Killers Caught On Camera S02E10
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00:00This time, on Killers Caught on Camera, in the United States, Beaumont, Texas, a husband
00:13makes a distressing call on Valentine's Day.
00:17Beaumont, please!
00:19I recognized who she was and still had to maintain my composure.
00:24I had to act like as if I did know who she was.
00:26And in Washington State, near Seattle, a bizarre case.
00:33A survivalist builds a bunker in secret over eight years to radically change his whole life.
00:41My husband's great. He really is. He's very respectful to me.
00:45I can't stand living with my wife anymore. She's driving me crazy.
00:50Home sweet home.
00:51In just some place, I'm from that. It's happening to her.
00:56We know what happened because the video tells us what happened.
01:00I heard some gunshots.
01:01Drop it! Whatever it is, drop it!
01:04That does not prove that I killed my wife.
01:07The camera doesn't lie.
01:08Bye.
01:09Beaumont, Texas, a coastal city 30 miles west of the Louisiana border.
01:24It was home to 38-year-old Olivia Jones.
01:29Turn around.
01:31Oh!
01:32Police officer Otis Butler was a family friend who knew Olivia.
01:39To me, she was very friendly, very kind.
01:46Would do whatever she can to be helpful to others.
01:49Kind of quiet.
01:51Real good person. Real good.
01:55Olivia married her high school sweetheart in 1999
01:582009 and had two daughters she was devoted to.
02:03Ooh, who is this?
02:07She was a driven self-starter who built a successful career.
02:12She had a tax business here in Beaumont,
02:15and she was well-known in the community in that area.
02:21Olivia's first marriage ended in divorce.
02:23In 2009, Olivia met Chris Jones,
02:28a corrections counselor at a high-security prison.
02:32Things were going well.
02:35Chris and Olivia moved in together and got married in 2016.
02:40They also set up a food truck business.
02:43My butt crack and my balls.
02:46I'm so sorry.
02:47Her and Chris together had a food truck
02:53that they had just started to run.
02:56That's something that they were building together.
02:59On Valentine's Day 2019,
03:03Olivia went to the store to buy groceries and flowers.
03:09Olivia returned home.
03:12She and Chris began unpacking the food.
03:14But 20 minutes later,
03:20911 dispatchers received a harrowing call
03:24from Olivia's husband, Chris.
03:27Beaumont 911, what is the address of your emergency?
03:31Olivia!
03:33Please, hurry, hurry, hurry.
03:34Tell me what's going on.
03:39I'm at home.
03:40My wife's been shot in the head.
03:42Somebody shot in the head.
03:43My wife, please!
03:45Please, please!
03:46Tell me where is she shot.
03:49In the head!
03:50Okay, where in the head?
03:52Take it in the window!
03:53Okay, okay.
03:54I want you to try to control the bleeding.
04:00Otis was working on Valentine's Day
04:02and heard the call come in.
04:04I got the call from dispatcher.
04:07My heart dropped.
04:08I knew him, I knew her.
04:09I knew her.
04:09She was advised that she shot herself.
04:12It was hard dealing with that type of call,
04:18but I knew I had a job to do.
04:23Otis and his partner, Carol, arrived on the scene,
04:26met by Chris, distressed on the driveway,
04:29and his mother.
04:31She's in my bedroom.
04:32Where's the guy?
04:33In the bedroom.
04:33Broken down on the chest.
04:35Come this way.
04:35Okay.
04:36Please, come this way.
04:37This way, this way.
04:38Okay.
04:38Please.
04:41Olivia!
04:42Okay.
04:43Baby!
04:45Sir.
04:46Okay.
04:47Step back.
04:48Step back.
04:48Step back.
04:50I said, I missed the money.
04:52We looked inside the room,
04:53and we saw there's a sea sling on her stomach area,
04:57only in her underclothes,
04:59on the side of the bed.
05:00I recognized who she was,
05:07and I still had to maintain my composure.
05:11I had to act like as if I didn't know who she was.
05:15The victim was Olivia.
05:17I escorted him out of the house,
05:32and my partner, she stayed inside the house,
05:35securing the scene where the deceased was lying.
05:38Yes.
05:40What happened?
05:41We had a disagreement,
05:44and I said, baby,
05:46if you're not working with me,
05:47you're working against me.
05:48I said, we've been doing this.
05:50My 19-year-old stepdaughter was eight.
05:53My 11-year-old was one.
05:54I said, Olivia, we can't get it together.
05:56We can't be together.
05:57Okay.
05:57We got several.
05:59And I say, I just want a divorce.
06:01And her reaction was,
06:03and I've been saying this quite some time,
06:05and her reaction was,
06:06if you don't want me,
06:08I'm going to kill myself.
06:10She got the gun.
06:11I said, give me the gun.
06:11She like, I don't remember which hand.
06:14I'm like, give me that gun.
06:15What is you doing?
06:15Stop trying to scare me.
