# 0703 | Little Oklahoma

An episode of [True Crime Bullsh**: The Israel Keyes Investigation](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1443666680), 13 Oct 2025, 37 min.

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Josh follows up on a new tip from FBI Special Agent Ted Halla. It takes him to familiar ground, both literally and in cases he's looked into previously. This new tip, with some research and fascinating conversations, compels Josh to some interesting and shocking conclusions. This episode was written, researched, edited, and produced by Josh Hallmark. Additional research by: Shana Wilensky, Michelle Tooker, and Jordan Taylor. This is a Studio BOTH/AND production: www.truecrimebullshit.com / bothand.fyi For an ad-free experience: www.patreon.com/studiobothand SPONSORS: • Uncommon Goods: Get 15% off at www.UncommonGoods.com/TCBS • Quince: Get free shipping at www.Quince.com/TCBS • BetterHelp: Get 10% off your first month at www.BetterHelp.com/TCB Music by: Radical Face, Odyssey, and 9 Moons. Featured song by: Hannah Cohen. Patreon producers: Amelia Hancock, Amy Basil, Annette L, Asch Fish, Becky C, Benjamin Cioppa-Fong, Casey Jensen-Richardson, Christina Sisson, Corey Deatly, Dale Akstin, Drew Vipond, Heather Horton-Whedon, Jen Jacobi, Jillian Natale, Kathleen Studer, DeWayne C, Kendall C, Lana Halladay, Nicole and Dennis Henry, Pink, SC, Bethany Heintz, Michael Randall, Ashley Kupin, Carrie, Kathy Nation, Emily Paine, Megan Inman, Lauren Ferri, Carol, Robin, Shelly, Sabrina Abbott, Tuesdi Woodworth, Zack Ignatowicz Warren, Trista, John Comrie, Jordan Taylor, Kate Lussier, Tori Myers, Nichole, and Lydia Rodarte Quayle. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-bullsh-the-israel-keyes-investigation--3588169/support.

## Transcript

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[0:36] Speaker 2: There's a it's a private residence, but it's near Little Oklahoma,
[0:41] Speaker 2: which I never heard about until this particular time. But
[0:44] Speaker 2: it's an area in Port Angelas, so you can find
[0:46] Speaker 2: it on the map to kind of get an overview
[0:48] Speaker 2: of like, Okay, it's this area. I can't reveal the
[0:51] Speaker 2: address or anything like that, but some of the cold
[0:54] Speaker 2: case detectives were following up on some leads and stuff
[0:57] Speaker 2: and found this particular resident is it was associated with
[1:02] Speaker 2: a friend of Keys, and so interviewing this couple that
[1:06] Speaker 2: owned the residents, they learned that, yeah, he's had his
[1:08] Speaker 2: boat in there and was doing a lot of his
[1:10] Speaker 2: boat work at that time at this particular location, which was.
[1:15] Speaker 3: New to us.
[1:15] Speaker 2: We assumed he had hauled the boat all the way
[1:17] Speaker 2: to Nia Bay and was doing a lot of the
[1:20] Speaker 2: work on it there. Lor Angels actually makes a lot
[1:22] Speaker 2: of sense because that's where all the stores are where
[1:24] Speaker 2: he would have, you know, gone to get supplies and
[1:27] Speaker 2: stuff to fix up the boat. So it makes perfect sense.
[1:30] Speaker 2: But again another data point where Okay, here's a location
[1:33] Speaker 2: where you know he was working on his boat and
[1:35] Speaker 2: had access to and so we've been invited to go
[1:39] Speaker 2: out and take a look at the area in the
[1:41] Speaker 2: future and just check it out for whatever may becomes
[1:44] Speaker 2: significant from that. But that was something new that we
[1:47] Speaker 2: learned from this cold case that's been working on this.
[1:54] Speaker 1: I've never been under any illusion about my relationship with
[1:57] Speaker 1: Hula and the Greater FBI. I'm a tool to them.
