
In the second half of Israel Keyes's 7/12 FBI interview, he discusses trophies, burglaries, arsons, following other serial killers, the women he dated, the relationship between his violent crimes and arsons and robberies, and more. This audio will be...
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Interviewer 1
Do you ever get close to being caught doing any of those, Any arsons or any bank robberies? Which arson or bank robbery.
Interviewee
Or bank robbery. I think I got pretty close.
Interviewer 2
It makes you think that.
Interviewee
Actually it was. It was that one that you guys know about now, that one in New York, in Tupper Lake. Yeah, there was. I was leaving and there was a car that passed me and I knew it was a detective or somebody because they had a. They had a visor light or something, some kind of light. I knew it was a cop of some kind anyway. And it wasn't like an official patrol car, but I think there were a couple people in was windy roads going through the mountains and stuff. And kind of on a hunch, I was. I was thinking, well, because this was quite a while after the robbery, I was quite a ways from the scene, I was thinking, well, just in case they. In case they have a vehicle description or something, I better pull off the road. And there was a campground and I pulled off really quick and kind of helped. Kind of backed into some trees and just sat there for a while and was counting money. And I think I saw the same car go back the other way, like it might have been looking for me. So I don't know if they. I don't even know if it was the same car. It went by really fast, but it looked like it could have been the same car.
Interviewer 2
Fast, like it was trying to catch up to you.
Interviewee
Yeah, I don't know for sure if they were, but all the same, I think I sat there for quite a while, sat there for several hours and figured by then everybody who was going to be at the scene was going to be there. I remember reading about it a few days later. That one really freaked them out because it was such a small town. They locked all the schools and everything, SWAT teams patrolling the streets or whatever.
Interviewer 2
But yeah, that was.
Interviewee
I was thinking at the Time I was like, I'm just gonna hang out at this campground and count money and stuff and everybody stops by. I'll just act like I'm fishing and
Interviewer 2
did you have a fishing pole?
Interviewee
I think I did on that trip. I don't think I had a license though.
Interviewer 2
Not for need to take that ticket for that though. Yeah, probably.
Interviewee
But.
Interviewer 2
Why do you think you were able to. And talking about the practical crimes, why do you think you were able to get away with so successfully with it? Sounds like you did a lot of bank robberies and burglaries and those kind of things.
Interviewee
Oh, my days were numbered. Too many freaking video cameras nowadays.
Interviewer 2
So the times changed.
Interviewee
Yeah, it was easy when all you had to worry about was fingerprints and witnesses and DNA. That stuff's all pretty easy.
Interviewer 2
But you also had, depending on what you take, like if you committed burglary, you still have to. If it's, if it's not monetary, if it's not money, you have to sell it or get rid of it or those kind of things. When you were doing burglaries, what kind of things did you take from houses? Well, besides people,
Interviewee
for the most part, it's not like I needed the money.
Interviewer 1
So what was the motivation then for the burglaries if it wasn't they were
Interviewee
just for old times sake?
Interviewer 2
Well, you said you get the same. They seem so different, but you described them as kind of the same. The killings to robberies, burglaries, arsons to some degree. I mean they seem so different and far apart, but you seem to get some.
Interviewee
That's because when I go in to do a burglary, I don't go in to do it like most people do. I. I go in loaded for bear,
Interviewer 2
so to speak, and hoping there's gonna be people there.
Interviewee
No, not necessarily. Just. Just knowing that if something happens, it's, you know, it's like if I ever got caught in the act doing anything, I'm not going to go meekly away in handcuffs or whatever. I always went ready for whatever.
Interviewer 1
So what would your motivation be going in? What would you be looking for? What would you.
Interviewer 2
Burglaries.
Interviewee
I usually just jewelry and guns. Small guns? Smallish.
Interviewer 2
So some of that. Are some of the guns that you still have in places, those guns or did you always get rid of those?
Interviewee
No, I didn't get rid of them because of the worried about them getting tracked.
Interviewer 2
So you keep them, but you don't keep them with you so that you're not caught with them. So you keep them in A cache somewhere and then use them when you
Interviewee
need the statute of limitations, like five or seven years or something like that?
Interviewer 1
I don't even know.
Interviewer 2
So you wait. I can't tell whether that's supposed to be a joke or whether we're gonna get charged with that or whether. So you hide them for the statute of limitations period before you use them.
Interviewee
Makes it a lot less likely that they get tracked.
Interviewer 1
Was part of the burglary similar to what you. Similar, but different to what you talked about with the woods, where you're sitting there and you can watch people and they don't know you're watching them. Is it similar in a burglar? Because when you're in somebody's house, you're going through their stuff? Yeah, that same kind of sense.
Interviewer 2
So would it be.
