Unseen - Unmasking the Alaska Polaroid Serial Killer | The Case of Samantha Koenig | UNSEEN

Episode Date: December 8, 2025

Exclusive $35 off Carver Mat at https://on.auraframes.com/UNSEEN. Promo Code UNSEEN - “Ain’t she purty?” February 1, 2012 — it's a quiet night in Anchorage, Alaska, as 18-year-old Samantha Koenig finishes her shift at a coffee shop, waiting for her boyfriend to pick her up, when an unexpected customer barges in. Less than an hour later, Samantha's boyfriend arrives, but Samantha is nowhere to be found. In the weeks that follow, Samantha's father, James, leads the search to find his daughter, but what he uncovers is a sinister plot. Now, it is up to James to help put a stop to one of America's most disturbing serial killers, and get justice for his daughter.  - Written, directed & edited by Justin Chalifoux Researched by Amanda Hein Voiceover by Will Akana Produced by Salim Sader - Sources: Documentaries:  “Ain't She Purty”, Wild Crime: Eleven Skulls, 2024 (ABC News/Hulu) “You’ve got your monster”, Wild Crime: Eleven Skulls, 2024 (ABC News/Hulu) “Because they’re mine”, Wild Crime: Eleven Skulls, 2024 (ABC News/Hulu) “Mask of sanity”, Wild Crime: Eleven Skulls, 2024 (ABC News/Hulu) 48 Hours: Tracking the Murders of Israel Keyes, 2020 (CBS Broadcasting Inc.) “The Cross Country Killer: He Could Make People Disappear” - Part 1 & 2, Very Scary People, 2022 (Investigation Discovery) Method of a Serial Killer, 2018 (Glass Entertainment Group/ Oxygen Network) News clips:   Anchorage Police Department released to Anchorage Daily News ABC Alaska Fox News CBS News KHQ Local News The Star Ledger Alaska Public Media CBS 11 News NBC 5 Youtubers:  Viktoria Evans Sotos DoWhit Yourself  Podcast: “The Israel Keyes Investigation” True Crime Bullsh**, 2018 (Studio BOTH/AND).  Book Maureen Callahan, “American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century”, Viking, 2021  Other: FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigations 'Send her home': Father of abducted barista pleads for her return - Kyle Hopkins (DailyMotion) Seeking Alaska’s Missing (S.A.M.) - Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's 8.15 p.m. On one of the security cameras, a dark figure emerges from across the parking lot. walking towards the drive-thru window. Samantha is then seen talking to someone before she goes off to make a coffee. At first, everything seems normal. She engages with the man as she would any other customer, until...

Samantha takes a step back, holding both her hands up. She seems terrified, but watched closely. In the next few minutes, she's going to leave a clue behind that could ruin his plan. Following the man's orders, she turns off the lights in the front, and in the back. It's hard to make out what's happening inside the coffee stand, but Samantha appears to remove money from the cash register before she crouches on the floor

and puts her coat on. The man then asks her to turn around before he leans in through the drive-thru window and binds her hands behind her back. He then jumps through the window and into the coffee stand. For the next several minutes, Samantha is trapped, not knowing what's going to happen. into her. When they get up to leave, she has something stuffed in her mouth. At 8.25 p.m., Samantha walks out of the coffee stand with the man close at her side. They cross the parking lot and turn right on Fairbanks Street before disappearing out of the frame. 18-year-old Samantha Koenig has been kidnapped and no one knows she's been taken. But look closer. Inside the coffee stand, there's a light flashing. Samantha has left her phone behind, which will

come as a shock to police because her boyfriend will get a text from her three hours after she disappears. The year is 2012. In the city of Anchorage, Alaska, 18-year-old Samantha Koenig is living a happy life with her father James, who loves her more than anything in the world. James has had full custody of Samantha since she was two years old and does all he can to keep her safe. But she's now a high school senior and enjoys going out with friends. James has allowed her boyfriend and Dwayne to come live with them at his house, knowing it would make her happy. Samantha and her dad were very close. He's a really sweet person.

