Article – Police surround underground bunker for North Bend murder suspect

NORTH BEND, Wash. — King County sheriff and Seattle police SWAT teams are pumping more tear gas into an underground bunker in the Rattlesnake Ridge wilderness area where they believe Peter Keller, the prime suspect in the murders of his wife and daughter, remains holed up.

Police are using robotic cameras to take a sneak peak in the bunker in preparation for what could be a long, tense standoff through the night.

Tactical teams fired the first round of tear gas into the bunker near the Rattlesnake Ridge trail around 2 p.m. Friday, but Keller did not surrender.  Police said the bunker appears to be well fortified and Keller is likely wearing a gas mask.

Police have seen and heard movement in the bunker and believe Keller is inside. They also believe he is heavily armed and likely has the bunker booby-trapped.

Man, that entranceway looks like something right out of Kearny’s Nuclear War Survival Skills manual. My prediction is this goes into something of a short standoff and the guy winds up putting the muzzle to the medulla and pulling the trigger. I’d be fascinated to see what they pull out of that bunker when it’s all done.

0 thoughts on “Article – Police surround underground bunker for North Bend murder suspect

  1. It was interesting to me that in one of the articles they talked about how law enforcement were concerned he might be dangerous for some stupid reason (that he was a survivalist I think). Personally I would be concerned because he shoot his wife and kid as that means pretty much anything is on the table for random folks and cops.

    Youd think a guy with this kind of mindset would have made the effort to destroy the data about his bunker instead of trusting a fire to do it for him. It sounds like that if it wasnt for them finding out about it off his computer they may not have found it at all. There’s a lesson in there somewhere.

  2. I just want to know if they are going to auction it off after they clear him out of it…

    Bet you they dynamite the whole thing to prevent people from going in there. (Im assuming it’s not on private property and is instead on some public land.)

  3. Agreed, Maybe he overlooked it somehow. On the other hand guys who off their wife and kid aren’t typically in a very healthy or stable frame of mind.

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