1 00:00:01,960 --> 00:00:04,963 [tense music] 2 00:00:04,963 --> 00:00:11,970 ♪ ♪ 3 00:00:14,264 --> 00:00:17,267 [birds chirping] 4 00:00:22,147 --> 00:00:24,691 [gavel pounding] 5 00:00:24,691 --> 00:00:27,444 YOUNG: So it's May 23, 2012. 6 00:00:27,444 --> 00:00:31,114 I was assigned to cover one of the court hearings 7 00:00:31,114 --> 00:00:33,867 of Israel Keyes in federal court. 8 00:00:33,867 --> 00:00:36,286 That means no video cameras. 9 00:00:36,286 --> 00:00:38,372 I was expecting it to be super quick, 10 00:00:38,372 --> 00:00:40,582 literally one- or two-word answers of, 11 00:00:40,582 --> 00:00:42,542 do you say you're innocent or guilty? 12 00:00:42,542 --> 00:00:44,253 But it turned into something else. 13 00:00:44,253 --> 00:00:47,256 [dramatic music] 14 00:00:47,256 --> 00:00:48,257 ♪ ♪ 15 00:00:48,257 --> 00:00:50,217 [crowd screaming] 16 00:00:50,217 --> 00:00:52,594 NELSON: Keyes jumps from his seat 17 00:00:52,594 --> 00:00:54,596 and jumps over the barrier 18 00:00:54,596 --> 00:00:57,599 that's separating him from the rest of the gallery. 19 00:00:59,685 --> 00:01:01,520 - He jumped up and started sprinting, 20 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:03,605 essentially, right towards me. 21 00:01:06,817 --> 00:01:10,028 NELSON: The courtroom broke into hysterics. 22 00:01:10,028 --> 00:01:11,446 People screaming. 23 00:01:11,446 --> 00:01:12,906 People running out of the courtroom. 24 00:01:14,074 --> 00:01:17,869 - The marshal grabbed him as he was going over the wall. 25 00:01:17,869 --> 00:01:20,080 - Within a few steps that Keyes took, 26 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:22,249 Jeff was right on him. 27 00:01:23,667 --> 00:01:26,837 - I took him to the ground and tasered him. 28 00:01:29,339 --> 00:01:31,174 - It made me very uncomfortable. 29 00:01:31,174 --> 00:01:32,884 He was highly unpredictable 30 00:01:32,884 --> 00:01:36,013 and capable of doing almost anything without much notice. 31 00:01:36,013 --> 00:01:37,556 ♪ ♪ 32 00:01:37,556 --> 00:01:38,890 [elk calling] 33 00:01:38,890 --> 00:01:41,935 NARRATOR: Secrets in the wilderness. 34 00:01:41,935 --> 00:01:44,813 Beautiful yet treacherous landscapes. 35 00:01:44,813 --> 00:01:47,691 These are the stories of investigators 36 00:01:47,691 --> 00:01:51,111 who solve murders in wild places. 37 00:01:51,111 --> 00:01:53,322 [dramatic music] 38 00:01:53,322 --> 00:01:57,159 [wolf howling] 39 00:01:57,159 --> 00:02:00,162 [tense music] 40 00:02:00,162 --> 00:02:07,127 ♪ ♪ 41 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:23,644 [screaming] 42 00:02:23,644 --> 00:02:25,312 PERSON: Get him! Get him! 43 00:02:25,312 --> 00:02:26,813 REPORTER: Without making a sound, 44 00:02:26,813 --> 00:02:29,107 Keyes jumped the railing where family and friends 45 00:02:29,107 --> 00:02:31,401 of Samantha Koenig were seated together. 46 00:02:31,401 --> 00:02:34,446 It was unclear whether Keyes was attempting to escape 47 00:02:34,446 --> 00:02:37,908 or if he was lunging for a particular person. 48 00:02:37,908 --> 00:02:40,786 KAYLEE: I was very shook up. 49 00:02:40,786 --> 00:02:42,704 I just remember getting out of that courtroom 50 00:02:42,704 --> 00:02:46,792 and the news crew just being right in your face. 51 00:02:46,792 --> 00:02:48,585 REPORTER: James Koenig, Samantha's father, 52 00:02:48,585 --> 00:02:51,338 declined to comment outside the courtroom. 53 00:02:51,338 --> 00:02:53,965 The marshals are investigating how Israel Keyes 54 00:02:53,965 --> 00:02:55,967 managed to decouple the irons before leaping 55 00:02:55,967 --> 00:02:57,511 over the railing. 56 00:02:57,511 --> 00:03:01,181 How he got out of them remains a mystery. 57 00:03:01,181 --> 00:03:03,141 BELL: So Israel, he had several hours 58 00:03:03,141 --> 00:03:04,559 sitting in the basement of the courthouse, 59 00:03:04,559 --> 00:03:05,852 waiting to go to court. 60 00:03:05,852 --> 00:03:08,480 And the leg shackles, just like handcuffs, 61 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:10,232 are connected with a chain. 62 00:03:10,232 --> 00:03:13,360 He was able to determine one of the chains was really loose, 63 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:16,655 and he just sat there for hours and wiggled that piece of metal 64 00:03:16,655 --> 00:03:19,366 until it broke free from the leg iron. 65 00:03:19,366 --> 00:03:20,867 Then he took a piece of cellophane 66 00:03:20,867 --> 00:03:23,036 that he had his sandwich wrapped in 67 00:03:23,036 --> 00:03:25,205 and made a string out of it. 68 00:03:25,205 --> 00:03:27,916 That cellophane would break so that his legs would go 69 00:03:27,916 --> 00:03:31,461 3 feet apart instead of 16 inches. 70 00:03:31,461 --> 00:03:33,255 [crowd screaming] 71 00:03:33,255 --> 00:03:36,508 [tense music] 72 00:03:36,508 --> 00:03:39,261 The next day, I interviewed Israel. 73 00:03:47,644 --> 00:03:48,895 BELL: I said, seriously, did you really 74 00:03:48,895 --> 00:03:50,188 think you were gonna escape? 75 00:03:50,188 --> 00:03:52,566 And he said, if I had a 1% chance of escaping, 76 00:03:52,566 --> 00:03:53,859 what did I have to lose? 77 00:03:58,155 --> 00:03:59,239 - [laughs] 78 00:03:59,239 --> 00:04:00,782 I guess he had an escape plan 79 00:04:00,782 --> 00:04:02,617 or vision in his mind of how he was 80 00:04:02,617 --> 00:04:06,288 going to leap across the top of each chair 81 00:04:06,288 --> 00:04:08,623 towards the door and escape. 82 00:04:10,167 --> 00:04:11,751 [laughs] 83 00:04:11,751 --> 00:04:12,878 - You always had to be on your toes, 84 00:04:12,878 --> 00:04:14,379 'cause he was very dangerous. 85 00:04:19,092 --> 00:04:20,385 [laughs] 86 00:04:20,385 --> 00:04:23,180 [tense music] 87 00:04:23,180 --> 00:04:28,268 ♪ ♪ 88 00:04:28,268 --> 00:04:29,436 LOEFFLER: He had confessed 89 00:04:29,436 --> 00:04:31,438 to killing Samantha Koenig. 90 00:04:31,438 --> 00:04:33,982 ♪ ♪ 91 00:04:33,982 --> 00:04:36,151 We got the Currier confession. 92 00:04:36,151 --> 00:04:39,780 But unlike Samantha, we had not recovered 93 00:04:39,780 --> 00:04:42,616 their bodies for their family. 94 00:04:42,616 --> 00:04:45,827 It's fairly obvious that this was not, 95 00:04:45,827 --> 00:04:48,788 you know, two isolated events. 96 00:04:48,788 --> 00:04:51,249 BELL: During our interviews with Israel Keyes, 97 00:04:51,249 --> 00:04:56,755 he had indicated to us there were more victims. 98 00:04:56,755 --> 00:04:59,674 And he specifically said less than 12. 99 00:04:59,674 --> 00:05:01,718 ♪ ♪ 100 00:05:01,718 --> 00:05:03,929 MARKIEWICZ: We still had a lot of work to do 101 00:05:03,929 --> 00:05:07,849 to solve all the crimes he had done. 102 00:05:07,849 --> 00:05:09,559 GOEDEN: When we seized the computers 103 00:05:09,559 --> 00:05:13,313 from Keyes' house, we had them forensically examined 104 00:05:13,313 --> 00:05:15,065 to see what he was searching for. 105 00:05:15,065 --> 00:05:18,360 What were the key search terms that he was looking for? 106 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:20,737 BELL: On his computer, he had searched 107 00:05:20,737 --> 00:05:22,113 the name Debra Feldman. 