The viker type fellow. Samantha was his only biological child. Samantha was his world. Samantha has dreams of becoming a veterinarian. Her dad has been helping her prepare, and she's been saving up money for the future. She just started work at a new place, called The Common Grounds, and on February 1, she's working the the evening shift, alone. Her boyfriend Dwayne is supposed to pick her up after work. It's 8.30 p.m. Dwayne arrives late at the coffee stand and finds all the lights are off and the

place is empty. He tries calling Samantha's cell phone multiple times, but gets no answer. Because he was late, Dwayne thinks Samantha simply got a lift from someone else, so he decides to go home and wait for her there. It's 11.30 p.m. 3 hours later, when Dwayne finally gets a text back from Samantha, but the message only confuses him further. She writes, I know what you did. I'm going to spend a couple of days with friends. Need time to think plan, acting weird. Let my dad know. Dwayne is shocked. He doesn't understand what he could have done that would make her angry. He shares the message with James, Samantha's dad, who immediately thinks, this doesn't sound like Samantha. It's 3 a.m. Dwayne is unable to sleep. He waits on

porch outside, hoping Samantha will come home when he sees a dark figure rummaging through his truck. Duane shouts out to the person and runs inside to get James. But when they get back outside, the figure is already gone. February 2nd, at 1239 p.m., the Anchorage Police Department receives this 911 call. 911. What is the location of the emergency? I am at Common Ground Expresso on Old Steward & Tudor. My daughter works at the Common Ground Express So she's been missing since she got off work last night. What's your daughter's name? You got officer said in your way.

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by mentioning us at checkout. Terms and conditions apply. Thanks for supporting Unseen, and thanks again to ORA Frames for sponsoring this episode. Now, back to Samantha's story. Officer Kevin M. is the first to arrive at the scene. I got a call towards the end of shift about a possible abduction. My barista at a coffee shop, I get there and talk to the barista's father and her boyfriend. I was concerned when he showed up at 8.15 to pick her up and she wasn't here. So I'm trying to put all this together. I have a father and boyfriend who say that a girl didn't come home.

You get this weird text and now somebody's rummishing through her truck. But they didn't call the police. That would be the most logical thing in my mind. In her truck? Yes, sir. At home? Yeah. Any reason we didn't report it?

I just figured that she just had something to get something out of her truck. I'm thinking maybe she's got another boyfriend somewhere and she didn't want to come home. I don't know if this is truly an abduction. But we still have to investigate it as if it was. When Officer M. turns his attention to the coffee stand, he talks to the barista who had opened the shop that morning. It basically looked like someone just literally walked out of their shift. I started kind of noticing a little bit more things. I looked in my register.

I looked for the money that goes in my register. It was gone. Then I looked in our deposit bags. They were all gone. Several officers were at the scene. We searched the coffee stand collecting evidence. I worked and worked and worked and worked. worked, trying to find evidence of any kind inside that coffee hut.

Not only did I not find anything, there was no sign of struggle. But everything changes when they get their hands on the security footage. Detectives queue the tapes to 8 p.m. around the time Samantha was supposed to get off work. Right away, they can see she's alone, cleaning and wiping things down. At 8.15 p.m., a man approaches on foot and walks up to the drive-through window. Samantha goes to greet the man and starts making a coffee. Several times, she is seen engaging with him. At one point she turns towards the window and she reacts.

Samantha recoils and puts her hands up. Detectives are convinced the man is pointing a gun at her. She then walks across the coffee stand and turns the lights off. The officers watching the footage then see her go to the cash register and remove the money. She puts her coat on and drops to the floor so he can bind her hands together. Detectives have no idea what the man looks like as he's completely out of the frame until Samantha moves away from the window. And he jumped through the window.

In like almost one leap, he just comes into the window. At that point, it almost seems like things calm down. He's in there a long time before they leave. The man stuffs napkins in Samantha's mouth and leads her out of the coffee station. officers then see them both walking away in the parking lot. They then re-watch the footage over and over, and there's a few elements that raise red flags. Right next to the light switch, there's an alarm.

