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Dec 2024
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Best of 2024: Israel Keyes Pt. 1

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As our Best of 2024 selection, we're featuring our three-part series on notorious serial killer Israel Keyes.


In 2012, Israel Keyes is arrested and charged with kidnapping and killing an 18-year-old barista. Prior to that, he’d had just one blemish on his criminal record: a DUI. He’s since been called “the most terrifying serial killer you’ve probably never heard of.”


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