Beneath the silence of Alaska's frozen wilderness, behind the face of a smiling contractor, and beneath the routine of daily life, was a predator so cunning, so calculated that even the FBI struggled to believe what he confessed. Israel Keys didn't seek fame. He didn't crave attention. He wanted one thing, control. And he planned every move like a soldier on a mission. He buried kill kits across the country, waited years to use them, and murdered people at random with chilling precision. No pattern, no remorse, no slip ups until one, when he abducted Samantha Koig from her Anchorage coffee stand in 2012. He left a breadcrumb, and that mistake would become his unraveling. This is the story of how one of the most methodical and terrifying killers in American history was finally caught and the dark trail he left behind. Born on January 7th, 1978 in Richmond, Utah, Israel Keys was the second of 10 children in a deeply religious Mormon family. But faith took a radical turn when his parents moved the family off-rid to rural Washington, joining a white supremacist Christian identity church. There was no electricity, no running water, no formal education. The keys children were homeschooled in extreme isolation. Israel developed early signs of psychopathy, shooting animals for fun, stealing, and showing no empathy. In 1998, Israel Keys enlisted in the US Army. He was stationed at Fort Lewis in Washington, then Fort Hood in Texas, and later deployed to Sinai, Egypt as part of a peacekeeping mission. To his fellow soldiers, he was respectful, dependable, even likable. They remembered his dark sense of humor, his heavy drinking, and his love of heavy metal and horror movies. But no one could have imagined what was brewing beneath the surface. Keys spent his off hours reading crime novels and studying serial killers. He became obsessed with the idea of creating a perfect method, something no profiler could trace. He even claimed later that he committed his first violent assault around this time, although he didn't name the victim. After being honorably discharged in 2001, Keys drifted. He moved to the Pacific Northwest, started working construction jobs and quietly began laying the foundation for his true calling. What began as dark fantasy had turned into cold strategy. Keys developed what he called his code, a personal rule book to avoid getting caught. Never kill close to home. Never use the same method. Never target to the same type of victim. Always plan, always control. By the time he started planting kill kits across the US, Israel Keys had already rehearsed every step of the murders he would one day commit. After the army, Keys settled in Alaska and started his own construction business, working as a handyman and contractor. He lived a seemingly normal life with a long-term girlfriend and their young daughter. But what no one knew was that Israel Keys had already become a serial killer. By the early 2000s, he had begun planning murders in detail, developing an MMO so unique it confused investigators. He buried kill kits across multiple states. Buckets and boxes containing guns, knives, duct tape, cash, and other tools of murder. These kits would remain hidden for years, waiting for the day he would return to use them. Keys would fly thousands of miles, rent a car, drive hundreds more, just to avoid establishing a geographic pattern. He'd pick a target town at random, scout for victims, dig up a kit, and strike, then vanish. He stayed in remote cabins or cheap motel. He used only cash. He left the cell phones at home. There was no signature, no trace, only death. Bill and Lorraine Courier lived quiet, structured lives in Essex, Vermont. Married for 25 years, they were wellknown in their neighborhood. Bill worked as a computer technician at the University of Vermont and Lorraine worked at a medical center. They had no enemies, no criminal history, no reason to be targeted. On June 8th, 2011, Keys flew from Alaska to Chicago, then drove over 1,000 mi east. He had previously buried a kill kit in Vermont years earlier. The Courier's home was chosen at random simply because it had no attached garage and no dog. It offered what Keys wanted, accessibility and silence. That night around 11 p.m., Keys broke into the house through a window. He bound the couple with zip ties, forced them into their own vehicle, and drove them to an abandoned farmhouse about 10 mi away. There, he separated them. Bill was taken to the basement and shot multiple times with a handgun. Lorraine tried to escape. She ran into the street, but Keys caught her and dragged her back. He then raped and strangled her in an upstairs bedroom with a cable tie. Keys described the entire event to investigators