Post by hi224 on May 7, 2019 20:10:22 GMT
I apologize in advance if what I’m about to write has been brought up before, but yesterday I was scrolling through the list of available episodes of the Unresolved podcast and came across an early podcast on Israel Keyes and decided to give it a listen. I really like this podcast in general, but stopped listening a little more than halfway through this episode because I started to have the same reaction that I always have whenever I explore Keyes’ history:
How do we know that he committed all of the crimes that he said that he did? I had listened to half the podcast and the host had reported no verified crime. Most of the information on Keyes’ crimes seems to come from Keyes himself, given when he was in police custody. I definitely think that he killed his last victim, but I’m not so sure about anything else. Does anyone know of any independent sources that actually verify his crimes? Has the FBI or any other law enforcement body ever issued a statement after Keyes’ death confirming some of his alleged crimes?
Personally, I think that Keyes was a troubled person, to say the least, but I get the feeling that he was a serial killer “wannabe” for lack of a better word and, once he was in police custody, took the opportunity to make up a lot of crimes to make himself seem the equal of other well known criminals and, potentially, even smarter than them. His unwillingness to provide specific details about the crimes and his suicide further strengthen my opinion that most of them were made up.
So, yeah, I feel that Keyes decided that, once he was caught, to create an air of mysterious evil around himself and then kill himself before he could be questioned about any details that would have exposed his lies. But, hey, I could be wrong.
Are there any sources out there confirming his crimes? Thank you!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Keyes
How do we know that he committed all of the crimes that he said that he did? I had listened to half the podcast and the host had reported no verified crime. Most of the information on Keyes’ crimes seems to come from Keyes himself, given when he was in police custody. I definitely think that he killed his last victim, but I’m not so sure about anything else. Does anyone know of any independent sources that actually verify his crimes? Has the FBI or any other law enforcement body ever issued a statement after Keyes’ death confirming some of his alleged crimes?
Personally, I think that Keyes was a troubled person, to say the least, but I get the feeling that he was a serial killer “wannabe” for lack of a better word and, once he was in police custody, took the opportunity to make up a lot of crimes to make himself seem the equal of other well known criminals and, potentially, even smarter than them. His unwillingness to provide specific details about the crimes and his suicide further strengthen my opinion that most of them were made up.
So, yeah, I feel that Keyes decided that, once he was caught, to create an air of mysterious evil around himself and then kill himself before he could be questioned about any details that would have exposed his lies. But, hey, I could be wrong.
Are there any sources out there confirming his crimes? Thank you!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Keyes