Potential Keyes Bank Robbery, Tewksbury MA, NOV 2008
I found a small town bank robbery that I belive keyes could be responsible for. Link to articles below.
His Timeline matches, keyes flew into Boston November 2, 2008, and the Bank was robbed the morning after. That would have given him enough time to stake it out and look for escape routes. The suspect description is almost identical to the tupper lake robbery (except for the fake beard and mustache).
The robbery itself was a bit different to the other bank robberies we know he commited, the suspect in this robbery never showed a gun and did a "poor mans bank robbery".
Keyes states that he never did a note robbery. However if we look at the tupper lake robbery, he intially pulled out a note but got nervous once he saw how many people were in the bank and decided to do a takeover. So in my opinion keyes never did a takeover bank until the tupper lake incident.
I think keyes did note robberies before tupper lake because they were less likely to trigger a massive police response, fbi involment or big news coverage. Keyes said that the motivation for his bank robberies was the challenge and adrenaline, money was just a bonus.
Its hard to tell from the cctv footage if it is keyes or not. Suspect is leaning over the counter so he looks shorter than he really is. Also cant get a good look of how small his chin is which I think is keyes's most recognizable facial feature. Suspect looks to have a pretty big nose aswell but from this angle it looks wider than keyes's nose. It would be easier to rule him out if we got more cctv photos.
An interesting thing I found is an article about this robbery which was about a local school going into lockdown. Keyes mentioned that he had read the tupper lake robbery caused all the schools in town to go on lockdown. But ive never been able to find any articles that mentions this?
https://www.lowellsun.com/2008/11/04/robbery-prompts-lockdown-of-school/
Suspect description article: https://eu.wickedlocal.com/story/tewksbury-wilmington-advocate/2008/11/03/bank-robbery-on-main-street/38419661007/
Article with cctv picture of suspect: https://homenewshere.com/tewksbury_town_crier/article_15058f2b-2ef8-5b32-86fb-3cfac365af51.html