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Post by raine1953 Fri Jan 25, 2013 7:21 pm

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- The suspect, hands and feet shackled, fidgeted in his chair, chuckling at times as he confessed to a brutal killing.

Israel Keyes showed no remorse as he described in merciless detail how he'd abducted and strangled an 18-year-old woman, then demanded ransom, pretending she was alive. He seemed pumped up, as if he were reliving the crime. His body shook. He rubbed his muscular arms on the chair rests so vigorously his handcuffs scraped off the wood finish.

Keyes was being questioned by two prosecutors. They acceded to his requests: a cup of Americano coffee, a peanut butter Snickers and a cigar (for later). Then they showed him surveillance photos, looked him in the eye and declared: We know you kidnapped Samantha Koenig. We're going to convict you.

They aimed to solve a disappearance, and they did. But they soon realized there was much more here: a kind of evil they'd never anticipated.

Confessing to Koenig's killing, Keyes used a Google map to point to a spot on a lake where he'd disposed of her dismembered body and gone ice fishing at the same time. He wasn't done talking, though. He declared he'd been "two different people" for 14 years. He had stories to tell, stories he said he'd never shared. He made seemingly plural references and chilling remarks such as, "It takes a long time to strangle someone."

As prosecutors Kevin Feldis and Frank Russo and investigators from the FBI and Anchorage police listened that day in early 2012, they came to a consensus:

Israel Keyes wasn't talking just about Samantha Koenig. He'd killed before.

In 40 hours of interviews over eight months, Keyes talked of many killings; authorities believe there were nearly a dozen. He traveled from Vermont to Alaska hunting for victims. He said he buried "murder kits" around the country so they would be readily accessible. These caches -- containing guns, zip ties and other supplies used to dispose of bodies -- were found in Alaska and New York.

At the same time, incredibly, Keyes was an under-the-radar everyday citizen -- a father, a live-in boyfriend, a respected handyman who had no trouble finding jobs in the community.

Keyes claimed he killed four people in Washington state, dumped another body in New York and raped a teen in Oregon. He said he robbed banks to help finance his crimes; authorities corroborated two robberies in New York and Texas. He confessed to burning down a house in Texas, contentedly watching the flames from a distance.

Though sometimes specific, he was often frustratingly vague. Only once -- other than Koenig -- did he identify by name his victims: a married couple in Vermont.

Israel Keyes wanted to be in control. Of his crimes. Of how much he revealed. And, ultimately, of his fate.

In December, he slashed his left wrist and strangled himself with a sheet in his jail cell. He left two pages of bloodstained writings. And many questions.

Investigators are now left searching for answers, but they face a daunting task: They're convinced the 34-year-old Keyes was a serial killer; they've verified many details he provided. But they have a puzzle that spans the U.S. and dips into Mexico and Canada -- and the one person who held the missing pieces is dead. FBI agents on opposite ends of the country, joined by others, are working the case, hoping a timeline will offer clues to his grisly odyssey.

But they know, too, that Israel Keyes' secrets are buried with him -- and may never be unearthed.

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Authorities aren't certain when Keyes' crime spree began or ended. But they have a haunting image of his last known victim.

Snippets of a surveillance video show the first terrifying moments of Koenig's abduction. Keyes is seen as a shadowy figure in ski mask and hood outside Common Grounds, a tiny Anchorage coffee shack then partially concealed from a busy six-lane highway by mountains of snow.

It's Feb. 1, 2012, about 8 p.m., closing time. Koenig is shown handing Keyes a cup of coffee, then backing away with her hands up, as if it's a robbery. The lights go out and Keyes next appears as a fuzzy image climbing through the drive-thru window.

Authorities outlined his next steps:

Keyes forced Koenig to his Silverado; he'd already bound her hands with zip ties and gagged her. He hid her in a shed outside his house, turned on loud music so no one could hear if she screamed, then returned to the coffee shack to retrieve scraps of the restraints and get her phone.

On Feb. 2, Keyes raped and strangled Koenig. He left her in that shed, flew to Houston and embarked on a cruise, returning about two weeks later.

He then took a photo of Koenig's body holding a Feb. 13 newspaper to make it appear she was alive. Keyes wrote a ransom note on the back, demanding $30,000 be placed in her account. He texted a message, directing the family to a dog park where the note could be found. Her family deposited some money from a reward fund.

On Feb. 29, Keyes withdrew $500 in ransom money from an Anchorage ATM, using a debit card stolen from Koenig's boyfriend (the two shared an account). The next day, $500 more was retrieved from another ATM.

Then on March 7, far away in Willcox, Ariz., Keyes withdrew $400. He traveled to Lordsburg, N.M., and took out $80. Two days later, a withdrawal of $480 in Humble, Texas. On March 11, the same amount from an ATM in Shepherd, Texas.

By then, authorities had a blurry ATM photo and a pattern: Keyes was driving along route I-10 in a rented white Ford Focus. On March 13, nearly 3,200 miles from Anchorage, police in Lufkin, Texas, pounced when they spotted Keyes driving 3 mph above the speed limit.

Inside his car was an incriminating stash: Rolls of cash in rubber bands. A piece of a gray T-shirt cut out to make a face mask. A highlighted map with routes through California, Arizona and New Mexico. The stolen debit card. And Samantha Koenig's phone.

Monique Doll, the lead Anchorage police investigator in the Koenig case, and her partner, Jeff Bell, rushed to Texas for a crack at Keyes.

Doll showed Keyes the ransom note.

"I told him that the first couple of times that I read the ransom I thought that whoever wrote the note was a monster and the more I read it --it must have been 100 times -- the more I came to understand that monsters aren't born but are created and that this person had a story to tell."

