed. And I think it was just like one of those. things where she was just like, because again, if John had a shed out back, the last thing I would think is that he was hiding, you know, girls out there. Shit. That he was burning and murdering.
Starting point is 00:06:58 I mean, now, like, if John goes and builds a shed, we're going to have a problem. Listen, buddy. But at the time, the last thing you think is, like, the person you're in a relationship with, and he wasn't, by all accounts, he wasn't abusive to any of his girlfriends. He was a good father, by all accounts. So there really was no reason, I think, for her to think what he's doing some shady shit out there. Yeah. You know, and like, what are you going to do in a shed?
Starting point is 00:07:24 You just don't think that. Hang up your tools. That's all you really can think. And again, Bundy killed a child. He killed Kimberly Leach, who was 12 years old. Right. So that's something Israel would just never do. I'm not giving him any credit for this.
Starting point is 00:07:40 I am just putting it out there as a fact. I think that you think he's really smart and that he's. And that he's great. I don't think he's great. I don't think he's any better for this, like, weird little moral code he had. Guys, we don't think these people are great. We don't. Do I say that I would have gotten on Charlie Manson's bus?
Starting point is 00:08:00 Yeah. What I have, yeah. But it wouldn't have ended well. No. And we recognize that. And I attest to that. And we're saying they're terrible people, but sometimes terrible people are smart people, and that is just a fact of life.
Starting point is 00:08:13 It's just a fact. Don't get mad at me. Well, Israel straight up, he admitted to identifying with Bundy in one of his FBI interviews. He said he could identify with him mainly because he said he seemed that he too could separate the different aspects of his personality and his love lives that conflicted with this dark side. So he felt like he was Ted Bundy like he could act like this charming, you know, dude and be a family man and he was active in his community and all that good stuff. he was doing all this dark shit. Which is like totally why I feel like he's a Gemini, but he's not. He's not, he's a Capgrorn.
Starting point is 00:08:51 I know. I remember. And funny enough, Israel thought, because the FBI interviews, after they arrested him for the Samantha Koneg abduction and murder, they had countless interviews with him, where they really talked to him for hours and hours on end. He was a talker, but only, but it was in his control. Just like Bundy. Exactly. And so, yeah, he was a talker. but he was no Ed Kemper.
Starting point is 00:09:16 It's not like he was giving you details after details for nothing. Ed Kemper was just like really needed to talk. Ed Kemper, if you were like, here's a Snickers, he'd be like, all right, let me tell you every single detail. But Israel needed something back from you that was very big. And he would bring you to a point and then he'd go, I'm not going to talk more about that. Like he'd only give you little snippets.
Starting point is 00:09:42 It's like, oh, you little shit. Poop face. So they did start talking to him after they brought up the Bundy stuff. They started talking to him about other serial killers. And they were like, because I guess he had a very big collection of true crime books. He was a big horror movie and slasher movie fan. We're fucked if you ever get arrested. I mean, I was just going to say, same.
Starting point is 00:10:01 So it's like, I can't even say that that's like, oh, that's it. He's a killer. When I tell people I have a true crime podcast, they're like, that's funny. Like, that's cute. When I tell people that, they're like, yep, uh-huh. Didn't you come out of the womb with a true crime? My podcast, I'm like basically. Essentially.
Starting point is 00:10:17 Essentially. Thank you and good night. Thank you. So, funny enough, Israel thought, like us, that BTK was the worst. He is the worst. Like, he thought he was, like, dumb and disgusting. He's gross. He was not impressive or admirable or anything like that.
Starting point is 00:10:33 He was definitely not talking about him like he was talking about Bundy. But when he discussed him, he did say that he believed that the fact that BTK had to, in his words, had to kill an entire family, the Oteros, and had to kill a couple of young kids in this process. And he kept saying he had to, like his hand was forced. Like he got in this situation, he wanted to rape this lady. He went in there. The whole family's there.
Starting point is 00:11:02 There's these kids. So he's got to kill him. Like, bummer. Like, it was one of those, like, you can't turn back now. And he said that whole thing probably fucked him up. and he said if he had to do something like that, it would have changed him completely. And it would have changed his process completely. Serial killers are just like another animal.
Starting point is 00:11:21 Such a conundrum. It's like... It's very interesting. It is. That's why when people think it's weird to be into serial killers, you're like, I'm not into it because I think they're great. They are fascinating. So fascinating.
Starting point is 00:11:35 Because their way of thinking is just so beyond. And none of it makes sense. None of it clicks together. It's all like, you're the thing. evil monster but then you're like oh if I had to kill children it would have messed me up forever it's like what but what but everyone was a child at some point everyone is someone's child but you don't think that way it's like what the fuck like Samantha Koneg barely an adult I know and it's like she's someone's daughter it's just crazy to me and you played her her father like a fiddle knowing that that's
Starting point is 00:12:07 his child how did you feel and we're going to get into more details about that in a minute But interestingly, his favorite serial killer, do you know whose favorite serial killer was? Can you think? Charlie Manson? No. H.H. Holmes. Oh, okay. Yeah. He wanted, like, legitimately to be H.H. Holmes.
Starting point is 00:12:27 Weird. He thought the murder castle in the, like, the hotel and the dungeon and all that was genius. And he thought it was fascinating because he said that he seemed sane to him, even though he was this vicious murderer. He said it looked like he kept it together. Say what now? But he had this crazy alter ego. And that's how he thought about himself. So he thought very highly of himself.
Starting point is 00:12:49 I was going to say, it is interesting that many serial killers are extremely narcissistic. Exactly. Because he's sitting there being like just like me. And it's like, uh, you didn't have a murder castle, buddy. Yeah. And again, not saying H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. Holmes is like this great genius or anything. But he had a fucking murder castle. He had a castle.
Starting point is 00:13:05 What did you have? Like, you didn't have anything. When the FBI asked him, because they were like, they were like, he was, he was like, he had a Like, they were like, all right, we got to ask you, do you have a murder castle? Like, they were like, do you have a dungeon somewhere? Like, or are you, he was like, no, I fucking want one. Because he was, he was talking about it like, this is where it's at. That's the goal.
