FBI: Serial killer spent time in NM

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - The FBI says an admitted serial killer spent time in New Mexico earlier this year and now they want to know what exactly he was up to.

According to newly released documents, Israel Keyes, 34 drove through New Mexico in early March of this year.

Keyes killed himself in an Alaska prison on Sunday after confessing in detail to seven murders in Washington, New York, Vermont and Alaska.

"I would let them come to me in just a remote area," Keyes said during his taped confession.

The FBI thinks he's killed a lot more people though while traveling around the country over the past 14 years.

"We believe there are other victims in other states we are continuing our efforts to identify those victims," said Alaska's Special Agent in Charge Mary Rook.

It was his most recent murder that got him caught.

In February Keyes kidnapped Samantha Koenig, 18 from the coffee shop where she worked in Anchorage, Alaska then rape and strangled her before hiding her body.

He then stole her debit card and flew to Nevada where he used the card.

"He didn't always stay where he landed he would land in one airport, rent a car and drive hundreds of miles," Rook said.

That is exactly what he did after murdering Koenig.

Following the ATM withdrawls the FBI was able to track Keyes as he drove through Arizona and New Mexico.

"There is of course a time lapse on the ATM's so ya know we were always ten to fifteen minutes behind this guy," Anchorage Police Detective Monique Doll said.

One of his stops was at Western Bank on Main Street in Lordsburg, New Mexico.

Investigators say in the early morning hours of March 8, 2012 he hit the ATM twice there before continuing down Interstate 10 to Texas but they're not sure if that is all he did while in the state.

A few days after his stop in New Mexico he was arrested in Texas.

Local FBI Agents are asking anyone who may have Keyes in the state earlier this year or over the years to contact them at 505-889-1300.

The FBI did not feel comfortable giving a number of potential victims and they are not saying exactly where they believe he's done his killing outside of the four states mentioned.