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Keyes: I cut the phone lines
as soon as I picked the house.

Once I was actually
in the house,

I was probably in the bedroom
within five or six seconds.

It was like a blitz attack.

You just make sure they know
right away who's in charge

and immediately tie them up.

Tell them what the rules are.

I think they were just kind of
in awe that it was happening.

Like, they couldn't believe it.

And they kept wanting
an explanation

as to why it was happening.

♪♪

Welcome to "Very Scary People."
I'm Donnie Wahlberg.

Israel Keyes is in Texas.

He said he traveled there from
Alaska for his sister's wedding.

But it looks like
he's running from something.

He has used kidnap victim

Samantha Koenig's ATM
card several times.

Now the Texas rangers want to
know how he got Samantha's card

and if he knows where she is.

This is part two of
"The Cross-Country Killer."

On the night of
February 1, 2012,

Samantha Koenig was working at
the Common Grounds coffee stand.

He said they were random.
It had to do with the place.

Hunter:
Shortly before it closed,

a man walked up
and ordered a coffee.

When she turned back around,
he had a gun pointing at her.

You always hope
that it's just a robbery.

But she's led away from there
and kidnapped.

He wasn't looking
for a particular age.

He tells her that he is wanting
to get money from her family.

He wasn't looking for
a particular type of person.

His victims were in the wrong
place at the wrong time.

He took her ATM card
and made a ransom demand.

A ransom note
demanding $30,000.

A few hours later,
somebody made a withdrawal.

He is in full disguise, wearing
gloves, not to be detected.

We had a trace on the card.

The next time he used it
was in Arizona.

He then ended up in Humble,
Texas, again, withdrawing money.

An ATM surveillance camera
grabbed footage of the car

he was in, a white sedan.

FBI got in touch with
the Texas rangers,

and put together a bolo,
be on the lookout,

for the vehicle.

On March 13th, police were able
to identify the vehicle.

They followed him and they
eventually pulled him over.

And they identified him
through his Alaska I.D.

as Israel Keyes.

He was standing
in front of the car,

and he was, like,
staring off into...

...he was just
staring off into nowhere.

And he didn't really

make eye contact with us.

They search the car
and uncover Samantha's I.D.,

her cellphone, a debit card,

and the disguise that match
the one from the ATM footage.

When the ATM card was found,

the decision to put him
in a vehicle, secure him,

and take him to jail
was instantaneously made.

You know,
this ballgame is over.

We had too much circumstantial
evidence on the front end,

and then we started
to find things

that this is not
just circumstantial.

This is absolute evidence

that this is the guy
that we're looking for.

It was over.

It was time
to take him to jail.

At that point, what my job
was to do in Alaska

was, we now had a name
and a suspect,

and I immediately went
to Israel's house

with a team of SWAT guys,

because we didn't know
if Samantha was still alive,

if she was at that house.

When they searched the house,

they didn't find
any sign of Samantha.

After Keyes was arrested,
he was extradited back to Alaska

and he was held there in
an Alaska correctional facility.

While he was being held there,

he started talking to federal
investigators about his crimes,

and he told the investigators

that he would be willing
to cooperate to some extent

and tell them about
some of the things he had done,

but he wanted it done
under his own terms.

Investigators were willing
to go along with Keyes

and his request to keep
the details of the information

he shared out of the media

because they wanted to
keep Keyes talking to them.

We were sitting with Israel.

That's when he confessed to us

of what had happened
with Samantha.

Several hours after abducting
Samantha Koenig

and after he had
taken possession of her purse

and her bank debit card,

Israel Keyes returned
back to the shed

that he had next to his house,

and in the early morning
of February 2nd,

he raped Samantha.

He was telling us details,
a very matter of fact,

and not shy about anything
that he had done.

Authorities also learn that
this is not the first time

he had targeted
a teenage girl.

When Keyes was about
20 years old,

he had been planning
to make his first kill.

In the late '90s, Israel Keyes'
family moved to Maupin, Oregon.

It was there that he
and his brothers

helped the father
build a house.

There were some girls
floating the river.

He set up in around
the bend of a corner

where people would stop
their tubes,

get out,
and use the restroom.

And one of the tubers

who had kind of
separated herself from the rest,

who was kind of behind all
the others,

was a teenage girl.

Then he dragged her over to
a remote

bathroom facility there.

And inside there,
he subdued her.

He tied her up and raped her.

[Woman gasps]

And his plan was to kill her
and to dump her body

in the waste tank
there for the toilet.