Starting point is 00:13:23 He was like goals. He was. He was saving murder castles on his Instagram. He really was. He had a vision board everything. Oh, my God. And he said he had plans to make one. And he said it was, quote, more of my retirement plan.
Starting point is 00:13:38 Oh. And then he laughed. He went. Like isn't that funny everybody? And everyone was like, it's time for lunch. I had a retirement plan to make a murder castle. That's what I was putting in my 401K for. It's like, whoo.
Starting point is 00:13:53 Awesome. You're a crack up. We're going to take a break now. This is real. He's so funny. Can you imagine being like the people that have to talk to them like right across a fucking table? And you literally have to be like, ah.
Starting point is 00:14:04 Like as far as we're sitting apart. Yeah. And you have to keep them talking and keep them trusting you. And you can't change your face. And so when he does something like that, you can't be like, you're fucking maniac? What's wrong with you? That's not funny. You have to be like, oh.
Starting point is 00:14:18 Same buddy. Finger guns. That's hilarious. Yeah, too much. And then you have to leave and just dry heave. And pretend to move on with your life, even though you're scarred forever. Yeah. He even told them after this that he had a plan later, like, when he was in like retirement age.
Starting point is 00:14:33 Because he was like, I want to do this forever. I want to murder people forever. Lifelong murder. Yeah. He was like, you do what you love forever. Jesus. Chris. If you love what you do, you'd never work a day in your life.
Starting point is 00:14:44 So he said he had a plan to become a traveling contractor, and he would just follow natural disasters and take advantage of people and kill them this way. That's even, that's like really horrible. Isn't that horrific? That's very horrible. He was like, I would just follow hurricanes. And cause more havoc. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:02 And then just like get these people in dire straits to trust me, do contract work for them and murder them. Wow. Like what? This is how, I have no idea how this dude is not like number one. Like he's just beyond. It's so interesting because I've never heard of him. Yeah, and a lot of people were like, either they heard of him and were like, holy shit, I want to hear this.
Starting point is 00:15:26 Or they were like, who is, I haven't heard of that one. Right. It's like, oh, he bad. He bad. He bad. Now, Israel is one of those serial killers that confounds conventional thinking of what a serial is supposed to be like Bundy. He had a family.
Starting point is 00:15:41 I'm not saying it was always the perfect family, but he had one. And he said to have been a great father and a decent partner. He had long-term friendships that he could hold down, which is weird. He didn't have many instances of, like, aggressive behavior noted by those around him. His former girlfriend and baby mama said they almost had to bait him into getting mad or jealous at all. Interesting. Like Tammy, the mother of his child, said she would live. literally try to do things to like get some kind of emotional reaction out of him because she was like
Starting point is 00:16:14 he never got jealous or mad. I wonder if it's because he got all his jealousy and anger out when murder. That's what it sounds fucking horrible. No, it's true. It seems like that was his outlet. And it was like, yeah, he got such a release out of that that he didn't feel any aggression later. Even more terrifying.
Starting point is 00:16:32 Yeah. Like, because that's how much he liked it. And that's how would it fed him, you know? Yeah. Like that's really scary. he held down jobs and for a long time like he would hold down jobs for like years and years and he was successful he was driven
Starting point is 00:16:47 people liked him people respected him he was a member of the community I mean like you don't hear a lot of people I have yet to find somebody being like he was really weird and you know like this doesn't surprise me that much right which is why you hear sometimes most of the time more often than not it's like Ted Bundy how all these people are like
Starting point is 00:17:07 I said there's there's no fucking way it could be Ted. The stranger beside me, hashtag and Rule. Like, Ann Rule worked right next to him. And she's a crime writer and former police officer. And she said there was no way she thought it would be him. That's insane. I really hope I don't know a serial killer.
Starting point is 00:17:23 Yeah. If I had to put money on who it would be. If I knew a serial killer, I would bet thousands of dollars on you. Wow. Thank you. You're welcome. So it is, it's just, it's interesting that, like, he really does have a lot of parallel with Bundy. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:37 When the FBI asked him, him how he chose the victims. They asked whether, because they were just talking to him about the process. They were like, you got to walk me through. Like, this is weird how you do this because you bury these kids. For like, did you say years or months? Yeah, years. Years.
Starting point is 00:17:52 Years and one of them was two years. Yeah, that's insane to me. Yeah. And again, it seemed like he just went after, you know, people of opportunity. Well, like, it was more like places. It was like place that he had buried it where he knew he wanted to kill someone. And then it was whatever was. person just happened to be there.
Starting point is 00:18:09 It was whatever worked for him at the moment. It wasn't like he stalked him and had their profile and stuff. Right. So they asked him whether he would talk to someone and think about victimizing them, but then maybe decided not to after talking to them. Did that happen? And Israel said, quote, no. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:18:27 As soon as someone talks to me, that kind of puts it on a different spectrum for me. I like to take somebody by surprise. I don't know why it feels like when I start talking. talking to people, I go into a different mode. Like, I want to be their friend or something. And then he laughed. And then he said, quote, but obviously if I've already decided to take somebody,
Starting point is 00:18:47 I'm not their friend. Wow. So if you were friendly to him, you wouldn't murder you. If you were friendly to him, he could still murder you. But he's saying, just because you talk to me doesn't mean I'm going to humanize you. He's saying, if I've decided to take you, you weren't my friend. Right.
Starting point is 00:19:07 Like I have friends And then just because you're trying to be my friend If I've decided you're it You're it Wow And it's like that's terrifying That's a lot to handle in my brain You couldn't humanize yourself to him
Starting point is 00:19:21 Hate that unless you said like I'm mom Yeah unless you were like I'm a mom Then he'd be like oh shit shit Yeah And he laughs a lot during these interviews He's like L oh L He's a giggling motherfuckercker He is he laughs a lot
Starting point is 00:19:36 I hate it so much. He thinks he's the bees and ease. Like Israel, do your friends think you're funny? Do your friends think you're funny? Probably not. No, doubt it. Israel was cold, calculated, and fucking brutal. He was not a good genius, like we said before.
Starting point is 00:19:51 No. He was cunning and meticulous. That is true. Right. Unfortunately, that is true. If you don't like us telling you that, then, like, I don't know what to tell you because it's just the truth, unfortunately. We're not, like, glorifying him.
