They let him feel like he was in control. He chose the Essex, Vermont, couple to kill for no reason beyond . Special Agent Jolene Goeden: He's very quickly in the house. The FBI believes that several more caches are buried and may contain evidence in other unsolved murders. Special Agent Jolene Goeden: He ultimately presents him with an identification card for Israel Keyes. Peter Van Sant: When he was asked about whether he'd killed anyone in Canada, what he'd say? To the best of their knowledge, none of Keyes victims lived in Clallam or Jefferson counties, Clallam County Sheriff Bill Benedict and Jefferson County Sheriff Tony Hernandez said Tuesday. Didn't touch it. ISRAEL KEYES [audio interview]: So, I knew I was going to have to knock him out or just kill him. In the interviews, Keyes confessed in detail to killing a middle-aged couple, Bill and Lorraine Currier, in Vermont in June 2011. NEWS REPORT: He used a disposable razor to slit his wrist. Show to feature 200 drones, more activities this weekend, Black Ball Transport cancelled its 2 p.m. Wednesday sailing Continue reading, Lions president lauded for volunteer efforts at numerous festivals, Jefferson Healthcare uses UV light to destroy pathogens, With Whidbey Island as a backdrop, a flock of brants, small geese, Continue reading, Deputy prosecuting attorney, public works, nurses are among jobs, Planning commission to bring proposals to council in March, Study confirms date on 13,900-year-old fragments, Lawmakers tackle high rents, mobile home park sales, Martinez awarded departments purple heart in December, City to pay $1.99 million. FBI investigators in Anchorage, Alaska, believe Keyes killed 11 people between 2001 and 2012, and five of the murders happened while he was living in Neah Bay. So, if Samantha is alive then we really need to find her quickly. Special Agent Colleen Sanders | FBI, Poulsbo, Washington: It's very much like a horror movie. We wrote them down. Special Agent Katherine Nelson | FBI, Anchorage, Alaska: Cell phone records, financial records, anything we could find out about his background, his travels. Tammy is related to Jovita L Shaw and Keaton Hawkins as well as 1 additional person. Keyes was obsessed with guns from childhood. NEWS REPORT: Police say this composite sketch of a man who may have been seen driving the couple's dark green Saturn sedan is a big break. Anything that would just tell us a better story about him. And they kind of lived apart from society. He described pouring Drano on the bodies before packing them into garbage bags. Most people I talked to couldnt believe it because he was such a good worker and a personable guy.. Go deep-sea diving, kayaking or surfing. John Smith: So, with Israel Keyes specifically he could dehumanize anybody if they rejected his world view. Special Agent Ted Halla: We asked Israel Keyes about Julie Harris and her death. The FBI was searching in an attempt to find them. We buy houses. She is a female registered to vote in Clallam County, Washington. So, she's doing all her normal things that she would do to get ready for closing. Israel Keyes in 1999 at the Air Assault School graduation, Fort Lewis, Washington. He bludgeoned her husband in the basement. Special Agent Colleen Sanders: He grew up poor. That's what this case is about. Frank Russo: Sure. She tried to fight him. Fourteen years. It's unclear if the investigators located the victim. He could fix about anything, is what I am told. FBI divers found the body of Samantha Koenig under the ice there in April 2012. Then, in December of 2012, Keyes killed himself at the Anchorage jail. And I said, "Well, what did you do with the fish?" [Photo: "Method of a Serial Killer" Screengrab]. ISRAEL KEYES [audio interview, April 17, 2012]: Something kind of changed in the way I thought, and I didn't want to do anything that would mess with kids or whatever. Keyes stated at least one of the bodies was disposed of in Crescent Lake in Washington, and he used anchors to submerge the body, the FBI said. And when they confronted him with photos, one in particular rattled him: it was a photo of a woman named Debra Feldman. Yeah, I'm impressed. To the best of their knowledge, none of Keyes victims lived in Clallam or Jefferson counties, Clallam County Sheriff Bill Benedict and Jefferson County Sheriff Tony Hernandez said Tuesday. Keyes wouldn't say. They started a family. And a comprehensive remaking of states approach to drug possession advances toward action in the Senate. Laney Louise Keyes (age 21) from Neah Bay, Wa and has no known political party affiliation. Surveillance video shows Samantha Koenig raising her arms in what looks like a robbery. 