GUILTY IL - Antinette 'Toni' Keller, 18, DeKalb, NIU Student, 14 October 2010

[DKanalyst]

That's VERY interesting! So the 21st, right? Was he sure it was a body bag? Could it have been just a bag of other evidence? If it was her body, and they found her on the 16th - wonder why they would wait until the 21st to remove it. To catch the killer (curl) coming back to the scene? Or did they not really find it until the 21st? If LE found the body on the 16th, would they leave it there in order to see if someone returned to the scene - or would that be unethical and something they wouldn't do? Do you have the impression from your friend that there was more left of the remains than LE has led us to believe? Interesting!!

My friend was in the military (Marine I think) and is middle-aged man. He didn't give me any other details.

 

[justme1962]

My friend was in the military (Marine I think) and is middle-aged man. He didn't give me any other details.

Ok, well thanks for that info. I'd be interested to hear what others on this forum think about it. I think it's really interesting news! Thanks again.

 

[Joe Friday]

If you go to the whitepages.com and search for Curl in DeKalb You will get William Curl age 34 and a partial email address for him.. and it reads..Evilbrother6_ _@ _ _ _ and for $19.95 you can get the full address and phone number and profile..But I'm guessing the full email is Evilbrother666@_ _ _. That is a little creepy.

I seen NG tonight and she was talking about a teen that might be missing involving a vampire cult, drinking blood and all kinds of other strange things and it got me thinking about this email address. (666)

What are the chances Billy did some kind of satanic sacrifice by killing and burning Toni's body? Maybe that is what he told his PD and that is why she had ordered the physiological evaluation. JMO

 

[Joe Friday]

yeah JoeFriday, but that was early in October. The 2nd. Are you thinking the person that saw the body bag being taken out of the park is confused on their dates?

I seen it was posted on the 27th and must of thought it happen around that time too. Sorry about that. I should of seen the date on the quote and figured it out. Thanks for bringing it up.

 

[Joe Friday]

Oct. 14 (Thurs)
• Noon – NIU student Antinette “Toni” Keller, an 18-year-old freshman from Plainfield studying art, tells friends she is going for a walk in the wooded area known as Prairie Park. It is believed she had her camera and some art supplies with her.

Oct. 15 (Fri)
• 6:09 p.m. – A friend reports Keller missing to NIU Police. Authorities begin interviewing her family and friends and searching on campus. A nationwide all-points bulletin is issued.
• 9 p.m. – NIU Police are out in Prairie Park looking for Keller.


Oct. 16 (Sat)
• 6 a.m. – Police resume their search for Keller.
• 1 p.m. – Police bring in canines to help search for Keller.
• 2:48 p.m. – NIU posts an alert to its website about Keller.

Oct. 17 (Sun)
• Police continue to search for Keller on foot and using canines.

Oct 18 (Mon)
• Police continue to search for Keller on foot and using canines.

Oct. 19 (Tue)
• NIU Police say they have suspended ground search operations, saying the area had been thoroughly covered. They also told members of the community to not conduct their own searches.
• Media begin reporting that a dorm key belonging to Keller is found in the Prairie Park area. NIU Police say they did not release that detail. Roger Keller later tells the media that his daughter lost a dorm key in the woods a few weeks ago and police aren’t sure which key was found.
• 2 p.m. – NIU holds a meeting with students to let them know how they can help with the search for Keller. Times are set up for students to distribute missing person fliers and make buttons and ribbons to raise awareness.

Oct. 20 (Wed)
• The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children issues an alert for Keller.
• 5 p.m. – The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office receives a call from a motorist who said he may have seen a dazed woman matching Keller’s description wandering the area of Nelson Road and Route 38. Police spend four hours looking by foot, air and with canines, but don’t find anything.

Oct. 21 (Thurs)
• 2 p.m. – A dive and rescue team from the St. Charles Fire Department arrives in DeKalb to search the Kishwaukee River in Prairie Park.
• 6:30 p.m. – It is announced the DeKalb County Major Case Squad will be taking over as lead investigators into the search for Keller.

Oct. 22 (Fri)
• 1 p.m. – The DeKalb County Major Case Squad holds a news conference at the Farm Bureau and say they are not ruling anything out as to what may what happened to Keller. Police said authorities have ruled out that she may have gone to California.
• Police block off a portion of Prairie Park with yellow caution tape and set up a mobile command center near the pedestrian bridge near the Clifford Drive entrance.

Oct. 23 (Sat)
• Billy Curl is thought to have been questioned for the first time by LE and also fled DeKalb on this day.
• 6:45 p.m. – A call is heard on a police scanner that authorities are asking for a light tower to be brought to the Prairie Park area. It is set up near the mobile command center.
• 7 p.m. – Police notify the media that a news briefing will be held at 9 p.m. regarding a “significant development” regarding the Keller investigation.
• 9:15 p.m. – DeKalb Police Chief Bill Feithen says unidentified human remains have been found in Prairie Park and the search for Keller has been reclassified as a death investigation.
• 9:30 p.m. – NIU sends out alerts to the campus community asking students to be careful about their safety and to walk in groups of at least three. They also announce counseling services for students and an innormation hot line.