in precise, unemotional detail. He even commented on the convenience of the farmhouse, which had been abandoned for years. He left their bodies there and drove back to the hotel like nothing had happened. By the time investigators began looking into the disappearance, the farmhouse had been demolished. No physical evidence was recovered. The couriers were never found. The murders shocked the community. For months, there were no leads, no signs of forced entry, and no one had any idea the couple had been abducted. The case went cold until Keyy's confession over a year later. To Keys, it was just another successful mission. A demonstration of his ability to control life and death without consequence. The randomness of it all, of choosing victims who had no connection to him, was what gave him power. Keys hinted at a long list of his additional victims. A teenage girl in Oregon in the late 1990s. A couple in Washington State, possibly abducted from a campground. A victim in upstate New York. A man buried near Tupper Lake, New York. He said there were at least 11 victims, possibly more. The full scope of his crimes remains unknown. Because unlike most serial killers, Keys didn't want recognition. He avoided media. He operated with military precision and buried his secrets along with his victims. Samantha Koig was an 18-year-old barista working the evening shift at a roadside coffee kiosk in Anchorage, Alaska. bright, kind, and hardworking. She had no idea the customer walking up to her window at 8:00 p.m. on February 1st, 2012 had already chosen her as his next victim. Keys was dressed in disguise, wearing a ski mask and gloves. When Samantha turned to hand him his order, he pulled a gun and ordered her to turn off the lights. At first, she thought it was a robbery, but this was something far worse. He forced her out of the kiosk, marched her across the snow-covered lot to his vehicle, and drove her to his home. There, just feet from where his girlfriend and daughter were sleeping, he tied Samantha up inside a small shed on his property. Then he left on a pres-scheduled twoe cruise to New Orleans and Mexico with his family. Samantha remained bound, alone, and exposed to sub-zero temperatures. When he returned, he raped and murdered her, then placed her body in a freezer. Keys later used Samantha's cell phone to send a staged ransom message to her boyfriend and father, claiming she was still alive. He then posed her body, braided her hair, applied makeup, and used wire to keep her eyes open, and took a chilling photo with the recent newspaper as proof of life. He demanded $30,000 deposited into her bank account. Unaware that Samantha was already dead, her family complied. Keys began withdrawing funds using her ATM card in different states across the American Southwest. On March 13th, 2012, while driving through Lufkin, Texas, Israel Keys was pulled over during what appeared to be a routine traffic stop. But it quickly escalated. Texas Rangers and FBI agents soon surrounded the vehicle, boxing him in. They told Keys they were looking for someone matching his description. A man from Alaska driving a white car. Keys calmly explained that he was in Texas for his brother's wedding and he's been staying at the hotel with his brother. The officers said they needed to search the car to rule him out and clear him of any involvement, careful not to reveal right away what the person of interest was wanted for. When they finally searched the rental car, investigators found a ski mask, Samantha Kenig's cell phone, and her ATM card. That discovery led to Keysa's arrest and extradition back to Alaska. Within weeks, he started talking and what he revealed would shock the nation. This is the complete dash cam footage from that pivotal traffic stop. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] How you doing? Good. I'm aw patrol. Reason we stopped kind of down there looking around. Where you from? I'm uh from London. What you doing down this way? Oh, just in the family came down for a wedding. Yeah. Where you uh where you headed? Uh back up to see the family. Up in that map right there. Oh, sure. You got any other weapons on you? No. Well, actually, I do have a Leatherman in my backpack. What is that? A little tool? Yeah. You light up everything? Sure. What are you doing now for the light? Uh, like I say, we came down for this wedding as well. Well, yes. Well, yeah. Let me check. Okay. [ __ ] 2450. 