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Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-known; they echo in the news and in public consciousness. But most people have never heard of Israel Keyes, one of the most ambitious and terrifying serial killers in modern history. The FBI considered his behavior unprecedented. Described by a prosecutor as a force of pure evil, Keyes was a predator who struck all over the United States. He buried kill kitscash, weapons, and body-disposal toolsin remote locations across the country. Over the course of fourteen years, Keyes would fly to a city, rent a car, and drive thousands of miles in order to use his kits. He would break into a strangers house, abduct his victims in broad daylight, and kill and dispose of them in mere hours. And then he would return home to Alaska, resuming life as a quiet, reliable construction worker devoted to his only daughter.When journalist Maureen Callahan first heard about Israel Keyes in 2012, she was captivated by how a killer of this magnitude could go undetected by law enforcement for over a decade. And so began a project that consumed her for the next several yearsuncovering the true story behind how the FBI ultimately caught Israel Keyes, and trying to understand what it means for a killer like Keyes to exist. A killer who left a path of monstrous, randomly committed crimes in his wakemany of which remain unsolved to this day.American Predator is the ambitious culmination of years of interviews with key figures in law enforcement and in Keyess life, and research uncovered from classified FBI files. Callahan takes us on a journey into the chilling, nightmarish mind of a relentless killer, and to the limitations of traditional law enforcement.

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Copyright 2019 by Maureen Callahan

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Names: Callahan, Maureen (Journalist) author.

Title: American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century / Maureen Callahan.

Description: New York : Viking, 2019. | Identifiers: LCCN 2018058203 (print) | LCCN 2019016403 (ebook) | ISBN 9780698191068 (ebook) | ISBN 9780525428640 (hardback)

Subjects: LCSH: Keyes, Israel. | Serial murderersUnited StatesBiography. | BISAC: TRUE CRIME / Murder / Serial Killers. | TRUE CRIME / Murder / General. | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws.

Classification: LCC HV6248.K44 (ebook) | LCC HV6248.K44 C35 2019 (print) | DDC 364.152/32092dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018058203

Cover design: Ervin Serrano

Cover images: (Israel Keyes) FBI; (paper tear) zimmytws / Getty Images; (street) Jon Shireman / Getty Images

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CONTENTS

To the victims and their families, known and unknown.

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Sherlock Holmes

PREFACE

The rarest form of murder is serial. Despite what we see on CSI or Mindhunter or the films and procedurals that dominate popular culture, people who kill randomly and for no reason are extremely uncommon. Its why they loom so large in our collective mindscape.

Its also why many of us think we know of every such American killer.

But the subject of this book was unlike anything the FBI had ever encountered. He was a new kind of monster, likely responsible for the greatest string of unsolved disappearances and murders in modern American history.

And you have probably never heard of him.

AUTHORS NOTE

This book is based on hundreds of hours of interviews with most of the special agents on this case. Passages where someones thoughts are described are based on information they gave directly.

In some cases, FBI interrogations have been condensed and edited for clarity.

PART I
ONE On the side of a four-lane road obscured by snowdrifts five feet high sat - photo 3
ONE

On the side of a four-lane road, obscured by snowdrifts five feet high, sat a small coffee kiosk, its bright teal paint vibrant against the asphalt and gray big-box stores. Drivers passing by could see the familiar top peeking above the piles of snow, this cheerful but lonely little shack.

The night before, eighteen-year-old Samantha Koenig had been working this kiosk alone. Now she had vanished. She had been on the job for less than a month.

She was reported missing the morning of Thursday, February 2, 2012, by the first barista to show up at the coffee kiosk that day. That barista felt something was not rightSamantha was usually very responsible about closing the kiosk properly, but this morning things were out of place and the previous days take was gone.

What little the Anchorage Police Department had learned about Samantha in one day left them with almost no leads. She was a popular high school senior who sometimes cut class and maybe had a history with drugs. She got along with everyone, not just the cool kids. She had two main people in her life: her boyfriend, Duane, who shed been dating for almost a year, and her single father, James.

So: What to make of this scene? Yes, Samantha could have been kidnapped, but to investigators, it seemed more likely that she had gone off on her own. The police found no signs of a struggle. Inside the kiosk was a panic button, and Samantha hadnt hit it. Shed been using her cell phone before and after she had gone missingfighting with Duane, texting him to leave her alone, fighting over her certainty he was cheating on her.

Then again, she had also called her dad, asking him to stop by the kiosk with some dinner.

Why do that if she was planning to run away?

To the sergeant of the Anchorage Police Department, this seemed like a good test run for field training a novice. He decided to give the case to Detective Monique Doll, a third-generation cop, thirty-five years old, working her first day in homicide. Doll had spent ten years in narcotics, four of those undercover with the DEA. She had a lot to recommend her.

Doll stood out, too, as one of the most glamorous officers in Anchorage. She looked like her name, blonde and beautiful, though she answered to the androgynous nickname Miki. She was married to another star at APD, the handsome Justin Doll, and they were something of a local power couple.

So the sergeant told Doll: Youre lead on this. Suspicious circumstance, he called it.


Across town, FBI Special Agent Steve Payne was tying up a drug case when a friend at the police department called. This is common practice in Anchorage, a big city that runs like a small town. Cops, FBI agents, defense lawyers, prosecutors, judgeseveryone knows everyone. It is the paradox of being Alaskan: This state is home to rugged individualists who nonetheless know there will come a time, amid the cold, unpitying winters, when they will need help.

Payne was told that an eighteen-year-old girl had disappeared early the night before and had sent some angry texts to her boyfriend. One emerging theory had Samantha stealing the days take to fund a day or two off on her own. Happened in Anchorage all the time.

Yet Payne wasnt so sure. Planning to disappear requires long-range strategy and sophistication. Samantha seemed like a young girl with very little money. Payne was a regular at these roadside coffee kiosks and could only guess how little the baristas were paid, these young girls who often worked alone, were made to wear bikinis in the summer. It was not an easy life.

Besides, where would a teenage girl go by herself on a dark and freezing Wednesday night? The weather had been brutal, just over 30 degrees, snow covering the ground. Samantha didnt have her pickup truck that night; her boyfriend Duane did. Anchorage isnt a walkable city. Samantha just wandering off, alone and on foot, made no sense. If she had gone to a friends house, as shed told Duane in texts last night, chances were the police would already have found her.

He offered to help.

Weve got enough people, came the reply. We think we know what this is.

Payne hung up. This didnt sit right. As he well knew, the first rule of any investigation was to keep an open mind. You didnt try to fit a personal theory to a possible crime.

He had heard that the police never even taped off the kiosk earlier that morning, when Samantha was reported missing, and her fellow barista then spent the morning serving customers. If the kiosk was in fact a crime scene, it had already been contaminated.

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