"48 HOURS" GETS THE FIRST LOOK AT NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN EVIDENCE IN THE FBI'S SEARCH TO IDENTIFY VICTIMS OF A NOTORIOUS SERIAL KILLER, IN "TRACKING THE MURDERS OF ISRAEL KEYES"

Saturday, May 9

Correspondent Peter Van Sant and 48 HOURS get the first look at never-before-released evidence from the FBI's effort to identify victims of a notorious serial killer, in "Tracking the Murders of Israel Keyes" to be broadcast Saturday, May 9 (10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

Law enforcement in Alaska came face-to-face with Israel Keyes for the first time in 2012, after he was arrested in connection with the disappearance of a young woman kidnapped from a coffee stand. The investigation exposed one of the most diabolical and meticulous serial killers in American history. The search for potential victims is far from over.

"Once I started, you know ... there was nothing else like it," Keyes told investigators in interrogation videos and audio featured in the broadcast.

Asked why he picked his victims, Keyes responded: "I didn't. It was just random."

Samantha Koenig was one of those victims. She vanished after her night shift at a roadside espresso stand in Anchorage, Alaska. A security camera captured Koenig raising her hands as if facing someone with a gun, and later, the camera recorded a person jumping in through the window into the coffee stand and later two people walking away. Unusual activity on her ATM card led police to Keyes, then 4,000 miles away in Texas.

Over the course of several months, Keyes pointed investigators to three other victims: Bill and Lorraine Currier in Vermont and Debra Feldman in New York. But investigators believe there may be seven more victims based on comments made by Keyes in interviews and drawings of skulls Keyes made using his own blood. The FBI revealed those drawings and other evidence to 48 HOURS. The FBI also showed 48 HOURS examples of Keyes' "kill caches" - kits containing guns, zip ties and other items he would use with his victims - buried across the United States. The FBI believes that several more caches are buried across the U.S. and may contain evidence in the unsolved murders.

FBI Special Agent Katherine Nelson tells Van Sant she is optimistic they can find answers to the other cases, and they are asking for the public's help.

"It won't be easy by any means. And it may take a long time," Nelson says. "But I'll never give up trying."

48 HOURS: "Tracking the Murders of Israel Keyes" is produced by Chris O'Connell and Anthony Venditti. Richard Barber is the producer-editor. Ken Blum and Grayce Arlotta-Berner are the editors. Lauren Turner Dunn is the Associate Producer. Lourdes Aguiar is the senior producer. Nancy Kramer is the executive story editor. Judy Tygard is the executive producer.

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