[2:01] Speaker 1: He'll tell me just enough to get me working on something,
[2:05] Speaker 1: to connect the dots, do the leg work, find the
[2:08] Speaker 1: right people, incite the right tips and questions. The relationship
[2:13] Speaker 1: only appears symbiotic. So when Halla told me about this
[2:18] Speaker 1: house in Little Oklahoma, I was pretty certain he felt
[2:21] Speaker 1: it was important, but not necessarily the best use of
[2:25] Speaker 1: his limited time. But I'm happy to do the work
[2:30] Speaker 1: if it gets results. I believe the FBI or Haula
[2:34] Speaker 1: at a minimum, wants this case as close to solved
[2:38] Speaker 1: as it can be, and that's something we share. Whatever
[2:42] Speaker 1: solved may mean when it comes to Israel Keys. At
[2:47] Speaker 1: this point, I believe we know who ninety percent of
[2:51] Speaker 1: Keys as knowable victims are. That the evidence and information
[2:55] Speaker 1: we have points to specific people and incidents, and now
[3:01] Speaker 1: our main focus is to fill in the gaps, strengthen
[3:04] Speaker 1: our cases, get as close to confirmed as we can
[3:08] Speaker 1: with what little we have. And this boat house in
[3:11] Speaker 1: Port Angelis felt like a good lead to follow. This
[3:21] Speaker 1: is true crime bullshit. The Serialized Investigation into Israel Keys
[3:26] Speaker 1: Season seven, Episode three. Little Oklahoma Little Oklahoma is a
[3:39] Speaker 1: small and rural area in southeast Port Angelus. It's so rural,
[3:45] Speaker 1: in fact, that it's actually unincorporated Clallam County, not technically
[3:49] Speaker 1: within the city limits, and serviced by Clallam County rather
[3:53] Speaker 1: than the city itself. However, for postal and census reasons,
[3:58] Speaker 1: it's included as part of Port Angelus. Little Oklahoma surrounded
[4:04] Speaker 1: by the Olympic Mountains and their foothills to the west,
[4:07] Speaker 1: south and east to the north as wooded farmland. The
[4:11] Speaker 1: majority of the area roads or dirt roads or old
[4:14] Speaker 1: logging trails. It's within a mile of multiple campgrounds and trailheads,
[4:21] Speaker 1: and when I first Google mapped it, I immediately realized
[4:25] Speaker 1: its significance. It's where Kimberly lived when she and Keyes
[4:29] Speaker 1: started dating in or around late two thousand and four
[4:33] Speaker 1: until she moved to Alaska in two thousand and six.
[4:36] Speaker 1: It's where she was living when Keys got the Bayliner boat.
[4:43] Speaker 1: Staring at the map, I recalled a tip that came
[4:45] Speaker 1: into the FBI from Kim's former landlord on August nineteenth
[4:49] Speaker 1: of twenty thirteen. The tip's summary reads as follows. On
[4:54] Speaker 1: eight nineteen, twenty thirteen, Redacted called the Public Access Line
[4:58] Speaker 1: to report that Israel Keys was a visitor on her
[5:01] Speaker 1: property in Port Angelis, Washington. She reported that on her
[5:05] Speaker 1: property she had a rental home and Israel Keys dated
[5:08] Speaker 1: the girl who lived in that rental house from two
[5:10] Speaker 1: thousand and four to two thousand and six. She said
[5:13] Speaker 1: that Redacted rented the house from two thousand and four
[5:16] Speaker 1: to two thousand and six and Keys visited her several
[5:20] Speaker 1: times a month. She said that there is about a
[5:22] Speaker 1: two acre area behind the rental house that leads to
[5:25] Speaker 1: a creek. She said if the FBI wanted to look
[5:28] Speaker 1: on the property to just please contact her first because
[5:32] Speaker 1: there's a tenant living in the rental house.
[5:34] Speaker 4: Now.
[5:36] Speaker 1: The FBI's final pre assessment findings said this, The pollsbo
[5:40] Speaker 1: RA notes the caption matter, but at this time does
[5:43] Speaker 1: not see a need to search this property without other
[5:46] Speaker 1: indications that keys used the property for nefarious purposes.
[5:52] Speaker 5: He talked once about, ye, some of your friends may
[5:56] Speaker 5: have like unknowingly assisted you in some way. I've never
[6:01] Speaker 5: really understood how to take that comment. If it was,
[6:04] Speaker 5: you know, something like you know, we've seen that you're
[6:07] Speaker 5: not always one hundred percent honest on your time sheet,
[6:10] Speaker 5: and if it was something like your boss knowing you
[6:12] Speaker 5: were playing hooky or something like that, Is there anything
[6:16] Speaker 5: that you can tell us about it?
[6:23] Speaker 4: Oh?
[6:24] Speaker 3: There have been? Yeah. I mean, I nobody knows.
[6:37] Speaker 6: The reasons I would ask people to do things, or
[6:40] Speaker 6: the reasons I would give for why I was doing
[6:42] Speaker 6: them were seldom realistic with what was actually going on.
[6:54] Speaker 1: For a while, this new information sat on the back burner.
