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Welcome to "Very scary people."
I'm Donnie Wahlberg.
Alaska is known for its natural beauty and vast wilderness.
It's been said that two kinds of people end up there --
people running to something
and people running away from something.
In 2012, on a cold winter's night in Anchorage,
a teenage girl finishing her shift at a local coffee stand
came face-to-face with such a person --
a malevolent, vile someone,
who had only one thing on his mind.
This is The Cross Country Killer.
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Eaton: A lot of people don't realize how huge Alaska is.
It's vast, and beautiful.
It's very transient.
There's a huge oil and gas industry there,
and so, you have people coming and going.
People want something different, generally, who go to Alaska.
And there certainly are a large number
who go to start a new life,
who are running away from something.
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Hunter: On the night of February 1st, 2012,
Samantha Koenig was working at the Common Grounds coffee stand.
Michelle: It was getting closer to her shift being off.
She was supposed to be picked up by her boyfriend.
Hendricks: Samantha was just 18 years old, and a high school senior.
Going to school in Anchorage, raised in Anchorage,
living with her dad and Duane, her boyfriend.
Her whole life ahead of her, looking forward to the future.
Samantha was getting ready to close at the coffee shop,
as she normally did, going through her routine.
Meanwhile, a man was sitting in the parking lot,
scoping out the area.
And he knew, because he had a police scanner,
that there wasn't much activity in the area.
Jeff: He had scoped out the Common Grounds coffee shop
because it was open later.
That particular coffee shop was in a parking lot.
And between the coffee shop and the main road
was a huge pile of snow because,
in February, it's already snowed for several months.
And those people that own those lots
pile all the snow in the parking lot.
So, there's a barrier between the coffee shop and the street.
Hunter: Shortly before it closed,
a little bit before 8:00 that night,
that man walked up to the order area,
and ordered a coffee from her.
Samantha turned around to start making the order,
and when she turned back around to give him the order,
the man had a gun pointing at her.
Hendricks: What we can see on the surveillance footage
is Samantha puts her arms up.
He said, "This is a robbery.
Turn the lights off."
And you see the surveillance footage go dark.
It is then he tells Samantha to get on her knees.
Jeff: And he jumps through the window.
We don't see it outside, but we can see it inside.
In, like, almost one leap, he just comes into the window.
And she's startled, at that point.
But then, it almost seems like things calm down,
and she appears to be very cooperative
in whatever it is that he's saying.
There's no sound to the video, but he's obviously binding her.
He's in there a long time before they leave --
like, 10 minutes.
That's a long time for a total stranger
who's there to kidnap somebody, and get them out of there,
because another customer could have pulled up.
But he told her that he had a scanner in his ear,
with a mic and earpiece in it --
which he did --
and that he was listening to the police scanner,
and if he heard the police being dispatched to them,
that he would kill her.
Above the light switch for the lights for the kiosk
was the alarm,
which would have sent a signal to the police.
But he had frightened her enough with his threats of harm
she did not push the alarm.
Hunter: There were businesses nearby.
The parking lots had cars in them.
People were walking to and from their cars.
And despite all that, he took Samantha Koenig
out of the Common Grounds coffee stand,
and walked with her at gunpoint.
He had a gun hidden, but pointed against her ribs.
And he walked with her, and told her to just act like
that they were boyfriend/girlfriend,
and that she was a little tipsy from drinking too much,
and he was just helping her get to the car.
Hendricks: The outdoor footage shows them walking away from the kiosk.
And soon after that, they slowly walk away out of the frame.
As they walked, Samantha tried to get away.
She bolted from him, ran away,
but he quickly ran her down, and tackled her.
Made it pretty clear that, if she tried it again,
it wasn't gonna end well for her.
After that, he was able to get her back to his vehicle,
and they drove away.
Chacon: You always hope that it's just a robbery
in that kind of situation,
that they are there just for the money.
But she's led away from there, and taken, basically,
kidnapped, at that point.
Michelle: I think everybody has an assumption
of what they think they would do in that situation.
I've watched the video over and over and over again,
and I don't know if I could do what she did.
She was calm, collected, she did exactly what he told her to do.
I don't know if I could be that strong.
And the thing is, everybody, like, makes assumption
of what they think they would do in that situation.
She did everything right.
Duane, her boyfriend, that night,
was supposed to pick her up,
and arrives at the kiosk a little bit late.
When he shows up, it's completely dark,
which is odd for the kiosk.
