The Alaskan Serial Killer · 1 Oct 2026 · 12 min

The Cruise, the Ransom Lie, and the FBI's Forty-Hour Confession

Israel Keyes left Samantha Koenig's body in his shed and boarded a family cruise — then came home to stage a proof-of-life photo using her remains. This chapter traces the ransom deception, the Vermont murders of Bill and Lorraine Currier, and the forty-hour FBI interviews that began to map a decade of buried murder kits across America.

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The Cruise, the Ransom Lie, and the FBI's Forty-Hour Confession

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He took his family on a cruise. And while they were at sea, Samantha Koenig's body was still in his shed.

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