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American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

di Maureen Callahan

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Biography & Autobiography. True Crime. Nonfiction. HTML:INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
An Amazon ??Best Book of 2019?
Washington Post ??10 Books To Read in July?
Los Angeles Times ??Seven Highly Anticipated Books for Summer Reading?
USA Today ??20 of the Season??s Hottest New Books?
New York Post ??25 Best Beach Reads of 2019 You Need to Pre-Order Now?

A Bustle ??The Best New True Crime Books You Can Read Right Now?

??Maureen Callahan??s deft reporting and stylish writing have created one of the all-time-great serial-killer books: sensitive, chilling, and completely impossible to put down.? ??Ada Calhoun, author of St. Marks Is Dead

Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-known; they echo in the news and in public consciousness. But most people have never heard of Israel Keyes, one of the most ambitious and terrifying serial killers in modern history. The FBI considered his behavior unprecedented. Described by a prosecutor as "a force of pure evil," Keyes was a predator who struck all over the United States. He buried "kill kits"??cash, weapons, and body-disposal tools??in remote locations across the country. Over the course of fourteen years, Keyes would fly to a city, rent a car, and drive thousands of miles in order to use his kits. He would break into a stranger's house, abduct his victims in broad daylight, and kill and dispose of them in mere hours. And then he would return home to Alaska, resuming life as a quiet, reliable construction worker devoted to his only daughter.
When journalist Maureen Callahan first heard about Israel Keyes in 2012, she was captivated by how a killer of this magnitude could go undetected by law enforcement for over a decade. And so began a project that consumed her for the next several years??uncovering the true story behind how the FBI ultimately caught Israel Keyes, and trying to understand what it means for a killer like Keyes to exist. A killer who left a path of monstrous, randomly committed crimes in his wake??many of which remain unsolved to this day.
American Predator is the ambitious culmination of years of interviews with key figures in law enforcement and in Keyes's life, and research uncovered from classified FBI files. Callahan takes us on a journey into the chilling, nightmarish mind of a relentless
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    DEVIL IN THE DARKNESS: The True Story of Serial Killer Israel Keyes di JT Hunter (ijustgetbored)
    ijustgetbored: Callahan includes this book in her bibliography and uses some of the same material Hunter did. Readers who are interested in Keyes will find further information in Hunter's book. Hunter focuses more on Keyes's life and relationships, whereas Callahan goes more into the interrogations.… (altro)
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A terrifying look into the life of Israel Keyes, his victims, and the way that he was ultimately captured.

All I know is that I will never go to a coffee kiosk in Anchorage, Alaska ... ever. ( )
  cbwalsh | Sep 13, 2023 |
I've never heard of this guy? And he killed people all over the country and maybe all over the world? This should have been a really chilling, terrible story, but it was told very drily and all after the capture of the killer. It's still very readable because of the slow unraveling of details during the investigation. I wish the incompetence and corruption of the Anchorage police and prison were covered more, that seemed like a really important detail tacked on in the last pages. So while this is no I'll Be Gone in the Dark, it's still a great true crime chronicling. ( )
  KallieGrace | Jun 8, 2023 |
American Predator (2019) by Maureen Callahan. This is a true life telling of “The hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century.” Author describes Israel Keyes and law enforcement's bungling of his case and she tells it in a most neutral way. The story was horrifying and one wonders what or when it could happen to someone we know. ( )
  buffalogr | May 17, 2023 |
For as much as I was anticipating this book I was not impressed with it. Israel Keyes was certainly a very disturbed individual but he played law enforcement the whole way through. He made a lot of demands to protect his identity for the "sake of his daughter" but in return law enforcement essentially got nothing. The prosecutor played the case extremely poorly and careless but no one could stop him. Considering this took place in the 21st century one would think this kind of carelessness would not have been allowed to continue. I'm glad I read it (I guess) but I would not recommend it to anyone. ( )
  TLL6830 | Feb 27, 2023 |
CW: descriptions of animal killing, rape, murder, suicide details, descriptions of bloody scenes and dead bodies

Well that was quite traumatic in parts but that's to be expected in a book about a serial killer.

This is one of the first true crime books I have read so I didn't really know what to expect. Not knowing anything about this killer worked in my favour as it was all new information to me. I have to say I thought it was utterly disturbing how wrong detectives and police got things throughout this investigation. An interesting look into the mind of a serial killer but I wasn't blown away by this book. ( )
  Mrs_Tapsell_Bookzone | Feb 14, 2023 |
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Biography & Autobiography. True Crime. Nonfiction. HTML:INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
An Amazon ??Best Book of 2019?
Washington Post ??10 Books To Read in July?
Los Angeles Times ??Seven Highly Anticipated Books for Summer Reading?
USA Today ??20 of the Season??s Hottest New Books?
New York Post ??25 Best Beach Reads of 2019 You Need to Pre-Order Now?

A Bustle ??The Best New True Crime Books You Can Read Right Now?

??Maureen Callahan??s deft reporting and stylish writing have created one of the all-time-great serial-killer books: sensitive, chilling, and completely impossible to put down.? ??Ada Calhoun, author of St. Marks Is Dead

Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-known; they echo in the news and in public consciousness. But most people have never heard of Israel Keyes, one of the most ambitious and terrifying serial killers in modern history. The FBI considered his behavior unprecedented. Described by a prosecutor as "a force of pure evil," Keyes was a predator who struck all over the United States. He buried "kill kits"??cash, weapons, and body-disposal tools??in remote locations across the country. Over the course of fourteen years, Keyes would fly to a city, rent a car, and drive thousands of miles in order to use his kits. He would break into a stranger's house, abduct his victims in broad daylight, and kill and dispose of them in mere hours. And then he would return home to Alaska, resuming life as a quiet, reliable construction worker devoted to his only daughter.
When journalist Maureen Callahan first heard about Israel Keyes in 2012, she was captivated by how a killer of this magnitude could go undetected by law enforcement for over a decade. And so began a project that consumed her for the next several years??uncovering the true story behind how the FBI ultimately caught Israel Keyes, and trying to understand what it means for a killer like Keyes to exist. A killer who left a path of monstrous, randomly committed crimes in his wake??many of which remain unsolved to this day.
American Predator is the ambitious culmination of years of interviews with key figures in law enforcement and in Keyes's life, and research uncovered from classified FBI files. Callahan takes us on a journey into the chilling, nightmarish mind of a relentless

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