Pacific Northwest

[UKgirl]

http://www.fbi.gov/anchorage/video/israel-keyes-interview-may-29-2012 part of transcript from alaska interviews regarding WA victims

After listening/reading/watching the interview, this part stood out to me a little as he is very concerned on how WA districts are divided, this leads me to believe he abducted victims/disposed/committed crimes pretty much all over the state of WA, either abducted and disposed of victims in far away locations, I wonder if he is concerned where he left the bodies based on location if they are left somewhere "in the middle" of the state, is Ellensburg important or surrounding areas?

Ellensburg just going to google map it, i wonder if it is a built up area or more rural. He could have used this as a burial ground if it is the latter.

 

[Snoopster]

I had been waiting for the specific geographic threads to be set up before posting these notes I made. I think it's just as important to eliminate those missing persons who are 'very unlikely a victim of IK' from those that are "very possibly or possibly a victim of IK".

I looked though the list of Missing Person’s on the Washington State Patrol website to see if any jumped out at me as potential IK victims. I rated each one as to likelihood. In the end, they all seem like pretty unlikely victims. (Interestingly, the person who I've come across so far as the most likely IK victim in WA, Delmar Sample, isn't on the WSP website list.)

http://www.wsp.wa.gov/crime/misadult.php

Rachael Anderson – Apr 6/10 – Not a victim. Her estranged husband is on trial now.

Danica Childs – Dec 21/07 – unlikely. City girl last known at drug spot. (Please help find this young girl!)

Edith Claver - Dec 25/09 - Not a victim. IK in Florida on a cruise.

Kelsey Collins - May 9/09 - Unlikely. Missing from home.

Misty Copsey - 1992. Not a victim. Too early.

Kayla Croft-Payne - Apr 20/10 - Unlikely. No sign of IK in WA state at that time.

Ronald Frye - 1993 - Very unlikely. Too early.

Angela Gilbert - Jun 2/11 - Unlikely. Went for a walk with a guy and she didn’t come back. The guy came back without her so people generally suspected him. He was found drowned a little while later, before LE could question him further.

Jamie Grissim - 1971. Not a victim. Too early

Bryce Herda - Apr/95 - Very unlikely. Too early and victim only 6 years old at time. (From Neah Bay)

Heather Higgins - Sept 2010 - Unlikely. Doesn’t seem like IK’s MO.

Richard Ingram - May 5/09 - Unlikely. Missing from Fort Lewis. Suicidal? IK likely not in area.

Tyler Inman - 1982 - Not a victim. Too early.

Lenoria Jones - Very unlikely. Too early and a city girl from Tacoma.

Ruthie Kindness - Feb/11 - Unlikely. Not IK’s MO. (missing from suburban Parkland – lifestyle issues)

Jeffrey Klungness - Mar/96. Unlikely. Too early.

Patti Krieger - Oct/10. Very unlikely. Likely her boyfriend.

Katya Lyne - Mar/97 - Unlikely. Fairly early and a city girl.

Cecil Mann - Sep/12 - Not a victim. Too late.

Loukthayoth Phiangdae - Feb/96 - Unlikely. Too early.

Joseph Pichler - Jan/06 - Unlikely. Likely committed suicide.

Robin Putnam - Jul/12. Not a victim. Too late.

Mansoor Riaz - Jan/11 - Unlikely. Software engineer from Microsoft. Very little information.

Sandy Rideout - Apr/06 - Unlikely. Drug/alcohol abuser disappeared brom Bellevue. Not IK’s MO.

Lawrence Riegel - Dec/09 - Unlikely. POI exists. Situation doesn’t fit.

Raymond Shiflet - Apr/12 - Not a victim. Too late.

Christopher Virdell - Feb/12 – Not a victim. IK known to be elsewhere.

Molly Waddington - Mar/12 - Not a victim. Too late.

Darci Warde - 1990 - Not a victim. Too early.