2450 right here. Hey. Hey. Hey. What's your location? We're here at West No, that was I don't know if there's any other weapons here. Get a hold of Ranger. Yeah. Well, I was going to tell you that, but we're we're investigating. Okay. Never mind. You're from the west. Why is that kidnapping? Where? I don't I don't know where you're from. Okay. What else you got on here? Well, it's my wallet. Uh keys. Officer's on his way here. Who's your sister? Otto. Uh Otto Keys. Auto keys. Yes. She got married in Wells or uh they got married in Nacados. Is this your car or rental? It's a rental. you talking to. Do you have any other family? Another family? Yeah. Yeah. Well, actually I I was mostly staying up in Wells, but um just last night I stayed there with my brother. He was staying in that hotel for a couple days. So he's from uh Maine and my other brother from Maine was here too. He just took off this morning. So is she from where you are from or your sister? How'd she end up down here? They Oh, that's a whole another story, but uh they're they moved down here, I guess, about a year ago. They're with the church. So, all these guys are undercover. Okay. Nice. All right. Got you blocked in. Okay. No problem. No. No, sir. We'll let you out just a second. No problem. How long you been down uh in this area or how long you been down in Texas? Uh, I got in I got in late the night of the big rain thunderstorm. I think it was uh Thursday maybe or Friday. Did you fly down or drive down? No. Well, I flew I the only ticket I could get was into Vegas. So, I rented this car in Vegas and drove down to here to Vegas. Yeah. And actually, I mean, yeah. The main reason I flew into Vegas was uh we're going to go to the by the Grand Me and my daughter going by the Grand Canyon, go back. Was your daughter here? She's actually with my brother. They're going to be waiting for me up in the well here. Yeah. Are you married? I not flew into Vegas. You and the daughter? Yes. Drove all the way from Vegas to here. Yeah. Yeah. Drive, is it? Yeah. Well, I don't know. After you live in Alaska for a while, everything down here seems slow. But yeah, like I say, we well, we stopped at uh Hoover Dam on our way down. I don't Yeah, I guess I don't hear that. Yeah. miles. I haven't patted him down very good. I can't. Yeah, we we're out with him at South. Yeah. gravity a little bit. Okay. Heat. Heat. Oh, heat, heat. Heat. Heat. You're hot right now. Let me make sure it's on. That's pretty sure it's [Music] all Mr. Keys. Hi there. Steve Ren with the Texas Ranger. Okay. How are you? I'm getting away with Hi. Can we visit with you for a few minutes? Yeah. Like I said, I mean, if it's going to be a while, my daughter's with my brother. They're heading up north and they're going to be waiting for them. So, if it's going to be a while, I need to call them, let them know what's going I mean, I don't know what's going on. They didn't even tell me why I was pulled over. So, well, I don't know if it's going to be a long time or not. It kind of depends on on on our conversation. Uh, where were you at last night? I was in with my brother all night. I mean, we I stay I I mean, I was staying up in Wells, but last night I stayed down here just down the road in his hotel room, me and my daughter. And yeah, we were we went up to Wells, talked to my family, uh, turned right around, came back down here and and drank a couple beer and and, uh, is this about the cop that came through the parking lot last night? came. We were out on the balcony and some cop came through and was writing down something. Stopped by our cars and was writing down something and then he's like, "How are you all doing?" And he and then he took off. Is this is that what this is about? Yeah. I don't know. I'm not familiar with Oh, all right. Well, anyway, we Yeah, I stayed in right down the road there with the with my brother last. How long have you been uh in Lin in the Lin area? Well, I've been in the Wells. I I was up in Wells most of the time. I was staying with my family. But did you check into the motel room? Is the motel room in your name? No, it's in his name. And like I say, it wasn't it was like a We the plan was for us to stay in Wells, but there's the whole What time did you get to the motel? Last night. What time? Last night. Yeah. Well, I don't know. When did you get to the motel? I I've been in and out of the motel for 2 days cuz he's been staying there ever since he got here. So, I mean, we're brothers and we've all been hanging out. He, my other brother, stayed up in Nacadocious, had a hotel there. Um, my uh Elijah, my other younger brother, he stayed here, and I was staying in Wells. So, we would all, you know, we'd meet in Wells, we meet in Nacadocious, we meet down here. Whose car is this? This is a rental car. And how long have you had this car? Since I flew into Vegas, uh, it's No, I got it the day after. I got it on 7. So, how long have you had on set since the seventh? Okay. Do you have a rental contract