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Chilling footage has been released of an Alaska murder suspect calmly confessing to serial killings to the FBI while drinking coffee and eating a bagel.

Israel Keyes told authorities he killed Anchorage barista Samantha Koenig and at least seven others over the past decade. He was found dead last Sunday in his Anchorage jail cell after he killed himself.

Footage of an interview with police in which he confessed to having multiple personalities for the last 14 years and felt a 'rush' from killing people was released by police today.

Keyes talks calmly and casually about the murders while drinking a coffee and eating a bagel.

He says: 'There is no one who knows me or who has ever known me that knows anything about me, really.

'Others will tell you something that doesn't line up with anything I tell you, because I'm two different people basically.

'The only person who knows about what I'm telling you, the kind of things I'm telling you, is me.'

Pastor Jacob Gardner told The Anchorage Daily News yesterday that he was traveling with Keyes' mother and other relatives for the killer's funeral Sunday in Deer Park, Washington.

Gardner says Keyes attended a sister's wedding in March in Texas, where he ranted about how he didn't believe in God. That would have been shortly before his arrest.

The pastor says some of the preaching there had targeted Keyes to get him to 'denounce his atheism'. But Gardner says the ceremony ended with Keyes raging against God.

Before his death on Sunday, he told authorities he killed because he 'liked to do it' and gave them details about the abduction of Bill and Lorraine Currier that authorities had not released to the public.

FBI Special Agent Jolene Goeden told Good Morning America: 'He liked what he was doing. He talked about the rush he got out of it, the adrenaline and kind of the high from it.'

Tristram Coffin, U.S. Attorney in Vermont, said during a news conference on Monday: 'He provided some motivation, but I don't think it's really [possible] to pigeonhole why he did this.'

Mr Coffin added: 'It was something that he could control and he liked to do it. Why someone likes to act like that, nobody knows.'

Officials say he broke into the Currier's home, tied them up and forced them into their car.

He then drove them to an abandoned house in Essex. Authorities say both the Curriers tried to escape.

Keyes then shot Bill Currier with a gun he had stolen from the couple's home and sexually assaulted and strangled Lorraine Currier.

Their bodies have never been found.

He was found dead in his cell Sunday, authorities said at a news conference that included U.S. Attorney Karen Loeffler, the FBI, and Anchorage police.

Authorities wouldn't say how he killed himself, only that he was alone in his cell. An autopsy will be conducted.

Keyes flew from Alaska to Chicago with the intent of kidnapping and killing someone, drove to Vermont and picked the Curriers, a couple in their 50s, at random, officials in Vermont said.

He told police he broke into their home, went into their bedroom, bound them with zip ties and forced them into their car.

He then drove them to an abandoned house and tied Bill to a stool in the basement, while Lorraine Currier tried to escape, Chittenden County state's attorney T.J. Donovan said.

Discovering this, Keyes ran out and tackled Lorraine, and Bill then tried to escape.

He shot Bill Currier with the gun he had stolen from the couple's home, and then sexually assaulted and strangled Lorraine Currier, Donovan said, his voice breaking.

Their bodies have never been found, and Keyes did not volunteer the information.

'They fought to the end,' Donovan said, adding that they showed 'extraordinary bravery and love for each other.'

Keyes could have faced the death penalty for the murder of 18-year-old Samantha Koenig, a barista who was abducted from the Anchorage coffee kiosk that she worked in last February.

He was later arrested in Texas after using Miss Koenig's debit card.

Keyes also indicated he killed four others in Washington state and one person in New York state, but did not give the victims' names, authorities said.

The FBI contends that Keyes killed Miss Koenig less than a day after she was kidnapped.

Keyes was thorough and methodical in disposing victims, authorities said on Sunday.

Koenig's body - which was pulled from an ice-covered lake north of Anchorage in April - is the only Keyes victim whose remains have been recovered.

A surveillance camera showed an apparently armed man in a hooded sweat shirt leading Koenig away from the coffee stand.

Koenig's friends and relatives established a reward fund and plastered the city with flyers with her photo in hopes of finding the young woman alive.

Prosecutors said Keyes stole the debit card from a vehicle parked near her home, obtained the personal identification number and scratched the number into the card.

After killing Koenig, Keyes used her phone to send text messages to conceal the abduction, according to prosecutors.

He flew to Texas and returned February 17 to Anchorage, where he sent another text message demanding ransom and directing it to the account connected to the stolen debit card, according to prosecutors.

Keyes made withdrawals from automated teller machines in Alaska, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas before his arrest in Texas, according to prosecutors.

Koenig's family said there was no apparent previous connection between the teen and the suspect.

Reached by phone Sunday, Koenig's father, James Koenig declined to comment on Keyes' death.
Marilyn Chates, Bill Currier's mother, told The Associated Press that police contacted her some time ago to tell her about Keyes' confession and to tell her that they believed the couple's killing was random.

Certificates of presumed death were issued over the summer and a memorial service was held in late summer, she said.

Vermont authorities called Chates on Sunday to tell her of Keyes' suicide.

'After some thinking, our family has been saved the long road ahead - trials, possible plea agreements and possible appeals – and perhaps this was the best thing that could have happened,' she said from her home in Florida Sunday evening.

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