06:17Uh-huh.
06:17I took it.
06:20So when you grabbed it and went off?
06:22She yanked.
06:23I grabbed it, and she yanked back.
06:26The gun went off.
06:27Okay.
06:27The gun went off.
06:29I'm looking at how big this guy is.
06:31He's way bigger than she is.
06:34If she has a gun,
06:36and she's actually trying to kill herself,
06:37and you grabbing,
06:38you struggling trying to get it from her,
06:39how was she able to overpower you
06:42to keep this gun to her head?
06:50Mr. Butler, I got to help you.
06:51No, no, no.
06:52You don't need to go in there, okay?
06:53Is she alive?
06:54Yeah, she is.
06:55She is?
06:56Is she alive, Mr. Butler?
06:58Please don't tell me she's alive or she's not.
07:01And when I saw her, she was.
07:02She was talking?
07:03She wasn't talking.
07:04Is she breathing?
07:05It looked like she was breathing.
07:06Like, don't go in there, sir.
07:08Mr. Butler, please.
07:09Sir, I need you to stay right here with me, okay?
07:10And calm down.
07:11Calm down?
07:14When the police officer says
07:16he thinks she's still alive,
07:18it feels like he has this moment
07:19where he's going,
07:21wait, do I need to change my story?
07:24I just gave a whole account.
07:26And you can almost see the reprocessing going,
07:28ooh, is this going to make sense?
07:29Is this going to...
07:30What if she says something different?
07:32The emergency services arrived.
07:36Olivia was quickly pronounced dead.
07:41Detective Eddie Shaheen documented the scene.
07:45Generally, on a shooting scene,
07:47you're going to have a place
07:48where the person was shot.
07:53They're going to drop right there,
07:55and there's where your body is,
07:56and there's where the shooting took place.
07:58We had large amounts of blood
08:01in several different parts of the bedroom.
08:07The gun had been moved
08:08and placed in another part of the bedroom.
08:11It was not a normal crime scene.
08:15Also on site was Detective Mendy Freeman.
08:19On the outside of the house
08:20was surveillance cameras,
08:22and there was a lot of them.
08:23There were cameras on the inside as well
08:29in areas that you wouldn't always expect them to be.
08:34These cameras inside of the house
08:35were pointing in, away from the windows,
08:39almost as if you're spying on my intimate moments
08:42when you're not home.
08:44It would feel like a prison.
08:48He's got cameras inside the house,
08:50which presumably aren't just for burglars.
08:53And so there's that intentional controlling
08:56of that person's environment,
08:57which makes them even more vulnerable.
09:00Forms of psychological control
09:01involve extreme monitoring,
09:03and that's classic abuser behavior.
09:06The police needed to get hold
09:08of the video surveillance
09:09to find out exactly what had happened
09:12inside the house.
09:14While Chris was being held in the driveway,
09:17Olivia's 19-year-old daughter, Arielle, arrived.
09:29It tore me up.
09:30The hurt the daughter had.
09:32There she goes.
09:34Chris was detained in Otis' patrol car.
09:42Gentlemen, who's doing the late report on this?
09:46I am.
09:47Detective Sergeant Yvette Borrero
09:49also arrived on scene.
09:52According to him,
09:53she grabs a 9mm in their bedroom,
09:57and when he starts to push it up to her head,
09:59she did that.
10:00He claims he reached for the gun
10:02to try to get it from her,
10:04and when he reached for it,
10:05and they struggle over it, boom,
10:07shot and accepted.
10:09He's doing the report.
10:12News of Olivia's death
10:14spread through the family,
10:15including her sister, Angela.
10:22It's always very difficult
10:23to break the news to a family member.
10:26It's never easy to hear it.
10:31Chris Jones was taken into custody
10:33for questioning.
10:34The ID unit took pictures of him.
10:39They took blood samples off his hands.
10:41He still had blood on his hands.
10:46The video from the cameras in the home
10:48became increasingly important
10:50to establish the facts.
10:52We're still trying to pull up these videos here, right?
10:55But key footage
10:58around the time of Olivia's death
11:00was missing.
11:03Why would there be no recordings
11:04on anybody at that?
11:05I don't know.
11:06There should be.
11:08Everybody that went to that house
11:09should be on it.
11:11Chris immediately begins saying
11:13that his system must be faulty.
11:15His cameras must not have recorded.
11:16That was immediately suspicious.
11:19The police did find some recordings
11:21just minutes before Olivia died.
11:26At 8.41 a.m.,
11:28Olivia can be seen in the kitchen.
11:31This is the last piece of footage
11:34of Olivia alive.
11:36It appears to be a normal day for her.
11:37She's not excited.
11:39She's not agitated.
11:40She's not arguing.
11:41She's just going about her daily business.
11:44It was curious to us
11:45that Christopher said
11:47she was suicidal at this point.
11:50The next video was three minutes later.