[6:59] Speaker 1: We had done of new leads from the new files
[7:02] Speaker 1: and my interviews with Haula, and we could only focus
[7:05] Speaker 1: on so many things at one time. But in that
[7:10] Speaker 1: time I happened to be on the Olympic Peninsula visiting family,
[7:16] Speaker 1: and so I made a point to drive out to
[7:17] Speaker 1: Little Oklahoma, among other places, not really knowing what I
[7:22] Speaker 1: was looking for or where I was going. We knew
[7:25] Speaker 1: that Kim had lived in the area, just not exactly where,
[7:28] Speaker 1: and we weren't even sure that the boat house was
[7:31] Speaker 1: on the same property that Kim was living in. Little
[7:36] Speaker 1: Oklahoma is rural flat lands. The houses in the area
[7:40] Speaker 1: are mostly on one to five acre plots. There's a
[7:44] Speaker 1: clear neighborhood, but with distance in trees between each house.
[7:48] Speaker 1: There were a lot of yard signs that painted a
[7:51] Speaker 1: fairly clear picture of the vibe there, don't tread on
[7:54] Speaker 1: me private property, shoot first, ask later, and so on.
[8:00] Speaker 1: I saw a few houses with large barns, but no
[8:03] Speaker 1: actual boat houses. It was off the beaten path, but
[8:07] Speaker 1: within a twenty minute drive of many of the places
[8:10] Speaker 1: that come up again and again in our investigation. Lake Crescent,
[8:15] Speaker 1: the Alwa Dam, Carlsborg Road and the Drive Through Coffee Stand,
[8:20] Speaker 1: Dungeness Forks Kitchen, Dick Road, Hurricane Coffee, the Burnt Hill
[8:25] Speaker 1: Shooting Range, and Hurricane Ridge. So I drove around, took
[8:31] Speaker 1: photos and videos, and then headed back for family gatherings.
[8:36] Speaker 1: But several weeks later the entire research team was in
[8:39] Speaker 1: the Berkshires for the summer studio sessions, and we started
[8:43] Speaker 1: looking back into this new information regarding Little Oklahoma. Within
[8:48] Speaker 1: fifteen minutes, we had the exact address, the property's MLS
[8:52] Speaker 1: information and history, Kimberly's address, and the homeowner's phone number.
[8:58] Speaker 1: The property is in a densely wood at the end
[9:01] Speaker 1: of a long driveway far off the street. It backs
[9:04] Speaker 1: up to a creek, and sure enough, there's an old
[9:07] Speaker 1: boat house on it among other outbuildings. And luckily for us,
[9:14] Speaker 1: the current homeowners are the same people who owned the
[9:16] Speaker 1: property back in two thousand and four, Kimberly's landlords and
[9:22] Speaker 1: so I called. Whenever I make these cold calls, I
[9:31] Speaker 1: expect to go straight to voicemail, but the homeowner, who
[9:34] Speaker 1: I'll call Guss for now, answered immediately. I introduced myself. Hi,
[9:40] Speaker 1: I'm an investigative reporter looking into a case and came
[9:43] Speaker 1: across your information in my files. He very riley responded,
[9:48] Speaker 1: and what case could that possibly be? We both laughed.
[9:53] Speaker 1: He confirmed that he and his wife owned and still
[9:56] Speaker 1: owned the property that kim lived on from December two
[9:59] Speaker 1: thousand and four till late two thousand and six, and
[10:02] Speaker 1: he confirmed that the property did in fact have a
[10:05] Speaker 1: boat house on it, one in which Israel Keys used
[10:09] Speaker 1: to work on his boat at some point. He said
[10:12] Speaker 1: that Keys had access to the boat house, but as
[10:15] Speaker 1: best he could tell, did not have a key to
[10:17] Speaker 1: any other buildings on the property, and that he knew
[10:20] Speaker 1: Keys had been on the property during times while Kim
[10:23] Speaker 1: was away working on his boat. He told me that
[10:30] Speaker 1: he and his wife had both met Keys on multiple
[10:33] Speaker 1: occasions and did not like him. His exact words were,
[10:37] Speaker 1: he gave us the creeps and we didn't trust him.
[10:41] Speaker 1: If we knew Keys was going to be on the property,
[10:44] Speaker 1: we would make efforts to be nearby so we could
[10:46] Speaker 1: keep an eye on him. Gus went on to tell
[10:50] Speaker 1: me that he'd called the FBI shortly after Keys was
[10:52] Speaker 1: arrested to tell them about his connection to the property
[10:56] Speaker 1: and give them access to search it, but he never
[11:00] Speaker 1: heard back and still hasn't heard back to this very day.
