Imo, the final item on prolific serial killers bucket list; “the killer wants the notoriety". Imo, Israel Keyes, knew that he would circumvent Son of Sam Laws by committing suicide..
” FBI Anchorage Division Special Agent Jolene Goeden said. .... Keyes replied after chuckling, “You'll get the whole story eventually.”
Israel Keyes Quote:
"There is no one who knows me - or who has ever known me - who knows anything about me...
http://abcnews.go.com/US/serial-killer-israel-keyes-suicide-letter-creepy-ode/story?id=18421558
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/...s-being-dismissed-against-serial-killer-Keyes
Death has done for serial killer Israel Keyes what he never sought to do in life: cleared his record of criminal charges.
Federal prosecutors in Anchorage, Alaska, where Keyes was facing a possible death penalty in connection with the Feb. 1/2012 abduction and murder of an 18-year-old coffee-cart worker, have filed court papers recommending the three-count indictment be dismissed.
Keyes, 34, who committed suicide in his jail cell Dec. 2, confessed to raping and killing Samantha Koenig..
U.S. Magistrate Judge John D. Roberts has signed off on the prosecution recommendation. The next and final step is for a federal District Court judge to approve the dismissal — a formality.
Cases in which a suspect dies before being convicted are thrown out of court, and the defendant’s official record remains clear.
“By operation of law, the defendant’s indictment is abated by his death,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Frank V. Russo wrote in court papers filed Monday in Alaska.
Law-enforcement officials have described Israel Keyes as a particularly organized, meticulous mass murderer who researched and idolized other serial killers, including Ted Bundy, and committed his crimes simply because he enjoyed it.
Until the Koenig slaying, he traveled far from home, picked victims at random from places where he expected to find them alone..
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Since then, investigators have been trying to fill in the details of his vicious life. The FBI said Keyes discussed “seven or eight other victims” in addition to the three, including Koenig, that have been definitively tied to him so far.
In a Nov. 29 interview, just three days before he was found dead in his jail cell from suicide, Keyes asked whether investigators had found any knives at his New York property or on a boat he owned in Washington state.
He said there were two knives missing from his girlfriend's home in Anchorage, and he didn't know where they were.
He was particularly concerned about a Cold Steel Tanto, a 4½-inch folding knife he bought in Port Angeles.
Asked by Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin Feldis why the knife was important,
Keyes indicated authorities might find something if they took it apart.
Was it blood?
“Well, there might, not on it, maybe inside somewhere,” Keyes replied.
He said, “yeah,” when asked if the knife was associated with one of the Washington killings.
FBI Special Agent Jolene Goeden probed deeper, asking if a body were found at the bottom of Lake Crescent, would it still be intact.
“Were they contained in something or were they just tied to the milk jugs?” she asked.
“No,” he responded.
She pressed, “I mean, is it something where we, we might possible actually still get an intact . . .”
“No,” Keyes repeated, cutting her off.
He later indicated the folding blade wasn't the primary means of death.
Asked if the victims were shot or strangled, Keyes replied after chuckling, “You'll get the whole story eventually.”