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. And immediately tie them up. Law enforcement in Alaska came face-to-face with Israel Keyes for the first time in 2012, after he was arrested in connection with the disappearance of a young woman kidnapped from a coffee. PORT ANGELES FBI agents have linked 11 killings to admitted serial killer Israel Keyes, including five murders from 2001 to 2006 while he lived in Neah Bay. Peter Van Sant: An upstanding member of the community? He intended on that trip to commit a homicide. How investigators used mind games to get a serial killer to talk. "This is entertainment for me," he said at one point. Neah Bay Map. But some of the sessions, as well as a psychological evaluation of Keyes, were kept sealed. Special Agent Jolene Goeden: For me the important thing is Samantha, and Bill and Lorraine, and Debra, and all the victims that we don't have identified. The FBI said Keyes admitted frequenting prostitutes, but its unknown whether Keyes met any of his victims this way. Peter Van Sant: Did you have a sense you were getting to know this young woman? Special Agent Jolene Goeden: I think he wanted to tell this story. Nothing stands out, really, about them. When the interviews were recorded, Keyes was a defendant in the kidnapping and murder of Samantha Koenig, 18, who was abducted from the Tudor Road drive-thru coffee stand where she worked in February of 2012. "I did them for myself. He talked about the public Israel Keyes, who lived with a nurse practitioner girlfriend and his school-aged daughter on a street in the Turnagain neighborhood where the neighbors included a Superior Court judge. NEWS REPORT: Serial killer Israel Keyes was found dead at the Anchorage Correctional Complex . U.S. ATTORNEY KEVIN FELDIS: So, give me something to work with. And he said he was aware of it, but that he was not involved in it. He stopped in the middle of the crime to smoke a cigar in the backyard, wet from a rainstorm. "I only left that stuff there because I was planning on using it eventually," he said. Sherri Odegaard: And then I went up and down every street in this town and screamed her name. Special Agent Jolene Goeden: That information was pushed out to law enforcement across that entire corridor. Special Agent Katherine Nelson: Keyes has often talked to investigators about using boats and also kayaks in the disposal of bodies. But before he would say more, Keyes began what would become a pattern for giving information. Special Agent Jolene Goeden: That note contained a picture of Samantha, and a long, typed out message that talked about putting $30,000 into Samantha's bank account. The FBI said Keyes sought many of his victims while hiking and camping. 2022 Anchorage Daily News. Peter Van Sant: What was it like to look into the eyes of Israel Keyes? Thompson also characterized Keyes as a kind and responsible father. Share. Select this result to view Tammy Lane Hawkins's phone number, address, and more. Officials released this photo of Israel Keyes at the time the FBI and the Anchorage Police Department were investigating the disappearance of Samantha Koenig in Anchorage in February 2012. Special Agent Jolene Goeden: This is the one item in all the things that we found that belonged to Keyes that actually had his fingerprint on it. He liked the survival skills aspect of military training, he said. Both sheriffs had been contacted by the FBI. Special Agent Jolene Goeden: Right through the window. He was 20. Prior to his death, Keyes had pointed the FBI to another victim. "He stated that there are two sides to him, but people know only one side," Roesch wrote. (Chuckles) You'll get the whole story eventually. Peter Van Sant: No radio, no television, no electricity nothing. Special Agent Katherine Nelson: If anyone has any information on Israel Keyes and his travels or if they have a family member that they think may have been potentially a victim of Israel Keyes, that they come forward to the FBI with that information. Janine Ledford, executive director of the Makah Cultural and Research Center, said many tribal members knew Keyes but now are reluctant to talk about him. In the late 2000s, Israel Keyes also spent time in California's wine country, including visiting the posh Sonoma town of Healdsburg in May of 2007. [laughs]. It was just random.". Keyes often shopped at Washburn General Store in Neah Bay, owner Greg Lovik said. Share Overview of Laney Louise Keyes Lives in: Neah Bay, Washington Age: 21 Gender: Female Laney Keyes's Voter Registration Registered to Vote In: Clallam County, Washington Marine Area 4 is the premier small boat fishery along the Washington coast. If you know somebody who knows something, get 'em to talk. The prehistoric population of the Makah was estimated to be between approximately 2000 - 4000 people. He chose the Essex, Vermont, couple to kill for no reason beyond the design of their home, he said. Peter Van Sant: When you raise your