An author's fight to get records unsealed. Special Agent Jolene Goeden: He ultimately presents him with an identification card for Israel Keyes. Investigators believe that Keyes killed and buried a victim in upstate New York in April 2009. Special Agent Jolene Goeden: Right away that Bill and Lorraine are missing. Michelle Tasker: Her boyfriend was supposed to pick her up that night. The kids earned money through under-the-table jobs cutting firewood or working on farms. You see somebody through the woods," he said. Special Agent Katherine Nelson: He said Canadians don't count. He's a 34-year-old man from Alaska who has a construction business, a small kind of quiet life. Peter Van Sant: Did he have a criminal record? State park land? In April, Keyes submitted to a 6.5-hour evaluation by Dr. Ronald Roesch, a Washington psychologist. ISRAEL KEYES [video interview, July 26, 2012]: Even my own family pretty much assumes I did it, so [laughs]. Keyes killed himself by slitting one of his wrists and strangling himself with bedding, police said. [pushes a notepad away from himself in disgust]. They were taken to a farmhouse and murdered. For Samantha Koenig's loved ones, the news hit like a gut punch. And he had tied it up with baling wire and weights. 20 $$ - $$$ Quick Bites, Seafood, American. That's what this case is about. That's great. 2001 - 2007 9/28/1999 Lakewood, Washington Vehicle rental (Enterprise) - Lakewood, Washington. They started a family. If you do that then I'll tell you about all the people I killed." What we said is the more murders you give us, the more likely it is that they're going to want to impose the death penalty on you. Its Day 52. Special Agent Jolene Goeden: This one is very different. Its the best timeline that we have. After talking to Keyes, investigators realized they had a depraved killer on their hands, and that Samantha was likely not Keyes' only victim. However, we do not have any forensic evidence to to make that connection. Michelle Tasker | Koenig family friend: [visibly upset] He should have been executed. In his teenage years, he renounced the Christian faith, which led to a schism between him and his father. Edmonds canceled a contract with the nonprofit that helps homeless people amid fraud allegations against Robert Smiley. But just when Keyes committed his first murder is still an open question. Exactly. U.S. ATTORNEY KEVIN FELDIS [video interrogation]: And you had told us it wasn't long when you got out of the military that you killed somebody and it was that sort of feeling that you needed to do something. If she's getting any sleep. It's not what we wanted. The Curriers vanished on a night in June 2011, leaving their family bewildered. I don't have the lab report back. And it may take a long time," she said. Samantha's dad deposited $5,000 into her account. All Rights Reserved.Funeral Home Website by Batesville | Funeral Planning and Grief Resources. Keyes talked again to interviewers on Nov. 29. Peter Van Sant: Any idea who this person may be? 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 stand. JEFF BELL: Get him a cigar and let him since we got ya over here. And he teased his interrogators with details of other murders: ISRAEL KEYES [audio interview]: I'll tell you about everything. The occasional candy bar. Neah Bay resident Keaton Wayne Hawkins has died. Peter Van Sant: An upstanding member of the community? Peter Van Sant: And what was the couple's name? Keyes also told authorities he broke into as many as 30 homes throughout the country, and he talked about covering up a homicide through arson. Neah Bay Map. 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. She seemed like she had a very good spirit. Two photos of Israel Keyes. Special Agent Jolene Goeden: That information was pushed out to law enforcement across that entire corridor. Or he'd plan a trip to a particular state, knowing he already had a cache there. Peter Van Sant: And what was your reaction to that? So, they knew something was wrong. The Makah Tribe has been providing tribal youth with opportunities to work with real-world data, in hopes it will spark an interest in a career in environmental science and natural resources management with the tribe. It took the FBI's dive team 10 hours to recover Samantha's body. And I said, "Well, what did you do with the fish?" The cache used in the Currier attack has never been found, but Keyes told the FBI where they could find a weapon he had used in Vermont. Didn't touch it. He cut phone lines before bursting into the bedroom where the animal hospital technician and medical practice worker slept. And he said "Yeah, I caught fish." Or was he someone who was just using a credit card that he found? 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. Eric Johnson: An upstanding member of the community, yeah. When he killed himself in jail, the 34-year-old Keyes was awaiting a federal trial in the rape and strangulation murder of 18-year-old Samantha Koenig, who was abducted February 2012 from the Anchorage coffee stand where she worked. The FBI said Keyes sought many of his victims while hiking and camping. 