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Would you try to do it to where they didn't even know it happened or make sure they knew it happened? Like, I mean, breaking windows and breaking doors to go in or get it somehow on.
Interviewee
No, it would depend. It would depend on situation, I guess more often than not. There was usually a lot of destruction. But sometimes I wouldn't. Sometimes I would just, you know. Sometimes I wouldn't take anything at all necessarily. Maybe if you. Little things.
Interviewer 2
So destruction, like damage rather than destruction, like looking for stuff. Because a lot of burglars you go into, all the drawers are open, all those clothes are on the ground. Everything's been destroyed. Looking.
Interviewee
I never did that.
Interviewer 2
So destroy to destroy.
Interviewee
Yeah.
Interviewer 1
You like to watch people. Do you ever watch. Wait in the house and watch people or wait and watch people come back to see what the reaction would be?
Interviewee
I would wait in the woods sometime. That was years and years ago, though.
Interviewer 1
Not wait in the house to watch for them to come back.
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Interviewee
No, not burglaries. No.
Interviewer 1
That's getting on to other crimes. I'm guessing by that reaction.
Interviewer 2
I also noticed on some of your. On your computers and actually some of the stuff in your vehicle that you have some different movies. Do you get ideas for movies or is that you just like.
Interviewee
No ideas movies still? My ideas. Should have got some of them copyrighted. Kind of pissed me off.
Interviewer 2
You did some of those first?
Interviewee
Yeah, there's some cheap, low budget slasher movie. Some guy made it, Been there, done that a couple years ago. And I was kind of pissed off with that one because as far as I know, nobody had thought of that or I'd never read about it.
Interviewer 1
Which movie was that?
Interviewee
I don't remember what it was called.
Interviewer 2
Some stuff.
Interviewee
Stupid college kid movie. He was all proud of himself because he was using cable ties.
Interviewer 1
What'd he do in the movie?
Interviewee
He strangled this girl with a cable tie. I thought of that right after cable ties were invented. Or at least those big ones.
Interviewer 2
The thick ones, huh? The big, thick ones, yeah.
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Interviewer 1
Anything else from the movies?
Interviewee
No movie. Movies are like video games. They're a lot of fun, but they're not really not like the real thing.
Interviewer 2
I guess I was curious as to more whether it was the movies that gave you ideas or whether everything, anything you've done has kind of been your own thoughts.
Interviewee
I can't think of any movies that I got. Well, there was a book I read years and years ago that gave me a lot of ideas, but I can't really blame that because I was already doing stuff when I read that book.
Interviewer 2
But it gave you ideas?
Interviewee
Yeah.
Interviewer 2
What book was that?
Interviewee
It's called Intensity by Dean Koontz. That was the first book I had read that kind of talked about things from the other point of view. Like I read crime novels all the time, but it's always from the detective's point of view. It's never from the bad guy's point of view. And it always pissed me off that I could never find one from the bad guy's point of view. So like I read that one.
Interviewer 2
But you said you used to read crime books, so did you get ideas from that?
Interviewee
No, nothing specific, I don't think.
Interviewer 2
How about from studying Bundy and other people on things that they did that either got them caught or that you thought was a bad idea that you stopped doing or don't do or didn't because of that?
Interviewee
I. Yeah, well, I got lots of those kind of ideas like what not to do from books and movies and true crime tv. Yeah, there's no shortage of what not to do. If I had, like I say, if I'd been following my own rules. Yeah.
Interviewer 2
Like do you know, for Bundy for instance, do you know enough about him to know where he was doing things and those kind of things? Do you know those details on him?
Interviewee
Yeah, I know. I. Yeah, I know serial killers all the way back to my other serial killer hero. I guess not really even relevant because he was so long ago was H.H.
Interviewer 2
holmes.
Interviewee
He was pretty much a Genius. But back in his day it was pretty easy to be a genius because nobody really expected stuff like that back then. You got away with it for a long time.
Interviewer 1
No technology really to have to outsmart.
Interviewer 2
Right.
Interviewee
Back then you could hire other people to build dungeons for you and nobody would even think twice about it. Oh, that guy wants a dungeon. Well, anything I build like that nowadays I kind of have to do myself.
Interviewer 1
That kind of warrants an obvious follow up question of do you have a dungeon? Have you ever built anything like that?
Interviewee
Not no. Nothing that elaborate.
Interviewer 2
Something you would have liked to have though?
Interviewee
Well, I have plenty of plans for him. It's not really. More my retirement plan.
Interviewer 1
Your stuff seems to be. The stuff that we know about seems to be kind of quick in the sense that it happens over a day period of time or 12 hour period of time or something like that. And again we told you we weren't going to get into like push you for specifics on a lot of this, on this kind of stuff. But were there crimes where you. You did keep someone for longer than that?