108 00:05:22,113 --> 00:05:25,158 She went missing from Hackensack, New Jersey, 109 00:05:25,158 --> 00:05:27,786 April 8, 2009. 110 00:05:27,786 --> 00:05:29,246 ♪ ♪ 111 00:05:29,246 --> 00:05:31,790 - She had lived 112 00:05:31,790 --> 00:05:33,875 a little bit of a rough life, I would say. 113 00:05:33,875 --> 00:05:35,502 ♪ ♪ 114 00:05:35,502 --> 00:05:37,754 FELDMAN: My mom struggled with addiction 115 00:05:37,754 --> 00:05:40,006 throughout her entire life. 116 00:05:40,006 --> 00:05:45,762 And the addictions just-- it got worse over the years. 117 00:05:45,762 --> 00:05:47,764 So it's 2009. 118 00:05:47,764 --> 00:05:50,433 She was supposed to go meet somebody, 119 00:05:50,433 --> 00:05:54,104 and she never came back. 120 00:05:54,104 --> 00:05:56,064 GOEDEN: There was very little information 121 00:05:56,064 --> 00:05:59,818 in the news, if any, about Debra's disappearance. 122 00:05:59,818 --> 00:06:03,613 So to have Keyes all the way across the country 123 00:06:03,613 --> 00:06:07,200 trying to get information about her missing person case, 124 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:10,412 that was a huge indicator to us that he maybe 125 00:06:10,412 --> 00:06:12,455 had something to do or was responsible for-- 126 00:06:12,455 --> 00:06:15,709 for Debra's disappearance. 127 00:06:15,709 --> 00:06:18,503 BELL: So we put the picture of Debra Feldman in front of him. 128 00:06:18,503 --> 00:06:19,796 We all left the room. 129 00:06:19,796 --> 00:06:21,590 And then we went to the observation room, 130 00:06:21,590 --> 00:06:24,884 and then we watched him look at the photo. 131 00:06:24,884 --> 00:06:28,054 And he had a clear reaction to it. 132 00:06:28,054 --> 00:06:30,932 ♪ ♪ 133 00:06:30,932 --> 00:06:32,601 GOEDEN: It was a pretty significant 134 00:06:32,601 --> 00:06:34,019 change in demeanor. 135 00:06:34,019 --> 00:06:36,855 And his response was essentially, 136 00:06:36,855 --> 00:06:40,150 "I don't want to talk about this one yet." 137 00:06:40,150 --> 00:06:41,943 ♪ ♪ 138 00:06:41,943 --> 00:06:44,237 FELDMAN: He had this shocked expression. 139 00:06:44,237 --> 00:06:46,615 I think about that regularly still. 140 00:06:46,615 --> 00:06:49,284 Even if she was under the influence of a drug, 141 00:06:49,284 --> 00:06:50,660 she would have fought back 142 00:06:50,660 --> 00:06:54,623 and left a lasting impression on her killer. 143 00:06:54,623 --> 00:06:56,666 And he wasn't prepared for her to fight back. 144 00:07:20,523 --> 00:07:23,443 FELDMAN: I still have no idea if she's dead. 145 00:07:23,443 --> 00:07:26,696 Or was she really murdered by a serial killer? 146 00:07:26,696 --> 00:07:28,365 That--that one's a hard pill to swallow. 147 00:07:28,365 --> 00:07:31,368 Even still today, that's hard to swallow. 148 00:07:42,879 --> 00:07:44,631 - Everything is a power struggle, 149 00:07:44,631 --> 00:07:47,801 and Keyes's top priority is getting the death penalty 150 00:07:47,801 --> 00:07:49,052 and getting it fast. 151 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:01,731 When Keyes learned that we weren't as in control 152 00:08:01,731 --> 00:08:03,733 of when he could get the death penalty 153 00:08:03,733 --> 00:08:05,694 as he initially thought, 154 00:08:05,694 --> 00:08:07,987 I think that's where he really started to-- 155 00:08:07,987 --> 00:08:10,532 to kind of flex a little bit more. 156 00:08:16,037 --> 00:08:18,206 - He tried to take control over more of the interviews 157 00:08:18,206 --> 00:08:21,209 and really controlled when he would give us information 158 00:08:21,209 --> 00:08:23,253 and how much information he would give us. 159 00:08:27,048 --> 00:08:28,925 BELL: The prosecution was hoping to use 160 00:08:28,925 --> 00:08:30,885 the death penalty to their advantage 161 00:08:30,885 --> 00:08:33,179 in getting additional information from him. 162 00:08:33,179 --> 00:08:35,056 LOEFFLER: The investigative team has been working 163 00:08:35,056 --> 00:08:37,726 diligently to try and solve any other murders 164 00:08:37,726 --> 00:08:39,436 and crimes committed by Keyes. 165 00:08:39,436 --> 00:08:40,687 - [laughs] 166 00:08:40,687 --> 00:08:42,397 LOEFFLER: Can we keep him talking 167 00:08:42,397 --> 00:08:45,024 and find out the breadth of what he's done? 168 00:08:45,024 --> 00:08:52,032 ♪ ♪ 169 00:08:52,032 --> 00:08:53,867 GOEDEN: While Keyes was incarcerated 170 00:08:53,867 --> 00:08:55,827 at the Anchorage Correctional Complex, 171 00:08:55,827 --> 00:08:58,538 the correctional officers did a search of his cell, 172 00:08:58,538 --> 00:09:03,668 and underneath his bed, they found 12 paintings. 173 00:09:03,668 --> 00:09:05,587 BELL: There was 11 skulls, 174 00:09:05,587 --> 00:09:08,339 a pentagram with a goat on it, 175 00:09:08,339 --> 00:09:11,843 and then one of the drawings said, "We are one." 176 00:09:11,843 --> 00:09:16,014 - They had been drawn using a finger in blood. 177 00:09:16,014 --> 00:09:19,017 [dramatic music] 178 00:09:19,017 --> 00:09:25,273 ♪ ♪ 179 00:09:25,273 --> 00:09:27,442 BELL: These are the drawings that were discovered 180 00:09:27,442 --> 00:09:28,943 in Israel Keyes' jail cell 181 00:09:28,943 --> 00:09:30,403 by the Department of Corrections. 182 00:09:30,403 --> 00:09:32,906 He had to cause some injury, 183 00:09:32,906 --> 00:09:35,158 whether he punched himself in the nose, 184 00:09:35,158 --> 00:09:39,621 something to--to create this much blood. 185 00:09:39,621 --> 00:09:42,665 - This was significant for us because we were never able 186 00:09:42,665 --> 00:09:44,667 to get Keyes to say definitively 187 00:09:44,667 --> 00:09:46,795 how many people he had killed. 188 00:09:46,795 --> 00:09:48,463 BELL: So this--this one here is-- 189 00:09:48,463 --> 00:09:51,674 I think is significant because it's the one that has 190 00:09:51,674 --> 00:09:55,053 "we are one" written on it, which, again, 191 00:09:55,053 --> 00:09:59,307 I believe signifies that he believes that all of these 192 00:09:59,307 --> 00:10:01,976 victims and all these people, the stories, 193 00:10:01,976 --> 00:10:03,603 and their soul belong to him. 194 00:10:03,603 --> 00:10:06,356 ♪ ♪ 195 00:10:14,489 --> 00:10:16,950 GOEDEN: When we referenced the 11 homicides, 196 00:10:16,950 --> 00:10:18,243 he never corrected us. 197 00:10:25,041 --> 00:10:26,584 - He was very upset that they were found. 198 00:10:32,799 --> 00:10:38,221 - This gave us at least a goal to look for these 11 trips. 199 00:10:40,723 --> 00:10:43,852 Can we put him in a certain location for a period of time 200 00:10:43,852 --> 00:10:45,645 and try to figure out the missing people 201 00:10:45,645 --> 00:10:48,648 in that area where he was traveling at that time? 202 00:10:48,648 --> 00:10:52,152 Anywhere from Alaska to the East Coast. 203 00:10:52,152 --> 00:10:54,696 GOEDEN: New York City, Philadelphia, Washington. 204 00:10:54,696 --> 00:10:57,073 It's pretty much the whole East Coast. 