#328: The Killer Who Vlogged His Murder Plan For 8 Years

28:13Well, it's about two weeks before we finally drop out of society and fully commit to this. Well, it's about two weeks before we finally drop out of society and fully commit to this. Very interesting, the switch here of him saying I and then changing it to we. It's just weird. We meaning who, though? Just him. Yeah. But he changed it for a reason. Yeah. He continues. Probably gonna be my last video till after that. I just wanted to get one last video in before that time. So far, I'm coming to terms with it. Doing okay. It's starting to accept it. It doesn't really freak me out anymore like it did sometimes.

28:50it's clear that he's preparing for something he cryptically vlogs finally i have to do what i have to do and get it out of the way at this point i don't know what's gonna happen i may get caught right away basically if i get caught i'm just gonna shoot myself i could basically be dead in two or three weeks i don't know it's all up to chance at this point i don't think anyone knows where i'm at but if they put it together who knows at this point i had to take that chance so it's just going to be a point of go as far as I can. I do have my escape and that's death. I can always shoot myself and I'm okay with that.

29:23We don't know exactly when Peter decided to kill his wife and only child, but we do know that he had been planning the construction of the bunker since 2003 for the past eight years. He had been sketching, tweaking, building his bunker. Peter's friends and family did say that he was developing a bit of a quote doomsday attitude. They said they would feel comfortable calling him a survivalist. A survivalist with a distaste for authority is how exactly they described him. Side note, from what I can tell, survivalists and preppers are different. And again, I could be wrong because I also see a lot of people say the label of prepper is just a rebranding from survivalist because of the negative connotations.

30:02But others argue there is a stark difference. Netizens have stated, while both people have the goal of being prepared, Preppers, if you will, they tend to focus on resource management and planning for unforeseeable scenarios to unfold. They will be the ones stockpiling food, water, medical supplies. For preppers, these things could be necessary if there's a natural disaster, social unrest, economic meltdowns, or a full cyber attack. Preppers believe in the power of preparation. And they come up with evacuation routes, communication methods, satellite phones, in case things go down. They will learn how to purify water.

30:37They will focus on gaining basic knowledge for medical care, things of that nature. Whereas from what I can tell, survivalists, on the other hand, they tend to be more focused on survival. They want to learn how to start a fire without a match, build a shelter from natural materials, forage food from the wild, navigate without a compass. Typically, not all, but from what I can see online, survivalists tend to prepare for more apocalyptic scenarios. They prefer adaptability over a stocked pantry. and this is a huge generalization, but preppers seem like they prefer groups or they prefer like-minded individuals.

31:13They think that if something were to happen, there is power in community and strength in numbers. Survivalists, from what I can see online, they tend to be more lone wolves. Most survivalists, maybe they just want to take their family or a friend or two. They want to get off the grid far away from other people as possible. They want to find a resource-heavy area that people won't be settling into and that's where they want to just station out, camp out until maybe the world goes back to normal. Obviously, there's going to be people who cross over. Survivalists who have prepper traits, vice versa.

31:44But I would say in most SHTF, shit hit the fan situations, a mixture of both would probably be optimal in terms of surviving. Peter Keller was a survivalist with a doomsday attitude. That's what they called him. So he's prepping for doomsday scenarios. Other preppers and other survivalists, they could be preparing for an earthquake that maybe would cut off water supply for 10 million people for a month, maybe a few weeks. If there's another large scale indefinite power outage, they're preparing for that. Or pandemic shortages, ice storms that keep them locked in for weeks. They call it prepping for Tuesday.

32:24Just prepping for an emergency. You just don't know when it's going to hit. It's not the end of the world. It's just a big emergency. see like a massive hurricane that could be devastating. That's what they're preparing for. Doomsday prepping is prepping for a global catastrophic risk, which again, does not seem that inconceivable with the way things are going. So I'm not judging anyone. I don't think anything is inherently bizarre with wanting to prepare for the worst case scenarios. I think even the act of being proactive can give people a sense of easing that anxiety that they have. And I'm all for that.