Starting point is 00:20:05 Not in any way shape or awful. Yeah, he was just some shitty people are really good at being shitty people. It's just like he wasn't bad at being a shitty person. He was great at it. Unfortunately, that's true of some of the most awful people in the world. They're just intelligent. It sucks. It isn't fair.
Starting point is 00:20:22 Now I'm going to give you some details about the three known murders of Israelis from his interviews with the FBI, the ones we've already talked about. Okay. I'm going to give you a few more details. If anyone wants to debate the validity of the information here, talk to a Ouija board and conjure his ghost to chat with because it's coming from his own mouth. Like, I'm not making these things up. I didn't find these in some like random Wikipedia place or somewhere. This is from his interviews.
Starting point is 00:20:50 So 1124, the night Samantha Koenig went missing. Her boyfriend was sent a text from her phone that said, F you, asshole. I know what you did. I'm going to spend a few couple of days with friends. Need time to think. Let my dad know. Interesting.
Starting point is 00:21:08 So he got that and was like, uh, like, doesn't make any sense. A little while later at 1153, he got another text from her phone that just said, F you. And he was like, I'm confused. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:21 This was, this seems like weird and like, why would Israel do that? Right. Because Israel had her at this point. This was Israel. Yeah, it wasn't him. And, but,
Starting point is 00:21:30 It is kind of smart on his part because when the FBI reviewed the recent text between Samantha and her boyfriend after all this. Did they assume it was the boyfriend? Well, they had been arguing that day. Oh. So it was likely that Keyes looked through the phone and her text messages saw that they had been arguing and he was like, oh, I can further this narrative and pin this on him. Wow. So that is pretty smart that he like, because he didn't just go off the cuff and be like, I'm just going to start a fight, see what happens. he was like, oh, they were already arguing that day.
Starting point is 00:22:02 Right. So let's just make this happen. I think that's not even smart. I feel like that's just like it helped him. That's just luck. It was just convenient. It was pure dumb luck. And he was like, great.
Starting point is 00:22:10 I'm going to run with this. Right. So the text he sent to the boyfriend 23 days after her abduction after he had already killed her. It was the one that I posted on our Instagram account. It said, I know. Connor Park sign under Pick of Albert, ain't she purdy?
Starting point is 00:22:27 Gross. Gross. If you say the word, party, leave. That gives me the hebes on every level. Leave, leave, leave. That something can give me the heaps. Leave. Well, when I first read this, I was like, under Albert?
Starting point is 00:22:41 Like, what does that mean? I read that and I was like, is that a person, like, under that guy's foot? Like, what? And I was like, is that like a street or like a avenue? Like, I'm confused. A tree? Apparently, Albert was a lost dog flyer stapled to a tree in the park. The dog's name was Albert.
Starting point is 00:22:59 Wow. So he said like under Albert. And I was like, oh, that's why. Interesting. I needed to clear that detail up because it was bothering me. No, me too. I didn't know who Albert was. Now, after they got that text, that's when Samantha's dad notified the Anchorage PD.
Starting point is 00:23:16 And investigators assigned to the case went to the location, mentioned in the text, found the plastic bag with a typewritten note and the infamous Polaroid. Yeah. The note said, $30,000 needed to be placed into Samantha's bank account. They obviously made them think that she was alive because why would you assume someone's soda dead person's eyes open for a photo? Hate that, hate that. You would never think that.
Starting point is 00:23:40 So the FBI started looking for, you know, fingerprints, anything on this stuff because you would think, like, maybe he'll slip up somewhere. They also directed her father James to help him, like, deposit that ransom into her account so that they could start monitoring it. Right. But at this point, they were actually still thinking that her father was a suspect. Oh, interesting. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:02 That's really horrible. It is, because I guess there was rumors that they didn't get along, that he wasn't. So she had recently come away from, like, pretty bad drug problem. So she was, like, on her way, she was out of that. And she was trying to, like, live soberly. Which is even, it's like, she just gets it together. And this happens. It's, like, really sad.
Starting point is 00:24:24 And people, there were. rumors that her father was involved with drugs and maybe something went wrong. People were just making rumors, you know. Yeah. So February 29th at 10.13 p.m., someone tried to take money out of her bank account at the Alaskan USA Bank. Same night, 11.56 p.m., there was another attempt at withdrawing money from her bank account at Denali Alaskan Credit Union.
Starting point is 00:24:53 Okay. Same night 1226 a.m. There was a third attempt at another Alaskan bank. It's a little, uh... Yeah. So they were like, oh, he's taking the money out. Right. He's just doing it at different ATMs to try to like throw us off. Right.
Starting point is 00:25:08 So, and one of the banks, they did get surveillance footage of a 2007 silver Nissan Exeterra. Okay. The person driving it was a white male, but they were wearing a ski mask. Terrifying. But on the abduction video, of Samantha Koenig that is really scary online, you can see that he's wearing a ski mask in it.
Starting point is 00:25:30 Hate that, hate that, hate that. So they were like, oh, that's him. March 7th was when they stopped thinking her father was a suspect. Okay, why? This was because another withdrawal was made from the account. He was taking small amounts out at another ATM in Wilcox, Arizona. Oh, wow. So they're like, what the fuck?
Starting point is 00:25:51 So investigators saw more sources. surveillance footage of this one, a white man in a ski mask, but he was driving a white Ford focus away from the scene. How was he finding all these cars? That was a rental. Oh. This is when, see, this is when Israel pulled a Bundy. You know how Bundy at the end of his just went bonkers bananas, cuckoo-not-man? And just let it all, hey, you know, he would have gotten, Bundy would have gotten away with it forever if he just kept on his game. Right. Israel would probably got away with it forever if he just kept on his game. They both just lost their shit at the end.
Starting point is 00:26:26 Because eventually we all lose our shit. We all lose our shit, I guess. Including serial killers. And this is him losing his shit. Okay. Because demanding ransom, totally against anything he ever did before. Yeah. That was when he fucked himself.
