Aging, sick millionaire Fred Keller allegedly murder his fifth wife –The Crime Library — A Bloody Meeting — Crime Library
The ER nurse at St. Marys Medical Center in Palm Beach, Fla., must have thought shed stepped into an episode of Falcon Crest.
She was tending the gunshot wound of Fred Keller, a well-heeled denizen of ritzy Lake Worth, when Keller noticed that another gunshot case had been wheeled into ER.
Keller, 70, became agitated at the sight of the second man, a young German named Wolfgang Keil. He was Kellers adversary in the gunfight that led both of them to the hospital.
Keller, who had a well-deserved reputation as a control freak, wanted to know how he and Keil had ended up at the same hospitals emergency room.
He tried to kill me! Keller cried.
Keil, blood leaching from two holes in his body, spat back, He tried to kill me!
It was a soap-opera moment, but this drama was not make-believe. It was life and death.
Elsewhere in Palm Beach, the beautiful young woman who was Kellers ex-wife and Keils sister lay dead as a result of the same violent incident.
The shooting happened during an early-morning meeting between the three that was called to work out divorce settlement details concerning Kellers $72 million fortune.
The meeting did not go well.
Keller claimed he saw Wolfgang Keil extract a black object from his briefcase. Believing the object was a gun, Keller brandished his own .38-caliber revolver.
Shots and a frenzied struggle ensued between Keil and Keller.
By the time it was over, Rose Keller lay fatally wounded in the neck. Fred Keller suffered a wound to the cheek, and Keil was hit in the chest and back.
The question of who fired the shot that killed Rose Kellerthe ex-husband or the brotheron that day in the fall of 2003 has kept a gaggle of attorneys occupied every since.
The Kellers had lived as man and wife for eight years, producing a son, before their marriage went bad.
They were an unlikely pair.
She was an unrefined beauty from rural Germany with an eighth-grade education and an unfulfilled dream of a career as a fashion model.
He was a self-made man of ethnic German background. Over time, Fred Keller had methodically earned a fortune in commercial real estate by shrewdly buying one building after anothermany of them undiscovered bargainsuntil he owned more than five dozen. He personally managed his holdings with the tenacity of a watchdog.
Keller lived well, although he was no social peacock. He eschewed the south Florida country club scene and preferred cars and clothing that were broken in. Outside of making money, his passion was tennis, and on the court he stalked opponents with the same determination he displayed in business.
But in the early 1990s, Keller found himself alone with his millions. In February 1992, before Internet matchmaking flourished, he used a quaint method to meet an alluring stranger: the newspaper classifieds.
Keller hadnt had much luck with American women. He could count his marriages on one hand, but he was running out of fingers.
He decided to try the old country for an everlasting love match, placing a me rich/you pretty personal ad in a western German newspaper.
The ads message was a simple come-on: American millionaire seeks slim young woman.
A middle-aged mother in the small town of Dorlar, Germany, saw the ad and immediately thought of her 25-year-old daughter, Rose.
Rose Keil was a country girl raised in a lovely setting, amid the verdant peaks and valleys of mountainous west-central Germany, where the Brothers Grimm concocted their curious stories.
The Keils were a large, middle-class Protestant family. Her father was an engineer, her mother a mathematician. They had six children, three of each gender.
But Rose had grown discontent with her life in Dorlar, a village of just 1,100 people.
She was surrounded by the temptations of big cities. Frankfurt, a large industrial center, was just 40 miles to the south. And the sprawling metropolis of Dusseldorf/Essen, with a total population of well over 1 million, was 75 miles to the northwest, a scant hour away on the autobahn.
Dusseldorf, in particular, was a sophisticated placea European shopping hub known as The Fashion City. It hosts huge fashion fairs several times a year and is known internationally for its shopping districts, Königsallee and Schadowstraße.
Roses parents split up just as she became a teenager, and Mrs. Weil opened a womens clothing shop in a fashionable center city section of Wiesbaden, near Frankfurt.
Rose dropped out of school to work with her mother, and the two immersed themselves in fashion, often traveling to Dusseldorf to buy clothing for the shop.
She had grown into a striking adolescent, with coltish limbs, porcelain skin and honey-colored hair that trailed to her waist.
Customers, friends and her mother directed her toward a career as a model, and by age 16 she had joined the legions of leggy European teenagers looking for work as human mannequins in Dusseldorf.
