Keyes is such an anomaly in the world of serial killers, IMO. He wasn’t charismatic.
IMO he wasn't. There is nothing to him, and neither it was to any else. They are trash and he was trash.
I wonder what the mother of his kid would have to say about him. Cause his at-the-time gf wasn't her biological mother as far as I recall. Was she unable or unwilling to take care of her and fell into his fake facade, or like way too many others, sushed up and ignored every time she tried to notify people that guy is creepy and dangerous?
It stunned me with Bundy, and women around him (I don't mean his victims, but those who survived and had unfortunate chance to knew him) - all white women, all pretty privilleged. They kept reporting him, repeatedly, as suspected serial killer, cause he was this creepy, this sleazy, this mental and dangerous in their eyes.
And I get it, at the time LE didn't have computers, communication wasn't that great, they were flooded with tips, reports and mostly useless info - okay, they were unable to figure it out sooner.
But what about people now? Everybody knows who he was and how he was. Only his lying, politically engaged buddies and
men who met him AFTER he was found out to be a serial killer ever called him charismatic. There are proofs that his girlfriend and at least few other women who knew him were repeatedly reporting him. His MO was to guilttrip young women into helping weak, injured, hopeless student - knowing damn well, that they were taught that since they were born: not to care about their own safety, but to help, no matter how sketchy the situation looks like.
Then he was hitting them with a crowbar cause they wouldn't go, or drive anywhere with him if they were conscious, but whatever, he still gets a pass for being "charismatic".
I wonder id IK interest in Native women wasn't by any chance driven by awareness that they are much likely to not be treated fairly by LE in case that he'll slip or they'll get suspicious with his behaviour, or terrified by him - or that they won't even try knowing that it usually doesn't work.
He killed men and women, young and old. He didn’t have a preferred type of victim because he wasn’t driven by hatred or feelings of insecurity (like Bundy).
Really? Killing people for pleasure but no hatred and insecurity? That's what a malaria infected mosquito could do, not a serial killer.
He was a big guy, fit, strong. He had a good fighting chance to win even if he'd attack equally big and fit male in his prime. So he was confident enough to attack a couple.
Bundy was too physically weak to have any other prefference than hitting a teenage girl in back of her head with a crowbar.
It's awfully coincidental that there is not that many, if any short, phisically weak serial killers who would attack big guys, or even big, tall, fit women. They're always very careful to make sure that the victim is much weaker, and smaller, also prefferably surprised, drugged, trapped and tricked. Awfully coincidental that their "type" is almost always someone, who belongs to the group that's easiest to prey on, and the easiest to access.
Nor did he crave attention or feel the need to take credit for his crimes (like Gary Ridgeway, the Zodiac, and so many others).
There are different ways to get attention, not going same route doesn't meant that goal isn't the same.
During his psych eval, he said he always knew he’d be caught someday. He just never imagined that he’d be in his current position — constantly being asked to answer questions about his crimes. He always envisioned himself dying in a shootout with police. He said they caught him at the worst possible time because he didn’t have a gun on him.
Yeah, living legend that doesn't cry for attention at all.
But why would he think that?
How many serial killers died in shootout with police? Not that many. He was aware of that. Most of them ends up in same position as him, answering questions and coming up with whatever bs they figured would fly best to explain themselves and sell a narrative that others will carry, cause apparently they deserve all the attention.
I had always wondered why Keyes went against his usual routine of fly and drive with Samantha Koenig when he’d gone to such great lengths to conceal his crimes for so many years.
Likely with same exact reason why any other offender escalated, ever - cause they got away with things.