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Serial killer Israel Keyes is presumed to have killed 11 people between 2001 and 2012, though authorities have only definitively connected him to three murders. As calculating as he was cruel, Keyes typically traveled to different locations to select victims of opportunity rather than target a specific demographic. He buried weapons and other supplies ahead of time and financed his actions by working as a contractor and robbing banks. His uncharacteristic behavior after killing 18-year-old Samantha Koenig in Alaska led to his arrest in March 2012. His December 2012 death by suicide, before he could stand trial, left law enforcement with more questions than answers about his crimes. Israel Keyes was born in Cove, Utah, on January 7, 1978, as the second of 10 children born to Heidi and John Jeffrey Keyes. The couple didn’t believe in government interference, public schools, or modern medicine. Israel was 5 when his family left Utah for Colville, Washington. They lived isolated in the woods, where Keyes grew up without heat or electricity. While in Washington, Keyes’ parents left the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, became fundamentalist Christians, and joined a white supremacist church called the Ark. In the late 1990s, the family relocated to Maupin, Oregon. It was there that Keyes said he attacked his first victim, though he didn’t kill her. His family moved again, this time across the country to settle close to an Amish community in Maine. Growing up, Keyes broke into neighbors’ homes to steal guns, loved hunting, pursued “anything with a heartbeat,” and tortured animals—behavior that has been linked to psychopathy. Years later, while in custody, Keyes said, “I’ve known since I was 14 that… there were things that—that I thought were normal and that were OK that nobody else seemed to think were normal and OK. After a teenaged Keyes told his family he no longer shared their faith, he was evicted from the family home, and his younger siblings were told never to speak to him again. In 2000, Keyes became involved with a woman living on the Washington Makah Reservation. The next year, their daughter, whose name hasn’t been made public, was born. In July 2001, Keyes went to live with the mother of his child after being honorably discharged from the Army. He worked for the Makah Tribal Council in Neah Bay from 2001 to 2007.

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