Interviewee
No, no. A few hours.
Interviewer 2
Plans to and didn't work out or just you purposely kept it short like that for logistics reasons and not getting caught?
Interviewee
Yeah, I was, I had plans to. You know, It would have been nice if I could have done that, but I was never set up to do it to where it would have been pretty high risk if I had ever tried to do that.
Interviewer 1
You joked about the retirement plan. Was that something you had thought about trying to figure out a way to do that though logistically a way to be able to do that?
Interviewee
Yeah, it's a lot easier to do it if you're a bachelor. So it would have been a few years before I started construction.
Interviewer 2
Was it. And I guess I don't know that any of them. Was it easy to have a relationship with say Kimberly and still and be. Or did it become harder or. It seems like it would be extremely difficult to maintain kind of the two
Interviewer 1
lives that you talked about.
Interviewee
It only got hard at the end, but it wasn't the relationship. It was, you know, everything got harder at the end. Just lost interest. It was like I simultaneously lost interest in a lot of other things and. Tried to kick start it and get, you know, get it back. Kind of snapped myself out of it a few times and then just couldn't maintain it anymore.
Interviewer 2
So, you know, so it was, it wasn't like the typical relationship breakdown. It was you.
Interviewee
Oh yeah, it was.
Interviewer 1
Do you think over the years any of the people that you were with Kimberly or whoever or Tammy or whoever before. Do you think any of them had any ideas about the other side of you?
Interviewee
I imagine 2020 hindsight, they might remember some stuff, but I can't remember any time where, Where there was any question as to what I was or who I was.
Interviewer 1
Maybe questions about where you were, but not necessarily.
Interviewee
There were some questions about where I had been. But I always, like I say, I usually planned things so that I had, I don't know, they sounded like good reasons, excuses to me and nobody ever really called me on them. So I don't know.
Interviewer 2
I know at one point in time you told us that Kimberly was oblivious to, you know, you use that word, I think, to what was going on and stuff. Do you think that there was, you know, when you met her, was there some type of an attraction like that that you perceived that, that it would be an easy relationship to carry on because she wouldn't be suspicious? Was Tammy the same way? I've never, I don't know. I've never met Tammy. I have Kimberly, but none.
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Interviewee
there's. Yeah, there's certain personality types that I. Would work harder at having a relationship with because, You know, they would have. Like Kimberly, for example, she has pretty hectic career and her own, she has her own social life and she's, I guess she's say like a self contained person. So we had a good relationship but it was easy to separate myself from it and go do my own thing and then she would do her own thing and both of us were always okay with that. Whereas, you know, some other personality types, you know, like once you're together, it's like everything has to be done together. That would have made it kind of hard. But you know, like with Kimberly and the girlfriend I had before her, they had their own careers and stuff. So if I said, well, I'm going to fly such and such a place and do this and that and they would say, okay. And there was never this, well, I want to come with you. You know, they wouldn't do that because they had a job.
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Was there a relationship between Tammy and Kimberly?
Interviewee
Not really. Just there was a little bit of drama at one point, but no, there wasn't a relationship.
Interviewer 2
Is that somebody in Washington?
Interviewee
You're asking if they knew each other?
Interviewer 2
No, no, no. I'm asking who it is. If you dated, was there somebody else? Because you said another girlfriend?
Interviewee
Yeah, for a while.
Interviewer 2
Who was that?
Interviewee
Her name was Denise. She lived in, she had a family in Neah Bay and she lived In Kent, down by sea Tac or something.
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Interviewer 1
Did you date a lot?
Interviewee
Not really. I usually had a girlfriend, but I didn't, you know.
Interviewer 1
Were they more kind of just long term relationships? It wasn't just a lot of short relationships.
Interviewee
Yeah. I mean, there were periods in between where I would date a few people, but for the most part, longer term the better.
Interviewer 1
When did you meet Tammy? How long?
Interviewee
I met her when I was in the army.
Interviewer 1
When you were stationed in Washington?
Interviewee
Yeah, I think that was. I think I met her right after I got back from Egypt.
Interviewer 1
So time frame wise you were in because I, I know I missed some of this and so stop me if we've been. You guys have been through this before. You went into the military when you were how old? 20. Okay, so that would have been 98, right? I knew the date at one point, but yeah, sometime in 98. Okay. And then in the military you moved around a little bit in the military, you went overseas, came, came back, and then you were in. Stationed in Washington.
Interviewee
Yeah.
Interviewer 1
And then were you stationed in Washington when you got out of the military? In Washington when you decided to get out of the military?
Interviewee
Yeah.
Interviewer 1
Okay. And then from there you went to live in Neah Bay? Yeah, with Tammy. Okay, where'd you move from the, where's the next place you move then from Neah Bay? Here. Here. Okay, so it's just been. Since the military, it's only been Alaska and Nia Bay. Yeah. Okay. Prior to the military, I know you had said you'd been in. You were in Oregon for like that nine months or whatever, building the house. Was that right before the military?
