Law enforcement agencies across the country are digging into their cold case files of grisly crimes to see whether any might be linked to serial killer Israel Keyes, who died last weekend awaiting trial for murder in Alaska.
One of those cases might be in Oregon.
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released by the FBI shows that in April 2005, Keyes was in Washington state and British Columbia. In July that year, two teachers were
in Oregon's Willamette National Forest.
"It fits in that time frame," said Detective Sgt. Cliff Harrold of the Lane County Sheriff's Office. "It's one of the more recent cold cases that we have. It's a double homicide. We'd love to have it solved."
Stevan Haugen, 54, and his girlfriend Jeanette Bauman, 56, were found shot to death near their campsite about 25 miles from their home in Oakridge.
Harrold said his agency plans to talk to the lead FBI agents in the Keyes' investigation to compare notes.
"We'll see if there's anything that they've learned in their investigation that will link it to our open case," Harrold said. "I don't know when we'll be able to have that detailed conversation."
Before
in jail, Keyes admitted to killing eight people from 2001 to 2012. Agents pieced together the chronology of Keyes' whereabouts based on interviews with him and their investigation.
His
was in Oregon, according to the FBI. The agency's Portland office said Friday that Keyes admitted raping a 14- to 18-year-old girl sometime between 1996 and 1998 along the Deschutes River near Maupin. He told investigators he was able to lure her away from her friends and attack her. He told investigators that he did not kill her.
The FBI has been unable to locate any corresponding police reports. If true, the victim would now be in her late 20s or early 30s.
"None of this has been corroborated," said Beth Anne Steele, spokeswoman for the FBI in Portland.
She said the agency is trying to locate the victim and determine when Keyes was in Oregon, where he went in the state and whether he committed any other crimes while he was here.
The FBI also issued a news release on Monday, asking for the public's help in solving other cases across the country. That appeal spurred a huge response.
"We are getting a great many calls," said Darrin E. Jones, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI's Anchorage office.
The FBI timeline serves as a starting point in trying to match up cases, Jones said. It shows that Keyes, a construction worker in Anchorage, traveled to the lower 48 states and to Hawaii, Mexico and Canada between October 2004 and March 2012, when he was arrested in the rape, murder and dismemberment of Samantha Koenig, an 18-year-old barista in Anchorage.
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Authorities say Keyes admitted killing four people in Washington state: an unnamed couple sometime between 2001 and 2005; and two others, who were also not named, in separate killings between 2005 and 2006. The FBI said it was unclear whether these people lived in Washington, whether they were visiting the state or whether Keyes kidnapped them in another state and dumped them in Washington.
He also told investigators he killed another person in 2009 on the East Coast and disposed of the body in New York state. In addition, he said he killed a couple in Vermont — Bill Currier, 49 and Lorraine Currier, 55 — in the summer of 2011.
Keyes, 34, died last weekend in his cell in the Anchorage Correctional Complex. Beth Ipsen, spokeswoman for the Division of Alaska State Troopers, said his body was found at 6 a.m. Sunday in his bed. She said he died from slitting his left wrist with a disposal razor and from looping one end of a bedsheet around his neck, the other around his foot, strangling himself.
It's not clear how he obtained the razor.
"That's being looked at," Ipsen said.
In interviews, Keyes described hopping on flights, renting cars and driving hundreds of miles to kill people. He frequented remote locations — parks, campgrounds, trailheads, cemeteries and docks — to find victims.
He said he robbed banks to pay for his travels, and he buried caches with weapons at locations where he planned to kill people. The FBI located two, one in Alaska and another in New York.
Investigators believe he didn't know the people he killed.
FBI officials are asking anyone with information about about cases that might be connected to Keyes to call 503-224-4181 in Portland or 541-389-1202 in Bend.
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