205 00:10:57,073 --> 00:11:00,785 West, we're going all the way out to LA. 206 00:11:00,785 --> 00:11:02,620 - He talked about in his interviews 207 00:11:02,620 --> 00:11:04,372 how he would purposefully turn his cell phone off 208 00:11:04,372 --> 00:11:05,957 and take the battery out of his cell phone 209 00:11:05,957 --> 00:11:08,710 so that he wouldn't be tracked during that time. 210 00:11:08,710 --> 00:11:11,504 We're trying to gather as many records as we can 211 00:11:11,504 --> 00:11:14,007 about Keyes as far as whether it was visiting family 212 00:11:14,007 --> 00:11:15,592 or he might be traveling with his girlfriend 213 00:11:15,592 --> 00:11:17,552 where he had kind of that cover. 214 00:11:17,552 --> 00:11:20,221 - We do know he traveled extensively, 215 00:11:20,221 --> 00:11:24,017 and he didn't always stay where he landed. 216 00:11:24,017 --> 00:11:25,977 He would land in one airport, rent a car, 217 00:11:25,977 --> 00:11:28,188 and drive hundreds of miles. 218 00:11:28,188 --> 00:11:30,148 CALLAHAN: In early 2012, 219 00:11:30,148 --> 00:11:32,859 Keyes takes two separate trips to Texas. 220 00:11:32,859 --> 00:11:35,987 The first is hours after killing Samantha, 221 00:11:35,987 --> 00:11:40,283 taking his family on a cruise out of New Orleans. 222 00:11:40,283 --> 00:11:42,035 - When they returned from the cruise, 223 00:11:42,035 --> 00:11:44,787 Israel's girlfriend flew back to Anchorage, 224 00:11:44,787 --> 00:11:47,624 and Israel and his daughter drove 225 00:11:47,624 --> 00:11:52,378 to the Dallas-Fort Worth area to visit his mother, Heidi. 226 00:11:52,378 --> 00:11:56,216 - The second Texas trip is after he's traveled 227 00:11:56,216 --> 00:11:59,802 through the Southwest, and then Keyes is arrested 228 00:11:59,802 --> 00:12:02,472 on his second trip to Texas. 229 00:12:05,516 --> 00:12:09,646 ROSE: It was very possible things had happened in Texas. 230 00:12:09,646 --> 00:12:12,690 In the search of the Ford Focus, 231 00:12:12,690 --> 00:12:15,902 we found three rolls of money 232 00:12:15,902 --> 00:12:19,030 in the driver's door of the car. 233 00:12:19,030 --> 00:12:22,659 They were musty and appeared to have dye on them. 234 00:12:31,250 --> 00:12:32,919 ROSE: The rangers suspected 235 00:12:32,919 --> 00:12:36,256 it was to do with narcotics trafficking. 236 00:12:36,256 --> 00:12:39,384 A bell went off in my head that this could have 237 00:12:39,384 --> 00:12:41,010 something to do with the bank robbery. 238 00:12:44,973 --> 00:12:47,642 - So I put out another special bulletin 239 00:12:47,642 --> 00:12:49,852 about unsolved bank robberies 240 00:12:49,852 --> 00:12:54,065 during the time period that Israel was in Texas. 241 00:12:54,065 --> 00:12:57,694 I got a call from a task force officer 242 00:12:57,694 --> 00:12:59,153 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. 243 00:13:02,824 --> 00:13:05,910 And he said there was a robbery in Azle, Texas, 244 00:13:05,910 --> 00:13:08,621 on February the 16th. 245 00:13:08,621 --> 00:13:11,708 The bank robbery suspect was wearing a white hard hat. 246 00:13:11,708 --> 00:13:15,336 He had long, darkish-colored hair 247 00:13:15,336 --> 00:13:18,339 coming out from the bottom of the hard hat. 248 00:13:18,339 --> 00:13:22,468 I immediately knew that that was Israel Keyes. 249 00:13:22,468 --> 00:13:24,929 Just the stature of him 250 00:13:24,929 --> 00:13:26,556 and the gun that he was holding 251 00:13:26,556 --> 00:13:29,058 appeared identical to a gun that 252 00:13:29,058 --> 00:13:33,771 we seized from his vehicle, that jacket he was wearing. 253 00:13:33,771 --> 00:13:36,316 BELL: His description of his trip to Texas 254 00:13:36,316 --> 00:13:39,360 was worrisome in that he was describing 255 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:43,781 the escalation crimes to a much higher degree. 256 00:13:55,084 --> 00:13:57,628 ROSE: Heidi had told us that Israel had disappeared 257 00:13:57,628 --> 00:14:01,591 for two or three days, and his daughter stayed 258 00:14:01,591 --> 00:14:04,052 at his mother's house, and they were unable 259 00:14:04,052 --> 00:14:06,554 to reach him by text message or by telephone. 260 00:14:09,223 --> 00:14:11,934 From February 14 to February 16, 261 00:14:11,934 --> 00:14:13,978 he was off the grid. 262 00:14:13,978 --> 00:14:17,899 - Remember, he did say that he was out of control too-- 263 00:14:17,899 --> 00:14:20,568 during this trip especially. 264 00:14:20,568 --> 00:14:26,616 He put 2,847 miles on his vehicle. 265 00:14:26,616 --> 00:14:28,618 ROSE: We had to determine if anyone 266 00:14:28,618 --> 00:14:32,371 had gone missing in Texas during that period of time. 267 00:14:32,371 --> 00:14:37,710 And there was one person in Texas that disappeared. 268 00:14:37,710 --> 00:14:41,923 And his name was Jimmy Tidwell from Mount Enterprise, Texas. 269 00:14:41,923 --> 00:14:45,718 [uneasy music] 270 00:14:45,718 --> 00:14:49,847 [chirping] 271 00:14:49,847 --> 00:14:52,934 CAVAZOZ: We're in East Texas. 272 00:14:52,934 --> 00:14:54,519 I call this God's country. 273 00:14:54,519 --> 00:14:56,771 It's wild. 274 00:14:56,771 --> 00:14:58,856 It's vast. 275 00:14:58,856 --> 00:15:01,025 It's adventurous. 276 00:15:01,025 --> 00:15:03,778 But it comes with its challenges. 277 00:15:03,778 --> 00:15:05,655 My name's Lieutenant Roy Cavazoz, 278 00:15:05,655 --> 00:15:09,784 and I investigated the missing persons case of Jimmy Tidwell. 279 00:15:09,784 --> 00:15:12,870 We're a rural county, 55,000 people, 280 00:15:12,870 --> 00:15:15,790 and we have a vast amount of wilderness. 281 00:15:15,790 --> 00:15:18,000 We cover a thousand square miles 282 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,545 with two to three deputies 283 00:15:20,545 --> 00:15:24,465 and backups 30, 40 minutes away. 284 00:15:24,465 --> 00:15:26,926 Sometimes you're the lone ranger. 285 00:15:26,926 --> 00:15:30,054 [insects chirping] 286 00:15:30,054 --> 00:15:34,684 On February the 28th of 2012, Flanders Electric had contacted 287 00:15:34,684 --> 00:15:36,477 the sheriff's department to report that 288 00:15:36,477 --> 00:15:38,563 one of their employees, Jimmy Tidwell, 289 00:15:38,563 --> 00:15:41,691 had not shown up for work in the last 11 days, 290 00:15:41,691 --> 00:15:44,610 and that was very out of character for him. 291 00:15:46,112 --> 00:15:49,031 The last time we know he was seen alive was leaving 292 00:15:49,031 --> 00:15:52,827 Flanders Electric on February the 15th. 293 00:15:55,663 --> 00:15:58,666 [tense music] 294 00:15:58,666 --> 00:16:00,376 ♪ ♪ 295 00:16:00,376 --> 00:16:01,878 LYNN AKIN: I got a phone call one night, 296 00:16:01,878 --> 00:16:05,673 and it was Rusk County Sheriff's Department, 297 00:16:05,673 --> 00:16:08,384 saying, "We're out on Jimmy's property. 298 00:16:08,384 --> 00:16:10,052 We think he's a missing person." 299 00:16:10,052 --> 00:16:12,388 ♪ ♪ 300 00:16:12,388 --> 00:16:16,934 - It's kind of crazy because he's never left East Texas. 301 00:16:16,934 --> 00:16:20,229 He never wanted to. 302 00:16:20,229 --> 00:16:22,690 He had no desire to travel. 303 00:16:22,690 --> 00:16:25,526 That just wasn't him. 304 00:16:27,028 --> 00:16:28,237 CAVAZOZ: Jimmy Tidwell appears 305 00:16:28,237 --> 00:16:30,615 to have been a private man. 306 00:16:30,615 --> 00:16:34,410 He lived isolated out in the woods. 307 00:16:36,078 --> 00:16:40,041 There was a search done of the property. 