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Jessica Jinkens's avatar

Can we see the video of Keyes when he's first in the interagration room? Before he's in the orange jump suit?

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CrimeCultureMedia's avatar

There's more coming

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Jessica Jinkens's avatar

Thank you!

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araiyah's avatar

will the full collection of evidence be free?

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CrimeCultureMedia's avatar

We are releasing a lot of the evidence for free but there's way too much to release the way you're suggesting. There is also a lot of evidence we haven't gotten yet that will likely cost thousands of dollars in legal fees to acquire, as we discussed in our Evidentiary Record article:

https://www.crimecult.com/p/israel-keyes-evidentiary-record

Paid subscribers will be able to easily download all the evidence we've collected and organized here at CrimeCult.com

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Justine's avatar
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Also it’s so cray that he was in the front seat with the officer on the way to the station??????

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CrimeCultureMedia's avatar

There appears to be no partition separating the front and rear seats; it was likely a safety measure for the officer so that Keyes wasn't behind him while he drove.

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Justine's avatar

This is so wild to see. Thank you SOOOO much for your hard work!!

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Josh Jones's avatar

I was one of those when first learning about Keyes (about 2018/2019?) and thinking he was a killing machine and killed significantly more than the 11 always being told.

As times moves on and the more nuanced the information has come out and I began doubting that narrative. Although he got away with it, he was incredibly clumsy with the Curriers, Lorraine even escaping. He was like trying to herd cats that night and barely managed.

The same with Samantha, his whole operation was hokey at best. His struggle with the Polaroid didn’t convince me he was a seasoned murderer, let alone using her ATM card and not realizing it could be traced.

His awkwardness with the Deschutes victim and the supposed weird encounter with the prostitute showed he wasn’t as brazen as he’s made out to be.

The Texas interviews are definitely insightful into furthering the crumbling mythos of Keyes

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CrimeCultureMedia's avatar

The pathology that drives the behavior comes with a side of contemptuous arrogance - it's not so much that he didn't realize he was leaving evidence behind as it is that people are so far below him that he believes it doesn't matter.

There may also be some some self sabotage at play; contrary to the idea psychopaths don't feel shame, it would be more accurate to say that they're not aware of their feelings of shame.

People like Keyes are in actuality driven by intense feelings of shame which they don't know how to handle, so their minds ignore it and it then comes out in other ways.

That's how they make what normal people think of as "obvious mistakes" and why they tend to be clumsy the way you point out (while pretending they're the opposite).

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Josh Jones's avatar

It’s just interesting he struggles to finds a Polaroid camera and has an internal conflict over how to present the ransom photo, ultimately just using a scanner which he could have done with any other photo but disregards the thought the ATM withdrawals could be traced.

But in that same scenario he was thoughtful enough to cross county and state lines and/or to create distance between the crime and his whereabouts.

He ultimately had a ton of dumb luck. A couple examples being he left the Curriers for anyone to possibly find just snooping around the abandoned house, let alone the realtor or the clean up crew. (It’s possible he moved them at a later time too) and the interaction with Sam’s BF etc.

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CrimeCultureMedia's avatar

Totally agree. Lots of inconsistency and endless amounts of dumb luck.

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Jeff's avatar

What a sobering video. The nuance, his mannerisms and his obvious anxiety when poorly answering the questions at times...this felt like JUSTICE every second of the way - lives obviously saved as a result. THIS is why those of us who choose to go into the field of law enforcement and forensics must hunt the darkness out there, despite the toll it can take upon the psyche. Thank you for this and all your tireless efforts to shine a light on Keyes.

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CrimeCultureMedia's avatar

Thank you. We think of it as a public service - people like Keyes deserve to be seen for what they are, not mythologized as some kind of super humans. They are pathetic, broken, sad characters.

The true super humans are the people who, as you put it, hunt the darkness without blinking, despite the toll it takes.

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gillian's avatar

Thank you for this it's still hard to believe he got the last laugh when he did himself in .

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CrimeCultureMedia's avatar

If it helps, he didn't. It was an act of despair - he could not stand the thought of himself being revealed to the world.

He may have even believed the government was dragging things out to torment him, based on some comments he made in his interrogations.

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