Ep. - 1475 - SATURDAY SERIES: KELSEY MAY VANDY
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Kate Casey
4.4 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Kate sits down with Kelsey May Vandy, who grew up alongside the family of serial killer Israel Keyes. Kelsey first captured Kate’s attention with a social post describing the moment she realized that a boy she once knew—a family friend—was, in fact, the notorious killer.
While the episode touches on Keyes’ background and disturbing criminal history, the conversation quickly shifts to Kelsey’s own remarkable story. Raised completely off the grid, Kelsey didn’t learn to read until high school, yet went on to attend college, build a career, marry, and begin a family—all while catching up to a world she had barely been exposed to as a child.
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| 0:43.6 | The amazing Kate Casey. |
| 0:48.5 | Welcome back for another episode of Reality Life with KKC and welcome back for this Saturday series episode. |
| 0:50.2 | There are stories that enter your life sideways. |
| 0:53.2 | You know them. |
| 0:54.1 | Quick flashes on social media, |
| 0:56.2 | passing mentions, things you expect to scroll past, but instead you find yourself pausing, |
| 1:01.7 | sometimes rereading, thinking about long after. Well, that's exactly what happened when I first came |
| 1:06.8 | across a social media post by today's guest Kelsey May Vandy. |
| 1:11.7 | In it, she talked about a moment of realization, one that would stop anyone in their tracks. |
| 1:16.9 | A boy that she grew up with, a family friend, someone she remembered from the orbit of her childhood, |
| 1:22.8 | had turned out to be a serial killer, and not just any killer, but Israel Keys. For those unfamiliar with |
| 1:30.0 | the case, Israel Keys is considered one of the most methodical, elusive, and chilling serial killers |
| 1:36.2 | in modern American history. Born in 1978, he grew up in rural Washington state in an intensely |
| 1:43.6 | isolated off-the-grid environment. |
| 1:46.7 | Over the years, he drifted through the military, various jobs, and multiple states, |
| 1:51.8 | all while building a double life that the FBI would later describe as organized, meticulous, and uniquely predatory. |
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