32:55So obviously the way that it unfolds in today's case is not representative of these groups of people. But beyond that, you would be surprised at how many people are preparing for something like this. I feel like back then people had a very specific person in mind when they thought of survivalist. But even Reddit's co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman stated he got LASIK eye surgery because, quote, if the world ends, and not even if the world ends, but if we have trouble, getting contacts or glasses is going to be a huge pain in the ass. Without them, I'm fucked. That's an interesting reason to get.

33:32He said, I own a couple of motorcycles. I have a bunch of guns and ammo, food. I figure with that, I can hole up in my house for some amount of time. So this is becoming increasingly normal. Now, Peter's bunker was a cabin inside the mountain called Camp Keller. Authorities would later be very impressed by the sheer size of the thing. It was an elaborate space. I mean, envision a log cabin made of wood, two floors, multiple levels, separated rooms, rooms with air mattresses, pillows, blankets, clothes, stuff to keep you comfortable. You can go inside, go from level to level. There's a pantry, a kitchenette, a bedroom furnace, places to clean up, shower, storage rooms.

34:13Wait, you say this is inside of a mountain? Inside of the mountain. He dug up. He excavated the inside of a mountain. And what's crazy is he can't even bring up crazy tools. So the way that this mountain where it's placed is it's about an hour hike off the trail. So he would have to get out of his car, go on to the hike for maybe about 45 minutes, then get off the trail to his bunker location. That would take another hour of heavy non-hike trekking up the mountain. So wrong trek takes like four hours. Yes. and all the tools that he would need to excavate the inside of a mountain, he would have to bring on his back.

34:49So he's not bringing in heavy-duty machinery. He's bringing in just like chainsaws. Wow. Did you see photos of inside? Yes. It's crazy. It's not like an Aspen ski resort, but it's crazy that it's inside of a mountain. It looks like a real home. Yeah. No, it definitely looks like a bunker, but that's crazy. that that's a bunker. It's big. There's shelving, there's creature comforts, there's everything. It's like a very shed-like log cabin, but inside of the mountain. I mean, he created this pulley system to bring giant logs and trees that he would cut down on the mountain, and he would create this large enough hole into the mountain to now reinforce the walls with those logs.

35:35So it's like, again, inverted cabin. And the trees that he's cutting down, they're massive. Some of them are over 50 years old. He would just chop them down, skin them of their bark, split them, and bring them into the hole to fortify the underground cabin. Every aspect of survival, or at least comfort survival, he had. Power, he managed to haul a generator up the mountain. He had light switches. He could turn on the lights with the click of a little switch. Water, he created a water system. He picked the spot of his bunker to be next to a small stream. He ran PVC pipes from the stream into the bunker to get running water.

36:13heat he made a wood burning furnace with one of those aluminum trash cans he cut a hole on the side and he would throw in wood and just burn it he had ventilation so he wouldn't die of carbon monoxide inside of the bunker he had a wood burning stove murder peter had stacks of ammunition boxes in ziploc bags he had high powered rifles tons of fuel containers he purchased a bulletproof vest binoculars he had scopes in there which is a device that you put on your gun so that you can see where your bullet is aiming and where it's going to impact. He even stockpiled bottles of water, Coca-Cola, vodka.

36:46He had a bucket filled with his favorite candy, which are 100 grand bars. That's the name of the candy, as well as regular day-to-day necessities like Windex and laundry detergent. The bunker has been described as a shocking feat of engineering. I mean, most of the supplies were either from the woods around him, like he would cut down the trees or any additional supplies, he would have to haul from his house, which again, like we said, would be a two hour hike up the mountain, half of it off trail, which if you guys go hiking off trail, I would say is 10 times harder than on a trail. He never really shows too much of the actual bunker when he vlogs, but there is a clip where he briefly shows the camera some of his surroundings at night before he heads home.