She found occasional modeling work, including on the runways of fashion shows. But she wasnt really earning a living, and a sour breakup with a boyfriend left her looking for a new adventure as she reached her mid-20s.
Kellers classified ad popped up at just the right moment in her young life. With her mothers encouragement, she replied with a letter and a photograph.
Fred Keller was thrilled by what he saw. He had 33 years on the lithe and lovely woman. That may have been unusual in Dorlar. But not among the wealthy set in West Palm Beach.
After a series of phone conversations, Keller offered to pay Roses way to the United States so they could meet.
Their nervous first embrace was on March 26, 1992, at Miami International Airport.
Keller could not believe his good fortune. If anything, Rose was even lovelier in person than in her picture.
Nor was she disappointed. Keller was tall, slim and athleticnot the build of a man knocking on dotages door.
He wore a neatly cropped gray beard, and he carried himself erectly and with confidence, like the self-assured millionaire that he was.
They chatted in GermanKellers first language as a childand immediately hit it off, a lawyer would later say. It was love at first sight.
Over the next few days, Keller wined, dined and fawned over his Deutsche fraulein. She stayed at his estate at 225 Dunbar Road in Lake Worth, on the exclusive Florida seacoast spit that stretches 25 miles from Jupiter to Boynton Beach.
Keller showed Keil around south Florida in the springtime sunshine, pointedly driving past a number of his real estate holdings.
Within 48 hours of meeting the young German, Keller knew he had no intention of letting her go back home.
He invited her to stay in the United States, and her scheduled one-week stay became a month, then two.
Keller proposed in May, presenting Rose with a diamond ring the size of a mib marble.
Its not clear how much Keller told Rose about his life during their brief courtship. Everyone has baggage, of course, but Keller had enough to fill a moving truckamong other things, four marriages, a mysterious change of his surname and a bizarre domestic abduction during his first marriage.
In any case, Rose accepted Fred Kellers proposal. But before any wedding, there were several sticky details to be worked out.
First, Keller revealed that he had been diagnosed recently with leukemia, although his doctors gave a good chance of full recovery. This did not alter Roses decision.
The second problem was procreation.
Rose wanted a child. Keller, a father of three from his first marriage, had had a vasectomy while in his mid-early 30s. He was finished with all that. On the other hand, Keller was aroused by Roses potential as superior breeding stock, a subject that had always fascinated him. He agreed to have his vasectomy surgically reversed.
The final issue was money. Keller brought $17 million into the relationship. Rose brought the clothes on her back.
Keller had an attorney draw up a prenuptial agreement in which Rose would waive any right to the property that Keller owned before the marriage. The agreement also stipulated that, in the event of divorce, Roses claim would never exceed 10 percent of Kellers assets.
She signed.
They were married in August 1992, five months after they met.
Rose was cast into a role as hausfrau to a much older man. But instead of grabbing a feather duster, she spent her time pursuing her artistic passions.
She proved to have many talents: photographer, abstract painter, pianist. Keller encouraged her to pursue these hobbies, and he provided the cameras, easels and piano.
They were homebodies, rarely dining out. They traveled together occasionally and spent time at Kellers 900-acre farm in rural Virginia.
Three of Roses siblings, Wolfgang, Klaus and Angelika, eventually joined her in south Florida. Fred Keller helped pay for their education and living expenses.
The couples life together seemed harmonious when their son, Frederick Jr., arrived in 1995. Just as Keller had hoped, he was a prototypic German child: tow-headed with a fair complexion. They called him Fredchen, German for Freddy.
Keller decided his son and wife deserved a bigger and better mansion. In 1998, he paid $1.5 million for a 10,000-square-foot beachfront estate at 1480 North Lake Way, complete with tennis courts and a guest house that was often occupied by one or another of the Keil siblings.
Over their first six years together, as her English proficiency went from passable to fluent, Rose took an increasing interest in Kellers business, Keller Trust Co. Eventually, Keller began paying his wife a six-figure salary as her role with the firm became ever more prominent.
At about the time they moved into the new house, Rose reached the conclusion that her role in the marriage and family business was not accurately reflected in the prenuptial agreement the couple had signed. She asked her husband to reconsider, but he was not enthusiastic about the idea.
The topic began to come up frequently.
Keller would later say that Rose badgered me, nagged me, harassed me over money. “She can be very, very aggressive and persistent on things if she wants something,” he added.
By Roses account, she was being treated as a second-class partner in the relationship. Keller, she said, was a domineering man who tried to manage his familyin matters great and smallwith the same firm grip he used in business.