He noticed that napkins are all over the floor,
senses something is off.
Doesn't know what it is, but decides to leave.
And he figured that his girlfriend, Samantha,
got a ride home from someone else.
Hunter: After he had Samantha Koenig in his car,
and had her locked up in there, he came up with a story
that he was just gonna hold her for ransom,
and that, once her family paid, everything would be fine,
and that he would let her go.
He has her zip-tied in the truck.
They drive around for a while,
waiting for his girlfriend to go to bed at home,
so that he could take Samantha home.
Hendricks: They were driving around, when he realizes
that Samantha doesn't have her cellphone.
So, he drives back to the kiosk,
to retrieve Samantha's cellphone,
which was inside.
Hunter: One of the things he did with it was
he sent out some text messages to her boyfriend,
trying to make it seem like everything was fine,
that it was actually Samantha
that was the one sending these texts.
And she was basically saying,
"I'm gonna stay with my friends for a little while.
I'll get back in touch with you later."
Jeff: The police were contacted the next afternoon
that something had happened.
It basically looked like someone
just literally walked out of their shift.
I started kind of noticing a little bit more things.
I looked in my register.
I looked for the money that goes in my register.
It was gone.
Then, I looked in our deposit bags.
They were all gone.
Jeff: That employee called the owner, and said,
"There's no money for startup."
And the owner just thought Samantha had made a mistake.
And that's when the owner then started investigating
what happened to her money and Samantha.
Hendricks: She goes straight to the video, watches for a few minutes --
it's 17 minutes long --
and notices that something is clearly wrong.
So, the owner calls police, and says,
"This is what happened. You have to see this footage.
Something may be wrong with Samantha."
And early on, the police believed she may have known
the person who jumped into that window,
because of the conversation back and forth.
By this time, it'd been released that she was taken by gunpoint.
They had not released the video.
And people still made the comment of,
"Well, maybe she knew him.
Maybe it's an old jilted ex-boyfriend."
No.
This was so calculated that...
Mnh-mnh. She didn't know him.
And that was the thing I kept trying to get across.
That's one of the things that her father wanted across.
This isn't normal.
This isn't his daughter's behavior.
She doesn't just leave with somebody.
Hendricks: At one point, they even thought it was payback
for maybe something that her father did.
Jeff: With any investigation,
leads start coming out of the woodwork.
We were getting all kinds of information,
as far as people that could have been involved,
drug money being owed -- which ended up not being true --
motorcycle gangs being responsible.
And we were having to follow up on all of those things.
We had our hands full with that,
as well as trying to find Samantha.
Man: Two of us lift, and one with this.
Michelle: We just started searching, looking at places.
People helped.
Nothing turned up. Still didn't know where she was.
Samantha was last wearing a pair of furry, black boots.
Michelle: James, Samantha's dad, he was there for her friends.
He was there for her cousins.
He was tremendously there for her boyfriend,
tremendously there for her.
He did not stop.
I want to thank you so much for coming out,
and showing support, and bringing Samantha home.
Eaton: They had a big candlelight vigil in downtown Anchorage.
I remember going to that.
And I couldn't believe how many people showed up.
[ Crowd singing ]
There were people singing, and people holding candles.
And they filled up the whole town square.
Everyone hoping that she would eventually turn up.
Everybody was a suspect in this.
We didn't know what had happened for sure.
And so, we were investigating everybody that knew her.
Young Woman: Everyone seemed to really like her.
She was really nice. She was really upbeat.
And she had a good personality,
and she seemed like a really nice girl.
Hunter: Samantha was described as being a very sweet person.
She had a lot of friends.
She had a boyfriend.
Please bring her back to us. I'm begging you.
Michelle: What I know about Samantha Koenig
is primarily from her friends, her family,
her boyfriend at the time -- open, honest, funny, protective,
just an amazing person, and an amazing friend.
She's just an amazing, hilarious, funny person,
and was absolutely her father's pride and joy.
They were very, very, very close.
He took it extremely personal that somebody took her.
Eaton: She was just an 18-year-old girl.
She was at the beginning of her life, and she disappeared.
How did this happen?
Eaton: Sometimes, in these cases,
somebody would turn up after a few days.
Who knows why they disappeared for a few days.
Maybe they wanted to get away,
or they went on a trip, and didn't tell people.
People would turn up.
So, we thought maybe she would, too.
Hendricks; 18-year-old Samantha Koenig had been taken from
the coffee stand where she works.
