He said he spent time in the woods and hunted "anything with a heartbeat.". All rights reserved. (CBS/AP) ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska serial killer Israel Keyes buried three victims in the state of Washington and submerged two others in a lake there but refused to provide many more details about their whereabouts, according to interviews released Tuesday by the FBI. But some of the sessions, as well as a psychological evaluation of Keyes, were kept sealed. He also told Roesch a version of his life history. He is not in a better place,Gardner saidbefore the service began. [29] He usually killed far from home, and never in the same area twice. [9] He also occasionally broke into houses with another youth, who subsequently avoided him after witnessing Keyes shoot an animal. He left her remains in the shed "You go fishing, or out hunting. I recently just completed all of Season 1 & 2 and all i can say is WOW. They lived at times without electricity and home-schooled the children. Through the interview process, he hinted about other victims. 2023 Reddit, Inc. All rights reserved. Sources: I got all of this information from the True Crime Bullsh** podcast hosted by Josh Hallmark. -. Keyes wouldn't say. Even more interestingly, Mike was a handyman at the VFW in Sequim, WA where Keyes was a member. Keyes was obsessed with guns from childhood. Then, in December of 2012, Keyes killed himself at the Anchorage jail. "I never got the sense that he accidentally told us something or got angry and something flew out of his mouth. Its a more comprehensive timeline, Gonzalez said of the updated breakdown of Keyes whereabouts. In March 2007,Keyes and his daughter moved to Anchorage, Alaska, to live with a woman he was dating. Among serial killers, Israel Keyes is an enigma. None of the law enforcement agents or attorneys whotalked to Keyes were willing tobe interviewedfor this story. Although this was not his first sexual assault, Keyes admitted that he stalked her from a tree line before "very violently sexually assaulting" the girlwhom he estimated to be between 14 and 18 years of ageby knifepoint. Keyes had also expressed mild interest in the mass murder's perpetrator, James Holmes. ", Flowers are left at an overlook of Matanuska Lake on April 26, 2012. But Keyes' motivation wasn't regular. The girl was a teenager, maybe between the ages of 14 and 18, he told investigators. He saidone of his victims was bludgeoned to death, while another was dumped in nearby Lake Crescent. The Truth About Serial Killer Israel Keyes' Childhood - Grunge [20] He cooperated to an extent, confessing to some of his crimes, and stated a wish to be executed within a year. SERIAL KILLER PROFILE: Israel Keyes she asked. Keyes admitted to violent crimes as early as 1996, with the violent sexual assault of a teenage girl in Oregon. Keyes told agents he weighed down at least one body with anchors and dumped it from a boat into 100 feet of water in Lake Crescent, 18 miles west of Port Angeles. He wasn't picky about his victims, he said. Deceased man who worked for Makah Nation called serial killer One victim whose body was discovered, and cause of death was determined to be accidental. He and his wife lived in cabin in Mount Enterprise at the time. He left behind an extensive four-page note that expressed no remorse nor offered any clues to other slayings. Keyes told investigators his victims were male and female, and that the murders occurred in fewer than 10 states, but he did not reveal all locations. After his arrest for the Koenig murder, Keyes told investigators he abducted a woman on the East Coast on April 9, 2009, and transported her to upstate New York, where he murdered and buried her. Sitting in jail in Anchorage, charged in the kidnapping and murder of a teenage Anchorage barista, FBI agents and an Anchorage police detective interviewed Keyes for dozens of hours between April and October of 2012. Detectives caught Keyes, 34, with Koenig's debit card in Texas and arrested him in April. He began reupholstering the boat after in the weeks after he bought it. [11] For years, some of the Keyes children had been forced to sleep in a tent due to their cabin's small size. "My whole issue is to keep control of it," Keyes told them. After Koenig's murder, Keyes demanded ransom money and police were able to track withdrawals from the account as he moved throughout the southwestern U.S.[25] During that time, the police controversially refused to release surveillance video of Koenig's abduction.[47]. "He wanted to avoid numerous trials in different jurisdictions," said Goeden. SERIAL KILLER II: Murderer tied to five slayings while living Keyes lived in Washington State before moving to Anchorage in 2007. He had apparently been enjoying the "cat and mouse" game with authorities who were trying to get information from him and he looked for things in return for clues he gave. "I only left that stuff there because I was planning on using it eventually," he said. He had developed a certain intimacy with his interrogators. He talked about a need for control, a theme in his interactions with investigators as well as his killings. Keyes indicated he weighed the body or bodies down with four to five milk jugs. This was mentioned in an FBI news conference, its not clear whether this victim is unique or one of his previous Washington victims. Keyes made friends among the soldiers and drank a lot, he said. In the interviews, Keyes confessed in detail to killing a middle-aged couple, Bill and Lorraine Currier, in Vermont in June 2011. Keyes also admired and studied other serial killers, but actively shunned media attention for his crimes as he was fearful for his family and being labelled a "copycat" for his admiration of Bundy and other murderers. Israel Keyes Daughter, Family | Israel Keyes Wife and Parents A male-female couple that was killed in Washington state between 2001-2005, its unclear whether they were Washington state residents or were abducted from another state. Serial killers history a shock to those who knew him in After his honorable discharge in July 2001, he lived on the Makah Reservation with the mother of his daughter. Her dismembered body was pulled from a lake north of Anchorage two months after she went missing. Sometime after being extradited to Alaska, Keyes began talking, giving the FBI details of his crimes in bits and pieces. ISRAEL KEYES Yeah, Neah Bay's a boring town. Neah Bay, at the farthest northwestern tip of Washington, is best known as home to the Makah tribe legendary whale hunters. Keyes moved here after marrying a tribe member he met online. They started a family. Eric Johnson [driving): He lived there. He rented the house out. The amount of digging and investigative research Hallmark has done into Keyes is astonishing. Keyes would later tell investigators he was obsessed with guns as a boy, and began to hunt "anything with a heartbeat." He told them enough, however, for them to take him seriously. Upon returning to Anchorage on February 17, Keyes sent a photograph where it appeared Koenig was still alive, and demanded $30,000 ransom be placed in her bank account. The FBI said Keyes admitted frequenting prostitutes, but its unknown whether Keyes met any of his victims this way. Without giving any specifics, Gonzalez said the FBI did not know whether this murder occurred in Washington state. Among the crimes law enforcement believes Keyes may be connected to is the disappearance of 49-year-old Debra Feldman, who was last seen at her home in Hackensack, New Jersey, on April 8, 2009. Depoe Bay, OR is a 7 hour drive from Neah Bay where Keyes lived. According to the FBI case files Josh Hallmark obtained, the FBI spent a significant amount of time and resources investigating Sample as a possible victim. There has also been substantial internet chatter about the possibility of Keyes being involved with the 2004 disappearance of 21-year-old nursing studentMaura Murray, who went missing after crashing her car in Northern New Hampshire.