My Q&A With Legendary FBI Profiler John Douglas

 Counterterrorism magazine published my Q&A with legendary FBI profiler John Douglas. 

You can read the interview via the below magazine pages or the text below:

An IACSP Q&A With Former FBI Profiler John Douglas

 By Paul Davis

 John Douglas is a legendary FBI criminal profiler and the author of true crime books. He is considered a pioneer in the field of criminal profiling. 

He spent more than twenty-five years researching and profiling America’s most violent and dangerous criminals. After serving in the U.S. Air force, John Douglas joined the FBI in 1970. He served a SWAT team and was a hostage negotiator before he transferred to the FBI’s Behavioral Sciences Unit in 1977. Later he taught hostage negotiation and applied criminal psychology at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia to new FBI Agents, field agents, and police officers from all over the United States.

 

With former FBI Special Agent Robert K. Ressler and Dr. Ann Burgess, John Douglas conducted a landmark study of predators, published in book form as “Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives,” and “Crime Classification Manual.”

 

John Douglas assisted police with investigative techniques and proactive strategies in hunting some of the most notorious criminals of our time. He has confronted, interviewed, and studied dozens of serial killers and assassins, including Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan, Richard Speck, John Wayne Gacy, “Son of Sam” David Berkowitz and James Earl Ray. The interviews and study were conducted to understand their motives and methods.

 

John Douglas was the model for actor Scott Glenn’s FBI Agent Jack Crawford character in “The Silence of the Lambs.” The character Holden Ford in the Netflix series “Mindhunters,” based on his first book of the same name, is also based on John Douglas.

 

Since his retirement from the FBI, he has become an author, speaker and independent investigator. His most recent book is “The Killer’s Shadow: The FBI’s Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer,” which is about Joseph Paul Franklin. Franklin was convicted of several murders and executed.

John Douglas was interviewed by Paul Davis, a regular contributor to the Journal.

 

IACSP: I’ve enjoyed your books over the years, as well as the films based on your books and cases. I especially liked your current book, “The Killer’s Shadow,” as it was about one person primarily, a white supremacist sniper and serial killer named Joseph Paul Franklin. My first question is why did you become a criminal profiler?

 

Douglas: I was recruited by the FBI right out of the Air Force in 1970 at 25 years of age. I worked for seven years out in the field, working in Detroit and then Milwaukee. I was always interested in criminal personalities and understanding the motivation of why. So if I made an arrest, I’d have the guy in the back seat of the car and I’d ask him if he were willing to talk to me.

When I got to Quantico at 32, I was the youngest of all the agents. The Behavioral Science Unit had about eight or nine agents and I was assigned to teaching criminal psychology. We had road schools two weeks at a time going from one city to another. I told my partner, let’s go into the prisons and conduct these interviews of Ed Kempner, Charles Manson and David Berkowitz. We went into the prisons and conducted the interviews as I wanted to be a good instructor.

IACSP: How did you get involved in the Joseph Paul Franklin case?

 

Douglas: By 1980, when the Franklin case was popping up, David Kohl at headquarters in the Civil Rights Division called and said they identified Joseph Paul Franklin as this guy who had been shooting blacks and whites and attacking Jewish synagogues. They didn’t know where he was, so he asked me if the work we do with violent crime and serial killers would apply with a criminal like Franklin. I said I would give it a shot. It is really the criminal personality that you have to understand. There was a lot of pressure. I was trying to develop a new investigative tool, and now the Bureau wanted help on this case, and if I screwed this up, I’m was going to be shipped to Butte, Montana and to work on cattle rustling.

 

IACSP: What did you do initially?