Starting point is 00:26:40 Which is confusing because I feel like he didn't need the money. I know. Because he was, I mean, he was robbing. He was doing. He could just keep doing his thing. Right. So that's why it's just like one of the, of those things where he just stepped over that line for some weird reason, lost control and
Starting point is 00:26:57 it spun out. So now in New Mexico, 80 miles away, there was another withdrawal. This was when they contacted the DEA because this agency was able to pull footage from the route he was taking in New Mexico. Okay. So they got license plates from a couple of Whiteford focuses driving that route. and they were both Avis rental cars. Oh, shit. So the FBI contacted Avis and started that whole process of getting that information, but that takes a little while if they can't just hand it over. Right.
Starting point is 00:27:30 So meanwhile, one day later, there was another withdrawal, 800 miles away in Texas. Okay. Two days later, more money in Texas. So now everybody's on the lookout. There's like a bowl-o out for him. Mm-hmm. and on March 13th, 2012, they got one of the two rental car agreements back.
Starting point is 00:27:53 The FBI did. And they figured out that that one was not their suspect. Oh, come on. So they were like, we need that other one. That's our guy. Yeah. So as they waited for the info about the renter that they thought was their guy, that car was seen in a motel in Lufkin, Texas.
Starting point is 00:28:11 So they had investigators stake out the place for like 30 minutes before the owner. Israel Keys, came out, put something in his trunk, and then drove away. So they followed him, and at 11.45 a.m., he was pulled over for speeding. Oh, Israel. Also another Bundy move. That is a Bundy move. He was pulled over for erratic driving. Fucking idiots. It's almost like he wanted to go down exactly, like Bundy in some way.
Starting point is 00:28:41 Maybe he did. Yeah. So an FBI officer arrived on that scene when he was pulled over. and he was questioned on the side of the road. He told them that he flew from Anchorage to Las Vegas and drove a rental car from there to Texas because he was attending his sister's wedding. They said he was super pissy, he was sweaty,
Starting point is 00:29:01 he was nervous, like clearly acting like something was wrong. And he wouldn't cooperate. No, something's wrong here. Way no. Then investigators peeked in the car really quick just like through the window, and they saw white shoes, the masks, seen in all the surveillance videos.
Starting point is 00:29:18 And they also noted women's clothing, two cell phones, one was Samantha's, and the Peace de Resistance, Samantha Konegg's driver's license and ATM card. So this fucker was driving around
Starting point is 00:29:33 being like, here, I did it. Like literally, it's just like laying in his back seat. That was stupid. Like, you're dumb. Now, Israel was arrested. Really? He was probably super pissed about because he said to investigators that he had planned to go out in a blaze of glory. Like he literally told them that.
Starting point is 00:29:54 In fact, when he... What does that even mean? So, well, when he exited the motel and drove away that day, what he put in the trunk was his loaded gun. And he said it was out of reach. So he had to go like a little bitch. But he was pissed about it because he said, if that gun was in reach, I would have started shooting.
Starting point is 00:30:11 Like, it would have been... He wanted to go out in, like, some big blaze of glory. Wow. But he just couldn't get to it. That's the only reason he didn't. That's so fucked up. And I'll just play that clip really quick of him saying that. What a fucking weirdo.
Starting point is 00:30:26 Right. He's just like, he's like so chill about it too. He's so casually like, yeah, that's my plan. That was my plan. Like, fuck you, Israel. Isn't that funny? I'm glad he didn't get to. Yeah, me too.
Starting point is 00:30:39 So March 23rd, 2012, he was extradited back to Alaska. The FBI team that would work. his case and interrogate him the whole time consisted of special agent Jolene Godin, who was leading the investigation. She's a badass. Yeah. Apparently she ran some like huge operation in Alaska to like nail sex trafficking. You know, like predators. Yeah, she's amazing. Now former agent Bobby Chacon and assistant U.S. District Attorney's Kevin Feldis and Frank Russo, I believe. When he went in to talk to them about the Koneg abduction. He asked for an Americano, a snickers, and a cigar. So he asked for an Americana. Which is what he ordered. That's what he ordered from Samantha.
Starting point is 00:31:28 That's fucked up. Fuck you, Israel. Seriously. Like, God, I hate him. Also, you think they have that at jail? Well, they gave it to him. They'll give these people these things if they'll talk. And they know that. That's why they ask for things like that, because they'll make somebody go get it. An Americano, a Snickers and a cigar. Yes. He asked for a cigar every time that he was interviewed. Weird. And if he was ready to like tell something, he'd be like, hey, do you guys have my cigar? Like, are you going to give me a cigar? I'll tell you this. Close but no cigar. Close with no cigar. And again, they gave it to him because he said he would talk and he did. Okay. So he explained that Samantha fought like hell. Like she fought hard. So everybody know that Samantha was a fucking fighter. When he finally had got her to
Starting point is 00:32:14 his truck after he abducted her, he zip tied her to the seat and drove around aimlessly while he waited for his girlfriend and daughter to go to fucking sleep. Oh my God. Yep. He literally drove around waiting for them to go to sleep. Wow. Yep. He waited until around 11 p.m. He threw her into a shed on his property. And in the shed he had laid out tarps, rope, tools, blankets, a space heater, and a radio. so he had this already beforehand. He said he also got himself a glass of bourbon and gave Samantha a glass of red wine and turned on the radio.
Starting point is 00:32:55 How gentlemanly. And he said he let her have the wine, so they sat and had a drink together. What? And then he raped and strangled her to death. Jesus. Over several hours. He then wrapped her body in a tarp
Starting point is 00:33:12 and placed it in a cap. cabinet in the shed. At some point during this night, he went to Samantha's car to get her phone and debit card like we mentioned in part one. Uh-huh. And her boyfriend members saw him and like, was like, what the fuck? Because he went back to the stand. Yeah. Okay. So this is when she, this is when he went like on vacation with his family. When he put her in the tarp, stuffed her in a cabinet, they went away for a while. So she froze in there. Oh, because it's Alaska. God. The details of that random photo are pretty fucking terrible. And we mentioned some of them in part one.
Starting point is 00:33:49 But like I said, this is a really detailed episode, so fucking buckle up. I don't want to. In preparation for that photo, so when he got back from his vacation, he had to thaw her body out. So he used a hairdryer to thaw her entire body out. No. Yep. Sat in that shed and used a hairdryer to thaw her out. No.