[11:06] Speaker 1: And then he volunteered something ominous that he believed and
[11:11] Speaker 1: still believes that Keys did something nefarious on his property,
[11:17] Speaker 1: that every time they've done work on the property over
[11:19] Speaker 1: the years, they've lived in absolute terror that they might
[11:23] Speaker 1: find human remains the team, and I knew of at
[11:30] Speaker 1: least two occasions when Keys worked on the boat, once
[11:34] Speaker 1: after he first got it, and a second time when
[11:36] Speaker 1: he had to replace the carpet.
[11:38] Speaker 3: Yeah, it doesn't look like anyone's been in there at
[11:40] Speaker 3: all since I.
[11:41] Speaker 6: I was surprised that how good the pulsary seemed like
[11:43] Speaker 6: it's in pretty good condition.
[11:44] Speaker 3: Still. Yeah, well it was all brand new. When was it?
[11:49] Speaker 6: That whole boat was gutted before I rebuilt it?
[11:53] Speaker 3: So why didn't you?
[11:55] Speaker 6: So you rebuilt it?
[11:56] Speaker 7: Like? It doesn't look like a nineteen eighty two boat
[11:58] Speaker 7: to me, That's why I.
[11:58] Speaker 6: Was, well, yeah, the the interior was trashed and I
[12:01] Speaker 6: got it, so it's all new seats and upholstery and
[12:03] Speaker 6: everything that makes sense.
[12:06] Speaker 3: And I think I had to replace some glass and
[12:09] Speaker 3: I don't know, just the carpeting and all that stuff.
[12:13] Speaker 6: I had to replaced the carpeting a couple of times,
[12:19] Speaker 6: at least on the back section.
[12:22] Speaker 7: Is that the brand new carpeting on the back section
[12:24] Speaker 7: now or is it being something that should be looked at?
[12:26] Speaker 6: Well, you might find stuff under the carpeting, but okay,
[12:29] Speaker 6: there was new carpet and then I got one on it.
[12:32] Speaker 3: So got it.
[12:35] Speaker 1: Okay, But this could mean there were more than two
[12:43] Speaker 1: times that Keys worked on that boat. He mentions working
[12:47] Speaker 1: on the boat after he first bought it, and again
[12:49] Speaker 1: when the motor died in June of two thousand and six.
[12:53] Speaker 1: He also mentions having to replace the carpet a couple
[12:56] Speaker 1: of times before tacitly laughing, And we can't say for
[13:01] Speaker 1: sure that the couple of times he replaced the carpet
[13:03] Speaker 1: are included in the repairs made at purchase and after
[13:07] Speaker 1: the motor died, or in addition to those repairs. We
[13:12] Speaker 1: started reviewing the timeline for occasions when Kimberly was out
[13:15] Speaker 1: of town and Keys was in the area and potentially
[13:18] Speaker 1: using the boat. Times when Keys could have been using
[13:22] Speaker 1: the boat house to make repairs or replace carpet while
[13:26] Speaker 1: kim was gone for several days or more. Times when
[13:32] Speaker 1: Keys could have been killing someone, dismembering a body, storing
[13:36] Speaker 1: a body, prepping a body for burial, and so on.
[13:44] Speaker 6: And then what about planning like the Washington State when
[13:47] Speaker 6: you had your boat out Do you remember those highly
[13:50] Speaker 6: planned organized Yeah, Washington was a lot easier in a
[13:56] Speaker 6: lot of ways, because once I lived out in Na Bay,
[14:03] Speaker 6: I knew all of Washington pretty well, and except I
[14:07] Speaker 6: was so isolated out there. Once you drive past Port Angelis,
[14:12] Speaker 6: it's like here in in the world anyways. So, m
[14:16] Speaker 6: what's that whole park? There's a hole set mountains right there,
[14:18] Speaker 6: right that temperates THEA Bay from Yeah, the Olympic Well,
[14:23] Speaker 6: there's the Olympic Grange Is.
[14:25] Speaker 3: There's mountains everywhere in there, but you don't really have
[14:29] Speaker 3: to go over any mountain passes or anything to Seattle,
[14:32] Speaker 3: but right right, no.
[14:33] Speaker 6: Not to get but there is that a parkman or oh, yeah,
[14:36] Speaker 6: in this area, Yeah, there's Once.
[14:39] Speaker 3: I had the boat, it was uh.
[14:42] Speaker 6: By then, I was pretty much coasting on my job,
[14:45] Speaker 6: so I would take off for long weekends, you know,
[14:48] Speaker 6: and I my accountability was.
[14:50] Speaker 3: Pretty well at that time. I don't think I had mkay.
[14:55] Speaker 6: I mean, I knew Kimberly, but you know, it wasn't
[14:57] Speaker 6: like it was just me with you any of it.
[15:02] Speaker 6: So it wasn't part of disappear Grifet day, right, And
[15:05] Speaker 6: she was pretty young man, so she most more often
[15:09] Speaker 6: than not she.