Interviewee
No, then I lived in upstate New York for. It was less than a year before I went in the army.
Interviewer 2
Okay, so you were in Oregon in like 96? 97.
Interviewee
Right.
Interviewer 1
And then upstate New York. And then. And then before Oregon it was. Was it Washington because you're with your ear. With your parents?
Interviewee
Yeah.
Interviewer 1
Okay. And your property's in New York. Yeah. All right. I think I got it.
Interviewer 2
One of the things I was noticing and looking at some of your stuff, it looks like when you Came to Alaska, it looks like financially things started. Is it because it was more expensive up here or is it because you had to go outside to do these? Do the things that you were doing when you lived outside. I mean, you've got. When you lived in Washington, you could driveway soon. And then you come up here and you have to fly because you don't like doing things right in your own. I mean, it looks like there's an obvious progression of. Would you say you had money problems or no?
Interviewee
I mean, I had a lot of credit. I wasn't really worried about the credit.
Interviewer 2
You weren't planning on paying it off?
Interviewee
Probably not.
Interviewer 2
So I guess then my question would be then, so since you lived in Alaska, would you say that with some of these things, like financing things, whether you had burglaries or robberies that they have, did you have to do more when you were here to survive, in other words, and keep Looks like making your minimum payments on your credit cards when they got to the.
Interviewee
Seems like there was one time that I did. There was something that went wrong that happened a few times after I went in business for myself. There would be a job that went bad or I didn't get paid for, and then I would have to scramble a little bit. But for the most part, I didn't really worry too much about that.
Interviewer 2
Scramble meaning book of flight.
Interviewee
Figure out what to do I was gonna do about money to pay the bills. But for the most part, I didn't really like to worry about that stuff too much.
Interviewer 2
And a lot of stuff is just curiosity too. Like for. You said the bank in Azelle, you said. I said $10,000 is a lot of money. And you're like, no, it's not.
Interviewee
Well, it was a small bank. It seems like it was a pretty small bank.
Interviewer 2
What's. What's a. What would be a. Without. Hypothetically, what would be a good. What's a good bank score? If 10,000 is not.
Interviewee
No, that's. I'm not saying that's bad. I'm just saying for a bank robbery, that's. I don't know, for a takeover robbery, that's not that much money.
Interviewer 2
For a good takeover robbery, what could one expect?
Interviewee
I would think. More than $10,000.
Interviewer 2
So if someone was a. If someone developed, was a pretty decent bank robber and had a, oh, 14, 15 year career doing it, how much money do you think one could maybe not accumulate, but. Have you thought of that? Do you know that exactly?
Interviewee
I don't know. I suppose accumulate a lot of money. You can Accumulate a lot of things.
Interviewer 1
What's the most you've gotten?
Interviewee
I. I don't know that. Honestly.
Interviewer 1
More than 10?
Interviewee
Yeah, more than 10.
Interviewer 2
But I think we asked you this before too. So you're not, you're not, you're not going to say that the bank robberies and stuff like that was to specifically facilitate and finance these other things that you were doing, like every trip that you went out enabled you to continue to do it?
Interviewee
No.
Interviewer 2
Or it was. I mean, did you do that too so you could afford to continue to do this?
Interviewer 1
No,
Interviewee
The bank robberies were
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Interviewee
like a challenge kind of thing. Thing and a curiosity kind of thing to see if I could get away with it, I guess because it was, you know, not like you can do one and not be noticed.
Interviewer 1
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Interviewer 2
Did you progress in them from. I think you referred to it as poor man's bank robbery initially.
Interviewee
I never did a note robbery. In my mind, that wasn't even really a robbery. I didn't really have any interest in that.
Interviewer 2
And so then before each one of these and you, I assume you plan your route. I know you have. I know you looked at routes in and out of towns and things like that when you were looking at towns. So did you. What if. Did you do a scenario where you. After this bank robbery, if the cops come in, I'm going to this, I'm going to drive this way. If something happens, I mean, how did you prepare for what could have happened? Or do you think you would have just improvised? I mean, did you always have a.
Interviewee
Yeah, I usually would have two or three different routes planned out and
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Interviewee
to figure out what the most likely route or the best route to take based on whether how many police might be coming in from where type of thing.
Interviewer 2
Did you think about military police or did you ever. Have you ever thought about being police?
Interviewee
Yeah, I considered. I considered it. By the time I got out of the military, I decided it probably wasn't a very good idea.
Interviewer 2
The whole polygraph thing.
Interviewee
No, I wasn't really thinking of that. But yeah, that's a good point. What kind of questions they ask on it?
