This is part 1 of our ongoing investigation into Kristin Snyder.
Kristin Keeffe responded to a question of one of her Reddit followers
You know how much I admire you, you know I even crush on you — but the only thing you’ve ever said that I doubt is when you concluded Snyder might still be alive. (But I also see you’re sincere)
If Snyder really disappeared immediately after accusing Keith of having sex with his students, it was an UNBELIEVABLE stroke of luck for Keith. So unbelievable, I literally don’t believe it.
KristinKeeffe replied
This is not a popular opinion as many people post NXIVM who had no involvement or knowledge about Kris tried to insert themselves into Kris’s story. I did a very thorough investigation of her disappearance right after it happened. I have a lot of firsthand facts.
I was very thorough, and there were a LOT of abnormalities.
Snyder never accused Keith Raniere of anything. Anyone who believes that is delusional. She never met Keith, she had nothing to do with Keith, and the idea he impregnated her is nonsense on the level of QAnon conspiracies.
That is the truth.
Snyder never accused Keith Raniere of anything.
That would definitely change the narrative we’ve been led to believe. Do you know how that rumor got started, that she accused Keith during her last NXIVM session? How did you figure out it was false?...
Snyder never accused Keith of anything. She never met Keith, that whole idea is a total fantasy/fiction.
It’s the most insane thing.
My best friend brought Kristin Snyder into NXIVM. I knew every single person close to her. When she disappeared, I went through every single piece of information regarding her.
I went to Alaska. I did tape recorded interviews with every person she had contact with, I interfaced with the police, and all the eyewitnesses, and worked with a team of private investigators referred by her best friend to try and figure out what happened. I investigated her death personally for two years.
The whole “Keith and Kris story” evolved 15 years later from people who had no first-hand information, were not involved in NXIVM, and never knew Kris. Just a total scam for clickbait and hashtags in an attempt to sell false stories.
Thank you for answering this! Makes sense – I did wonder how he could have so much interaction with her when she lived in Alaska! This makes sense.
… That is SOOOO eye opening. We all know that Parlato and Tighe are pretty sketchy characters, and yet a lot of what we “think” we know about NXIVM came through them.
Frank Parlato saved my and my son’s life. Literally and faced HUGE retribution as a result.
John Tighe tried to destroy us.
Frank Parlato saved my and my son’s life.
That’s a HUGE endorsement. One of the amazing parts of this story is how everyone overcame their respective fears and distrusts of each other when it really mattered.
… When NXIVM became a big media story, suddenly two people came forward saying Kris was pregnant with Keith’s baby.
So insane. In the 15 years prior, that had never been alleged, and there was never a shred of evidence to back it up, and a HUGE amount of evidence to prove it was not ever remotely possible.
It’s amazing to me how people will lie to falsely insert themselves into a story once it trends.
If Kris never accused Keith, her disappearance becomes far more consistent with nxivm-induced suicide than murder.
By Frank Parlato
Officially, Kristin Snyder is a presumptive suicide. She went missing Feb. 6, 2003 – almost 20 years ago.
Her body was never found.
Millers Landing
MK10ART’s painting of Elaine Smiloff. Miller’s Landing is in the background.
Elaine Smiloff said she drove Kristin Snyder from her ESP intensive to her home in Anchorage on Feb. 6, 2003.
Elaine was the last person known to see Kristin alive.
A kayak was stolen from Miller’s Landing, and police found Kristin’s Toyota Tacoma pickup truck nearby.
Elaine Smiloff first called me on August 2017.
This was after I broke the DOS story and before the New York Times wrote its first story on NXIVM and DOS.
Elaine said she had to tell somebody a secret she had harbored for 15 years. Kristin claimed to be pregnant with Keith Raniere’s child.
Heidi Clifford corroborated Elaine’s story. Heidi said Kristin claimed she was pregnant. Nobody told that to the Snyder family. Nobody told police. Nobody put that in print.
Nobody reported that until I did in 2017.
Suddenly 15 years later, two people said it.
I asked Clifford why she withheld this from the police. She said she was afraid it would point suspicion at her.
She said she did not think it was true.