[15:10] Speaker 3: Just stayed in the abbey with babysitters and stuff.
[15:26] Speaker 1: To refresh your memory. Keyes first checked out the boat
[15:30] Speaker 1: over the weekend of April first, two thousand and five.
[15:34] Speaker 1: Based on the timeline, Keys either left in the early
[15:37] Speaker 1: morning hours of Thursday, March thirty first, or at some
[15:41] Speaker 1: point on April first. Now, according to the FBI interviews
[15:46] Speaker 1: with Keys, Keys took Tammy's son James with him on
[15:49] Speaker 1: this trek from Nia Bay to Moses Lake, where James's father,
[15:53] Speaker 1: Joe lived. Keyes said that while dropping James off, Joe
[15:57] Speaker 1: showed him the boat and talked him into buying it,
[16:00] Speaker 1: but according to Joe, that's not exactly what happened. In
[16:06] Speaker 1: an FBI interview, Joe said that James was living with
[16:10] Speaker 1: him full time in Moses Lake in the spring of
[16:13] Speaker 1: two thousand and five, and that Keys actually picked James
[16:17] Speaker 1: up from Moses Lake and brought him back to Nia
[16:20] Speaker 1: Bay to visit with Tammy, which would mean that Keys
[16:23] Speaker 1: was unaccounted for from either Thursday or Friday through Sunday
[16:27] Speaker 1: of that weekend. This was the same trip that Keyes
[16:31] Speaker 1: told Joe he was visiting family and Hunter's Washington, a
[16:35] Speaker 1: long weekend in eastern Washington. According to Keys, he either
[16:41] Speaker 1: picked up the boat or had it towed to Nia
[16:43] Speaker 1: Bay the following weekend, but according to Joe, Keys picked
[16:48] Speaker 1: up the boat himself from Moses Lake because he had
[16:52] Speaker 1: to return James at the time that he picked up
[16:54] Speaker 1: that boat. So, if we believed Joe over Keys, which
[16:59] Speaker 1: I think we should, good Keys was alone and unaccounted
[17:02] Speaker 1: for in the Moses Lake area on the weekend of
[17:05] Speaker 1: April first and the following weekend April eighth, at which
[17:10] Speaker 1: point he had the boat.
[17:13] Speaker 5: What was the boat like when you got as far
[17:15] Speaker 5: as what it looks like, you did a lot of
[17:16] Speaker 5: work on it, But what was Was it seaworthy when
[17:18] Speaker 5: you got it?
[17:19] Speaker 3: It would have floated? Yeah?
[17:22] Speaker 6: The engine, now, the engine didn't run very well.
[17:28] Speaker 3: The interior was trashed steering back. I mean it wasn't. No,
[17:33] Speaker 3: it wasn't.
[17:36] Speaker 6: It had potential, but it wasn't something you would take
[17:39] Speaker 6: out for the afternoon.
[17:40] Speaker 4: Okay, So how long have you had it before you
[17:43] Speaker 4: ended up getting it seaworthy?
[17:45] Speaker 8: It didn't take me very long, eh, I don't remember exactly.
[17:51] Speaker 8: And there was it seems like it took me a
[17:53] Speaker 8: while to get the tile or registration or something.
[17:58] Speaker 3: I don't know. There was some I have's some issue
[18:03] Speaker 3: with that too.
[18:04] Speaker 5: It's like, yeah, I don't think you registered until six,
[18:07] Speaker 5: and it's in two thousand and five, So okay.
[18:12] Speaker 3: It seems like I did. Yeah, I took it.
[18:14] Speaker 6: I'd taken it out a few times before it was registered.
[18:22] Speaker 1: Keys didn't register the boat until April seventeenth of two
[18:25] Speaker 1: thousand and six, over a year after purchasing it, and
[18:31] Speaker 1: in that time we know he used it at least
[18:34] Speaker 1: five times, including May twenty seventh, two thousand and five,
[18:39] Speaker 1: June fourth of two thousand and five, June seventeenth of
[18:43] Speaker 1: two thousand and five, July thirtieth of two thousand and five,
[18:48] Speaker 1: and August thirteenth of two thousand and five. It's important
[18:52] Speaker 1: to note that, according to everyone interviewed about the boat,
[18:56] Speaker 1: it's made in voyage was on that July thirtieth trip,
[19:00] Speaker 1: which means the previous three boat trips May twenty seventh,
[19:04] Speaker 1: June fourth, and June seventeen were likely unknown to his
[19:08] Speaker 1: friends and family and thus suspicious to us. Following his
[19:14] Speaker 1: registration of the boat, we can confirm that Keyes used
[19:18] Speaker 1: it at least four more times. May twenty third, two
[19:21] Speaker 1: thousand six, May twenty seventh, two thousand six, June seventeen,
[19:27] Speaker 1: two thousand six, and on June twenty fourth, two thousand six,
[19:33] Speaker 1: when the boat's motor died while he was out with friends.