Interviewer 2
So, you know, did you actually try to become a police officer?
Interviewee
No, I think I was looking at applications and stuff at one point, but I.
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Interviewee
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Interviewee
Too many domestic situations to deal with. If it was all bang, bang, shoot them up, I probably would have been there in a minute.
Interviewer 2
Very little of that.
Interviewee
Right.
Interviewer 2
But that's why I said. You said you read criminal books and stuff, so you had some propensity to. Or were you reading them just to.
Interviewee
Oh, I was interested in it, but I was never interested in being the good guy. I was interested in having a career. I wasn't really interested in becoming a. I don't know what the traditional reasons are for why people want to be and police, but I guess I was more interested in it. Curiosity. Better to be on the inside than on the outside looking in kind of thing.
Interviewer 2
So it would have been a cover job?
Interviewee
Well, yeah.
Interviewer 2
Did you try other jobs? I know you were, you know, contractor for. Even in Neah Bay, you were maintenance or.
Interviewee
I worked for the tribe. Yeah. Well, officially I was Parks and Recreation, but I did a lot of different things there for them.
Interviewer 2
Any jobs at. For other people? Like businesses? McDonald's?
Interviewee
No, no. My, my. I've had a lot of. I've done a lot of work and jobs, but as far as jobs where you pay taxes, I haven't really had that many.
Interviewer 2
You believe in taxes or is that just necessary evil?
Interviewee
I believe in staying under the radar.
Interviewer 2
Pay them so they don't ask why. You're not right.
Interviewee
Had you tried my thoughts when I was arrested, I was like, man, I bet you I'm not going to get to file my taxes.
Interviewer 1
Had you traveled to Alaska before you moved up here? Had you visited?
Interviewee
Yeah.
Interviewer 1
When did you visit?
Interviewee
I don't remember. It seems like I flew up a couple sometimes, though.
Interviewer 1
Like right before you moved up and planning, or was it like years before for fishing trips and that kind of thing?
Interviewee
No, it was right before. Prior to that, I had done some road trips into Canada, I think, but I don't. Yeah, I never made up to Alaska.
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Interviewer 2
This easiest one we're ever going to find.
Interviewer 1
Yeah.
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Interviewer 2
even with your help, huh?
Interviewer 1
You're really close. I think you had said like a quarter mile past the parking lot ended up being about a half mile, but beyond that it was.
Interviewee
Yeah.
Interviewer 2
Did you. Was there something like that in the road or how'd you know where in the woods? It was just because of the berm or was there like telephone poles or.
Interviewee
No, just landmarks, trees, driveways, stuff like that. I actually saw that.
Interviewer 2
Did I take it? I'm like, I bet flat shovel would have sucked to actually dig in a hole. So there's that dish. I bet he was just gonna fill it in.
Interviewee
Yeah. It was already dug. There's really only room for one person in the house.
Interviewer 1
We've asked you a lot of questions so far. Do you have any questions? Any questions for us?
Interviewee
Do you have any Vermont pictures for me?
Interviewer 1
No.
Interviewer 2
I guess we could show you pictures of the dump? Is that what you want to see? There isn't any. There hasn't been a recovery there yet.
Interviewee
Oh, I know. Eventually I obviously finished.
Interviewer 1
Do we. You didn't see. Haven't seen a picture of the landfill yet.
Interviewee
I saw an aerial picture from the news bulletin, but.
Interviewer 1
Okay. Yeah, I think. No, I think we've got some of the landfill. I does that.
Interviewer 2
You don't believe us or you just want to see?
Interviewee
No, I believe you.
Interviewer 2
I mean, don't you.
Interviewee
Pretty elaborate lie.
Interviewer 1
Yeah, there's a lot of money that's been spent out there already on this, so. No, I think we can. We can find a couple pictures and for next time.
Interviewee
Yeah. One thing I was gonna say, as this goes along, as this progresses,
Interviewer 2
we'll
Interviewee
have to work out some sort of arrangement where I get to see
Interviewer 2
the same thing that you see.
Interviewee
The evidence.
Interviewer 2
The.
Interviewee
Well, your evidence. I guess if.
Interviewer 2
If we. If we recover, there's going to be some issues.
Interviewee
Not just that, but everything we talk about.
Interviewer 2
Okay.
Interviewee
Like videos.
Interviewer 1
You want to see like what we find.
Interviewee
That's not saying you have to see everything. I'm sure you're not going to show me everything anyway, but you know, like
Interviewer 1
something to corroborate that were just something
Interviewee
for me to look at.
Interviewer 1
Is that because you want to make sure that we're being honest with you or because you just want to see it?