Family, friends, and police had no idea
who would want to take her, and why.
Jeff: When he got home with Samantha,
he put Samantha in a shed that was in the driveway.
It was his workshop area.
He again threatened her.
He turned a radio on. He had some music playing.
And just to give you a picture, the houses are very close
in the neighborhood that he lives in.
And so, there was a house within 15 feet of that shed.
But he had her in the shed. He restrained her.
He tells her that he is wanting to get money from her family.
She tells him that her family doesn't have money.
Hunter: He learned that she had a debit card,
but she didn't have it with her.
It was in her purse, which was back in her truck,
back at her house, parked out on the street outside her house.
So, he drove, by himself, over to Samantha's house,
and saw her truck sitting there, like she said.
And he opened the door, got in the truck,
and retrieved her purse.
Samantha's boyfriend, Duane, waited up at the house,
hoping that Samantha would come home.
Hunter: Her boyfriend happened to be standing outside the house,
saw this dark figure go into the truck.
And he shouted out.
Duane turned around, and ran back into
Mr. Koenig's house, and got him.
And by the time Mr. Koenig came out, he was already gone,
with the debit card and the I.D for Samantha.
Michelle: I was shocked that he had actually done that,
that he had gone over to her house.
If everything would have aligned a little bit better
than what they were, Duane might have caught him.
Hunter: After he had taken possession of her bank debit card,
he returned back to the shed
that he had next to his house in the driveway.
He took a Polaroid of her,
and he had a recent newspaper next to her,
kind of a proof-of-life type photograph.
Hendricks: He photocopied the photo,
writing out a ransom note in a typewriter
that he had recently purchased --
a ransom note demanding $30,000.
He then goes to Connors Park,
putting that ransom note underneath a missing dog poster.
Hunter: After he put the ransom note in the park,
he sent a text, using Samantha's phone,
to Samantha's boyfriend.
Michelle: The night that he sent the text message,
it was the day before the fundraiser that myself
and a few other ladies helped create.
We were meeting at a restaurant.
And then, her boyfriend, Duane, just kind of goes sheet white.
And he walks over with his phone,
and he shows it to James, and the room just --
the air almost just gets sucked out of the room,
because now there's a possible link.
There's something.
A text from Samantha's phone, that, in essence said,
"Under a picture at Connors Park.
Ain't she purty?"
Michelle: And those of us born and raised here
knew where he was talking about.
Took off to where the ransom note was.
Jeff: At the entrance to the park,
there's a sign that has local events on it,
news about local events.
And there was a picture of a missing dog.
And underneath that, on one of the pins that was holding it up,
was a plastic bag.
So, I walk over to the bulletin board,
and I lift everything up,
and I'm staring at a wrapped Ziploc bag
with what looks to be a Polaroid and a letter of some sort in it.
The family went there first, and then called us from there.
And then, of course, we did a crime scene team call-out,
to look for tire prints, and footprints,
and fingerprints,
and everything associated with that investigation.
And that was...
the start of what we hoped
would have been the end of this nightmare.
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When he requested a ransom, that opened a dialogue.
And now, you have a dialogue.
And even if the dialogue is putting money into the account,
and him accessing it through some ATM,
that's good for law enforcement.
That's a chance we have to catch him.
We can track him.
Jeff: At that point, obviously,
the investigation ratcheted up tremendously.
We believed that the note was from whomever it was
that had Samantha.
And so, we knew that there was a real possibility
that she was in real danger.
Michelle: After the note was discovered, the next day,
I know that everybody was called in.
I know Duane was called in. I know James was called in.
I do know he was shown the photo,
and I know he was shown the letter.
What it says, he never told me, and I didn't ask.
Everybody that was working on the case was reading the note,
trying to analyze it, if we could,
to figure out what it meant,
if it would give us any clues about who had written it,
where she was, and those kinds of things.
And the note does specifically tell us the bank account,
the card number,
that he wanted money put in that.
Michelle: That next few days were just waiting,
waiting to see what the next move would be.
Jeff: We were working 16, 18-hour days,
doing what we were doing.
Everybody believed that Samantha was still alive.
Once the ransom note was found, and the public,
the community, learned about what was going on,
there was a widespread outpouring of support
for James Koenig
for trying to get his daughter back safely.
So, there were a lot of donations made to this fund.
Some of the funds were actually deposited
into Samantha's account,
so that her abductor could access the funds,
in the hopes that she would be returned safely.
A few days later, Mr. Koenig puts $5,000 into the account.