[19:37] Speaker 1: At least two of these dates correspond to times when
[19:40] Speaker 1: Kimberly was out of town. According to the records that
[19:43] Speaker 1: we have, Kim was gone from August fourth through August
[19:47] Speaker 1: twenty second of two thousand five. According to the FBI timeline,
[19:51] Speaker 1: and according to multiple interviews with Keyes as friends, Kim
[19:55] Speaker 1: was out of town on at minimum June twenty third
[19:58] Speaker 1: and twenty fourth of two thousand and When we review
[20:02] Speaker 1: the two time frames where we know Keys worked on
[20:05] Speaker 1: the boat April ninth through May twenty sixth of two
[20:09] Speaker 1: thousand and five, following his purchase of the boat until
[20:12] Speaker 1: its first documented use, and following June twenty fourth of
[20:16] Speaker 1: two thousand and six, when the motor died, we can
[20:20] Speaker 1: see one common time frame. June twenty third and twenty
[20:25] Speaker 1: fourth of two thousand and six, the weekend that Stephen
[20:28] Speaker 1: Michael Mason disappeared while camping at the Dungeness Forks campground.
[20:36] Speaker 1: So let's take one more close look at both Mason's
[20:40] Speaker 1: and Keys's activity that weekend. According to an email sent
[20:44] Speaker 1: from Keys to Kimberley on June twenty second, he drove
[20:47] Speaker 1: to Ridgefield, Oregon, a town that doesn't exist, to pick
[20:51] Speaker 1: up an ATV that no one ever saw. Keys took
[20:55] Speaker 1: a long weekend from work in order to pick up
[20:58] Speaker 1: this mysterious atv. According to multiple friends, Kim was not
[21:03] Speaker 1: around on June twenty third or twenty fourth. We don't
[21:07] Speaker 1: know the full extent of her absence at the time,
[21:10] Speaker 1: just that she wasn't around on those two specific dates.
[21:14] Speaker 1: At around eight a m. On June twenty third, Mike
[21:17] Speaker 1: Mason's friend Jerry reported that he had a few beers
[21:20] Speaker 1: with Mike at the Dungeness Fork's campground. When asked if
[21:23] Speaker 1: he wanted a ride, Mike told him that some guy
[21:26] Speaker 1: was coming to pick him up at around nine a m.
[21:29] Speaker 1: This was the last reported sighting of Mike. Late that
[21:33] Speaker 1: same evening, Keys a scene for the first time all
[21:37] Speaker 1: weekend at a bonfire at his friend's house in Nea Bay,
[21:41] Speaker 1: and according to one friend, I was quiet and distant
[21:45] Speaker 1: that night with a metal rod of some sort, like
[21:48] Speaker 1: a poker but different, might have even been a metal
[21:51] Speaker 1: coat hanger straightened out. He sat there quietly with the
[21:55] Speaker 1: rod in the fire, pulling it out and staring at
[21:58] Speaker 1: the tip red with heat. When we saw that he
[22:01] Speaker 1: took off his shoes and socks and was trying to
[22:03] Speaker 1: brand himself with it, we jumped up to intervene. We
[22:07] Speaker 1: talked him down out of whatever day's state he was in.
[22:12] Speaker 1: The following day, on June twenty fourth, Keys and those
[22:15] Speaker 1: same friends went boating on Lake Ozette. While they were
[22:18] Speaker 1: on the lake, the outboard engine on the boat blew
[22:21] Speaker 1: a rod and they were stranded on the lake. And
[22:25] Speaker 1: according to Keys, he took the boat to a boat
[22:28] Speaker 1: house to work on it the next day and he
[22:30] Speaker 1: never used the boat again.
[22:33] Speaker 7: I know you when we talked to you about it before.
[22:35] Speaker 7: I wasn't in here, but I think it was Jeff
[22:36] Speaker 7: and Steve that were in here. You mentioned that there
[22:39] Speaker 7: might be where there might be something, some blood or
[22:42] Speaker 7: something like that was left.
[22:45] Speaker 3: And answer that question, yeah, I know had taken it apart.
[22:49] Speaker 7: But if you can look at these and if you
[22:52] Speaker 7: can see just maybe looking at him when refresh your
[22:56] Speaker 7: memory about where something might be or you know what
[23:01] Speaker 7: what they should look for.