11:52And that video is of a frantic Chris
11:54running down the hallway
11:55on the phone with 911.
11:57Nobody, please!
11:59Please, hurry!
12:02But the crucial three-minute window
12:05when Olivia died was missing.
12:08There was a belief, a knowledge
12:10amongst us law enforcement
12:12that he had destroyed that evidence.
12:15The missing footage
12:16would have helped verify
12:18Chris's version of events.
12:19I knew that the gunshot wound
12:22to Olivia's head
12:23was in an unusual spot.
12:26Number one, females
12:28almost never shoot themselves
12:29in the head for suicide.
12:31It's a very rare occurrence.
12:33And also the fact
12:34that the gunshot wound
12:35to her head
12:36was almost to the back,
12:38back here.
12:39And that would be an unusual way
12:43to try to kill yourself
12:44by shooting yourself
12:45in the head, too.
12:46So I wanted Christopher
12:47to walk me through
12:50exactly how this thing occurred.
12:52and I'll go ahead
12:54and do my initial.
12:55She pulls it.
12:58Give me the...
12:58Okay.
13:00And I go...
13:01I'm sorry.
13:02No, no, you're good.
13:02No, you're good.
13:03I'm sorry.
13:03I'm sorry.
13:04You're fine.
13:05I like the chair, man.
13:06I'm reliving it.
13:07I know you are.
13:08I'm reliving it.
13:09You could tell
13:10as he was doing it,
13:12he was kind of
13:13learning as he went.
13:16You know,
13:16okay, this doesn't work.
13:17I think I had her hand this way.
13:19So she should be shot
13:20in the back of her right head.
13:24I...
13:25Did you feel me twist your...
13:26Did you feel me twist...
13:27Switch back here.
13:27Did you feel me twist your...
13:29Push it on the hand.
13:30I twisted.
13:31He was trying to
13:32make his story
13:34fit the small pieces
13:37of evidence
13:38that we were feeding him.
13:40And it was difficult to do
13:41because nobody
13:43kills themselves like that.
13:47The police also interviewed
13:49family members.
13:50Okay, now, Olivia Jones.
13:52Is your sister, right?
13:53We've been talking
13:54a lot lately.
13:56We talk every day.
13:57I drop her baby to her
13:58at the tax office.
14:00She's always been timid
14:01about everything.
14:03But she was...
14:04She was the type
14:04that whatever stayed...
14:06Whatever went on
14:06in their home,
14:07she would keep it there.
14:08Yeah, kind of a private...
14:09Right, private person.
14:10Yeah.
14:11Has she ever
14:12mentioned anything
14:14about suicide
14:15or wanting to harm herself?
14:17Or...
14:17She loved her.
14:19her baby so much
14:20that she felt
14:22she had to live
14:23for them, you know?
14:24She would never...
14:26She never thought
14:26of anything like that.
14:31And Chris
14:32had a confession
14:33to make
14:33about deleting video files.
14:36I need you to be honest
14:38about the videos.
14:40I look guilty.
14:42If I deleted those videos,
14:43I look guilty.
14:44Not if you say right now,
14:46or you just say a little
14:47while ago,
14:48I freaked out,
14:48I panicked,
14:49I did some stuff
14:49I shouldn't have done.
14:50Is that one of them?
14:51Yes.
14:52How many did you delete?
14:54I don't know.
14:55Honestly.
14:56Okay.
14:56I was just afraid
14:58of being blamed
15:00for something.
15:01I didn't do something
15:01that looks
15:03really bad.
15:05That was pretty
15:07powerful evidence
15:08in a case where
15:09your wife just
15:11accidentally
15:11shot herself
15:13and she's laying
15:15dead in a pool
15:15of blood on the floor.
15:17Does a normal person
15:18start going
15:19through his phone
15:20deleting video footage
15:21from camera shots?
15:23No.
15:23That's not normal.
15:25That's signs
15:26of guilt right there.
15:29But the police
15:30needed more evidence
15:32to link Chris
15:33to Olivia's death.
15:35It was literally
15:36hours and hours
15:37and days
15:38of me going
15:38through video
15:39to see if there
15:40was anything on there
15:41that was relevant
15:42to what we now
15:43fully believe
15:43was a homicide.
15:46Historic recordings
15:47provided a damning
15:48insight into the
15:50dynamic of Chris
15:51and Olivia's
15:52relationship.
15:54It portrays
16:22I think
16:22accurately
16:23the fact
16:24that Christopher
16:25is a bully
16:26in the relationship.
16:29Don't look at me
16:30like that.
16:31I'm not playing
16:32with you.
16:33You lazy.
16:34You want to do
16:34some out of that
16:35looking?
16:36Get in here.
16:37You got all
16:37the goddamn
16:38ass.
16:38You don't do
16:39a goddamn thing
16:39around this
16:40right.
16:42Olivia is constantly
16:43put in her place
16:44and physically
16:44and verbally abused.
