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Serial Killers

Best of 2024: Israel Keyes Pt. 3

Serial Killers

Spotify Studios

True Crime, History, Education

4.630.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

As our Best of 2024 selection, we're featuring our three-part series on notorious serial killer Israel Keyes. Israel Keyes died having only confessed to a handful of murders and crimes. Researchers and investigators are left piecing together evidence to solve cold cases. Keep up with us on Instagram @serialkillerspodcast! Have a story to share? Email us at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Due to the nature of this killer's crimes, listener discretion is advised.

0:06.3

This episode includes discussions of rape, kidnapping, murder, and suicide.

0:11.4

Consider this when deciding how and when you'll listen.

0:14.5

To get help on mental health and suicide, visit spotify.com slash resources.

0:33.1

Over the course of six months in 2012, Israel Keys gave FBI agents the names of three of his murder victims, Samantha Koenig and Bill and Lorraine Currier. He recounted the events of one of his

0:39.8

first ever victims, a teenage girl he says he abducted and raped along the Deschutes River in Oregon,

0:46.6

sometime between 1996 and 1998. He claimed he intended to kill her, but didn't go through with it.

0:53.9

The FBI has since tried to identify this survivor.

0:57.7

If they've succeeded, they haven't released any additional information to the public,

1:01.5

and beyond that, investigators have only ever linked one other case to Israel Keys,

1:07.3

the 2009 disappearance of a New Jersey woman named Deborah Feldman.

1:12.6

Deborah's remains still haven't been found, but the FBI believes she's the fourth victim of Israel Keys.

1:19.6

The circumstances of her disappearance match statements Israel made about a victim he buried in New York.

1:25.6

And like Samantha Koenig, her name was also found

1:29.7

on Israel's computer. How many more victims did he have? There's only one person who knows for sure,

1:38.0

and he ended his life in his prison cell back in December 2012, but that hasn't stopped investigators

1:45.0

from trying to connect more cold cases

1:48.0

and bring closure to victims' families.

1:51.0

Today, with the help of Josh Hallmark,

1:53.0

we're discussing three missing person cases

1:56.0

that he believes could be connected to Israel Keys.

2:05.9

I'm Vanessa Richardson, and this is Serial Killers, a Spotify podcast.

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