Whoops! I noticed my typo just now....I meant to say that IK said that his first murder was in Washington in September 2001 (not 2011), which, of course, was the month that LS "committed suicide" in Amanda Park. IK got out of the military earlier in the summer. Does anyone think that LS had been in the military? Could the two of them have met there? If not, is there another way they could have bumped into each other? IK worked for a native band in Washington...is it possible that their paths crossed? Or, is it possible that IK stumbled across a loner (one of his early favorite victim types) and killed him, but made it look like a suicide?
I'm not saying that I believe the IK and LS knew each other, or that IK killed LS, but it is definitely on my list of possibilities (among so many other possibilities!).
Yikes, I didn't realize Israel Keyes was literally living on the Makah res in 2001.
"Keyes worked for the Makah Indian tribe in Washington State after he got out of the Army in July 2001.
"It wasn't that long that you, um, killed somebody and it was that sort of feeling that you needed ... " Feldis said.
"Yeah, Neah Bay's a boring town," Keyes replied.
Later, the questioning turned to the bodies in the lake, and Keyes seemingly chastised his interrogators about not figuring out one of the locations.
"You guys know about Lake Crescent in Washington, right?" he said.
Feldis asked, "And that's the lake?"
"That's one of the lakes," Keyes replied."
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-...er-are-in-washington-fbi-interviews-indicate/
And what on earth led him to work for the council I wonder:
"After he left the Army, Keyes took a job working for the Makah Tribal Council in Neah Bay, Wash., until 2007." (
http://abcnews.go.com/US/alaska-serial-killer-israel-keyes-high-killing-fbi/story?id=17885366)
Often the Native guys working on the councils (in my area, anyway) tend to be educated members of the tribe (thinking of LS now and wondering if this applies). In my area, too, I know several tribal members who were raised elsewhere (adopted out, or family had moved away before they were born), but then returned to their tribe as college-educated adults to work for the nation. And there are always a few non-Natives, usually working either as secretarial support or in a high-level professional capacity such as a lawyer.
But maybe LS was just a passing traveler:
"He [Israel] claims he began his murders while working for the tribal council. He told investigators that he "murdered a couple" between 2001 and 2005, and killed two people in separate incidents sometime in 2005 and 2006.
"It is unknown if the victims were residents of Washington or if they were vacationing in Washington but resided in another state," the FBI said in a release. "It is also possible Keyes abducted them from a nearby state and transported them to Washington."
Keyes described to authorities how he would find his victims.
"I would let them come to me, just a remote area," he said. "A remote area that's not anywhere where you live but other people go to as well."
The FBI said in a statement that Keyes's favorite places to find victims were
remote locations such as parks, campgrounds, trailheads and cemeteries.
He told authorities this method did not provide "as much to choose from.... but also not witnesses really, nobody else around."
http://abcnews.go.com/US/alaska-serial-killer-israel-keyes-high-killing-fbi/story?id=17885366
I don't know if those here have come to a consensus on whether or not the paper in LS's hotel was drafting paper, but note that Keyes' position with the Makah tribe was as a construction worker:
"He [Keyes] also told them he began killing people in 2001, when he was living in Washington state and doing construction work for the Makah Tribal Council."
http://newsfreezblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/wide-net-cast-in-search-for-alaska.html
In some tribes there is an order of preference for hiring, such that local tribal members are hired first when possible, then Native tribal members from other nations, and then non-Natives. Perhaps LS was from another Nation (or, again, a Makah or other area Native who'd been raised elsewhere), working for the Makah tribe when Keyes did.