 

Douglas: I did an assessment, a profile. In my interpretation, a profile is when you have an UNSUB, an unknown suspect, and you are analyzing the elements of the crime and the victim, getting information from the medical examiner, and demographics from the area where the crime took place. Why plus how equals who when you do an UNSUB case, but here we knew who he was. He was racial, and I was looking for strengths and weaknesses and vulnerabilities he may have. We had no idea where he was and that made it difficult. Criminals have comfort zones. Just as we like going to the same restaurant, a comfort zone for offenders is where they work and live, where they used to live, where there were happy times in their lives, but this guy was traveling around the country. The most difficult killers to capture are the mobile ones. There are more than 17,000 different law enforcement in the United States and there is not always a sharing of information, even from one county to another, no less from coast to coast.

 

IACSP: I read that Franklin financed his travels and killing sprees by robbing banks, right?

Douglas: Yes. Franklin was a successful bank robber. He got his early start in Mobile, Alabama, where he married two different young women and one had a young child. I believed that Franklin would be heading towards Mobile. Franklin did show up in Mobile and he went to a blood bank to make money, as he was afraid we had staked out the banks. He then traveled to Florida where he was apprehended.

 

IACSP: What was involved in your profiles of Franklin and others?

 

Douglas: We were involved with research with Boston College and we had a 57-page instrument that we used to ask thousands of questions. We saw patterns with them, pre-offense behavioral patterns, post-offense, and a triggering event. We saw an earlier childhood dysfunction in every one of these guys, including Franklin. We saw issues, problems and abuse. Franklin’s mother abused him, and his father really abused him. He was not allowed to socialize. He dropped out of school, started looking at Aryan Nation Brotherhood and Klu Klux Klan pamphlets. And he joined the groups and what he later told me was these guys “talked the talk, but don’t walk the walk.” Franklin believed the groups were infiltrated by the FBI. So he goes from group to another. He has this hatred towards interracial couples, Jews, blacks and his goal was to create a race war and hoped others would follow in his footsteps.

 

IACSP: Like Charles Manson?

 

Douglas: Franklin really admired Manson and he asked me about my interview with him.

 

IACSP: What crimes did Franklin commit in the beginning?

 

Douglas: The tipping point was when he was in a shopping mall parking lot and a black and white couple in a car cut him off. The passenger, a black man, got out of the car and Franklin shot and killed him and then killed the girl. It was an impulsive act, and he was surprised he didn’t get caught as there were witnesses. He changed his MO for the future. For the FBI, it became a civil rights case and no longer a domestic police cooperation case. It was going to be a full press to get the guy. I was taking information and analyzing it.

 

IACSP: Is there any difference between Franklin and a David Berkowitz or Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber?

 

Douglas: You start to see common denominators in the background. There is no mental illness or anything like that. You see early on in their childhood delinquency, signs of animal cruelty as an expression of hate, they are bullied upon and then became bullies. They are isolated and anti-social. Franklin read Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” and “The Turner Diaries,” which justifies what he is about to do.

 

IACSP: What does Franklin have in common with Timothy McVeigh and other domestic terrorists?

 

Douglas: To use an analogy of a gun, the DNA is going to load the gun, but then it is going to be the personal life, the psychological experiences, how this person was raised, that will determine if they are going to pull the trigger. McVeigh’s parents divorced and he began to feel isolated. He gravitates to weaponry. He decided to join the Army. He did well as a sharpshooter, and he was assigned to an armored tank division during Desert Storm. But he became disenchanted in the way the war was being carried out. He wanted to become a Green Beret and he was accepted but he was not in good shape and he lasted only a couple of days and ends up being removed from the program and decides to screw it all. Back home, he saw what happened in Ruby Ridge, where one of our snipers took out Randy Weaver and his child. And then Waco, Texas, where little did anyone know at that time, McVeigh was there when the FBI came in with the tanks.

 

IACSP: McVeigh was in the compound?

 

Douglas: He was observing from afar and he was in the group of protestors and what he saw was the same tanks that he used in Iraq was now being used against our citizens. So those two actions reinforced his hatred of the government. He too is reading “The Turner Diaries” and other hate group pamphlets. So that was the triggering point for him and he teams up with Terry Nichols and one other guy and they targeted the federal building in Oklahoma City, hoping to take out FBI agents. He doesn’t really care about the children. He called it collateral damage. He hoped to get away, but the stupid ass had a vehicle without a license plate and the police brought him in for questioning and they tied him to the bombing.

