Then, in December of 2012, Keyes killed himself at the Anchorage jail. In the interviews, Keyes confessed in detail to killing a middle-aged couple, Bill and Lorraine Currier, in Vermont in June 2011. "I only left that stuff there because I was planning on using it eventually," he said. The FBI was searching in an attempt to find them. Well, I'm disappointed in myself mostly, but I'm still impressed [laughs]. The last recording unsealed this year by the court ends on Oct. 30, 2012. He told her to shut up but she kept talking, he told the investigators. One week later, another ATM withdrawal is made. He and his daughter's mother broke up and he began dating a new woman. It was a I believe a 10 or 12-week search at the landfill. Judy Tygard is the executive producer. Special Agent Jolene Goeden: I believe it was dated February 13th, so, well after Samantha's abduction. Keyes often shopped at Washburn General Store in Neah Bay, owner Greg Lovik said. A security camera captured her abduction, and unusual activity on her ATM card led police to Keyes, then 4,000 miles away in Texas. Keyes reported the body was submerged in more than 100 feet of water.. We ended up hearing a confession. Special Agent Jolene Goeden: This one is very different. The FBI said Keyes lived in Neah Bay in 2001 after he was discharged from the Army. 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. She is a female registered to vote in Clallam County, Washington. 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. He was found to have antisocial tendencies. Keyes moved here after marrying a tribe member he met online. Have you heard this? Mia Lovik (Parents: Lars and Megan Lovik) plans to attend Washington State University to pursue a Bachelor's degree in history and education. And then we have the drum magazine, the .22. "She kept saying she wasn't going to tell anybody.". Special Agent Jolene Goeden: Correct. "If you want to be involved in helping us it was 18 degrees outside yesterday. He had sought a ransom and used Koenigs debit card. One of those friends told us she remembers Keyes talking to Julie at the pool where she often swam. Yeah, I'm impressed. Create your free profile and get access to exclusive content. Lauren Turner Dunn is the Associate Producer. Surveillance video shows Samantha Koenig raising her arms in what looks like a robbery. "I did them for myself. 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. There were 10 children in all. Makah Cultural and Research Center. Samantha's boyfriend was quickly ruled out as a suspect. 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. "I just accepted it was a matter of time, time and opportunity before I did something again," he said. Peter Van Sant: So, he would pre-position these caches and then when the urge came upon him, if he happened to be in that state, he had his tools of destruction ready to go. More than 1,300 students in the Mukilteo School District received screenings and referrals at school. Keyes told investigators he traveled widely. Ozette Village. "How long am I willing to sit in jail?" Through the interview process, he hinted about other victims. We're relatively confident about Debra Feldman. We wanted him to stand trial. He liked them to be "lightweight" because they were easier to dispose. He remembered,He would come in to work and brag about his daughter. For Samantha Koenig's loved ones, the news hit like a gut punch. Dezarae Smith: He was very quiet, very lonerish, standoffish. Special Agent Jolene Goeden: He's very quickly in the house. The girl was a teenager, maybe between the ages of 14 and 18, he told investigators. The man called out "Where's my wife?" 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.. Investigators began focusing on his time in Washington State, where Keyes was raised; a place where he would admit to killing at least four more people. Dezarae Smith: It was built to be completely off the grid, to be completely isolated from society. The evaluation found that Keyes was sane and at the "high average" end of the intelligence spectrum. Special Agent Jolene Goeden: He flew into Chicago and he drove east. 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Anchorage Assistant U.S. Attorney Frank Russo and his colleagues knew time was of the essence. Peter Van Sant: Did you have a sense you were getting to know this young woman? Keyes told investigators the birth of his daughter convinced him to never target children. We wanted him to answer for what he did. Weve exhausted all our investigative leads, Gonzalez said. ISRAEL KEYES [audio interview, May 16, 2012]: There's one in New York. U.S. ATTORNEY FRANK RUSSO [off camera]: Hey Israel, how you doing? Frank Russo [in conference room, pats chair]: He would've been sitting right here. Peter Van Sant: Do your intel guys immediately try to find out if there's a missing couple? We don't have a lot of time to play with. It was just random.". 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. Now, he killed himself. He was issued a few overnight backcountry permits during that time, Maynes said. It was kind of a rant. Lows will likely be below freezing Wednesday. Keyes was jailed in April for allegedly abducting and killing 18-year-old Samantha Koenig in February. 