Eugene Wekesa - Nov/10 - Unlikely. Doesn’t fit IK’s MO. EW went to mall and never came back.

Bill Wheeler - May/10 - Very unlikely. In trouble with the law.

Shelby Wright - Not a victim. Too young



Please post a comment if you think I've misjudged any of these cases. Some of the 'missing from the city' and involved in drugs cases I thought were unlikely, as IK tended to troll in smaller towns and rural areas. That doesn't preclude IK from having a victim in the city or killing someone in the sex trade.

 

[bessie]

This might be a long shot, but since I don't see a definite location for IK on October 27, 2008, I'm going to add it to the thread.

[ame="http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=74922"]AK AK - Sheila McBroom, 40, Anchorage, 27 Oct 2008 - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community[/ame]


Woman's disappearance puzzles friends

Published: November 11, 2008

By JAMES HALPIN
jhalpin@adn.com
Along the Seward Highway, between the towering cliffs of exposed rock and the fast-icing waters of Turnagain Arm, an abandoned pickup found last month looked to be a promising lead in the search for a woman who vanished on her way to work.
But inside the green 1996 GMC, found some six miles below McHugh Creek on Oct. 31, the belongings of Sheila Kathleen McBroom, 40, remained untouched. There were no signs of foul play, nothing wrong with the car suggesting mechanical malfunction, no suicide note

McBroom made a blog post on October 26. A post on her blog made by her daughter on Oct 29 says McBroom didn't make it to work on "Monday", which would've been October 27. The article above is partially incorrect. Her truck was found on Oct 31, but the policeman stopped her on Oct 27.

http://sogratefultobemormon.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/i-love-you-mom/#comments

Also read post here dated October 31, 2008, "Update on Kathleen".

http://www.themorganfollies.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2008-11-12T07:15:00-06:00

 

[Montjoy]

I had been waiting for the specific geographic threads to be set up before posting these notes I made. I think it's just as important to eliminate those missing persons who are 'very unlikely a victim of IK' from those that are "very possibly or possibly a victim of IK".

Respectfully snipped -- very good work; thanks were not enough.

 

[Backwoods]

Heads up on this thread in Unidentified:

[ame="http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?p=9833238#post9833238"]WA WA - Joint Base Lewis-McChord - Fem Skull UP9978, Found @Hwy507, Oct'10 - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community[/ame]


A skull found in 2010 at Fort Lewis (now Joint Base Lewis-McChord) in Washington.

ETA:

$15,000 reward to identify JBLM remains

... U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command (CID) said the skull of an adult woman was found Oct. 13, 2010 near State Route 507 and State Route 7. The woman was believed to be between 25- and 40-years-old.

Two non-contiguous vertebrae were found at the scene, but no other remains were recovered. ...

more at: http://www.nwcn.com/news/washington/Lewis-McChord-remains-reward-223489951.html

Photo of reconstruction at link. Also states estimated death 5-7 months before skull was found, race not determined but possible mixed-race ancestry, defect on a front tooth in lower jaw.

ETA again: Here is the NAMUS page for the skull found:

https://identifyus.org/en/cases/9978

 

[Backwoods]

OK, I gotta say this, but everybody is probably gonna laugh, because -- yes, I know IK is supposed to have been a continent away abducting somebody on the East Coast on the very day that Alyssa McLemore disappeared in Kent, Washington, BUT ...

What about Alyssa? Could he have fooled us all on this one?

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/9695/0/

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=83198&highlight=alyssa+mclemore

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/mclemore_alyssa.html

 

[bessie]

I'm not laughing, BW, because I kept going back and forth to Alyssa's CPand Namus pages the other night. I finally gave up the idea because the timeline is pretty exact for that time period.

4/8 - 10/2009: Essex, VT
"Keyes checks into Handy Suites in Essex on April 8 [2009] for a two-night stay."

