Israel Keyes confessed to multiple murders, but committed suicide before revealing all the details.
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11 articles
Vanity Fair
Feb 1997
How the media and law enforcement fingered the wrong man for the 1996 Olympic Park bombing.
Stories from the Heartland
Sep 2011
A first-person account of an arrest:
I stared at the yellow walls and listened to a few officers talk about the overtime they were racking up, and I decided that I hated country music. I hated speedboats and shitty beer in coozies and fat bellies and rednecks. I thought about Abu Ghraib and the horror to which those prisoners were exposed. I thought about my dad and his prescience. I was glad he wasn’t alive to know about what was happening to me. I thought about my kids, and what would have happened if they had been there when I got taken away. I contemplated never flying again. I thought about the incredible waste of taxpayer dollars in conducting an operation like this. I wondered what my rights were, if I had any at all. Mostly, I could not believe I was sitting in some jail cell in some cold, undisclosed building surrounded by “the authorities.”
New Yorker
Dec 1996
The questionable close relationship between a mobster/informant and an F.B.I. agent during a bloody Colombo crime family battle.
New York Times
Jan 1989
In an elaborate FBI sting to expose corruption, four agents pose as futures traders in Chicago. The plan works–if you don’t count the hundreds of thousands in taxpayer dollars the agents lost in the process.