Keyes' response, she says, was firm: "I can't help you."

Two weeks later in custody back in Alaska, he changed his mind.

He told another investigator, Doll says, to relay a message: "Tell her she's got her monster."

___

To Monique Doll, Keyes was a Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde personality, but she saw only the diabolical side.

"We knew him as a serial killer," she says. "That's how he spoke to us. We didn't know ... the father, the hard-working business owner."

Keyes warned investigators that others might mischaracterize him.

"There is no one who knows me -- or who has ever known me -- who knows anything about me really. ... They're going to tell you something that does not line up with anything I tell you because I'm two different people basically...," he says in one snippet released by the FBI.

"How long have you been two different people?" asks Russo, one of the prosecutors.

Keyes laughs. "(A) long time. Fourteen years."

Authorities suspect Keyes started killing more than 10 years ago after completing a three-year stint in the Army at what is now Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Tacoma, Wash.

Sean McGuire, who shared a barracks with Keyes, says they developed a camaraderie while spending some time together during grueling training in Egypt. But he says he was disturbed by a dark side that sometimes surfaced. When Keyes was offended by his buddy's comments, he'd drop his head, McGuire recalls, knit his brow, lower his voice and say, "'I want to kill you, McGuire.'"

Keyes, the second eldest in a large family, was homeschooled in a cabin without electricity near Colville, Wash., in a mountainous, sparsely populated area. The family moved in the 1990s to Smyrna, Maine, where they were involved in the maple syrup business, according to a neighbor who remembered Keyes as a nice, courteous young man.

After leaving the Army, Keyes worked for the Makah Indian tribe in Washington, then moved to Anchorage in 2007 after his girlfriend found work here. A self-employed carpenter and handyman, he was considered competent, honest and efficient.

"I never got any bad, weird, scary, odd vibe from him in any way, shape or form," says Paul Adelman, an Anchorage attorney who first hired Keyes as a handyman in 2008.

Keyes' live-in girlfriend also was floored to learn of his double life, according to David Kanters, her friend. "He had everyone fooled," Kanters told The Associated Press in an email. "THAT is the scary part. He came across as a nice normal guy." (She did not respond to numerous requests for comment.)

Keyes blended in easily. "He was not only very intelligent," Doll says. "He was very adaptable and he had a lot of self-control. Those three things combined made him extraordinarily difficult to catch."

Keyes also was meticulous and methodical, flying to airports in the Lower 48, renting cars, driving hundreds of miles searching for victims, prowling remote spots such as parks, campgrounds and cemeteries. The Koenig case was an exception; it was in his community.

In one recorded interview, Keyes discussed his methods:

"Back when I was smart, I would let them come to me," he said, adding that he would go to isolated areas far from home. "There's not much to choose from ... but there's also no witnesses."

Keyes was proud he'd gone undetected so long. When asked for a motive, Anchorage police officer Bell recalls, Keyes said, "'A lot of people ask why and I would be like: Why not?'"

"He liked what he was doing," says FBI Special Agent Jolene Goeden. "He talked about getting a rush out of it, the adrenaline, the excitement."

Goeden says Keyes provided information for eight victims, some more specific than others. He also alluded to other victims, and said he killed fewer than 12 people altogether. In one case, he claimed a body was recovered and the death ruled accidental; he wouldn't say more.

Investigators say they independently verified almost everything he told them. "It would have been impossible to make some of these details up," prosecutor Feldis says.

They tried to get Keyes to identify more victims. But he balked at even providing their gender.

There was an exception.

Shortly after Keyes confessed to Koenig's murder, the prosecutors told him they knew he'd killed others and said his computers were being searched. Keyes knew he'd stored information in them about two victims.

It was time to clear up a mystery in a small town 3,000 miles away.

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It was about 8 p.m. on April 6, 2012, and police Lt. George Murtie was home in Essex, Vt., when a local FBI agent called.

Nearly 10 months had passed since Bill and Lorraine Currier, a couple in their 50s, had disappeared. They were presumed dead. Leads were still trickling in, but Murtie was surprised to hear authorities in Alaska had a man in custody who'd confessed to killing the couple and disposing of their bodies in an abandoned farmhouse.

An Essex officer for 28 years, Murtie knew every inch of his community, including the location of that farmhouse. He headed out there that night with another detective, only to discover it had been demolished. They checked some nearby buildings but found nothing.

Several weeks later, when Murtie questioned Keyes by phone, he found him matter-of-fact when discussing how he'd killed the Curriers.

"I would describe it as if I was talking to a contractor about the work I was going to have done and he was describing the work he had done in the past," Murtie recalls. "There was no emotion or anything. Just flat."

Keyes confirmed details of a nightmarish sequence of events later outlined by Vermont authorities:

On June 2, 2011, Keyes flew into Chicago, intending to kidnap and kill. He carried a gun and silencer. He drove more than 750 miles to Essex, a bedroom community just outside Burlington. He checked into a motel he'd stayed at in 2009 -- he buried weapons and supplies in the area at that time -- and began scouting a house that suited his purposes: No children or dogs. No car in the driveway. A place he could be reasonably sure of where the bedroom was located.

In the early moments of June 9, Keyes cut the phone lines and removed a window fan to enter the garage. Grabbing a crowbar, he smashed a window into the house and, wearing a headlamp to navigate the darkness, rushed into the Curriers' bedroom. He forced them into their Saturn and bound them with zip ties.

They drove a few miles to the farmhouse where Keyes tied Bill Currier to a stool. Going back to the car, he saw Lorraine Currier had broken her restraints and was running toward the road: Keyes chased and tackled her, forcing her back to the building.