Starting point is 00:34:10 He then braided her hair. and he knew how to do that because he braided his daughter's hair, he said. Which is really super fucking creepy. He put makeup on her and then sewed her eyes open. He then dismembered her after staging the ransom photo. And he stated that before he submerged her remains in the frozen lake, well, like while he did that, he went ice fishing because why the fuck not, right? Oh, my.
Starting point is 00:34:37 So he literally was like putting her in there and he was like, I'm just going to go fishing while I'm here. And he caught some fish, and he cooked it for his girlfriend and his kid that night. So he caught fish from the same place where he dis and fed it to his family. And fed it to his family. Oh, okay. Yep. To get rid of everything, he burned all the evidence and only kept her cell phone ID and ATM card. And, oh, he also kept that braided lock of hair from her.
Starting point is 00:35:09 What? Because he's a fucking psycho. He literally kept the braid that he put in her hair. Where? Where did they find it? I don't know. Along, well, they found it with all his other shit. I don't know how to speak words now.
Starting point is 00:35:25 I didn't even know how to process that information. I was like, okay. Now, during the week that followed all of this, he actually went to a parent-teacher conference for his daughter. No. Can you imagine being one of those teachers now? No. No.
Starting point is 00:35:40 Um, yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. No. Yep. No. Yep. What? Like, that's... That's beyond. You just go to a parent-teacher conference. Like, no big deal. Like, every other parent. That's insane. My mom wasn't even a serial killer and she never went to parent-teacher conferences.
Starting point is 00:36:02 I'm not shocked at all. What? Yeah. Even serial killers make time for parent-teacher conferences? Thanks, Mom. It's like, Israel Keys went to parent-teacher conferences. I mean, he had, he had responsibilities. He had to get back to, you know, to life.
Starting point is 00:36:21 Wow. Yeah. That just, those details just blew my mind when I was listening to him talking about it. Yeah, I'm shookus. Yeah. You're going to be more shook at. No. So on April 2nd, 2012, an FBI dive team recovered Samantha's remains from the bottom of
Starting point is 00:36:37 of Matt. Matt, no, blah, blah, blah. Yes. You know that place right. I've been there. Matt Nuska Lake. I'm glad that they were able to find them. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:48 Special Agent Shikone said the team then sent out an underwater robotic vehicle to search the fishing hole. And there is like video of this actually, like the video taken up from the robot. And he said, quote, as soon as the video camera went on, we saw obvious human remains. As a diver, when you first place your hands on that person underwater to bring them home, you start to get a feeling that this is now beyond evidence in a case because we are the first people to put our hands on that victim since the killer. You're happy, but how happy can you be when you've got a dismembered girl in front of you? Which you don't even think about that. It's like they're so happy to have found her, but then they're like, there's just someone's
Starting point is 00:37:31 daughter in pieces in front of me that I'm happy to bring to the surface, you know? Like you just don't even think of those situations. Now, it was during, I think their third interview with Israel Keys, that the FBI agents were like, he's a serial killer. Yeah. Like, they were like, this is not just like a one-time thing. So they had an order from the district attorney of Alaska that stated that they were allowed to start questioning him about crimes unrelated to Samantha Koneg. Okay.
Starting point is 00:38:01 So Israel was fucking brutal, though, because he wasn't in control of everything. So he was doing these negotiations and deals And he wanted to be part of everything in the investigation He wanted control of these negotiations Like he was fucking brutal When you listen to these interviews You're like, I want to punch him Why? Like what was he saying?
Starting point is 00:38:22 He was just, it was like They were pulling teeth To get even just an inch from him Right And it's like, and he's just such a cocky dick And he knows he has all the control because he has all the information. They only have Samantha Koneg's remains.
Starting point is 00:38:42 He has all the other information and they got nothing. And he's just sitting there going, you want it, you got to do something. I need a cigar, please. Yeah. So he was telling them that they would find other bodies, but that they wouldn't have enough to connect him to them. And he was only willing to connect himself to them if it was on his terms. So what were his terms?
Starting point is 00:39:05 His main concern throughout this was that he wanted to keep the sensationalism and shit away from his daughter. He didn't want her knowing exactly what he did. But you did that to her though. Exactly. Like, again, if you didn't want that to happen, then you shouldn't have become a serial killer because you had a kid. Yeah. She is a serial killer's daughter. And she's always going to be.
Starting point is 00:39:32 She didn't do that. You did that to her. Exactly. She didn't, and it's like he's got this weird moral code with kids that it connects to being a father and connects to having a daughter. And then he goes and says... And then he goes and kill someone's daughter. The whole reason I don't want this sensationalize is I just want to protect my daughter. It's not about me. I don't want her getting flack for this.
Starting point is 00:39:54 I don't want her having to be Israel Keyes's daughter from like forever. And it's like, but you were fine with being selfish enough to do these things when you knew eventually it probably would. come to an end. Well, that's the thing, though. Like, he didn't think it was going to come to an end at all. That's what it comes down to. And it's like some weird dichotomy of narcissism that, like, he acts like this selfless father, but he's also this selfish monster.
Starting point is 00:40:20 And it's like, oh, so weird. So he did give the most information and the most, like, I don't even know how to explain it, like, callous attitude about the courier's abduction. the one we talked about last time. Now, during the investigation, his, during, like, this whole Samantha Koenig investigation, his girlfriend who lived with him was subject to interviews
Starting point is 00:40:47 and also subject to her things being searched and seized because she lived with him. Right. So this included the Nissan XTERA that was seen on the video that he used to withdraw money from Samantha's account one time. That car was hers.
Starting point is 00:41:02 Oh, shit. So he apparently felt bad and wanted her to be treated nicer. Okay. So what he did was he told them details about the courier's case because he wanted his girlfriend's stuff returned to her. And he used the information about the courier's case to make the FBI give it back to her. That is very weird. And he like feels sympathy for his girlfriend.
Starting point is 00:41:26 He's so weird. It's like, because he says he's like, I, and he's like, I will give you all this. him, but I want to know that she's getting her car back. That's so weird. Because typically, like, they're not capable of loving somebody. No. But, like, I feel like he was. And it's like he weirdly is thinking of her in being inconvenienced.