16:46Then you got
16:46the audacity
16:47to look at me
16:48like I'm stupid.
16:49It's just a look.
16:49The look is what
16:50got you snapped
16:51up.
16:51What you can see
16:58here is the
16:58four signs
17:00of emotional
17:00abuse.
17:01You ain't got
17:02no goddamn
17:03patience.
17:03You want to have
17:04a kid?
17:04I'll you up
17:05by my kid.
17:06He's trying
17:07through this
17:07hostility
17:08to control her,
17:10to subdue her,
17:11to isolate her,
17:12and to punish her.
17:13When I got
17:14the show ass,
17:14you didn't
17:15have a job.
17:17You was collecting
17:17unemployment,
17:18you didn't have
17:18a off of me.
17:20And most men
17:20in this world
17:21want a woman
17:21and got what?
17:23That's a very
17:23controlling and
17:24psychologically
17:25manipulative
17:26technique.
17:29Life would be
17:29so much easier
17:30for me if you
17:31start thinking.
17:33You do
17:33dumb
17:34because you
17:35don't think.
17:39It shows
17:39how angry
17:40he would get
17:41over nothing.
17:42What would
17:43he have done
17:44if Olivia
17:45had tried
17:46to defend
17:46herself?
17:47Because when
17:48Olivia wasn't
17:49defending herself,
17:50he threw her
17:51across the kitchen
17:52like a rag doll.
17:53It just all
17:54started to make
17:54more and more
17:55sense.
17:57Detectives
17:58looked into
17:58Chris's criminal
17:59history.
18:01He'd been
18:01arrested
18:01multiple times
18:02for assault
18:04in 1996,
18:06domestic assault
18:06in 1998,
18:08and he had
18:09spent a brief
18:10period in jail.
18:11We knew
18:13that he
18:14also worked
18:15at a prison
18:15and that he
18:16also had
18:17confrontations
18:19with prisoners
18:20and also
18:20with co-workers.
18:22So it went
18:23to show
18:23that he had
18:24a pattern
18:24of violence.
18:26Olivia's
18:27daughter,
18:28Ariel,
18:28spoke with
18:29the police
18:29and confirmed
18:30what life
18:31was like
18:31inside the
18:32house.
18:33One time
18:34they were
18:35arguing
18:35and I heard
18:36her say
18:36she couldn't
18:37breathe.
18:38I would see
18:39bruises on
18:40her.
18:41It broke
18:42her down
18:43to the point
18:43where she
18:45believed what
18:45he said.
18:46You won't be
18:47nothing without
18:48me, stuff
18:49like that.
18:49Right.
18:50Was your
18:51mother at
18:51any time
18:52that you were
18:52aware of?
18:53Suicidal.
18:54No.
18:55I hate that
18:56they didn't
18:56have to come
18:57up, but no.
18:57The extent
19:05of Chris's
19:06control over
19:07his wife
19:08was confirmed
19:09by Olivia's
19:10sister,
19:11Angela.
19:13She can't
19:14talk on the
19:15phone after
19:15a certain
19:16time.
19:17He controlled
19:17the finances.
19:19He never
19:20wanted to
19:20be in the
19:21presence of
19:22her family,
19:23family reunions,
19:24anything.
19:24He never came.
19:26But she
19:27would have
19:27to step
19:28off when
19:29he would
19:30call, and
19:31all you could
19:31hear was him
19:32screaming and
19:33yelling on
19:33the phone.
19:34His character
19:35is agitation.
19:36Like, his
19:37character is to
19:38be aggressive.
19:40Psychological
19:41domestic balance
19:41breaks you
19:42down, and
19:43you start to
19:43question your
19:44own worth.
19:45And once you've
19:46questioned your
19:46own worth,
19:46you're much more
19:47easy to control
19:48and manipulate.
19:49And that's how
19:49you get stuck in
19:50this codependence
19:51with your partner
19:52where you start
19:53to accept what
19:54he's saying as
19:55true, and then
19:57you start to
19:57also think,
19:58I do need
19:58him, and I
19:59need to stay
20:00here, and I
20:00can't leave.
20:01There's nowhere
20:01else for me to
20:02go.
20:02And in doing
20:03so, he's
20:04inducing
20:04humiliation and
20:05fear.
20:07A historic
20:08pattern of
20:09violent behavior
20:10was revealed by
20:11Chris's ex-wife,
20:12Leticia.
20:14I met
20:15Chris Jones in
20:161999.
20:19It was just
20:20like a constant
20:20fight.
20:21He strangled me,
20:22choked me out,
20:24drug me through
20:24through the house.
20:26He had, my skin
20:27was missing off
20:28my back.
20:29One time, he
20:30bit my hand.
20:33I had just
20:33fight marks in
20:34my hand.
20:35This was what it
20:36was.
20:37If the house
20:38not clean,
20:41he's told me
20:41that he would
20:42kill me if I
20:44was to ever
20:44leave him.