Bell: He told us
she said things to him like,

"You don't have to do this.

"You look like somebody
that I would date.

You don't have to rape me."

Her acting that way sort of
calmed his killing urge.

And he kind of chickened out.

He regretted that he made
that mistake,

letting her go where
she could have told on him

and gotten him in trouble.

♪♪

When you look
at the interrogation,

you really get a sense
of the manipulation

that's going on here
and the back and forth,

the cat and mouse game
going on

between Israel Keyes
and law enforcement.

Members of law enforcement

even brought in treats
to Israel Keyes,

hoping that he would
divulge more.

Snickers,
an americano coffee,

bagels, cigars, even.

Chacon: I mean, they did
what they had to do.

And your job is to
keep him talking

and keep him providing
information to you,

whatever it takes to do that.

The first thing
we want to know,

and what everybody wants
to know is where is Samantha?

And he acknowledged
that she was deceased.

The worst interview
to listen to

was what he had done
with Samantha.

It was hard to listen to.

Israel Keyes, he raped Samantha
inside the shed

and then strangled her.

Bell: He wrapped Samantha up
in some plastic

and he put her in some cabinetry
that was inside that shed.

And he shut the heat off
in that shed.

Remember, it is February
in Alaska ... extremely cold.

That will preserve
Samantha's body.

After raping and killing
Samantha Koenig,

Israel Keyes caught a flight
out of Anchorage

and went on a cruise.

When Israel Keyes arrived back
from that cruise

two weeks later,
he goes to the shed.

He thawed out Samantha's body
with some heaters he had.

And after he did that,
he put into plan an idea

that he had come up with
to get a ransom paid.

And what he did is he pretended
that Samantha was still alive.

He puts makeup on Samantha,

sews her eyes open
with fishing line.

Doing her hair,

trying to make it look
like Samantha was still alive.

He said it took him hours
and hours to do this.

And he took a Polaroid of her,

and he had a recent newspaper
next to her,

kind of a proof of life
type photograph.

It was my opinion at the time
that she was either deceased

or was unconscious
in the photograph.

And once we talked to Israel,
as you may know now,

Samantha was already deceased
by the time APD was notified

she was missing.

It was a game.
It was a game to him.

And he asked for a computer,
which we got him,

and he proceeded to show us

where Samantha's remains
were using Google maps.

And he took us
to Matanuska Lake,

put the cursor on a location
in the lake,

and he said
that she's right there.

Chacon: It's about 40 minutes
north of Anchorage.

It just struck me
as very beautiful.

The sky was just wide open
and blue

and the lake
just looked beautiful.

I went out to that lake
with those coordinates

and I kind of
got down on my knee

and I was just
looking at the ice,

because there was two feet
of snow,

and obviously,
I wasn't able to see anything.

But I knew that's where
Samantha was.

Chacon: Keyes gave us
a general idea of

where he had entered the lake.

And he wanted to make himself
look like an ice fishermen.

So, we knew where he had parked
and where he had gone in

and accessed, you know,
the frozen lake.

We have a plan already of how
we're going to

approach this search.

We know we're going to deploy
a sonar first,

which sits on a tripod
on the bottom

and does a circulating
picture for us.

As soon as the sonar
got on the bottom,

the bottom was clean and flat,

and we could see the shape
of objects on the sonar.

There was a hushed tone in that
pop-up shelter

as we threw the lights

and the camera on and people
were looking like at that image.

So, we put two divers
in the water,

and they start
recovering Samantha.

Earlier today,
a forensic dive team

discovered in Matanuska Lake,

what investigators believe to be
the body of Samantha Koenig.

When we found her remains,

that was also another
very, very low point.

We stopped him, we found her,
we brought her home.

But she was deceased.

So that was a very difficult
time for me, personally,

in the investigation.

Tasker Bell: Later that
afternoon, I got word.

James was just sitting there,

just sitting there,

but he was still strong
for her friends,

he was still strong
for Duane.

But that was a very somber,

quiet day.

None of us really said
much other

than just held onto each other

and moved on to the next steps,

which was planning her service.

♪♪

Hunter: Israel Keyes was born
in 1978 in Utah.

He was one of 10 children.

He was the second child
born to the family.

He was the oldest son
of the family.

His parents were
Christian fundamentalists.

They were very, very religious.

They were often very harsh
with administering

their religious views to Israel
and the other kids.

When he was just a toddler,

the family moved to Colville,
Washington, where at one point,

they lived in a one-bedroom
cabin with no electricity

and no access
to the outside world.