 

IACSP: Killing the children in the day care in the federal building was truly terrible. What about Franklin?

 

Douglas: Franklin wanted to go into the military, and he wanted to be a police officer, but he had that bad eye. He had an accident with an old-fashioned shade with a spring in it and it hit him in the eye. He could have saved the eye had his mother taken him to a doctor. He developed cataracts and ended up being blind in the eye, but because of his over-compensation, he became a great shot and a sniper.

 

IACSP: Are the backgrounds of al Qaeda and ISIS terrorists different from someone like Franklin?

 

Douglas: There is a sense of alienation, a sense of isolation and they question their identity. You have the ethnicity and religion, and they feel the action of the group is going to empower them. They join the group and get a sense of brotherhood, a sense of belonging. The groups also give them a spiritual type of purpose. With those groups, you know who your enemy is. You know the hierarchy. You know who to target.

 

IACSP: How does the FBI deal with domestic terrorism?

 

Douglas: If you have a group like the Klan or the Aryan Nation, you have an organization where you can get informants and infiltrate them. Years ago, I worked a case on Los Macheteros, the Machete Wielders, in Puerto Rico. We went down there with a SWAT team and one of our agents got shot. We assessed the organization and thought this one person was the leader, but from our wiretaps, we saw another guy was getting all the calls and he was the actual leader.

 

IACSP: How can behavioral analysis aid law enforcement as well as the intelligence community?

 

Douglas: They can call upon Behavioral Sciences to do assessments of organizations and of people within the organizations. Also, when interrogating, we can assist with the proactive techniques we use. We can also show how we present information through the media, if you know the adversary is going to be listening. These are some of the tools in the toolbox.

 

IACSP: Thank you for speaking to us.

Taunting ‘Zodiac Killer’ Cypher Letter Decoded By Experts After 50 Years

Bruce Haring at Deadline.com offers a piece on the decoding of the Zodiac Killer’s 50-year-old letter.

California’s notorious Zodiac Killer, the subject of numerous films, television series, podcasts and books over the last half-century, has finally had one of his taunting messages decoded.

A letter sent to the San Francisco Chronicle was finally cracked by experts, revealing a message in which the serial murderer mocked efforts to find him.

“I hope you are having lots of fun in trying to catch me,” the killer wrote in the coded message, which was sent to the newspaper in 1969. “I am not afraid of the gas chamber because it will send me to paradise all the sooner because I now have enough slaves to work for me.”

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

Taunting ‘Zodiac Killer’ Cypher Letter Decoded By Experts After 50 Years – Deadline 

My Washington Times 'On Crime' Column On Legendary FBI Profiler John Douglas And His Book "The Killer's Shadow'

The Washington Times ran my On Crime column on legendary FBI profiler John Douglas and his book The Killer’s Shadow. 

Retired FBI agent and legendary criminal profiler John Douglas has once again written a book that recounts his time profiling, analyzing and hunting violent serial killers. 

This book, “The Killer’s Shadow: The FBI’s Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer,” covers one murderer that stands out from the many killers that John Douglas encountered during his FBI career in the Behavioral Science Unit. 

John Douglas, a pioneer in criminal profiling, assisted police in the hunt for some of the most notorious criminals of our time. He has interviewed and studied dozens of serial killers, such as Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan, Richard Speck, John Wayne Gacy, “Son of Sam” David Berkowitz and James Earl Ray. His studies help us understand their motives and methods. 

John Douglas was the model for the FBI agent Jack Crawford character in “The Silence of the Lambs,” the FBI agent Holden Ford character in Netflix’s “Mindhunters” series, and other films and TV series about serial killers and criminal profilers. 

