keyes, are not crazy. you cannot be that organized and deliberate and fit any legal definition of insanity. >> you might not get exactly -- not as much to choose from, in a matter of speaking, but -- there's always no witnesses, really, there's nobody else around. >> reporter: investigators say keyes is a text book serial killer. like others in the past, he took pleasure in the act of taking a life. >> he talked about the rush that he got out of it. the adrenaline and kind of the high from doing it and i think, unfortunately, i think he enjoyed what he was doing. >> there is nothing probably greater than holding the power and control of someone's life and looking them in the eye and being able to control all of that. is intoxicating to serial killers. and that's why they keep doing it. >> reporter: keyes told the agent he could relate to ted bundy, who confessed to 30 murderers before being executed in 1989. the two killers had similar methods. >> it's very common for serial killers to have no relationship

keyes killed himself with a razor inside his cell on sunday.or "good morning america," neal karlinsky, abc news, seattle. >> what a story. >>> now, to the latest twist in the controversial utah custody battle. a baby girl was put up for adoption without her soldier father's knowledge or consent. a judge ordered the girl returned to her father. and now, the mother is speaking out in an abc news exclusive. amy robach is here with the latest on this controversial story. >> reporter: good morning to you. this bitter battle over a 21-month-old little girl, between her adoptive parents and the biological father, has grown more complicated. the girl's birth mother is speaking out to abc news. tira bland says no matter who has custody of her daughter, she is still her mother. and she still loves her. >> her well-being is all that matters to me. i want to see her successful. i want to see her in a home, a good home. >> reporter: but the question of just who provides that home is now at the center of a contentious custody battle. bland's ex-husband, terr

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before he died, the fbi says keyes confessed to killing at least seven other people.ues and for help from the public to find keyes' victims. george howell is working on this for us today. and so we know that the fbi says keyes didn't know any of his alleged victims, so how did he lure them? >> this was all random, but he had a very methodical plan, brooke, of how he went about this. first of all, we know he had these murder kits stored, stashed around the country. kits that had -- >> murder kits. >> murder kits with weapons, with cash that he got from robberies, all of this just, you know, to use had he got to the city, with his plan to attack people. and we also know he would fly into cities, we know he would drive hundreds of miles to find unsuspecting victims, just to randomly kill people. >> so you talk about these murder kits, these were clues then presumably he left behind. you mentioned across country. >> yeah. and investigators were able to find them at the blake falls reservoir in new york, and eagle river in alaska. want to walk you through sort of the timel

oh, let's see, what's the best way to send the rescu rescue-- russ keyes a message. a tense u.s. security council meeting, no, you light up the goddamn moon way nuclear haloso bright kruschev can read pravda at midnight. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: oh, and what milk toast nancy pants pussied out on our nuclear lunar program? eisenhower. sure, ike beat the nazis but what about the moon nazies? oh, they don't exist? that's just what moon hitler wants you to believe. instead, instead we chose lunar appeasement. and it is just emboldened the moon. i swear last week that thing was half the size. this nation, i say this nation must nuke the moon before it can acquire nuclear weapons of its own. and don't think it isn't trying because we know it is teamed up with fundamentalist islam. (laughter) folks, if you ask me, you shouldn't be asking me because i ask the questions around here. this is tip of the hat, wag of the finger. (cheers and applause) nation, one of the very biggest losers of the recent election was traditional marriage. you see three more states legalized gay marriag

revealed that he keyes confessed to killing a couple from vermont, four people in washington state, and one person in new york. only the vermont victims had been publicly identified. bill and lorraine currier disappeared in june of last year. >>> also, a frightening incident to show you involving a magician, wayne houchin in the dominican republic last week when this happened. a tv show host dropped the flammable liquid on his head. there is no word yet, though, why it ignited. houchin suffered burns on his head, face, neck, and his right hand. he is now recovering, and doctors say they think that he will fully recover without any scars. hard to watch that though. wow. >>> negotiations on a looming fiscal cliff have gone exactly nowhere. the latest white house offer presented by treasury secretary tim geithner included $400 billion in unspecified medicare cuts and no more limit on how much the government can borrow. and then there's the tax hike on higher-earning americans. republicans aren't buying it. >> there is just no reason why 98% of americans have to see their taxes go up be