Interviewee
Because I just want to see it. Not very many kicks in 23 hour lockdown. So I'm gonna take my kicks where
Interviewer 2
I can get them. So one of the things I wanted to kind of elaborate too on these other serial killers and stuff. Did they like. Did you read about anything that they had done and mimic anything they did or go to the place they did it or anything that you would say that you paralleled or did anything?
Interviewee
No, nothing specific.
Interviewer 2
New ideas. Yours were all new ideas. No other looks like I knew it is. Well, different, same locations. Anything like that?
Interviewee
No, I don't think so. Not consciously.
Interviewer 2
You know the history about these people, like where they were born, were they. With their position in the family, was their profile.
Interviewee
Yeah, I know a lot about him. Just nothing special though. Just what anybody could read about him. It's not like I made a hobby out of researching him. But it's just one of those sort of things that anytime I came across anything related to it, I would read it or tune into it or.
Interviewer 2
Is that.
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Interviewer 2
Is that where you put your. You in the same category as some of these people? Especially like you said Bundy, because you kind of have some type.
Interviewee
Well, I relate to them, but I don't really.
Interviewer 2
Because, you know, like later on and I don't know whether why. What his motives were. Bundy's word later on and while he was in jail wanting to help law enforcement, he was trying to help with the Green River. He was.
Interviewee
Did not know that.
Interviewer 2
Do you think that's something that serial killers. Do you think that he. There's no place, like, where serial killers talk on the Internet or you can't see someone and see the same traits and those kind of things?
Interviewee
Oh, I think that. I think there have been people I've talked to over the years that
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Interviewee
definitely get a vibe off of just because I have a hard time controlling my own. So I pick up on things that people do to misdirect purposely.
Interviewer 2
Attention.
Interviewee
Yeah, attention from certain areas of their lives or certain things they say. Same thing I do. Type of thing.
Interviewer 1
You talked about Matthew before, Is that kind of the guy in the military you were talking about? Is that kind of what you're talking about?
Interviewee
Similar. Yeah, he was. He was kind of different in that he had a really rough time as a teenager kind of thing. So I don't know how much of. How much of the things I picked up for him from him were things that he couldn't really control and how much was, like, left over, like, damage time. Because I know he was on heroin and stuff before he got in the army. So I know he went through some pretty heavy stuff before he was even in the Army. So on those aspects of his life, I couldn't really relate to him. But there were other things we talked about that I definitely. There was a point where I felt like I really shouldn't hang out with him anymore just because I was afraid certain things might come up and
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so
Interviewer 2
he had something in common.
Interviewee
Yeah.
Interviewer 1
Was he around your age?
Interviewee
Yeah, I think so.
Interviewer 1
Do you know where he was from? You mentioned he came from kind of a bad background.
Interviewee
I think he was from Ohio.
Interviewer 1
Was he still in when you got out?
Interviewee
He got out either right after I did or before slightly before. He didn't realize.
Interviewer 1
Ever hear what happened to him?
Interviewee
Last I talked to him, he was working for telemarketing place in Cleveland, I
Interviewer 1
think, just back in Ohio and stay out of trouble or did he. You know, I mean, obviously he's not gonna tell you.
Interviewee
Yeah, we had a pretty short conversation over the phone. There was a time. There was just for a minute. I was. I think it was shortly after I discovered the Internet I did some searches and found some people that I had known in the military, kind of more out of a curiosity thing than to reconnect with them. And I called a few of them and we talked. But like I say, I was never really close with any of them when I was in the army, so. And most of them, it seemed like they had kind of gone downhill after they got out of the army. I think there were a couple that had dishonorable or less than honorable discharges and stuff like that. So.
Interviewer 1
Do you know if his was.
Interviewee
I don't know if his wasn't. I think his was honorable, but I don't know for sure.
Interviewer 1
So just more small talk kind of stuff. Nothing?
Interviewee
Yeah, when I talked to him, he was. Neither of us were really social. It's not like. I mean, I'm sure if he had we'd ended up in the same state, we probably would have stayed friends. But it wasn't like we were going to have a long term friendship relationship, long distance type of thing.
Interviewer 2
And I'm sure we asked you this before, why the army instead of any of the other armed forces? Was there a reason or just.
Interviewee
Yeah, I just did what I wanted to do. That's what I'd always read about was like World War II, Vietnam, army stories,
Interviewer 2
guys on the ground.
Interviewee
Right. That was the kind of thing that appealed to me. Backwoods survival type stuff.
Interviewer 1
Computers. You mentioned when computers first came out, you started doing searches and just wanted to see what was up with the military guys. When you would. You talked before with us about. There were a couple times that you would go on your computer and do a search just to see if a body had been found or I don't know, arson or bank robbery or whatever it is when you were doing it. How would you. How would you do that? I mean, did you know names of everybody or would you do just Google search a town and. Or how would you do it?