If she was in danger, why didn't she hit the alarm? She had a perfect chance to press alarm button she didn't do that. When we looked at that video for a longer time, we noticed that there was like a light showing up on the counter. The light would come on and then it would disappear. This is Samantha's phone, ringing every time Dwayne called her the night she was kidnapped. The problem is, Dwayne received this text message at 11.30 p.m. from Samantha's phone. Investigators fast forward the footage until they see movement at 1126 p.m.

The person came to the coffee step. That person was wearing a headlight. The man came back, specifically. specifically to get Samantha's phone and left. That also coincided with the fact that the first texts from Samantha's phone came at 11.30 p.m. The suspect then sent a misleading text message to Samantha's boyfriend to delay someone calling the police as much as he could. This new development is terrifying. Where was Samantha while the man came back? Was she tied up in his car, held captive somewhere, or worse?

We told the media we have a video and it's apparent from the video that it's kidnapping. While the police investigation shifts into high gear, Samantha's father James is leading efforts to find his daughter. Samantha was last wearing a pair of furry black boots. It was just so obvious how much her father cared about Samantha and what a close relationship they had. James was devastated that his daughter was missing and he had no idea where she was or what had happened to her. I don't know if my daughter's being fed, taken care of if she's still alive, if she's getting any sleep. Please help find my daughter. The city of Anchorage was on heightened alert.

It actually happened so out of the blue, I mean, it's scary. I can't believe this happened here in Anchorage. The Anchorage Police Department asked for help from the FBI, but they have very little to go on. For 48 hours or so, in any case is important to try to develop as many leads as you can. February 4th, Samantha has been missing for three days. James Koenig has started collecting money for a reward fund, and donations are pouring in by the hundreds. There's a $41,000 reward for her safe return.

The investigation expands, and the FBI retrieves surveillance footage from the Home Depot parking lot, across the street from the coffee stand. You could see a couple walking through the parking lot near a busy restaurant and go into a vehicle. From there, they proceed to get surveillance tapes from nearby street cameras. While the quality of the footage is too grainy to see the license plate, they now have the suspect's vehicle. So we knew it was a white Chevy pickup truck that the suspect was using. The problem is, there's around 700 white Chevy pickup trucks identical to this one in the city of Anchorage alone. Days pass, and while investigators follow up on every lead, they're

no closer to finding Samantha. Days soon turn into weeks. James refuses to stand by idly while his daughter is still out there, so he takes to social media and publicizes Samantha's disappearance. Right now, we're probably getting two or three tips a day. Whether they're helpful or not, I really can't decide. I don't know what avenue the police are taking in the investigation. There were, of course, trolls like there isn't any social media. There were people that had their own view that she wasn't actually missing. People can be so cruel.

I got to keep my spirits up and know that my heart still feels her and she's okay. James Kennec pretty much called me daily. Slav, do you have anything new for me? Slav is there anything we could do. Of course I had a lot of sympathy for him. I'm a police officer, but I'm also father. My daughter at the time was working in a coffee stand. If it happened to Samantha, it could happen to somebody else.

It's February 24th. Samantha has been missing for 23 days. James is out having a meeting at a restaurant with the search party team when Samantha's boyfriend Dwayne gets a text. His face goes sheet white. He hurries over to James and shows him. shows him the text. A text from Samantha's phone.

Under a picture at Conner's Park, ain't she purdy? James and his family rush over to Connor Park, where there's a bulletin board. Underneath a picture of a dog named Albert, there's a Ziploc bag. Inside is a folded sheet of paper. It's the first big break that happened in the case since obtaining some video evidence three weeks earlier. The letter is a ransom note written with the typewriter. The note confirms that Samantha is alive.

In the note, he is telling us that once he collects $30,000 in six months to a year, then he will give information potentially where Samantha's at. There's a debit card number linked to Samantha's bank account where the funds should be deposited. Along with the ransom note, there's a photo of a young woman. She's naked, she's found, she's her hair is braided, she's got duct tape over her mouth. The picture is a proof of life, showing a woman next to a newspaper from February 23rd. I contacted James Keenig.

If it was really his daughter, I knew that it was going to be heartbreaking for him to see that photo. It was just me and James Keenig in the interview room. I put a photo in front of him. He started it for a long time. And then he said, yes, it is Samantha in the photo. When James learns about the ransom, he immediately tells Sergeant Markievich to use money from the reward fund. That same day, $5,000 is deposited into the account. We had a trace basically on the card so that if the card was used, we would be notified.