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. They searched his boat he said a homemade anchor might have been of interest. Keyes often shopped at Washburn General Store in Neah Bay, owner Greg Lovik said. NEAH BAY Israel Keyes was described as a model citizen while he lived in Neah Bay between 2001-2007, fathering a girl, working for the Makah tribe and being a productive part of this tribal . And when he asks the driver for identification. NEWS REPORT: Serial killer Israel Keyes was found dead at the Anchorage Correctional Complex . Peter Van Sant: And that Julie ended up giving him her address and phone number. Israel Keyes became romantically involved with a woman who lived on the Makah Reservation in Washington. Frank Russo: He gave us the names of the people. It's been several years since Israel Keyes killed himself. We don't have a lot of time to play with. Port Angeles, Washington 98362; 360-457-1210; 360-452-9290; Home; Obituaries; Plan Ahead; Our Story; Our Staff; Our Location; Our Calendar; Send . / CBS News, [This story originally aired on May 9, 2020.]. He suggested to investigators that this was when he began killing people. They have spent eight years investigating his life and crimes in Washington, searching for more victims. When it hit the papers, [about Keyes confessing in Anchorage to being serial killer], everybody was going like, Wow, I cant believe it, Lovik said. Special Agent Jolene Goeden: So, this is just the standard orange Home Depot bucket. Keyes then strangled Lorraine Currier and left the couple in the basement of the abandoned farmhouse. ISRAEL KEYES [audio interview, April 17, 2012]: I would do something and then I would go back like business as usual and go out with friends, go out to bars. FBI Special Agent Katherine Nelson learned everything she could about Samantha and the people she knew. He was also interested in satanism at this time, and began to plan a satanic ritual killing involving a young woman. The FBI on Monday released a timeline of travels and crimes by Keyes, a handyman and owner of an Alaska construction company who committed suicide in his Anchorage, Alaska, jail cell in December 2012 while awaiting trial for the kidnapping and murder of an 18-year-old barista. In an already isolated family, Keyes said he kept to himself. The woman was "feisty," he said. Special Agent Jolene Goeden: So, Samantha's over at the window here. Special Agent Jolene Goeden: And then he moves them to their car. ", Then, finally, after three agonizing weeks . Special Agent Jolene Goeden: No. Frank Russo: I remember asking him, you know, "why did you pick that coffee cart at that time?" Frank Russo: So, we wanted to find out why he did what he did. Frank Russo: I remember I was the one who told both Samantha's mom and dad. Produced by Chris O'Connell and Anthony Venditti. Take Home Fish Company. It was a I believe a 10 or 12-week search at the landfill. He decided he was an atheist. Neah Bay, at the farthest northwestern tip of Washington, is best known as home to the Makah tribe legendary whale hunters. With his murderous tools in hand, Keyes went hunting for victims and found himself outside the Currier house. 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. 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. 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. Keyes former partner and daughter still live on the Makah reservation, tribal members said. In 2013, after Keyes' jailhouse suicide, a federal judge unsealed some of the interviews at the request of the then-Alaska Dispatch. He spent a lot of time in the forests and mountains of the Olympic Peninsula and made long trips to Eastern Washington, where he'd spent most of his childhood. And then we have the drum magazine, the .22. "My whole issue is to keep control of it," Keyes told them. But the end of Keyes was by no means the end of this case. Frank Russo: It was just the act that we had to put on when we went in that room. Special Agent Jolene Goeden: He drew a series of 11 skulls. (Erik Hill / ADN). But the suspect had made a crucial mistake. Her body has never been recovered. 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. Peter Van Sant: He just happens to take a walk from his hotel, into a neighborhood. "48 Hours" tracked down friends of Julie who had never spoken with law enforcement. [emotional], INVESTIGATOR TO ISRAEL KEYES: You have the right to talk to a lawyer . Peter Van Sant: Is there a sense that there may be a body somewhere near that river? But investigators believe there may be seven more victims based on comments made by Keyes in interviews and drawings of skulls Keyes made using his own blood. Neah Bay is the primary access point for Area 4, although some anglers launch at Snow Creek or travel from Sekiu. The best result we found for your search is Tammy Lane Hawkins age 50s in Neah Bay, WA. A security camera captured her abduction, and unusual activity on her ATM card led police to Keyes, then 4,000 miles away in Texas. 