Bill Currier had somehow broken the stool and was shouting, "Where's my wife?" Keyes hit him with a shovel, then shot him. He sexually assaulted and strangled Lorraine Currier and put both bodies in garbage bags. He then drove into New York state, and dumped the Curriers' stolen gun and parts of the weapon he'd used into a reservoir in Parishville, N.Y. FBI dive teams recovered both. Authorities were unable to find the Curriers' bodies.

Murtie was struck by Keyes' confidence.

"There was an enormous risk he had to take to go into a neighborhood he's unfamiliar with, into a house of people he's unfamiliar with and remove them in their own vehicle," he says. "A rational-thinking person would think the chances of getting caught are very high."

During the interviews, Keyes sometimes clammed up and threatened to stop talking if publicly identified as a suspect in the Curriers' murders. Vermont authorities held off as Alaska investigators pressed for more information.

"Why don't you give us another name?" asked Russo, a federal prosecutor.

Keyes was conflicted -- he wanted his story out there, but worried about the impact it would have on friends and family (he has a daughter believed to be 10 or 11), says Goeden, the FBI agent. He rebuffed all appeals to bring peace to others.

"Think about your loved ones," Doll urged. "Wouldn't you want to know if they're never coming home?"

He mulled it over and returned another day with his answer.

"I'd rather think my loved one was on a beach somewhere,' he said, "other than being horribly murdered."

__

Israel Keyes never provided another name.

He killed himself Dec. 2, three months before his scheduled trial in the Koenig case. The FBI is analyzing his two bloodstained pages, with writing on both sides, but they apparently don't contain victims' names.

His suicide leaves investigators and Koenig's family disappointed, angry and frustrated.

"We deserved our day in court and we didn't get it," says James Koenig, Samantha's father.

Months before Keyes' past was disclosed, Koenig believed his daughter was not his only victim. He and volunteers set up a Facebook page called, "Have You Ever met Israel Keyes? Possible Serial Killer." It includes photos of Keyes and maps.

Meanwhile, investigators have used Keyes' financial and travel records to piece together a timeline of his whereabouts from Oct. 4, 2004, to March 13, 2012. He traveled throughout the United States and made short trips into Canada and Mexico.

The FBI is seeking the public's help. On Jan. 16, a Dallas bureau press release stated Keyes was "believed to have committed multiple kidnappings and murders" across the country starting in 2001. It's looking for anyone who had contact with him on Feb. 12-16, 2012, when he was believed to be in various Texas cities.

More appeals are expected in other places.

FBI agents in Seattle and in Albany, N.Y., also are working with state and local authorities to try to verify tips from people who reported seeing Keyes. Unsolved homicides are being checked, too, to determine if Keyes was in the area at the time.

But definitive evidence? That'll be hard to come by.

Feldis, the prosecutor who heard Keyes' first confession, says it's likely the true scope of his crimes will never be known.

"There's a lot more out there that only Israel Keyes knows," he says, "and he took that to his grave."
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Post by Wrapitup Fri Jan 25, 2013 9:15 pm

Cannot read this right now. Just too much!! But, thank you for posting it.

This was one SICK person!!
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Post by Wrapitup Wed Feb 06, 2013 5:56 pm

Adam Silverman, The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press4:59p.m. EST February 6, 2013

Israel Keyes, who killed himself in an Alaskan jail, admitted killing at least eight people nationwide.

BURLINGTON, Vt. -- The suicide note of serial killer Israel Keyes has been deciphered by investigators but offers no clues to the multiple murders he said he committed across the country during a 14-year spree, the FBI said Wednesday. The note was found soaked in blood in the Anchorage, Alaska, prison cell where Keyes killed himself two months ago.

Keyes, 34, who admitted murdering Bill and Lorraine Currier of Essex, Vt., in June 2011, scrawled out the handwritten note in pencil on sheets from a yellow legal pad, Mary Rook, FBI special agent in charge for Alaska, said in a statement Wednesday.

He killed himself Dec. 2 by slashing his left wrist with a razor blade hidden in the shaft of a pencil, and by strangling himself with a bed sheet, investigators have said. The note was discovered crumpled and illegible beneath his body.

The note was sent to the FBI lab in Quantico, Va., for analysis, and technicians were able to restore the message. Police had hoped the suicide note would provide information about other people Keyes killed or provide at least some information to chase, but the document did not, Rook said.

"The FBI concluded there was no hidden code or message in the writings," Rook said. "Further, it was determined that the writings do not offer any investigative clues or leads as to the identity of other possible victims. The FBI does not offer any commentary as to the meaning of these writings."

The four-page note, released as a black-and-white scan, remains difficult to read in its entirety. Keyes' cursive handwriting scrawls across the pages of crinkled, stained paper. Some passages are scratched out. One section is written sideways on the page, stretching from the bottom of the sheet to the top. The edges of the paper are torn, and some pieces are missing, taking the writing with them.

The FBI has no plans to release a typewritten "translation" of the note, said Supervisory Special Agent for Anchorage Eric Gonzalez.

"We're just releasing the enhanced writings," Gonzalez wrote in an email to the Burlington (Vt.) Free Press. "People will have to draw their own conclusion as to their meaning."

The sections of Keyes' note that are legible refer largely to death and deception — frequently in rhyming verse.

"You may have been free, you loved living your lie, fate had its own scheme, crushed like a bug you still die," Keyes wrote in one passage.

At other points, he rails against American culture, criticizing big cars, office jobs, consumerism and over-consumption, diplomas, idolizing celebrities and more.

Keyes was in prison in Anchorage awaiting trial on federal charges arising from the February 2012 abduction, rape and murder of Samantha Koenig, 18, a local coffee-cart worker. He was jailed in a state facility because Alaska has no standalone federal prisons.