20:46He told me how
20:46he would do it.
20:47The reason I
20:49never said
20:50anything or
20:51went for help
20:52was because I
20:53was extremely
20:54in fear of
20:55my life.
20:56Because I
20:57knew and I
20:58felt in my
20:59heart that he
21:00would kill me.
21:04Then, the
21:05results of the
21:06gunshot residue
21:07test came in.
21:09If you fire
21:10a firearm,
21:11you're going to
21:11have gunshot
21:12residue on your
21:13hands.
21:14Olivia had
21:14zero gunshot
21:15residue on her
21:16hands, so the
21:17gun could not
21:18have been in
21:19her hands when
21:20it discharged.
21:22Christopher had
21:23traces of gunshot
21:24residue on his
21:25hands, which
21:26completely destroyed
21:27his story of the
21:28gun was in her
21:28hands when it
21:30went off.
21:31All the evidence
21:32was suggesting that
21:33it was Chris who
21:34shot Olivia.
21:37When the case
21:38went to trial,
21:39his defense team
21:39tried to argue
21:40that Olivia had
21:41been suicidal.
21:45We found
21:46surveillance footage
21:47of her picking
21:48out the flowers.
21:50If you're buying
21:51flowers for your
21:52husband on
21:53Valentine's Day,
21:54are you planning
21:54on killing
21:54yourself shortly
21:56thereafter?
21:58Hours and hours
21:59of Chris's
21:59behavior were
22:00caught on camera.
22:02Persuasive
22:02evidence for the
22:03jury.
22:04You don't
22:05f*** me!
22:07It physically
22:09put the jury in
22:10the living room,
22:11in the house,
22:12as this crime
22:13took place.
22:14even though there
22:14were pieces of
22:16the puzzle missing
22:17that he had
22:17deleted.
22:18They're actually
22:19watching events
22:20unfold and
22:22escalate.
22:25Chris Jones was
22:26found guilty and
22:28sentenced to 30
22:29years in prison for
22:30the murder of his
22:31wife.
22:31when the court
22:34convicted him,
22:36I felt good about
22:37it.
22:38Justice stepped up
22:39and did what justice
22:40had to do,
22:41and I felt real good
22:42about it.
22:44I miss her,
22:45and I really hate
22:46this for her and her
22:47family.
22:49Everybody knows my
22:50mom.
22:51Everybody knows my
22:52mom.
22:52Everybody knows that
22:53we were her world.
22:54I just don't get
22:57it.
22:59Because all she
23:00wanted,
23:02my sister was
23:03the married type.
23:05All she wanted
23:06was to be loved.
23:07All she loved,
23:09love.
23:10Like, she
23:11loved her babies.
23:14She wanted to
23:15live for her babies.
23:24Before she was
23:28murdered, Olivia
23:29Jones was a victim
23:30of both physical
23:31and psychological
23:33abuse.
23:35You might think
23:36that physical abuse
23:37might be the worst
23:38kind of abuse, but
23:40actually the
23:40psychological abuse,
23:42A, often comes
23:43with the physical
23:44abuse, and B, it
23:46often is the thing
23:47that sort of traps
23:48people, because it
23:49breaks you down, and
23:50you start to question
23:51your own worth.
23:53And once you've
23:53questioned your own
23:54worth, you're much
23:54more easy to
23:55control and
23:56manipulate.
23:56And that's how
23:57you get stuck in
23:58this codependence
23:59with your partner
24:00where you start to
24:01accept what he's
24:02saying as true, and
24:04then you start to
24:05also think, I do
24:06need him, and I
24:07need to stay here,
24:08and I can't leave.
24:08There's nowhere else
24:09for me to go.
24:11An individual's
24:12isolation combined
24:13with a partner's
24:14unresolved mental
24:16health issues can be
24:17a toxic mix.
24:19In our next case,
24:21years of internal
24:22monologue went
24:23unchallenged, and
24:24erupted in a lethal
24:26conclusion.
24:35In Washington state,
24:38North Bend, 30 miles
24:42east of Seattle, a former
24:45sawmill town known as the
24:46home of the TV series
24:47Twin Peaks, and notoriously,
24:50in 2012, a double
24:52murder that shocked the
24:53community.
25:00Right now, it is unclear
25:02if a murder-suicide
25:04happened here.
25:04Ava Glass is a former crime
25:10journalist who has examined
25:11the case, which involved
25:13the Keller family.
25:15Hey, Daddy.
25:17Lynette Keller was a central
25:18figure.
25:19The mother, Lynette, had a
25:21chronic illness, but she was
25:23very active, and she liked
25:25crafting.
25:26She liked to video her
25:28crafts on the internet.
25:30Hi, everyone.
25:30It's me, Lynne.
25:31Okay.
25:33It's time for the 50-70
25:34giveaway.
25:36Lynette's daughter,
25:37Kayleen, had just
25:38graduated from Mount
25:40Cy High School in 2011.
