Josh Hallmark
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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Over the course of six months in 2012, Israel Keyes gave FBI agents the names of three of his murder victims, Samantha Koenig and Bill and Lorraine Currier. He recounted the events of one of his first ever victims, a teenage girl he says he abducted and raped along the Deschutes River in Oregon sometime between 1996 and 1998. He claimed he intended to kill her, but didn't go through with it.
The FBI has since tried to identify this survivor. If they've succeeded, they haven't released any additional information to the public. And beyond that, investigators have only ever linked one other case to Israel Keyes, the 2009 disappearance of a New Jersey woman named Deborah Feldman. Deborah's remains still haven't been found, but the FBI believes she's the fourth victim of Israel Keyes.
The circumstances of her disappearance match statements Israel made about a victim he buried in New York. And like Samantha Koenig, her name was also found on Israel's computer. How many more victims did he have? There's only one person who knows for sure, and he ended his life in his prison cell back in December 2012.
But that hasn't stopped investigators from trying to connect more cold cases and bring closure to victims' families. Today, with the help of Josh Hallmark, we're discussing three missing person cases that he believes could be connected to Israel Keyes. I'm Vanessa Richardson, and this is Serial Killers, a Spotify podcast. You can find us here every Monday.
Be sure to check us out on Instagram at Serial Killers Podcast. And we'd love to hear from you. So if you're listening on the Spotify app, swipe up and give us your thoughts. This is the final part of our series on Israel Keys. In our last two episodes, we discussed Israel's confessions to the murders of Samantha Koenig and Lorraine and Bill Currier.
The FBI believes Israel may be responsible for more murders, but Israel's death in prison put an end to the confessions. Now, Josh Hallmark walks us through the unsolved murders he believes have the strongest links to Israel Keys. Stay with us. It's March 1998. Suzanne Susie Lyall is a 19-year-old college sophomore.
She works part-time at a video game and software store called Babbage's, located at the Crossgates Mall in Albany. On March 2nd, she takes a bus from campus to work, finishes her shift, and Josh says this is where the timeline gets confusing. According to the New York State Police, she catches a bus back to campus and arrives at the Collins Circle stop at SUNY Albany around 9.25 p.m.
She's less than a thousand feet from the campus's towering dorm buildings, and no one knows what happens to her from there. She's never seen again. But Josh isn't so sure that Susie got on the bus after work.
But Josh wonders whether they actually did see Susie that night.
Christopher Kunkel is a forensic psychologist and criminal investigative consultant who's been involved in Susie's case.
What's indisputable is that Susie never makes it back to her dorm that night.
Not technically a suspect, a person of interest. Others are considered over the course of the investigation, including Susie's boyfriend.
You'll remember the NamUs 45 from our first episode. NamUs is a national database for missing people. The FBI found photos of people of all ages, races, and backgrounds on Israel's computer, some alongside missing person flyers and news articles about disappearances. When they ran the photos and names through the NamUs database and found 45 matches, Susie was one of those matches.
Israel, it seemed, had taken an interest in her case.
The woman says the man stared at her as she put an item she purchased in her car. In an otherwise empty parking lot, he stood uncomfortably close and he asked her strange questions.
As the coincidences piled up, Josh found he wasn't alone in his thinking.
And Josh says that something happens on the 15th anniversary of Susie's disappearance. Her name trends on Google, which isn't necessarily strange. The anniversary could explain the spike in press coverage. But of all places, Susie's name trends in Houston, Texas, at a time we know Israel was in Texas.
Working against the theory that Israel had a hand in Susie's disappearance is the fact that he once told the FBI that he didn't kill anyone until after he joined the military. And as Josh mentioned, Susie disappeared beforehand.
implying he had in fact killed before and stopped after he registered, at an enlistment office located just one mile away from Susie's campus. If you have information related to Suzanne Lyle's disappearance, contact the New York State Police at 518-783-3212 or submit an anonymous tip to your local FBI office.
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