I can look at? Yes. Do you have flight information? Would you say some kind of receipt that you flew into Vegas? I I don't think I have my flight. I know I don't have my issues underneath the seat. [Music] [Music] When was the last time you were in Alaska? That's where you're from? Yeah, I I flew down. Yeah, I lived in Alaska for 5 6 years now. I flew down from I flew down from Alaska on the 6th or Yeah, the 6th. And well, we got hung up in Seattle for 14 hours. So, we didn't get into Vegas till probably technically 7, like midnight or something. What round did you have? GPS? No, I don't have a GPS. I It basically I followed the compass. I know I took uh I40 like I said we stopped at Hoover Dam. Um I don't know. I know I looked at a map but there was only like two routes to go. So I just What did you um What did you say? I didn't say I I slept for an hour and a half and was we were driving the rest of the time. So and like I say, I don't I don't know the exact I don't have a GPS. I don't know the exact route. I could probably find it on a map. Making stops along the way. I know you said you didn't stop anywhere, but No, I stop. Yeah, I stopped for gas. I I This thing only goes 300 miles on a tank of gas, I think. So, I stopped several times for gas. Are you saying for gas? I I don't know. I I mean, probably cash. You don't know how you're paying for grant? No, I'm I'm saying Are you asking what form of payment? That's what I'm asking. Probably some cash. Yeah. Yeah. Let me ask you this. We We need to get you out of here. I mean, we need to get you No. If If there's any uh You're not I I just told you my daughter and my brother are waiting for me up. Listen, I know we need to cooperate what you're telling us and send you on your way. You understand what I'm saying? Yes, I understand what you're saying. But you have access to everything that I'm telling you. You can call the airlines. You can call, you know, check. You have I know I know this. You have access to all that, brother. I know. That's what I'm telling you is that we need to clear you and get you on your way and get you out of here. Okay. Right. But you're not telling me what you're wanting me to do. We're looking for a guy driving a little white car. Okay. Okay. Can I 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 of mine until I know what's going on and why I'm still standing here and why I got pulled over for the first place. I haven't had a I haven't had a speeding ticket for 10 years, I don't think. Listen, have you ever met a Texas Ranger before? I honestly I've never even really been to Texas. I was stationed here. Have you ever met an FBI agent before? No, I don't think so. So, it's pretty unusual you'd have a Texas Ranger and an FBI agent talking to you right now, isn't it? I have You know what? I have no idea. You still haven't even told me why I'm talking to you. It's probably something pretty serious, right? How would I know? Because you got an FBI agent at Texas Ranger standing here talking. You people question people all the time, right? Okay. You said you're looking for a guy in a white car. How many guys in white cars are there? Right. We're looking for a guy driving a white horse bokeh from Alaska. Okay. And and so it's kind of a coincidence that your driver's license says you're from Alaska. I told you I was from Alaska. Right. I I know. Hey It appears you've been completely honest with us from this point. We don't know if you're the guy that we're looking for. I don't understand why why you're why we're looking for a guy that's committed a pretty serious crime. We don't know if you're the guy or not. We would like for you not to be the guy. So, we'd like your cooperation and there are some things that are going to be in the guy's possession that we're looking for. All right. That you shouldn't have. Okay? So that's the reason we're asking maybe to look at your wallet to to make sure you don't have what we're looking for. We like to look in your car to see if you have You are not s Look, I know how this works. I watch enough TV to know how this You might want to call your wife. Yeah. Unless you have a search warrant. You do not I don't have a search warrant. Yes. Okay. I I haven't warrant. We've got enough to get a search warrant. Okay. So, you may want to call your wife. I'm telling you to to give me consent, but I'm telling you you need to call your wife and tell her you're going to be a while. I don't have a wife. Look, I The woman with your kids. No, my brother. Okay. You may want to call your brother and tell him you're going to be a little while. All right. I mean, am I under arrest? Absolutely not. Okay. But this is not going anywhere. The car is not going anywhere. Okay. this. Yeah. Yeah. Um I haven't checked him. I'm out with a guy right now. the uh we're back on the first car. Yeah. Yeah. I had a trooper pull him over. He's got a driver license. He's from Alaska and he just refused to let us uh consent to search his car and wallet. [Music] Hey, Elijah. Uh these guys stop me. I need you to copy me about something. It's Israel Keys. K E S. Yes. 62 190 brown brown eyes. Go ahead and run me complete work. Send it to me. All right. Thanks. [Music] Well, let me talk to you. Hang on. [Music] Stay. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] What's your name now? This one. This one. Hey, really making this a lot harder than it needs to be. and we want to get you back on your way as soon as possible. But if you work with these folks, they can get you out trying to work and then they're going to get you. So if you want to hold off time, I'm already doing what I understand. What would you want to take this? Absolutely. So don't don't have I'm not I'm not angry with you. I'm not happy. I'm not I understand what you're doing about what you're doing. If you know what they're doing and you don't have anything that you're not supposed to have or you have nothing to hide or anything cooperate with your way otherwise it's going to be when is the way today? Tomorrow? No. It's [Music] already just hanging down clean or just hanging out. [Music] [Music] Oh, heat. Heat up here. Heat up here. Heat. Heat. Heat up here. [Music] Heat. Heat. It is a woman, so be careful. Heat up here. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] We're making some phone calls, but I'm trying to make some things happen pretty quick. So, we want to be in a position where either we're going to find evidence that clears you of being having any involvement in what we're looking at or that's going to indicate that you do in fact that's I mean that's honest to God is what we're doing. Okay. I believe and I hope you shouldn't be upset. I mean I especially if you didn't have anything to do with what we're looking at, there's no reason to be upset. It's just a little bit stressful. Yeah, it is stressful and uh you know, you've already told us no search and I certainly respect that. That was us being able to search and not find what we're looking for would just be a lot quicker. But now we're to the point where we're going to have to take measures that we have to take off the search for. So, we're going to we're going to jump through those hoops. Um, probably going to get a roll back record and we're going to we're going to tow your cars with the facility so we're not sitting here in the parking lot doing stuff that we need. All right. So, we're just handling things on. That's the way we do things and it's going to take a little while, but you know, if you you've ever been the victim of a crime, certainly you would want us to to every means we could to solve it. Yeah, I understand what you're doing. Okay. down. I need to patch you down for weapons real quick. Okay. You don't have any weapons on you, do you? No, I gave them. Okay, let's just so we can sit here and comfortably talk. All right. Yeah, you did. Yeah. Bad for you know. Yeah. But it takes time to corroborate all that too, you know. But we're going to try to move along as fast as we can under the under the parameters that you put us in. What do you do for a living? Uh well, I was contractor. Yeah. Well, yeah. I do a lot of work. You're a contractor in Alaska. General like what do you what do you do? Build houses or mostly remodel. You ever been married? Nope. Not. Yeah. found the right one yet probably. I tell people I've been married a long time. I tell people, you know, you're ready to get married when you know you ain't going to break up. It's got more to do with never been able to leave or not to do things like, you know, you know, you're never going to leave, man. You might as well get You got any kind of criminal history? You ever had to deal with the police for anything? Were we the first policeman you ever dealt with? I got busted for shotg you from uh born and raised Washington state. Yeah. that night. Great. And this wedding brought you over here. Yeah. Yeah. Second time I've been down here in the last month. And you got here on the 7th? This last? Well, no. Yeah. I got to Vegas. Vegas? Yeah. Do you buy your airline tickets through one of them computer like Expedia or No, I always go straight through Alaska Alaska Air. And you rented this car so it's your name rental contract and all that. Where's all your stuff at in the trunk? Guys, some of it's up at my mom's place. I think I got her. Yeah, we set it up. So, you got like a suitcase or what? Uh, I got [Music] smoke. Yeah, I think