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]. Keyes reportedly lived and worked in Neah Bay from 2001 to 2007, employed by the Makah tribe there for repair work and construction, before moving to Alaska. Special Agent Ted Halla: He revealed to us that one of the Washington State victims was actually their body was sunk in this particular lake. 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. Peter Van Sant: Do you think this silencer might have been used in the murder of Bill Currier? As the interviews went on, Keyes was spending 23 hours a day in a cell. Keyes said his"retirement plan" was to build a dungeon in his home. 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. U.S. ATTORNEY KEVIN FELDIS [video interrogation]: Were any of those victims shot? Investigators believe he may have killed 11. And it may take a long time. They let him feel like he was in control. And that was that was a bad day. Foreclosure, Estate or in need of repair. On Dec. 2, 2012, Keyes asserted his final act of control, strangling and slashing himself to death in his cell at the Cook Inlet Pretrial Facility. He claimed he dumped at least one body into Lake Crescent, but Olympic National Park spokeswoman Barb Maynes said park officials have no plans to search the lake without more exact information about the location of a body. And everybody took off to the park. It was kind of a rant. Eric Johnson: This is the shop here, the blue part. "I just accepted it was a matter of time, time and opportunity before I did something again," he said. ISRAEL KEYES [audio interview, April 12, 2012]: I can't be satisfied sitting in prison for all my life. The FBI said Keyes was living in Maupin, Ore., at the time, and the abduction is believed to have occurred near that area. He and his brothers helped their dad build a house. Keyes' family, the FBI later determined, knew nothing about the horrors that had just taken place. Well, I'm disappointed in myself mostly, but I'm still impressed [laughs]. Special Agent Jolene Goeden: This is Samantha. He grew up in a large family. The FBI believes that several more caches are buried and may contain evidence in other unsolved murders. Keyes told investigators he had driven some 35 miles north of Anchorage to Matanuska Lake, where over the course of three trips he disposed of Samantha's remains. Peter Van Sant: Have you ever seen something like that before? We wanted him to answer for what he did. But before he would say more, Keyes began what would become a pattern for giving information. "He also told us about a couple in Washington state, another victim in that area, and possibly. FBI Special Agent Katherine Nelson tells correspondent Peter Van Sant she is optimistic they can find answers to the other cases, and they are asking for the public's help. He was never charged with the crime. Neighbors say he didn't stand out. Ozette Village. In a series of interviews with law enforcement, Keyes described significant planning and preparation for his murders, reflecting a meticulous and organized approach to his crimes, the FBI wrote in a release accompanying the timeline. Dezarae Smith: Christian Identity theology is very white supremacist. This is someone you felt comfortable giving a key to your house so he could go there when you weren't there to fix things. 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ISRAEL KEYES [video interrogation]:You guys know about Lake Crescent in Washington, right? Special Agent Jolene Goeden: Something. 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. Within hours of murdering Samantha, Israel Keyes left Anchorage for a Caribbean vacation with his family. And he said he was aware of it, but that he was not involved in it. Until the Koenig abduction, he said, he followed a rule about never killing too close to home. U.S. ATTORNEY KEVIN FELDIS: For you? The prehistoric population of the Makah was estimated to be between approximately 2000 - 4000 people. We can see that he's moving across the I-10 corridor. The video of that confession had never been made public. 15 $ Seafood. Keyes told investigators only one other victims body besides Koenigs was ever recovered, but that victims death was ruled as accidental. After he became a father he "tried to avoid situations" that might end with him hurting a child. Keyes attacks Lorraine first. They brought treats for the man they suspected was a serial killer. He liked them to be "lightweight" because they were easier to dispose. Anchorage Assistant U.S. Attorney Frank Russo and his colleagues knew time was of the essence. Frank Russo: My reaction was a lot of these secrets were gonna die with him now. His biggest concern was that the details of his crimes would become public in the media. "I made up my mind I was never going to let that happen again," he said. Caring about others. As they began to question him, Keyes told investigators that the Koenig murder was one of many. Special Agent Jolene Goeden: He flew into Chicago and he drove east. They come from the perspective that the other races are subhuman. Have you heard this? 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