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I Wish You Were Here

He Hunted in Silence: The Story of Israel Keyes

I Wish You Were Here

Michelle Cuervo

True Crime

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

He buried murder kits all over the country… then came back years later to use them. In this episode, we dig into the dark mind of Israel Keyes — how he hunted strangers, stayed hidden for years, and why even the FBI still doesn’t know how many people he killed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:28.6

This guy, I hate when I have to sit down and try and think

0:33.6

how to describe a human being like this one.

0:35.6

Obviously, we talk about so many terrible,

0:38.0

terrible people and I sit down and I'm like, okay, how do I intro this? How do I prepare you guys

0:42.9

for the gruesome details you're about to hear? And there's never a correct word. I think we just

0:47.0

have to make one up. At this point, because there's not a word in the English language that

0:51.6

could amount to the kind of person that this guy is in the most

0:56.0

horrible way you can think of.

0:57.5

There's one part of this that's so gruesome and unbelievable.

1:01.7

You hear it and you think it's straight out of a scary movie and that specifically made me

1:05.9

want to cover this case.

1:06.8

But when looking into it, I was like baffled jaw on the floor, could not imagine everything that I was reading happened in real life.

1:14.3

I also wonder if I sound out of breath when I sit down and talk to you guys because usually I read through my entire script.

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