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FBI releases details in Alaska serial killer death

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This undated file photo provided by the Anchorage Police Department shows Anchorage, Alaska, barista Samantha Koenig, 18. A man who died in an apparent suicide this week in an Alaska jail after confessing to a string of killings had sexually assaulted and strangled Koenig the day after he abducted her.

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Anchorage Police Detective Monique Doll, left, and spokesman Lt. Dave Parker speak Tuesday during a news conference in Anchorage, Alaska. Authorities released more information of the Feb. 1, 2012, abduction of Samantha Koenig, 18, from a coffee stand in Anchorage.

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A security video showing the abduction of an Alaska barista is unnerving on its own, but it only hints at the horror ahead for the 18-year-old woman. Samantha Koenig would soon be sexually assaulted and strangled after she was kidnapped from an Anchorage coffee stand, her body left in a shed for two weeks while her killer went on a cruise. After he returned, Israel Keyes photographed Koenig for a ransom note and then dismembered her body.