Starting point is 00:41:46 And he's like, feels bad that he was the reason for that. That must have been weird for her to find that out, too, because I'd be like, ugh. I don't want you to feel for me. And I don't want that car back. No. You can have it, man. Have the car. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:41:59 It's so weird. Now, when we initially covered the couriers of, of murder. We didn't go into super detail. We just kind of like told you what happened in a generalized way. Because to be honest, it's really fucked up. And we were trying to kind of just get the idea of his MO and his crimes with just like that general overview. Like buckle up though because I will throw out a few more details from his own mouth to paint a little more of a picture for you. Like Samantha, the couriers were fighters. These two fought to the end.
Starting point is 00:42:35 It's like really frustrated. I hate that. It is. It's like I both, oh, it's just so frustrating. It just makes me really sad. They were not ready, from the jump, they were not ready to lay down and accept what he had coming for them. What bothers me most about his interviews is the way he callously laughs when he retells
Starting point is 00:42:52 the horror that he inflicted on these poor people. Because he enjoys reliving it. He tells it, I mean, if he was matter of fact about it, that's bad enough. Right. Like BTK telling his murders to the courtroom, like a courtroom full of victims' families, like he was reciting a grocery list is infuriating. But hearing Israel Key's chuckle, as he recalls the fact that these poor people never expected this shit to happen to them is like a whole other level of nightmare. I hate that. At one point, I'm going to play the clip right here actually.
Starting point is 00:43:23 At one point he actually says that. He's like, they never expect, like, it was funny that they had no, like they did not expect me to come in there in the middle of the night. Jesus Christ. Like, I'll play it right here really quick. Pretty shocked. People never expect stuff to happen. Hate that, right? It's true, you don't.
Starting point is 00:43:43 Because you, no, I don't fucking expect that. No, no. But that's not funny. Now I do. Shit. Like, fuck. Is real? That is not funny.
Starting point is 00:43:52 Like, what the... He's literally laughing because he's like, oh my God, they were totally blindsided by me coming into their home in the middle of the night and tying them up. Like most people would be, sir. And it's like, why is that that's not humor so so what happened we told you you know he broke into their home at one point he says he had to wait a while outside of their home because their neighbor kept taking smoke breaks on his porch so he had to wait for the neighbor to go to sleep so when he finally went into the home he said he just kind of like burst into the room like we said
Starting point is 00:44:22 with the headlamp on hate that and he says they like we're like like you're just coming out of sleep you have no idea he made them take everything off the bed and He tied them both up. He says that he gave them very specific instructions. You don't talk to each other. You don't talk until I tell you to talk. You don't try to move. You don't do this.
Starting point is 00:44:41 You don't do that. And then he ransacked the house. He said for about 15 minutes. When he came back in, at one point he said Lorraine was trying to like formulate an escape plan. He got to hear her. So he went in there and he said he like shoved her face into the mattress and told her he would kill her if she tried again. Oh, my God. He then got them both into their car.
Starting point is 00:45:03 Hate that. He said Lorraine in the front seat and Bill in the, I believe in the back seat behind the passenger side. And he buckled them both in. He tied them both in so they couldn't move. He said Lorraine was already trying to be like, you know, you don't have to do this. And she was saying to her husband, like, we need to do something. Like, let's do something. But like, what the fuck could they do?
Starting point is 00:45:26 Like, they were really in dire straits at this point. And he says at one point during all of this, he noticed something that told him that Bill Currier was happened to at one point be in the same branch of the military that he was in. Oh. So he said he asked him about it. Like he wanted to talk to him about it. But that wasn't enough to make him not kill him. And what kills me is I wonder if this made Bill feel like he was humanizing himself and like maybe giving himself and his wife a shot at living through this whole thing. and the worst part is Israel never intended them to live through this.
Starting point is 00:46:05 Ever. And it's like, I have to think that Bill probably thought and I said, look, I'm going to talk about this and I'm going to make myself a human. Yeah. You know, like, because I would think that. I'd be like, okay, I'm going to humanize myself right now. Like, big time. Like, we have something in common.
Starting point is 00:46:18 We're military buddies. Like, what are you doing? And Israel was like, oh, I had no fucking intention of ever letting them live. Like, never once. That is so fucked up. It's so chilling. Yeah, that's just. Like he's a monster.
Starting point is 00:46:32 He's so chilling. Now, when we talked about this last time again, we said he brought them to an abandoned farmhouse that he had already staked out. Right. He had already brought Bill down into the basement. Hate that. And tied him up. And that he brought Lorraine back into the abandoned farmhouse and into one of the upstairs bedrooms after she had attempted to flee from the car. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:46:56 After he left her husband and killed him in the basement. he raped her in this bedroom he had brought her into. But what I didn't detail was the fact that he had secured her to the mattress on the floor that he had placed ahead of time in the middle of this empty room in an incredibly horrifying and intricate way. I mean, horrifying. Jesus. And then he goes downstairs and murders Bill and then comes up and rapes her in this way. I don't know what to say.
Starting point is 00:47:32 And I'm picturing this. I don't want that in my brain. And I'm like just, and I couldn't help but think about like being in that situation. I'm like, oh my God. And you, like, what are you supposed to do? Like, this is beyond horror movie. Beyond. And it's like he went through such intricate measures to make this so uncomfortable and awful and horrifying.
Starting point is 00:47:55 Yeah, I hate this a lot. Like, it's hard to believe this is really. It really is. I just don't. Like, I almost want to believe he's making this shit up. Yeah, same. Same. But I don't.
Starting point is 00:48:08 But I don't know if could you make that up? Like, that's really, I don't know. I don't know. I almost want to believe that he's making up because, like, Jesus Christ. So after he brutally killed Bill in the basement by shooting him 10 times and hitting him with a shovel. Oh, my God. He repeatedly raped Lorraine upstairs. He says in his FBI interview.