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. After his deployment, stationed at Fort Lewis south of Seattle, he met a woman from the Makah Reservation in Neah Bay, on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. Exactly. [laughs]. He wasn't picky about his victims, he said. Frank Russo: And he said "I want a promise that I'll get the death penalty. ISRAEL KEYES [audio interview]: I'm two different people, basically. (Matt Ryan / Burlington Free Press). Link your TV provider to stream full episodes and live TV. She backs up and this is where you see Samantha do this you see her raise her arms. You could tell that she had a lot of friends that cared about her a lot. John Smith: So, one specific conversation about killing a deer, he said that the initial shot didn't kill it. He said he spent time in the woods and hunted "anything with a heartbeat.". "The things I've done I don't feel bad about them," Keyes told the investigators. He did work for the tribe, doing landscaping all over the village, Dulik said. I remember asking him, "Did you catch any fish?" Fourteen years. 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. When his parents found out, they made him apologize and return the guns, according to an anecdote in the evaluation. Special Agent Jolene Goeden: I think he wanted to tell this story. He had restrained Bill downstairs. Peter Van Sant: When he was asked about whether he'd killed anyone in Canada, what he'd say? And what about those kill caches buried throughout the country? Israel Keyes in 1999 at the Air Assault School graduation, Fort Lewis, Washington. So learning that he was a self-confessed serial killer was a shock last year to residents of this sea-swept village of 865, tribal Judge Emma Dulik recalled. Keaton Wayne Hawkins, please click here to visit our Sympathy Store. Surveillance video captured a man in disguise making the withdrawal. Within hours of murdering Samantha, Israel Keyes left Anchorage for a Caribbean vacation with his family. 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. The best result we found for your search is Tammy Lane Hawkins age 50s in Neah Bay, WA. The woman was "feisty," he said. Page 1 of 2. Special Agent Jolene Goeden: And then there were other times where you know the hair on the back of your neck stands up a little bit. At the entryway, he cut the grass, put a sign up, and went through the village putting out plants and flowers and things.. The information, data, or work presented herein was funded in part by the Bonneville Take Home Fish Company. Audio recordings of thoseconversations were unsealed recently after a legal fight initiated by a New York author who is writing a book about Keyes. It's better for me to keep them to myself. I'll give you every single gory detail you want. 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. The FBI joined the Anchorage Police Department in looking at family and friends. The investigation exposed one of the most diabolical and meticulous serial killers in American history. And Keyes has to go back downstairs in order to restrain him again. John Smith: So, we're heading north out of Colville. He cut phone lines before bursting into the bedroom where the animal hospital technician and medical practice worker slept. I want her to have a chance to grow up and not have all of this hanging over her head,"explained Keyes. These are several boxes of .22 ammunition. Special Agent Jolene Goeden: She turns the lights off. - I was just convinced that I had screwed up that time in Oregon because you know, I I let her go. Neah Bay resident Keaton Wayne Hawkins has died. We wrote them down. To send a flower arrangement or to plant trees in memory of They found it, based on Keyes' directions. If you know somebody who knows something, get 'em to talk. Peter Van Sant: That had a number of .22 caliber bullets. Neah Bay is the primary access point for Area 4, although some anglers launch at Snow Creek or travel from Sekiu. The search for his potential victims is far from over. Special Agent Colleen Sanders: He grew up poor. About 75 homes were affected by the notice, which was a precaution against potential contamination from low water pressure. As friends and family fan out across Anchorage to try to find Samantha, the question is, "could she also be somewhere in the Alaskan wilderness? Tammy is related to Jovita L Shaw and Keaton Hawkins as well as 1 additional person. Special Agent Ted Halla: We asked Israel Keyes about Julie Harris and her death. Asked why he picked his victims, Keyes responded: "I didn't. KTVA NEWS REPORT: KATIE JAN | BARISTA: It basically looked like someone just literally walked out of their shift. All rights reserved. Israel Keyes in two photos released by the FBI. The FBI said Keyes was living in Maupin, Ore., at the time, and the abduction is believed to have occurred near that area. Peter Van Sant: An upstanding member of the community? / CBS News, [This story originally aired on May 9, 2020.]. Keyes told investigators that one day he stood on a beach along the river, waded out and grabbed a woman who was last in her group of tubers, a teenage girl with sandy-blond hair. Frank Russo: My reaction was a lot of these secrets were gonna die with him now. Peter Van Sant: Have you ever seen something like that before? The award-winning chef came to the Everett Performing Arts Center for a spicy cooking demo while fielding audience questions. They let him feel like he was in control. [pushes a notepad away from himself in disgust]. 