Telling investigators he had been "two different people" for 14 years, Keyes admitted to murdering at least eight people nationwide, including four in Washington state, one on the East Coast whose body he dumped in New York state, the Curriers in Vermont and Koenig in Alaska.

Investigators say Keyes hinted at other victims, and the total could be as high as 12. The authorities said they found his claims credible.

The only people he admitted murdering by name were Koenig and Bill and Lorraine Currier, because he knew the police could link him to those killings. But he was coy about all the other slayings.

FBI agents who interviewed Keyes extensively after his arrest in Texas in March 2012 say he killed because he enjoyed it. He was a particularly methodical mass murderer who often traveled far from home in Anchorage to find random victims.

He targeted the Curriers, a couple in their 50s who lived near the hotel where he was staying, because he thought the layout of their home would make it easy for him to break in late at night, storm the bedroom and surprise the sleeping pair.

He took them to a nearby abandoned farmhouse where he killed them, then left their bodies in bags in the basement. The house was later torn down. The Curriers' remains have never been found.

Keyes abducted Koenig a year ago as she closed the small parking-lot coffee stand where she was working alone at about 8 p.m., took her to a shed at his home, raped her and strangled her. Then he left for a cruise.

He returned to Alaska, posed Koenig's body with a current newspaper and sent a ransom demand to her family. Then he left Anchorage again and traveled across the Southwest and Texas, using Koenig's debit card to withdraw the ransom money from her account. That left enough of a trail for the authorities to track his whereabouts, spot his car and arrest him.

His trial in Koenig's slaying was set for March, though federal prosecutors were considering seeking the death penalty, a move that probably would have delayed the case, when he killed himself.

"Okay, talk is over, words are flacid (sic) and weak," Keyes wrote toward the end of his rambling suicide note. "Back it with action or it all comes off cheap."

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Post by raine1953 Thu Feb 07, 2013 12:28 am

What a sick, sick monster he was! And a coward, to leave how many families wondering if he was the reason their loved ones are either gone or missing.
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This is a Must-Read/See. I have chills reading this. He was one sick f**k!!
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Can't read that before sleeping. But will read it in the morning for sure.
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Post by Wrapitup Wed Feb 13, 2013 5:14 pm

By RACHEL D'ORO 02/13/13 05:47 PM ET EST

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Confessed serial killer Israel Keyes was mistakenly issued a razor before he committed suicide, according to a report released Wednesday by the Alaska Department of Corrections that also said "it appears that razor was not retrieved."

The security lapse occurred when Keyes was the focus of heightened security after earlier being found with a makeshift handcuff key, the report states. He also was segregated from other inmates.

Keyes' body was found in his jail cell Dec. 2, months before he was to have gone on trial for the 2012 slaying of 18-year-old Anchorage barista Samantha Koenig. Keyes, 34, slit his left wrist with a razor blade and tied a noose around his neck and right foot, according to the report, which says the exact cause of death is unknown although it has been classified as a suicide.

Koenig's father has criticized the Corrections Department over the death, which he says robbed his family of their day in court. James Koenig said Wednesday he doesn't believe the official version released by the agency.

"I don't think it was mistaken at all," he said. "How do you mistakenly give someone in segregation a real razor blade?"

The state had previously denied an open records request from The Associated Press for details of events surrounding Keyes' death. Corrections spokeswoman Kaci Schroeder told the AP that officials later decided to take another look at the case and see what could be released publicly.

Schroeder said officials are not discussing what disciplinary actions, if any, were taken, over the lapse. However, she said because of this, any restriction for inmates are being posted on the cell doors in addition to being noted in a prisoner log.

Before he died, Keyes told investigators he had killed Koenig and at least seven other people across the country, including Bill and Lorraine Currier of Essex, Vt. Investigators believe there could be more victims.

Keyes, 34, was set for a March trial in federal court in the abduction and killing of Koenig.

She was abducted at gunpoint from a coffee stand just before closing time on Feb. 1, 2012. Investigators concluded she was raped and strangled. Her body was left in a shed outside Keyes' Anchorage home for two weeks while he went on a cruise.

The abduction gripped Anchorage as investigators held out hope that she remained alive.

Keyes was arrested in March in Lufkin, Texas. He had sought a ransom and used Koenig's debit card.

Three weeks after the arrest, Koenig's dismembered body was found in a frozen lake north of Anchorage.

Koenig and the Curriers were the only victims named by Keyes.

Keyes was in state custody in Anchorage because there are no federal prisons in Alaska.

The corrections report says Keyes was last seen alive at 10:13 p.m. Dec. 1.

A number of security checks were conducted periodically throughout the night and early morning.

Security officers are required to look into each cell and verify the prisoner is present and their status, the report says.

"Procedures call for security staff to visually observe the prisoner's uncovered skin. Keyes' death was not observed during those security checks," the report says.

At 5:57 a.m., Dec. 2, an official found what appeared to be blood along Keyes' bunk and floor. The report says this was only noticed after lights came on; before that, an LED nightlight in the overhead fixture was the only light source.

Medical personnel were called, and Keyes was declared dead at 6:13 a.m.

Keyes attempted to escape from the federal courthouse on May 23, 2012. After that, enhanced security measures were used on Keyes, including full restraints, a two-officer escort any time he was out of the cell, and restrictions on possession of razors and pencils.

He also was subjected to daily strip searches and cell searches.

On Sept. 11, the report says, Keyes was found guilty of possessing an object which had been modified as a handcuff key.

A disciplinary board found him guilty, and he had to serve 60 days – with 45 days suspended – in punitive segregation.