[23:03] Speaker 3: You're looking that bad of shape, does it that there's
[23:10] Speaker 3: oh it's gonna be in that in a well?
[23:14] Speaker 7: Yeah?
[23:14] Speaker 3: Where where's where is the top end of the motor
[23:17] Speaker 3: on this side, anywhere on this side. I guess if you.
[23:24] Speaker 6: Find anything that's gonna be along these trim pieces, like
[23:27] Speaker 6: underneath them or something. Mkay, so as it got it,
[23:31] Speaker 6: you know, I got on the fiberglass. I cleaned it,
[23:34] Speaker 6: but I don't know if I where's the top end
[23:41] Speaker 6: of the moment. I it probably got junk. I remember
[23:48] Speaker 6: I took it apart figure out what was wrong with
[23:52] Speaker 6: the motor. And I think by the time I had
[23:56] Speaker 6: figured out what was wrong or that I decided the
[23:58] Speaker 6: whole motor was gonna be scraps. I think, yeah, I
[24:01] Speaker 6: think I just threw a wheel on the parts they
[24:03] Speaker 6: took off.
[24:09] Speaker 1: Stephen Michael Mason disappeared while Keys was unaccounted for. Kim
[24:14] Speaker 1: was out of town and a day before the motor
[24:16] Speaker 1: on his boat broke, the same motor that he told
[24:20] Speaker 1: the FBI to check for blood, the motor that blew
[24:23] Speaker 1: a rod the day after Mason went missing, the day
[24:27] Speaker 1: after Keys was seen burning and trying to brand himself
[24:30] Speaker 1: with a metal rod. Mason disappeared while camping at Dungeness
[24:35] Speaker 1: Forks Campground, not far from Burnt Hill, the unofficial shooting
[24:39] Speaker 1: range where Keys was known to shoot his guns. There's
[24:43] Speaker 1: a small creek that spans two miles between Burnt Hill
[24:47] Speaker 1: and Dungeness Forks Campground, Karaco Creek. I now believe with
[24:53] Speaker 1: as much certainty as I can, that Stephen Michael Mason
[24:57] Speaker 1: was abducted and killed by Israel Keys that as remains
[25:01] Speaker 1: were submerged in Lake Ozette. And check out the next
[25:06] Speaker 1: episode of Somewhere in the Pines to see what additional
[25:10] Speaker 1: information Joshua has dug up on Mike Mason's case. Of
[25:29] Speaker 1: all the dates and time frames we've discussed, that June
[25:33] Speaker 1: two thousand and sixth weekend isn't the only one that
[25:36] Speaker 1: stands out to me. There are two others. August thirteenth
[25:42] Speaker 1: of two thousand and five, which we'll save for a
[25:45] Speaker 1: future episode, and April ninth through May twenty sixth of
[25:49] Speaker 1: two thousand and five. That period between Keys buying the
[25:52] Speaker 1: boat and its first documented voyage, Well, we believe, but
[25:59] Speaker 1: don't I know with certainty that the boat changed hands
[26:02] Speaker 1: from Joe to Keys on April ninth. Its bill of
[26:06] Speaker 1: sale is dated April fifteenth, two thousand and five. The
[26:10] Speaker 1: same day name is forty five Missing person Ray Greecard
[26:13] Speaker 1: disappeared from central Pennsylvania. We don't currently believe that Keys
[26:17] Speaker 1: had anything to do with Greecard's disappearance, but we do
[26:21] Speaker 1: believe that Keyes was searching for someone else at that time.
[26:26] Speaker 1: Exactly a week later, Wendy to Hoop disappeared from Eugene, Oregon.
[26:34] Speaker 1: We spent a lot of time looking into Wendy's case
[26:37] Speaker 1: and always considered her a likely potential victim, but when
[26:41] Speaker 1: I met with Agent Haula last year, he said that
[26:44] Speaker 1: it was unlikely that Keyes was involved in Wendy's disappearance.
[26:48] Speaker 1: He and Kimberly were on a romantic weekend in eastern
[26:52] Speaker 1: Washington wine tasting from April twenty second, the day Wendy disappeared,
[26:57] Speaker 1: until April twenty fourth, to several emails they found. He
[27:04] Speaker 1: also noted that Keys made purchases in Port Angelis on
[27:08] Speaker 1: the twenty second, and additional purchases place him in Kingston Outlook,
[27:13] Speaker 1: Zillah and Prosser, Washington on the rest of that weekend.