Starting point is 00:48:29 you that the second time he raped her, he choked her to unconsciousness. Oh, God. She came to, and he walked her down to the basement. So he just, like, casually walked her down to the basement. He even says that she was out of it because of the whole choking thing. Yeah. So he was like, yeah, I don't even know if she, like, knew what was going on at that point, because she was just out of it.
Starting point is 00:48:51 And, again, I'm just like, you can't help but have this awful movie playing in your head of this. And he said he sat her on a bench. took a piece of nylon rope, stood behind her and began to strangle her. In his words, quote, used it like a garot. He said he knew she was gone, but he was still nervous
Starting point is 00:49:10 that she would wake back up because she had fought so hard the entire time. Right. So he took a cable tie and wrapped it around her neck as tight as he could. He then left her on the floor. Jesus.
Starting point is 00:49:22 Yeah. I just don't understand like how you drive away after doing all of that. And it's like he just drives away and like do you just go to sleep? Right. Like close your eyes and dream big dreams?
Starting point is 00:49:34 Like what do you do? I don't know. But it's like I think he does. I think he just goes home and goes to sleep. Like I feel like you need to take a really big deep breath after that. Like you need to take a look. I think I everybody listeners. Can we all just take a big deep breath together?
Starting point is 00:49:49 Yeah, everybody. Because. Oh, shit. I know. I needed that. This is a really tough one. Yeah. Thank you so much.
Starting point is 00:49:59 Very tough. Really tough. Now like we stated, I think that's basically the last of the really like graphic detail I'm going to tell you about anything. Thank you. Thank you very much. Sorry. Now like we stated in part one, there are only three victims that the FBI confirms our keys victims. But they do believe that they can almost 100% attribute a fourth to him as well.
Starting point is 00:50:23 Okay. And again, they think they can attribute 11 to him they think, but then they think it could be 36 is a lot of like discrepancy. But this fourth one, they basically pinned on him. Okay. Like they're like this close. The victim was believed to have been kidnapped, raped, and murdered in New England. Oh, shit.
Starting point is 00:50:44 In April 2009, he visited New England and he does admit that he kidnapped someone while he was there. Okay. So, but he wouldn't give the details because he's a giant asshole. He did say that he kidnapped. someone from one state and drove a few states away to bury them along the Roquette River in upstate New York. Jeez. Now, this goes along with one of the interviews he gave where they asked him, they said,
Starting point is 00:51:11 are there remains in New York? And he said, and then they said, are those remains someone you killed in New York, or did you just bury them there? And he pauses, and then he responds, just buried there. So they're from another state. Okay. The FBI did question him about a missing woman named Deborah Feldman from Hackensack, New Jersey, who went missing April 8, 2009.
Starting point is 00:51:37 Oh, wow. But he denied having anything to do with her. A few weeks later, and actually relatively recently, like, as recently as we can talk about Israel Keys, because there's a fun little twist at the end about Israel Keys. They pressed him again about Deborah because they, like, laid off it, then came back to it. Yeah. Because they said they would show him a picture of her. and he just like reacted weird.
Starting point is 00:51:59 Okay. And different than when he reacted to other things. Like he would pause and be like, yeah, I don't know. Like that's not one. But they were like, yeah, I just don't. This fits too well. So they asked him again and Keyes suddenly responded, quote, yeah, I just don't want to talk about it.
Starting point is 00:52:15 Oh, shit. So which he would do these things whenever they were close and when he didn't want to give them too much. Like when they would start piecing things together, he would go, yeah, I don't want to talk about that. And he did that a lot. I hate that. And they were like, and they would get so close to getting something.
Starting point is 00:52:31 And he go, yeah, I'm not going to talk about that today. And you were like, mother fucker. Like you just spill, dumbass. Like, you're in jail. Right. Just give everybody closure. So he said, yeah, I don't want to talk about that. And when he said this, the agent said, quote, then I'm right about it.
Starting point is 00:52:51 And Keyes paused and then said, yeah. Oh. So he basically confirmed. like yeah no he did but i think they just need to connect more stuff about it right uh but she's never been found oh that's really so israel does acknowledge this is just interesting that there is one body that he claimed was ruled an accidental death in the media oh that is his he also said that he always planned his alibis and such to cover his tracks but he said there was this one time where he thinks it was a mistake on his part because the body was
Starting point is 00:53:27 was recovered and it was labeled an accident. And none of his other bodies were recovered except for Samantha Koenig. Right. So he said, quote, it was kind of the same situation as the couriers. I just wasn't in a position to get rid of it right away. And so I decided to try to make it look. I mean, it was already going to be assumed that it was an accident of some sort. And my concern was that the body would be found before it had decomposed enough.
Starting point is 00:53:54 Okay. So he was planning, I'm going to put it in the same. area. It's going to decompose enough that they won't know. They'll just be like, this is a hiking accident. Right. You know, but it didn't. Weirdly enough, they did rule it as an accident.
Starting point is 00:54:09 When they pressed him on this, he said if the body was found right away, then it probably wouldn't have been labeled an accident. Oh, wow. His former girlfriend and mother of his child, Tammy, did tell investigators that she remembered a neighbor of theirs dying during a hike, and it was ruled an accident. Oh, wow. She admitted that she didn't see Israel at all during the time this man disappeared and that she could not provide him an alibi.
Starting point is 00:54:35 Oh. Yep. This man has not been named in the FBI case files. So this does seem to connect, but you can't really dig about it because you don't have a name. Interesting that he killed his neighbor. Well, maybe killed his neighbor. Yeah. I feel like that wasn't really him.
Starting point is 00:54:54 Yeah, that was a weird one too. But he admits he feels like that was a mistake. Okay. So Israel also told the FBI that he killed a couple in Washington around October 2001, but somewhere between October 2001 and 2006. Okay. So in those five years, he murdered a couple in Washington. People have poured over like missing couples and all that.
Starting point is 00:55:18 And like they found a few leads, but again, it's hard because they only have, he's, unfortunately, if he is doing these things, he's really good at concealing them. Right. He also told FBI interrogators that he killed people in state and national parks early on as well. Okay. This makes sense because he has a clear journey, like we said earlier, beginning with being very careful and very good at concealing of his crimes. And then he started to get sloppy and ended up with the fucking mess that was the Samantha Koenig murder. Right.