The family did not believe
in modern medicine,

government interference,
and public schools.

When Israel Keyes' family was
living in Colville, Washington,

his parents joined a religious
organization out there,

a church called the Ark.

And the Ark was a very
extremist Christian faith.

So, Israel, at a young age,
was exposed to a lot

of these very extreme
religious viewpoints.

Israel was homeschooled,
as were his siblings.

So, their socialization
was limited

to each other to some extent.

They did have friends,

although the parents
were very controlling

as to what they could do
with their friends,

whether they could go
to the friends' houses or not.

When he was 14 years old,

he would do things
that he thought were normal

and others
didn't think they were.

Keyes tells us a story

about going into the woods
as a teenager,

and he brings one of his friends
into the woods,

and he's, like,
going to have, like, fun.

And fun to Keyes
is capturing this cat

and tying a rope
around it until it's dead.

His friend is so horrified
by this that the friend winds up

vomiting right there
in the woods,

and Keyes cannot
understand that.

He looks at his friend

and says he can't understand
why he's doing that.

"This is fun."

Hunter: As he got older,
he did come to question

the harsh religious environment
that his mother in particular

was raising the family in,

and he completely
rebelled against it.

Bell:
Back when Israel was 17,

he built his own cabin
on their property

and lived in it by himself.

By then, he had realized that he
was different than most people.

He enjoyed torturing animals
and killing animals.

He had by then already
burglarized places, taken guns.

And so, he knew that
he was different,

and he knew that he didn't have
that sense of empathy

and sorrow for things.

There probably were things about
his childhood experiences

to which he reacted
totally inappropriately

by railing
against religiosity,

railing against just the very
idea of trying to do good,

and basically deciding

that he was going to be
the angel of death.

♪♪

♪♪

Welcome back to
"Very Scary People."

Israel Keyes is in custody
for the abduction

and murder
of Samantha Koenig.

Authorities suspect he has
more victims

after finding searches
on Keyes's computer

about missing Vermont couple
Bill and Lorraine Currier.

Keyes is playing a game
of cat and mouse,

and knows that
he has the upper hand.

Israel Keyes
flies to Chicago.

His plans were to visit
some family members in Indiana,

go fishing, and check
out property he owned,

then drives to Vermont.

On June 7, 2011,
Israel Keyes

checked into the Handy Suites
hotel in Essex, Vermont.

The next night, he went out
looking for his victim.

He found a parking lot near
a hotel where he was staying,

and he saw what he thought
was a secluded bush area.

He hid in that area
and he was going to wait

for somebody to come up
in their vehicle,

and then he would
take that person.

Keyes was hidden in the dark,

watching the car park.

He told us that a person
drove in,

parked where he had
hoped somebody would park.

It was a male.

But that person managed
to quickly get out of the car

and run into the apartment
complex before Keyes

could react.

And so, that person,
they got away

without knowing how close
they had been

to becoming
one of Keyes's victims.

Bell:
Israel was very restless

because he was feeling
a need to take somebody.

So he went out for a walk
in the neighborhood,

near the hotel,

and that's when he saw the house
that the Curriers lived in.

Hunter:
He knew he wanted a house

that had an attached garage

that would make it easier
to enter unseen.

He knew he wanted to find
a house

that it didn't look like there
were children living there.

He was looking very carefully

for the lack of any pets,

especially a yappy dog.

And the Curriers
did not have a dog.

It was more about the house
than it was about the Curriers.

And so, he watched,
and waited at night.

He cuts their phone lines.

And then he entered the house
through the garage.

Grabs a crowbar from the garage

and gets into the house
and fast,

busting the glass window.

Hunter: He had a headlamp
on so he could see.

And he came in,
in a blitz-style attack,

he called it.

He rushed in with a gun
and surprised the Curriers,

who were sleeping
in their bed.

He said the Curriers
were just waking up,

kind of didn't know
what was going on quite yet.

And that's how he was able
to overwhelm them.

And he had them turn over
on their stomachs

and he bound them
with zip ties immediately.

They didn't have a chance
to fight or run.

Israel Keyes interrogates
the couple,

finding items in their home.

I think that part of what he got
off on was dragging it out.

To get into the bedroom
and announce his presence

and terrify them

and do whatever
he planned to do.

Keyes forced them
into their own car

and then drove off with them,

and took them
to an abandoned farmhouse

located a few miles away.

He took Bill Currier
into the house first.

He took him down
into the basement

and tied him up down
in the basement

of this abandoned farmhouse.