37:27And he says, 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 kind of one last slit that's my fireplace wood stove whatever now we're going upstairs you just see like big black trash bags piled around they look like body bags this is where most of my supplies are pretty well stocked up and that pretty much wraps it up for the day he also vlogs some of the challenges he had creating the bunker Today is probably the nicest day it's been in a long time. As you can see, I have about three loads left before the final. I think he's referencing the murder here.

38:10Been doing pretty good lately, getting about two loads up a week. About 100 pounds each week now of supplies and material. This winter is where we had a big ice storm. This is one of the trees that's fallen down over the trail. Kind of another one over there. A lot of damage. Branches down everywhere. Makes it a little more difficult to get through. But I don't want to move it. I'd like to keep it as hard to get through here. So nobody will come out here. Peter would go every weekend for nine hours a day. Work non-stop for nine-ish hours on his bunker. Any energy that he had would be used up on his hike down back to his car.

38:47And he wasn't necessarily all alone in the woods each time. He would bring his family dog with him. Dino. It's a black dog. I would say medium-sized black dog. It looks kind of like a schnauzer. So he would bring up Dino. And most of the time, after a really long day working on the bunker, he would need two days to physically recover before he made it back to the bunker. It was physically taxing. And every day, he's making that choice to keep going back, keep going back to his plan. He could have backed out or changed his mind at any moment, but he didn't. And this went on for eight years? Yes.

39:21And the wife had no idea that he was doing it. that he had a bunker what yeah we're gonna get into it april 20th 2012 peter gave lynette some money she vlogged about how excited she was she originally told peter that she was gonna buy some stamps with the money he gave her but she changed her mind and thought that she was gonna buy ink instead she was giddy over the idea of having more ink she said oh my gosh so awesome sorry i'm trying not to get too excited because my husband is gonna be like what are you doing 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.

39:57Oh my gosh. So awesome. Sorry, I'm trying not to get too excited because my eyes are going to be like, what are you doing? Lynette would never get to use that money. And Peter knew that. The world was supposed to end in 2012. For years, people were talking about it. December 21st, 2012. That's the last day of the world. Some said there's going to be a giant tidal wave. All the land is going to be flooded on the planet others stated no no no that's dumb you're dumb it's gonna be a worldwide earthquake or a volcanic eruption that's gonna spread through all the continents what some people say like another meteor yes other people said oh actually earth is going to collide with a mysterious a meteor some people called it a planet x and then they would be sucked into the black hole and disappear regardless of the method of transportation to the end of the world it was argued that the apocalypse had been predicted since ancient maya it was argued that the maya developed the long count calendar that calendar lasted about 5139 solar years and the last day was december 12th 2012 on the calendar that they created now a lot of people they thought yeah well that's how a yearly calendar works you know like at the end of 2024 we're going to get a new calendar that's 2025, just a new cycle would commence, right?

41:16But others believed, no, the Maya, they knew what they were talking about. It's not going to reset itself. We're all gonna die. This is the end of the world. Some others argued, there are other weird things that are happening. The stars are literally aligning for the end of the world. That day was also going to be the winter solstice and the Milky Way and the equator, they would align. Obviously, hindsight is 2020, but there were a lot of other things that went into a ton of people believing that the world was going to end in 2012. We're not certain if Peter was one of these believers of this date, but December 12th, 2012 was scheduled to be the end of the world.

41:52Scheduled to be Armageddon. And just a few months prior, April 22nd, 2012, it felt like the end of the world on 159th Street in North Bend, Washington. Neighbors looked out the window and saw bright red angry claws crawling out of their neighbor's window. They ran to their phones and called 911. I see smoke and flames coming out of the neighbor's house. Oh my God, it's coming through the windows. It's getting out of control. You have to get over here right now. Firefighters are not just in charge of putting out a fire. They have to figure out if the fire was accidental or arson, meaning someone lit the fire on purpose.

