The victims, the people investigators believe may be victims, and the officials, investigators, and record-keepers whose decisions shaped what the public knows. Select any name for detail and sources.
Samantha Koenig18, Anchorage, AlaskaConfirmed
A barista abducted from the Common Grounds coffee stand on February 1, 2012. Keyes staged a ransom demand that kept her family and the city hoping she was alive. FBI divers recovered her from Matanuska Lake on April 2, 2012. Her case is the one that led to his arrest.
Sources: FBI; Anchorage Daily News; Associated Press.
Bill Currier50, Essex, VermontConfirmed
Abducted from his home with his wife on June 8, 2011, and reported missing when neither arrived at work the next day. He worked as an animal hospital technician. His remains have not been recovered. Some reports give his age as 49; the Vermont State Police record lists 50.
Sources: Vermont State Police; FBI; Anchorage Daily News, May 18, 2018.
Lorraine Currier55, Essex, VermontConfirmed
Abducted with her husband on June 8, 2011. She worked at a medical practice. Keyes described her fighting back. Chittenden County’s prosecutor said nothing the Curriers did contributed to their deaths. Her remains have not been recovered.
Sources: Vermont State Police; Anchorage Daily News, May 18, 2018.
The FBI believes Keyes committed 11 homicides. In 2020 agents said at least seven victims remain unidentified. The entries below are suspected or described only by Keyes. None is confirmed.
Debra Feldman48, Hackensack, New JerseySuspected
Disappeared April 8, 2009, the day before Keyes said he abducted a woman on the East Coast and buried her in upstate New York. The FBI has said she may have been that victim. Her body has not been found.
Source: FBI Newark appeal, 2013; FBI agents on 48 Hours, 2020.
The Deschutes River survivorTeenager, near Maupin, Oregon, 1997 or 1998Unidentified
Keyes said he abducted and assaulted a girl between 14 and 18 who was tubing with friends, then let her go. Investigators do not believe it was reported. If she is alive, she may be the only person known to have survived him.
Source: FBI Dallas release, Aug. 13, 2013; FBI Portland appeal, 2012.
The Neah Bay victimWashington, 2001Unidentified
The FBI places his first homicide in Neah Bay between July and October 2001. Identity and location unknown.
Source: FBI Dallas release, Aug. 13, 2013.
The Washington coupleWashington, 2001 to 2005Unidentified
He would not say whether they were married, residents, or tourists. He suggested they were buried near a valley.
Source: FBI Dallas release, Aug. 13, 2013.
Two Washington victims2005 or 2006, including Crescent LakeUnidentified
Two separate killings. He said at least one body was sunk in Crescent Lake in more than 100 feet of water.
Source: FBI Dallas release, Aug. 13, 2013.
The staged accidentLocation unknownUnidentified
Keyes said one victim besides Koenig was recovered, and that he staged the death so it would look accidental. Authorities ruled it an accident.
Source: FBI Dallas release, Aug. 13, 2013.
Jolene GoedenFBI Special Agent, AnchorageFBI
A lead interviewer and the Bureau’s main public voice on the case. In 2013 she said the 11-victim figure rested primarily on Keyes’s own statements. In 2020 she presented the blood-drawn skulls on 48 Hours.
Sources: FBI, Aug. 2013; CBS News, May 2020.
Katherine NelsonFBI Special AgentFBI
Said in 2020 that the skull drawings show at least seven victims the FBI has not identified, and discussed Debra Feldman as a possible victim.
Source: Oxygen and CBS News, May 2020.
Steve PayneFBI agentFBI
Pressed Keyes in October 2012 to give up locations before the ground froze, telling him supervisors believed he was playing investigators.
Source: Anchorage Daily News, May 18, 2018.
Monique DollLead detective, Anchorage Police DepartmentAPD
Led the Koenig investigation and flew to Texas after the arrest to question Keyes.
Source: Associated Press via MPR News, Jan. 26, 2013.
Jeff BellDetective, Anchorage Police DepartmentAPD
Doll’s partner and an interviewer. Said after Keyes’s death that Keyes knew his other victims’ names and never divulged them.