April 9, 2009: Keyes admitted to abducting a female victim from a state on the east coast and transported that person over multiple state lines into New York. The victim is buried in upstate New York. Investigators do not believe this victim is buried on the property Keyes owns in Constable, New York.

April 10, 2009: Keyes robbed Community Bank in Tupper Lake, New York. After the bank robbery Keyes stated he parked in a nearby campground outside of the area to wait for the emergency response vehicles to pass. He stated he sat in this campground for several hours.

4/10/2009: Tupper Lake, NY bank robbery
"He robs the Community Bank in Tupper Lake, N.Y., on April 10. "

4/2009: unknown 6
"we know that in April of 2009 he committed a homicide and the victim is buried in upstate New York. We know that."

[ame="http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showpost.php?p=9801059&postcount=1"]Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community - View Single Post - Timelines *NO DISCUSSION*[/ame]

 

[Backwoods]

Thanks, bessie -- I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who tried every-which-way to consider her. I just decided, I WAS gonna put her name in this thread, unlikely as it may be...!

Of course, what I really HOPE for Alyssa is that she never encountered IK and that somehow she is alive out there somewhere.

 

[bessie]

respectfully snipped

Heads up on this thread in Unidentified:

WA WA - Joint Base Lewis-McChord - Fem Skull UP9978, Found @Hwy507, Oct'10 - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community

A skull found in 2010 at Fort Lewis (now Joint Base Lewis-McChord) in Washington.

This one I think is a good possibility, and the fact that the Army is offering a $15K reward tells me the authorities have given it serious consideration. JMO If the ME is correct, and the decedant died 5-7 months before the remains were found in October 2010, it fits because the FBI timeline has has IK "in the west" during the first half of 2010.

The medical examiner determined the woman died 5-to-7 months before the remains were found.

The most identifiable feature from the remains was a defect on the woman’s front tooth on the lower jaw.

http://www.nwcn.com/news/washington/Lewis-McChord-remains-reward-223489951.html

Investigators believe that Keyes killed and buried a victim in upstate New York in April 2009. “He also told us about a couple in Washington state, another victim in that area, and possibly others in surrounding states,” Goeden said.

http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2013/august/new-information-released-in-serial-killer-case

Human skull found at Joint Base Lewis-McChord

FBI Interactive Timeline

Map showing approximate location of the "female skull".

 

[Backwoods]

At the NAMUS link for the skull, there is dental charting and pictures of the skull w/teeth, including a picture that shows the flaw in the front lower tooth. That flaw seems distinctive -- I hope it is listed in someone's missing profile or, if the person is not in any database, that someone will recognize that flaw.

https://identifyus.org/en/cases/9978


There are also some ruleouts listed -- so that might help in narrowing down possible victims in this thread...

ETA: Seems DNA (nuclear) results are available.

 

[Lucky 1]

Guess they found some other items with the skull, but won't say what:

http://www.king5.com/news/local/Investigation-of-human-skull-discovery-on-JBLM-continues-today-104964114.html
'Other items' found where human skull was discovered on Lewis-McChord

The military plans to send a forensic pathologist out to the scene Friday. Until then, the skull and other items will be preserved and protected where they were discovered, Piek said.

 

[digndoodle]

Thomas Crane Wales...Seattle Washington....October 11, 2001


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_C._Wales

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=77719&highlight=thomas+wales
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Additional case details, found from internet: He was shot in the side of the neck on a thursday night, was supposed to be going out with his girlfriend but cancelled, staying home to work and was emailing people/reading his emails when he was shot, he was 49 years old, A neighbor, Emily Holt, said she heard the shots on Thursday night and saw a man walking away. "He wasn't running, just walking real fast," Ms. Holt said. She said he got into a car parked about a block away under a tree and a streetlight. Mr. Wales was a member of the fraud unit in the United States attorney's office here, specializing in prosecution of banking and business crime. A spokesman for the office, Lawrence Lincoln, said he had been a prosecutor since 1983.

