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The Weight of What He Took: Victims Named and Unnamed
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Israel Keyes buried murder kits across America, crossed thousands of miles between kills, and died in an Anchorage cell with his secrets intact — this is the full reckoning. From Samantha Koenig's coffee stand abduction to the forty hours of FBI interviews he used to control the story, this is the case the bureau never fully closed.
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When a serial killer dies in custody, two things die with him. The first is accountability.
Israel Keyes was not somebody the FBI was watching. He wasn't on a list.
The clearest window into how he worked came from the Currier case. Bill and Lorraine Currier were a couple living in Vermont.
The case that ended him began on the first of February, two thousand and twelve. Samantha Koenig was eighteen years old.
Keyes began using Samantha Koenig's debit card. He made withdrawals in Arizona.
Between April and October of two thousand and twelve, Keyes sat down with FBI investigators for more than forty hours of recorded interviews. And what happened in those rooms is one of the most studied and contested sequences in recent FBI history.
On the second of December, two thousand and twelve, Israel Keyes was found dead in his cell at the Anchorage Correctional Complex. He had slit his wrists and strangled himself with a bedsheet.
The honest summary of the Israel Keyes investigation is that it remains unfinished. The FBI confirmed the murders of Samantha Koenig and Bill and Lorraine Currier.
What stays with you, looking at this in full, is the discipline. Not admiration for it.
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