Starting point is 00:55:52 again like Bundy. He said in the beginning it was easy for him to distract himself between murders but it got harder especially when he moved to Alaska because he said that just isn't a lot going on. Wow. He's like yeah, it got hard because I was really bored all the time. Because I was bored like literally.
Starting point is 00:56:09 And apparently it said in several sources and by all means, tell me I am wrong because this is not confirmed. But I'm just saying people cite this. I'm not saying it is fact. but people do say that he was a necrophiliaic, or he had necrophiliac tendencies just like Bundy. So, just saying, all these connections.
Starting point is 00:56:36 Special agent Jolene Godin, one of the lead investigator on the case, she said, and I just thought this was just an interesting note to kind of end talking about his crimes on, that they had a lot of really normal conversations with keys. And when you listen to the interrogations, he does seem like a very normal guy. I really hate that. Right? Like you hear him talking and you're like, ew. Like you just, he's like talking, he's just shooting the shit. Hate that, hate that, hate that, hate that. Yeah. And they said he would be charming and seemingly easy to speak to. Like another person I'm not going to mention again.
Starting point is 00:57:15 Ted Bundy. And she says it was only when they started getting into details of the crimes that he got dark. Like, he would just kind of switch into this mode. Yeah. And the agents who spoke with him said his demeanor was really always calm and matter fact. And, quote, he certainly thought he was the smartest guy in the room. Oh, typical serial killer. Like every other serial killer.
Starting point is 00:57:38 Exactly. Such a serial killer personality. Stupid. Now, Keyes was always a really annoying and tough prisoner to deal with, they said. Yeah. In spring of 2000. In 2012, apparently, as he was restrained in a courtroom, during a courtroom appearance, he lurched away from the people holding him. And he had to be tackled and tasered by U.S. Marshall.
Starting point is 00:58:04 Jesus. He was also disciplined for making a, quote, pick-type device for opening handcuffs. Oh. He used a paperclip and dental floss. So he's also fucking MacGyver. So there's that. Good. He's like the evil MacGyver.
Starting point is 00:58:20 Yeah. Let's see. For most of the time that he was in prison, he was classified as Max Max. Max Max. Max. Which, Max. Max. Max.
Starting point is 00:58:31 Which comes with the highest security precautions because they couldn't trust him. Oh, shit. Two officers escorted him in full restraints any time he left his cell. Whoa. Now, in December 1st, 2012 was a special day, everybody. Mm-hmm. Sometime after 10, 12 p.m., Israel scooted himself under his blankets in his cell. He slashed his wrist with a razor that he had somehow gotten.
Starting point is 00:59:02 Yikes. And used a makeshift noose to strangle himself. Whoa. So on surveillance video, which they have of the cell, you can see that there's movement in his cell until one final jerk. at 10.24 p.m. He was found dead in his cell the next morning which stopped
Starting point is 00:59:27 all the investigation into, like it didn't stop the investigation but it stopped all the information. All the flow of information that they were getting from him. It just came to a screeching halt. I am mad about that. So, yay,
Starting point is 00:59:44 he's a little bitch and he's gone. But boo. But fuck. Now we can't Nothing. Because now they're just having to use whatever they got from him, which was like... Not much. Just weird, Cody, fucking puzzly, quid, quid, quid, quid. Polshy.
Starting point is 01:00:03 Like, here and there. And they're having to connect things. And it's like, it could be forever until we know how many people he actually killed. So that's the story of Israel Keys. How uplifting. He's, uh, he was a terrible. fucking monster. Uh-huh.
Starting point is 01:00:22 I didn't, you know, there was, of course, there are some things I didn't go into like vast detail about, you know. Why? Well, and let me be the first to say, if you are very interested in this case, many of our negative reviews have already plugged to this podcast for them,
Starting point is 01:00:39 but I'll do it for them too, because I think it's nice when podcasters plug other podcasters and not negative reviewers plugging other podcasters. So if you're really interested, in the Israel Keys case. Honestly, go listen to true crime bullshit. It is a 15 episode
Starting point is 01:00:57 podcast. Whoa. That goes deep into Israel Keys. 15 episodes about Israel Keys. We were an overview. It's great. It's amazing. It's informative.
Starting point is 01:01:10 But I just want to be clear that anybody who was like, if you want the real story, go listen to that. Yeah, for sure. But we weren't going to spend 15 weeks going on Israel Keys. Sorry.
Starting point is 01:01:23 True crime bullshit is an investigative podcast that is focusing on one case. Right. We focus on a case a week. Right. So you're going to get a little more generalized of an overview. So for real, I'm not being like a salty, sodium-filled bitch. I am. If you want more about this case, go listen to true crime bullshit because I'm serious.
Starting point is 01:01:46 It's a great podcast. It's engaging. The host is amazing. He spent years invested in this case. So for sure, go over there if you thought this was interesting because you'll get even more. And he has hours upon hours of interrogation footage with Israel Keys. So you can hear literally like 30 minutes at a time of him talking. Wow.
Starting point is 01:02:09 So definitely go listen to that for sure if you're into this. I just wanted to plug them because they are a great podcast. Yeah. So I just wanted to put that out there. So what we're going to do this week is we're going to do. to do our shoutouts for our Patreon, our Patronus, is our beautiful, beautiful lovelies on our Ted Bundy episode. So, um, not this one, not the mini that's coming out right after this one,
Starting point is 01:02:32 but the Ted Bundy episode where we're talking about the movie, um, that's coming out this week as well. You will be getting a shout out. We're going to do a lot more on that one. So, uh, stay tuned for that, you beautiful bags of bones. And in the meantime, you can follow. us on Instagram at Morbid Podcasts
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Starting point is 01:03:34 But not so weird that you start to put these weird kits in random places, and then you don't even know what people you're going to kill yet. You just know where you're going to kill them, and then you find the people to kill, and then you're really rude about it, and then you put makeup on something, and you sew their eyes open, which you really should never do, and then you keep their hair, and then you do something else, and then you do something else and something else and then you just got to stop and then everybody finds you and it's over
Starting point is 01:03:52 and then you kill yourself don't do that don't keep it that weird don't do that don't do that don't do any of that no no thank you so much bye

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