. >> carrie keyes was one of many people who battled the wind to keep their umbrellas upright and right side out. apparently no matter the weather the time for holiday shopping is short. >> well, obviously it's not keeping us away. [ laughter ] we don't mind it. >> well, with the last bit of daylight we have here, you can see the line between the clouds and blu skies over the coming up next we arrived at treasure island about 5:00 and that is the time that the primary part of the storm morphed south of here. on treasure island, ken pritchett, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> from ken we'll go to the north bay where debora villalon has been monitoring conditions there and a sinkhole that opened up earlier today. >> reporter: that is right, sewn ♪ [ music ] ♪ marin, napa all counties battered hard by the wind and the rain. and we're looking at one of the after-effects a sinkhole that closed a road here. road crews spent several hours getting stoney point road patched, where it intersected madron road. they just don't trust stoney point from collapsing completely. already the 4' culvert under the

to the streets across the country possibly against the president yesterday in the polling station keyes and as i talk to people votes. tense people less willing to talk about which side they were voting for with fights breaking out between rival votes is which was pretty seems to parliamentary and presidential elections which are you know when i was speaking to people in the presidential elections people are quite joyful are talking about you democratic expression whereas yesterday it was very somber as both sides realize the importance of the situation so really will have to see you next week what happens in the build up to the second round this crucial round. the seventeen other governorates going to vote on this constitution. kyra based reporter many thanks indeed for that tom de. syrian government forces own they were saving and opposition offensives as the rebels may gains and battles across the country in the push toward stun muskets so it comes out of the opposition received another boost this week when the diplomatic status was great and by a u.s. u.s. led group of nations who a

million dollars because nato link companies operating there and not paying taxes president karzai keyes's foreign business is a corruption of using their connections to avoid punishment but antiwar activist brian becker believes karzai is more concerned about his reputation and revenue. karzai is caught between a rock and a hard place he owes his very survival i mean in a literal sense to the occupying forces and yet at the same time he realizes that the afghan people deeply resent the foreign occupiers who have been there for more than a decade and so in order to have any credibility especially post two thousand and fourteen the karzai government and his followers must show at least some degree of nationalist credentials in other words some independence from the occupiers to whom they owe their survival so he's on the horns of a dilemma he cannot really escape i think this allegation against the foreign n.g.o.s for not paying their taxes which is probably true is his attempt to solve his own or save his own reputation for those who deeply resent the foreign occupation the fact of the mat

about serial killers and they testimony stories of twisted people who lead double lives and israel keyes would be absolutely the star of one of those shows. an army vet returned from active duty. worked as a carpenter and traveled the country killing random people. the fbi is still trying to piece his entire story together. a job made much harder now that kooers apparently killed himself in his jail cell. that happened sunday morning. he was arrested last march and charged in the death of a 18-year-old woman in alaska, a coffee stand barista who he abducted and later killed. the abduction was caught on tape. it generated a lot of news coverage including here on "happening now." he was busted because he used the woman's debit card. once in custody he began to tell police about his crimes. he confessed to killing more than eight people since the year 2000, often relying or flying to random cities and renting cars and removing his cell phone battery to avoid detection. he claimed to barry things used in future crimes. the fbi found two of weapons stashes. authorities in alaska where he was

sergeant adam keyes became a triple amputee in afghanistan. >> this is my first run.rms and ai'm going to do my best to walk it, not going to run. >> put on prosthetics and walked three and a half miles through the tunl and took him a long time to get through that three and a half miles, but he's if he says he is a going to do something, he's not going to stop. he went all the way. >> 30,000 people, ran, walked or wheeled themselves through the tunnel. >> today is a fantastic day, a beautiful day for it and everything. 11 years in it's bigger and bigger every year. >> in 2010, sinese has found another way to help the wounded warriors, the gary sinese foundation and a program called building homes for heroes, they're called smart homes for triple and quadruple amputee vets. >> we try to make these homes meet the needs of the wounded warrior by crafting smart things into the home. making the environment much more manageable for somebody who is going to have that challenge the rest of their lives. >> they're providing us now an opportunity in our lives to get some inpend

keyes died in jail over the weekend. now, the fbi confirms he's been linked to at least four murders in washington state and one in new york. and, they say, he confessed to killing a vermont couple missing since last year. >>> meanwhile, ford has announced a new recall this morning. thousands of ford escape suvs and ford fusion sedans have been recalled because the engines can overheat and catch fire. only the 2013 model, the 1.6 liter engines are affected. >>> and finally, regardless of how bad you think your commute might be this morning. there's always this to make you feel better about yourself. in russia, an early season snowstorm created the mother of all tie-ups, stranding thousands of people along one of the main routes from moscow to st. petersburg. at its worst, this traffic jam stretched for about 125 miles. which i like to call a parking lots. >> no, those poor people. >> those poor people. >> and you thought your commute was bad. >> and you thought -- yeah. that's bad. that's bad. that's bad. >> three days i