Kristin Snyder was in Albany in January 2002 – within a month of her disappearance.
So was Raniere. Did they meet?
Kristin Keeffe says they did not meet.
Susan Dones saw Snyder in Albany.
Elaine supposedly picked up Kristin Snyder at the Westmark Hotel and took her to her home on Glen Kerry Rd in Anchorage.
Elaine pulled into the driveway with Kristin, she said, and let her out – to go into the house alone – and never be seen again. T
If Elaine’s story is true, she dropped off a clearly unstable woman – alone – at her home and left her there – alone.
Heidi claims Esther told her Elaine was going to stay with Kristin until Heidi got home.
Elaine didn’t stay, she says.
Elaine told me it haunted her for years – that Kristin, in her unstable condition, could not have driven from Anchorage to Seward on the night of February 6, 2003.
So why was she left alone?
Keith Raniere, about the time Kristin Snyder disappearedIf Kristin was pregnant – or if Keith believed she was – would Keith have any qualms about making her disappear?
Lauren Salzman testified that just before Kristin disappeared, she, her mother, Keith, and others conspired to force-feed and secretly drop drugs in the food of a disruptive student – and held her captive.
Elaine Smiloff
Because Elaine was the last person to see Snyder alive, the police were interested in interviewing her – but they did not question her alone, according to Elaine.
Elaine said police interviewed her with Esther Chiappone Carlson. With Esther in the room, Elaine said she did not mention Snyder’s claim she was pregnant.
If it is true, Elaine, like Clifford, withheld that Kristin claimed to be pregnant with the leader of the group that arranged her care on the day she disappeared.
But what about the suicide note? It blames NXIVM.
Would Keith allow a suicide note that blamed his teachings?
Raniere said, “Kristin faked her own death to escape her drug-running past.”
There are many questions and more information. Kristin Keeffe has said she has evidence Snyder is still alive.
This possibly is corroborated by some information I received.
Clare Bronfman hired an investigative team to find Kristin Snyder in 2014. I met with them in 2018 and 2019.
One of them, Mathew Mallone, told me Raniere and Bronfman told them Snyder was alive and had Keith’s child.
Odd, Bronfman hired Mallone and his group to find two Kristins — Snyder and Keeffe – and both were said to have his child.
Matt Mallone said he was retained to find Kristin Snyder and told she was alive and had Keith’s child.
Mallone traced both Kristins to Florida. He quit Bronfman after they found Keeffe at my house.
That’s a story for another day.
Several years later, I went with Mallone to Bradenton, where they said they traced Snyder.
We did not find her. But shortly after, I received a phone number said to be Snyder’s. A living Kristin Snyder now in her 50s.
I called the number. No answer. I left a message. I said who I was, and that if it was Kristin – Raniere was in prison -she need not hide anymore.
I saved the number on my phone under Kristin Snyder.
The strange thing was I did not get any immediate return call. Then several months later, at 2 am, a phone call came. I was asleep.
But there it was, a missed call from Kristin Snyder. Did she have a second thought late at night? I called months ago. Unless the person saved my number, it would likely not be still on the phone.
Why would some stranger save my number?
And why did someone call at 2 am? I called in the morning. No answer. I left another message. But they never returned the call.
There are many more missing pieces to this puzzle, like a mysterious photograph in Arizona. And then there is the shed.
None of this may be anything other than a wild goose chase. The official story may be true.
Resurrection Bay
I told an old timer from Resurrection Bay, who knew the waters. I said I wanted to find Kristin Snyder.
He told me if she fell into those cold February waters, and nobody found the body right away:
“The dungeness crabs got her long ago. She would have disappeared without a trace.”
There was something spooky and weird about that image of those crabs that I was reluctant to dismiss.
But then there was the strange suicide theory, the pregnancy, and the mystery of how the truck left the hotel without Kristin, who was driven home by Elaine.
Then the truck winds up at Resurrection Bay. And Heidi Clifford told the state troopers to look for Kristin there within a few hours of her leaving with Elaine.
And over the years, people seemed to have spotted her.
Did she want to escape and lead a new life?
If I found her alive tomorrow, and she did not want to be known, what would I do?
What would you do?
