[le livre de la semaine] American Predator, by Maureen Callahan: in cold blood – comic books

American journalist Maureen Callahan signs a true crime nightmarish around the maddening saga of serial killer Israel Keyes.

“The man in this book turned the beliefs of the FBI agents themselves upside down. He was a new kind of monster. A monster believed to be responsible for the greatest series of disappearances and unsolved murders of contemporary American history “, writes the author in the preamble to this investigative book which is devoured like the most terrifying of thrillers. In fact, American Predator is not only an addicting crime story, but it also manages to surprise fans of series like Min …

“The man in this book turned the beliefs of the FBI agents themselves upside down. He was a new kind of monster. A monster believed to be responsible for the greatest series of disappearances and unsolved murders of contemporary American history “, writes the author in the preamble to this investigative book which is devoured like the most terrifying of thrillers. In fact, American Predator is not only an addicting crime story, but it also manages to surprise fans of series like Mindhunter. Like what, there is still a way to inaugurate in pure horror and quite simply madness. On the night of February 1-2, 2012, 18-year-old Samantha Koening is about to end her service at a coffee stand in Anchorage, Alaska. She will never go home. The only exploitable lead for investigators: CCTV images where the young girl is taken at gunpoint by a stranger. Almost a month later, in Texas, the police arrested Israel Keyes. Father of a family and relentless worker, Keyes is, to put it mildly, a man above all suspicion. Except that he’s in possession of Samantha Koening’s credit card. Quickly extradited to Anchorage, he becomes the number 1 suspect in the teenager’s disappearance. Maureen Callahan met for long hours with most of the FBI agents who were involved in the case. She also had access to excerpts from FBI interrogations, sometimes reworked and condensed for clarity for a dizzying result. All the testimonies agree. Israel Keyes is a totally atypical serial killer because he attacks men as well as women or couples, all over the United States. Thanks to the confidences released in a trickle, the investigators learn dumbfounded that the person concerned had crime caches hidden throughout the country with all the paraphernalia (handcuffs, weapons, etc.). Pervert, manipulator, rapist, necrophiliac and even robber, Keyes “never sleeps.” And even during extensive interrogation, he manages to reveal only minute information about murders that could be attributed to him while conceding, without lowering his eyes, other misdeeds. American Predator is made in Cold Blood, Truman Capote’s masterpiece. It can also be compared to Devouring the Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry and With the Devil by James Keene and Hillel Levin (both from Sonatine). Strong!

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