In “The Killer’s Shadow,” John Douglas writes about how he used profiling, psychology and proactive investigative techniques to help capture Joseph Paul Franklin. John Douglas and his co-author, Mark Olshaker, recount Mr. Douglas’ profile of Franklin and how he helped the investigators hunting Franklin. 

Joseph Paul Franklin was a White nationalist serial killer and a violent psychopath who murdered his way across the country during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The avowed racist was an expert marksman and sniper who targeted interracial couples, Blacks and Jews. He was also an arsonist and bomber. Franklin also claimed to have shot and paralyzed Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt and seriously wounded civil rights leader Vernon Jordan. 

Franklin was a loner who joined and then left the Nazi Party and the Ku Klux Klan as he thought they were too tame and populated by drunks, do-nothings and braggarts. He also suspected the groups were infiltrated heavily by the FBI. Franklin instead struck it alone, robbing banks across the country to support his murder spree. 

... I reached out to John Douglas and asked him about Franklin. Mr. Douglas said that Franklin’s motivation was pure racial hatred. 

“We saw issues, problems and abuse. Franklin’s mother abused him, and his father really abused him. He was not allowed to socialize. He dropped out of school, started looking at Aryan Nation Brotherhood and Klu Klux Clan pamphlets,” Mr. Douglas explained. “He had this hatred towards interracial couples, Jews, and Blacks and his goal was to create a race war. He hoped others would follow in his footsteps”. 

You can read the rest of the column below or via the below link:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/nov/30/former-fbi-profiler-john-douglas-and-the-killers-s/

Note: My long-form Q&A with John Douglas (seen in the above photo)will appear soon in Counterterrorism magazine. I’ll post the interview when the magazine comes out. 

Body Of 19th Century Serial Killer Exhumed Near Philadelphia

The body of serial killer H.H. Holmes will be exhumed to prove to all that he is truly dead, according to a report at usnews.com.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The body of a 19th century serial killer is being exhumed in suburban Philadelphia at the request of his great-grandchildren, who hope identifying his remains will quell centuries-old rumors that he conned his way out of his execution and escaped from prison.

A Delaware County judge gave the go-ahead to exhume the remains of Dr. H. H. Holmes in a court order dated March 9. The Archdiocese of Philadelphia, which owns Holy Cross Cemetery in Yeadon where the body was located, confirmed the exhumation was to take place but it wasn't immediately clear when the process started. WCAU-TV in Philadelphia showed footage for a front-end loader removing dirt from a grave at Holy Cross Cemetery on Friday.

Holmes, the pseudonym of New Hampshire-born physician Herman Webster Mudgett, is believed to have killed an undetermined number people at his hotel of horrors during the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. It featured a bizarre labyrinth of windowless rooms, secret passageways, false floors, trapdoors, and a vault. Most of the rooms had gas vents, which were controlled from Mudgett's bedroom. Many of the rooms were soundproof and could only be locked from the outside.

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

https://www.usnews.com/news/entertainment/articles/2017-05-03/body-of-19th-century-serial-killer-exhumed-near-philadelphia 

You can also read an earlier piece on Holmes via the below link:

http://www.pauldavisoncrime.com/2016/12/serial-killer-hung-in-south-philly-in.html 

Serial Killer Hung In South Philly In 1896: How A Philadelphia Murder Led To Discovery Of H.H. Holmes' Chicago 'House of Horrors'

Tommy Rowan at the Philadelphia Inquirer offers an interesting piece on the hanging execution of serial killer H.H. Holmes in South Philadelphia in 1896.

As the sun rose on May 7, 1896, gawkers crowded outside the high stone walls of Moyamensing Prison in anticipation of the execution of one of America’s first serial killers.Reed and 10th Streets pulsed as policemen pushed the horde away from the gates and the horde pushed back. While observers could neither see nor hear the proceedings, they were nevertheless drawn to the fortress by a morbid fascination with an authentic monster. 