Mr. Wales was president of the board of Washington Ceasefire, a gun control group in Seattle that sponsored a failed initiative in 1997 that would have would have required handgun owners to undergo safety training and use trigger locks on their weapons. The National Rifle Association mounted a $2 million campaign against Initiative 676, which had the support of Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, and other prominent residents of the state.

Federal agencies were helping the Seattle police in the investigation. Mr. Wales's former wife, Elizabeth, a former Seattle School Board member, was in Europe with the couple's adult son and daughter, The Seattle Times reported, quoting. The couple divorced a few years ago but were on friendly terms, neighbors said.

[ame="http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3396104&postcount=9"]Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community - View Single Post - WA WA - Thomas Crane Wales, murdered in Seattle, Oct 2001[/ame]

 

[Backwoods]

Just posted this in the Unidentified thread for the skull, but this info might be helpful here, too:

...The NVN report at the time the remains were found said the skull was discovered in a fenced area on the military installation; however, it was outside of the gated containment area where identification is required for entry. The report said the area was open to the public, with a permit, when no military training was being conducted. The area was a popular place for recreation purposes such as hiking, horseback riding, fishing and hunting....

more at: http://www.yelmonline.com/news/local_news/article_c62a49d6-1cbb-11e3-b46a-001a4bcf887a.html

 

[Lucky 1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-54zR_WIBM

The Flying Nun - Gidget (all grown up)

(WHY can't I get youtube videos to embed?)

Please, I know this is far fetched but here I go......

I found the above video because of searching for Gidget from digndoodles post. I thought the Flying Nun was also Gidget, blushing: technically she IS)....anyhooo, found this at that youtube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5dn9ac8A_Q

Pete Duel in Gidget: In God, and Nobody Else, We Trust
Hannibal Heyes·69 videos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias_Smith_and_Jones

Alias Smith and Jones is an American Western series that originally aired on ABC from 1971 to 1973. It stars Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Jedediah "Kid" Curry, a pair of cousin outlaws trying to reform. The governor offers them a conditional amnesty, as he wants to keep the pact under wraps for political reasons. The condition is that they will still be wanted— until the governor can claim they have reformed and warrant clemency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Duel

Peter Ellstrom "Pete" Deuel (February 24, 1940 – December 31, 1971), also known as Pete Duel, was an American stage, television and film actor. He is best known for his role as outlaw Hannibal Heyes (alias Joshua Smith) in the television series Alias Smith and Jones.

Duel died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the early morning hours on New Year's Eve, 1971. His death was ruled a suicide.

This long drivel is to say....could this be one of IKs alias/alter egos? I think they looked similar, and IK could have been watching re-runs of "Alias Smith and Jones" as a kid. I have read that IK would go by the alias Israel Reyes or Izzy Reyes, which is simply closing the K; Heyes seems a likely next choice. And could this be a long, round-about way to Gidget?

http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20120803/DCO01/708039920/

She said she dug up evidence of him using aliases Izreal or Isreal Reyes, or shortening his name to Izzy.

IMVHO, MOO, etc, etc.

 

[digndoodle]

Yes Foxfire this movie was in my day...lol.......but when the letter was sent it had a return name of only GIDGET...and the address given was some business in Vegas that had nothing what-so-ever to do with this case

Just as in Keyes suicide letter, I feel if this is IK, he probably had some deep dark reason he addressed this as "Gidget" this was only written I feel to further confuse FBI and other investigators

http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2006/april/wales_letter041706/

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/...EWS02/130206020/PDF-Israel-Keyes-suicide-note

I do not know how to do this correctly, but would love if someone could post a photo of the envelope of the letter to Wales and then put Keyes suicide note beside it to compare penmanship...I tried last evening to bring them both up and the writing has some similarities

 

[liz b.]