However, it was a 10-minute delay in being notified. And 10 minutes in Anchorage at midnight, you can drive out of town. The city of Anchorage has about 500 ATM machines, making it impossible for them to monitor every single one. That night, the FBI gets a signal that Samantha's card has been used. Our officers rush to the scene, but the suspect is gone. But what they do have is surveillance footage from the ATM. The suspect is wearing a mask, so they can't see any facial features.

He has his hood up, is wearing goggles, and has on a big puffy jacket with the words Marine Corps on the back. But the most interesting part is the Nissan Airs. The SUV the man is seen driving away in, this only confuses investigators further. Because the suspect could only withdraw the cash limit of $500, authorities are counting on him making another withdrawal. The FBI calls for backup and sends agents to every single publicly accessible ATM machine in the city of Anchorage.

But the next time he uses the card is on March 7th in Wilcox, Arizona, over 4,000 miles away. The FBI contacts authorities in Arizona, but because of the 10-minute delay, the suspect is already gone. When they received the footage from the ATM, investigators see the same man hiding his identity, but the car he's driving is now a white Ford Focus. That ATM withdrawal happens on March 7th. There's another one that day in Lordsburg, New Mexico. On March 10th, there's a withdrawal made in Humble, Texas. And then the next day, there's another withdrawal in Shepherd.

fix us. During this whole time, we're asking ourselves, is Samantha with this individual? Is she in the vehicle? The FBI gets in touch with the Texas Rangers and agents issue an alert to be on the lookout for a white forward focus. I get my patrol car, just take off patrol and I look to my right and the first thing I look at is a white for focus. So I called the Ranger. We dropped everything we were doing then and we told Brian, do not lose that car. While FBI agents are on their way, State Trooper Brian Henry follows the White Ford Focus from a distance. We gotta get probable cause to get him stopped, so try to get in position to get him speeding or find another traffic violation. The White Ford Focus is two vehicles in front of me.

It accelerated rapidly. So I said, well, hang on a minute, he might be speeding. Checked him with radar, he was running 58 and 55. Trooper Henry activates his lights. The car pulls into a local restaurant. As I walked up, I didn't realize we might be dealing with a kidnapping suspect. As he approaches the vehicle, he looks in the back seat, hoping to find Samantha. But the driver is alone.

However, he knows there's still a chance she could be in the trunk. I kind of paused and looked through the window to see if I could see his hands. Hey on. You're going to pause, girl. The reason we stop is kind of down there looking around. Where are you putting me? I'm from a lot here. You can step out here from that.

From the driver's license, he learns his name is Israel Keys. The Texas Rangers and FBI agents quickly arrive on the site and take control of this situation. Hey there. Steve Ryden with the Texas Rangers. Okay. How are you? I'm good. Hey.

Do we visit with you for a few minutes? Yeah. I mean, I don't know what's going on. They didn't even tell me why it was pulled over. Can I look at your wallet? I gave you my ID. You're not searching anything. Look, I, I, you have not given me any information.

I've been very open with you. I've been telling you everything. You're not searching anything in mine until I know what's going on and why I'm still standing here. The agents are running out of options. If Samantha is in the trunk of the car, they need to get it open. get it open fast. I don't need a search warrant to search the vehicle. And the vehicle exception rule on Texas state law.

It's just... How does that work if it's... I'm not... Listen, listen, I'm not going to debate, we keep it. Okay. Okay. I'm taking whatever action I need to take. When they open the trunk,

Samantha Koenig is not there. But what they do find directly connects Israel Keys to her kidnapping. Here you go. Hey. A gray hoodie, a mask, gloves, and goggles, the same disguise that was seen in the ATM videos. Inside the pockets, they find Samantha's phone and debit card.

