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Search for suspected killer ends with death inside Rattlesnake Ridge bunker By Seth Truscott and Carol Ladwig
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Valley Record Staff
The man who police say shot his family, torched his home and fled to an underground lair on Rattlesnake Ridge, is dead. When SWAT teams blasted their way inside North Bend resident Peter A. Keller’s log-built bunker on Saturday morning, April 28, they found the suspect’s body, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot. At a press conference near the
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Peter keller Murder suspect
Rattlesnake Ridge trailhead, King County Sheriff Steve Strachan praised the detective work and citizen response that led up to a siege of Keller’s bunker. Unable to fathom Keller’s motives, the sheriff hoped the standoff would have ended with-
out another death. “To try to apply some sort of rational reason is futile,” Strachan said. See bunker SIEGE, 2
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Above, SWAT teams blasted their way into murder suspect Peter A. Keller’s underground bunker last weekend, after tips and detective work led to the Rattlesnake Ridge lair. Right, infrared cameras on a sheriff’s helicopter show police surrounding the hideout Friday. Carol Ladwig/Staff Photo
Marvin Kempf, right, with Snoqualmie Tribal Elder Anita Christiansen, center, and advisor Stephen Gomes, hold up replicas of a 13,000-yearold set of Sla-hal pieces, which will be discussed at a 60-tribe gathering at Seattle Pacific University. The gathering will be the first of so many tribes in more than a century. Later this year, Snoqualmie Casino will develop a cultural display on the game.
Sacred games Tribal leaders speak out on continental connection By Carol Ladwig Staff Reporter
Whatever other titles he may hold, Marvin Kempf, a hereditary chief of the Snoqualmie Tribe, and the son of Snoqualmie Princess Roslyn Harvey Kempf, is a born storyteller. Creation, the monster of the mountain, and battling giants, are all easilyrecalled legends from his culture, and ones he loves to share. “I was thinking about another story,” he announced over lunch last Friday. It’s a story he learned from his elders, when he asked why his own people didn’t have beautiful creation tales like the Jewish tradition. “They laughed and said ‘oh, that’s a young tribe,’” he said. See SLA-HAL, 6
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