That sentence began Nov. 28, and his access to personal property was restricted.

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Post by raine1953 Tue Apr 09, 2013 12:50 am

Hours of recorded interviews between Israel Keyes and investigators reveal a detached serial killer who, after he was finally caught, had one main goal: to die. Keyes, apparently frustrated that the legal system couldn't accommodate his speedy execution wish, ended up taking his own life in December, about nine months after his arrest in connection with the kidnapping and murder of 18-year-old Anchorage barista Samantha Koenig.

The interviews were released to the public for the first time Monday, the result of an Alaska Dispatch court motion to unseal federal case files related to Keyes. Alaska Dispatch and the U.S. Attorney's Alaska office negotiated the release of most, but not all, of the records, agreeing to allow some details and files to remain private to accommodate either the sensitivity of the victims' families or the limited, ongoing needs of investigators.

The audio files contain discussions with Keyes that took place from April to July last year. In them, he seems unfazed by his capture. Articulate, level-headed and polite, he trades nibbles of information for time to puff on cigars, and seems confident it is he -- not investigators -- who has the upper hand. He wants to fire his attorney and is firm in his desire to keep the details of his crimes out of the media spotlight.

He believes there is no way he can avoid the death penalty in an American courtroom, nor does he want to. He pushes prosecutors to guarantee him death within a year. Do this for him, he tells them, and he will lead them through the details of his nationwide killing spree, excursions he would later refer to casually as “trips.”

'I want an execution date'
The series of 13 interviews begins April 2, 2012. The same day dive teams searched frozen Matanuska Lake for Koenig's body, an Anchorage Police officer and FBI agent visited Keyes at the Anchorage Correctional Complex. He'd been booked on fraud charges for using Koenig's bank card, but had yet to be indicted for her murder.

Homicide detective Monique Doll debriefs Keyes on the developments, explaining there's only so much information they can control. Only once Koenig is found will a press release come out, and it won't name Keyes. But, Doll cautions, it will only be a matter of time before the media puts two and two together, connecting Keyes, who was nabbed in Texas in March 2012 and transferred back to Anchorage, to the abduction and killing. Doll wants to know what it will take for Keyes to open up and share with investigators “more chapters to this book.”

“I'm happy to help, but it's on my terms,” Keyes tells Doll. “I'm not in this for the glory. I'm not trying to be on TV.”

By Wednesday of the same week, Koenig's body has been found, and U.S. prosecutors have gotten the OK to speak with Keyes about anything other than the Koenig case. Keyes has a court-appointed attorney who won't let his client talk about it.

As for what it will take for the self-admitted serial killer to offer a window into his dark side, Keyes minces no words. “I want an execution date. I want this whole thing wrapped up and over with as soon as possible,” he tells federal prosecutors during an interview.

Keyes adds: “I want my kid to have a chance to grow up ... you know ... she's in a safe place now, she's not going to see any of this. I want her to have a chance to grow up and not have all this hanging over her head.”

He expresses distaste at the idea of being stuck in jail for years, even decades, as the sins of the father come back to haunt his daughter, old crimes opened and maybe even solved as the FBI pieces together the clues they have to go on. The more time he's in jail, the harder it will be for his daughter to make a clean break. “I don't want stuff to keep popping up on the news about me,” he says.

'There is a firestorm coming'
In another interview, Keyes shows concerns for others close to him: “Everybody I’ve known, to a certain extent, you could say they’re my victims too, because they’re going to have to pay for this for years to come."

Prosecutors Kevin Feldis and Frank Russo tell Keyes they'll do what they can, but they need more details about him and his victims: Names, places, bodies, weapons and timelines. Without them, there's only so much they can do to bend to Keyes' wishes, they say.

“There is a firestorm coming,” Russo tells Keyes as he and Feldis explain the FBI has a standard playbook, and unless prosecutors have good reason to call agents off of the blueprint mission protocol -- sending leads out to offices far and wide -- the playbook will kick in.

“I don't care about your sentence. I care about closure to the families,” Russo says.

After about 20 minutes, Keyes starts bargaining: “I'll give you two bodies and a name. And if you want the rest of the story, I can give you one of the murder weapons and the rest of the story about what happened.”

Keyes proceeds to lead the prosecutors, FBI and Anchorage Police to Burlington, Vt. Using Google Maps, he shows investigators his travels there in June 2011. Following the Winooski River eastward to farm country, he homes in on an abandoned farmhouse where he says he killed a couple and disposed of their bodies. Navigating back to Burlington, using Google Maps' street view, he takes them on a tour past a Lowe’s, a drug store and the hotel where he'd stayed. And it was in this neighborhood, he said, that he went hunting for his kill.


Though he says he'd chosen Bill and Lorraine Currier at random, the region was methodically prepared. He'd been there before, had left guns buried nearby, including a .40-caliber gun he unearthed and used in the kidnapping and killing of the Curriers.

His victims, and his killing grounds, appeared to be crimes of opportunity. The Curriers were chosen because they had no dog and their home was easy for Keyes to enter and guess the layout. He chose the farmhouse for the murder because it was remote, although he'd also contemplated using an abandoned church he'd passed while driving there.

At some point, Doll pulls up a picture of the Curriers, whose first names Keyes hadn't been able to recall. “Are those the two people you killed?” Feldis asks.

“Yup,” Keyes replies.

An ongoing negotiation
After his confession to the murder of the Curriers, Keyes wasn’t nearly as forthcoming with information. In May, he confessed to having killed someone in New York, though he didn’t give a name or identify the location of the body. He also confessed to a bank robbery in New York.