308 00:16:40,041 --> 00:16:43,711 And there was no trace of him found. 309 00:16:43,711 --> 00:16:46,255 DICKERSON: It wasn't really foreign of me to think, 310 00:16:46,255 --> 00:16:50,301 like, is he really missing, or has he gone somewhere? 311 00:16:52,887 --> 00:16:56,849 But that's when things really started kind of being weird. 312 00:16:56,849 --> 00:16:59,352 [dog barking] 313 00:16:59,352 --> 00:17:02,772 [dramatic music] 314 00:17:02,772 --> 00:17:04,982 CAVAZOZ: The day after Jimmy was reported missing, 315 00:17:04,982 --> 00:17:07,235 his truck was discovered on the side of the road. 316 00:17:07,235 --> 00:17:09,070 ♪ ♪ 317 00:17:09,070 --> 00:17:12,406 That area of FM 95 is a lot of farmland, 318 00:17:12,406 --> 00:17:15,159 a lot of wooded area. 319 00:17:15,159 --> 00:17:18,788 LYNN AKIN: I was beyond panic at that point 320 00:17:18,788 --> 00:17:23,501 to realize there's really something wrong. 321 00:17:23,501 --> 00:17:26,295 CAVAZOZ: Did Jimmy leave the truck there? 322 00:17:26,295 --> 00:17:29,048 Or did someone that did something to Jimmy 323 00:17:29,048 --> 00:17:30,716 just abandon it there? 324 00:17:30,716 --> 00:17:32,760 ♪ ♪ 325 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:39,100 - Finding the truck created questions more so than answers. 326 00:17:39,100 --> 00:17:43,271 CAVAZOZ: There was nothing leading us from that truck 327 00:17:43,271 --> 00:17:45,940 that said a human being left this truck 328 00:17:45,940 --> 00:17:47,817 and went a certain direction. 329 00:17:47,817 --> 00:17:49,527 ♪ ♪ 330 00:17:49,527 --> 00:17:52,238 KEITH AKIN: I find it hard to believe in this day and age, 331 00:17:52,238 --> 00:17:53,698 with all the technology that we have, 332 00:17:53,698 --> 00:17:55,700 that somebody could disappear 333 00:17:55,700 --> 00:17:58,744 and it was like they were never here. 334 00:17:58,744 --> 00:18:00,788 ♪ ♪ 335 00:18:00,788 --> 00:18:02,832 LYNN AKIN: You can't imagine the feeling 336 00:18:02,832 --> 00:18:07,503 and the frustration and the anger and what-ifs. 337 00:18:07,503 --> 00:18:11,799 You're just at your weakest point, 338 00:18:11,799 --> 00:18:13,426 trying to figure out what happened. 339 00:18:13,426 --> 00:18:16,012 How did we miss the clues? 340 00:18:16,012 --> 00:18:18,306 Why would somebody hurt him? 341 00:18:20,266 --> 00:18:21,809 CAVAZOZ: During the investigation, 342 00:18:21,809 --> 00:18:23,894 the FBI contacted us, 343 00:18:23,894 --> 00:18:26,606 and they brought up the name Israel Keyes. 344 00:18:26,606 --> 00:18:28,816 - [laughs] 345 00:18:28,816 --> 00:18:30,484 CAVAZOZ: We were told that 346 00:18:30,484 --> 00:18:32,570 at the time of Jimmy's disappearance, 347 00:18:32,570 --> 00:18:36,532 that Keyes was in East Texas area. 348 00:18:46,417 --> 00:18:50,212 ROSE: During the weeks after Israel had abducted Samantha, 349 00:18:50,212 --> 00:18:54,175 he was, like, excited, on a high. 350 00:18:54,175 --> 00:18:55,760 Maybe that was because he thought 351 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:57,303 he'd gotten away with it already. 352 00:18:57,303 --> 00:18:59,555 And when he came to Texas, 353 00:18:59,555 --> 00:19:02,516 he wanted to do it again. 354 00:19:02,516 --> 00:19:04,477 ♪ ♪ 355 00:19:12,485 --> 00:19:13,861 - Israel was very quick to confess 356 00:19:13,861 --> 00:19:16,572 to the bank robbery in Texas. 357 00:19:16,572 --> 00:19:18,908 But he denied that he took anybody. 358 00:19:28,542 --> 00:19:30,211 [laughs] 359 00:19:40,721 --> 00:19:42,682 [laughs] 360 00:19:42,682 --> 00:19:44,975 - With Keyes, it was not just about committing 361 00:19:44,975 --> 00:19:47,478 homicides, committing murders, committing sexual assaults. 362 00:19:47,478 --> 00:19:49,188 He was involved in a number of different crimes. 363 00:20:05,162 --> 00:20:06,831 GOEDEN: He ransacked the house 364 00:20:06,831 --> 00:20:10,126 and then very meticulously put different things 365 00:20:10,126 --> 00:20:11,752 that would catch fire differently 366 00:20:11,752 --> 00:20:14,505 and opened certain windows in order to make sure 367 00:20:14,505 --> 00:20:16,424 that the house was consumed by fire. 368 00:20:16,424 --> 00:20:18,843 [dramatic music] 369 00:20:18,843 --> 00:20:21,679 [indistinct radio chatter] 370 00:20:21,679 --> 00:20:24,682 ♪ ♪ 371 00:20:24,682 --> 00:20:26,892 NELSON: The purpose of him setting this fire 372 00:20:26,892 --> 00:20:29,019 was to take all the law enforcement 373 00:20:29,019 --> 00:20:31,397 in the area to this house fire, 374 00:20:31,397 --> 00:20:33,190 take all their attention so that he could 375 00:20:33,190 --> 00:20:35,693 then go up to Azle, Texas, 376 00:20:35,693 --> 00:20:37,653 and commit a bank robbery. 377 00:20:42,408 --> 00:20:44,243 BELL: The fire and the bank robbery, 378 00:20:44,243 --> 00:20:46,954 all the activity leading up to that 379 00:20:46,954 --> 00:20:50,791 would indicate that he was very out of control 380 00:20:50,791 --> 00:20:53,544 and that the probability of him taking somebody 381 00:20:53,544 --> 00:20:55,588 and killing somebody were even higher. 382 00:20:55,588 --> 00:21:00,009 ♪ ♪ 383 00:21:03,137 --> 00:21:06,974 KEITH AKIN: My mom called, upset, and she asked me 384 00:21:06,974 --> 00:21:10,019 if I'd ever heard of somebody named Israel Keyes. 385 00:21:10,019 --> 00:21:12,021 ♪ ♪ 386 00:21:12,021 --> 00:21:14,148 He was some kind of serial killer 387 00:21:14,148 --> 00:21:16,650 that possibly had something to do 388 00:21:16,650 --> 00:21:20,070 with my Uncle Jimmy's disappearance. 389 00:21:20,070 --> 00:21:23,741 - The bank robbery that Israel committed was in Azle, Texas. 390 00:21:23,741 --> 00:21:27,036 The fire was an Aledo, Texas. 391 00:21:27,036 --> 00:21:30,122 Jimmy Tidwell lived in Mount Enterprise, Texas, 392 00:21:30,122 --> 00:21:32,583 and was last seen early morning hours 393 00:21:32,583 --> 00:21:34,585 of February 15th. 394 00:21:34,585 --> 00:21:40,424 No one knows where Israel was on February 15th. 395 00:21:40,424 --> 00:21:44,094 The disguise that Israel Keyes was wearing 396 00:21:44,094 --> 00:21:46,347 included a white hard hat, 397 00:21:46,347 --> 00:21:51,060 and there was long hair hanging out from the hard hat. 398 00:21:56,524 --> 00:21:58,150 [laughs] 399 00:22:01,904 --> 00:22:04,114 - Oh. 400 00:22:04,114 --> 00:22:08,619 - I see that little curl of hair right there. 401 00:22:08,619 --> 00:22:10,830 And I would not be surprised at all 402 00:22:10,830 --> 00:22:12,832 if that was my Uncle Jimmy's. 403 00:22:15,084 --> 00:22:17,086 I hope it's not his hard hat and hair, 404 00:22:17,086 --> 00:22:18,504 but can't imagine 405 00:22:18,504 --> 00:22:21,715 what he might have went through if it is. 406 00:22:21,715 --> 00:22:25,928 - What we didn't find was the white hard hat or the hair 407 00:22:25,928 --> 00:22:27,429 that he said he taped under it. 408 00:22:36,313 --> 00:22:38,440 ROSE: The DNA from that potentially 409 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:41,694 could have linked us to Jimmy Tidwell. 410 00:22:41,694 --> 00:22:44,697 [chirping] 411 00:22:44,697 --> 00:22:47,157 [tense music] 412 00:22:47,157 --> 00:22:48,784 LYNN AKIN: I spent a lot of time out here 413 00:22:48,784 --> 00:22:52,037 for a long time, pacing this highway. 