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Wild Crime: Mask of Sanity | S4 Ep. 4

20/20

ABC News

True Crime

3.87.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Israel Keyes says he killed and demands being promised the death penalty before saying who. The guards find eleven skulls drawn in blood. Who are they? Before he answers, Keyes suddenly shocks everyone with a dramatic and unexpected twist. Originally Aired: 12/05/24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Deborah Roberts co-anchor of 2020.

0:06.0

It's time for the final episode of Wild Crime 11 Skulls.

0:10.5

It's called Mask of Sanity. The So it's May 23rd, 2012.

0:45.5

I was assigned to cover one of the court hearings of Israel Keys in federal court.

0:51.8

That means no video cameras.

0:56.1

I was expecting it to be super quick.

1:01.8

Literally one or two word answers of you say you're innocent or guilty. It turned it to something else.

1:08.4

He jumps from his seat and jumps over the barrier that's separating him from the rest of the gallery.

1:16.6

He jumped up and started sprinting essentially right towards me.

1:21.6

The courtroom broke into hysterics. People screaming, people running out of the courtroom.

1:31.3

The marshal grabbed him as he was going over the wall.

1:35.3

Within a few steps that he took, Jeff was right on him.

1:40.3

We took him to the ground and tasered him.

1:45.0

It made me very uncomfortable.

1:49.0

He was highly unpredictable and capable of doing almost anything without much notice.

1:54.0

Secrets in the wilderness.

2:00.0

Beautiful yet treacherous landscapes.

2:02.6

These are the stories of investigators who solve murders in wild places.

2:08.6

The Oh Oh Oh Without making a sound without making a sound,

2:45.0

where family and friends of Samantha Koenig were seated together.

2:50.0

It was unclear whether Keyes was attempting

2:51.7

to escape or if he was lunging for a particular person. I was very shook up. I just remember

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