Israel Keyes — Part 4: What He Took With Him

In Part 4 of our deep-dive into Israel Keyes, the violence stops moving — but the damage doesn’t.

After his arrest, Keyes enters federal custody not as a confessed murderer, but as a fraud suspect tied to a missing woman. What follows is not a breakdown, but a negotiation. Over months of FBI interviews, investigators attempt to determine the true scope of his crimes while Keyes carefully controls what he will — and will not — reveal.

In this episode, we walk step by step through:

•The early interviews conducted while Samantha Koenig was still officially missing

•The moment Keyes slips and admits to prior homicide

•How the FBI analytically builds the case beyond confirmed victims

•Why investigators believed he was responsible for at least 11 additional murders, with estimates reaching as high as 36

•The demands, conditions, and leverage that defined every exchange

•And the final act that permanently sealed the unknown

Part 4 is not about pursuit or confession.

It’s about information — how it was traded, withheld, and ultimately taken away.

This is the episode where the case becomes fixed in place, leaving behind unanswered questions, unnamed victims, and a record shaped as much by silence as by evidence.