414 00:22:52,037 --> 00:22:54,164 His truck was found here. 415 00:22:54,164 --> 00:22:56,292 You know, I should have found something. 416 00:22:56,292 --> 00:22:58,127 [somber music] 417 00:22:58,127 --> 00:23:00,671 DICKERSON: I remember the point that I said, like, 418 00:23:00,671 --> 00:23:02,506 you realize he's not coming back? 419 00:23:02,506 --> 00:23:07,469 Like, I needed her to say, I know that. 420 00:23:07,469 --> 00:23:11,890 Because otherwise, it's just-- 421 00:23:11,890 --> 00:23:14,935 it's hard to watch your mom grieve. 422 00:23:14,935 --> 00:23:17,479 I knew Uncle Jimmy was her person. 423 00:23:17,479 --> 00:23:21,650 ♪ ♪ 424 00:23:21,650 --> 00:23:24,320 - I just wish I could reach out and touch him. 425 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:27,156 ♪ ♪ 426 00:23:27,156 --> 00:23:29,658 I just want him to be here. 427 00:23:29,658 --> 00:23:33,495 ♪ ♪ 428 00:23:33,495 --> 00:23:38,083 In all this craziness we live in, 429 00:23:38,083 --> 00:23:40,878 I'd love to see that truck going down this road. 430 00:23:40,878 --> 00:23:44,882 But right now, this is what we're working with. 431 00:23:44,882 --> 00:23:47,968 ♪ ♪ 432 00:23:50,471 --> 00:23:53,474 [ominous music] 433 00:23:53,474 --> 00:23:56,060 ♪ ♪ 434 00:23:56,060 --> 00:23:58,437 BELL: I don't think these are detailed enough 435 00:23:58,437 --> 00:24:00,397 to signify an individual. 436 00:24:00,397 --> 00:24:02,316 I don't think that we could go through this and say, 437 00:24:02,316 --> 00:24:04,818 "This one is Samantha Koenig, and these are the Curriers." 438 00:24:04,818 --> 00:24:08,072 However, I do think that he was very intentional 439 00:24:08,072 --> 00:24:09,448 about how many he did. 440 00:24:13,994 --> 00:24:18,749 I believe this signifies Satan and Israel Keyes, 441 00:24:18,749 --> 00:24:21,710 and the upside-down crucifixes on his 11 victims 442 00:24:21,710 --> 00:24:23,379 indicate that these are his 443 00:24:23,379 --> 00:24:27,007 and these stories and souls belong to him. 444 00:24:27,007 --> 00:24:31,136 And we'd like to put a name to each one of these. 445 00:24:31,136 --> 00:24:33,555 DREW: I think the main purpose of the 11 skulls 446 00:24:33,555 --> 00:24:38,894 was to give the impression of being a dark, powerful 447 00:24:38,894 --> 00:24:41,397 and thought of as an evil genius, 448 00:24:41,397 --> 00:24:44,233 the best serial killer that ever existed. 449 00:24:57,162 --> 00:24:58,539 BELL: Israel told us that 450 00:24:58,539 --> 00:25:00,374 he did some investigating and studying 451 00:25:00,374 --> 00:25:02,126 on other serial killers. 452 00:25:02,126 --> 00:25:04,628 That's how he got his ideas about where to take somebody 453 00:25:04,628 --> 00:25:08,674 and what to do to not get caught killing people. 454 00:25:08,674 --> 00:25:10,926 When I asked Israel which serial killer 455 00:25:10,926 --> 00:25:13,053 he most related to or emulated, 456 00:25:13,053 --> 00:25:16,390 he compared himself mostly to Ted Bundy. 457 00:25:28,277 --> 00:25:31,280 - Many other serial killers have a particular type. 458 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:33,449 With Keyes, that was absolutely not the case. 459 00:25:33,449 --> 00:25:37,536 Like, there was men, women, old, young, which in my mind 460 00:25:37,536 --> 00:25:41,790 makes him even more dangerous, because it-- 461 00:25:41,790 --> 00:25:43,709 it really is not about the person. 462 00:25:43,709 --> 00:25:46,170 It's about finding the--the perfect situation 463 00:25:46,170 --> 00:25:47,463 to take somebody. 464 00:25:51,550 --> 00:25:54,178 [laughing] 465 00:25:54,178 --> 00:25:55,971 ♪ ♪ 466 00:25:55,971 --> 00:25:57,389 DREW: This guy, Israel Keyes, 467 00:25:57,389 --> 00:25:58,599 is an excellent description 468 00:25:58,599 --> 00:26:01,310 of what a psychopathic personality is. 469 00:26:01,310 --> 00:26:06,940 One of the things that they do is they cloak their true selves 470 00:26:06,940 --> 00:26:09,109 with this conglomeration of traits 471 00:26:09,109 --> 00:26:11,153 that they've observed in other people 472 00:26:11,153 --> 00:26:13,113 that seem to get positive responses, 473 00:26:13,113 --> 00:26:16,617 and they sew them together to create this mask of sanity. 474 00:26:33,592 --> 00:26:35,969 SANDERS: When Keyes is talking to investigators 475 00:26:35,969 --> 00:26:38,138 in Alaska, he makes it, you know, 476 00:26:38,138 --> 00:26:40,849 clear that there are at least four victims 477 00:26:40,849 --> 00:26:43,811 in Washington State. 478 00:26:43,811 --> 00:26:47,940 HALLA: Israel Keyes had lived down on the Olympic Peninsula 479 00:26:47,940 --> 00:26:50,734 from 2001 to 2007. 480 00:26:50,734 --> 00:26:52,402 CALLAHAN: When Keyes was in the Army, 481 00:26:52,402 --> 00:26:54,571 he meets this woman online. 482 00:26:54,571 --> 00:26:56,490 She gets pregnant fairly quickly, 483 00:26:56,490 --> 00:27:01,328 and he moves with her to a Native American community 484 00:27:01,328 --> 00:27:03,539 in Neah Bay, Washington. 485 00:27:03,539 --> 00:27:10,170 ♪ ♪ 486 00:27:10,170 --> 00:27:11,672 HALLA: My understanding from Israel 487 00:27:11,672 --> 00:27:14,341 is he moved to Neah Bay because of his relationship 488 00:27:14,341 --> 00:27:18,136 and his daughter that was gonna be born. 489 00:27:18,136 --> 00:27:20,138 That's where his girlfriend was from 490 00:27:20,138 --> 00:27:23,767 and where she wanted to live, and so he followed her there. 491 00:27:23,767 --> 00:27:28,438 ♪ ♪ 492 00:27:28,438 --> 00:27:30,482 JOHNSON: When Israel moved here, he's, you know, 493 00:27:30,482 --> 00:27:31,984 here to try to support his family. 494 00:27:31,984 --> 00:27:34,027 And I was actually on the interviewing panel 495 00:27:34,027 --> 00:27:36,363 that hired him in the public works. 496 00:27:36,363 --> 00:27:39,908 And he had a three-ring binder 497 00:27:39,908 --> 00:27:44,121 of all of his carpentry stuff that he had done. 498 00:27:44,121 --> 00:27:45,998 And it was really, really impressive. 499 00:27:45,998 --> 00:27:47,583 And we thought, you know, we need to get 500 00:27:47,583 --> 00:27:49,251 this guy on board right away. 501 00:27:49,251 --> 00:27:53,881 ♪ ♪ 502 00:27:53,881 --> 00:27:56,174 This is one of the projects 503 00:27:56,174 --> 00:27:59,136 that Israel had built, the village market. 504 00:27:59,136 --> 00:28:00,804 It's used for a lot of things. 505 00:28:00,804 --> 00:28:02,681 They have vendors come and sell stuff here. 506 00:28:02,681 --> 00:28:04,558 And kids like to hang out in here too. 507 00:28:04,558 --> 00:28:08,061 And so there's a lot of things that he had-- 508 00:28:08,061 --> 00:28:10,188 had built around town, but this is one of the main 509 00:28:10,188 --> 00:28:12,524 structures that is still standing. 