25:42Kayleen Keller.
25:46So how do you feel,
25:48Kayleen?
25:48You got a new life
25:49ahead of you.
25:51No more frickin' school.
25:53You got to tell tomorrow
25:57to get your stuff out of
25:58the house.
25:58Oh, no.
25:59She's there with us
26:00forever.
26:02Watching the videos on
26:04that graduation day, in
26:05particular, the happy
26:07daughter who is on her
26:08way to college, where
26:10she's going to study
26:11video gaming, and she's
26:12got this bright future,
26:14they seem truly happy.
26:17Kayleen's father, Peter
26:19Keller, worked with
26:20computers.
26:20Can you take a picture
26:22of me and sell me on
26:23eBay?
26:24Uh-huh.
26:25He also had an
26:27artificial intelligence
26:28project.
26:30But his passion was the
26:32outdoors and building a
26:34secret camp in the woods
26:36above North Bend.
26:38All right.
26:39It's first entry into the
26:41video log.
26:43Basically, come up here
26:45on the weekends, and I
26:48tend to stay up here for
26:49about probably around nine
26:51hours a day each time, which
26:53is a long time.
26:55There is the American ideal
26:57of the survivalist, the man
27:00living on his own on a
27:02mountainside.
27:03Okay, here I go.
27:05Oh, man.
27:06That is the romantic kind of
27:08ideal of the Wild West, and
27:11obviously Washington is pretty
27:13much as West as you get.
27:14This is something I wanted to
27:16do, probably since I was a
27:19teenager, to make a home
27:22underground somewhere so I
27:23didn't have to live around
27:24people.
27:27In complete contrast.
27:30Hi, guys.
27:30I'm just looking through all
27:32this stuff that Christina sent
27:33me.
27:34Oh, my gosh.
27:35Lynette loved talking to
27:36people, sharing her passion
27:38for crafting online.
27:40My little puppy's looking
27:41outside.
27:42Okay, I got a lot of stuff to
27:44show you guys.
27:49Then, in the early hours of
27:51Wednesday, April 22nd, 2012,
27:54the Keller home was on fire.
27:57This was clear immediately
27:59this wasn't a normal house
28:01fire.
28:01They found what appeared to be
28:03explosives, one of which
28:04hadn't gone off as
28:05apparently intended.
28:06They found bodies, the bodies
28:09of Kayleen and Lynette, both in
28:11their bedrooms, both shot.
28:17The family had been erased,
28:19including the dog and the cat.
28:23The first real clue came in the
28:26house on the day of the fire.
28:29When police explored the hard
28:31drive in Peter Keller's office,
28:33they found disturbing evidence
28:36that he had developed a sort
28:39of a plan and had been putting
28:41that plan into action over
28:44weeks, months, maybe even
28:46years.
28:47This is kind of an outside look.
28:50The footage helped the police
28:52unpick what happened and who
28:54committed the crime.
28:56What emerged was Peter's
28:58survivalist mentality.
29:00He showed his daughter, Kayleen,
29:06how to use an automatic weapon.
29:08Nice, look at all that smoke.
29:10Oh my gosh.
29:11Okay, make sure you don't touch
29:13this.
29:13Okay.
29:14Because this gets really
29:15freaking hot.
29:16I can smell the oil coke.
29:19But building a bunker was his
29:21most time-consuming hobby.
29:24This is how I get my logs
29:25across.
29:28Transportation system.
29:31He wasn't completely alone.
29:34The camera was his companion
29:35through which he processed his
29:36thoughts.
29:39I really do feel stupid
29:40talking into this camera, but
29:42I guess eventually I'll get used
29:44to it.
29:45It's hard to watch myself
29:47because I look so bad.
29:51What started as a journal of a
29:54build became a chronicle of his
29:55personal history and the evolution
29:57of his mental state.
30:00Me and my wife have been, you
30:03know, gone through some
30:05in our life.
30:06Bad family lives.
30:10Just terrible.
30:12Horrible things.
30:15And, you know, that's also why I
30:18can't live like a normal person.
30:19He filmed himself talking about his
30:23unhappiness, about his life, his
30:25unhappiness, about his family, his
30:27concerns about a world that was
30:31somehow perhaps unacceptable.
30:33All the things, you know, that have
30:37happened to me, there's just no way.
30:40I mean, I'm surprised I've made it this
30:41far.
30:42But the camera didn't judge him, and the
30:45monologue became unfiltered.
30:51How did I get so
30:52out?
30:55How did so many things go wrong?
31:01I was just too ugly.
31:03Nobody cared.
31:04Dr. Roberta Babb is a clinical
31:11psychologist.
31:13She's examined the video diary to try and
31:15understand the Keller family and what
31:17Peter was going through.
31:19I'm short.
31:21No personality.
31:22Peter Keller describes himself as not very
31:26good looking, not having really a
31:28personality, not having achieved much in
31:30life.
