Summary of Maureen Callahan's American Predator

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 On February 2, 2012, Samantha Koenig, a popular high school senior, disappeared. She had been working a coffee kiosk alone the night before, and had sent some angry texts to her boyfriend.
#2 The first rule of any investigation is to keep an open mind. You don’t try to fit a personal theory to a possible crime. Payne knew this, and he knew that the police never even taped off the kiosk when Samantha was reported missing.
#3 The video showed a man pushing his way through the kiosk’s serving window and pouncing on Samantha. He was very tall and very composed, and he seemed to know what he was doing.
#4 The first working theory was that Samantha was not a victim. The department didn’t want to tell the press that, but their response made that clear. They didn’t plan to go public with Samantha’s disappearance.

Sujets

• Murder
• Serial Killers

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 07 avril 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669381259
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Maureen Callahan's American Predator
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

On February 2, 2012, Samantha Koenig, a popular high school senior, disappeared. She had been working a coffee kiosk alone the night before, and had sent some angry texts to her boyfriend.

#2

The first rule of any investigation is to keep an open mind. You don’t try to fit a personal theory to a possible crime. Payne knew this, and he knew that the police never even taped off the kiosk when Samantha was reported missing.

#3

The video showed a man pushing his way through the kiosk’s serving window and pouncing on Samantha. He was very tall and very composed, and he seemed to know what he was doing.

#4

The first working theory was that Samantha was not a victim. The department didn’t want to tell the press that, but their response made that clear. They didn’t plan to go public with Samantha’s disappearance.

#5

The lure of Alaska is its ability to humble. It was first inhabited by our ancestors more than 11,000 years ago, and barely more developed when Russia sold it to America in 1867 for two cents an acre. Yet Alaska remains the Great Land, the closest we have to a time before man.

#6

The community was on edge, and the police department was having a difficult time keeping up with the media’s requests for information. Duane said he drove over to Common Grounds in the pickup truck he and Samantha shared at about 8:30 that night. He said he noticed the kiosk’s inside lights were off.

#7

The police went to the house of Duane and James, and found them extremely suspicious. They wouldn’t let the police in, and when they asked to speak to Duane, they went back in the same way.

#8

The next Saturday, hundreds of people attended a candlelight vigil in Town Square Park. The case gained national attention, and the FBI received hundreds of tips. However, they still didn’t have any evidence to suggest that Samantha had been abducted.

#9

The search of Duane’s truck turned up nothing. The only logical explanation was that Samantha staged the abduction, and the man in the video was her accomplice. The Special Assignment Unit was called in.

#10

On Feb. 24, Duane received a text from Samantha’s phone, which read, I may not use the card much in AK due to small pop, but as I will be leaving soon, I will be using it all over.

#11

The FBI sent the ransom note and Polaroid pictures to their lab for analysis. The note was riddled with misspellings, which was probably intentional. The kidnapper was obviously smart. Someone on the FBI’s task force suggested canceling Duane and Samantha’s ATM card and depositing the cash. This was the worst idea anyone had ever heard.

#12

The FBI kept the ATM card active, and began tracking the card’s movements. They were certain that the card had been used on the night Samantha disappeared, and more than once.

#13

Doll knew that James was spending some of that reward money on himself. The whole city was talking about it. The Anchorage Daily News even asked James about the rumors, which he didn’t deny. I am having to resort to some of the funds to keep my home running, he said.

#14

On February 29, five days after discovering the ransom note, James Koenig called APD and said he was depositing five thousand dollars of the reward money into Samantha’s account. The FBI told him not to put the whole thirty thousand dollars in.

#15

The FBI was able to get surveillance stills of the Denali ATM withdrawal, and they landed on the desk of a young image analyst named Chris Iber. He was one of only six agents at the Bureau who did forensic image analysis.

#16

It took until February 20 for Anchorage police to request surveillance video from the Home Depot across from Samantha’s kiosk. On February 1, a white truck pulled into the parking lot. The resolution was fuzzy, but Bell could tell by the number of letters on the truck’s back that it was a Chevrolet. There were no license plates. The driver sat for ten minutes, then got out and walked across Tudor Road. He returned with Samantha minutes later.