[27:17] Speaker 1: When he told me all of this, I do what
[27:19] Speaker 1: I usually do when a case is ruled out. I
[27:23] Speaker 1: pull it off my shelves and put it in a
[27:25] Speaker 1: cabinet out of sight. No longer a distraction, but for
[27:31] Speaker 1: some reason it didn't feel right and Tooks agreed, so
[27:36] Speaker 1: we decided to pull the binder out of the cabinet
[27:38] Speaker 1: and put it back on the shelves, because unlikely, after all,
[27:43] Speaker 1: does not mean impossible, especially when it comes to Israel Keys.
[27:50] Speaker 1: As I was researching for this episode, going over dates
[27:53] Speaker 1: that Keys had the boat and Kimberly was gone, I
[27:56] Speaker 1: noticed something something now that seems so obvious. Keyes and
[28:01] Speaker 1: Kimberly didn't leave for that weekend getaway on the twenty second.
[28:05] Speaker 1: They left on the twenty third. There is a Kingston
[28:10] Speaker 1: to Edmunds ferry transaction for eight am on April twenty third,
[28:15] Speaker 1: the route someone would take to travel from the Peninsula
[28:18] Speaker 1: to eastern Washington, and the other transactions Haula mentioned also
[28:24] Speaker 1: indicated that Keyes was still on the peninsula until the
[28:27] Speaker 1: morning of the twenty third. His Kingston transactions, none of
[28:32] Speaker 1: them were on the twenty second. We don't know what
[28:36] Speaker 1: time the Port Angelus transactions occurred on the twenty second,
[28:39] Speaker 1: but what I do know is that Eugene, Oregon is
[28:43] Speaker 1: only a six hour drive from Port Angelus, and Wendy
[28:47] Speaker 1: de who disappeared between seven and seven forty five am,
[28:53] Speaker 1: meaning Keys could have been back in Port Angelus by
[28:57] Speaker 1: one pm, where he'd have eighteen hours to himself before
[29:03] Speaker 1: leaving on a vacation with Kim, as he did with
[29:07] Speaker 1: Samantha Konig. He had also clearly told his employers that
[29:12] Speaker 1: he'd be gone on the twenty second. Keyes and Kim
[29:23] Speaker 1: returned from wine tasting on the night of the twenty fourth,
[29:27] Speaker 1: and several days later, on the twenty eighth, the Hoop's purse,
[29:31] Speaker 1: with her wallet missing, was dropped off at a buy
[29:34] Speaker 1: mart in Eugene by a man who said he found
[29:36] Speaker 1: it while walking his dog. On May second, Wendy's car
[29:41] Speaker 1: was found abandoned along a wooded highway not far from
[29:44] Speaker 1: where her purse was found. It was the first reported
[29:47] Speaker 1: sighting of it. That same evening, for reasons unclear, Keyes
[29:53] Speaker 1: was on a ferry from Edmunds to Kingston. It gets
[30:01] Speaker 1: harder and harder to negotiate Keys's propensity and capability for love.
[30:08] Speaker 1: We hear moments of consideration, shame, pain, and they often
[30:14] Speaker 1: sound and look like love. But then we think of
[30:19] Speaker 1: all the times he used his friends and family to
[30:21] Speaker 1: get away with murder, hiding guns, family vacations, boat trips,
[30:28] Speaker 1: road trips, and so on. We're left wondering what love
[30:32] Speaker 1: could be to someone like Israel Keys. Did he love
[30:38] Speaker 1: his daughter or did he use his daughter? Did he
[30:43] Speaker 1: love Kim or did he use Kim? Is it somewhere
[30:48] Speaker 1: in between or is it both? And we wonder, and
[30:54] Speaker 1: then we have the privilege of moving on to something else,
[30:58] Speaker 1: the privilege of moving back back into our own lives.
[31:03] Speaker 1: How lucky are we?
[31:34] Speaker 9: I think I know you well at least Dan think.
[31:44] Speaker 9: Do a person strange.
[31:54] Speaker 3: Sleeping in my bed?
[31:58] Speaker 10: I know who?
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[34:00] Speaker 10: Love me well.
[34:06] Speaker 9: The least I think you do Sometimes I just can
[34:18] Speaker 9: What's a bond down with you?
[34:23] Speaker 10: A love.
[34:27] Speaker 4: That's true MESSI.
[34:34] Speaker 10: Feel l see.
[34:40] Speaker 4: The mistake.
[34:43] Speaker 10: Bad. We rid a long world.
[35:03] Speaker 4: Well why why don't know.
[35:37] Speaker 10: They didn't know you?
[35:40] Speaker 4: So change change the change the change. They didn't know you.
[35:53] Speaker 7: So much.
[35:55] Speaker 10: Oh change she.
[35:58] Speaker 4: Change the change. Exchanged that they didn't know you. So
[36:09] Speaker 4: change to change, change
[36:15] Speaker 3: To

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