all right so how do you feel
Ken we haven't
done the part that I'm not looking
forward to my husband's great he really
is he's very um respectful to me I mean
he spoils me he takes care of me I am
getting pretty close to that time this
is what I got to do to I don't even
question it anymore at this point I
don't know what's going to
happen I may get uh caught right away I
mean I could basically be dead in two
weeks or 3 weeks I don't know it's all a
the chance at this
point hey
guys nice look at all that smoke oh my
gosh though his family didn't yet know
it something was off with Peter Keller
what follows is found footage that just
might be some of the most disturbing
recordings ever filmed documented like a
YouTube video the the video diaries
Peter created provide a rare glimpse
into the mind of a killer and document
how something that may have begun as an
innocent hobby ultimately manifested as
unbelievable
cruelty did I
get the majority of the following
footage has never been seen before it
has been analyzed by a licensed
professional
counselor
okay looks like everything's working
just checking the camera out since this
the first
time watching
myself I hate watching
myself it's so man that's the way other
people see me so this is going to take
some getting used to not used to talking
into a
camera let's see so here you can look at
the trail tril there's not much of a
trail I try to keep it as hidden as I
can so other people will stay off of it
which has worked so far it's pretty far
out
so nobody's been up here yet I usually
come up with a between a 30 and 40 lb
pack every time I bring a load of
something up actually starting to get a
lot up
here try to make it as easy as I can
during the transition time so far I've
got uh a bed blowup bed
mattress with blankets and pillows and
clothes and stuff to keep me
comfortable
so we'll see how long I last doing this
I don't know just what exactly Peter was
doing in Northbend Washington isn't yet
clear it's incredibly rare to have
self-recorded footage of a killer and is
especially interesting in this case
because the scope of Peter's chilling
plans could hardly Be Imagined from the
Casual conversations he has with the
camera basically come up here on the
weekends or on a Friday weekday whenever
the weather permits or depending on what
I'm doing at least once a week and I
tend to stay up here for about uh well
with travel time probably around 9 hours
a day
or each time which is a long time when
he wasn't traversing the Wilderness with
his camera and dog 41-year-old Peter was
also a father and a husband hey
Daddy okay I got face you guys won't let
me take that many
pictures he and his wife Lynette had an
18-year-old daughter named Cen and the
three appear to be a normal happy
family hi
are you videotaping her yep let's do a
lot of videotape and then I just cut all
the junk
out however Peter's mysterious project
in the woods would eventually take a
terrible toll on his day-to-day life Ken
k all right so how do you feel
Ken no more high school
yay feel different
Ang no you don't feel
different you got a new life ahead of
you no more freaking school or high
school yeah yeah you got tell tomorrow
to get your stuff out of the house no
she's been with us forever sorry
Carson
forever Ken graduated high school just a
few months after her father started
recording his video diaries and was on
track to start at bellw College in the
fall in addition to her interest in
environmental preservation and gaming
technology she also appears to have
shared her father's interest in cameras
and dabbled in the hobby of videotaping
as
well can you take a picture of me and
sell me on eBay I'm so sorry
I could have used your support but came
straight from your voice as I
heard come
on Lynette also sometimes used the
camera to film videos she uploaded to
YouTube hi
everyone my little puppy's looking
outside okay I got a lot of stuff to
show you guys that I'm going to put in
my store I'm so excited this
is bag too and I had so much fun making
these too you guys got a lot of products
in here I want to first show you look at
Dino he just got a haircut a couple days
ago my husband was like he's looking too
scruffy I am very shy person and doing
these
videos really helps me open myself
because I figured if somebody doesn't
want to watch it then don't watch it I'm
not forcing you to so these videos
really help and he really helped me
while Peter worked to refurbish
computers Lynette struggled with medical
issues and as a result wasn't able to
work fulltime my husband oh few months
ago went out and bought me this big
recliner from my back and I'm just now
starting to use it he's so happy usually
I just sit on bed let's
see I love this chair he's here he's
supporting me he takes care of me he
even though I can't go back to work and
I'm home in pain all the time he gave me
my scrapbooking room with my dream come
true she made and sold custom paper
flowers and shared her scrapbooking
Hobby in local fairs to bolster the
family's income oh my gosh I'm so
excited pretty much this is my
anniversary present I'm so thankful that
my husband was able to give me that so I
could um stock up on supplies for me and
I also got some stuff for you guys too
even my husband was looking at this and
I was just like oh my gosh look at the
detail from an outside perspective it
appeared that although the family faced
challenges they were sticking together
and making things work but as later
events would reveal all wasn't going as
well as it
appeared you can watch me open this
