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King County Sheriff's Office via AP
King County Sheriff's Office via AFP - Getty Images
Peter Keller
Images released by the King County Sheriff's Office in Washington show the mountain bunker of murder suspect Peter Keller. US law enforcement blew the roof off the hideout in Washington state on April 28, and inside reportedly found Keller's body. Keller is suspected of killing his wife and teenage daughter, officials said.
Keller, who had been missing since April 22, when the bodies of Lynnettee Rocha Keller and her daughter Kaylene Keller were discovered at the family home, apparently died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Keller, 41, was named a suspect on April 25 in the murder of his wife and daughter, whose bodies were found after neighbors called the authorities when they noticed the home had been set on fire.
King County Sheriff's Office via AP
King County Sheriff's Office via AP
A tense standoff in Washington state ends after a man who was a suspect in the deaths of his wife and daughter is found dead in a bunker he had designed for the 'end of the world.' NBC's Gabe Gutierrez reports.
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Alot different from the "fortress" the media described. Looks like a tool shed to me. Not a whole lot of ammo either, really. About enough for a good little bit of target practice. I love how people are crying on here about guys who buy a couple boxes of ammo. If you find it on sale, get it. It doesn't spoil, and the price will go up. That economics. And to all you "guns cause violence" folks, what about yesterdays story from Los Vegas, Mr. Saggy pants rapes and bludgeons to death a mother and her 10 yr old, puts dad in the hospital, and had already savagely raped a 50 yr old woman. No guns there, just a good old fashioned hammer. Didn't hear one peep out of anybody about that story
Judging from the huge amounts of ammo found in the bunker this was yet another flag-waving, gun nut, 2nd Amendment fanatic that the NRA claimed to be a non-criminal. Fact is, with such a prevalence of guns available in the country all of them lean towards being criminals and usually wind up so.
Love your generalizations! Need to delete Fact is from your post.
Love your generalizations! Need to delete Fact is from your post.
-flag waving gun nut?And this comment from someone who uses a thief as his screen name.Little projectionism involved there Monsieur Valjean????
Sorry for double post unintentional
I will simply say that he was never convicted of killing his wife and child, just suspected. The final determination would have been made in a court of law. He might have been in mourning and not responding to anyone. Was he an odd individual? With building this bunker, I would say yes, but being odd is not illegal. What frightens me is that the police rapidly took the step of blowing up the bunker and killing him when they could just as easily have waited him out. It might have taken a while, but one life might have been saved. This seems to be becoming a trend with our increasingly militarized police. In fact, look at the pictures. Very hard to tell that they are not military commandos operating in a war zone. Look at the number of situations where they basically just take the violent quick way and people end up dead. Probably the best example is Waco, Texas. It might take weeks or months, but there is a good chance people would not be dead. Remember when police officers were also called "Peace Officers"? Now they are called "Law Enforcement Officers". Seems to me to be becoming an "us versus the population" mentality there. I am bothered by this development and think the rest of the population should be also. Remember, he was suspected, not convicted.
The paper said he killed himself with a hand gun.
Outside of the ammo, the contents of that bunker looks like all the crap I just pitched out of my pole barn a couple weeks ago.
This freak had alot of ammunition, where's the guns? Confiscated by the Feds already, would be my guess? This wasn.t much of a bunker! There isn't even a lock on the raised hatch. This must have been his little boy hide-out? It is certainly no bunker! It wasn't even cammoflaged! Was it all just an ego booster?
Just a little boy-minded nut! That is all this P.O.S. was! Another gun crazy, anti-government lunitic! And a murdering bastard to boot! Good riddence to bad rubbish!
I hope the families of the victoms find some peace! Rest in peace Lynettee, and Kaylene!
I wonder if he considered that they could have used a flame thrower to incinerate
the whole place. Certainly a survivalist would have thought of that.
How could he be insane, when he had the presence of mind to start a fire to cover up his actions? That sounds ike he had every intention of murdering and trying to cover his actions up! If he's insane, so are the rest of us! Nuff said,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
That actually wasnt a lot of ammo for someone who spent eight years building a bunker to prepare for the zombie apocolypse, and it didnt look too comfortable, and a wood stove for heat? the cops said they smelled the wood smoke before they found it. This guy was a crazy murdering nutjob who deserved what he got, death by his own hand, ha ha, dumb ass.
wonder where the $6200 went?
