"There were state police, and it might've been the FBI," Guagliano said. "Between 25 and 30 people getting out of vehicles. ... There were a bunch of them getting ready to head into the woods."
The New York state police referred questions about the search to the FBI. A New York spokeswoman for the FBI declined to comment.
According to property records for Franklin County, in which Contable sits about
five miles south of the U.S. border with Canada, Keyes bought the property in 1997 when he was 19. The property includes a two-bedroom house
built in 1890 and listed in poor condition.
Nobody has been seen living at the red house for at least 10 years, probably longer, Guagliano said.
"It's old. It's shambled. The roof's caved in. Unkempt, you might say," he said. "From the looks of everything, it hasn't been kept up in years. It's really in bad shape."
With little development in the area and a
686-acre state forest nearby, the woods stretch for miles, Guagliano said.
"We're out in the middle of no man's land," he said.
"You could put anything and everything out there, and nobody would ever know it."
Hunters and neighbors pass through from time to time, and sometimes people go onto Keyes' land to get water from a well, said Chana O'Leary, Guagliano's friend and the nearest neighbor to Keyes' property. O'Leary said she lives about a mile away.
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