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from: http://www.fbi.gov/portland/press-r...istance-in-case-of-serial-killer-israel-keyesKeyes indicated he committed only one murder in addition to Samantha Koenig in which the body was recovered. In this homicide, Keyes reported doing something to the victims body or moving the body to a location where, if found, it would appear as though the victim died from an accident. In this situation, the body was recovered and authorities ruled the death accidental.
While the regional threads work very well, I feel, in looking for possible victims of IK, I have been thinking a lot the past few days about the "one" victim (other than Samantha) whose body, IK told the investigative team, was recovered -- the one he did something to or moved to a location that would make the death seem accidental. The information we have is that, indeed, the death was ruled accidental.
I thought it might be helpful to have a thread dedicated to seeing if we can identify who that victim may have been -- since we don't really have any particular geographical clue (other than the timeline).
I think WS missing/then found deceased threads that reflect "accidental" deaths would be a great place to start -- but we may need to branch out, because we don't know if the person was ever reported missing or if, perhaps, he/she was reported missing but never made it to WS threads.
I'm thinking we can just gather some "possibles" here in this thread -- then, for those that match up well with the timeline and such and seem very possible, we can move individual cases to the appropriate geographical region thread. (And it might be helpful, too, if there are already "accident" victims mentioned in those threads -- I can't remember for sure if there are -- that we re-list them here as well.)
One of the places IK mentioned that he hunted victims was around boating areas. To me, that would seem a likely type of environment in which to stage an "accident" appearance. So I'm thinking that's where I will start looking -- around boating areas -- for deaths ruled drownings, one-person boat accidents, and other water-related deaths that seem unusual or mysterious. (I realize, too, that in these kinds of cases, the victim might not have been taken in the boating area, but only moved there after death.)
That's just one idea, though, and I hope posters will come up with others regarding what kinds of "accidental" death might actually have been murder. (One that comes to mind for me is "fire" -- so I guess there might be some overlap with the arson thread, possibly.)