42:27And I always imagined that this job would be nearly impossible. If everything is burned down, how do you even determine if it's arson? Firefighters work their way backwards. If there's something left behind, meaning the building is not burnt to a crisp, they're going to follow the fire patterns to find the center of the ignition, the origin. If it's a plug, they assume it's likely electrical. Stove, perhaps gas leak. But if it's something that feels a bit off, you can run a chemical test to see if there's any sort of gasoline or accelerant that was used. Now, obviously, it's not that simple, but firefighters are highly trained to figure out the cause and source of a fire.

43:02April 22nd, 2012, firefighters arrive at the Keller family residence at 8.45 a.m. And they would need to use zero of those skills to practice. They look up, part of the house is engulfed in angry flames. They look down, there are seven gas cans on the ground. Someone wanted the house to burn. Someone wanted the bodies to burn. Inside the house, the investigators found two bodies. Had investigators arrived at the house a few minutes later, the entire thing would have blown up. But they arrived before the fire could spread. They put out the fire and all the evidence was left behind. And they really did not need to know if it was arson or not.

43:43In the kitchen, investigators found a five-gallon red gas can. The ones that you see at the gas stations to transport gas. It was on top of the stove and the stove was on. Someone put it on top of the stove, turned on the stove to wait for it to ignite. The plastic container of gas had melted from the heat and it was causing gas to spill out everywhere that quickly was engulfed in flames. I mean, the kitchen was up in flames. They found two more five-gallon gas cans, three two-gallon gas cans that had been set throughout the house, so that when the fire spread, they would accelerate the flames.

44:14Additionally, authorities found a pipe bomb that failed to go off. Now, side note, a pipe bomb is essentially a homemade bomb, or what they formerly call an IED, which is an improvised explosive device. Typically, it's made from steel water pipes. So think of like a steel tube. PVC pipes can also be used, but usually the steel ones are more popular. And inside is a mixture of explosive materials. And then it's closed on both sides to create pressure. And there's a fuse running through it. So like a string that's typically made of electrical wire and attached to some sort of battery or timer. The pressure that builds inside the pipe bomb not only makes it dangerous from a receiving perspective, but also from an assembling perspective.

44:55That's why they're not as popular as you might imagine because everything is pretty easy to purchase. But imagine one of those confetti tubes that you pop open and the pressure sends the confetti flying everywhere, but only it's not confetti. People will often add nails or broken glass on the outside of the pipe or inside the pipe to increase pain, destruction, and death. But even just the outer metal shell is dangerous because that's what becomes shrapnel. The power of the boom of the mixture inside, it shreds the metal of the usually steel pipe and it sends it just like hurling in whoever is in the vicinity at very high speeds.

45:32And a lot of times it detonates while it's being assembled. So that's why it's just, you know, beyond the ethical, moral, and law standpoint, highly unadvisable just yeah the U.S. Department of Homeland Security recommends keeping at least like a thousand foot distance from a pipe bomb even a homemade pipe bomb

46:02the pipe bomb in the Keller residence thankfully did not explode but if it had it could have easily killed every single firefighter on site that day trying to put out the fire. So to recap, authorities found clear and obvious signs of arson, a pipe bomb that thankfully did not detonate. And unfortunately, that is not the only thing that authorities found. They found 41-year-old Lynette Keller dead in her bedroom. 18-year-old Kayleen was also found dead, both with gunshot wounds to the head. Their family dog, Dino, that appeared in so many of Lynette's videos, but also went to the woods with Peter on a consistent, routinely basis to build the bunker was also found shot dead along with their family cat.