thing this thing's with so
heavy but uh works good this impressive
structure affectionately nicknamed Camp
Keller was what kept Peter occupied in
the woods for so long disguised as part
of the hillside the only thing that
might give its presence away is a
temporary tarp stretched over part of
the roof but Peter took care to conceal
that with brush this is something I
wanted to do probably since I was a
teenager to make a home underground
somewhere decid if to live around people
one of my projects today is to take all
this wood that I've cut up
recently and stack it up P it down so if
somebody stumbles out here it uh not as
noticeable just
now have the means and able to actually
pay for
it I've spent a lot of money on this so
far thousands of
dollars thousands more on guns
and other stuff other Hardware I'm going
to
need everything I can think
of the bunker was a shocking feat of
engineering considering all of Peter's
supplies were either gathered from the
forest around him or carried in from his
house which was about an hour's hike
away
this is kind of an outside
look my wood pile on this
side in addition to the tools and
materials he needed to build the bunker
Peter carried a significant amount of
food drinks and Creature Comforts into
the camp he brought enough to set up a
kitchenet complete with an emergency
vodka stash the entire complex was
powered with a generator which Peter
somehow managed to bring up the mountain
he even went out of his way to engineer
a wood burning stove made out of an
inverted metal garbage can he rigged a
chimney to funnel the smoke up and out
of the residence this smoke would
ultimately provide a valuable clue as to
the Camp's
location other highlights of Peter stash
include multiple 5 gallon buckets which
could not have been easy to move heavy
duty chains and a
hacksaw but as impressive as the
Wilderness construction may be the
question remains as to why Peter Built
it in the first place I just feel like
I'm getting knocked
back every
time
financially my wife is
just just going to suck all the money
out that I have and I'm so excited
because I can actually afford these um
the these deals my husband he gave me
some money to to go in here I sound like
so excited all right I'm getting ready
to move one of these big beams in uh
this thing is pretty
heavy soaked with water which makes them
very heavy makes it a
real let's see I met him when I was in
high school but I just you know wasn't
interested and then I met him again and
he was so sweet became like best friends
he said one of these days he wanted to
get married and have kids and he asked
me what I wanted and I said I don't I
ever want to get married so then my
sister we were getting along at the time
she really liked him and she said well
you you got to just you know you're
going to regret it if you don't so I was
like
okay
then 3 months later he started talk to
him about marriage and I was like dude I
told you I don't want to get married
stop pressuring me we've only been to
with we've only officially been together
for three months actually started within
a month and I was just like no you got
to
stop so finally little over 3 months he
asked me to Mar I was like of course
I'll marry you and I grabbed the ring
and put it on my finger
I was just so
excited Jesus Christ
God that's my story of my husband who is
you know who is my husband who's the
love of my life at this point I don't
know what's going to happen it I may get
uh caught right away I mean I could
basically be dead in 2 weeks or 3 weeks
I don't know it's it's all up to chance
at this point
so I don't think anyone knows where I'm
at but if they put it together who knows
at this point I have to take that
chance so it's just going to be
a point of you know go as far as I can
my I do have my escape and that's death
and I'm okay with that
so I'm getting to the point where
just trying to
live and pay bills and live as a
civilian and go to work he's a great guy
he uh you know he's stuck around with me
I'm uh you know some some guys are kind
of leave when you get
that you know it's it's part of your
vows but anyways I don't want to get
down to that I just it just freaks me
out it's actually more comfortable for
me to think about living out
here um Robin bankses just taking what I
want for as long as I
can at least it'll be
exciting won't be
boring and I don't have to worry about
Lynette or
Ken and everything will be taken care of
just be me Peter's complaints are all
too common but could indicate the
presence of major depressive disorder
additionally Peter is doing a lot of
fidgeting in this video signifying that
despite what he's saying saying out loud
his thoughts might be giving him a lot
of anxiety perhaps this stems from the
fact that as some of Peter's cryptic
comments end there's a much darker
aspect to his fantasy than he lets on
well I wanted to get a video log in we
haven't done part that I'm not looking
forward to I am getting pretty close to
that time I'm guess I'm probably a
couple months away maybe three
so yeah I know I can once I do this I
could either die
then maybe something will happen or few
days or
weeks or maybe even
years my goal is to make it 10
years but uh that's the other hard part
either to give a to not care about
dying and to still care
about the
project Peter's comment that he wants to
survive for 10 years out in the woods
complicates an already strange situation
even further he isn't just aiming to
leave his day-to-day life and job behind
they're Lynette and Cen to think about