hands like that, it's usually because somebody's doing this [points finger like it's a gun]. Julie Harris was 12 years old when she disappeared from Colville, Washington, on March 3, 1996. SPECIAL AGENT JOLENE GOEDEN: Something to eat? A few months before his suicide, investigators found those macabre drawings. . Today there are roughly 1500 living in and around Neah Bay. Julie's murder is still unsolved. Cigars. He did work for the tribe, doing landscaping all over the village, Dulik said. I was looking for a fairly easy way to get into the garage. And right underneath is a plastic bag with a looked like a clipping and a photograph in it. They repeated the proposition: You give us information, we go out and look for bodies. He rented the house out. JEFF BELL: It's in the fridge. [pushes a notepad away from himself in disgust]. Frank Russo: It was just the act that we had to put on when we went in that room. Hold a bunch of your cards back. He was also interested in satanism at this time, and began to plan a satanic ritual killing involving a young woman. His biggest concern was that the details of his crimes would become public in the media. She's upstairs in the bedroom. And it really wasn't. Meredith Parker, general manager of the Makah tribe, issued this statement Tuesday afternoon: Out of the respect for the family of Mr. Israel Keyes, the Makah tribe will not be making any formal comment to the media related to Mr. Keyes time spent in Neah Bay. These skulls, drawn by serial killer Israel Keyes in his own blood, were found under his bed in his jail cell. But the Curriers were not going to go down without a fight. She was pregnant with their child when he got out of the Army, he told investigators. MICHELLE TASKER (at vigil): Flyers. Special Agent Jolene Goeden: As time went on, there was a tremendous amount of fear about what happened and- and who was in our community that could do something like this. Within hours of murdering Samantha, Israel Keyes left Anchorage for a Caribbean vacation with his family. FBI investigators in Anchorage, Alaska, believe Keyes killed 11 people between 2001 and 2012, and five of the murders happened while he was living in Neah Bay. Israel Keyes, 34, was arrested after search of the car he was driving uncovered Samantha Koenig's ID, her debit card, her cellphone and a gun along with a disguise that matched the man in the ATM photos. ", Then, finally, after three agonizing weeks . In addition, it is standard policy that the Makah tribe does not comment on any individuals employed or formerly employed by the tribal organization or its enterprises.. 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. We have been talking with the FBI and are making sure we are sharing information completely with them, Maynes said. Frank Russo: My reaction was a lot of these secrets were gonna die with him now. Copyright 2002 - 23 Drennan & Ford Funeral Home and Crematory. 2. Neah Bay resident Keaton Wayne Hawkins has died. Now, he killed himself. About 60 miles southeast of Neah Bay is another spectacular location, one of the deepest lakes in the U.S., which investigators suspect is also a watery grave. But before Keyes would agree to do that, he wanted something extraordinary in return: ISRAEL KEYES [audio interview]: I want an execution date. She seemed like she had a very good spirit. Frank Russo | Assistant U.S. Attorney, Anchorage, Alaska: At that point, we didn't really know, you know, was he the one who took and kidnapped Samantha Koenig? We wanted him to stand trial. The evaluation found that Keyes was sane and at the "high average" end of the intelligence spectrum. Anyone who might have information about Keyes or possible victims is asked to call the FBI at 800-CALL-FBI (800-225-5324). Investigators pressed for clues about other victims. The area is also great for sport fishing. Special Agent Katherine Nelson: We know that Keyes traveled to Canada quite extensively, and specifically said that he would go to Montreal. Bagels. For Samantha Koenig's loved ones, the news hit like a gut punch. Weve exhausted all our investigative leads, Gonzalez said. Special Agent Katherine Nelson: I think it's very likely. That strategy paid off when Keyes gave up the names of two victims, a married couple more than 4,000 miles from Anchorage, in Vermont. Peter Van Sant: And have been missing for some time. Lows will likely be below freezing Wednesday. Or was he someone who was just using a credit card that he found? ISRAEL KEYES [audio interview]: All right. A dinner will be served at the Neah Bay High School gymnasium following the graveside service. He said he spent time in the woods and hunted "anything with a heartbeat.". - I was just convinced that I had screwed up that time in Oregon because you know, I I let her go. ASST. Special Agent