Despite investigators’ and prosecutors’ best efforts, they never discovered the location or the identity of that victim, with Keyes taking the information to his grave. Keyes came tantalizingly close during a interview in early June, as Feldis prodded him for information. Keyes spends several moments in silence during the interview, weighing his options.

“Nope,” Keyes finally says. “No, I’m not going to give you a name today.”

Many of the remaining conversations take on the air of a negotiation, with Keyes debating with prosecutors over what would help him and what might hurt him in the public eye. The final interviews released Monday took place on July 26, 2012, less than a week after details linking Keyes to the murder of the Curriers in Vermont were leaked to the media.

The conversations were still cordial, but Keyes was obviously not pleased by the release of his name in a case far from Alaska. He said his biggest concern remained the details surrounding the Koenig case.

“If certain details of the Koenig case come out ... that’s kind of (the) worst-case scenario, and everything else I did before that is automatically gonna be assumed just as bad,” Keyes told prosecutors.

He admits that he’s “ticked off” about the Vermont case, but also downplays that case as less important, though the reasons aren’t explicit.

“Like I say, it doesn’t matter,” Keyes said. “As far as Vermont goes, everybody already assumes I did it. Even my own family pretty much assumes I did it.”

Keyes’ public defender, Rich Curtner, tells prosecutors that Keyes’ family saw the news even before Curtner himself did.

Despite the setback, Russo continues to try to persuade Keyes to open up about other cases. Keyes, now even more worried about the gruesome details of his crimes being made public, is still tight-lipped.

So Russo suggests a compromise, asking Keyes if he would be willing to just gives names or locations of victims, leaving out the details of the murders.

“It’s sort of a quantity versus quality,” Russo says.

Keyes didn’t fold that day, or ever, before being found in his Anchorage jail cell on a December morning months later, having cut his own wrist and strangled himself with a bed sheet wrapped around his neck and attached to one of his ankles.

In his final interview, Keyes made a chilling reference to the possibility of a death by his own hand, rather than waiting on the government to do it for him.

“The bottom line is ... we already all know how this ends,” says Keyes, laughing. “So all I care about is what happens between now and whenever it ends.

"And if things don’t go the way I want,” he says, laughing again, “I don’t need you guys.”
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Post by NiteSpinR Tue Apr 09, 2013 2:38 am

He was truthfully a very sick individual and if he really was so worried about his daughter's future and the "Sins Of The Father" popping up and effecting her life, he should have been able to stop himself from murdering innocent people. He was obviously a control freak, striving to control the lives of his victims, Law Enforcement, all future events related to his crimes. Then in his final act he took control away from the families of his victims and the Justice they deserved.
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Post by Wrapitup Tue Apr 09, 2013 4:22 pm

I second that!! This is one difficult, sad, horrific thread to read.
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Post by raine1953 Tue Apr 09, 2013 6:16 pm

Before Israel Keyes killed himself in his jail cell Dec. 2, he had numerous conversations with prosecutors and investigators about his crimes, including confessing to the kidnapping and murders of 18-year-old Anchorage barista Samantha Koenig in February 2012 and couple Bill and Lorraine Currier in Vermont in 2011. As the increasingly bizarre case unfolded, many of the documents in the investigation were kept secret. After Keyes' death, Alaska Dispatch filed a motion in federal court requesting that the previously sealed materials be made public, agreeing to some caveats for sensitive details that could have a negative effect on the families of Keyes' victims or investigations that remain ongoing. On Monday, the interviews were released.
There are several interviews at the link below. I can see no way to embed them.

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Post by raine1953 Wed May 01, 2013 9:42 pm

The serial killer who committed suicide in an Anchorage jail late last year confessed to murdering at least 11 people across the country. But Israel Keyes didn’t name names. And as investigators try to figure out who he killed, they’re running into a surprising stumbling block: There is no congressionally mandated national database for missing adults.

In a dimly lit back office at the Anchorage Police Department, a team of investigators is trying to figure out serial killer Israel Keyes’ movements. They’ve laid out a map showing where he traveled and where he may have killed other people. Because Israel Keyes killed himself, they’re trying to make this map speak for him, but it’s difficult because of the kinds of victims Keyes picked. APD officer Jeff Bell interrogated Keyes extensively. He says Keyes believed had a special power.

“He claimed that he could look at people and just look like they would be more missed than others.”

With three exceptions, Keyes took the names of his victims to the grave. From their hours of interrogation, the team knows that Keyes killed at least 11 people. From what he told them, they believe there are at least 8 others.

Bell points to the large map of the United States, on his wall detailing the places that Keyes traveled to over nearly a decade. Places like Oakland, Seattle, Indianapolis, Mobile, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, where he may have killed people.

“On this map of the United States, there’s probably a dozen trips or so since 2007 that he took that we were able to determine where he flew into and that he rented a car.”
The names that they know about are a couple in Essex, Vermont and Samantha Koenig of Anchorage, a girl who was selling coffee at an espresso cart when Keyes abducted and killed her. To find the other victims, the investigators take a location Keyes flew to. If he rented a car there, they ask the rental car company how many miles he put on the car. Bell says then they draw a circle on the map to indicate where he could have driven:

“That a good example in Texas. There’s 2,600 miles on the car. He’s there for about 13 days. and if you do 1,300 miles from Houston, Texas, you encompass 13,14 – 15 states. So we have to then, look in all of those states for victims.”


Close up view of map tracking Keye’s movements in Washington and Oregon. Photo by Daysha Eaton.
But potential victims aren’t easy to find. There are all kinds of different databases investigators have to search. Bell went to them looking for leads and what he got back was a huge stack of paper.

“I remember getting the list of missing people and it was depressing because it was a list of papers that was at least three inches thick.”