police say keyes also confessed to seven other murders across the country but they don't yet know the i.d.'s of his victims. >>> 7-year-old austin sigg is returned to a courtroom. he is accused of killing and kidnapping jessica ridgeway. he also attacked a jogger who escaped. a judge ruled sieg will be tried as an adult. >>> lindsey lohan will be arraigned on charges stemming from a car accident in june. a judge could send the "mean girls" star to jail on a probation violation. jenna: from lindsay lohan we'll turn to foreign policy. united states will now join more than 100 countries that have recognized syria's opposition coalition. the president, president obama announcing it to barbara walters in an exclusive interview set to air on 20/20 on friday. >> we made a decision that the syrian opposition coalition is now inclusive enough, is reflective and representative enough of the syrian population that we consider them the legitimate representative of the syrian people in opposition to the assad regime and so we will provide them recognition and obviously with that recognition comes

his name is israel keyes. police say he confessed a string of serial killings. let's bring in george howell who has been covering this. we understand that he was in alaska. he has since passed away, but he has confessed. do they have a sense of who he killed? >> we do. we know much more about israel keyes. first of all, we know he is ex-military. in at least two cae strangled and sexually assaulted, you know, his victims. we also know he had a very methodical plan that as he went into these situations, first of all, this is a person who would fly into cities, he would rent a car, drive hundreds of miles to find unsuspecting victims, and then he would also have these murder kits. he would have weapons, he would have money that he got from robberies, all of this in anticipation of more attacks. so the most recent attack, his last victim, we know samantha koenig, a barista in anchorage, alaska. he was in anchorage, he went there to abduct and kill her. then, suzanne, he took a two-week cruise, went to new orleans

. >> i'm sergeant adam keyes combat engineer 20th engineer brigade airborne out of fort bragg.s in the 27th still overseas. >> a triple amputee there is one thing adam didn't lose. his airborne wings tatoo. >> yeah you can take this one off. i didn't even realize. >> the wings are still there. the airborne wings. that's good. >> reporter: that's good. >> of course. >> reporter: so that is pretty cool the airborne wings. >> yeah. they made it. quadruple amputee eight months ago laying in bed hooked up to hoses. i can walk now. >> oop. going to lean a little. fist form again. bam. jelly fish jelly fish barbara starr, cnn, walter reed national military medical center. that was ups. and who called ups? you did, bob. i just asked a question. it takes a long time to pack a bowling ball. the last guy pitched more ball packers. but you... you consulted ups. you found a better way. that's logistics. that's margin. find out what else ups knows. i'll do that. you're on a roll. that's funny. i wasn't being funny, bob. i know. but since i've been on alli, am i on this one? nope. am i on thi

meanwhile, alan keyes, he wrote that while he doesn't think we've reached the point where secession isecessary necessarily, it remains a, quote, god endowed inalienable right. there you have people with educations, people with brains and a knowledge of american history, who come out and argue that this is something that should be put on the table. >> yeah. i guess brains and an education but still somehow profoundly ignorant, and they're emblematic of if not the ignorant people in the republican people, at least people who will pander to that ignorance. it's apiece of birtherism, the climate change is a hoax, if you cut taxes for rich people, magically the economy revives. it's magical thinking, and we're in the thrall of magical thinkers. the republican party has to follow their magical thinkers. because they do, the rest of the national conversation gets distorted and pulled way over to the right. that's what's happening. >> ron, i love the way you suggest that the real patriots are the ones who want to secede from the united states. it reminds me -- we once had a priest named father

. >> our white house correspondent brianna keye ler is joining us just outside the briefing room. you see the empty podium. we're waiting for the president and the vice president to tell us what they mean. this is cobbled together fairly quickly. nobody expected what happened this week. what do you know about how they've been able to manage and put together whatever they're going to announce to us? >> what we know and i think we got a preview on how the president want wants to approach in in a bit of a comprehensive way. a couple days ago he met with members of the cabinet. this included attorney general eric holder, headlight and human services director kathleen sebelius and aroune duncan. we also heard yesterday in the briefing from jay carney, the first time that the white house put out some specifics about some things that the president would pursue, that he would support senator dianne feinstein's efforts to reinstate the assault weapons ban, he would want to tackle high count ammunition clips as well as close the gun loophole. he's hintedle as we as well in remarks in newtow