Oct. 24 (Sun)
• DeKalb Police Chief Bill Feithen says he hopes to release additional information about the investigation soon and asks residents to be patient while investigators do their job.

Oct. 25 (Mon)
• Federal Bureau of Investigation was consulted
• Police became interested in William Curl, a longtime DeKalb resident, after he failed to appear Oct. 25 for a second scheduled interview with police. Feithen said Curl had been interviewed prior to that, but he was not sure of the date.


Oct. 26 (Tues)
• 11:08AM Press conference announce remains are burned therefore not a viable autopsy. Police have announced the death of Northern Illinois University freshman Antinette Keller is now being investigated as a homicide.
• Billy Curl is arrested in Covington-area motel. http://m.thesttammanynews.com/articles/2010/11/03/news/doc4cd0dcf3d8b23900663004.txt


Oct. 28 (Thur)
• 6:24PM "Person of Interest" in Custody in Case of Missing NIU Student
• 10:08PM Chicago Tribune reports law enforcement sources told the Tribune that the man came to the attention of DeKalb police when he told them of a fire in the woods at Prairie Park http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/c...,7541216.story

Oct. 29 (Fri)
• Billy Curl arrives back in DeKalb from Louisiana.
• 8:04PM Press conference announcing Murder charges have been filed against William P Curl.
• 8:11PM Announcement that search warrant had been executed on Curl's Dekalb residence.


Oct. 30 (Sat)
• Initial court appearance

Oct. 31 (Sun)
• Meets with public defender via telephone.

Nov. 1 (Mon)
• Court appearance pleads not guilty and requests physiological evaluation. Next scheduled court appearance set for November 30th.

 

[justme1962]

bummer. the newly elected DA in dekalb county does not support the death penalty. moo

 

[Woe.be.gone]

You rock, Joe Friday! Great time-line. The following article gives more clarity to Curl's movements:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/2847264,niu-toni-keller-homicide-102810.article

Specifically, within the article:

"Police believe Curl left Illinois Oct. 23. At some point, police alleged, Curl took his mother’s car without her permission, and ended up in Mexico. They said he came back to the U.S. on Monday.

Detectives flew to Louisiana to continue the investigation. They found Curl looking for work as a day laborer in Covington, Feithen said.

Curl was initially arrested Tuesday night in Convington on the warrant, which charged him with obstruction of justice and car theft. Authorities searched his motel room and his apartment in DeKalb, although police did not say if anything material was found. Curl waived extradition."


So Curl was arrested in Louisiana on Tuesday, October 26th (my bad, I thought they arrested him as he entered the US, not after.)

BBM ~ That's a hard drive for one person to make. He left on Saturday the 23rd and drove to Mexico, then to Louisiana by Tuesday the 26th. He must have entered Mexico and exited Mexico within the same day.

Saturday the 23rd, left Dekalb, time unknown, for Mexico
Sunday the 24th
Monday the 25th, re-entered the U.S.
Tuesday the 26th, placed under arrest in Louisiana
Wednesday the 27th
Thursday the 28th
Friday the 29th
Saturday the 30th, 10:30 AM Court in DeKalb

He drove over 1600 miles to Mexico and from Mexico to Louisiana within three days. What did he do in Mexico? He didn't stay long.

 

[Woe.be.gone]

Here's the latest article from the Northern Star -
http://northernstar.info/city/dekalb/article_a44ad916-e5dc-11df-99fa-00127992bc8b.html

It just gives a little more info about WPC's reactions in court. The next court date is November 30.
They say to expect preparation for trial to take a long time.

 

[Cubby]

from the link wbg' posted above.

Stuckert asked Curl if he understood he would have to register as an arsonist and sex offender if convicted....

BBM. Register as an arsonist? :waitasec: I never heard of that before. Is there an IL arsonist registry somewhere?

Also from link wbg' posted.
the case "won't go to trial for a long time."

Uh huh, but has Curl waived his right to a speedy trial? :waitasec:
I haven't read anywhere that he has. Hmmmm.....

Me thinks prosecution is hoping for a long time because they will need that much time to build their case, but that is jmo. (only jmo because I am not reading confidence in their MSM statements. )

 

[Cubby]

Found this about the Illinois Arsonist registry, and it is old, from 2004.

http://www.illinois.gov/PressReleases/ShowPressRelease.cfm?SubjectID=3&RecNum=3303

Another older comment via some prisontalk archived forum mentions IL is only one of three states with an arsonist registry. (didn't save the link but it is easy to find via google)

Still looking for the actual registry.

 

[Cubby]

I can not find an online arsonist registry for Illinois. Lots of articles about them for a few states, but no actual online registry for Illinois. Can anyone find it?

If it has been reported Curl has a history with fires, why isn't he already on this registry? :waitasec: And what info does LE have that Curl had a history with fires if he isn't on this registry.... I'm presuming he is not currently on the registry based on the comments in the MSM article wbg' posted.

tia

 

[Cubby]

maybe this registry is only available to LE.......

