CrimeCon 2018

Serial killer Israel Keyes may well be the most prolific serial killer in US history, but we will never know. After admitting to killing 11 people across the country he hanged himself in his jail cell. But it was the hard work of FBI Agents in Anchorage, Alaska and Quantico, Virginia, along with police officers in Alaska and Texas that ultimately captured Keyes. Although safely secured in a jail in Anchorage, there was one last group of law enforcement officers who would face danger due to Keyes’ actions. Those were the FBI divers who would attempt to recover Keyes’ last victim. Dismembered and hidden deep under a remote frozen lake north of Anchorage she waited. Bobby Chacon took his team of intrepid FBI divers to that remote frozen lake and put them in harm’s way. He supervised the team that went into an environment hostile to human life, where, without properly functioning life support equipment they would die. Would Keyes’ actions cost anymore lives. Not if Bobby Chacon and his FBI Dive Team had anything to say about it.

In this session Bobby Chacon will describe getting the phone call that started it all and the drop everything response that he and his divers conducted to get from Los Angeles to that remote frozen lake and bring Samantha home. You will hear how Chacon maneuvered the delicate situation to get his divers where they needed to be and how they went about locating and recovering the last victim of a serial killer.