07-20-2012, 03:20 PM
This is a strange twist, I don't know if any of you here followed the Samantha Koenig case. She was an 18 year barista in anchorage who was kidnapped from the coffee shack where she worked and later found murdered under the ice in a lake. Very tragic story. After the arrest of Keyes, LE revealed they had been tracking him for sometime, I think he had been using Sam's phone and contacting her father for money which he withdrew from different atm's in different states. Anyways, like I said it was quite an interesting case.
So to the point, Israel Keyes who has been arrested for the kidnapping and murder of Sam is now being connected to this case:
WCAX: BURLINGTON, Vt. -
Federal authorities say they have a suspect in the murder of an Essex couple. Thursday, WCAX News reported that investigators now consider the disappearance of Bill and Lorraine Currier to be a homicide. And now police believe they know who killed them.
State and federal prosecutors announced their findings at a news conference in Burlington Friday morning.
"The investigation has developed significant information that William and Lorraine Currier were abducted from their home and murdered shortly thereafter in June 2011. The person believed to have committed the murders is in custody in another state and will remain in custody. No charges have yet been brought against this person for the Curriers' murders, but charges are anticipated," said Tristram Coffin, the U.S. Attorney for Vermont.
"Their murders were a random act of violence that occurred in our community. There is nothing the Curriers did in their personal lives that contributed to their deaths," Chittenden County Prosecutor T.J. Donovan said.
Authorities would not identify their suspect, but WCAX News has learned who it is. We have been following this investigation for several months and sources now tell WCAX News that the suspect in the Currier murder case is incarcerated 4,500 miles away. His name is Israel Keyes. The 34-year-old is in a federal prison in Alaska. In April, he was indicted for allegedly kidnapping and killing an 18-year-old coffee house worker from Anchorage. Sources tell WCAX News that while the feds were questioning Keyes about that case, he told them where they could find the bodies of the missing Essex couple. That's when authorities zeroed in on the property off Route 15 in Essex. The investigators then chased that construction debris to a Coventry landfill. WCAX News has also been able to confirm that Keyes was in Essex at the exact time of the murders, even confirming that Keyes checked into a hotel the day before the Curriers disappeared and checked out the day after they went missing.
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Israel Keyes
More at link: http://www.wcax.com/story/19073463/inves...f-curriers
So to the point, Israel Keyes who has been arrested for the kidnapping and murder of Sam is now being connected to this case:
WCAX: BURLINGTON, Vt. -
Federal authorities say they have a suspect in the murder of an Essex couple. Thursday, WCAX News reported that investigators now consider the disappearance of Bill and Lorraine Currier to be a homicide. And now police believe they know who killed them.
State and federal prosecutors announced their findings at a news conference in Burlington Friday morning.
"The investigation has developed significant information that William and Lorraine Currier were abducted from their home and murdered shortly thereafter in June 2011. The person believed to have committed the murders is in custody in another state and will remain in custody. No charges have yet been brought against this person for the Curriers' murders, but charges are anticipated," said Tristram Coffin, the U.S. Attorney for Vermont.
"Their murders were a random act of violence that occurred in our community. There is nothing the Curriers did in their personal lives that contributed to their deaths," Chittenden County Prosecutor T.J. Donovan said.
Authorities would not identify their suspect, but WCAX News has learned who it is. We have been following this investigation for several months and sources now tell WCAX News that the suspect in the Currier murder case is incarcerated 4,500 miles away. His name is Israel Keyes. The 34-year-old is in a federal prison in Alaska. In April, he was indicted for allegedly kidnapping and killing an 18-year-old coffee house worker from Anchorage. Sources tell WCAX News that while the feds were questioning Keyes about that case, he told them where they could find the bodies of the missing Essex couple. That's when authorities zeroed in on the property off Route 15 in Essex. The investigators then chased that construction debris to a Coventry landfill. WCAX News has also been able to confirm that Keyes was in Essex at the exact time of the murders, even confirming that Keyes checked into a hotel the day before the Curriers disappeared and checked out the day after they went missing.
Israel Keyes
More at link: http://www.wcax.com/story/19073463/inves...f-curriers
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