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FBI officials have released macabre new evidence in the case of confessed serial killer Israel Keyes – drawings of skulls he made in his own blood, according to a report.
Investigators revealed the disturbing find Saturday on CBS’ “48 Hours,” saying they believe Keyes may have killed up to seven other people based on interviews and the drawings, which were found just months before he committed suicide in an Alaska prison in late 2012.
“He drew a series of 11 skulls,” FBI Special Agent Jolene Goeden said. “And these were found underneath his bed in his jail cell.”
Prior to taking his own life, Keyes, 34, had confessed to killing 18-year-old Samantha Koenig after abducting her from a coffee stand in Anchorage where she worked, as well as seven other people across the country.
Investigators at the time suspected Keyes of killing as many as 11 people, none of whom he knew, including a couple in Washington state sometime between 2001 and 2005.
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Keyes said his killings took place in fewer than 10 states, but didn’t reveal all of the locations.
“Once I started, you know … there was nothing else like it,” Keyes told investigators, according to the report, adding there was no method to selecting his victims. “It was just random.”
FBI officials also revealed Keyes’ so-called “kill caches,” or pre-made kits containing guns, zip ties and other items he buried across the country in advance of his slayings. Investigators think more of the caches are buried elsewhere and could contain evidence in the unsolved murders, CBS reports.
“It won’t be easy by any means,” FBI Special Agent Katherine Nelson said. “And it may take a long time. But I’ll never give up trying.”
In 2013, Goeden said the FBI believed Keyes killed 11 people “based primarily” on what he told investigators.
“He was evasive,” Goeden said, according to an FBI transcript. “He was very evasive at times during interviews, and he told us when we tried to pin him down on a number that it was less than 12. But then there were things that he would say that led us to believe that by ‘less than 12,’ he simply meant 11, and so he was quick to correct us in interviews if we had something wrong.”
With Post wires