We had a trace, basically, on the card,
so that, if the card was used, we would be notified.
That evening, a few hours later, somebody made a withdrawal.
The first withdrawal, just before midnight,
a few minutes before midnight,
and then a second withdrawal a few minutes after midnight,
so there would be the two different days.
He takes out $500 at two separate stops.
Michelle: He was on borrowed time, only because he had her debit card,
and I'm in the financial business,
so I knew we were going to close in sometime,
and then, maybe, she would be with him, alive,
and then, we'd have her back.
Welcome back to "Very Scary People."
An unknown man kidnaps 18-year-old Samantha Koenig
from a coffee stand in Anchorage, Alaska,
and vanishes without a trace.
But authorities believe this may not be the first time
he's done something like this.
Eight months earlier, on the other side of the country,
in the town of Essex, Vermont, detectives are investigating
another missing-persons case with eerie similarities.
Hunter: Bill and Lorraine Currier were a married couple
living in Essex, a small town in Vermont.
Essex is one of the closer-knit communities
in the greater Burlington area.
Burlington, Vermont itself is a fairly small
largest city in a state.
You've got Burlington right on the shores of the lake,
and so, hemmed in on this side by lake Champlain,
and then New York and the Adirondacks in the distance,
all around Burlington
are all of these various suburban communities.
Hunter: Bill was 49 years old. Lorraine was 55.
They'd been married for quite a long time.
Jennifer: They were together forever.
They were like two peas in a pod.
Bill was Bill, and he just loved hugs, and he was always happy.
Like, his life was just happy.
Lorraine, she was the sweetest.
Oh, my God, she just was like a ball of joy.
Hunter: Bill worked as an animal care technician
at the University of Vermont.
Lorraine worked in the medical field there, locally.
Jennifer: They were hard workers.
They've always been hard workers.
I was one of the city editors at the Burlington free press.
I got a call from my boss, the managing editor at the time,
who said, "We've got this really weird thing going on."
Jennifer: Bill never missed work.
Even if he was sick, he never missed work.
Like, never, ever, ever, ever, ever.
Like, neither of them.
But he missed work.
And they called the family.
Silverman: I don't think that they were particularly well known
outside of their jobs
and their own intimate circle of friends,
but those who knew them loved them a great deal.
I think they were well-respected,
well-loved with their colleagues,
with their friends, with their families.
They were known for being, I think, very quiet.
You know, I think they liked to spend a lot of time
with each other.
And they were known as very dedicated employees.
These were folks who did not miss a day of work.
And if there was ever any occasion
that they were unable to be at work,
they wouldn't just no-show.
So, the fact that they no-call no-showed,
that, right there, day one,
was an indicator of something that was so unlike them
that everyone who knew them, everyone who worked with them,
was immediately worried about them.
Hunter: When the police arrived at Bill and Lorraine Currier's house,
they discovered the phone lines to the house
had been cut from the outside.
It felt strange and wrong and off from the very beginning.
I think we all had a sense that something atypical,
and probably something very bad, had happened.
Hunter: They found that an intruder had come in through the garage.
And they saw shattered glass all over the kitchen floor,
where the glass on the kitchen door
had been shattered in
to gain admittance into the house itself.
Other than that, there wasn't much of a disturbance
in the house.
The house looked like Bill and Lorraine had had
a normal evening that night.
And the police deduced that whoever the intruder was
had taken them in their own vehicle,
because Bill and Lorraine's car was missing from the garage.
Silverman: When we learned that that phone line had been severed,
I think that's a "chill up your spine" moment.
That just doesn't happen here.
Jennifer: There wasn't much they could ever tell you.
I mean, they'd just tell you they're looking.
But something somewhere went wrong.
Silverman: We had a number of reporters who were working on the case,
working police sources,
working people in the prosecutor's office,
trying to get as much information as they could.
Now, the question became, were Bill and Lorraine targeted,
or was this random?
Investigators in Anchorage continue their search
for 18-year-old Samantha Koenig
while her kidnapper withdraws ransom money
from her account using her ATM card.
Jeff: We had a trace, basically, on the card
so that, if the card was used, we would be notified.
However, it was a 10-minute delay in being notified.
And 10 minutes in Anchorage at midnight,
you can drive out of town.
We were doing surveillance at every single
publicly accessible ATM in the city of Anchorage,
in hopes that we would at least be at one of those locations.
He eventually did,
but the next time he used it was in Willcox, Arizona.