510 00:28:14,902 --> 00:28:16,111 There was a lot of beautification 511 00:28:16,111 --> 00:28:18,113 that was done on the waterfront, 512 00:28:18,113 --> 00:28:19,489 you know, over the years, with the saltwater 513 00:28:19,489 --> 00:28:21,783 and everything that has eroded and gone away, 514 00:28:21,783 --> 00:28:24,161 but this is the main one that's still here 515 00:28:24,161 --> 00:28:26,246 that, you know, always reminds you of him. 516 00:28:26,246 --> 00:28:27,748 [chuckles] 517 00:28:27,748 --> 00:28:30,751 [vocalizing, drumming] 518 00:28:30,751 --> 00:28:32,794 ♪ ♪ 519 00:28:32,794 --> 00:28:34,671 Neah Bay is located 520 00:28:34,671 --> 00:28:37,758 on the most northwestern tip of the United States. 521 00:28:37,758 --> 00:28:39,843 We're a fishing community. 522 00:28:39,843 --> 00:28:44,890 Also, we have a rich history of whaling, sealing. 523 00:28:44,890 --> 00:28:46,600 When people come in, they say, "Oh, 524 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:48,226 you guys are at the end of the world." 525 00:28:48,226 --> 00:28:50,896 But we like to say we're at the beginning of the world 526 00:28:50,896 --> 00:28:53,815 and have been here since the beginning of time. 527 00:28:53,815 --> 00:28:59,613 ♪ ♪ 528 00:28:59,613 --> 00:29:01,448 CALLAHAN: It was extremely odd 529 00:29:01,448 --> 00:29:05,285 that Keyes was so readily accepted into Neah Bay, 530 00:29:05,285 --> 00:29:09,456 which is populated by Native Americans. 531 00:29:09,456 --> 00:29:11,124 It is a reservation. 532 00:29:11,124 --> 00:29:13,710 ♪ ♪ 533 00:29:13,710 --> 00:29:15,879 His acceptance into that community 534 00:29:15,879 --> 00:29:18,924 was indicative of his ability 535 00:29:18,924 --> 00:29:21,718 to sort of wear that mask of sanity. 536 00:29:21,718 --> 00:29:25,639 ♪ ♪ 537 00:29:28,183 --> 00:29:31,186 [ominous music] 538 00:29:31,186 --> 00:29:32,229 ♪ ♪ 539 00:29:32,229 --> 00:29:33,522 JOHNSON: Well, this here is 540 00:29:33,522 --> 00:29:36,483 where Israel Keyes's shop was. 541 00:29:36,483 --> 00:29:38,819 This is where he did all his planning 542 00:29:38,819 --> 00:29:41,446 and, you know, construction and fabricating 543 00:29:41,446 --> 00:29:44,199 and everything for the projects he had. 544 00:29:44,199 --> 00:29:46,243 I'm driving up, and as we're coming up, 545 00:29:46,243 --> 00:29:49,788 you could hear the heavy music that he listened to. 546 00:29:49,788 --> 00:29:51,790 [heavy metal music] 547 00:29:51,790 --> 00:29:57,004 It was pretty intense and loud. 548 00:29:57,004 --> 00:29:59,715 [indistinct singing] 549 00:29:59,715 --> 00:30:01,967 That was the only thing I think that was a little bit 550 00:30:01,967 --> 00:30:04,344 different about Israel. 551 00:30:04,344 --> 00:30:05,846 [tense music] 552 00:30:05,846 --> 00:30:09,307 I don't remember all of our real conversations. 553 00:30:09,307 --> 00:30:11,935 I mean, it was mostly all joking and laughing 554 00:30:11,935 --> 00:30:14,062 and--and this and that. 555 00:30:14,062 --> 00:30:15,397 [chuckles] 556 00:30:15,397 --> 00:30:18,316 [waves crashing] 557 00:30:18,316 --> 00:30:20,527 I just have this one picture in my head, 558 00:30:20,527 --> 00:30:23,196 and what triggers it is watching 559 00:30:23,196 --> 00:30:26,074 the FBI interviews when he laughs. 560 00:30:26,074 --> 00:30:29,745 - [laughing] 561 00:30:29,745 --> 00:30:31,955 JOHNSON: I get this picture of me sitting on a log, 562 00:30:31,955 --> 00:30:34,624 and I'm looking up at him in the fire 563 00:30:34,624 --> 00:30:37,794 and him holding a beer, but that same laugh just... 564 00:30:37,794 --> 00:30:40,130 [laughter] 565 00:30:40,130 --> 00:30:42,674 Kicking his head back, and that laugh. 566 00:30:42,674 --> 00:30:43,967 [laughter] 567 00:30:43,967 --> 00:30:46,178 Every time I hear it, 568 00:30:46,178 --> 00:30:49,139 that's the trigger moment that I get with that. 569 00:30:49,139 --> 00:30:52,726 And then it just makes me go, how? 570 00:30:52,726 --> 00:30:54,603 Why? 571 00:30:54,603 --> 00:30:56,688 ♪ ♪ 572 00:30:56,688 --> 00:30:58,732 The laugh went from being something that was 573 00:30:58,732 --> 00:31:00,358 pleasurable, you know, happy, 574 00:31:00,358 --> 00:31:03,278 to, "I got you." 575 00:31:26,093 --> 00:31:28,095 HALLA: Everyone praised him. 576 00:31:28,095 --> 00:31:31,723 He was the best coworker, best worker, best friend. 577 00:31:31,723 --> 00:31:33,642 [whirring] 578 00:31:33,642 --> 00:31:36,561 - I think everybody was just... 579 00:31:36,561 --> 00:31:38,230 how could I be fooled like that? 580 00:31:38,230 --> 00:31:41,233 That was his--his thing was deception. 581 00:32:05,549 --> 00:32:08,552 [ominous music] 582 00:32:08,552 --> 00:32:14,391 ♪ ♪ 583 00:32:14,391 --> 00:32:18,270 - I kind of always imagine that, you know, 584 00:32:18,270 --> 00:32:20,814 a possible scenario for him would be to, you know, 585 00:32:20,814 --> 00:32:24,359 just go deep into woods or forest, 586 00:32:24,359 --> 00:32:26,736 going miles in and then setting up 587 00:32:26,736 --> 00:32:28,572 and then just waiting. 588 00:32:28,572 --> 00:32:33,660 He told us that he often would just have to display a knife. 589 00:32:33,660 --> 00:32:35,412 He would convince the victims that 590 00:32:35,412 --> 00:32:36,955 this was some sort of robbery, 591 00:32:36,955 --> 00:32:39,624 and he would just need to bind them up. 592 00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:53,346 HALLA: And once he was able to get them bound up, 593 00:32:53,346 --> 00:32:57,392 then he was totally in control. 594 00:32:57,392 --> 00:32:59,853 The Olympic Peninsula is very rural. 595 00:32:59,853 --> 00:33:01,771 The Olympic mountain range runs through it, 596 00:33:01,771 --> 00:33:03,523 and the vast majority of the land 597 00:33:03,523 --> 00:33:07,152 is either national park or national forest. 598 00:33:07,152 --> 00:33:09,404 I think it's a million acres, the park itself. 599 00:33:09,404 --> 00:33:12,282 It's a huge area, very rugged mountains, 600 00:33:12,282 --> 00:33:16,369 deep, dense forests. 601 00:33:16,369 --> 00:33:18,747 - I'm sure that Olympic National Park was 602 00:33:18,747 --> 00:33:21,333 part of his hunting grounds. 603 00:33:21,333 --> 00:33:24,002 It's about a two-hour drive from Neah Bay. 604 00:33:24,002 --> 00:33:28,131 ♪ ♪ 605 00:33:28,131 --> 00:33:29,966 HALLA: With Samantha and with the Curriers, 606 00:33:29,966 --> 00:33:31,801 he used what he would call blitz attacks, 607 00:33:31,801 --> 00:33:34,221 where he went after them. 608 00:33:34,221 --> 00:33:36,223 But what we understood from Washington State 609 00:33:36,223 --> 00:33:39,643 is that he would go out into these remote areas 610 00:33:39,643 --> 00:33:41,978 and wait for victims to come by. 611 00:33:56,409 --> 00:33:59,871 [hooting] 612 00:33:59,871 --> 00:34:02,582 ♪ ♪ 613 00:34:02,582 --> 00:34:03,917 LOEFFLER: We're dealing with somebody 614 00:34:03,917 --> 00:34:05,418 who's killed lots of people. 615 00:34:05,418 --> 00:34:07,254 There are multiple families suffering, 616 00:34:07,254 --> 00:34:08,922 and we don't know who they are. 617 00:34:08,922 --> 00:34:10,882 ♪ ♪ 618 00:34:10,882 --> 00:34:13,635 There were little things that were dribbling out. 619 00:34:15,637 --> 00:34:18,598 But he wasn't filling in the details verbally. 