About Israel Keyes
Israel Keyes (January 7, 1978 – December 1, 2012) was an American serial killer, rapist, bank robber, burglar, arsonist, and kidnapper. Keyes is known to have murdered three people. Law enforcement investigators believe he committed a number of other violent crimes across the United States between the late 1990s and early 2012. Keyes was arrested in March 2012 in connection with the killing of a woman in Alaska, and died by suicide while awaiting trial. Evidence in his jail cell led the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to believe he may have killed eleven people. In his adolescence, Keyes's parents discovered a cache of guns he had stolen from a neighbor and forced him to return the guns and apologize. By his teenage years, Keyes had become a skilled carpenter, building his first wooden cabin at age 16. Keyes was awarded an Army Achievement Medal for his service as a gunner and assistant gunner from December 1998 until July 8, 2001. Keyes then became interested in Satanism, and planned to commit a ritualistic murder.
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