46:45This was no longer just the scene of a fire. It was a double homicide crime scene and authorities, they were quick to start going from room to room to process as much evidence as possible. And thankfully they get there soon enough that the fire stayed contained in the kitchen. The rest of the house was combed through for evidence. Peter's hard drive being the key into figuring out what happened in the Keller family home. Forensic investigators were able to get access into his hard drive and they found pictures, a lot of pictures taken over the course of nine years. I mean, I imagine that the first few photos started off with just sketches, floor plans, notes, and then it quickly evolved into the mountain, the woods, random trees here and there and with each scroll the photos just kept evolving into something darker and darker until you saw camp keller over the course of almost a decade come together picture by picture the police could see what it was now what it was escalating into they saw hand-drawn plans for the bunker and a note written by peter about one of the floor plans for the rooms he said he wanted to build a lab for viruses and nanobots nanobots like yeah so nanobots are tiny little robots that are about a one millimeter in length which is about like the tip of a sewing needle and they're mainly being experimented and tested in the medical field to go inside the human body and for example destroy cancer cells they're tiny little robots yeah yeah i think i read about those when i was super young but yeah and they're in development development right now i mean it's we're still looking at at least a decade out is what a lot of experts are saying, but authorities, they have no clue what any of that even means.

48:29Like what kind of virus is he trying to study? Where is he getting his hands on nanobots? And the combination of the two, the viruses and the nanobots being in the same room is not ideal. They needed to track down Peter Keller. People underestimate human trackers. You know, in movies, you see scent dogs looking for fugitives in the woods, or you see the infrared camera scanning the area from helicopters. But sometimes it just takes a human to track a human. Sometimes all it takes is an expert to go into the woods and just look. Stand and look. They say that you need to look for small branches that have been snapped in half.

49:08Someone stepped on it. Or a plant that's kind of leaning awkwardly to one side. Someone brushed past it when they walked aside it. Or maybe mud on the tree trunks. Humans have a strong instinct to want to rub mud off of our shoes when we're in that type of terrain. There are other things that we all do without even thinking about it. When we walk, we all have a dominant side that we distribute extra weight on and just by looking at a picture of us walking, a lot of these human trackers can tell which is our dominant side, exactly what our footprint will look like in the mud or depending on your speed.

49:39Your weight is distributed differently and great trackers just by looking at your boot print can tell if you were walking at a leisurely pace, skipping or running. Sometimes they say the only way to throw trackers off is to tie your shoes on backwards. So you put, you get your tennis shoes, you put your feet on top of your tennis shoes. You don't put them in your shoes backwards. Okay. And then you tie the laces on the top of your foot, but they can still see footprints. Yes, but it'll be in the opposite direction. But even then a good tracker will probably be able to find you. And Chafee, he was a good tracker.

50:14Once he and his partner found Peter's tracks, they called in the SWAT team. Three dozen SWAT officers came with faces streaked in camouflage paint up the Cascade Mountains, and they start sneaking uphill. Peter had the advantage here. He's higher up. He has rifles, scopes, binoculars. If he sees them, he could open fire at any moment. They needed to be as discreet as possible. They ended up slogging in the mud for seven hours, hands and knees, camouflage paint on their face through the steep, muddy terrain to get up the mountain without being seen so they they immediately found out where he was hiding yes they found a picture that could pinpoint where he was i'm gonna get into it and this whole thing was just confusing because everyone in the family at least at one point they all really liked peter which i think showcases just how polished of a manipulator he is i mean he went from being a family man to be chased by three dozen swat officers up a mountain he was able to hide his true feelings for so long A lot of people have stated it's utterly terrifying that Peter would wake up, have breakfast with his family, all the while he's planning their murders throughout the day.

51:23Even Peter's colleagues at work, they didn't see a single red flag in him. His boss said, I mean, Peter was an excellent employee. Excellent employee. I mean, you could set your clock by him. That means he's very punctual. Especially in the beginning of their marriage. I mean, Lynette's family, they really thought that Peter was a kind guy. She had known him since they were in high school. And Lynette was actually the one that did not want to get married. Lynette was like, that is way too much commitment. But Peter kept proposing like three months into their relationship. Lynette's sister was encouraging her like, he's such a nice guy.

51:56Like, it's really hard to find nice people these days. So Lynette, she took a chance on love. She would share her love story in a video and she would say, That's my story of my husband, who, as you know, you know, is the love of my life. That's my story of my husband, who is my husband, who's the love of my life. Towards the end, close friends and family did notice Peter changing a little bit. He was withdrawing from social activities and becoming increasingly obsessed with doomsday scenarios. He told friends and family that the world was going to end at some point. Everybody knew that he had a bunker, or most people that were super close to him, like his work people.