We got her gun. Sir, you're under a list. Investigators back in Alaska take the name Israel Keys and execute a search warrant on his house. I sent our officers to Keyes' residence immediately to see if Samantha was being held inside the house or being held captive there. When they arrive at the house, the first thing they knew, notice is a white Chevy pickup truck and a silver Nissan X-Tera SUV. The special assignment unit officers made entry into the home. We then searched the house,

but Samantha's not in the house. After searching every square inch of the property, they find no evidence Samantha was ever there. There was a shed separated from the house. The whole shed was put onto a flat bed and taken back to the FBI building here in Anchorage. When the FBI dig into Israel Key's life, they learn he has a girlfriend and a 10-year-old daughter. He owns a construction company and has never had any run-ins with the law. On the outside, no one could tell he was capable of doing something like this. The U.S. Marshal has notified the court today that Israel Keys is in custody in the District of Alaska. The FBI is hoping to get Israel Keys talking.

Only he knows where Samantha is. But when he's extradited back to Alaska, Keyes learns from his life. lawyer that the computers from his house were seized so he makes the most unexpected move. It's 1548 by my watch. It's March 30th. I can understand the rights? Yes. Are you willing to wear those rights to talk to us? Yes.

He figured that having his computer would be able to find big pieces of evidence. I think everybody really wants to know where Samantha is. Was that an okay place to start or when you like that? to start or would you like to start elsewhere? Yeah, we can pull up the map there of the Palmer area. Keyes directs them to an area north of Anchorage towards Matanuska Valley in that, like how many yards off the shoreline or feet off the shore? Right there.

And points to a spot on the lake. And what should they look for specifically? Ice fishing spot. Was it a hole that you cut or was the hole there? cut or was the hole there? No, it was a hole I cut. You'll see it. You'll see where the hole was, probably. And Israel Keyes said that is where we would find Samantha Koenig. So you killed her? Yes. We knew that Samantha Koenig is dead. We knew that there's no more hope.

Earlier today, a forensic dive team discovered in Matt Nuske Lake when investigators believed to be the body of Samantha Koen. A lot of people right now, I know, are just... just heartbroken, everyone was rooting for her until the very end. We just, we couldn't believe it. We feel for the family, it's absolutely devastating. Samantha's father James is at home, surrounded by family and friends when he learns the news. The room falls silent, James' worst fear has come true. I'd like to welcome you today to Samantha Coneck's celebration of life.

James was devastated knowing that she wasn't going to be back James will not have any grandchildren James will not be able to give his daughter a hug ever again because of this creep When did you first meet Samantha Coney? Never met her. Never even seen her before. So why did you go to the Common Grounds of Gopper Shop on that night at that time? Because they were open late.

In his interrogation, Keyes gives the details of what happened to Samantha. I had my police scan around me and I had it in my ear. He tells her not to trigger the alarm because he will know if the police are notified and he will kill her. I told that we were going for a little walk. We were only about 100 feet from the coffee stand, maybe 200 feet. And she tried to get away. I tackled her after that. She, you know, I was serious.

that she didn't give me problems. She kept trying to talk to me, and I had to tell her to shut up a few times, because she was, you know, trying to make friends and stuff. She's doing what she should be doing. She's really trying to personalize herself to him, and she's trying to do what she needs to do to get out of that situation. While he's driving around Anchorage, Keyes asks Samantha for her phone.

When she tells him it's at the coffee hut, he turns around and heads back. She tries to convince him there's an alarm on the door, but he doesn't believe her. He needed the phone in order to send the text to Samantha's boyfriend, which would ultimately buy him some time before police are notified that she's missing. Then, Keyes drives her to his house and leads her inside the shed. At the time, his girlfriend was in the home, was still awake, his daughter was also at home, asleep.

Keyes doesn't think twice about keeping Samantha captive, just a few feet away from where his 10-year-old daughter sleeps. After tying her to the wall and turning on some loud music, he asks Samantha for her ATM card. That's when he learns she left it in her boyfriend's truck. And that is when he leaves Samantha and goes back to Samantha's residence and goes into Duane's truck and ultimately finds the debit card. It's now at least 3.30 in the morning, Israel gets back to the house and he's now going to fulfill his plan. That same night, Israel Keyes raped Samantha and kills her. The next morning, Israel returns to his life as usual.

