0708 | In Eastern Washington

November 17, 2025·37 min·2 clips

The FBI thinks Keyes committed a crime in Hunters on April 2, 2005, tied to Annie’s anniversary.

1. True Crime Bullsh** episode 0708 centers on Hunters, Washington, and Israel Keyes’ Eastern Washington ties. 2. Josh Hallmark narrates the episode as host, writer, researcher, editor, and producer, with Jordan Taylor, Michelle Tooker, and Shayna Walensky credited for additional research. 3. The episode asks what happened in Hunters on April 2, 2005, and why Annie, the Keyes family, and Christian identity churches matter to that date. 4. Hallmark traces Christian identity to the early 1950s, naming Wesley Smith, the Church of Jesus Christ Christian in Lancaster, California, and the Southern Poverty Law Center. 5. He cites the Anti-Defamation League on beliefs about whites tracing to the Lost Tribes of Israel and on Jews and non-whites being cast into racist theology. 6. The episode names William Potter Gale, Richard Gert Butler, and Peter Pete Peters as figures who extended the movement into violence and radio ministry. 7. Hallmark describes Pete Peters’ work in Colorado, including La Porte Church of Christ, rural radio shows, and road tours across Texas, California, Nebraska, New Mexico, Utah, and Washington. 8. The episode then turns to Art Bulla, Anne Bulla, Barry Bird, and the Marble Fellowship Community Church in Marble, Washington, north of Colville. 9. Hallmark says the Marble scripture drew from Pete Peters, and he notes that Peters frequently spoke there. 10. The episode links the Marble network to The Remnant Resolves, Cliven Bundy, the Bureau of Land Management, and the Bundyville saga. 11. Hallmark also places the ARC in Colville, saying the church and the Keyes and Kehoe families were part of it and that Peters occasionally spoke there. 12. He connects Peters to Ruby Ridge, the Rocky Mountain Rendezvous in Estes Park, and ties with Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. 13. The episode frames Stevens County as a place where anti-government groups, land disputes, and violence repeatedly coalesced. 14. Hallmark says the Keyes family and Hunters farmhouse were surrounded by people who saw themselves as separate from the law. 15. A long interview excerpt has Keyes discussing explosives, black powder, power tools, and his first pipe bomb use at about age 14 near a Forest Service gate. 16. Hallmark ties that history to the Moses Lake bombings in August 2008, naming William Walker and Javier Adame as the two men killed. 17. The episode then shifts to the Hunters farmhouse as an isolated property bordered by federal and tribal land and associated with anti-government owners. 18. Hallmark says the FBI believes a crime, likely a murder, happened there on April 2, 2005, and he notes Annie later lived in Missouri near other Keyes-associated families. 19. The episode is investigative and heavily sourced, with long historical explanation, interview clips, and explicit references to newspapers, the SPLC, the ADL, and FBI reasoning. 20. Listeners interested in Israel Keyes, Christian identity, and eastern Washington geography will get the most from this episode, while listeners avoiding dense research synthesis may skip it.

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A patient, unsettling chapter that turns roadside details into a wider case map.

This episode follows a grim trail from teenage tinkering in Colville to pipe bombs, Forest Service gates, and the wider case logic around Israel Keyes.

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Follow Keyes from Colville's pipe-bomb experiments into the early case trail.

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