52:34Extended family, they didn't know. But Lynette, Kayleen, even Kayleen's boyfriend knew that Peter was working on Camp Keller. I don't know if they thought he's just up in the woods hanging out. I don't know if they saw pictures to see just how extensive the bunker was. They had no idea where it was, though. I guess my biggest question is, was he prepping to bring the wife and the daughter? It doesn't seem like it. But do they know that? I don't know. I think that they probably are not survivalists and did not think that the end of the world was nearing. Who would choose a bunker over their nice home?

53:11It just didn't make any sense. It just felt like, oh, dad's weird hobby. Dad's go fishing on the weekends. My dad builds a bunker. There was nothing that alarming about it. And I think if they hadn't seen pictures and if they hadn't seen a lot of his preparations, I don't think that they would have even know how extensive it was. I think they would have just thought he likes to spend time in nature and he's a little bit of a survivalist. But they just knew it existed and that's why Peter would leave at 10 a.m. on the weekends and would return near nighttime. One thing that did bother Lynette's family about Peter was he was a little bit cagey about money to the point where Lynette would have to ask family members for various expenses here and there.

53:52Meanwhile, Peter was sinking thousands of dollars into gun silencers, bulletproof vests, ammo, and thousands of dollars into creating his bunker in the woods. This bunker was likely booby trapped. So the SWAT teams, they could not force their way in. Even if they had the means, they didn't know exactly what they're walking into, which is dangerous. All they knew was Peter has a lot of guns and a lot of ammo. He had a pipe bomb at home ready to go off. He betrayed and killed the people that he was supposed to protect. This is the definition of a high stakes armed and dangerous suspect. So if they can't go in and he doesn't want to come out, what are the SWAT teams going to do?

54:27They're going to flush him out. Tear gas smells slightly pleasant at first. According to some sources, I wouldn't know. They say it's slightly sweet. And if you know that you're being tear gas, you might even smirk like, oh my God, it's not even as bad as they say it is. People are so dramatic. I can handle it. But you're in for a surprise. They say, first it's the throat. You feel this spicy coating in your throat and it's kind of like glitter. No matter how much you cough, it's sticking to the sides of your esophagus. You cannot get this burning sensation out. And then the panic sets in because you feel like you can't breathe.

55:03You're going to suffocate. It feels like nails are just clawing at the inside of your esophagus. And then the mucus starts to take over. Mucus starts pouring out of your nose, whether you want it to or not. Nothing can stop it. Nothing matters anymore except getting rid of this pain. You don't even feel like you're breathing. You feel like you're just breathing knives. And then it's your eyes. You start crying uncontrollably. It's a physiological reaction. It's like emptying an entire bottle of hot sauce straight into your retina. That level of burn. Any exposed skin, it burns. And all it takes is a single width.

55:37They gassed the entire bunker and they waited. after 10 minutes nothing no signs of peter they know he's inside they can kind of hear him and it sounds like he's breathing through a gas mask wow they have to reconsider if not gas then water they tried to coordinate with the fire department for a hose to be brought up the mountain they wanted to pump as much water into the bunker as possible if they can't flush him out maybe they can flood him out this strategy was a bit difficult to execute so it was abandoned to a degree and they were, you know, nearing a full day of trying to get Peter to come out.

56:13They tried gas, water, and now it was time for fire. I mean, I guess inside that bunker, it would have felt like the end of the world. They thought, blow it up. They brought Chafee back in. This is the tracker. Not only is he an expert tracker, but he's a bomb tech. How many explosives do we need to blow the lid off this thing? It's not that simple though. You can use as much explosives as you want and blow up the entire mountain if your heart so desires, but the key is getting the perfect amount of explosives to blow the log roof off enough just to loosen it from the screws, but not cave the entire structure into the mountain.

