Josh Hallmark
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137 appearances
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1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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When Israel was 14, his sister had a cat and he took a bunch of his friends out into the woods. This is... Hi, I'm Josh Hallmark, the host and executive producer of True Crime Bullshit, the investigation into Israel Keyes. I've been researching Keyes for 10 years now and producing the show for five.
So when Israel was 14, at the time his sister had a cat and he took a bunch of his friends out into the woods and tied a rope around the cat and then tied it to a tree. and shot the cat and watch it tangle itself up around this tree as it tried to flee him.
And to Keyes, this was the funniest thing in the world, but as he looked around, he saw that his friends were horrified by it.
A, that he was different from others, but B, that he had to conceal these things that entertained him or amused him or that he perceived as different or other because people would judge him and respond poorly to it.
And I think that really fundamentally set up his criminal behavior for the future and how he in public would take on one identity that was separate and different from his true identity.
His mother changed religions like most people change their underwear.
which created a lot of tension between him and his parents.
He was one of the only white men in town. And when he first got there, people would call him white boy and they didn't respect him much because he was an outsider. But pretty quickly, he was able to endear himself to that community who were quite insular. And he was hired by the tribe and started beautifying the town.
And people really loved him and respected him and thought of him as a stand-up guy. Despite some incidents that occurred there, that probably would have otherwise raised some eyebrows.
He had endeared such great respect from folks that they overlooked a lot of his bad behaviors. People really just were proud of him and the work he had done.
He would disappear for periods of time, turn off his phone, not tell anyone where he was. He would occasionally get drunk and brand himself with, like, hangers. He would poke them in the fire and brand various things onto his body. But he was really good at picking partners and picking people in his life.
Most of his friends were coworkers, so they knew him first as this great employee, and then that would, I suspect, define how they saw him outside of that role. His first partner had some drug addiction issues. He was the one who was supporting her. She didn't have the frame of mind to really be worried about what he was doing. His later partner wasn't around often. She traveled for work.
From what I've heard, she considered him her boy toy. And I think there was this perceived power imbalance on her end. And when you are the one with more power, you aren't as concerned about the other people in your life.
I would say that there's a cultural problem with Americans, or maybe just people holding women accountable for the misdeeds done by the men in their lives.
A lot of us aren't looking into the minutia of the weird things that our partners do because we're just wrapped up in our own stuff and just trying to get through the day.
She studied other serial killers. He loved H.H. Holmes, idolized Ted Bundy. We suspect he may have alluded to the Golden State Killer several times. Obviously, he didn't know who he was, but he talked about his favorite serial killer being one who hadn't been caught yet.
From his predecessors, from his contemporaries, and he said that, you know, he learned from their mistakes. He read a lot of really terrible Dean Kuntz books and he learned from those or picked up tips from those. So he was very knowledgeable and actively consuming true crime like the rest of us, just for very different reasons, hopefully.
Samantha was, she was kind of overcoming, I think, a fairly normal troubled teenage period in her life and kind of getting her life back on track. She was saving money, she had big plans, She had just gotten a job at a drive-through coffee stand. Before that, she'd been working at a sports bar, which is important and strangely never makes it into the media surrounding Keys.
And then one night, as she was getting ready to close up the coffee stand... A man approaches the window wearing a ski mask.
And while she was making it, climbed through the window and abducted her from the coffee stand.
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