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Israel Keyes was an American serial killer, kidnapper, rapist and bank robber who deliberately tried to make his crimes difficult to connect. He traveled extensively around the United States, sometimes flying to one part of the country, renting a vehicle and then driving hundreds of miles before selecting victims with whom he had no obvious connection. Keyes also buried “kill kits” containing weapons, restraints and other supplies years in advance so he could return later and commit murders without having to purchase suspicious items immediately beforehand. He confessed to killing Bill and Lorraine Currier in Vermont in 2011 and to abducting and murdering 18-year-old Samantha Koenig in Anchorage, Alaska, in 2012. After killing Koenig, he staged a ransom demand using a photograph of her body and withdrew money from her debit card, activity that ultimately helped investigators track him down and arrest him in Texas.

After his arrest, Keyes told the FBI that he had killed multiple people over many years and claimed his murders stretched across several states, but he was deliberately evasive about names, locations and victim totals. Investigators believed he was responsible for at least 11 murders, although only three victims were conclusively identified, and he was examined in connection with numerous unsolved disappearances and homicides across the country. Keyes described choosing victims opportunistically and said he sometimes traveled specifically to kill, making geographic profiling unusually difficult. He died by suicide in an Alaska jail in December 2012 before he could be tried for most of the crimes he confessed to, leaving investigators with a disturbing combination of confirmed murders, partial confessions and unresolved questions about how many victims he actually had.


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