Guess they found some other items with the skull, but won't say what:

http://www.king5.com/news/local/Inv...covery-on-JBLM-continues-today-104964114.html
'Other items' found where human skull was discovered on Lewis-McChord

I live not too far from Fort Lewis. Sadly, the base has a bad rep ; there have been numerous arrests for drug use,rapes, and assaults .IDK why,but it has been going on for a long time. I don't know if this skull is connected to IK or not...he would have likely killed the victim around May of 2010 if so....jmo

 

[Lucky 1]

Yes Foxfire this movie was in my day...lol.......but when the letter was sent it had a return name of only GIDGET...and the address given was some business in Vegas that had nothing what-so-ever to do with this case

Just as in Keyes suicide letter, I feel if this is IK, he probably had some deep dark reason he addressed this as "Gidget" this was only written I feel to further confuse FBI and other investigators

http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2006/april/wales_letter041706/

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/...EWS02/130206020/PDF-Israel-Keyes-suicide-note

I do not know how to do this correctly, but would love if someone could post a photo of the envelope of the letter to Wales and then put Keyes suicide note beside it to compare penmanship...I tried last evening to bring them both up and the writing has some similarities

And please, digndoodle, go back and review my earlier post #35....I edited it ALOT.

ETA - If you look at the 2nd paragraph, 7th line beginning with "straight", he added the "THROUGH" in print rather than cursive, and if compared to the "THIRD" in the address on the envelope, I see much similarity. IMVHO, MOO, etc.

 

[Lucky 1]

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/08/06/070806fa_fact_toobin?currentPage=6
An Unsolved Killing
by Jeffrey Toobin
(page 6)

Wales was killed by .380-calibre bullets that investigators quickly determined came from a Makarov semiautomatic handgun. These guns are widely available in the United States. Ballistics experts in the Washington State Crime Lab and at the F.B.I. noticed some unusual markings on the bullets indicating that they had been fired through a replacement gun barrel. “The Makarov uses corrosive gunpowder, and the barrels tend to wear out,” an investigator in the case told me. The F.B.I. located the manufacturer of the replacement barrel and learned that approximately twenty-six hundred of the barrels had been sold. The agency then undertook a search, which is ongoing, to find each barrel. “We feel real confident that this particular barrel was the barrel that created the ballistics that we had,” Robert Geeslin, the agent in charge of the investigation, said.

 

[Lucky 1]

According to this blog:
http://israelkeyes.blogspot.com/

In the 4/12/12 interview, IK states that he made his first silencer at 14 for a .38 revolver his grandfather gave him. It didn't work perfectly but it did work. And of course, we know he perfected those skills. If the gun used to shoot Tom Wales had a replacement barrel as per the statement above, that just makes it look more like IK to me.
JMO.

 

[Foxfire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-54zR_WIBM

The Flying Nun - Gidget (all grown up)

(WHY can't I get youtube videos to embed?)

Please, I know this is far fetched but here I go......

I found the above video because of searching for Gidget from digndoodles post. I thought the Flying Nun was also Gidget, blushing: technically she IS)....anyhooo, found this at that youtube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5dn9ac8A_Q

Pete Duel in Gidget: In God, and Nobody Else, We Trust
Hannibal Heyes·69 videos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias_Smith_and_Jones



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Duel

This long drivel is to say....could this be one of IKs alias/alter egos? I think they looked similar, and IK could have been watching re-runs of "Alias Smith and Jones" as a kid. I have read that IK would go by the alias Israel Reyes or Izzy Reyes, which is simply closing the K; Heyes seems a likely next choice. And could this be a long, round-about way to Gidget?

http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20120803/DCO01/708039920/



IMVHO, MOO, etc, etc.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQNsZ2GCiGQ&list=PLCEB2D07481C49C6F"]Alias Smith and Jones--Renegade - YouTube[/ame]

Styx - Renegade Lyrics

Oh mama, I'm in fear for my life from the long arm of the law
Lawman has put an end to my running and I'm so far from my home
Oh mama, I can hear your crying you're so scared and all alone
Hangman is coming down from the gallows and I don't have very long


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