Peter and the Apocalypse Plan

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Dispersions. On April to twenty third, twenty twelve, Lynette Keller and her

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teenage daughter, eighteen year old Kayleene
Keller, were found dead in their family

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home. Both victims had been fatally
shot. Their killer had also shot the

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Keller family pets to death, and
then gasoline was poured throughout the house before

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being set on fire. Fire Fighters
were able to extinguish the blaze before it

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destroyed too much of the evidence of
the scene, and although the house was

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damaged, it did not burn down. From the moment that the victims were

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identified as Lynette and Kayleen, one
thing stuck out to investigators. Every member

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of the Keller household, including the
dog and cat, were dead except for

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one. There was no sign of
Lynette's husband and Kaylene's father, forty one

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year old Peter Keller. Peter worked
at a computer repair shop in the area,

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and during the last shift he attended, he told one of his coworkers

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that he might not be coming back. That same week, he'd withdrawn a

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total of sixty two hundred dollars in
cash. Everybody who knew Peter knew that

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he was passionate about two things,
firearms and surviving in the wilderness. Now,

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that's not to say that Peter had
a lot of friends. In fact,

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he had a reputation for being a
loner who preferred to keep to himself.

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Kaylen's boyfriend talked to Peter on several
occasions and told the police that Peter

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had personally shown him his collection of
guns, including many rifles. Kaylen had

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talked to her boyfriend about her father, saying that he had created some kind

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of bunker in the wilderness that he
liked to go to on the weekends.

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A search of the Keller family home
revealed a series of photographs that appeared to

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have been taken in an area of
nearby wilderness called Rattlesnake Ridge. Those photos

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were left in an open safe in
the home, and it was clear that

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Peter had meant for them to be
burned beyond recognition in the fire that he

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set. Enhancing the pictures revealed some
identifiable buildings, including an outlet mall and

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a series of power lines. When
multiple hikers also reported seeing Peter's car parked

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near Rattlesnake Ridge, investigators believed they
had identified the location where Peter might have

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fled. To a team of trackers
from the King's County Sheriff's Office visited the

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location shown in the photos, and
off the side of the trail, they

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found a bootprint that was a match
to Peters. Now investigators knew that Peter

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was in the area surrounding Rattlesnake Ridge, and they also knew that he was

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heavily armed and desperate. They became
increasingly concerned about the safety of any civilians

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in the area. Because the surrounding
Cascade Mountains foothills were popular with hikers and

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nature enthusiasts. A team of Seattle
based tactical specialists were recruited, and they

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arrived in the Cascade Mountains foothills in
armored carriers. They spent hours painstakingly trekking

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through dense foliage and difficult terrain,
following the smell of smoke from a camping

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stove, until finally they found an
opening in the mountain side. The entrance

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had been carefully hidden with branches and
ferns, but the tactical officers were confident

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that Peter was inside in full camp
camouflage. The officers spent time observing the

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bunker's entrance. On multiple occasions,
they saw the lights had been turned off

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and on confirming that somebody was inside
there. Based on the information that they

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had found in Peter's home, as
well as the testimonies from people who knew

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Peter, the officers weren't fully aware
that he wasn't a rookie. He was

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highly knowledgeable about weapons, and he
also had the resources he needed to survive

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in the bunker or in the wilderness
for an extended period of time. If

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he decided to leave the bunker,
he would be armed and dangerous and wearing

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bulletproof body armor that would make it
difficult to take him down. They called

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Peter's name repeatedly, and when there
was no response, they filled the bunker

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with tear gas, hoping that there
was only one entrance and the gas would

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cause Peter to flee out into the
open. The hours passed and there was

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no sign of Peter. The officers
suspected that the gas would failing for one

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of two reasons. Either the structure
of the bunker had meant that the gas

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wasn't reaching the area where Peter was
hiding, or Peter had prepared for this

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scenario and was equipped with the gas
mask. Finally, after almost twenty four

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hours of Peter being on the run, the team made the decision to use

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explosives on the top of the bunker. It wasn't a decision that they made

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lightly, but at this point the
team had exhausted their resources. The hillside

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was muddy and wet from a heavy
downpour of rain, and one of the

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officers had already suffered a broken ankle, while several others had needed to receive

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IV fluids to combat dehydration. The
gas didn't work, said the Sheriff of

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King's County about the decision to use
explosives. We've got fresh people here.

