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Below, you’ll find the article version of our Life in Full Detail e-book, including a free preview.
Introduction
Based on the initial work that went into our popular free documentary Israel Keyes Life in Detail, Israel Keyes Life in Full Detail is our exhaustive update, the definitive work on virtually every aspect of the Israel Keyes case.
Unlike many spree and serial killers, Keyes did not want notoriety for his crimes. In his own words:
My concern - the problem is nowadays, uh, the more stuff my name is attached to the more likely it is that somebody’s gonna try to do some kinda stupid freaking TV special or, you know - you know how it is. Nowadays like with all this true crime bullshit that people are obsessed with and that’s, uh - I’m not even so concerned at this point about, uh, you know, ‘cause so far I feel like we have been able to work within the guidelines of what we both said we would.
Uh, but I’m - I’m, yeah, I am concerned about that. About someone connecting the dots on this… [emphasis added]
- Israel Keyes in an FBI interrogation, May 29, 2012
There is an old aphorism famously referenced by Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis in a 1913 Harper’s Weekly article entitled “What Publicity Can Do.”
The aphorism is, “Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants,” usually rendered, “Sunlight is the best disinfectant.”
Below, in the interest of Keyes being concerned about “someone connecting the dots,” you will find every word that Life in Full Detail was based on, based on my own notes, along with virtually every piece of evidence I have uncovered in this case, including from the FBI, the Essex PD, and the Alaska PD - all of the audio, video, and images that we have obtained via our record requests, much of which have never been published before.
We have redacted only a limited amount of evidence, including photographs out of respect for the victims and their families, and irrelevant documents ultimately unrelated to Keyes.
Our FULL collection of files can be found in our Israel Keyes Case Log:
Israel Keyes - Life in Full Detail
Israel Keyes, who the Federal Bureau of Investigations described as a true ambush predator, has also been called the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century. Israel Keyes was also a bank robber, an arsonist, a rapist, a necrophiliac, a murderer and has even been considered a domestic terrorist.
He is known as the traveling serial killer; we call him the Kill Kit killer for burying supplies known as “kill kits” in various states, some over a year in advance.
The now deceased serial killer was a military veteran, and a carpenter by trade, who started his own company called Keyes Construction where he specialized in building decks, kitchens and the like. He is also known for his love of Wild & Mild cigars, coffee, and peanut butter Snickers candy bars, which he repeatedly requested and/or demanded from the FBI during his interrogations.
Before his death, Israel Keyes created twelve different drawings, eleven of which were of skulls believed to represent his eleven victims. The twelfth painting is believed to represent Israel Keyes himself; it is of Baphomet, an Occult deity generally viewed as a symbol of Satanism. Keyes painted these with his own blood.
“We believe there are 11 victims total, and that is based primarily on what Keyes told us. He was evasive ... he was very evasive at times during interviews, and he told us when we tried to pin him down on a number that it was less than 12. But then there were things that he would say that led us to believe that by ‘less than 12,’ he simply meant 11, and so he was quick to correct us in interviews if we had something wrong.
There were several times where we just threw out statements like 'your 11 victims' and things like that and he didn’t correct us, so based on that and some additional things that he said, we believe the number is 11.”
- FBI Special Agent Jolene Goeden
“Israel Keyes had no remorse at all. He enjoyed what he did. He talked about enjoying what he did. He talked about, had he not been caught, what some of his future plans and what he would have done, which included continuing to do what he was doing, continuing to kidnap and murder people. So he had no remorse at all.”
- FBI Special Agent Jolene Goeden