For example, he informed Rose when he felt it was time for his wife to stop breast-feeding Fredchen. Keller alone decided when they could and could not watch televisionand what they would watch when they did so. He parsed out money only grudgingly, once refusing to allow Rose to see a doctor for a broken toe because he feared the medical bills.
“He would try to control everything she did,” Wolfgang Keil would later say. “He would yell at her for little things. He just treated her bad.”
Rose sounded defensive and defeated when asked, some time later, what she had brought into the marriage.
“I had me, at 20-something years old, young, beautiful, the whole world in front of me, she said. And I had a brain in my head, too, even though I didn’t have a nice big diploma hanging on my wall. I could have acquired that. I gave myself, my energy, my love, my affection, my care.”
Keller tried to get her off his back by scribbling a phony handwritten promise of a 50/50 split. But he knew the note was not legally binding, and soon Rose discovered the ruse.
Their relationship crumbled after Keller suffered a heart attack in the spring of 1999. Keller was incensed that Rose continued to press him about the pre-nup as he was recovering. And Rose could not understand why her husband refused to share his wealth with the woman he had professed to loveand who bore him a beautiful son.
It seemed to her like unadulterated greed.
Two things were clear by the summer of 2000: Divorce was inevitable, and the breakup would not be civil.
The endgame of the relationship began with an ugly confrontation at the Virginia farm.
During an argument, Keller told Rose that her days [were] numbered. She took it as a threat on her life. Keller said he was referring to the marriage. But Rose fled in apparent terror, driving through the night with Fredchen back to Florida, weeping most of the way during a long cellphone conversation with her sister, Angelika.
On Aug. 7, 2000, soon after she got home, Rose filed for divorce in Palm Beach County Family Court. She also sought a temporary injunction against her husband, claiming episodes of domestic violence.
Judge Jack Cook denied the domestic violence injunction, ruling that Rose had failed to present evidence of abuse.
That court skirmish set the tone for what was to come.
Fred Keller was among the most litigious businessmen in Palm Beach County. Keller Trust was the plaintiff in nearly 200 civil and small claims cases since 1982. Although he earned $100,000 a month in rental income from his buildings, Keller could obsess over pennies.
For 16 years he pursued a $2,225 debt from a former girlfriend, who finally ended the case by dying. In that case and many others, Keller paid far more in legal fees than he earned in the settlement or judgment.
Half of his lawsuits concern nonpayment of rent, in one case less than $300. But there were many other more exotic cases. He sued one of his adult sons over a joint venture. And he sued a writer who backed out after he had hired her to do a book about another one of his personal obsessions: That Israels treatment of Palestinians was akin to Germanys annihilation of Jews.
He would litigate over a dollar, one attorney who worked for Keller told the Palm Beach Post. It was a matter of principle, and he was going to win at all costs.
As much as $36 million was at stake in his divorce.
Keller spent his life creating a financial kingdom that he ruled with a Napoleonic single-mindedness. No detail was too small.
“If he said 8 o’clock, he didn’t mean two minutes before,” one Keller Trust employee told the paper. “He didn’t mean five minutes after.”
He would sue over a buck. How far might the shrewd ruler go to defend his hard-earned personal fortune?
Keller was born in New York in 1934 to German immigrant parents, Ludwig and Elizabeth Bohlander. But the young family returned to Germany when Fred was 2. Ludwig served in Hitlers SS. He apparently defected after several years, and the family returned to America following the war. Fred spent his formative years on Long Island, N.Y.
His father earned a meager living as a cabinetmaker, and young Fred became fixated on the worldly goods that his family lacked. He was a proud youngster and had difficulties coming to grips with his fathers lack of financial success.
Later in life, Keller wrote a family history in which he acknowledged his obsession with possessions. The one strong desire I had always harbored was to break out of the working class environment,” he wrote.
Kellers writing also hinted at a superiority complex that verged on pathology.
He wrote about a pretty girl he admired while growing up. But he dismissed her as a potential match because she was genetically inferior to my standards.
After high school, Fred Bohlander served in the Army in Korea, attended college for a year, then worked as a laborer. He married his first wife, Blanche, in 1956. He adopted the womans young son, and the couple had two more sons before the relationship soured.
The relationship ended in 1961 with a bizarre abduction.
The family was picnicking at a park in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York. Fred used a ruse to get the three boysPaul, 2, Eric, 3, and Brian, 7in the car with him, and he sped off, leaving Blanche behind.
