If the videos or map regarding Israel Keyes’ movements spark any memories, or if you have any information regarding Keyes, please contact your local FBI office or submit a tip online. He told us if he hadn’t been caught, he would have continued kidnapping and murdering people.” “Keyes enjoyed what he did, and he had no remorse at all. “Although he chose many of his victims randomly, a tremendous amount of planning went into these crimes,” Goeden said. The caches provided further cover because Keyes didn’t have to risk boarding an airplane with a weapon or using credit cards that could later connect him to a crime in a particular area. Keyes also left “murder kits” in various locations around the country that contained, among other items, weapons and cash-the money came from bank robberies he committed to support his criminal activities. In the Currier case, for example, he flew from Alaska to Chicago, rented a car, and drove 1,000 miles to Vermont, where he searched for victims. It’s a painstaking process, made more complicated because Keyes was meticulous about covering his tracks. “If we have a missing person identified in a particular area, we work closely with that local police department to either connect the person to Keyes or not,” Goeden explained. “He also told us about a couple in Washington state, another victim in that area, and possibly others in surrounding states,” Goeden said.įBI agents are working with law enforcement around the country to link Keyes to open cases. Investigators believe that Keyes killed and buried a victim in upstate New York in April 2009. Anything that might spur someone’s memory could help us,” Goeden said.Īpart from Koenig, who was abducted from the Anchorage coffee stand where she worked, and Bill and Lorraine Currier, a middle-aged married couple who were murdered in 2011 in Vermont, Keyes discussed “seven or eight other victims,” Goeden said. We are letting the public know the types of cars he rented, towns he visited, campgrounds he frequented. So we are trying to get information out there about what he did tell us. “He talked openly about some of the homicides, but much of what he said only hinted at the things he had done.

“He gave us a number of clues,” said Special Agent Jolene Goeden in our Anchorage Division. The information includes extensive videotaped conversations with Keyes in jail and an interactive map that contains a detailed timeline of his known movements beginning in 1997. Today we are releasing new information in the hopes that the public can help us identify others who died by Keyes’ hands.

Those victims have not been forgotten, however. But last December, Keyes killed himself in his Anchorage jail cell, leaving a trail of unanswered questions and unidentified victims. Keyes freely admitted as much.ĭuring conversations with investigators, the 34-year-old sometime construction worker revealed the names of two additional victims-along with tantalizing clues about other murders he had committed around the country over a period of years. After Israel Keyes was arrested for the murder of 18-year-old Samantha Koenig in Alaska in 2012, authorities realized that the man they had in custody was a prolific serial killer.

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