Hunter: He stopped at different ATMs in different states
and different towns,
and would withdraw money using Samantha's ATM card.
Hendricks: Putting on a lot of layers of clothing
not to be detected by authorities when at the ATM.
FBI agents in Willcox, Arizona got out of bed,
and because of the 10-minute delay,
by the time everybody got notified,
he was 30 minutes down the road, moving on to the next ATM.
Hendricks: He was heading East on the I-10 corridor.
He then ended up in Humble, Texas.
Surveillance footage from an ATM was able to capture
a blurry image of the car he was driving -- a Ford Focus.
Hunter: They were following where he had been.
They were always quite a few steps behind him.
But now, authorities had something substantial
that they could actually look into.
And so, they were able to determine the type of car,
and then alert authorities in the different states
to be on the lookout for this car.
Hendricks: He then stops in Shepherd, Texas, at an ATM,
withdrawing money, then drives one more hour to Lufkin, Texas.
Jeff: I was aware of all of those things happening,
real-time Alaska time.
I knew that he was using it in New Mexico and in Texas.
We knew that he was moving East,
and felt that that was actually good
that he was traveling on the I-10 corridor.
He would go down to East Texas, and that's where he was going,
to these small towns in East Texas.
If you want to vanish, you would go to one of these small towns.
So, it makes sense that he would go to them.
Jeff: Once he got into Texas,
we believed that he had hunkered down
because there were two withdrawals in two days there,
so it appeared as though he was staying in the area.
So, FBI got in touch with the Texas rangers,
and an FBI agent down there put together a BOLO --
be on the lookout -- for a vehicle.
We believed that the suspect was traveling in a white vehicle.
We had several photographs from surveillance cameras,
so we knew that he was wearing disguises.
Hadnot: That particular day was just like any other day.
We report to work.
It was, like, 8:00 in the morning.
The first information I got came from my captain out of Houston,
relaying to me that there was a young lady from Alaska
that was missing,
her bank card was being used in close proximity to Lufkin.
One of the officers there noticed the vehicle
in the parking lot of a Quality Inn.
Hadnot: I recall the vehicle was parked in the back of the hotel.
I was sitting two parking slots from the suspect's vehicle.
I wasn't there very long -- I'm gonna say 30 minutes max.
I see a group of people up on the second-floor landing,
just standing there, talking.
I could tell they were a close group
because they stood very close to each other,
and everybody was kind of jovial, just joking around.
When they came downstairs,
and they went their separate ways,
I just sat there and watched him
as he walked directly to that little white car.
I got in behind the suspect's vehicle as it was going onto 59.
Jeff: The FBI and the law enforcement down there decided that,
if they had an opportunity to stop the car,
and find out who was driving it, and identify him, they would.
Hadnot: I look at it as any other surveillance that we've done.
Just played it cool, and just followed him at a safe distance.
That's when I started calling Trooper Henry on the radio,
giving him play-by-play on where he is,
and which direction he's about to turn.
We got to get probable cause to get him stopped,
so try to get in position to get him speeding,
or find another traffic violation to get him stopped.
And sure enough, I guess he had a heavy foot,
because Trooper Henry clocked him
a few miles over on the speed.
He broke the speed limit by three miles per hour,
and in Texas, that's a good traffic stop.
So, they stopped him.
Hadnot: Trooper Henry approached his vehicle.
He seemed...
very relaxed.
He was, "Yeah."
There was nothing that stood out about him.
I don't think he knew what we knew
while we were talking to him.
And as soon as he looked at the driver license,
he started waving, like...
And that's when I got out of my vehicle, and approached.
And I looked at the driver license,
and I'm like, "Hey, this guy's from Alaska."
When he saw it wasn't just a speeding ticket,
or realized it wasn't just a speeding ticket,
you could tell he was a little nervous.
They stopped him,
and they identified him, through his Alaska I.D.,
as Israel Keyes,
and that he matched the description of the person
that they had seen in the video.
Michelle: We had no clue who he was.
We'd never seen him before.
James didn't know him. I didn't know him.
The family didn't know him.
Hendricks: When Texas rangers pulled over Israel Keyes,
they weren't sure how he was connected
to Samantha Koenig's disappearance,
or what in his past may have led him to this moment.
When Israel Keyes was 20,
he received a high school equivalency degree,
soon after enrolling in the Army.
Hunter: He enlisted for a three-year term.
He was assigned to Fort Hood for quite some time.