and so far he hasn't shown any interest
of bringing them along on his
Adventure go ahead and open oh my
goodness you are so sweet you guys sorry
I'm whispering my husband's sleeping and
our little doggy is sleeping with him
last time I was doing a video I was
talking too loud and he woke up and came
out
here part of
me has a hard time even imagining doing
what I'm going to do but as I think
about it I always come up to the same
conclusion every time I'm starting to
get more okay with
it other times I feel like I'm more than
ready
I've tried to to make it in this world
and it just isn't happening I'm 40 now
and I am running out of time I don't
even question it anymore it just seems
like everything makes so much sense now
you know just the more I've thought
about
it the more I understand
it I don't really feel bad about
it it's just the way it
is
you know certain things happen that
cause this to happen
so just kind of accepted it and just
rolling with
it well this is it home sweet
home got the lantern going so you can
see a little bit not a lot
you know I often wonder if uh what I'm
doing is the right
thing
and I think it
is these statements though shocking
actually align with the earlier theory
that Peter was suffering from a serious
depressive disorder you know as I do
this for hour
on hour it's like I just sit there b
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KN how did I get
so how did so many things go
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wrong I don't think it's all my fault I
think it's
[Applause]
more that's
bringing family
life I was just too
ugly nobody
car Peter's recollection of feeling off
also supports the depression Theory as
it's common for symptoms to emerge
during
adolescence additionally it's known that
individuals with unresolved trauma can
become stuck
developmentally this could very possibly
be what happened to Peter as he previous
mentioned that he'd wanted to build a
camp like this since he was a teen if he
became emotionally stuck at that point
in his life it could explain his
apparent resentment for his family along
with the continued desire to depart from
society yeah basically last year has
been really tough on
me been coming to terms realizing just
how pathetic I
am so there's just no
hope
but
uh it was
tough wasn't interested in anything
anymore motivate
myself all I did was work on this this
is the only thing that make me feel
better but
uh I think I've come to terms with
it starting to feel better
now not quite sure why exactly but it's
just that I'm getting this further along
or
uh maybe I've
just come to turns
with what I am my
situation and kind of working through
it you know I've tried I always keep
going back to the
same same person I
am I guess it's also because I don't
have anything I never
did no money my looks are horrible my
husband actually gave me some money and
I was going to go out and buy some of
these but I'm going to go buy ink
instead oh my gosh so awesome sorry I'm
trying not to get too excited cuz my
husband's going be like what are you
doing no
personality I mean I'm okay with
it it's just I understand now very
clearly this is the only thing I
have it's just a single pick but you
know we all add single pick sorry my
dog's being crazy my husband's probably
chasing him around the living
room I know my husband swailes me he
hates seeing me in pain so tonight he
came home and he gave me another $20
because he knows I'm going to the doctor
tomorrow and he wants me to stop at
Michaels and get some more
stuff well it's about 2 weeks
before the end this is going to be my
last
video probably
before till after that
um that's terrible I wanted to give some
items for my mom and and some other
items but I just wanted to show you this
Dino sorry my husband's home
Dino well it's about two weeks before I
finally drop out of society and start
this
project
um
sorry the cute little puppy right so
these are the items that are in there
now they're hard
plastic um
stop well it's about 2 weeks before we
finally drop out of society fully commit
to this um this probably going to be my
last video till after that here we can
see that Peter actually does retakes
instead of being fully candid like other
videos suggest this along with the
comments he's made about his appearance
seem to indicate that Peter cares deeply
about how people view him the retake
suggests he's purposely curating how he
appears to anyone who views these tapes
he wants to make the best possible
impression again this could tie back to
major depressive disorder in childhood
trauma teenagers often act as though
they have what's known as an invisible
audience the idea that people are
watching them all the time and judging
their looks and actions for from what we
see in the videos Peter seems to still
be acting like this at age
41 this type of behavior can also be
found in individuals with narcissistic
Tendencies the question of Peter's
intentions would be one of the first
Mysteries police faced when they became
involved in the situation on April 22nd
2012 it was a quiet day in the mobile
home park where the Keller family lived
when seemingly out of nowhere several
neighbors heard what they believed to be
an explosion
when they saw Flames coming out of the
windows of the Keller home the neighbors
summoned the fire department
firefighters swarmed the home climbing
on top of it even as the blaze ate
through the roof they had no idea just
how seriously they were risking their
lives until later once the fire was DED
and investigators entered the residence
