Hi, everyone,
1) I think it's important to distinguish between aliases (intentional misrepresenatations of name) and typos/bureaucratic transcription mistakes.
For example, my name contains an "n" a "b" and an "f." No matter how carefully I spell or clarify it, I invariably receive bills, checks, and letters in which those are written as "m" "d" and "s."
If I were to be arrested and people did online sleuthing on me, there would probably be a thread that pointed out how sneaky I was to have about 10 aliases. Whereas all of them are transcription mistakes.
"Keyes" and "Reyes" are almost certainly in that category. The cited newspaper article is quoting an unnamed facebook administrator who in turn is citing an email from an unnamed source.
LE would have put out that aliases were used, if any were.
In fact, it's very interesting that Keyes used his own name, own credit card in that name, during his travels, at least when he was on the grid.
Finally, "Iz" and "Izzy" are nicknames, not aliases. Like a guy named Robert who people call Bob or Bobby.
2) Replacing gun barrels is something people who shoot guns do. Barrels are inexpensive and you replace them rather than buy a whole new gun.
The fact that a gun barrel has been replaced in a gun used to commit a crime is not astonishing and does not mean that Keyes is more likely to be involved.
3) Keyes stated that he did not shoot people, except Bill Currier. He used guns to terrify people into compliance. In addition, he stated that he loved 22's and that was his gun of choice.
Now, we can disbelieve him and speculate about gunshot victims who were clearly murdered (whereas the FBI clearly believes we should be looking for missing people whose bodies have never been recovered and who received little press attention).
But, since all that we know of "his M.O" or pretty much anything he did came from his own mouth, if we decide to disbelieve him about those issues, why believe that he murdered anyone beside the 3 who were confirmed?
We seem to take him at his word that he prowled parklands and boat ramps, that he killed many people, that he buried weapons and cash ... but then ignore what he said about the bodies not being discovered and there being little press.
So many of the proposed victims in these threads have been: clearly shot, clearly murdered, or clearly big news. And those have to be excluded.
I'm sorry Cynar, I have to totally disagree...Keyes did use a lot of various names, and that has been proven...that is how the FB page found a lot of their 1st information on him
http://criminalminds.wikia.com/wiki/Israel_Keyes
He stated in the released tapes that he "never" used credit card, debit cards on these trips, he always used cash so no cards have ever been known to be used under his real name....Only victims so far and he turned his cell phone off and WENT BLACK also on released audio tapes
I definitely do NOT believe everything he said, Why would he tell the truth?? he is sitting talking to people he knows that are about to turn in everything they have "found" not out of his mouth and will be put in a federal prison for a life sentence and more probable given the death penalty....he truly had no reason to tell them the truth, he already knew he was more than likely a dead man just for the use of Samantha's atm card, and in the last know meeting on Nov. 29th that alone proves my point...When the lady investigator walks in with that stack of photo's and etc...Keyes looks as if he could have fallen over, he didn't have a clue what those were until they told him that they were photo's of things found at his NY property during the 2 day search FBI did there..1 being a man's ring...one investigator keeps asking him if he is sure this ring don't mean anything, will it be linked to anything...Keyes reply "uh, that was a long time ago"
Uh, and the other thing was New York stuff. Show you what they took from the property in New York?
KEYES All right.
GOEDEN Show you that. This was the – this is the list of what it is. Some of it's pretty, you know, kinda generic in terms of the description of what it is – real but I'll show you the old property.
KEYES Wow. You guys are going way back now.
BELL (Chuckles).
GOEDEN What stuff?
KEYES Oh just all this stuff. Anything from New York you're going way back.
GOEDEN When's the last time you were there?
KEYES Oh I was there just a year or so ago. But living there I haven't been there since
Keyes was Mad, Scared, Aggravated and Surprised on this day that they had so much to show him, with More to come..some items were still at the lab being analyzed
Keye's simply flat out lied during the interviews...way back about a year or so ago he told LE in Anchorage, he picked victims he knew would get a lot of coverage, he could not wait to go to a library or airport to get to a computer and follow the coverage and also said he sometimes would even be one that posted under articles because he enjoyed knowing that the investigation was so far off from the truth....then he told investigators later that he knew he was getting sloppy when he used his home computer to follow the Curriers Case, but he said "with an extra shot of liquor, he could not help but go to his computer"...and they seized his home computer and found he had followed the Curriers on his own computer
Keyes was fascinated with guns, his grandfather bought him one at age 14, he carried it everywhere as he stated in the last released recordings and said he broke into houses at this age also..........I 199.9% believe he used guns many times, after all that is one thing he was highly trained for in the Military and he often boasted about his military days, and he also described to investigators that he had a homemade shooting gig that he used often to practice....I feel he strangled most women as being some part of his thrill when having sex with known victims, he loved to see them suffer came right out of his own mouth
I have very good reason that I cannot post on this site that early on in his starting his killing he did not have an MO of picking victims of parks, trails and etc. I think he started by picking places that were very busy and he knew he could just fit in as an ordinary person and I feel he followed this for several years until the sketch was released in Boca Raton Florida...He knew that sketch was so close to how he looked that people would know him anywhere he went, and after all they placed larger photo's of this sketch on the sides of many delivery trucks, in windows and all along the interstates and roads near there....After this came out I feel he knew he could never pick out of public places again so when he returned home or wherever he changed it to trails, parks and etc....I think he knew he had to lay low and to this day it is reported this sketch is still everywhere in Boca on down to Miami
And do you truly think when Keyes was on a killing trip he truly gave his real name??.....if you even stop to think about it, that would have been really dumb of him knowing there always was a chance of him getting caught at any given victim he killed., so he used cash only...putting his real name out there at motels and etc. would have been crazy for a serial killer, Keyes was smart and he thought his crimes out for a long time, to me giving his true name just would have been a very dumb "mistake" on his part
I know the administrators can choose to delete any posts I put up and I do know some would sneer and laugh at some I put up. but I truly do not think we can dismiss certain cold cases, even Keyes had forgot the exact times, years and etc. and I will go further in stating I feel they will never find all of his victims due to his ways of enjoying misleading LE online by posting and the many different ways he studied his murders out and I feel there will be some that won't even sound like the Keyes we know here on Webslueths..I just feel he tried to do each victim a little different as to further keep him under the radar for so long