Dec 5, 2012
Federal officials revealed frightening new details Wednesday about the activities of Israel Keyes, the serial killer who took his own life on Sunday in a jail in Anchorage, Alaska. Keyes is blamed for murdering a couple in Essex, Vt., last year. FBI...
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<<FBI investigators now say Keyes also spent a significant amount of time here in the North Country, owning property in Franklin County and disposing of his
murder weapons in St. Lawrence County.
The FBI says Keyes robbed a bank in Tupper Lake in 2009. He also claimed to have brought one of his victims to the North Country, hiding the body here in the region.>>
<<FBI agent Jolene Goeden says Keyes also claimed to have brought one of his victims to the North Country, apparently concealing the body here.
"It is in northern New York," she confirmed. "We don't have anything specific about where that victim is buried. We have kind of general information, but it isn't specific enough that we're able to recover that victim."
Goeden notes that Keyes owned a 10-acre parcel of land in the town of Constable, in northern Franklin County.
The site was searched in October by FBI investigators based in Albany after local hunters claimed to have seen what looked like grave sites.
"A number of items were seized from that location, but there's no indication at this point based on what Mr. Keyes told us as well as what was uncovered in the search that there is a victim buried on that property," Goeden said.>>
<<An FBI dive team did find a pair of pistols and a silencer that Keyes admitted to stashing in a reservoir in Parishville in St. Lawrence County – the same weapons used in the murder of the Curriers in Vermont.>>