they discovered Peter Keller was nowhere
to be found ewu spoke with Cindy West a
retired police Sergeant who worked on
the Keller case in an exclusive
interview I was actually the public
information officer and it was a I think
it was a weekend um uh cuz I was
actually heading out of town and I got
the phone call so I turned around came
back into town and uh arrived up there
in North Bend and then the investigation
sh investigation started there and as
the investigation went on it just
snowballed from what the heck happened
to wow this is bigger than I think
anybody thought at the start for those
of you who aren't familiar a public
information officer hand all inquiries
about an active case providing private
citizens as well as the media with
information that's been approved for
release as such Cindy was intimately
familiar with the inner workings of the
Keller case the day of the fire tracking
down Peter became the police's highest
priority in just a few hours they
located his vehicle parked downtown the
keys were left inside but there was no
evidence as to where he might have gone
when they entered his workplace to asked
ask where Peter might be all his
co-workers could offer was that Peter
had already left for the day and had
stated that he might be back tomorrow
next week or possibly never police also
discovered that Peter had recently
withdrawn $6,200 from the family bank
account everything suggested that Peter
was either in danger running or both for
now police had no idea where he could be
hiding but they weren't clueless for
long police got lucky when search
Peter's home and Unearthed a hard drive
containing Peter's video diaries
combined with what else was discovered
in the residence the investigation went
from serious to downright bone
chilling well before you know a while
ago I used to sit here and think you
know this whole thing is just
crazy at times and then I think about it
and and it would make sense and it's
like okay this is what I got to
do Peter's decisiveness in this clip
paired with the horrific details of what
police had found in the remains of his
home would likely be shocking to even
the most seasoned law enforcement
official they were at a complete loss
when it came to explaining how and why
this had happened only time would reveal
the haunting truth when it came to the
video entries they supplied more than
just a record of Peter's thoughts as it
turned out other entries in the video
diary and the accompanying photographs
would become the key to tracking Peter
retired Sergeant Cindy West was able to
share the creative technique the police
ended up using they had photographs that
Keller had taken on the mountain side as
he's constructing this bunker from
nothing's there to a little bit more to
a little bit more in one of the photos
you can see I couldn't see it it looked
like a power line in the distance uh so
you're looking off the mountain toward
which would be North Bend the city you
can barely see this power line and
something else again I didn't think it
was a power line but our Detective Mike
melis says I think that's a power line I
think that down there is probably the
city and then according to these other
photos there's a couple streams nearby
so he does a lot of investigation and
says well it's got to be in one of these
two points then and I I'm like I don't
know how he came up with that but he was
exactly right combined with reports a
Peter's truck being regularly parked at
a specific trail head this was enough
information for police to start
canvasing the area to search for Camp
Keller it took 6 days but eventually
they succeeded the smoke visible in this
footage came from Peter's makeshift
chimney and was instrumental in leading
the police to Camp Keller however
rushing in and making an arrest wasn't
going to be an option they had no idea
how many people might be inside or what
their intentions were remember Peter had
been stockpiling weapons and ammunition
at home and thanks to his video videos
which were discovered when police
reviewed the recordings that were not
destroyed in the house fire they knew he
likely had Firearms at his Camp little
did they know what else they would
uncover they also knew that there was a
chance they could be dealing with a
hostage situation a direct approach
could endanger Peter's life if he was
being held captive or spook him if he
had hostages of his own they needed to
make whoever was inside come to them you
guys on a number three Sid can you get
to that window and break it out to throw
a gas in there Brian there's a there
looks like a a a slot or a window that's
propped open uh in the back directly
towards the uh the dirt wall but uh I
couldn't see it he's got something over
it maybe you guys can throw a log
through it or something but if we throw
a number two in that ditch it should
cycle right up tarp should push it right
into the struer that's exactly what they
decide to do the Response Team keeps the
bunker surrounded in the hopes that the
gas canister will drive those inside out
of the bunker and straight to the
waiting forces but after about 10
minutes nothing has changed yeah it's
dissipating finally the the first one
you sent in is dissipating you want me
to throw a 98 under the window the open
window where we first
GED yeah you can do it from your
position with the gas canisters having
no effect the team is forced to
reconsider their tactics s for planning
purposes if this
gas uh isn't going to work we may have
the command post try and
locate like a wildlands fire pump and
