Random thoughts incoming. There's stuff we know (which is probably pretty little), then there's stuff we don't know (which is a lot), and then there's stuff we don't even know we don't know (which also, is likely, a good bit of stuff)
That road, W 300 N, the one that goes out to the Monon High Bridge....that road simply isn't traveled a whole lot, even on a busy day. It ain't like driving in London, or out around the Baltimore beltway.
Think maybe the killer here had to drive out of there? I wonder if he went downtown Delphi, you know, grab something to eat? Or maybe just went home. Think maybe there's a couple of ring cams on the way? Or, maybe a gas station, or courthouse, or convenience store might have a cam?
Delphi isn't a big town, I didn't spend a bunch of time looking, but it appears to be a one light town, one traffic light, right downtown...well, maybe there's more, at an intersection or two. There's not a whole lot going on in Delphi, and certainly not a whole bunch of traffic on any given day.
And all those searches early on? If y'all were on board early on, there were several places searched. Maybe we could focus on all those searches for a spell....uh, nevermind. They were all dead ends, and not conducive to current discourse.
Then there's that nagging question I've seen raised recently. Could vehicles have arrived from the other direction, thereby avoiding the Harvest Store cam? Well, this was discussed ad nauseum back in the day, arrival by boat up the river, departure by boat, departure out Bridge Creek by 4 wheeler, hitchin' a ride on Rt. 25, escape via the railroad all the way to W 200 N.
How about those boots? You know the ones, over there at the Packing Plant....yep, there was grand discourse relative to that packing plant, oh how it went on, and on, and on. Imagine, a meat packing plant, blood, boots, and knives. Wheweee!
The killer, Bridge Guy, was he wearing a hat, or no hat, color of his hair, a puppy in his pocket, what's that around his neck, is there a bat, or club down his pants leg, a gun in his pocket, a plastic baggie around his neck, a leather pouch to carry his kill kit?
And then, all the discussion revolving around that cemetery, could it have been where he parked (can't see the back from the road), the old quarry there, did he escape that way, why did nobody see him parked there, on and on and on.
And the hunting tree stand....how it would have provided him a view of the girls arrival, how he could have stalked them from there, waiting to make his move.
There was even great discussion about 'down the hill', what hill, was it this one, at the end of the bridge, or that one, on down a ways, or was it the next one, that hill from the old driveway down?
And, the voices under the bridge, and red flannel guy, and the folks who live at the end of the driveway, and why were they on vacation, and was there a car waiting for them there, and were they whisked away, and, and the cabin, and the reference to the Shack, and can you hear screams on the bridge all the way from the murder scene, or would you hear gunfire from that far away, and just how far was it from the end of the bridge, and exactly where did they cross the creek, and was it up this way further, or down around that bend, and how deep was the water?
Then the discussion of why the canines weren't brought in right away, and the calling off of the search that first night, and how the locals searched, and who spotted the girls first, and what did that person say or do, and had the murder scene been compromised?
And don't forget the entire discourse relative to the bridge itself, the preservation of it, those involved in that, whether there was something nefarious going on there, was that somehow tied in?
And the university, don't forget the discussion of the university, and did that tie in somehow?
And the billboards, the national hunt, the thinking the killer might be transient, homeless, a trucker, from anywhere in the country, a traveling serial killer, and the talk of ties to another state, or two, and the discussion of the fire that killed several in a town nearby, and whether that was related, and was it a politician, or someone that works in the courts, or a person of power and prestige trying to cover up some dastardly deed of the past.
And, on, and on, and on, I could go. For real.....and to think, there is so much we simply do not know.
Abby and Libby. Truth will be revealed. I believe it to be near.
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