620 00:34:20,308 --> 00:34:22,060 HALLA: Our most specific information 621 00:34:22,060 --> 00:34:25,438 came from a writing he had done in his jail cell, 622 00:34:25,438 --> 00:34:27,524 where he wrote about some of his crimes 623 00:34:27,524 --> 00:34:31,820 without identifying, you know, who these people were. 624 00:34:31,820 --> 00:34:33,613 And there was a couple that he writes about 625 00:34:33,613 --> 00:34:35,365 from Washington State, 626 00:34:35,365 --> 00:34:37,284 and that writing was fairly detailed 627 00:34:37,284 --> 00:34:40,704 about what he did to these individuals. 628 00:34:40,704 --> 00:34:42,539 He assaulted the female first, 629 00:34:42,539 --> 00:34:45,667 and the male was still alive in there, present, 630 00:34:45,667 --> 00:34:47,544 while he's assaulting the female. 631 00:34:47,544 --> 00:34:49,838 It appears that he struck him with a shovel. 632 00:34:49,838 --> 00:34:51,715 And then we know that both of them 633 00:34:51,715 --> 00:34:54,718 eventually get buried after they're killed. 634 00:34:54,718 --> 00:34:56,136 What he does tell us about the Washington State 635 00:34:56,136 --> 00:34:59,639 victims is that they got little to no media 636 00:34:59,639 --> 00:35:01,182 when they disappeared. 637 00:35:01,182 --> 00:35:04,227 ♪ ♪ 638 00:35:04,227 --> 00:35:06,771 GOEDEN: In 2007, Keyes' relationship 639 00:35:06,771 --> 00:35:08,732 with a woman in Neah Bay had ended, 640 00:35:08,732 --> 00:35:11,109 and he decided to relocate to Anchorage 641 00:35:11,109 --> 00:35:15,572 because there's still very much a kind of remote feeling to it. 642 00:35:17,741 --> 00:35:20,493 CALLAHAN: His girlfriend is having some issues. 643 00:35:20,493 --> 00:35:22,746 Keyes says he's leaving. 644 00:35:22,746 --> 00:35:24,831 He's moving to Alaska. 645 00:35:24,831 --> 00:35:26,708 He wants to take the daughter, 646 00:35:26,708 --> 00:35:30,545 and he winds up with, essentially, 647 00:35:30,545 --> 00:35:32,005 full custody of the girl. 648 00:35:48,980 --> 00:35:51,983 [ominous music] 649 00:35:51,983 --> 00:35:56,112 ♪ ♪ 650 00:35:56,112 --> 00:35:58,656 - I think Anchorage in Alaska was a good place 651 00:35:58,656 --> 00:36:03,036 for someone like Israel Keyes where he could come 652 00:36:03,036 --> 00:36:05,872 and not have people checking on him 653 00:36:05,872 --> 00:36:08,958 or wondering what he's up to. 654 00:36:08,958 --> 00:36:11,419 People leave one another alone. 655 00:36:11,419 --> 00:36:15,173 So even though Anchorage is the biggest city in Alaska, 656 00:36:15,173 --> 00:36:18,718 it's a small city in the middle of a vast wilderness. 657 00:36:18,718 --> 00:36:21,137 ♪ ♪ 658 00:36:21,137 --> 00:36:24,599 And it really remains more primitive, more wild. 659 00:36:24,599 --> 00:36:25,975 [squawking] 660 00:36:25,975 --> 00:36:33,024 ♪ ♪ 661 00:36:33,942 --> 00:36:37,779 I employed Israel Keyes in 2008 and 2009. 662 00:36:39,823 --> 00:36:43,618 And he built, essentially, a 2,000-square-foot building, 663 00:36:43,618 --> 00:36:46,704 you know, raising the walls, putting on the roof, 664 00:36:46,704 --> 00:36:50,458 the rafters, everything, all by himself, 665 00:36:50,458 --> 00:36:52,460 which I thought was, you know, 666 00:36:52,460 --> 00:36:54,003 a pretty impressive thing to do. 667 00:36:54,003 --> 00:36:55,130 He was super reliable. 668 00:36:55,130 --> 00:36:57,716 He did what he would say that he would do. 669 00:36:57,716 --> 00:36:59,843 He would speak to us, you know, just very, 670 00:36:59,843 --> 00:37:02,387 very openly about taking a trip. 671 00:37:02,387 --> 00:37:05,056 He'd say, "Hey, I have some travel plan. 672 00:37:05,056 --> 00:37:07,809 I'm going to be gone from this date to this date." 673 00:37:07,809 --> 00:37:10,353 It was always out front and open. 674 00:37:10,353 --> 00:37:14,315 And so you start to think that at the very same time 675 00:37:14,315 --> 00:37:16,943 that he was at our house working for us, 676 00:37:16,943 --> 00:37:18,445 he was taking trips. 677 00:37:18,445 --> 00:37:20,363 He was killing people. 678 00:37:20,363 --> 00:37:22,115 [glass shattering] 679 00:37:22,115 --> 00:37:24,409 ♪ ♪ 680 00:37:24,409 --> 00:37:29,581 And he was hiding it perfectly and absolutely, and it-- 681 00:37:29,581 --> 00:37:32,459 and it's impossible to really reconcile. 682 00:37:35,545 --> 00:37:36,713 ADELMAN: Who was this guy? 683 00:37:36,713 --> 00:37:39,758 What was going on inside him? 684 00:37:39,758 --> 00:37:42,969 It's--it's impossible to understand. 685 00:37:42,969 --> 00:37:45,847 [tense music] 686 00:37:45,847 --> 00:37:52,854 ♪ ♪ 687 00:37:57,776 --> 00:38:01,404 - November 29 of 2012 seems like a routine meeting 688 00:38:01,404 --> 00:38:02,780 with Israel. 689 00:38:08,328 --> 00:38:10,079 HALLA: But toward the end of that interview, 690 00:38:10,079 --> 00:38:12,415 he does reveal that one of the bodies 691 00:38:12,415 --> 00:38:15,001 he has submerged in Washington State here 692 00:38:15,001 --> 00:38:16,419 is Lake Crescent. 693 00:38:25,887 --> 00:38:28,515 HALLA: Lake Crescent is almost 12 miles long. 694 00:38:28,515 --> 00:38:31,059 It goes over 600 feet deep. 695 00:38:38,983 --> 00:38:40,610 BELL: He talks about disposing of somebody 696 00:38:40,610 --> 00:38:43,905 using milk jugs full of concrete as weights. 697 00:38:57,377 --> 00:38:59,587 - He gave us some, you know, kind of a vague description 698 00:38:59,587 --> 00:39:01,673 of where the body was sunk, 699 00:39:01,673 --> 00:39:04,968 but nothing that we could follow up with. 700 00:39:04,968 --> 00:39:06,928 Just a vast amount of water, 701 00:39:06,928 --> 00:39:10,265 unpractical to, you know, try to conduct any search 702 00:39:10,265 --> 00:39:12,850 without more specific information from him. 703 00:39:16,312 --> 00:39:18,773 [laughs] 704 00:39:23,027 --> 00:39:26,030 BELL: On December 2, 2012, 705 00:39:26,030 --> 00:39:29,409 I was on a SWAT operation. 706 00:39:29,409 --> 00:39:31,953 And we had just entered a home on a barricaded subject, 707 00:39:31,953 --> 00:39:34,038 and we were taking that individual into custody 708 00:39:34,038 --> 00:39:35,623 when I was tapped on the shoulder 709 00:39:35,623 --> 00:39:38,668 by a team member, told to go talk with the commander. 710 00:39:38,668 --> 00:39:41,421 [tense music] 711 00:39:41,421 --> 00:39:42,797 ♪ ♪ 712 00:39:42,797 --> 00:39:44,841 NELSON: I got a phone call from Jolene, 713 00:39:44,841 --> 00:39:47,969 and I knew, from the time of day she was calling me, 714 00:39:47,969 --> 00:39:50,263 it was not going to be positive news. 715 00:39:50,263 --> 00:39:53,641 ♪ ♪ 716 00:39:53,641 --> 00:39:56,185 - And that's when he told me that Israel Keyes was dead. 717 00:39:56,185 --> 00:39:59,230 [laugh echoing] 718 00:39:59,230 --> 00:40:01,024 ♪ ♪ 719 00:40:03,651 --> 00:40:05,361 [tense music] 720 00:40:05,361 --> 00:40:06,863 BELL: I drove to the jail. 721 00:40:06,863 --> 00:40:10,867 I met Jolene, and we went to Israel's cell. 722 00:40:10,867 --> 00:40:15,914 I saw him facing away from us, laying on the mattress. 723 00:40:15,914 --> 00:40:18,875 There was a river of blood from his bed. 724 00:40:18,875 --> 00:40:21,920 ♪ ♪ 725 00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:26,049 - He had attempted to commit suicide in multiple ways. 726 00:40:26,049 --> 00:40:29,969 He had cut his wrists very deeply with a razor. 