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Barista Strangled and Dismembered by Serial Killer, Israel Keyes
He put makeup on her corpse and sewed her eyelids open, then took a photo for her family.
Samantha Koenig was only 18 when she was kidnapped from the Common Grounds drive-thru coffee stand on Tudor Road in Anchorage, Alaska. After viscously murdering her in a secluded shed on his property, Israel Keyes, 34, used Samantha’s debit card in the state of Texas and was apprehended by police in 2012.
He admitted to investigators that Samantha wasn’t his only victim.
Background of a Killer
Israel Keyes was a father, contractor, and killer. He led a double life in Anchorage, murdering at least three people and possibly many more.
He is believed to have killed a minimum of 11 people.
To FBI investigators, Keyes confessed that as a teenager he had already made the decision to rape and murder. Interested in Satanism, he schemed a ritual killing of an innocent woman. He stated that he was standing along the Deschutes River one day and waited for a young woman at the back of a group of inner-tubers to float by. When she got close enough, he grabbed her, forced her into the public bathroom, tied her up, and raped her.
He had brought knives along to complete the ritual with and planned to choke her to death and leave her body in the toilet pit but admitted he was too timid at the time to go through with it and he let her go free.
Keyes was 20 years old when he joined the Army. When he came back from deployment, he became involved with a woman from Neah Bay, Washington and she soon became pregnant. However, after six years together, the couple broke up and Keyes started dating someone new. He moved his daughter and new girlfriend with him to Anchorage in 2007.