Then he went back to the car
in the driveway to get Lorraine,

and as he walked back,

he saw Lorraine running away
towards the road.

While Israel was upstairs
assaulting Mrs. Currier,

Bill Currier was downstairs.

Yelling and screaming,
"Where's my wife?

Where's my wife?"

So, he had to go
leave Lorraine again

and go down back into
the basement where Bill was.

Mr. Currier
had gotten off the stool

and a struggle ensued.

Bell:
He told us that Mr. Currier

wasn't cooperating
with his plan.

He didn't tell us
what his plan was,

but he did say
he had plans for both of them.

Bill had become so belligerent
at this point

and was fighting back.

Keyes had to resort
to using his gun,

which he had not planned on
doing, he didn't want to do.

Israel then shot him
multiple times.

After Bill was dead,
Keyes went back upstairs

and raped Lorraine

and strangled her to death.

Jennifer: Israel Keyes knew
what he was doing.

Killed them in that house,
raped Lorraine in that house,

kidnapped my brother and
handcuffed him in that house.

That man deserved
to rot in prison.

♪♪

To get rid of the bodies,
Keyes pours Drano on them,

put them each
in a garbage bag,

and shoves the bodies
into a corner of the basement

of that abandoned farmhouse.

When he told us that he was
going to give us

the two more bodies and a name,
he gave us the name Curriers.

And he asked for a computer,
and he went to Google maps

and he put the cursor
on the house where he said

that the bodies could be found
in a corner of the basement,

and so law enforcement
was sent out to that location.

It was an abandoned farmhouse
kind of out in the country.

Unfortunately, that house
had been destroyed

and been taken down.

And the remnants of the house
had been hauled to a dump site

that was the size
of several football fields,

up to 12 feet deep.

Vermont authorities
tried desperately

to find their bodies,
searching for 11 weeks.

We told you yesterday

an announcement
would come today,

and now it's official.

The dig at the Coventry
landfill is over.

The bodies of Bill and Lorraine
Currier were not recovered.

To this day,
Bill and Lorraine Currier

are listed as missing persons

even though we know
that they are dead.

I will never feel like
there's closure

until their bodies are found,

and I don't think
you'll ever find them, ever.

Hunter: Keyes was very crafty
in the way

he committed his crimes.

He was very elusive.

Oftentimes, he would fly into
an airport in one state,

he would rent a car there,

he would then drive out of
that state to another state,

sometimes driving
through multiple states

before he would get
to an area

where he would actually
commit a crime.

He would bury these caches
or kill kits in areas,

and then travel back
to those locations

to commit the next crime.

And what these kill kits were
is he would take

a five-gallon plastic bucket
and he would put in it tools

that he would need
for future crimes.

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.

They had all the tools that
someone would need to abduct,

restrain, and murder someone.

He would do this years
in advance,

and he'd have them stashed
all over the country.

I called up the Essex police
and I said,

"Did he bury one of those things
here in Vermont?"

And the officer that
I was speaking to said,

"Yes, he did.
We have evidence that he did."

Bell: In 2009, he had been
on the east coast

and he had buried a kill kit
in Essex, Vermont, area.

And so he went back
to that location

to retrieve that kill cache,
which had guns in it,

and then killed the Curriers.

He was very random
about his victims.

He wasn't looking for
a particular age,

he wasn't looking for
a particular type of person.

His victims were more of being
in the wrong place

at the wrong time.

He purposely made it very
difficult to track him down.

In my 27-year career
in the FBI,

I never saw anybody
so meticulous

in planning their crimes

and getting away
with it for so long.

Keyes made it very clear that in
exchange for the information

he was willing to give them,

he wanted to make sure that
to the extent possible,

his daughter could be protected
from what he had done.

He didn't want the details
released to the public.

And so, there's a cat
and mouse game

that sometimes
you have to play.

It's only wrong if it shuts down
the person and he stops talking.

But in this particular case,
he was still providing useful

information
and accurate information.

Authorities believe
Israel Keyes'

first murder victim

happened not long after
he moved to Neah Bay,

Washington, in 2001.

And more victims soon follow.

Bell: We know that he disposed
of bodies

in Lake Crescent,
in Washington.

The lake is, in some parts,
600 feet deep.

And so we weren't able to find
any victims.

Thompson: He talked about
Lake Crescent.

He talked about various
other places in Washington

where he could just make
people disappear,

and those were some of
the same places that we drove

by when I was working with him.

So it was really,
really jarring

to find out about that,

and that I had been alone

with him for hours on end

in some places
he said he could hide a body

where nobody
would ever find it.