Herman Webster Mudgett is better known as H.H. Holmes, the man who built a “House of Horrors” in Chicago where he tortured and murdered unsuspecting victims between 1886 and 1894.  But it was not until he murdered a business partner in Philadelphia that police would discover the extent of his crimes.

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/real-time/1896-How-a-Philadelphia-murder-led-to-discovery-of-HH-Holmes-Chicago-House-of-horrors.html

'Child 44': A Film Based On Tom Rob Smith's Thriller

Although the early reviews of the film Child 44 have not been kind, I look forward to seeing the film, as I enjoyed the Tom Rob Smith thriller that the film is based on.

The thriller, set in the bad old days of Stalin's Soviet Union, is about a Russian serial killer and the MGB (forerunner to the KGB) officer out to catch him.

I wrote about Tom Rob Smith's Child 44 in my Crime Beat column.

Andrei Chikatilo is not as well known as his fellow serial killers Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer, and if the Soviets had their way, no one would have ever heard of him.

 According to the Soviets, crime did not exist in their worker’s paradise. But as the dead bodies piled up, the killer who came to be known as The Rostov Ripper was finally caught and convicted of brutally murdering 52 women and children between the years 1978 and 1990.

Chikatilo told the Soviet court that he performed a service for the Soviet system by eliminating what he called “worthless people.” Chikatilo was executed in 1994.

HBO made a good film about Chikatilo called Citizen X and Tom Rob Smith has written a good fictional account of the Chikatilo case, called Child 44.

The 30-year-old writer said he was researching a screenplay when he came across the Chikatilo case.

“The more I dug into the case, the more clear it became that he evaded capture not because he was ingenious but because the Soviet criminal system was reluctant to admit he even existed,” Smith wrote in his web page http://tomrobbsmith.com/.

“Their preconceptions about their society were as important, if not more important than stopping these terrible murders,” Smith continued. “Reading the nonfiction account of the investigations was incredibly frustrating. My reaction was so strong I knew I wanted to tell my own version of the story.”

 

You can read the rest of the column via the below link:

 

http://www.pauldavisoncrime.com/2009/10/soviet-serial-killers-and-secret-speech.html

 

The Fall: A British Police Inspector Pursues A Serial Killer In Belfast

I just finished watching season one and two of The Fall on Netflix.

Created, written and directed by Allan Cubitt, the psychological thriller set in Belfast is about a British police inspector hunting another hunter - a serial killer.

I enjoyed the crime series and I thought Gillian Anderson, Jamie Dornan and the supporting cast were all outstanding.

Elisabeth Vincentelli at the New York Post offers a piece on The Fall. 

When Season 1 of “The Fall” debuted on Netflix last year, it pretty much flew in under the radar.

Yet another moody BBC thriller? Ho-hum.

Then word got around that the compact five-episode show was very creepy in a very addictive way.

And a lot of it has to do with Gillian Anderson’s career-defining performance as Superintendent Stella Gibson — a potential heir to Helen Mirren’s iconic Jane Tennison in “Prime Suspect.”

Gibson is in hot pursuit of Paul Spector, a fetishistic serial killer played by Jamie Dornan, the upcoming dominating hottie in the “50 Shades of Grey” movie (opening Valentine’s Day).

In Season 2, now streaming on Netflix, the cop describes her foe as “very controlled, calm, cold-blooded.” Those words also apply to the deliberately paced show and to Gibson herself — whom Anderson gives a quiet but steely determination.

You can read the rest of the piece and watch the Netflix video trailer via the below link:

http://nypost.com/2015/01/19/gillian-andersons-a-legend-of-the-fall-in-netflix-series/

And you can read a piece about the crime series, written by Allan Cubitt, the creator of The Fall, at the British newspaper the Guardian via the below link:

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/jun/07/the-fall-allan-cubitt-women-violence 

Serial Killers: The FBI And Jeffrey Dahmer

The FBI web site offers a piece on their involvement with serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.