56:48Once they had the precise amount of explosives, Chafee had to be hoisted down onto the bunker roof by a helicopter. He's coming in with a bag of explosives strapped in between his legs, probably thinking that he does not get paid enough for this. And once it was all set, they blew the lid off the bunker. Sergeant Cindy West stated during the 23-hour stakeout that they were not going anywhere without Peter. She stated, we're not leaving till we get him out one way or another. The sheriff stated, it's a very tactical situation. Time is on our side. We're not going to do anything rash. Side note, the way that they even got to this mountain is kind of crazy.

57:24There were a lot of pictures that Peter had taken of the bunker, inside of the bunker, the plans of the bunker, but no picture pinpointed where on the mountains it was. And like I said, Cascade Mountain Range, 500 miles of mountains. They have no idea where Peter could be, but they saw this one picture. And at first glance, it almost looks like a mistake picture. It's a picture of what looks like a shopping plaza and the wooded mountains are right behind it. But the shopping plaza is maybe like 20 % of the lower half of the picture. And then just the vast mountains on the back. It's not even beautiful mountains.

57:58There's no sunset. It's just a lot of trees. But it stood out to authorities. Why would a man like Peter, building a bunker in the mountains, just take random photos of a shopping plaza where you can't even see the focal point? There's no subject of the photo. There's no person. There's no store. There's no car that's the subject of the photo. It looks weird. Peter's documentation of the bunker has been meticulous and organized so far. And authorities realized, wait, this just might mean something. It's not a random photo. He must have taken it for a reason. Behind the plaza, you see the mountains.

58:31The photo is 80 % mountains. And at the bottom, you kind of see this power line running through the mountains. So with the location of the shopping plaza, the location of the power lines, they can kind of pinpoint where the focal point of this photo is. They get a general idea. And they think that's where Peter's bunker is located. Why? Because there's also two streams on that side of the mountain. What do you need when you're building a bunker? Running water. Why would Peter take this picture unless, I don't know, if you were building a bunker on the side of the mountain, wouldn't you want to go somewhere near civilization where people pass by, take a picture just to see what does it look like from this angle?

59:10Can they see me? How much of me can they see? Can they zoom in? That's how they found Peter. They blew the lid off his bunker. They stormed the place and Peter Keller was dead. Autopsy showed that he had put the gun in his mouth the previous night, shot himself through the top floor of the bunker, his body plunged 30 feet to the lower level of the bunker, and there was blood splattered everywhere. There was a pistol laying next to him and a radio clutched tightly in his other hand. He had been monitoring all the media reports through the radio. The gun that was used to kill Lynette and Kayleen was also found at the bunker.

59:43And thankfully I didn't see too many but I did see one or two netizens comment on how nobody around Peter could have foreseen something like this like how is that possible and I think that's the terrifying part there were no blatant red flags I mean there were some quirks here and there but most relationships most families have those even the King County Sheriff stated Peter's behavior is irrational combined with a high level of preparation and intelligence it's a very unusual case. No one could even think of a motive for the killings. Why didn't he just leave his family instead of murdering them?

1:00:18Was he worried that he might have to pay alimony? That doesn't make sense because he was excited to rob banks and pharmacies. This does not sound like the type of guy to listen to a judge about paying his wife every single month. He could have just vanished. Others wonder if he genuinely thought the end was near and believed that a double homicide would kind of just not be a big deal. Perhaps maybe he thought December 12th, 2012 was when the world would go down and nobody would care about his warrant anymore. But that doesn't make sense either because he put in a lot of effort to try and get rid of all the evidence, like trying to burn his entire house down.

1:00:49He even made dangerous pipe bombs. Others stated that Peter was such a narcissist that he felt like his wife and daughter were extensions of him. And without him, their lives would just cease to exist. They would be meaningless. And since he didn't want them anymore, he would just have to kill them, which is a terrifying thought. To a lot of people, the last theory makes the most sense because he does seem like a raging narcissist and what Peter's ultimate plans were to this day they remain a mystery what was the virus lab about was he trying to create a doomsday so that he could live out a sick fantasy of being in the woods living off the grid did he want to see everybody else suffer because of how he was treated a lot of netizens pointed out the fact that Peter seems incredibly insecure about himself even while planning the double homicide of his own family members he talks about how he was ugly and how his personality was too boring.

