Welcome to the tenth episode of Wild Society!

This week’s case features the serial killer Israel Keyes. After using one of his victims’ debit cards around the country, Keyes was tracked down, arrested, and indicted for the murder of 18 year old Samantha Koenig. Keyes would confess to four murders but the FBI believes he had a total of eleven victims, based on the blood drawings they found in his jail cell.

In part two, we learn that nestled amongst the crowded streets of downtown Los Angeles lies one of the most famous hotels in the country… The Cecil Hotel. While one might think its famous for its glorious art deco architecture from the 1920s, or its early popularity amongst celebrities of the golden age of Hollywood, it is in fact known by most for its dark history of violence, murder, and suicide.


FBI page with timeline of Israel Keyes’ travel activity

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Israel Keyes Sources:

• FBI
• CBS News 48 Hours
• Biography
• Oxygen
• Peninsula Daily News
• Thought Co.
• King 5
• New York Post
• Wikipedia
• Devil in the Darkness - Book by JT Hunter
• American Predator - Book by Maureen Callahan

The Cecil Hotel Sources:

• All That’s Interesting
• Country Living
• Discovery
• Curbed Los Angeles
• Wikipedia
• Wikipedia
• Wikipedia
• The Elevator Game Wiki Fandom