At about 11:30 on the night of July 22, 1991, Milwaukee Police Department patrol units saw a partially clothed man stumbling down the road near an apartment building on North 25th Street. A handcuff could be seen dangling from his wrist. The young man reported to police that he had been threatened with a knife inside that apartment building, prompting the officers to investigate. And the first report on the incident to FBI Headquarters indicated that the police arrested a man named Jeffrey Dahmer at his apartment, where they had discovered what could have been the set of a horror movie—numerous body parts belonging to multiple victims.

In serial murder cases, the FBI’s role is often that of providing forensic and other investigative support in an ongoing investigation. That was certainly the case with Dahmer.

After analyzing our options regarding jurisdiction in this case under the federal kidnapping statute, the Bureau offered its laboratory and identification services to local authorities in Milwaukee. To help identify previous victims, investigators began tracing the killer’s trail across the U.S. and around the world. Behavioral analysts, also known as profilers, participated as well.

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2014/august/serial-killers-part-7-the-fbi-and-jeffrey-dahmer

Creepily Ever After: Convicted Murderer Charles Manson To Wed 25-Year-Old 'Manson Family' Look-Alike

David K. Li at the New York Post offers a piece on the announcement that Charles Manson plans to wed a 25-year-old.

Charlie Manson and his Susan Atkins look-alike gal pal plan to tie the knot behind bars and live creepily ever after.

“I’ll tell you straight up, Charlie and I are going to get married,” Manson’s 25-year-old girlfriend, “Star,” tells Rolling Stone.

“When that will be, we don’t know. But I take it very seriously. Charlie is my husband,” she said.
If the 79-year-old serial killer wants to take a wife, the only thing stopping him is cold feet.

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

http://nypost.com/2013/11/21/charles-manson-and-gal-pal-plan-to-tie-the-knot/

You can also read my Washington Times review of Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson  via the below link:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/28/how-the-monster-came-to-be/  

FBI Requests Public's Assistance In Case Of Serial Killer Israel Keyes

The FBI released the below information yesterday:

Deirdre Fike, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for the state of Alaska, announced today a timeline of events in the ISRAEL KEYES investigation, to include information about possible unsolved homicides and other crimes. Anyone with information concerning Keyes is encouraged to contact the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI.

Based upon the investigation conducted following his arrest in March 2012, Israel Keyes is believed to have committed multiple kidnappings and murders across the country between 2001 and March 2012. Keyes lived in Washington state from 2001 to March 2007, at which time he moved to Alaska. While living in Alaska, Keyes traveled extensively while working as a general contractor. In a series of interviews with law enforcement, Keyes described significant planning and preparation for his murders, reflecting a meticulous and organized approach to his crimes.

Keyes admitted responsibility for robbing several banks during this time frame, two of which investigators have corroborated. Keyes used the proceeds from his bank robberies to pay for his travel, along with money he made as a general contractor. Keyes also admitted to traveling to various locations to leave supplies he planned to use in future crimes. Keyes stated he buried caches throughout the United States. The FBI recovered two caches buried by Keyes—one in Eagle River, Alaska and one near Blake Falls Reservoir in New York. The caches contained weapons and other items used to dispose of bodies. Keyes indicated the other caches he buried throughout the U.S. contain weapons, money, and items used to dispose of victims.

Investigators believe Keyes did not know any of his victims prior to their abductions. He described several remote locations that he frequented to look for victims—parks, campgrounds, trailheads, cemeteries, boating areas, etc. Keyes also admitted to frequenting prostitutes during his travels, and it is unknown at this time if he met any of his victims in this manner. Keyes indicated the victims are male and female and range in age from late teens to the elderly. Keyes told investigators prior to the murder of Bill and Lorraine Currier in Vermont, his victims’ disappearance received little if any media coverage. Investigators believe Keyes is responsible for 11 homicides. Keyes stated his murders occurred in less than 10 states but did not disclose all of the locations. Keyes described crossing into multiple states during the abduction, murder, and disposal of a victim. It is not unlikely that in some cases Keyes abducted a victim from one state, transported the victim to another state where he or she was murdered, and potentially drove the victim to a third state to dispose of the body. Keyes admitted to burglarizing 20 to 30 homes throughout the United States and talked about committing arson as a means to cover up a homicide.