 

[Texas Mist]

BBM ~ That's a hard drive for one person to make. He left on Saturday the 23rd and drove to Mexico, then to Louisiana by Tuesday the 26th. He must have entered Mexico and exited Mexico within the same day.

Saturday the 23rd, left Dekalb, time unknown, for Mexico
Sunday the 24th
Monday the 25th, re-entered the U.S.
Tuesday the 26th, placed under arrest in Louisiana
Wednesday the 27th
Thursday the 28th
Friday the 29th
Saturday the 30th, 10:30 AM Court in DeKalb

He drove over 1600 miles to Mexico and from Mexico to Louisiana within three days. What did he do in Mexico? He didn't stay long.

BBM -

I haven't read where exactly he ended up in Mexico...but just guessing he took the quickest, straightest route there which would have put him in Mex. @ the TX border...he probably got down there & realized it was *not* safe - people are dying on towns on both sides of the border every day due to the gang wars (Gulf Cartel & Zetas)...IMO, it scared the carp outta him & he left...JMO/MOO, etc.etc.

 

[justme1962]

do you guys think that when the defense get's their discovery motion filed that more information will be released to the public...or will they keep it all under wraps too?

 

[justme1962]

I can not find an online arsonist registry for Illinois. Lots of articles about them for a few states, but no actual online registry for Illinois. Can anyone find it?

If it has been reported Curl has a history with fires, why isn't he already on this registry? :waitasec: And what info does LE have that Curl had a history with fires if he isn't on this registry.... I'm presuming he is not currently on the registry based on the comments in the MSM article wbg' posted.

tia

I can't find it either Cubby. This link of press releases from on the Illinois.gov webpage says that the registry will be available on the Illinois State Fire Marshall website. But i looked there and didn't find it.

http://www.illinois.gov/pressreleases/ShowPressRelease.cfm?SubjectID=3&RecNum=3303

 

[Lil PI]

You make a very good point Texas Mist. I didn't even think of how dangerous it is in Mexico these days.

However, I do find it a bit odd though for someone who had just comitted the most brutal murder to be afraid of a drug cartel.

I really hope that LE has the right guy. He has been gaining some support from some locals that know him. I only say this becasue I've read the comments on the articles in the daily chronicle.

For some reason I think someone was with him on that trip though. Maybe they decided they would flee to Mexico and once there WPC's conscience got the better of him? Maybe he thought of his son and decided he couldn't leave?

I don't know, it just doesn't make sense to me. I really hope LE has the right guy and has all the evidence they need to convict but just aren't revealing anything at the moment.

 

[Texas Mist]

You make a very good point Texas Mist. I didn't even think of how dangerous it is in Mexico these days.

However, I do find it a bit odd though for someone who had just comitted the most brutal murder to be afraid of a drug cartel.

I really hope that LE has the right guy. He has been gaining some support from some locals that know him. I only say this becasue I've read the comments on the articles in the daily chronicle.

For some reason I think someone was with him on that trip though. Maybe they decided they would flee to Mexico and once there WPC's conscience got the better of him? Maybe he thought of his son and decided he couldn't leave?

I don't know, it just doesn't make sense to me. I really hope LE has the right guy and has all the evidence they need to convict but just aren't revealing anything at the moment.

From what I've seen, killers are generally much more concerned about themselves than their victims or those they left behind.

Also, Curl may have realized that being a nerdy looking blonde-haired white guy who (I'm just guessing) spoke no Spanish, it was gonna be really hard to hide out down there...and he'd be an easy mark for criminals & corrupt policia (because I bet he's a wimp around anybody meaner than him.)

I don't think he thought it out - he was panicked & went on the run & then when he got to Mexico, realized it was gonna be hard to survive there...I think he had no idea what a Mexico border town was like & would be easier for him to find a job to get cash to live day-to-day in LA....JMO/MOO, ya know.

 

[Cubby]

I can't find it either Cubby. This link of press releases from on the Illinois.gov webpage says that the registry will be available on the Illinois State Fire Marshall website. But i looked there and didn't find it.

http://www.illinois.gov/pressreleases/ShowPressRelease.cfm?SubjectID=3&RecNum=3303

I looked too and could not find a registry.

 

[Cubby]

Excellent weather link about the weather conditions for DeKalb, IL for the 14th. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see graph and reading for wind speed, wind direction and wind gusts every 20 min.

http://www.wunderground.com/history...tml?req_city=NA&req_state=NA&req_statename=NA

It looks like from appx 6pm to 9:45pm the 14th the winds were relatively slow, under 10mph. Much higher wind speeds the afternoon of the 14th and between appx 10pm and midnight the 14th.

Then, if you adjust the date in the link from the 14th to the 15th it wasn't too windy on the 15th.

Of course I'm wondering with the above wind info if 1)someone might have smelled a bad burning smell during high wind times -or- 2) If perhaps Curl spent the entire night from the 14th through the 15th in the park burning Toni's body.

Wunderground is a fantastic link for historical weather data and very detailed info.

 

[Cubby]

do you guys think that when the defense get's their discovery motion filed that more information will be released to the public...or will they keep it all under wraps too?

Your guess is as good as mine.