He moved with the children to San Francisco and changed his name to Keller. He explained to the boys that their mother had died in an automobile crash. He also changed Brians name to Karl.
Keller eventually relocated to Washington, D.C., and he prevailed upon his own parents to move there and change their name to Keller as well, to help conceal the abductions.
Blanche Bohlander finally tracked down her children in 1970, after nine years. By then Keller had begun building his real estate empire and had money at his disposal.
He negotiated a $10,000 settlement with his ex-wife, and she agreed not to press criminal chargesin an era when family abductions were dismissed by most authorities as domestic disputes best handled privately.
Remarkably, Keller was given custody of the boys.
Blanche Bohlander would later say that she suffered beatings at Kellers hand, and his children have confirmed that Keller was an abusive taskmaster who used manipulation to turn the boys against their mother.
Although he had property in Washington, Keller moved his companys office to Palm Beach in the early 1980s, at about the time his youngest sons reached adulthood.
By then, Keller had gone through at least two more marriages, and a brief fourth followed in Florida.
Each relationship was worse than the last. Keller had an imperious manner. He seemed to reckon that he had rights as the domestic monarch since he was paying the bills.
He had a temper, and he announced his royal decrees with finalitylike the time he told one of his wives, after dinner, to get the f- out of this house.
One woman after another failed to measure up to Kellers expectations. But he kept on looking.
In the mid-80s, he took up with a former model, Lynn Weatherby, who was nearly 20 years younger than Keller.
He apparently saw the woman as good breeding stock, but he was not prepared to reverse his vasectomy. Among many other peculiarities in the relationship, Keller tried to convince Weatherby to submit to artificial insemination by one of his biological sons.
She declined. Not long after, she found on Kellers desk the text of a classified ad he had placed, seeking a slim, attractive playmate to share a lifestyle of the rich and famous.”
Keller sued Weatherby for $2,225 after their breakup in 1987. A lawyer pursued the case on Kellers behalf until 2005, when the woman died as a result of a fall.
By the time he went shopping for a new young hottie in Germany, Keller had reached the conclusion that modern American women were too liberated for his Old World sensibilities.
Surely a German woman would toe the line for him. He had no idea.
The 1990s were very good for Keller Trust Co.
The $17 million net worth that Fred Keller had brought into his marriage to Rose had increased more than fourfold by 2000, in part through additional acquisitions but largely through escalation of real estate prices in the hot south Florida and Washington, D.C., markets.
Although he later claimed Rose did not have the temperament to be successful in business, Keller was paying Rose a $131,000 annual salary when she filed for divorce. By then, Keller Trust owned more than 60 commercial properties, two-thirds of them within an hours drive of the companys headquarters in Riviera Beach, just across the water from the Kellers Lake Worth mansion.
Kellers net worth was estimated at as much as $72 million, although he claimed his assets totaled just under $60 million. When Rose filed for divorce, Keller offered her a maximum of $5.7 million, or the 10 percent agreed upon in the pre-nup.
Rose and her attorneys, meanwhile, sought half of Kellers assets, plus all legal fees.
The divorce became a three-year ordeal of accusations and counter-accusations.
On Oct. 30, 2003, Judge Kathleen Kroll signed a divorce decree that ruled fully in favor of Rose. In a harshly worded decree that took Keller to task for lying, Judge Kroll awarded Rose half of Kellers property as well as permanent custody of Fredchen. She order Keller to pay the womans full legal feeseventually figured at $1.4 millionand $8,659 a month in child support.
If Keller was distressed over the ruling, he did not betray his feelings to employees. He had moved on romantically; his new girlfriend was a young Russian for whom he had purchased breast implants in the summer of 2003.
On Nov. 10, 11 days after Krolls decision, Rose and Fred Keller agreed to meet at Keller Trust offices at 8:30 a.m. to talk over some of the details of divvying up the assets. Rose brought along her brother, Wolfgang Keil, 31.
The dragon ladys here, Keller muttered to an employee.
Oddly, neither Rose nor Fred invited their lawyers. So the German siblings and Keller found themselves sitting in a conference room that morningRose at the head of the table, Keller and Wolfgang facing one another.
Rose did not know that Kellers attorney had filed an appeal of Krolls ruling that same day. Nor did she know that her ex-husband was armed with a .38-caliber revolver.