He wakes up his daughter and packs her bags. They're going on a family trip to New Orleans, where they will stay for the next few weeks. All the while, Samantha's body is still in the shed. But the most disturbing thing is what he does when he comes back from his trip. He puts into action the next part of his plan. ransom money by pretending Samantha is still alive. So he bought an old Polaroid camera in a thrift store. He puts some makeup on her body.

And he took a Polaroid of her and he had a recent newspaper next to her. In reality, Samantha was dead before police were even notified that she was missing. The details of what happened to his daughter are not shared with James Koenig. Yet, he is convinced she was not Key's first victim. He creates a Facebook page to piece together a timeline of Key's whereabouts from 2004 to 2012. He calls the page, Have you ever met Israel Keys, possible serial killer? All James wants is to get closure for other families who might have lost someone. But when tips start coming in, the FBI is flooded by reports from multiple missing person cases across the country

and decide to ask Israel Keyes, point blank. Are there any other people that you're responsible for the death of? I have lots more stories to tell if you're interested. Keyes says he's willing to talk, but he wants it done on his own terms. He knows he has the upper hand. There are certain aspects of the things that I've done that I would prefer it never became public. The reason Israel Keyes doesn't want this to get out is because he doesn't want his daughter to find out. That doesn't stop him from enjoying the addiction.

I think that he likes to just sit there in a way and perhaps get some sense of delight by telling these horrific stories in such a casual way, knowing that he's likely shocking the investigators. As it turns out, James Koenig was right. His real keys is a serial killer, and he has been doing this for many years. He explains how he planned each of his murders and how he avoided detection. He would bury these kill kits in areas and then travel back to those locations to commit the next crime. He'd have rope, he'd have gloves, he'd have tape, he'd have zip ties.

Some of them he would have a gun in there. Keys may be talking, but investigators are struggling to get the names of each one of his victims. They spend days talking to him, hours on end, bowing to each of his demands, until one day a TV news channel makes this announcement. A Channel 3 news investigation over the last several months has led us to the identity of the man accused of killing the couriers. He finds out his name has been made public and stops talking. I have no reason to tell you. May 23rd, 2012.

Israel Keys is scheduled to appear in court for a hearing. There's reporters from every news channel, but no video cameras are allowed inside the courtroom. James Koenig and his family are there. I was expecting it to be super quick. Literally one or two word answers of, do you say you're innocent or guilty, it turned into something else. Keyes jumps out of his seat over the guardrails that separates him from the rest of the gallery. One marshal grabs him at the last minute and throws him to the ground, while another shoots him with a taser gun. Without making a sound, Keyes jumped the railing where family and friends of Samantha Koenig were seated together.

James Koenig, Samantha's father, declined to comment outside the court. The next day I interviewed Israel. What's changed since yesterday? Uh, more communities. November 29th, investigators only have two names, but Keyes refuses to cooperate further. After 40 hours of questioning over the course of eight months, Israel Keys shuts down. Three days later, a prison guard does a routine check of Keyes sell and stumbles upon a shocking seen. Federal inmate Israel Keyes was found dead in his jail cell. A lot of people were glad he was

dead. They think that's what he deserved, but there's a lot of information he took with him. Investigators are certain Keyes had killed 11 people, but for now, they only have three names, Bill Courier, Lorraine Courier, and Samantha Koenig. However, Special Agent Kat Nelson is convinced more cases will be solved, and she continued. continues to work so that the families of his victims can finally get closure. It won't be easy by any means, and it may take a long time, but I'll never give up trying. As for James Koenig, Samantha's father, it's because of his relentless efforts that a serial killer was caught, finally putting an end to his reign of terror. Since his daughter's death in 2012, he's created an organization that helps others find missing family members.

It works to help conduct searches, offering support and advice. The program is called Seeking Alaska's Missing, or Sam, for short. Family and friends are also working to pass a bill that aims to improve workplace safety across Alaska so that what happened to Samantha never happens again, naming it the Samantha Konig Safety Act. As of today, they are still working to pass this bill and are asking for support from the public. While James has lost his only daughter, she will always be in his heart, and through his work, he's making sure Samantha's memory lives on.

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