
Israel Keyes - Serial Killer Documentary II - Squirrels
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08/28/23 • 27 min
Part 2 of 10. Plastic-Wrap and Draino: the Serial Killer on LSD and in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
How many people has Israel Keyes murdered? The secretive serial killer was driven to be the most effective killer possible. But not for notoriety. In part 2 of 10 we explore FBI interviews with former friends he’d served with in the military- in Egypt, Israel, Panama, and the United States. His so-called killing code of not harming children or mothers. The serial killer’s experimentation with LSD, exploration of homosexuality, and fashioning himself more as a bank robber than murderer. His double-life. Conversion to Atheism. And, burning to the ground a drunk Mormon’s church, and murdering the want-to-be true-crime novelist slowly to show her “what true-crime really is up-close.”
Patreon.com/grimphilly for Israel Keyes episodes 9 and 10--the last two episodes in this serial killer series--and for your kind support of this podcast.
grimphilly.com for back episodes and for live events including daily and nightly history tours and true-crime walking tours in Philadelphia.
Part 2 of 10. Plastic-Wrap and Draino: the Serial Killer on LSD and in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
How many people has Israel Keyes murdered? The secretive serial killer was driven to be the most effective killer possible. But not for notoriety. In part 2 of 10 we explore FBI interviews with former friends he’d served with in the military- in Egypt, Israel, Panama, and the United States. His so-called killing code of not harming children or mothers. The serial killer’s experimentation with LSD, exploration of homosexuality, and fashioning himself more as a bank robber than murderer. His double-life. Conversion to Atheism. And, burning to the ground a drunk Mormon’s church, and murdering the want-to-be true-crime novelist slowly to show her “what true-crime really is up-close.”
Patreon.com/grimphilly for Israel Keyes episodes 9 and 10--the last two episodes in this serial killer series--and for your kind support of this podcast.
grimphilly.com for back episodes and for live events including daily and nightly history tours and true-crime walking tours in Philadelphia.
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Israel Keyes - Serial Killer Documentary I - Enigma
1 of 10. The most enigmatic modern killer the FBI has yet to encounter is: Israel Keyes. Funding secret killings with money from his bank robberies; Israel Keyes maintained fake passports, snuck over the Canadian and Mexican borders for killings there, and stashed kill-kits with silencers, weapons, plastic-wrap, and restraints across the continental United States that he would wait a decade to return to - flying throughout the country and internationally to kill for thrill in meticulously planned locations thousands of miles from one-another. Israel was married, was entrepreneurial and owned a business, maintained friendships and an upstanding reputation in the communities where he lived. And was remembered most of all as a good friend, successful businessman, a good husband, and dotting father by those who knew him. Professor of World History Joe Wojie is joined by American Historians Britnee Smith and Ted Sisco; Psychologist and Criminal Profiler Dr. Kim, Ethics Professor Tim Collins, and Historian Morgan Haller in this first of ten parts comprehensive mini-series that pulls together 5,000 pages of FBI files; multiple-state’s sheriff, SWAT, and marshal reports, as well as forensic evidence, eye-witness, and tip-line transcripts to paint a picture of the most secretive and dangerous contemporary killer of our time. Israel Keyes’ own words from FBI interrogations are used. Psychoanalysis, victimology, and methodology are pieced together. This is amongst the most comprehensive and thought-provoking analysis of the killer to be ever compiled.
Patreon.com/grimphilly for Israel Keyes episodes 9 and 10 and for your kind support of this podcast.
grimphilly.com for back episodes and for live events including daily and nightly history tours and true-crime walking tours in Philadelphia.
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Israel Keyes - Serial Killer Documentary III - Mother
Part 3 of 10. Skulls, cats, white supremacist traveling hippies, Insane Clown Posse, and the long dick of the law are discussed in the context of psychoanalysis and murder with serial killer israel keyes. Cults old and new. Text messaging ransom notes. Breaking out of leg-irons with dental-floss and a paperclip. And the serial killer grappling with feelings of homosexuality and desires to f#k and kill mother.
Patreon.com/grimphilly to access Israel Keyes episodes 9 and 10--the last two episodes in this serial killer series--and for your kind support of this podcast.
GrimPhilly.com for back episodes of grim philly podcast and for live events including daily and nightly history tours, ghost tours, and true-crime walking tours in Philadelphia.
Many thanks to also Anuj Agarwal and the panelists at Feedspot for including us in the new rankings in forth position for best Philadelphia history podcasts here https://podcasts.feedspot.com/philadelphia_history_podcasts/
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