Unidentified FBI Agent
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Wild Crime: You've Got Your Monster | S4 Ep. 2
Matanuska Lake is about 40 miles north of Anchorage. He picked this lake because of the depth and thought that he found a spot where it was 80 feet deep that he could put Samantha's remains. We're pretty close to the coordinates. I could see a clump of snow or something that was protruding from the snow. So I walked over to it and I knelt down and I removed the snow from the clump of ice.
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Wild Crime: You've Got Your Monster | S4 Ep. 2
And I was able to see a rectangle that had been cut out of the ice about this size. And it looked like it had been cut with a chainsaw. So at that time I knew that this was the location that Israel Keyes had disposed of Samantha Koenig's remains. We brought some APD officers out here to secure the scene and watch it until we could get the FBI's dive team here.
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Wild Crime: You've Got Your Monster | S4 Ep. 2
She had been dismembered. And those remains were brought up to the surface. I was able to identify the remains as being Samantha Koenig.
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Wild Crime: You've Got Your Monster | S4 Ep. 2
He didn't know who was going to be there before he got there. He assumed it would be a girl, a young girl that worked there. But he didn't know for sure.
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Wild Crime: You've Got Your Monster | S4 Ep. 2
After picking up the cell phone, Israel takes her back to his house.
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Wild Crime: You've Got Your Monster | S4 Ep. 2
comes back to the shed, and he gets the PIN number and he scratches it in the debit card. He then leaves, again, leaves Samantha in the shed. He drives to the closest ATM to his house, and he confirms that the PIN number that Samantha gave him works on the debit card.
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Wild Crime: You've Got Your Monster | S4 Ep. 2
He's seemingly out of control, taking very high risks. But I think that the higher the risk, the higher adrenaline and the more satisfaction he got in doing what it was that he was doing. It's now at least 3.30 in the morning. Israel gets back to the house after confirming that the PIN number works. And he's now going to fulfill his plan. She knew.
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Wild Crime: You've Got Your Monster | S4 Ep. 2
Israel told us that he sexually assaulted Samantha and then he strangled her to death.
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Wild Crime: You've Got Your Monster | S4 Ep. 2
He takes us to a map near Burlington, Vermont, in Essex, Vermont. We didn't know what he was gonna say.
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Wild Crime: You've Got Your Monster | S4 Ep. 2
The Special Assignment Unit officers made entry into the home. We then searched the house, still hoping that Samantha would be found alive. But we were then faced with the reality that Samantha's not in the house.
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Wild Crime: You've Got Your Monster | S4 Ep. 2
In front of the house, the first thing that I noticed that I see is the white truck parked in the driveway. It was clear that the truck matched the description of the truck that we had in the video at Home Depot. It appeared to me obvious that that lumber rack and toolbox had been removed at some point in time recently and put back on. We also found a silver Nissan Xterra SUV.
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Wild Crime: You've Got Your Monster | S4 Ep. 2
which matched the description of the vehicle that was used during one of the ATM withdrawals.
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Wild Crime: You've Got Your Monster | S4 Ep. 2
And then our crime scene team was called out and did a complete investigation in the house. The crime scene team seized anything that could hold digital information.
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Wild Crime: You've Got Your Monster | S4 Ep. 2
We found out that Israel Keyes was a single father who had a daughter, lived with a girlfriend, had a contracting business in Anchorage. No run-ins with the law. There wasn't any indication that he was capable of doing something like this.
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Wild Crime: You've Got Your Monster | S4 Ep. 2
In the grand scheme of things, that's a pretty small offense. He's looking at 18 months in jail maybe for that federal access device charge. But we were going to find physical evidence at his house. We were going to find digital evidence on his computers.
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Wild Crime: You've Got Your Monster | S4 Ep. 2
We were going to find cell phone information that would lead us in the direction that he was responsible for in the kidnapping of Samantha Koenig. And I think he knew that. In fact, Israel's defense attorney had a discussion about him being willing to at least come to the table and talk with law enforcement about the disappearance of Samantha Koenig. It's 1548 by my watch. It's March 30th.
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Wild Crime: You've Got Your Monster | S4 Ep. 2
Okay. He directed us north out of Anchorage towards the Matanuska Valley, How many yards off the shoreline or feet off the shoreline? Right there. And he pointed to a spot on the lake.
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Wild Crime: You've Got Your Monster | S4 Ep. 2
And Israel Keyes said that is where we would find Samantha Koenig.
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Wild Crime: You've Got Your Monster | S4 Ep. 2
It was devastating. that we have to still continue to concentrate and move towards the recovery of Samantha and coming up with some answers for her family and for law enforcement as to what happened to her. After our interview with Israel Keys where he identified Matanuska Lake, I drove out here with the latitude, longitude coordinates that we took off the map that he had given us.