727 00:40:29,969 --> 00:40:33,056 He had also fashioned a noose or like a-- 728 00:40:33,056 --> 00:40:36,309 something around his neck with his pillowcase. 729 00:40:36,309 --> 00:40:37,852 BELL: Put the loop around his foot 730 00:40:37,852 --> 00:40:40,855 and pushed down on his leg to create 731 00:40:40,855 --> 00:40:44,233 the force around his neck to strangle himself. 732 00:40:46,110 --> 00:40:50,740 GOEDEN: Keyes was able to get a razor to shave. 733 00:40:50,740 --> 00:40:54,577 He had a small silver piece of, like, tinfoil 734 00:40:54,577 --> 00:40:57,163 that he was able to put back in the razor to make it 735 00:40:57,163 --> 00:40:58,706 look like the blade was there. 736 00:40:58,706 --> 00:41:01,084 And that's what was handed back 737 00:41:01,084 --> 00:41:04,754 to the correctional officers. 738 00:41:04,754 --> 00:41:07,090 BELL: I was extremely upset and wondering how 739 00:41:07,090 --> 00:41:08,257 something like that had happened, 740 00:41:08,257 --> 00:41:09,968 and I was upset with 741 00:41:09,968 --> 00:41:12,845 the Department of Corrections first 742 00:41:12,845 --> 00:41:14,764 and then, obviously, Israel. 743 00:41:14,764 --> 00:41:19,686 ♪ ♪ 744 00:41:19,686 --> 00:41:20,937 - I hate the fact that 745 00:41:20,937 --> 00:41:26,150 Keyes had his final word in his suicide. 746 00:41:26,150 --> 00:41:28,903 That was under his control, not ours. 747 00:41:31,781 --> 00:41:34,951 - Federal inmate Israel Keyes was found dead 748 00:41:34,951 --> 00:41:38,871 in his jail cell of an apparent suicide. 749 00:41:38,871 --> 00:41:40,748 We don't have a federal prison here. 750 00:41:40,748 --> 00:41:44,460 So we pay the state Department of Corrections to house them. 751 00:41:44,460 --> 00:41:48,006 First of all, you know, they're under custody. 752 00:41:48,006 --> 00:41:49,674 Federal prisoners should not be able to harm 753 00:41:49,674 --> 00:41:51,175 anybody else or themselves. 754 00:41:51,175 --> 00:41:53,761 It puts an end to both justice for the families 755 00:41:53,761 --> 00:41:56,723 we already knew about and justice for people 756 00:41:56,723 --> 00:41:59,100 that we knew had been murdered by this guy. 757 00:41:59,100 --> 00:42:03,896 And it's just--you know, it's a very abrupt-- 758 00:42:03,896 --> 00:42:05,606 you know, guys, we're done. 759 00:42:13,740 --> 00:42:15,241 BELL: Knowing what happened after this date, 760 00:42:15,241 --> 00:42:17,994 now I was listening to it with an ear of, 761 00:42:17,994 --> 00:42:22,331 did he say things that would have told us 762 00:42:22,331 --> 00:42:24,167 that he was gonna kill himself 763 00:42:24,167 --> 00:42:26,085 and that there wasn't gonna be another interview? 764 00:42:26,085 --> 00:42:28,463 In hindsight, I felt, after transporting him 765 00:42:28,463 --> 00:42:31,340 back to the jail after this and talking about what we were 766 00:42:31,340 --> 00:42:34,052 gonna talk about on the next interview, 767 00:42:34,052 --> 00:42:36,345 he gave that weird-- he said, "Yeah, sure." 768 00:42:36,345 --> 00:42:39,807 And then he gave his-- his weird chuckle, 769 00:42:39,807 --> 00:42:42,685 which now makes me think maybe he had a plan, 770 00:42:42,685 --> 00:42:46,773 knowing he knew he wasn't gonna be at the next interview. 771 00:42:46,773 --> 00:42:48,983 - It just felt like a punch in the gut. 772 00:42:52,904 --> 00:42:55,531 REPORTER: Israel Keyes' family stepped out of their van 773 00:42:55,531 --> 00:42:57,074 and filed into the funeral home 774 00:42:57,074 --> 00:42:58,659 before the service today. 775 00:42:58,659 --> 00:43:01,537 His mother, four sisters, and their husbands attended. 776 00:43:01,537 --> 00:43:03,414 Keyes' six other siblings 777 00:43:03,414 --> 00:43:07,210 and former Colville neighbors never made it. 778 00:43:07,210 --> 00:43:11,964 - I would say a lot of people were glad he was dead. 779 00:43:11,964 --> 00:43:13,883 They think that's what he deserved. 780 00:43:13,883 --> 00:43:17,804 But there is some recognition 781 00:43:17,804 --> 00:43:19,972 that there's a lot of information 782 00:43:19,972 --> 00:43:21,474 he took with him. 783 00:43:21,474 --> 00:43:24,477 [ominous music] 784 00:43:24,477 --> 00:43:29,732 ♪ ♪ 785 00:43:29,732 --> 00:43:31,359 KAYLEE: We'll start with Anchorage first 786 00:43:31,359 --> 00:43:34,195 and then go from there and see what we can do. 787 00:43:34,195 --> 00:43:35,321 - OK. 788 00:43:35,321 --> 00:43:37,156 So you have the bill. 789 00:43:37,156 --> 00:43:38,616 So I don't know if you want to skip. 790 00:43:38,616 --> 00:43:41,327 I think it's page 28. 791 00:43:41,327 --> 00:43:44,163 That's the latest one. 792 00:43:44,163 --> 00:43:47,458 - We came up with this idea for this bill 793 00:43:47,458 --> 00:43:51,462 to help those that work late at night 794 00:43:51,462 --> 00:43:55,049 with better lighting, better security, 795 00:43:55,049 --> 00:43:58,219 alarm system possibly everywhere. 796 00:43:58,219 --> 00:44:02,974 - Always, always silent alarms, training, 797 00:44:02,974 --> 00:44:06,978 and then not working alone. 798 00:44:06,978 --> 00:44:10,064 We would call it the Samantha Koenig Safety Act. 799 00:44:10,064 --> 00:44:14,569 It comes down to we want to protect night-shift workers, 800 00:44:14,569 --> 00:44:18,739 and we want to make sure that what happened to Samantha 801 00:44:18,739 --> 00:44:24,078 can never, ever happen again to anybody. 802 00:44:24,078 --> 00:44:28,249 - I miss her being this little, because when you're younger, 803 00:44:28,249 --> 00:44:30,626 it's like you're innocent. 804 00:44:30,626 --> 00:44:36,215 You don't know how messed up the world is yet. 805 00:44:36,215 --> 00:44:39,218 [dramatic music] 806 00:44:39,218 --> 00:44:46,225 ♪ ♪ 807 00:44:50,771 --> 00:44:55,192 It's a lot on any family member to go through. 808 00:44:55,192 --> 00:44:57,153 And then there's family members that don't even 809 00:44:57,153 --> 00:44:59,822 know where their loved one is and the fact 810 00:44:59,822 --> 00:45:03,159 that he still has victims out there 811 00:45:03,159 --> 00:45:05,912 and no one knows anything. 812 00:45:07,914 --> 00:45:10,541 - I definitely don't want to lose sight of the victims. 813 00:45:10,541 --> 00:45:12,335 Like, that--that's where the true story is, 814 00:45:12,335 --> 00:45:16,380 is that these were normal, everyday people, 815 00:45:16,380 --> 00:45:19,300 and it literally was a split second 816 00:45:19,300 --> 00:45:21,302 of crossing paths with Keyes. 817 00:45:21,302 --> 00:45:25,348 And, unfortunately, it led to their death. 818 00:45:27,391 --> 00:45:30,144 NELSON: We're still reviewing evidence. 819 00:45:30,144 --> 00:45:34,774 We still receive leads pretty frequently. 820 00:45:34,774 --> 00:45:37,026 Unfortunately, we haven't solved any other cases 821 00:45:37,026 --> 00:45:40,029 since his suicide. 822 00:45:41,072 --> 00:45:44,533 CALLAHAN: I believe we can locate 823 00:45:44,533 --> 00:45:47,161 and identify other victims. 824 00:45:47,161 --> 00:45:53,501 It just needs enough eyeballs and daylight and pressure. 825 00:45:53,501 --> 00:45:55,753 And it can happen. 826 00:45:55,753 --> 00:46:02,760 ♪ ♪ 827 00:46:04,136 --> 00:46:07,139 [dramatic music] 828 00:46:07,139 --> 00:46:14,188 ♪ ♪