hose that can pump a large volume of
water into this place
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break I think we could probably utilize
this Creek we just need enough hose and
a pumping station to get it you know up
to where we want it we've got new photos
showing this bunker may have multiple
level big copy this information actually
came from Peter directly and the
self-recorded videos that they found in
his burned out
house well this is the end of the day
I'm getting wrapped up getting ready to
leave I don't know if you can see me but
it's kind of one last
look at
everything that's my fireplace with
stove
whatever pretty
dark now we're going
upstairs this is where most of my
supplies are
pretty well stocked
up it's my
window looking down on
the wood
stove
and that pretty much wraps it up for the
day finally police resorted to throwing
a grenade towards the
bunker when even an actual explosion
failed to get results police knew that
they would have to be the ones to
approach after a full day of besieging
the bunker they decided to break through
the
roof you might be wondering why a house
fire investigation demanded such an
extensive response as a matter of fact
it didn't after assessing the situation
investigators concluded that they were
dealing with arson but that would all
change when they made their way into the
home and stumbled upon a disturbing
Discovery it wasn't a subtle attempt
either the remains of a red gas can were
found melted onto the stove where it had
been placed in a skillet to heat up
until it ignited police found several
other gas cans throughout the residence
boxes of ammunition and a homemade
explosive device investigators could
only assume it was meant to be triggered
by the fire in order to destroy the
house and everything inside had the fire
team arrived just a few moments later it
could have gone off while they were on
the roof potentially costing them their
lives police believed that this evidence
was meant to be destroyed in the fire
along with the video diaries but those
items were hardly the most shocking
thing they
discovered there were two bodies in the
bedroom of the Keller home Untouched by
the fire tragically the bodies were
identified to be those of Lynette and
Ken Keller they had both been shot in
the
head
nice nice look all that smoke oh my gosh
okay make sure you don't touch this okay
because this gets really freaking hot it
seems that what Peter's video diaries
have been hinting at the entire time was
killing his own family part of
me has a hard time even imagining doing
what I'm going to do but as I think
about it I always come up to the same
conclusion every time I'm starting to
get more okay with it retired Sergeant
Cindy West was once again willing to
share her thoughts on the tragedy I
don't think either of them knew it was
coming again based on the conversations
that uh we had with friends of both of
them it sound like he was a loving great
husband uh so I think they're both
blindsided by it and um you know I I
don't know I just this case just racks
my brain I there's no way it's ever
going to resolve in my brain because you
just think why not only did he kill his
wife and his daughter but based on the
friends and neighbors he had this dog
that went everywhere with him hiking or
apparently to go build a bunker you know
for all these years and he killed the
dog too he was afraid that the dog would
give him away in the bunker and so he
killed the dog
too again there's no explanation I mean
I get that he obviously had some sort of
mental illness dipstick wasn't hitting
the oil with him but it just makes you
shake your head I've seen a lot of stuff
in my career a lot of bad things uh you
just shake your head about you know
sometimes when things happen but this
case really really got to me Cindy
shared with us what happened when police
finally made entry into Camp Keller and
what they find inside the bunker is even
more shocking than anyone
expected when uh our uh Tac 30 AKA SWAT
guys discover the bunker of course they
surround it make sure everybody's safe
let everybody know what's going on
before they hail to him saying hey you
know come on out with your hands up yada
yada all that and it was just a short
time after they initially made tried to
make contact with him that they heard a
pop so they didn't know did he have an
accidental discharge was it something
else uh they didn't know when the walls
of Camp Keller were finally breached
police discovered that Peter had stayed
true to his word and ended his life when
faced with capture soon after the police
surrounded his
stronghold perhaps this was Peter's only
intention all along he wanted to a
achiev this teenage fantasy of living
out underground in the woods before he
died but he had no ingame other than his
own death well the fact that he was
found was significant we worried what he
might do to somebody else um if he's you
know raising enough to kill his wife and
his daughter then what what's he going
to do to somebody else but I think there
was a sense of relief that it was over
uh that he had been appre you know not
apprehended but that he was finished
with his crime spree that nobody else
got hurt uh there was so much potential
for for injuries to Citizens and all the
officers involved that it was a
definitely a sense of relief the camp
was turned over to King County
Department of Natural Resources who
eventually destroyed the bunker Peter's
cash horde was donated to a Memorial
Scholarship established in memory of
Lynette and caleen