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 community. Agents are now determined to identify the remaining seven. The victims identity is not known, and neither is the location of the murder. Where was she? 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. The Curriers vanished on a night in June 2011, leaving their family bewildered. Dezarae Smith: Christian Identity theology is very white supremacist. Keyes said as they walked off into the night, Samantha broke free and ran. It was all a lie. Senior Staff Writer Paul Gottlieb can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. But Keyes' motivation wasn't regular. Dezarae hasn't been in this area since she was 15. Serial Number: 2163 This amplifier has been serviced and PAT tested, to a playable & safe standard, by one of our leading amp techs. Katherine Nelson: And it indicates that there are seven victims we don't have identified. Frank Russo: He was talking about the murder of this girl like someone else would discuss what they had for lunch. When FBI agents searched the house, they found the couple's well-behaved pugs and the little ramp Keyes had built for them to get into the backyard. As the interviews went on, Keyes was spending 23 hours a day in a cell. Despite the intrigue surrounding Julie Harris, Keyes claims his first attempt at murder came in 1997 or 1998, when he abducted and sexually assaulted a young woman near Bend, Oregon. We just need some sort of it's that one lead, that one tip that's gonna bring her home. 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. I don't have the lab report back. We're going to go see if we can find where Israel Keyes grew up. Israel Keyes would bury caches, like this one, with weapons and tools across the country. 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. They were under pressure to produce names and locations of the people Keyes claimed to have killed. "You guys know more about me now than anyone," he said. ISRAEL KEYES: [Chuckles] Wow. He talked about a need for control, a theme in his interactions with investigators as well as his killings. Sometime in 2005 or 2006, Keyes had a body in his boat. ASST. The next year, her skeletal remains were found. I was looking for a fairly easy way to get into the garage. Her body has never been recovered. Ultimately, Keyes lays out the entire story of how the abduction of Samantha occurred. Though he appeared to be a caring family man, Keyes was skilled at living a double life, andhe later hinted to investigatorsthat he committed his first murder soon after moving to the reservation because "Neah Bay's a boring town." In the interviews, Keyes confessed in detail to killing a middle-aged couple, Bill and Lorraine Currier, in Vermont in June 2011. Investigators believe he may have killed 11. Special Agent Jolene Goeden: And then you see two individuals walk away. Keyes confessed to killing Koenig and at least seven others around the country, including Bill and Lorraine Currier of Essex, Vt., in 2011. 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. Neah Bay Tourism: Tripadvisor has 1,601 reviews of Neah Bay Hotels, Attractions, and Restaurants making it your best Neah Bay resource. Special Agent Jolene Goeden: He drew a series of 11 skulls. In 2013, after Keyes' jailhouse suicide, a federal judge unsealed some of the interviews at the request of the then-Alaska Dispatch. OFFICER JEFF BELL | ANCHORAGE POLICE DEPT. She'll be able to to go home. Maynes said the park had no missing-person reports that correlated with the period of time Keyes lived in Neah Bay. He told investigators about a cache of potential body disposal toolshe had secreted along a bank of Eagle River. 2/27/2005 Neah Bay, Washington Keyes wrote in e-mail that he arrived back from visiting friends in Port Angeles, Washington at 3 a.m.; no time stamp on e-mail . Michelle Tasker: He has a daughter. Nothing stands out, really, about them. 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. This is interrogation audio of Keyes describing himself: ISRAEL KEYES [audio interview, April 17, 2012]: I've known since I was 14 that there were things that that I thought were normal and that were OK that nobody else [laughs] seemed to think were normal and OK. None of the law enforcement agents or attorneys whotalked to Keyes were willing tobe interviewedfor this story. Port Angeles, Washington 98362; 360-457-1210; 360-452-9290; Home; Obituaries; Plan Ahead; Our Story; Our Staff; Our Location; Our Calendar; Send . With his murderous tools in hand, Keyes went hunting for victims and found himself outside the Currier house. "Once I started, you know there was nothing else like it," Keyes told investigators. And it was completely impassable throughout most of the winter. But investigators had suspicions, and one very pressing question. Peter Van Sant: And what was your reaction to that? The five villages were located on the shores of the Pacific Ocean and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. (Erik Hill / ADN). [video Interrogation]: Could we get you something . Keyes frequented remote areas such as campgrounds, trailheads and cemeteries to pick victims, according to the FBI. 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