He had begun carrying the gun that summer, claiming he feared that Rose could get violent. Four days before the meeting, he had faxed a letter to the local police to complain that Rose had threatened to shoot his employees.
According to Wolfgang Keil, the meeting had just begun when Keller suddenly pulled his pistol, pointed it across the table and shot Keil in the chest. He then turned toward Rose and fired a shot that hit her in the neck, severing her spinal cord.
Keil said he rushed around the table and struggled with Keller for the weapon. He was shot a second time, in the back, and another shot grazed Kellers cheek.
According to Kellers account, he pulled his gun after he saw Wolfgang wield a black object that he believed was a gun but turned out to be a cellphone. Keller said he and Keil struggled over the pistol, and the gun discharged several times, with one shot striking Rose.
The authorities chose to believe Wolfgang Keils account. Keller was charged with murder, and his trial commenced in January 2005.
The essence of the case hinged on which of the two men was more believable.
Both took the witness standKeil for the prosecution, Keller for the defense.
Keil testified that he was reading papers passed to him by Keller when the room suddenly was shook by a thundering bang, followed instantly by a sharp pain in his chest.
“I was in shock, Keil said. I couldn’t believe what was happening.”
He looked up and saw Keller leveling a pistol at his sister.
“As he was shooting at my sister, he just had this mean look on his face. I don’t know how to describe it, but it’s a look I’ll never forget.”
Keil said he rushed toward Keller and was shot a second time during a struggle for the gun as the two men fell onto a sofa. When he finally gained control of the pistol, Keil fired a shot that grazed Kellers cheek. He pulled the trigger several more times as Keller sat slumped on the floor, but the gun was empty.
Some jurors flinched as Keil recalled through tears how he knelt beside his dying sister, calling her name as he made a futile attempt to stanch the blood pulsing from Roses fatal wound.
When his turn came, Keller held fast to his version of the shooting:
“Wolfgang pulled out a black object with a barrel on it. I said to myself, ‘He’s going to kill me.’ It was a gun, I believed that. I got up out of the chair, got my gun … and shot him. I just had to react quickly before he shot me. Instantly, he sprung up out of his chair and ran around the table and charged me. I shot him again. He grabbed the gun out of my hand.”
Keller and prosecutor Dan Galo parried during cross-examination.
Keller sometimes ignored the prosecutors inquiries to make seemingly irrelevant points about his relationship with Rose. He seemed to want to control the proceedings. At one point, Keller chastised the prosecutor: Dont make fun.
Keller insisted that Keil had control of the weapon at the time the fatal shot was fired.
“Sir, I did not shoot Rose,” Keller told Galo. “My fingers were not on the trigger … I never intended to shoot anyone.
Galo got the last word, of course.
“He’s not a man who likes to lose, but he lost and he lost big,” the prosecutor said. He called the shooting Kellers “one final act of control.
Keller’s attorney, Doug Duncan, characterized the shooting of Wolfgang Keil as “lawful self-defense during a fight between an old man and a young one. Rose was accidentally and tragically shot” during that strugglecollateral damage.
“Money is not an issue,” Duncan insisted. He said Keller would be a rich man whether he was worth $72 million or $36 million.
With closing statements completed, Judge Jack Cook sent the jury away to deliberate on Feb. 2.
After five days, one of the longest jury deliberations in Palm Beach history, the seven women and five men announced that they could not reach a unanimous verdict. Cook declared a mistrial. Jurors told reporters they were split nearly 50/50half for acquittal, half for conviction.
Prosecutors promised a quick retrial.
They had been frustrated by Cooks rulings that barred evidence about Kellers earlier life, including the abductions of his children, his name change and allegations of physical abuse. Also barred were the results of a psychological evaluation conducted as part of the custody fight over Fredchen.
But those results came to light during a bail hearing following the mistrial.
Psychologist Stephen Alexander said that he found Keller to have a “narcissistic personality disorder,” along with certain sociopathic traits.
“They tend to see themselves as special, unique,” Alexander explained. “They have a sense of inherent superiority…They don’t feel shame the same way we do.”
Cook decided to continue to deny bail, and Keller was packed away to a jail cell to await the retrial.
But Kellers leukemia is said to have recurred, and his condition and treatment schedule led to numerous postponements. Both Paul and Eric, his adult biological sons, had died of cancer in recent years.
Keller Trust was being run by employees, and Fredchen is in the custody of Angelika, Roses sister.
Meanwhile, attorneys’ fees continue to accumulate as Roses survivors pressed a civil wrongful-death lawsuit.