The following is a timeline that articulates the information provided by Keyes and known to law enforcement about Keyes’ criminal activities. It also includes travel dates/locations investigators believe Keyes may have committed a homicide.

• Summer 1997 or Summer 1998: Keyes stated he abducted a female in the late afternoon or early evening while she and friends were tubing on the Deschutes River. Keyes sexually assaulted the female. He let her go and sent her on her tube back down the river. The victim in this case was between 14 and 18 years old. Investigators do not believe this sexual assault was reported to law enforcement. Keyes was living in Maupin, Oregon at the time and the abduction location is believed to be near Maupin.
• July 2001: Keyes was discharged from the U.S. Army.
• July 2001 to October 2001: Keyes resided in Neah Bay, Washington and committed his first homicide. The identity and location of the victim are unknown.
• July 2001 to 2005: Keyes stated he murdered an unidentified couple in Washington. Keyes refused to tell law enforcement if the couple was married or what their relationship to one another was. It is unknown if the victims were residents of Washington, tourists, or residents he abducted from a nearby state and transported to Washington. Keyes alluded to the fact these victims were buried in a location near a valley. Keyes may have moved the victims’ car to place distance between where the vehicle was found and where the crime occurred.
• 2005 to 2006 (summer/fall months): Keyes admitted that he committed two murders independent of one another. Keyes used his boat to dispose of the bodies of these victims. Keyes stated at least one of the bodies was disposed of in Crescent Lake in Washington, where he used anchors to submerge the body. Keyes reported the body was submerged in more than 100 feet of water. Keyes may have moved the victims’ cars to place distance between where the vehicles were found and where the crime occurred. The identity of these victims is unknown.
• March 1, 2007 to March 9, 2007: Keyes drove from Neah Bay, Washington to Anchorage, Alaska, where he resided until is his arrest. Keyes traveled the Alaska-Canadian Highway, making known stops in Cache Creek, British Columbia; Watson Lake, Yukon; Destruction Bay, Yukon; and Teslin, Yukon. Keyes crossed the border into Alaska on March 9, 2007.
• October 31, 2008 to November 5, 2008: Keyes flew to Seattle following travel to multiple other states, including North Dakota and Arizona. On October 31, Keyes rented a car (2008 PT Cruiser) in Seattle. On November 2, 2008, Keyes flew from Seattle to Boston. He returned to Seattle and flew back to Anchorage on November 5, 2008. Law enforcement believes Keyes may have engaged in criminal activity on this trip and is seeking any information about Keyes activities during this timeframe.
• April 9, 2009: Keyes admitted to abducting a female victim from a state on the East Coast and transporting 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.
• July 9, 2010 to July 12, 2010: Keyes flew from Anchorage to Sacramento, California and traveled to Auburn, California. He rented a vehicle (black Ford Focus) and drove approximately 280 miles during the three days. Law enforcement believes Keyes may have engaged in criminal activity during this travel and is seeking any information about Keyes activities during this trip.
• April/May 2011: Keyes staked out a park near Point Woronzof in Anchorage, Alaska. He admitted he intended to shoot a couple sitting in a car but his plans were disrupted by a police officer that pulled into the parking lot. Keyes turned his attention to the police officer and almost shot the officer. Keyes stated he chose not to shoot the officer or the couple when a second police officer drove into the parking lot.
• May 2011: Keyes reported he staked out the North Fork Trailhead in Eagle River, Alaska with the intention of abducting someone. He prepared a cache a short distance up the road that contained Drano and a shovel which he intended to use to dispose of the body. Keyes denied taking a victim from this location.
• June 8, 2011: Keyes flew from Anchorage to Chicago on June 2, 2011. He rented a car and drove to Essex, Vermont. On June 8, 2011, Keyes admitted to the abduction and murder of Bill and Lorraine Currier. Keyes disposed of a weapon stolen from the Currier home and the gun he used to shoot Bill Currier in Blake Falls Reservoir. These weapons and a nearby cache were recovered by the FBI. Following the murder, Keyes traveled around the East Coast before driving back to Chicago. On June 15, 2011, Keyes flew from Chicago to San Francisco, only staying one night, returning to Anchorage on June 16, 2011.
• February 1, 2012: Keyes admitted to the abduction and murder of Samantha Koenig in Anchorage, Alaska. He disposed of her body in Matanuska Lake near Palmer, Alaska.
• February 2, 2012 to February 18, 2012: Keyes flew to New Orleans, where he went on a cruise until February 11. After the cruise, he drove from New Orleans to Texas. Although he denied it, investigators believe Keyes may be responsible for a homicide in Texas or a surrounding state during this time. In the morning hours of February 16, 2012, Keyes set a home on fire in Aledo, Texas. Following the arson, he robbed National Bank of Texas in Azle, Texas.