Bell isn’t alone. The FBI’s lead agent on the Keyes case, Jolene Goeden, says she wishes there was a better option:

“Unlike children, where you have a the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. There is no such thing for adults.”

Goeden says if a comprehensive national database for missing adults existed, it could be a game changer in the Keyes case.

“It would have been huge because we, we have a very good timeline of Keyes’ travels and his whereabouts. Like for example, we know that in April of 2009 he committed a homicide and the victim is buried in upstate New York. We know that, we have a general idea of where that victim was taken from in terms of geography. And without that type of database, we’re literally going from state to state or county to county.”

It’s a frustration for law enforcement across the country, whenever they have to look for missing adults.

It’s also frustrating for family members. Samantha Koenig, was likely one of Keyes’ last victims, Koenig’s father, James, a burly man with icy blue eyes holds back tears as he talks about the time his daughter was missing.

“I miss her laugh and her smile and her eyes and hearing daddy come out of her mouth. That’s one of the greatest things to hear is my name called from her voice. That’s the hardest part of my days anymore is waking up and reliving it everyday in the hopes its a nightmare and she’s gonna come walking through the door any minute.”

Todd Matthews helps run the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, or NAMUS database — out of the University of North Texas. NAMUS is grant-funded by the National Institute of Justice and Bell and Goeden say it’s the best database they’ve found in their investigation into who else Keyes may have killed. But Matthews says, it doesn’t have long-term funding and is not required by Congress.

“A federal mandate would help to bring the compliance and force people to do what they need to do to get the cases into the system. You know, a one-stop shop.”

A one-stop shop, that officer Bell says offers the best hope for solving the mystery of who else Keyes killed.

“I still look, I still look at home. You know I’ll be at home at night … You always feel like you’ve missed something or that you … I go back through his computer – agent Goeden and I both, thinking that we missed something and that there’s gonna be an obvious clue that stands out that we missed.”

In Alaska alone, there are more than 200 open cases of missing persons, both children and adults. Some estimates put the number of unidentified missing people in the whole U.S. at around 40,000. Somewhere among them are Keyes’ other victims.
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I went searching for the map from Raine's Link posted above and found this instead.
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FBI posts Alaska Serial Killer, Israel Keyes, Suicide Note Found Under Body
They are calling this a suicide note... I don't read that here... Instead the babblings of a VERY SICK MIND!

Where will you go, you clever little worm, if you bleed your host dry?
Back
in your ride, the night is still young, streetlights push back the
black I neat rows. Off to the right a graveyard appears, lines of
stones, bodies molder below. Turn away quick, bob your head to the seat,
as straight through that stop sign you roll loaded truck with lights
off slams into you broadside, your flesh smashed as metal explodes.
You may have been free, you loved living your lie, fate had its own scheme crushed like a bug you still die.
Soon,
now, you'll join those ranks of dead or your ashes the wind will soon
blow. Family and friends will shed a few tears, pretend it's off to
heaven you go. But the reality is you were just bones and meat, and with
your brain died also your soul. Send
the dying to wait for their death in the comfort of retirement homes,
quietly/quickly say "it's for the best" it's best for you so their fate
you'll not know. Turn a blind eye back to the screen, soak in your
reality shows. Stand in front of your mirror and you preen, in a plastic
castle you call home.
Land
of the free, land of the lie, land of scheme Americanize! Consume what
you don't need, stars you idolize, pursue what you admit is a dream,
then it's American die.
Get
in your big car, so you can get to work fast, on roads made of dinosaur
bones. Punch in on the clock and sit on your ass, playing stupid ass
games on your phone. Paper on your wall, says you got smarts. The test
that you took told you so, but you would still crawl like the vermin you
are, once your precious power grids blown.
Land of the free, land of the lie, land of the scheme, Americanize.
Now
that I have you held tight I will tell you a story, speak soft in your
ear so you know that it's true. You're my love at first sight and though
you're scared to be near me, my words penetrate your thoughts now in an
intimate prelude.
I
looked in your eyes, they were so dark, warm and trusting, as though you
had not a worry or care. The more guiless the game the better potential
to fill up those pools with your fear.
Your
face framed in dark curls like a portrait, the sun shone through
highlights of red. What color I wonder, and how straight will it turn
plastered back with the sweat of your blood.
Your
wet lips were a promise of a secret unspoken, nervous laugh as it burst
like a pulse of blood from your throat. There will be no more laughter
here.
I feel your body
tense up, my hand now on your shoulder, your eyes…Forget the lady called
luck she does not abide near me for her powers don't extend to those
who are dead.
[illegible lines]
My pretty captive butterfly colorful wings my hand smears…punishment and tears.
Violent
metamorphosis, emerge my dark moth princess…come often and worship on
the altar of your flesh…You shudder…and try to shrink far from me. I'll
have you tied down and begging to become my stolkholm sweetie.
Okay,
talk is over, words are placid and weak. Back it with action or it all
comes off cheap. Watch close while I work now, feel the electric shock
of my touch, open your trembling flower, or your petals I'll crush.


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Post by NiteSpinR Tue May 14, 2013 11:20 pm

May 14, 2013

A serial killer who committed suicide in an Alaska jail last year confessed to murdering at least 11 people across the country. But Israel Keyes didn't name names, and investigators trying to figure out who he killed are running into a major stumbling block: There is no unified, mandatory national database for missing persons.

One of the few known victims was Anchorage resident Samantha Koenig. She was selling coffee at an espresso stand outside a gym when Keyes abducted and killed her. Her father, James, a burly man with icy blue eyes, holds back tears as he talks about the ordeal.