Interviewee
I was.
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Interviewee
With the exception of the computer that you guys got from Kimberly's house, I generally wouldn't do it on the home computers. I had another computer that I did use for a while, but for the most part it was a computer that I was planning on having around for a while. I would never do research. The searches I did do were usually pretty generic. I would type in an area or a newspaper of an area and type in a keyword. I would never type in a specific
Interviewer 1
name, the name of the newspaper from the area.
Interviewer 2
Like if I would do Burlington Press, right?
Interviewee
Yeah. I would do a search of news from an area, I guess and then pull up either a newspaper or news channel, online news, type in a keyword of something and just scroll down the different stories. So I found the one I was looking for. If I was doing it from an anonymous computer like an airport or a library or something I would do. I would just type in what I wanted.
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Interviewee
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Interviewer 1
Did you know the names? Did you remember the names of most of the people?
Interviewee
Yeah, well, yeah, on the major things. Yeah.
Interviewer 1
Okay.
Interviewer 2
And so I know we talked to. You said that when you did these burglaries and stuff, you would take jewelry and those kind of things. Did you bring that kind of stuff back with you and give it to Kimberly or. I mean, how did you. What did you do with it?
Interviewee
No, I usually would bury it.
Interviewer 2
Is that so that you could, I mean did you then dig it up later to sell it or just to possess it?
Interviewee
It's just more to have it nowhere is type of thing.
Interviewer 2
Because you said you brought the stuff from the Alito fire home.
Interviewee
And. Oh, yeah, yeah, there was a little. Yeah, there was a little bit of jewelry down there. I guess that wasn't really a burglary, per se. That was just. I mean, I had found that house, but I was running out of time,
Interviewer 2
so
Interviewee
I guess I just figured, Take a look inside and burn it. I don't know.
Interviewer 2
Take a look inside. But you said you were in there a couple hours looking around.
Interviewee
Yeah, but I had found it before. I mean, I knew it was there before. I don't remember how many days before I found it, but I knew it was there, and I knew it was an empty house.
Interviewer 1
You've talked before about how. I think even with the couriers, you talked about how afterwards, emotionally, for you, there's a high for a while, and then eventually you kind of come back down from that high. Using the couriers as an example, you came back to Alaska on that high. Once the high goes away, is it just. Can you just think about what happened and that's enough to kind of just relive it and work through it again, or. You told us before, you don't keep trophies. You don't do that kind of stuff. But are there things that you do have or that you do keep that aren't really necessarily trophies, but that you use for. That you use as a reminder, you use just to have. Because you said you like to possess things, you like to keep things.
Interviewee
Yeah, That's not that. I never. It's not that I didn't want to take trophies or have things. I was just concerned about having them.
Interviewer 1
Sure.
Interviewer 2
But.
Interviewee
So, yeah, for the most part, it's just. All the stuff's just in my head.
Interviewer 1
But there's things you could take that wouldn't. That I can think of. There wouldn't be no way that law enforcement would be really hard for us to connect it back. Were there times that you did take things that you thought were safe or. For the most part, no.
Interviewee
The things I would have been interested in taking wouldn't have been safe, put it that way.
Interviewer 1
Okay.
Interviewer 2
But there are things you took that technically you still have because they're in caches. If there's guns or something that you took from a burglary and got them in a cache somewhere, then I'm just saying, technically, you still possess them, and they're just not on you at your house or on you or whatever. Except for the Alito stuff. What was different about that? Bringing that stuff home?
Interviewee
Actually, I was supposed to have taken that back down with me. The second time I just forgot because I was gonna stash it the same time I did those guns. And I never got around to the guns either. So I was planning to stash them there the first time.
Interviewer 2
Forgot where you had them or.
Interviewee
No, I just didn't find good place and decided I didn't want to. Didn't want to have them that far south anyway. Cuz I wasn't planning on going back to Texas again, so.
Interviewer 2
Don't like Texas?
Interviewee
No, I wasn't a big fan of Texas really. I've been in other states. I like it better.
Interviewer 2
People are too nosy.
Interviewee
Too many guns and too many. Too many gates and fences in Texas. Definitely too many video cameras.
Interviewer 2
On the one on the prostitutes, on prostitution, was there a preference on gender? Always. Did you have. Did you see male prostitutes? No, I didn't.
Interviewee
Well, no
Interviewer 2
kind of male prostitutes.
Interviewee
I'm gonna say you're getting really fuzzy on your definitions there.
Interviewer 2
I forgot how somatic you could be half male.
Interviewer 1
That's one way to say it. Are you thinking or are you just. You're done with that?
Interviewee
No, for the most part it was female prostitutes.
Interviewer 2
Sounds like a yes to me. The most part, yeah.
