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Keyes Suicide Note Released by FBI
Keyes' Note: An Ode to DeathNo investigative leads found in writings
By Brendan Joel Kelley
Story Created: Feb 6, 2013 at 10:50 AM AKDT - Story Updated: Feb 6, 2013 at 11:44 AM AKDT
ANCHORAGE - Wednesday morning the FBI released deceased serial killer Israel Keyes suicide note (click for PDF), which had been held for examination since Keyes December 2 suicide at the Anchorage Correctional Complex.
Death Wish: Keyes Sought the Ultimate PenaltyBy Bill McAllister
Story Created: Feb 6, 2013 at 5:17 PM AKDT - Story Updated: Feb 6, 2013 at 7:11 PM AKDT
The blood-soaked note was found with Keyes' body, after he slit his wrists with a razor and strangled himself with the bedding in his cell.
The note, written on a legal pad with both pencil and ink, is actually a poem. In it, Keyes takes aim at Americans and what he sees as American values, and also expresses his atheism: "Family and friends will shed a few tears, pretend it's off to heaven you go. But the reality is you were just bones and meat, and with your brain died also your soul.
"...Consume what you don't need, stars you idolize, pursue what you admit is a dream, then its [sic] american [sic] die.
Department of Corrections: Israel Keyes Mistakenly Issued Razor Used in SuicideStory Created: Apr 9, 2013 at 4:45 PM AKDT - Story Updated: Apr 9, 2013 at 6:14 PM AKDT
I'm not going to plead not guilty regardless of what they say. I just want them to say what I want them to say. I want them to recommend the death penalty, and they're less likely to do that with all this misinformation that's going on."
But even then, he worried about what would come out at his sentencing hearing. "As far as different things that were done with the bodies and the sexual assault stuff -- that type of stuff -- I just don't, I don't see, you know, if that has to be part of the hearing then, I, we gotta figure out
something different."
Keyes had previously been caught with a handmade handcuff key
By KTVA CBS 11 News
Story Created: Feb 13, 2013 at 1:24 PM AKDT - Story Updated: Feb 13, 2013 at 6:10 PM AKDT
While in segregation, the Department of Corrections says a razor was mistakenly issued to Keyes and was not retrieved. The DOC says Keyes used a razor to cut his left wrist.