this goes up there. Listen, I appreciate your patience with us. Again, I mean, I know if you were the victim of a crime, you would want us working hard to try to solve it. And uh just one It's kind of like being screened at the airport. It's just a big inconvenience for everybody sometimes. I'm a patient person. Well, and we're just truth seekers, you know. Soon as we get to the truth, we're done. So, you talked to a policeman last night? No. Yes, it was something about what had something to do last night. Oh, no. It was weird. We were out of We just got back down. 12. And uh me and my brother were out on the balcony having a beer and this truck comes up and slams on brakes right in front of our balcony and then puts it in reverse, backs up, stops and is writing stuff down and then he drives starts to drive off. He just watches. It looks like he had like how y'all doing? And I just waved at drove off. Like that was really weird. Was it a police truck? No, it was I No, I remember looking at the place. I was like, why? Yeah. I was like, maybe it's a security guard for the hotel. I don't [Music] know. Let me get off my feet. Did you say they left? Yeah, they left just before. Yeah. Let's go put eyes on the room and secure it. Did you seen them come out of particular room? I think they're right next door. Did you see him come out of the room? He was in You were staying in 215. I was not staying at the hotel. crash last night. Was it in 215 or 27? 215. also coming out. He just told me to find out if these other people are involved if they can corroborate. I don't know. I'll figure that out. I'm going to put eyes on it. He's checked out completely there. We don't even go right back over there. What the deal is that back over to David. David, it's hot. Yeah. Okay. Hey, [Music] uh Hey, Dave. Dave, we're fixing to go secure the hotel room just do you got anything in my truck or you want to go with me? Okay. [Music] position [Music] [Applause] yours. I said don't touch the car. [Music] Hey, what's up? Hey, is the is the light up there? Can you do you have to get back and forth? Okay. You have to get inside and I don't even know how long it's going to take. Can you tell Elijah um can you tell Elijah about that and just um have see if it's if it's all right if change out which I'm still right now. Yeah. No, I'm down in L. They just over I left the hotel. Yeah. No, they're No, it's I don't even know what what how long it's going to take or what they want to do, but just just tell um Elijah cuz I don't know. I I'll be up there. I'll I'll give him a call or um I'll be up there. Well, yeah, I'm definitely going to come by there. I've still got stuff there. So, um but I I just wanted Elijah to know what was going on there. So, I'll be by there. No, not really. Why? What's up? Yeah. Well, we I'd be happy to talk about it, but probably All right. Well, I'll see you guys. All right. We're going to seek the search war. Doesn't mean we don't get it. We're going to fill out an affidav. Okay. Uh we're not going to enter into your car. Would you have a problem with us moving your car out of this park? We'll be okay if we don't enter your car. Yeah. Well, we just want to move it probably to our office. Oh, okay. Yeah. Is that okay? Yeah. I mean, here we are. Yeah. Just don't enter the right. No. Yeah. So, I uh couple weeks ago I put it on the machine. I rolled the window out of there. Hang on. [Music] first. [Music] We're going to wait. [Music] So, we have [Music] authority hang everything. Yeah. Heat. I'm good. [Music] 137 right here. Hang out. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. automatic. You just going to snap it as I search. uh he's going to snap as I search uh this gloves in the back if you need to get involved in it and we just need to explain to him about the search warrant except state law have stand out of the way I'm dealing with Alaska state law federal law and because you're stopped on traffic in Texas I'm dealing with Texas law Okay, we've been on the line with the United States District Attorney, US attorney, and he said we can go by state law concerning search in the state of Texas and you can concur with these highway patrol troopers. We have a search warrant exception rule for vehicles that are movable. So, if I have probable cause to search to obtain a search warrant and it's a vehicle that's movable, then I don't need a search warrant to search the vehicle. Can't search you right now. Okay? So, I'm not going to take your wallet out or try to search you. Okay? But you are detained right now. You're not under arrest and you're not free to leave. I'm going to need you to stand over there and you can watch me and I'm going to photograph. I'm going to search your vehicle under the vehicle exception rule on Texas state law and just stand. How does that work? If it's I'm not listen I'm not going to debate with you. Okay. Okay. I'm taking whatever action I need to take. Tell you what, why don't you get some shots of all four sides first before I start? Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] He says, "Well, how does it work if it's got something to do with Alaska? How come you go by Texas law that's got something to do with Alaska?" You're in Texas, buddy. That's what I see. A traffic stop curtain Texas to the US attorney. Yeah. Got those black tennis shoes underneath the uh driver's seat. I'm going to articulate my microphone as I search. This is going to be a cursory search for [Music] now. Pictures that you take get a picture of those white shoes there. I need to see as they are in the condition they are. [Music] [Music] Debit not available. [Music] It's a debit card receipt. What's the last number? Transaction 02176 ST. It's 4557. [Music] I don't know. It's ST pound 4557. [Music] [Music] Yes. Might be too close. [Music] We're going to collect it anyway. building. We can blow it up. If this is the last four digits on that victim's car, brothers, I've got the driver's license here. Is it 4557? Okay. Uh, what do you want from his driver's license? O R number. [Music] Is that the deal number there? I've got a seven-digit number that looks like a driver's license [Music] number. 2851 is the subject ATM. Last 48 285 100 driver's license. [Music] Um, yeah, we found it's hard to tell. It looks like two. I don't know. I don't see a date. It says debit not available. Debit not available. Okay. Uh we we don't really have yet a gray jacket in the back. Yeah. Did you get a picture of shoes? We got we got white gray jacket in the back seat. Under the passenger St. Cruiser USA men size 12. White starter tennis shoes. Okay. Uh, I'll call you back if I need any more information. What's the [Music] last? Okay. Okay. Got a digital camera. Good. We're looking at the contents. He took a he took a picture of this girl topless and sent it to her father. Yeah, we're hot now. Yeah. When he demanded $30,000. Okay. Can you come around and take a picture of the gray t-shirt I pulled out from London? I want to get his phone. Send that phone. Well, we can't get what's in his pocket right now. We got to find something to to link them. [Music] What kind of glasses was this guy wearing with this disguise? It looks like clear. Yeah. Amber shooting glasses. Yeah. [Music] These all look like work related pictures. Was that in a camera tape or sitting? This was just sitting in the console open. [Music] Was the picture sent to the dad's cell phone or computer? It was sent from phone to phone. It was sent from the victim's phone. Number attached to it. Sent from the phone which hasn't been used in several days. Oh, that's right. So, it wouldn't be on that be on the phone. All right. Got a wedding pictures, zoo pictures, wedding pictures and zoo pictures and construction pictures. You got zigzags and the center console. [Music] Make clear safety shooting glasses. Hey, we got a roll of cash and a yellow rubber band. Got several rolls of cash. [Music] had it covered up too, didn't it? Yeah, it's consistent with that's consistent with the rubber bands are consistent with narcotics. [Music] These are all [Music] wins. These are all [Music] 10. Got a roll of fives. Get out of here. I [Music] know goggles. [Music] I know. I'm out here searching a car right now. Want a picture of those? [Music] [Music] All right. I've got looks like a [Music] [Applause] kids. Got an iPod inside of a black bag. [Music] Where are the keys? Do we know? You may have it. You have the open trunk. We're going to need you to come open the [Music] trunk. What's the store in those rows of money? I'm not going to say anything about that. Okay, I can respect that. [Music] Standful. Got binoculars, personal items, for items. We ought to get them. We all just we'll get a picture and we'll just start setting this stuff out. He's not offering explanation for that money. I don't know how much there is. A big roll of ones, a roll of fives with rubber bands consistent with narcotics curry, dude. And then a roll of tens. He said he's not going to say anything about that when I asked him what what's up with that. [Music] change. Got all these DVDs with Israel keys. Got a photo. Looks like it's been printed off a computer. It's got numbers on the back of it. Take a picture of those numbers. [Music] I don't know if they're credit card numbers or or what. They're too big to be phone numbers. Too big to be phone numbers. Yeah. Too big phone number. But now Israel Keys is who's