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It was time to take the next
step. Our people are out safe and

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the trails are now safe for the
community to use. It turned down to

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their efforts didn't matter. When they
entered the bunker, the officers found that

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Peter was already dead. There was
a bullet wound in his head and one

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of his guns lying next to his
body. Peter had taken his own life

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from the contents of the bunker,
which Peter referred to as Camp Keller.

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It was clear that Peter had spent
countless hours preparing for some kind of confrontation

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or maybe even the apocalypse. Camp
Keller was fitted with a functioning generator and

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contained full body armour, a scope, and multiple rifles, with boxes and

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bags of ammunition stacked on shelves.
There were more than enough gas cans and

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propane tanks for Peter to survive in
the bunker for months without ever going outside.

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Investigators painstakingly searched the bunker for answers
about Peter's motives, and while they

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sorted through piles of homemade explosives and
ammunition, they recovered a videotape recorded by

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Peter. Although the videotape didn't explicitly
discuss the motives for murdering his entire family,

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the recording showed Peter going into detail
about how he was planning for the

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end of the world. It was
clear that to Peter the apocalypse hadn't just

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been a distant possibility. He had
believed that it was all coming soon and

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he needed to do everything he could
to prepare for it. I'm getting to

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the point, Peter confessed to the
camera. We're just trying to live and

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pay bills and live life as a
civilian, go to work. It just

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freaks me out. It's actually more
comfortable for me to think about living here,

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robbing banks and pharmacies, just taking
what I want for as long as

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I can. It was also clear
from the contents of the tape that Peter

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had accepted his own death was a
possibility, and even though he planned on

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surviving as long as he could,
he had made peace with that quote.

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I do have my escape, and
that's death. Can always shoot myself,

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and I'm okay with that. Investigators
also recovered some of Peter's earliest planning for

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the bunker. A notebook dated from
almost a decade prior showed Peter meticulously planning

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out the kind of structure he wanted
to build, and from that point forward

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he had carefully documented. The process
inside the bunker was even less rudimentary than

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it looked. Peter had used an
efficient pulley system to move heavy logs into

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place on top of the bunker's cement
foundation, and he had diverted the flow

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of water from a small creek nearby
to provide Camp Keller with running water.

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In his apocalypse tapes, Peter had
only mentioned briefly his wife and daughter to

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state that he wouldn't need to worry
about them. Although Lynnette and Kayeleen had

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been aware of Peter and his need
to spend week ends in nature, and

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that he was building some kind of
survivalist building. Authorities believed that neither his

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wife or daughter had ever been to
Camp Keller or even knew where the bunker

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was located. Peter had become convinced
that the end of the world was imminent,

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and he spent almost an entire decade
investing his time in resource or says

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inter surviving it in his bunker.
However, when he decided it was time

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to retreat into the mountains, he
hadn't taken his family with him to what

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he believed was the only safe place
in the world. Instead, he killed

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them without a second thought, deciding
that the only person who he would try

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to save from the apocalypse was himself. It's actually more comfortable for me to

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think about living out here. Robin
Banks Pharmacies. Just taken what I want

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for as long as I can.
At least it'll be exciting, won't be

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boring, and I don't have to
worry about Lynette or Kayleen, and everything

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will be taken care of. It
just be me. I used to sit

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here and think, you know,
this whole thing is just crazy at times,

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and then I think about it and
it would make sense, and it's

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like, Okay, this is what
I gotta do. I'm getting to the

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point where just trying to live and
pay bills and live as a civilian and

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go to work that just freaks me
out. Basically, if I got caught,

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I'm just gonna shoot myself. So
I mean I could basically be dead

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in two weeks or three weeks.
I don't know. It's all up to

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chance. At this point, I
do have my escape, and that's death.

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Can always shoot myself and I'm okay
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