Saturday, April 28, 2012

NORTH BEND, WA: KILLER PETER KELLER FOUND IN HIDDEN MOUNTAIN BUNKER

Peter Keller is suspected of killing his wife and daughter and the family pets.
 Lynnettee and Kaylene Keller were found dead in their home. /  King5.com
This photo provided by the King County Sheriff's Department on Friday, April 27, 2012 shows a bunker that deputies say belongs to a man suspected of killing his wife and daughter, and holing up for days in the Cascade foothills east of Seattle. Photo: King County Sheriff's Department / AP
A hiker carries his dog past a sign advising of a closed trail just miles from where a gun-toting survivalist is suspected of killing his wife and daughter several days earlier Friday, April 27, 2012, in North Bend, Wash. Peter Alex Keller may be holed up in a self-made fort not far from where Seattle's outer suburbs give way to the vast recreational playground of Cascade Mountains. Police expect more people to hit the nearby trails this weekend, and deputies are warning them to steer clear of Keller if they think they see him.
Photo: Elaine Thompson / AP

North Bend is a city in King County, Washington, United States. The town was made famous by David Lynch's television series Twin Peaks.

Body found in mountain bunker
By GENE JOHNSON, ASSOCIATED PRESS / SeattlePI.com
Updated 12:11 p.m., Saturday, April 28, 2012

After a nearly 23-hour standoff, police blew up the top of an elaborate bunker in the Cascade Mountains on Saturday and found the body of a man inside — believed to be that of a survivalist wanted in the deaths of his wife and daughter last weekend.

The suspect appeared to have shot himself, King County sheriff's Sgt. Katie Larson said. Officials were awaiting positive identification of the body.

The raid ended a tense week for law enforcement officials who tried to track down 41-year-old Peter Keller, a gun enthusiast described by his family as having a "survivalist mentality." That Keller was likely armed and on the loose in an extremely popular hiking and mountain-biking area east of Seattle kept many people on edge.

Keller had spent eight years building the bunker into the side of Rattlesnake Ridge, police said. It was thoroughly camouflaged and had multiple levels.

SWAT teams spent a grueling seven hours on the mountainside Friday morning, virtually crawling over dangerously steep terrain slick with mud from recent rains, before they found the bunker. A number of officers were treated intravenously for dehydration, and one broke his ankle, said sheriff's Sgt. Cindi West said.

After long shifts, the officers appeared exhausted, their faces smeared with camouflage paint, as they rode down the mountain in sport-utility vehicles or armored carriers to be replaced by fresher teams.

SWAT officers who kept watch on the bunker through Friday night said they saw lights going on and off, and they believed its occupant had everything necessary to remain inside for a long time — including a generator, food, gas mask, bullet-resistant vest and many guns.

READ: HOW DID THEY FIND PETER KELLER IN WASHINGTON STATE RUGGED MOUNTAINS?
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Body-found-in-mountain-bunker-3517930.php#photo-2870496

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

KERRI HARDING: KIDNAPPED BY RAYMOND MOODY. DID HE TAKE BRITTANEE DREXEL?

Kerri Harding, 38, is seen in an undated photo provided to FoxNews.com. Harding was kidnapped and sexually assaulted in 1983 by Raymond Moody, a "person of interest" in the 2009 disappearance of 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel (inset). (FoxNews.com)


Raymond Moody
was named a person of interest in the case of missing teen Brittanee Drexel.
Photo credit: (Booking Photo).

Three years after Brittanee Drexel’s disappearance, a victim of ‘person of interest’ speaks out
By Cristina Corbin
Published April 25, 2012  /  FoxNews.com

Police say Raymond Moody is a “person of interest” in the disappearance of Brittanee Drexel, the 17-year-old from upstate New York who vanished in South Carolina exactly three years ago today.

But to Kerri Harding, Moody is the monster who abducted and raped her in 1983, when she was just 8, and she’s convinced he should be the prime suspect in the Drexel case.

Harding survived the attack in California, but the terrifying memory of her ordeal has never left her. Drexel disappeared from South Carolina’s Myrtle Beach on April 25, 2009, and is presumed dead. Police told FoxNews.com there are similarities between the two cases, and said they confirmed Moody was in the area near where Drexel was last seen. But authorities don’t have enough evidence to declare him a suspect, and to Harding’s horror, he refuses to speak to them.

“My biggest fear is that he’ll do it again,” said Harding, now 38. “You should never get a second chance to hurt a child.”

Moody, 52, served 21 years of a 40-year prison sentence after admitting to sexually assaulting Harding and six other girls. He relocated to Georgetown, S.C., after his release from the California State Prison in Solano in 2004. The ex-con, who police say works in a woodworking shop, could not be reached for comment.

Harding has monitored Moody’s whereabouts since his release, and knew he had resurfaced in South Carolina.

When she came upon a February article on FoxNews.com reporting that Moody is a person of interest in Drexel’s disappearance, she said she had no doubt that her tormentor had struck again.

READ: RAYMOND MOODY RAPED KERRI HARDING. DID RAYMOND MOODY TAKE BRITTANEE DREXEL?http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/25/three-years-after-brittanee-drexels-disappearance-past-victim-person-interest/



Tuesday, April 24, 2012

BRITTANY KILLGORE FOUND: 2 CHARGED IN SEX MURDER

Fallbrook, CA:  Brittany Killgore, 22, body found near Lake Skinner in Riverside County, CA

Estranged: Brittany Killgore, right, filed for divorce from husband Cory, left, last week

 Suspect: Authorities believe that the victim knew Jessica Lynn Lopez (pictured here),
and the two were involved in some kind of sex slave ring.
 
Suicide attempt:
Jessica Lynn Lopez was found with numerous self-inflicted stab wounds on her body
at this Ramada Inn near the San Diego Airport

FALLBROOK, CALIFORNIA: shows San Diego (south), Riverside (north)

Killgore Murder: Second Suspect Arrested

By DEAN SCHABNER and ALYSSA NEWCOMB (@alyssanewcomb)

abcnews  /  April 24, 2012

A Marine already charged with illegal possession of an assault rifle was arrested today on suspicion of murder in the killing of Marine wife Brittany Killgore.

Staff Sgt. Louis Ray Perez, 45, was arrested on the new charge at Vista Detention, where he is being held.

Killgore, 22, of Fallbrook, Calif., disappeared April 13, after telling friends she was going out in San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter. Her body was found four days later, dumped near Lake Skinner in Riverside County, Calif.

Jessica Lopez, 25, was already charged with first degree murder in Killgore's death. She entered a not guilty plea in court April 19, and was ordered held on $3 million bail, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department said.

Lopez was arrested at a Ramada Inn in San Diego on April 17, while she was being treated for an undisclosed medical condition at an area hospital. She is now in jail.

Key to the case was an apparent suicide note found in Lopez's hotel room, that detailed the 22-year-old Killgore's fate and the location of her body, according to ABC News affiliate KGTV in San Diego.

According to legal records, Lopez once lived with Perez, who had been considered a person of interest in the case since the investigation into Killgore's disappearance began. Police had said they believed he may have been the last person to see Killgore alive.

Perez was arraigned April 18 on an unrelated charge of possession of an AR-15 assault rifle and was ordered held on $500,000 bail.

Authorities have not commented on the connection between Killgore, Lopez and Perez.

READ UPDATE: JESSICA LOPEZ, LOUIS PEREZ ARRESTED FOR MURDER OF
BRITTANY KILLGORE...