Wonder if he's perhaps spent anytime on the Highway of Tears?
FBI unravel mystery of dead Alaska serial killer
By Yereth Rosen, Reuters
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Authorities in Alaska said on Tuesday they were examining tips from across the United States as they piece together the decade-long travels of a confessed serial killer who committed suicide over the weekend while awaiting trial for the abduction and murder of an Anchorage teenage woman.
Officials say Israel Keyes confessed to kidnapping and killing 18-year-old Samantha Koenig, who vanished in February from the coffee stand where she worked, a Vermont couple and up to five other people before killing himself.
Now a toll-free tip line established by the FBI is bringing in clues about other possible victims of the 34-year-old carpenter described by authorities as a “very methodical” serial killer who evaded suspicion for more than a decade.
“We have no doubt that (Keyes) was telling us the truth,” about the eight murders he confessed to, Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin Feldis said, adding that the full death toll remains unknown because Keyes “didn’t want to put a number on it.”
The tips were being examined by a team in Anchorage, FBI Special Agent Jolene Goeden said at a news conference Tuesday. The team was trying to match the new information to a “massive“ timeline of Keyes’ travels through the country dating back to 2001, she said.
Keyes had been awaiting trial on the murder of Koenig, whose abduction stunned Anchorage. Residents raised money for a reward, held candlelight vigils and donated self-defense classes to baristas working in the city.
Prosecutors say Keyes has admitted sexually assaulting and asphyxiating Koenig. After keeping her body in a shed outside his home for about two weeks, he dismembered the remains and dumped them in frozen Matanuska Lake, where he cut a hole in the ice. Divers found the body on April 2. The lake is east of Anchorage.
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Washington State. Alaska. Last time I checked a map B.C. was smack dab in the middle between them.
FBI unravel mystery of dead Alaska serial killer
By Yereth Rosen, Reuters
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Authorities in Alaska said on Tuesday they were examining tips from across the United States as they piece together the decade-long travels of a confessed serial killer who committed suicide over the weekend while awaiting trial for the abduction and murder of an Anchorage teenage woman.
Officials say Israel Keyes confessed to kidnapping and killing 18-year-old Samantha Koenig, who vanished in February from the coffee stand where she worked, a Vermont couple and up to five other people before killing himself.
Now a toll-free tip line established by the FBI is bringing in clues about other possible victims of the 34-year-old carpenter described by authorities as a “very methodical” serial killer who evaded suspicion for more than a decade.
“We have no doubt that (Keyes) was telling us the truth,” about the eight murders he confessed to, Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin Feldis said, adding that the full death toll remains unknown because Keyes “didn’t want to put a number on it.”
The tips were being examined by a team in Anchorage, FBI Special Agent Jolene Goeden said at a news conference Tuesday. The team was trying to match the new information to a “massive“ timeline of Keyes’ travels through the country dating back to 2001, she said.
Keyes had been awaiting trial on the murder of Koenig, whose abduction stunned Anchorage. Residents raised money for a reward, held candlelight vigils and donated self-defense classes to baristas working in the city.
Prosecutors say Keyes has admitted sexually assaulting and asphyxiating Koenig. After keeping her body in a shed outside his home for about two weeks, he dismembered the remains and dumped them in frozen Matanuska Lake, where he cut a hole in the ice. Divers found the body on April 2. The lake is east of Anchorage.
More: FBI unravel mystery of dead Alaska serial killer - World - Canoe.ca
Washington State. Alaska. Last time I checked a map B.C. was smack dab in the middle between them.