I agree with Mymomdidnotraiseafool, over & done with, let's move on.
did Eric Holder sell him the guns thinking he was a Mexican drug dealer?
I'm quite embarrassed by the state of his so called elaborate bunker system that the news was reporting yesterday. I assumed it was a sustainable living quarters not a set from the Hee Haw television show. Pig stye, I would not stay in unless a tornado was coming.
I believe that all this worry about the end time is silly and foolish. I do believe some day if the economy goes belly up we will have to defend our home and family and we will need guns and ammo. Folks the idea that you can fight the government with all the high tech crap they have is silly and foolish if you want to make it out alive, if you are not concerned about death then you can have a small and short fight and go out in a battle of glory. "We The People" have let the government have to much control over our lives and now there is no way back and those that think you can are silly and foolish. The thing I like about all these people that plan to survive what ever, they are buying and spending and we all are getting the benefits of that ain't it great ha !
You all have remember that Washington state is just an extension of California, Liberal nuts are everywhere, From the looks of the things, He was probably a Left-winged Moonbat that had one to many triple Vanilla Lattes when his 99 weeks ran out and went crazy?
Looks like a great place to have a Fabreze commercial...
He killed his wife and daughter, set the house on fire, shot the family dog and cat.
What a waste on so many levels... Innocent family and friends grieve the Mother and Daughter.
It's Bush's fault
Knew that was coming!
Just wanted to claim firsties before the libs did
You got it!
I don't see a second story in this thing...just a hole in the ground reinforced with some 2X4 framing...Easy breach.
Also looks like they could see straight in
That's a pretty nice bunker, actually. Pity about the guy who built it being, you know, NUCKING FUTS.
Legal gun owning survivalist killed with the same gun purchased to protect him and the family he murdered from the apocalypse............ironic.........
Point Is? Read the story of Innocent family members raped and killed by a thug wielding a HAMMER!
Point is:
Only in America, "Crazy" can be legally armed...........
With Hammers!
The police said they set off an explosion to get to him. If that is true how come there is no dirt or dust on anything in the pictures. In an underground shelter there should at least be some dust. Looks like the stuff was just put there
They recovered computers with tons of pictures of the bunker. (There are lots of survivalist webforums so I'm betting he was posting his pictures on them). These are probably more pictures from his computer.
They DO give the impression of "now that we've gotten inside, here are pictures from the inside" but as you observe, the pictures do not match the facts of the story.
what happened to the multi tiered, several exits, (gigantic bunker). This is a groundhog hole with a door.
I know it's not right to stereotype, but this guy just makes it too easy. Republican Christian gun lover. Everything I'm happy not to be.
You'll see a lot more of this if, God forbid, Oblaima is re-elected.
It is so sad that liberals are such a hateful people. A woman,daughter and husband and father are dead and liberals are acting like little 10 year old girls on a bullying spree. Liberals are the worst kind of human beings on the planet.
Ted, your a chicken @!$%#. Face the truth. The truth will set you free. If obama gets elected again like you want him to be becks prediction is rational and sound. And if conservatives win our country will not fall. If we do win and the country does not fall that will give you extreme left wingers more reason to doubt how close we were to falling off a cliff like ben bernanke warned congress about a few days ago. You cant win against retarded college grads.
Another crazed, gun loving, right wing nut job bites the dust. LaPierre's only regret is probably that he didn't murder a few Federal Agents, rather his wife and child. Guns, guns, bunkers, and bunkers, what a great vision for America as seen thru the eyes of the NRA.
You GO Kel!
Kel dog,
you will regret those words in the near future. The very very near future in america is so bleak I see you on your knees like a scurvy sick dog begging for your scraps from the government and you want to leave your humanitarian camp but the government men with guns wont let you go without a bullet in your back. Mean while free people are outside surviving with dignity enjoying their freedom that the constitution told them they are guanteed.
What, a tool shed with a couple of boxes of ammo is a "heavily fortified bunker"? So much for news accuracy and liberal tolerance.
Of course, no one has ever killed their family with a kitchen knife, a car, poison or a ball bat.