Additional Caches:
Keyes admitted to burying a cache of money and guns near Green River, Wyoming. Known dates of travel to the Wyoming area are September 2007, July 2008, and September 2011.
Keyes admitted to burying a cache near Port Angeles, Washington. Date unknown.

Additional Homicides:
Keyes provided additional details regarding the abduction and murder of a female. The female is described as having pale skin, possibly having a wealthy grandmother, and driving an older car at the time of her abduction.

Keyes indicated he committed only one murder in addition to Samantha Koenig in which the body was recovered. In this homicide, Keyes reported doing something to the victim’s body or moving the body to a location where, if found, it would appear as though the victim died from an accident. In this situation, the body was recovered and authorities ruled the death accidental.

Keyes traveled internationally and it is unknown if he committed any homicides while outside of the United States. In addition to the specific dates below, it is important to note that while living in New York, Keyes was in close proximity to the border with Canada and may have crossed into Canada on multiple occasions. He reported several trips to Montreal in which he sought out prostitutes. In addition, on his way to Alaska in 2007, Keyes drove alone through Canada. Law enforcement is aware of the following dates of international travel:

• 04/20/2005 to 04/25/2005 - British Columbia
• 10/3/2001 to 10/31/2005 - Belize
• 03/01/2007 to 03/09/2007 - Canada (drove to Alaska)
• 04/24/2007 to 05/04/2007 - Mexico
• 12/11/2008 to 12/25/2008 - Mexico

If you have information for law enforcement regarding Israel Keyes, please contact the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI.

You can also can also view a video and photo gallery of Keyes via the below link:

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

Note: The above photo of Israel Keyes was provided by the FBI.

Serial Killer Israel Keyes 'Got High' From Killing, FBI Agent Says

Alyssa Newcomb and Christina Ng at ABCNews.com report on the case of confessed serial killer Israel Keyes.

Confessed serial killer Israel Keyes relished the "rush" he got from traveling the country to execute meticulously planned murders, according to the FBI agent who spent months interviewing him.

"He liked what he was doing," FBI Special Agent Jolene Goeden told "Good Morning America" today. "He talked about the rush he got out of it, the adrenaline and kind of the high from it."

Keyes, 34, can be seen casually talking about his strategy for hunting and killing people over a coffee and bagel in videos released by the FBI. He was, by his own account, a split personality.

"There is no one who knows me or who has ever known me that knows anything about me, really," he told FBI investigators in an audio recording released to the media.

You can read the rest of the story and watch the video via the below link:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/alaska-serial-killer-israel-keyes-high-killing-fbi/story?id=17885366