Best of 2024: Israel Keyes Pt. 3
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What should listeners know before diving into this episode?
Due to the nature of this killer's crimes, listener discretion is advised. This episode includes discussions of rape, kidnapping, murder and suicide. Consider this when deciding how and when you'll listen. To get help on mental health and suicide, visit Spotify.com slash resources.
Who were Israel Keyes' known victims?
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.
What investigations are ongoing regarding Israel Keyes' possible other victims?
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 was a student at SUNY Albany. She had just transferred there. She'd been at another SUNY campus in New York. decided to switch to SUNY Albany. She grew up in Ballston Spa, which is outside of Saratoga Springs. And so she wanted to go back to the Albany area to be closer to her parents, but also to be closer to her boyfriend who was in the area. She was big into computers, loved writing poetry. She was really into horses. Even her mom said she was a little bit nerdy, but just a brilliant, really kind-hearted, thoughtful girl. Everyone I've talked to says she was just wise beyond her years, very mature, and just a very insightful, interrogating person.
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.
What's frustrating about Susie's case is we don't know where she was last seen. So she had been getting ready for midterms and so she wasn't really participating in any socializing. So she took the bus to her job at Cross Gates Mall and she got off and she walked out what is essentially an employee's only entrance and it leads into a loading bay, which is not super visible from the parking lot or the rest of the mall. And what she normally would have done is from there walk to the bus depot and take the bus back to her dorm.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What should listeners know before diving into this episode?
0:02–0:26
2
Who were Israel Keyes' known victims?
0:26–2:29
3
What investigations are ongoing regarding Israel Keyes' possible other victims?
2:29–5:22
4
What happened to Suzanne Lyall?
5:22–12:06
5
What evidence links Israel Keyes to Susanne Lyall's disappearance?
12:06–18:58
6
What are the details of the unsolved case of Jean Hyatt and Cami Volendroff?
18:58–23:01
7
What conclusions can we draw about Israel Keyes' criminal history and unsolved cases?
23:01–36:05