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Keyes admitted to violent crimes as early as 1996, with the violent sexual assault of a teenage girl in oregon. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. He committed a long series of rapes and murders until his capture in 2012. Army and served at fort lewis, fort hood and in egypt until he was honorably discharged in 2000. Serial killers like ted bundy and jeffrey dahmer are mostly well known to the general public, but one serial killer, israel keyes, an organized and welltraveled predator, is likely not as well. American predator is a chilling, meticulous look into. Maureen callahans american predator is a bonechilling.
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