He was assigned to a mortar company.
And he was stationed for a time in Egypt.
A lot of the stories he would share with me
were about being in the Army, being fairly young in the Army,
and going out, and having parties
with whoever he was stationed with.
Hunter: Keyes joined the army largely as rebellion against his parents,
who didn't like any sort of governmental
kind of entity at all.
And during his time in the Army, it solidified some views
he already had about political points,
and just general philosophical views that he had.
While in the Army, based at Fort Lewis in Washington state,
Israel Keyes met a woman named Tammie.
She really was drawn to his intelligence,
and his personality,
and the sense of humor he displayed with her.
They ended up having a child together.
She was part of the Makah Indian tribe.
He wanted to be the father for the child.
So, when he got out of the Army,
he moved in with Tammie in Neah Bay, Washington.
Thompson: Israel would brag about his daughter,
and all the milestones of a baby kinda growing up.
"She did this today" or "She did that."
Outwardly, Keyes seemed to live a fairly typical life.
He seemed to be a dad who loved his kid.
He seemed to be a partner of his girlfriend.
He seemed to talk fondly about his daughter, and his family,
and it seemed to be a normal family life.
I think that this speaks to the emotional intelligence
of these guys to be perceived the way they want,
from context to context, and to enable them to blend in.
Thompson: He talked about Lake Crescent.
He talked about various other places in Washington,
where he could just make people disappear.
He believed that he could tell
when somebody would not be missed.
And so, he saw himself as having sort of an animal sixth sense,
where he could pick out kind of the weak person in the herd,
if you will.
Thompson: There was nothing that implied to me
that he had any sort of anger issue.
There was no red flag,
there was no alarm bells that went off
when I was around him at all.
Hendricks: Keyes eventually breaks up with Tammie.
And he moves, then, to Anchorage, Alaska,
has a live-in girlfriend named Kimberly.
Hunter: He left his daughter with Tammie,
and eventually, his daughter did come up
and live with him for periods of time.
They worked out an arrangement
where they would share custody of her.
He starts his own construction company,
where he is well-respected, and known to do good work.
Hunter: It was a successful business.
No one had any reason to suspect
that he wasn't anything that he appeared to be,
which was this business owner in the community.
Hadnot: He removed a huge pocket knife,
and placed it on the hood of his car.
And I walked up, saw that knife.
I immediately grabbed the knife as I'm walking by.
And I looked at the driver license
that Keyes had presented.
I'm like, "He's from Alaska." And bells started going off.
Jeff: I was working on the case back in Anchorage.
I want to say 10:00 in the morning or so,
we got a phone call from our local FBI people,
who told us that they had an Alaskan
stopped driving a vehicle down there,
and that he matched the description.
When you put it all together,
with the information that we had,
Ms. Koenig being from Alaska, more than likely,
the person who abducted her was from Alaska.
And when Trooper Henry finds an Alaska driver license,
it doesn't take a rocket scientist to put that together,
and figure out this might be the guy we're looking for.
Hunter: And then, they searched the car,
and found a lot of incriminating items
in the car Keyes was driving,
including Samantha Koenig's ATM card -- debit card.
I think that we all believed that Samantha was still alive.
I mean, we have to believe that,
and we have to go by that, to stay motivated.
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.
Jeff: He would bury these kill kits in areas,
and then travel back to those locations
to commit the next crime.
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 --
all the tools that someone would need to abduct, restrain,
and murder someone.
Hunter: He knew he wanted a house that had an attached garage
that would make it easier to enter unseen.
It was more about the house than it was about the Curriers.
Hunter: He had a headlamp on, so he could see.
And he came in in a blitz-style attack.
Jeff: He told us that he 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.
How could a man that's married and has a child do this?
I think that part of what he got off on was dragging it out,
you know, terrify them, and do whatever he planned to do.
Russell: Those were choices that he made
railing against just the very idea of trying to do good,
and basically deciding
that he was gonna be the angel of death.
Keyes turned that around on her, and told her,
"Well, I think you got your monster."
Anchorage business owner Israel Keyes
has been pulled over by Texas authorities.
Searching his car, detectives find the ATM card
of missing 18-year-old Samantha Koenig.
There is hope that she is still alive,
but the clock is ticking.
Where is Samantha? What does Israel Keyes know?
And how might it all be connected to another abduction
less than a year earlier?
In part 2 of "The Cross Country Killer."
I'm Donnie Wahlberg. Thanks for watching.
Goodnight.