South Carolina Woman Pleads Guilty to Sending Racist Threats to Kill a Catskill Man

ALBANY, NEW YORK - Kristin Keeble, age 54, of Pageland, South Carolina, pled guilty today to transmitting a threat to injure another in interstate commerce.

United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Craig L. Tremaroli, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), made the announcement.

Keeble admitted that on October 26, 2023, she sent four threatening, profanity-laced and racially derogatory audio messages through Facebook Messenger to a man in Catskill, New York. Keeble threatened to kill the victim by hanging him, along with a woman the victim knew, and the woman's children, from a tree. Keeble purported to be acting with members of the Ku Klux Klan. Keeble knew, from the victim's Facebook profile photo, that the victim was Black.

At sentencing before United States District Judge Anne M. Nardacci on March 7, 2025, Keeble will face a maximum term of 5 years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000, and a term of supervised release of up to 3 years. A defendant's sentence is imposed by a judge based on the particular statute the defendant is charged with violating, the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, and other factors.

The FBI investigated the case, which Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexander Wentworth-Ping is prosecuting.