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"Authorities released chilling new details about the June 2011 abduction, killings and courageous actions of a murdered Vermont couple on Monday, following the apparent suicide of the prime suspect, Israel Keyes, 34.\u00A0It was a gruesome account of evil.\"The Curriers in no way did anything wrong or contributed to this tragic series of events occurring. By all accounts,\u00A0 they were friendly and peaceful people who encountered a force of pure evil, acting at random,\" said U.S. Attorney Tristram Coffin.Authorities said Keyes visited Vermont in 2009 and returned to the Green Mountain State for the express purpose of killing someone.He had no connection to the Curriers. Their killing was a totally random act. The only thing Keyes wanted to do, prosecutors said, was kidnap and kill someone who had a specific kind of house, one he could easily figure out how to get around by observing the property. He chose the Currier home.\"Keyes took a crowbar off the wall of the garage and broke the window of the door leading to the attached garage,\" said T.J. Donovan, Chittenden County state's attorney, as he laid out the details of that tragic June night.After a blitz attack and getting the Curriers' gun, Keyes secured the couple with zip ties, piled them into their own car and drove them to a farm house on Upper Main Street in Essex, Vt.He took Bill Currier to the basement first and tied him up some more. When he went back to the car to get Lorraine, she had broken free and was making her escape. Keyes tackled her near the street and brought her back into the house. By that time, Bill was slipping loose of his ropes.\"Keyes hit him with a shovel, following which Bill continued to struggle and yell, wanting to know where his wife was. At this time, Keyes realized Bill was not going to cooperate with his attempts to subdue him,\" said Donovan.Keyes eventually shot Bill and told authorities he sexually assaulted and then strangled Lorraine.The scene was so shocking it even affected investigators, some of whom were choking up at the news conference.Officials have yet to find the Curriers' remains.Keyes killed himself in an Alaska jail cell over the weekend. He was being held there in connection with the murder of an Alaskan teenager. Authorities said Keyes confessed to at least eight killings before his death."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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