Jolene Goeden: Israel Keyes was not even on our radar. All rights reserved. The area where Keyes was working was a popular place for inner-tubers to float the Deschutes River. If she's getting any sleep. It was starting to look like Keyes could have victims across the United States. After he became a father he "tried to avoid situations" that might end with him hurting a child. You see somebody through the woods," he said. They're also hoping the public can help. Sometime after that assault, Keyes joined the U.S. Army. We just need some sort of it's that one lead, that one tip that's gonna bring her home. We have him, but we don't have Samantha. But Keyes' daughter was born after Julie Harris was murdered. She was a double amputee whose prosthetic feet were found by the Colville River a month after her disappearance. U.S. ATTORNEY FRANK RUSSO [off camera]: Hey Israel, how you doing? He grew up in a large family. Dezarae hasn't been in this area since she was 15. But that didn't happen. Samantha's boyfriend was quickly ruled out as a suspect. And what about those kill caches buried throughout the country? The woman was "feisty," he said. And he said "Yeah, I caught fish." The award-winning chef came to the Everett Performing Arts Center for a spicy cooking demo while fielding audience questions. What other murders had he committed? At the entryway, he cut the grass, put a sign up, and went through the village putting out plants and flowers and things.. Meredith Parker, general manager of the Makah tribe, issued this statement Tuesday afternoon: Out of the respect for the family of Mr. Israel Keyes, the Makah tribe will not be making any formal comment to the media related to Mr. Keyes time spent in Neah Bay. He left Koenigs body in a shed outside his Anchorage home for two weeks, according to the FBI. But we were not able to recover their bodies. The FBI believes Debra Feldman, 49, is the fourth known victim of Israel Keyes. (Erik Hill / ADN). Frank Russo: Given the way he looked at it and he started shaking a little bit, I would say she is definitely one of his victims. Before his suicide in Anchorage, Alaska, last year, Keyes led investigators to believe he had killed at least 11 people including five in Washington state during the time he was in Neah Bay. He was a loving dad, a doting father., Forensic psychologist Dr. Thomas Powelltold "Method of a Serial Killer" that Keyes was "well-respected as an employee" and was capable of maintaining normal relationships "from time to time.". Special Agent Jolene Goeden: We had hoped that that note was going to be clues and tips for us on and that he was finally going to give us all of the information on the homicides. Peter Van Sant [driving with John Smith]: John, where are we heading now? And he started to say something, and it just pissed me off and I just started pulling the trigger. The Makah Museum is open every day of the year, except Thanksgiving . The crime an abduction by a stranger that investigators said ended with Koenig being sexually assaulted and strangled in a shed in a West Anchorage neighborhood gripped the city and made national headlines. Keyes said his"retirement plan" was to build a dungeon in his home. Anchorage Assistant U.S. Attorney Frank Russo and his colleagues knew time was of the essence. It took the FBI's dive team 10 hours to recover Samantha's body. But now, the FBI wanted to know what had Israel Keyes done with Samantha Koenig? ISRAEL KEYES [video interview, July 26, 2012]: Even my own family pretty much assumes I did it, so [laughs]. The FBI is making them public for the first time. "It won't be easy by any means. With his murderous tools in hand, Keyes went hunting for victims and found himself outside the Currier house. Ask around. Bill and Lorraine Currier were chosen at random by Israel Keyes and abducted from their Essex, Vermont, home on June 8, 2011. Show to feature 200 drones, more activities this weekend, Black Ball Transport cancelled its 2 p.m. Wednesday sailing Continue reading, Lions president lauded for volunteer efforts at numerous festivals, Jefferson Healthcare uses UV light to destroy pathogens, With Whidbey Island as a backdrop, a flock of brants, small geese, Continue reading, Deputy prosecuting attorney, public works, nurses are among jobs, Study confirms date on 13,900-year-old fragments, Planning commission to bring proposals to council in March, Lawmakers tackle high rents, mobile home park sales, Martinez awarded departments purple heart in December, City to pay $1.99 million. He restrains Bill and Lorraine very quickly. Sign up forOxygen Insiderfor all the best true crime content. The FBI said Keyes was living in Maupin, Ore., at the time, and the abduction is believed to have occurred near that area. 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