31:32I've tried to make it in this world, and it
31:37just isn't happening.
31:39I'm 40 now.
31:42And I am running out of time.
31:45There's a real sense of hopelessness and
31:47despondency and futility in his narrative.
31:52which feels incredibly sad.
31:55I just feel like I'm getting knocked back
32:01every time.
32:03I just don't have a choice.
32:05I know what I am.
32:07There's a level of resignation to this is a
32:10fact, as opposed to it being a perception.
32:13And as this is his truth, he feels that he's
32:17bound by it and is controlled by it to some
32:19extent.
32:22Yeah, basically, last year has been really
32:25tough on me.
32:27I've been coming to terms realizing just how
32:30pathetic I am.
32:32Peter struggled to sleep.
32:34I'm going to work with almost no sleep most of the time.
32:41I just can't even barely function.
32:45I've been doing that for 16-plus years now, and it's just
32:54driving me insane.
32:55The only thing that helped Peter was building his shelter.
33:02Getting ready to leave.
33:05Got a lot of work done.
33:06This project probably had the function, for Peter, of escape.
33:12This is, I can't really tell too well, but this is what I've been
33:16digging out.
33:17It gave him a sense of purpose in life.
33:20It's a way to actively and tangibly see his achievements, which challenged the belief
33:26he had that he was a failure.
33:27All I did was work on this.
33:30It's the only thing that could make me feel better.
33:33There's also a real sense to creating a sanctuary, literally a man cave, that would protect him,
33:39that he could look after himself within, and essentially cut himself off from the world,
33:44which he felt was quite hostile and persecutory, and something that he needed to be disconnected
33:49from, and unfortunately, that also included his family.
33:54I just can't stand dealing with Lynette's problems all the time, and it's always a problem.
34:04Peter's wife, Lynette, appeared unaware of how Peter was feeling.
34:09My husband's great.
34:10He really is.
34:11He's very respectful to me.
34:14I mean, he spoils me.
34:16He takes care of me.
34:16I can't stand living with my wife anymore.
34:21She's just driving me crazy, but in a way, I still love her.
34:25She's one of those guys who does stay through sickness.
34:29If I leave her, there's no one else to take care of her.
34:32She's not going to make it.
34:33She can't take care of herself if I'm not there, and I'm just getting to the point where
34:40I just can't take it anymore.
34:41There was a disconnect between how Peter and Lynette viewed the family finances.
34:49Financially, my wife is just going to suck all the money out that I have.
34:57My husband spoils me.
34:59He hates seeing me in pain, so tonight he came home, and he gave me another $20 because
35:04he knows I'm going to the doctor's tomorrow, and he wants me to stop at Michael's and get
35:07some more stuff.
35:08Such a good guy.
35:09Peter felt very exploited by his wife financially, but he was the one that often, unprompted,
35:17gave her money.
35:19So there's a really ambivalent relationship to money, but also his wife and what care looks
35:25like.
35:25My anniversary is in two weeks.
35:29I'm going to be married for 20 years.
35:32I'm so excited.
35:33She feels very supported and seen by him.
35:36She feels very privileged to have such a caring partner.
35:40He's a great guy here.
35:42You know, he stuck around with me.
35:44You know, those medical bills are just wiping me out now.
35:48So, I'm trying to get up here while I still have savings.
35:51It's most likely a reflection of what it feels like to live in the 21st century, where we
35:59are consumed by this need to take on more, to acquire more, to constantly do better.
36:05Peter appeared to value material assets much more than the relational assets he had in terms
36:19of his wife and his daughter.
36:22I guess it's also because I don't have anything.
36:26I never did.
36:29No money.
36:31And essentially, that's that.
36:33He resigns himself to this view of himself.
36:36I find being numb to everything is more comforting than me trying to make it through real life.
36:49As Peter spent more time with his own thoughts than with his wife and daughter,
36:57Camp Keller felt more like home.
37:00I don't have the lights on yet, but this is my area that I've been working so hard on.
37:09By the start of 2012, his shelter was complete.
37:13Well, this is it.
37:15Home sweet home.
37:16Got the lantern going so you can see a little bit.
37:20Not a lot.
37:22The build itself was impressive.
37:25It had a beamed ceiling that supported all the earth that sat on top of it, hiding it from
37:30people.
37:31It had a generator for electricity.
37:35It had a wood burner stove for heat.
37:37It had huge stores of food and water.
37:42Pretty well stocked up.
37:43It's my window.
37:46So it's just big enough to live in.
37:49Over the best part of nine years, it was a major investment.
37:53I've spent a lot of money on this so far.
37:56Thousands of dollars.
38:01Thousands more on guns and other stuff, other hardware I'm going to need.
38:13Peter was prepping for a significant event.
38:16Today, we're hauling up a 55-pound pack, basically a big bottle full of beans and some wine-making
38:26stuff, and then it's the weight of the gun and the pack.