Keller is said to have paid $3.8 million so far to attorneys involved in his divorce and criminal and civil casesand his legal meter is running at a rate of $75,000 a month.
The electronic abstracts of the various legal filings in the Keller cases now run to some 50 pages on the Palm Beach court clerks website, and more than a dozen lawyers have a piece of the action.
It reached a point where even the lawyers were hiring lawyers.
Martin Haines, Roses divorce lawyer, was forced to hire an attorney to help legitimize the $1.4 million bill he sent to Fred Keller.
Another lawyer has accused the Keil brothers, Wolfgang and Klaus, of “reckless waste of estate assets by the payment of excessive attorneys’ fees.” Yet another, Theodore Babbitt, has asked a judge to curtail the number of attorneys drawing from the Keller well.
“I am concerned that there are a lot of fees being taken out of the estate and that there are too many lawyers,” Babbitt told the Palm Beach Post.
One attorney called the proceedings “a circus.”
Rose Kellers siblings and her son, approaching his teen years, stand to inherit the womans estate, with Fredchen designated to receive 70 percent. But at last report, nearly every dime flowing into the estate was going toward paying attorneys fees.
“There’s only so much money,” attorney Babbitt told the Florida paper.
Keller was retried and convicted on Jan. 31, 2007, for the shooting death of his ex-wife, 34-year-old Rosemarie Keller, and the shooting of her brother, Wolfgang Keil. A jury took five hours to convict Keller.
On August 22, 2007, Fred Keller died of Leukemia in prison at the age of 73.
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Palm Beach Divorced Turns Deadly, by Robert P. King, Bill Douthat and Connie Piloto, Nov. 11, 2003
Troubled Past Preceded Divorce Shooting, by Andrew Marra, Palm Beach Post, Nov. 12, 2003
Fla. Millionaire Charged With Wifes Murder, by Peter Franceschina and Jon Burstein, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Nov. 13, 2003
Keller Out of Hospital, Into Court; Hearings Address Sons Custody, Murder Charges, Divorce, by Peter Franceschina and John Burstein, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Nov. 14, 2003
Keller Faces Suit in Wifes Killing; Millionaire Asks Court to Halt Divorce Deal, by Peter Franceschina, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Nov. 15, 2003
In Kellers World, Stay Loyal or Else, by Andrew Marra and Mary McLachlin, Palm Beach Post, Nov. 16, 2003
Shaded Rose, by Douglas Kalajian, Palm Beach Post, Dec. 1, 2003
Murder Suspects Violence Detailed, by Alan Gomez, Palm Beach Post, Feb. 25, 2004
Money Battles of Millionaire Suspect, Ex-Wife Detailed, by Larry Keller, Palm Beach Post, Jan. 20, 2005
Two Stories Open Keller Trial, by Michele Dargan, Palm Beach Daily News, Jan. 21, 2005
Kellers Ex-Employee Says He Withheld Facts, by Larry Keller, Palm Beach Post, Jan. 25, 2005
Victims Brother Recounts Murder, by Missy Stoddard, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Jan. 26, 2005
Defendant Outlined Views in Memoir, by Larry Keller, Palm Beach Post, Jan. 28, 2005
Millionaire Denies Shooting, Killing Ex-Wife, by Larry Keller, Palm Beach Post, Jan. 29, 2005
Keller Says He Did Not Shoot Wife, Blames Brother-in-Law, by Missy Stoddard, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Feb. 1, 2005
Mistrial in Millionaires Case; Jurors: Slight Majority Voted Guilty, by Larry Keller, Palm Beach Post, Feb. 8, 2005
The Millionaire, Model, and Gun, by Tamara Lush, St. Petersburg Times, Feb. 9, 2005
Millionaires Bail Bid Denied, by Larry Keller, Palm Beach Post, Feb. 25, 2005
Murder Suspect Violent, Stepson Says for Record, by Alan Gomez, Palm Beach Post, Feb. 26, 2004
Wealthy Suspect is Serial Litigant, by Larry Keller, Palm Beach Post, April 25, 2005
Aides Says He Smuggled Gun to Boss in Hospital, by Larry Keller, Palm Beach Post, April 7, 2005
Keller Murder Retrial to Begin in October at Earliest, by Michele Dargan, Palm Beach Daily News, May 26, 2005
Lawyers for Rich Suspects Son Add to Quagmire, by Larry Keller, Palm Beach Post, July 17, 2005