written on all these and that's supposed to be his brother. Oh, that is okay. Got a headlight. Got [Music] moninoculars. Got ready white disinfectant towels. Got a computer uh cable in [Music] here. Passport. Two passports. [Music] There's one passport for Israel Keys. [Music] [Music] Looks like an old [Laughter] passport. There's a passport for Laney Louise. Keys a child. Israel. Is Laney your daughter? Yes. [Music] [Music] Got contact images paper look like it's been cleared off the internet. [Music] Looks like his flight [Music] itinerary. Wednesday, March 7th, 9:00 a.m. He picked this car up. He's got it rented until Wednesday, March 21st at 9:00 [Music] a.m. Looks like he picked it up in Las [Music] Vegas. Reservation number 37286009 Union Sam [Music] 5. Trying to see what rental company it is. It's a reservation to Alaska Airlines. Alaska Airlines flight 112 non-stop from Anchorage to Seattle then Seattle to Las Vegas. So he had a stop over this flight itinerary. He's got a this for him and his daughter Laney Keys. He's also got his rental uh itinerary under there. [Music] [Music] or it's a it's probably a Got a lot of alcohol [Music] here. It's [Music] cold. That's some children's clothing. [Music] Yeah, it doesn't have a hood though. Take a picture of it. Yeah. Uh that's fine. uh just tell them that uh we're searching a a car following a as an active investigation by the rangers that uh we're searching a car and uh associated with that investigation and that uh when we get time you can give them our card. Well, I'll just get with you. I'm just going to put them your contact information. Yeah, we don't need anything. That's fine. [Music] Hey, that's one out. That would be great. Here you go. There you go. Hey, gray hoodie with glasses in a pocket and gloves and a mask. And a man. We got a gun. Get your picture there. Yeah. Yep. [Music] Space. It's a shirt sleeve. That shirt sleeve. Tell me another kid. I say Dave Dave Frankie is wearing a gray hood over here and make sure he didn't run with glasses. He had cut something from his face. The sleeve of a t-shirt. What we got here is a gray hoodie with glasses in a pocket. We cut. We got white tennis shoes. We can we can hook him up against right now. I think they're under arrest for kidnapping in Alaska. Sir, you're under arrest for kidnapping on Alaska. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. No one has been taking any questions. like that. I want you This one this right here. Okay. Heat. Heat. They got off again. Heat. Heat. Okay. You had Heat. Heat. I'm going read your rights. All right, bud. You have the right to remain silent, not make any statement. Any statement you make may use against you at your trial. Any oral or written statement that you make may be used as evidence against you in court. You have the right to have a lawyer present to advise you before and during any questioning by peace officers or attorneys representing the state. If you're too poor to hire a lawyer, you have the right to have a lawyer appointed by the court to advise you before and during any question. You have the right to terminate any of these interviews at any time. Okay? You understand that? Y video. Okay. I don't have your ID, but would you state your name? Israel Keys. Israel Keys. What's your birthday? 1797. [Music] No, no. After being surrounded and questioned by Texas Rangers and FBI agents, Israel Keys was officially taken into custody by the Lufkin Police Department. Officers recovered crucial evidence in his rental car, including Samantha Koig's cell phone and ATM card along with a ski mask and other suspicious items. With that, the pieces began to fall into place. Keys was transported to the Angelina County Jail in Lufkin where he was held until arrangements were made for his extradition. Within days, he was flown back to Anchorage, Alaska, where federal agents began their interrogation. What happened next would shock even seasoned investigators because once back in Alaska, Israel Keys began to confess, but only on his terms. He admitted to Samantha's murder and hinted at a string of other killings across the United States, leading authorities on a disturbing journey into the mind of a meticulous and remorseless serial killer. Thanks for watching. If you found this case as unsettling and fascinating as we did, don't miss our next installment where we'll feature the full interrogation and confession videos of Israel Keys. You'll get an indepth look into the mind of one of the most calculating and twisted serial killers in modern history. The one who never wanted to get caught, nor did he want any notoriety. Be sure to like, subscribe, and share. 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