Interviewee
I really understood the whole male prostitute thing. Well, I guess. No, I guess I do understand. It was never an issue for me at all. Oh,
Interviewer 1
What's this mark for? Did you ever do like the casual encounter thing on you think you got a shock?
Interviewer 2
Are you in shock? Are you worried about shockingness? No, just what else?
Interviewee
No, I imagine you guys aren't shockable at this point. No, it's like male. Like I say, I never really understood the whole male prostitutes thing. I don't know if you're. I guess if you're looking for something really anonymous and you're concerned about getting caught with a man, or if you're a really ugly guy, I guess you might have to pay another guy to have sex with you. But for the most part, it's not that hard to find a guy to hook up with pretty casually. Whereas if you have specific ideas in mind and you're you want a woman, you have to pay for it. Which is fine. It's just the way it is though.
Interviewer 1
Did you say the whole Craigslist casual encounter thing? Is that something that you ever did? You mentioned the casual hookup.
Interviewee
No. Well, no, I never really did that.
Interviewer 1
Any other questions for us? Concerns? Well, other than the obvious one that we don't have an answer for. As we continue to go through stuff, the computers and to see other stuff kind of like today just things come up that we don't have all the answers for. Is this alright if we just do this kind of meeting for that kind of stuff?
Interviewee
Yeah, kind of.
Interviewer 1
The little. The little key. Not none of the high pressure stuff. This works. Yeah.
Interviewee
What's high pressure?
Interviewer 1
Maybe it's bad choice of words.
Interviewee
No, it's just funny. Yeah, whatever. I don't really know what.
Interviewer 1
But not getting into all the other stuff. I mean like when we met the other day it was.
Interviewee
Oh, you. You're talking about wanting specific names and dates. Yeah.
Interviewer 1
Obviously we'll take it if you're willing to give it to us.
Interviewee
Know what I'm saying too.
Interviewer 1
So. Okay. I think we don't.
Interviewer 2
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Interviewee
You be skippy.
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Release Date: June 24, 2026
Host/Production: Studio BOTH/AND, Josh Hallmark
Episode Focus: Full interrogation audio—Israel Keyes interviewed by the FBI, deepening the series’ exploration of his methods, psychology, and possible victims.
This episode broadcasts the July 12, 2012 FBI interrogation of Israel Keyes, diving deep into his reflections on his crimes, motivations, evading capture, and personal life. Hallmark frames this as a critical interview for Season 7—rich with unsettling glimpses into Keyes’ criminal psyche, operational strategies, and detachment. The episode moves through Keyes’s burglaries, bank robberies, inspirations, logistics, relationships, and more.
Timestamps: 03:38–05:58
Memorable Quote:
“I remember reading about it a few days later. That one really freaked them out because it was such a small town. They locked all the schools and everything, SWAT teams patrolling the streets or whatever.” (Keyes, 05:23)
Timestamps: 06:30–08:16
Emphasizes he did not commit burglaries for money, often taking only jewelry or guns.
Burglaries were more out of habit, challenge, or “for old times’ sake.”
Approached burglaries differently from typical offenders: “I go in loaded for bear. …just knowing that if something happens, it’s, you know… I always went ready for whatever.”
Quote:
"When I go in to do a burglary, I don’t go in to do it like most people do. I go in loaded for bear." (Keyes, 08:02)
Timestamps: 09:05–09:54
Timestamps: 10:12–11:25
Timestamps: 12:09–19:53
Quote:
“Back then you could hire other people to build dungeons for you and nobody would even think twice about it… anything I build like that nowadays I kind of have to do myself.” (Keyes, 20:02)
Timestamps: 20:25–23:44
Timestamps: 23:51–32:34
Timestamps: 33:48–38:46
“Bank robberies were more like a challenge kind of thing. …Not like you can do one and not be noticed.” (Keyes, 38:30)
Timestamps: 39:06–40:19
Quote:
“Yeah, I usually would have two or three different routes planned out…” (Keyes, 39:36)
Timestamps: 40:19–43:15
Timestamps: 56:06–63:59
Quote:
“All the stuff’s just in my head.” (Keyes, 63:04)
Timestamps: 65:20–68:42
Timestamps: 51:12–55:31
This episode offers a rare, chilling window into the thinking of Israel Keyes, revealing his calculated amorality, emotional detachment, and chilling sense of humor. He relishes the challenge and psychology of crime, not strictly the criminal spoils, and treats relationships as utilities to further his hidden life. Rather than direct “confession,” Keyes provides meta-commentary—on society, surveillance, true crime culture, and himself.
Hallmark’s decision to air the raw interrogation audio allows listeners to experience the uncomfortable normalcy and matter-of-factness with which Keyes describes his acts and mindset—crucial context for understanding his unsolved crimes and potential undiscovered victims as the series continues.