American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

Content Warning: This section of the guide references extremely distressing themes, including drug abuse, violence against children, sexual abuse, abduction, gun violence, rape, murder, death by suicide, and desecration of corpses. Additionally, bigoted, racist, and misogynistic beliefs are expressed by the serial killer and members of his family.

The FBI “threw all its resources behind the search for the Curriers” to verify Keyes’s confession (221). After weeks of combing nearby garbage landfills for any sign, they came up empty. When Feldis, inexplicably, decided to tell Keyes the truth about it, Keyes laughed in his face. He was feeling powerful and in control, and this feeling kept him from revealing his other crimes. Bell and Payne, in an effort to regain power in the interrogation room, stressed that they were keeping his name out of the media, implying care for his family. They told him he would have to keep confessing if he didn’t want his name publicized and his family scrutinized. This tactic worked, and Keyes admitted to robbing a bank in an upstate New York town called Tupper Lake in 2009. He also admitted that he had killed at least one person around this time, though he gave no other information.