Peter Keller hid from police in a remote bunker in the woods after he killed his wife and daughter (Picture: King County Sheriff’s Department)
Clutching his handheld camera as he walked through the remote Cascade foothills in Washington, Peter Keller looked up at the lens and said: ‘I used to sit here and think, you know, this whole thing is crazy,’
Wearing a casual grey sweatshirt, the 41-year-old might have looked like a vlogger in the wild to any passer-bys.
‘The more I thought about it, the more I understand it,’ Peter continued. ‘I don’t really feel bad about it. It is just the way it is. I won’t have to worry about Lynnettee or Kaylene. Everything will just be taken care of.
‘It will just be me.’
But Keller wasn’t your average vlogger. He may have been documenting his day-to-day activities like any another social media star with a camera would but, instead of filming shopping hauls or quirky Q&As, he was revealing something far more sinister.
In his video diaries, Keller detailed his plans to kill his 41-year-old wife, Lynnettee, and his 18-year-old daughter, Kaylene.
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Gasoline, food and tools were packed into the hideout (Picture: King County Sheriffs Department)
He also filmed the construction of a secret bunker in a remote woodland 25 miles from his home in Seattle. It was there the dad-of-one planned to escape to, after his loving family was ‘taken care of.’ Keller, who refurbished computers for a living, had stocked his bunker with 13 guns, boxes of ammunition, countless tins of beans, vodka and gasoline. Keller reckoned he could live there for years unnoticed.
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‘His connection to reality had snapped,’ crime expert Ava Glass explains. The writer, who has worked as a police reporter in America and with MI5 spies in the UK, revisits the Keller case on the latest season of Killers Caught On Camera.
‘If you watch the videos, Keller is very cheerful while he’s building his bunker and stock-piling it,’ Ava tells Metro.
‘He talks about how he’s going to reinforce the roof so he can hide, and says over and over again “I might get caught, I imagine I’ll be caught. But if not, I could easily live here for six months then I’ll get away that way.” Keller prepared that escape route. He’s so practical and proud, almost like “yes, this is my plan, it’s going to be great.” And that plan, to murder his wife and daughter who loved him, was just horrific.’
In some clips, Keller explains how he will rob banks or chemists to get money to survive after killing his wife and daughter. He doesn’t give a specific reason for wanting to commit murder. Instead, he repeats that it is an act he ‘has to do’ which would mark ‘the end.’
The entrance to Peter Keller’s hidden bunker by Rattlesnake Ridge in Washington State (Picture: King County Sheriff’s Department)
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Source:: Metro