Source: Anchorage Daily News, Dec. 5, 2012.
Bobby ChaconFormer FBI Special Agent, dive teamFBI
Has described the Matanuska Lake recovery dive in televised interviews.
Source: Oxygen, Method of a Serial Killer.
Kevin FeldisAssistant U.S. Attorney, District of AlaskaProsecution
Lead federal prosecutor. Questioned Keyes in multiple sessions and asked him directly what he wanted in exchange for information.
Sources: Associated Press, Apr. 2013; Anchorage Daily News, Apr. 2012.
Frank RussoAssistant U.S. Attorney, District of AlaskaProsecution
Co-prosecutor and interviewer. Asked Keyes on tape how long he had been two different people.
Source: Associated Press via MPR News, Jan. 26, 2013.
Tristram CoffinU.S. Attorney, District of VermontProsecution
Released details of the Currier case at a press conference on December 3, 2012, the day after Keyes died.
Source: Seven Days, Dec. 3, 2012.
T.J. DonovanChittenden County State’s Attorney, VermontProsecution
Said publicly in July 2012 that the Curriers were victims of random violence and nothing in their lives contributed to it.
Source: Vermont State Police missing persons record.
Judge Timothy BurgessU.S. District Judge, District of AlaskaCourt
Presided over United States v. Keyes, including the May 23, 2012 hearing where Keyes tried to escape. Set trial for March 11, 2013.
Source: Anchorage Daily News, May 23 and 26, 2012.
Rich CurtnerFederal public defenderDefense
Keyes’s appointed counsel. Told prosecutors in July 2012 that Keyes’s family saw news of the Vermont connection before he did.
Source: Alaska Dispatch, Apr. 9, 2013.
Dr. Ronald RoeschPsychologist, court-ordered evaluationCourt
Conducted a 6.5-hour evaluation in April 2012 and found Keyes competent, with high average intelligence and antisocial tendencies. The report stayed sealed until 2018.
Source: Anchorage Daily News, May 18, 2018.
David LongSupervisory Deputy, U.S. Marshals Service, AnchorageCourt
Described the May 2012 escape attempt and said marshals were investigating how Keyes broke his leg restraints.
Source: Anchorage Daily News, May 23, 2012.
Bryan BrandenburgDirector of Institutions, Alaska DOCCustody
Said Keyes had been on suicide watch earlier, was taken off it months before his death, and appeared to have convinced psychiatric staff he was no longer suicidal. Trained department staff on suicide prevention.
Sources: Anchorage Daily News, Dec. 5 and 6, 2012.
Kaci SchroederSpokesperson, Alaska DOCCustody
Said Keyes was segregated but not on suicide watch. Later declined to explain how the razor was issued, citing security, and said even general discussion of razor possession was not public.
Sources: Associated Press; Alaska Dispatch, Feb. 14, 2013.
Loren JacobsenCorrectional officer on the overnight shiftCustody
Fired after the death. An arbitrator found he was on a mandatory break during the critical window and had been made a scapegoat for broader lax practices, and overturned the firing.
Sources: Alaska Dispatch News, July 15, 2014; KTVA via Corrections1.
Maureen CallahanAuthor, American Predator (2019)Author
Hired Anchorage attorney Jeffrey Robinson and won a 2018 court order unsealing the remaining interviews and the psychological evaluation, which the government had kept sealed for years.
Source: Anchorage Daily News, May 18, 2018.
Alaska DispatchNews organization, now part of the Anchorage Daily NewsPress
Moved to unseal the first set of interview recordings after Keyes’s death. They were released in April 2013.
Source: Alaska Dispatch, Apr. 9 and 10, 2013.
Josh HallmarkHost, True Crime Bullsh**Podcast
Has spent years working through FBI files and interview recordings in an effort to identify unnamed victims, and maintains a public research library.
Source: truecrimebullshit.com.
Casey GroveReporter, Anchorage Daily NewsPress
Covered the Koenig case, the court hearings, and the custody death as they happened, and interviewed Keyes the day after the escape attempt.
Sources: Anchorage Daily News, 2012; ABC, Wild Crime.
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