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Wanted to get caught?
I read The Spokesman-Review’s April 29 story about the body of a fugitive found in a bunker. Peter Keller spent eight years carving himself a bunker into Rattlesnake Ridge. As if he had been planning to kill his wife and daughter all along.
The bunker was said to be “amazingly fortified.” Yet it only took 22 hours to break into, which was a last-chance effort of blowing down the roof. Keller was setting himself up for suicide whether it was from his own gun or from knowing that the consequences of his actions would lead to his own death.
He said to his co-workers that he would not return, which leads me to think that this was Keller’s way of suicide by police officer. Keller understood that there was no way of escaping and that there were other hikers and bystanders that could identify him.
Why would Keller stay in a traceable bunker if he wasn’t trying to get caught?
Aurora D. Mackie-Meuler
Spokane