To protect their investigation,

authorities are keeping
Israel Keyes's name

and crimes under wraps.

That is until a Vermont TV
station makes an announcement.

A channel 3 news investigation
over the last several months

has led us to the identity
of the man

accused of killing
the Curriers.

Israel Keyes finds out his name
is made public,

and stops talking.

I think he thought that he would
take responsibility for it

and that would be it and
the details wouldn't come out.

And so, once he found out
that every single detail

he told was going to
eventually come out,

he became much more reluctant
to give us details.

♪♪

Keyes was closely monitored

and was even on suicide watch
for a period of time,

but at some point,

Keyes was able
to get ahold of a razor blade.

He was a coward
for doing what he did.

You had no problems
killing that couple,

you had no problems
killing Samantha.

You should have no problems
standing up

and answering for it.

Hunter: Early in the morning
of December 2nd,

Keyes' body
was found in his cell.

He had killed himself
late the night before.

The FBI says a suspected
serial killer

has committed suicide
while in custody.

In March, Israel Keyes was
charged with the murder of

18-year-old Alaskan barista
Samantha Koenig.

Before killing himself
on Sunday,

police say that Keyes confessed
to other murders.

I got a phone call from either
from somebody in Anchorage

or somebody in Quantico
that said, "Hey, have you heard?

Israel Keyes ... he's dead."

He had used a razor blade that
he had managed to obtain somehow

and used that
to slit his own wrists.

And then to make sure
that he was successful,

he had actually planned ahead
to have a backup.

At that point,
Israel Keyes hung himself.

How did he get the goddamn
ability to kill himself?

Like, seriously?
What's wrong with our system?

Russell: I think
it was pretty clear

how this was going to end
for him.

Then I think he decided,

"Well, my way to go out
and sort of win now"

is to take himself out
as he did, commit suicide

and leave the cops

still with all
these questions and quandaries.

The reality is he got
the last word.

Hopefully,
we will take it back

and make it for Samantha
and the other victims.

A note was discovered
after Keyes' suicide,

and even though
the FBI analyzed the note,

there wasn't anything in there
that allowed them to solve

any other cases or link
any other victims to Keyes.

Also discovered in Keyes' cell

was that he had scrawled
in his own blood,

he had drawn pictures
of 11 skulls.

Bell: Skulls with upside down
crosses on their foreheads.

There weren't any names.

There was one that said,
"We are one," on them.

And I believe that is him
signifying

that once he killed
these people,

that they all
became part of him.

Investigators surmise
that the skulls

represented Keyes' victims.

We believe that those drawings
kind of confirmed

what he was telling us,
was that there was 11 victims.

He told us once
he gave up Samantha

and once he gave up
the Curriers

and once he gave up
that information,

he felt like they left him,

and they no longer belong
to him and their stories.

And so, I think that the main
reason he didn't tell us

was he didn't want
to give those victims up.

He took those people
to the grave with him

because he did not want to share
what he believed was his.

Keyes was careful to maintain
the trappings of a normal life

of a regular guy.

On the one hand,
this doting father figure,

this business owner,
this supportive husband,

and then on the other hand,
this very dark-hearted character

who enjoyed
inflicting pain on others,

enjoying seeing suffering
in others, enjoyed killing.

This isn't the case
of a regular guy going bad.

This is a case of a bad guy

maintaining a facade
of a regular guy.

He knew if he had his druthers,

he probably would have acted out
openly as a killer all the time.

I think we can't always prevent
bad things from happening,

but certainly, a national
missing persons' database

for adults could help solve
some of these unsolved cases

where families don't know what
happened to their loved ones.

The people Israel Keyes killed,
Samantha Koenig,

Bill and Lorraine Currier,

they were victims
of happenstance.

They happened to come across
this evil of Israel Keyes,

and there really was nothing
that they could have done

to prevent these crimes
from happening.

Jennifer: I want them to be
remembered as real people.

Bill and Lorraine Currier
are real people.

They were alive and well
at one time,

and in my head, they are
always going to be there.

Tasker Bell: Samantha will be
remembered as a strong,

courageous woman.

She did everything right,

and all she did was tried
to go do a job,

go home with her boyfriend,
her dad, and have a life.

Authorities believe Israel Keyes
killed as many as 11 people.

Those who knew him ...
even loved him ...

apparently knew nothing
about his dark side.

And that's possibly
the scariest part of

Israel Keyes's life ...
his true self, his evil self.

I'm Donnie Wahlberg.
Thanks for watching.

Good night.

♪♪