1:01:38And what's wild is Lynette was too good for him. Like not in the obvious ways, but just visually. Peter was able to marry someone that was leagues above him. She was a great mother. She was someone that was part of the community. She was kind, grateful. And yet he felt injustice. It's weird. I mean, despite him being in his own words, ugly and boring, Lynette gave him a chance. And all she did was give him love during their marriage. So that's why people think he's a narcissist because nothing is ever really good enough for a narcissist. And side note about Peter being a narcissist, I don't really believe in being an armchair psychiatrist, but I do think that it's interesting to note that he does retakes in his videos, which is odd, considering it seems like he wanted the videos to be burned in the house fire, but at the same time, he wanted to make sure that he's presenting himself in the best light possible, which I guess adds to why people believe he was a raging narcissist, because a lot of narcissists, regardless of if they think someone is going to see it or not, they like to present themselves in a very specific light.

1:02:40But just the whole thing is odd. Peter had such a strong survival instinct. I mean, he spent eight years and thousands of dollars trying to create his own doomsday bunker. But on the other hand, he was like ready to exit his life if police came to him for the murders. It's odd that he was so obsessed with survival, but also so ready to die. It's so weird that he spent eight years prepping for this moment. this is what he decided to do at the end for his loved one and himself. It's just so bizarre. I do think that, again, going to the narcissist theory that a lot of netizens have, narcissists tend to overestimate their abilities and capabilities.

1:03:20He did vlog that he thought that his goal was to last 10 years after murdering his family. He lasted six days. He didn't think they would find him that quickly? He really thought he was hidden. Okay. But still, like just killing the whole family like that. For literally no reason. I mean, some netizens have also stated that it's interesting that Peter's doomsday was one of his own making. If he had not killed Lynette and Kayleen, I don't think they would have brought in three dozen SWAT teams for alimony payments. Yeah, he could have just lived out there by himself. Exactly. Survive. Yeah. That's why people think he's a narcissist.

1:03:57He thinks that these people, his wife and daughter, do not exist without him. They are not their own entities. They are extensions of him. And if he doesn't want them anymore, they need to die. Even after Peter was confirmed to be dead, a bomb squad descended into the bunker. They needed to test for any booby traps or bombs that Peter could have set up. Once that was cleared, the police took all the weapons. The bunker was destroyed and filled with dirt. It was a huge public safety concern in case someone accidentally or purposefully stumbled upon the bunker. because, you know, and authorities stated they did let journalists in to take pictures of the bunker afterwards.

1:04:32But pictures do not do it justice, according to authorities. It was amazingly fortified, is what the police said. Experts who make bunkers for a living, though, they argue differently. They said the structural integrity is not something I would recommend for anyone. The critical part of bunkers is the roof. His bunker worked to hold up the dirt, but it didn't do much more than that. Yeah. A lot of bunker specialists said you have to buy bunker roofs that are blast load roofs, meaning they can hold and support up to 24 ,000 pounds per square foot. So there's that. But we do know that Peter Keller had also been hoarding cash in the bunker.

1:05:05We don't know exactly how much. We just know that before he went off the grid, he had withdrawn at least$6 ,200 from a local Chase Bank. And authorities said the total sum was somewhere in the tens of thousands. Lynette's side of the family has taken the money and they have chosen to establish a scholarship fund in Kayleen's memory with it. it's kayleensfund.com for women who attend digipen institute of technology in redmond where kayleen was helping to study video game design the family said in a statement lynette and kayleen were two amazing individuals who will be missed by our family each and every day we take some comfort in knowing that they were together and that one day we may see them again and that is the story of peter keller and his twisted bunker vlogs what are your thoughts please stay safe and i will see you guys on wednesday for the next episode bye