38:29I can last months up here without ever leaving.
38:34I've got propane, gasoline, food.
38:37Having to rely on others meant, in Peter's mind, that he was weak, or he had a weakness
38:43that could be exploited, and therefore, he needed to protect himself at all costs by being
38:48on his own in his man cave by himself.
38:53As Peter got deeper into the forest, it got darker in his mind.
39:00He reached a conclusion.
39:03Getting more comfortable with it.
39:06Still nervous.
39:07Sometimes, but every time I think this is a crazy idea, I think about it, and I always
39:17come up to the same conclusion, that this is the best thing.
39:26It's the only way that I'm ever going to be happy.
39:31He was isolated, and he was very much with his own thoughts.
39:35And the interesting thing about this process, if seen over a long time, is that what initially
39:40started as a thought, then becomes fact, and then part of his reality.
39:45So without the diversity of thought that we get from other people, we can become very concretized
40:02in our world view.
40:03And in Peter's sense, it was a very persecutory world view, which he had to protect himself
40:08from, because no one else would.
40:09Peter developed a radical escape plan.
40:15It's actually more comfortable for me to think about living out here, robbing banks, pharmacies, just taking what I want for as long as I can.
40:28At least it will be exciting, won't be boring, and I don't have to worry about Lynette or Kayleen, and everything will be taken care of, it will just be me.
40:40I think that was really important for Peter, because he felt so, I would use the word, oppressed and trapped in his current life experience.
40:49And paradoxically, reducing his life to an isolated life in a bunker represented limitless freedom for him.
40:57For Peter to be truly free, there was one last thing he felt he had to do.
41:06It's basically, it's the point in which I killed my wife and my daughter in their sleep.
41:16They won't know it.
41:18I'm hoping that I can just do it real clean.
41:21Nobody wakes up.
41:23We got a silencer.
41:26And that's my goal.
41:29Nobody's going to suffer.
41:31Nobody's even going to know about it.
41:35With Peter's mind made up, he returned home to his wife and daughter.
41:43Dino.
41:44Sorry, my husband's home.
41:46Dino.
41:51Kayleen and Lynette had been killed.
41:58Peter was gone.
42:00I'm going to burn the house down, destroy everything, hopefully any evidence of anything, and move out here.
42:12We'll see how long I last doing this.
42:15I don't know, a few days or weeks, or maybe even years.
42:22My goal is to make it 10 years.
42:25Detectives do say they are looking for the husband who's been missing since yesterday morning and is now considered a person of interest.
42:35Peter Keller's car was found abandoned on the edge of the woods.
42:38They also found that he'd withdrawn more than $6,000 from the family bank account.
42:45The manhunt was a matter of urgency.
42:49They tried to work out exactly where the bunker was.
42:53A forensic examination led them to narrow down their focus to a certain section based on the kinds of trees, the amount of daylight, the hills around it.
43:03The terrain was vast.
43:09They only had a few tiny landmarks to go on.
43:14A helicopter was deployed.
43:16Carry on, copy.
43:19The police knew the area very well.
43:22And so from that point, it was simply a matter of searching the woods.
43:27A murder suspect accused of killing his wife and daughter remains in an underground fortified bunker.
43:34Six days after the double murder, evidence of human activity.
43:40There was smoke rising from the bunker. There was nobody living out there.
43:44A SWAT team was dropped from the air.
43:49We can't see the door. We just see the tarp like slapping in the wind.
43:57They knew he was probably armed. They had a very good idea when they arrived. He might not come voluntarily.
44:05As the SWAT team drew close.
44:09They all heard the movement on the platform.
44:12Didn't see anything.
44:13Heard what sounded like something inside.
44:16They tried to flush him out with gas.
44:19And an explosive device.
44:26Initially, no response.
44:29Moments later, reports of a single gunshot.
44:32As Peter Keller predicted, always a potential outcome.
44:40I may get caught right away.
44:43Basically, if I get caught, I'm just going to shoot myself.
44:47I do have my escape, and that's death.
44:50I can always shoot myself.
44:52And I'm okay with that.
44:54When police finally did get access to that bunker,
44:58they found very quickly that Peter Keller had taken his own life.
45:06Even in death, I think Peter got freedom.
45:09He wanted freedom from his current life experience.
45:12And he got that by killing his wife and his daughter, and then ultimately taking his life.
45:16You can't come back from murder.
45:20It is an irreparable action.
45:23And this is very much about Peter really severing his ties to his family life and the world as we know it.
45:32Every murder impacts everybody they knew.
45:36It sends us like throwing a pebble into a pond, and these ripples go out, and everybody gets hit by them.
45:43He didn't just kill Lynette and Kayleen.
45:46He injured, damaged, and broke the hearts of hundreds of people.
45:50Lynette and Kayleen's memory is being kept alive by their remaining relatives.
45:58They've set up a scholarship in Kayleen's name to help fund young women to study technology.
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