"I miss her laugh and her smile and her eyes and hearing 'Daddy' come out of her mouth," he says. "That's one of the greatest things to hear, is my name called from her voice."

Even though the mystery of his own daughter's disappearance has been solved, Koenig has stayed involved with advocates for missing persons, trying to figure out who else Keyes killed.

Struggling To Piece Together Different Databases

In a dimly lit back office at the Anchorage Police Department, investigators are piecing together Keyes' travels on a map. They say he may have killed other people in places he traveled to over the past decade. And he traveled a lot: to Seattle, Los Angeles, Houston and Chicago, among other cities.
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Anchorage police officer Jeff Bell says that because Keyes killed himself, they're trying to make this map of travels speak for him, but it's difficult because of the kinds of victims he picked.

"He claimed that he could look at someone and decide [that] some people just look like they would be more missed than others," Bell says.

Bell, who interrogated Keyes extensively, says Keyes preyed on people in remote locations, like in parks and along trails. With only a few exceptions, Keyes took the names of his victims to the grave. And Bell says using multiple existing missing persons databases run by many different parties — state, county and local officials as well as nonprofits — is inconsistent, confusing and overwhelming.

"I remember getting the list of missing people and it was depressing because there was a printed stack of papers that was at least 3 inches thick," Bell says.

Although Bell says it sometimes seems futile, he still rakes through evidence and combs through the killer's home computer, hoping to identify other victims.

"You always feel like you've missed something or that there's gonna be an obvious clue that stands out that we missed."

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Bell isn't working the Keyes case alone. The FBI's lead agent, Jolene Goeden, wishes there were a better option, too. Using what they've learned from the Keyes case, Bell and Goeden say it's critical that there be a single, national database for missing adults that everybody uses.

"Unlike children, where you have the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, there is no such thing for adults," Goeden says.

But the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is federally mandated and has long-term government funding. The closest thing to that for adults is the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, or NamUs, which is funded by the Justice Department. But it's not required by Congress and doesn't have a long-term funding source.

Todd Matthews, director of communications for NamUs, helps run the database out of the University of North Texas. "A federal mandate would help to bring the compliance and force people to do what they need to do to get the cases into the system," he says. "You know, a one-stop shop."

Creating the unified database that many local, state and national law enforcement officials want has become something of a cause for Koenig.

Knowing the fate of his daughter, Koenig says, is still a struggle. "That's the hardest part of my days anymore, is waking up and reliving it every day in the hopes it's a nightmare, and she's gonna come walking through the door any minute."

But knowing, he says, is better than not knowing. Estimates put the number of unidentified human remains in the U.S. at around 40,000. Somewhere among them are likely the names of Israel Keyes' other victims.


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Post by raine1953 Tue Aug 13, 2013 1:58 am

(CNN) -- Federal agents say they've now linked 11 killings to admitted serial killer Israel Keyes and are looking into possible ties to killings in other countries.
Keyes killed himself in December, about nine months after his arrest in the slaying of an Anchorage, Alaska, coffee barista. Police said he admitted to at least seven other slayings, from Vermont to Washington state, before his death.
In a statement issued Monday afternoon, the FBI office in Anchorage said agents have now added three more to that grim tally, based on his statements:
-- a pale-skinned woman in an older car, "possibly having a wealthy grandmother"
Keyes was arrested in 2012 in the abduction and slaying of Samantha Koening, a coffee barista in Anchorage, Alaska.
Keyes was arrested in 2012 in the abduction and slaying of Samantha Koening, a coffee barista in Anchorage, Alaska.

-- one in which the victim was posed to make it look like the death had been an accident
-- one "in Texas or a surrounding state" that he had denied committing before his death.
Travels abroad
They also asked the public to share any information they had regarding Keyes' travels in Canada, Mexico and Belize between 2001 and 2008.
"Keyes traveled internationally and it is unknown if he committed any homicides while outside of the United States," the FBI statement said.
Keyes lived in upstate New York at one point and "reported several trips to Montreal in which he sought out prostitutes" and drove through western Canada on his way to Alaska, where he lived before his arrest.
'A murder addict'
An Anchorage police officer described Keyes as a kind of murder addict who hunted victims in remote locations like parks, campgrounds or hiking trails.
An Army veteran and contractor, Keyes studied other serial killers but "was very careful to say he had not patterned himself after any other serial killer," Detective Monique Doll said in December.
No remorse
Keyes killed himself by slitting one of his wrists and strangling himself with bedding, police said. He left behind an extensive, four-page note that expressed no remorse nor offer any clues to other slayings.
Investigators said he had "a meticulous and organized approach to his crimes," stashing weapons, cash and items used to dispose of bodies in several locations to prepare for future crimes.
Authorities have dug up two of those caches -- one in Eagle River, Alaska, outside Anchorage, and one near a reservoir in the Adirondack Mountains of New York.
Keyes also said he robbed banks to finance his travels, and investigators have corroborated his role in two holdups, the FBI said.
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Post by Wrapitup Tue Aug 13, 2013 2:00 am

WOW!!!!!

Thanks for this article, Raine!

What a completel MADMAN he was! SO HORRIFIC!
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Post by HippyChick2 Fri Aug 16, 2013 2:24 pm

Wow. What a freak. Ppl like this could be living next door to you and you wouldn't even know. This is what makes me so paranoid, especially about dating. I sure don't want to be a victim.
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Post by NiteSpinR Fri Aug 16, 2013 2:31 pm

Boy I certainly agree with that Hippy!
Some guy smiles at me in a parking lot, I find myself digging around in my purse for my MACE! LOL!
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Post by HippyChick2 Mon Aug 19, 2013 5:42 pm

Some days, they all look like potential psycho's!
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