There are two different videos linked directly under the top photo that illustrate the terrain. RL the landowner has been declared not a suspect, in case anyone is tempted to go down that path.
Delphi property owner: "I can't comprehend it"
Note the treed terrain and deadwood/dry grass groundcover.
Thanks for this, it's the first time I've seen it. The videos perfectly illustrate how challenging the terrain is near the murder scene. On the other side of the high ground spot near where they are standing in the one video (where the camera pans around some and RL is explaining stuff to the reporter), is a ravine which runs between a Mears parcel and the parcel RL owns. High spot can be seen in the SS of the video I made into a thumbnail below.
Just look at the video, and we can see how difficult it is to even see the bridge from the surrounding area, during February/the cold months. The other video I've seen of RL by the murder scene in the days after the murders shows him and a reporter down close to the creek, so adjacent to the murder scene, not above it. From there the camera person pans across, and you can see the section of the bridge over the creek, and some of if through the tops of trees on the strip of land across the creek from RL's property.
Where A&L were murdered cannot be seen from the bridge, even during this time of year.
My hunch is BG murdered them, then walked a known trail on the Mears property which ends up at the corner of the newer part of the cemetery. The trail is a very short distance from the ravine between theirs and RL's property. Then I think he got into a vehicle and headed east on C.R. 300, that way he wouldn't pass the entrance to the trail area where A&L were dropped off.
How did BG know the bridge is there? Has he been there a few, or maybe even many times before?
You have to be in the gorge, right near the bridge, to see some of it it, or be on one of the private properties near the SE end of it, again
right near it, to see it, and you're either near the top of the gorge, or down in it some.
Some other points from recent posts here intrigue me, and I agree with them and have wondered s few things about what happened before A&L got to the drop off/parking area. My hunch is BG was hunting for a victim that day, people saw him beforehand, but the only account I've read about is from the woman walking her dog
who turned around by the bridge, and encountered BG right in that area. Imagine if she'd been alone, with no dog, or even alone and had walked the bridge. Which makes me wonder if the walking the bridge part of all this is what he was waiting for, a female or in A&L's case two (more on this, below)
Imagine if someone else had been murdered that day, before A&L got to the bridge. We'd have a different case in some ways, and most likely no images or audio. Part of my theory is he was there a while, and was waiting for (in his mind) the perfect scenario to unfold for his plot. The woman with the dog said she passed A&L and didn't say anything to them about BG being further down the trail, I think they passed her by the slight bend, and BG wasn't far behind walking the same direction. MOO is he stopped by the bend, where he maybe could kind of see the drop of/parking area, and look the other way and see near the end of the NW approach to the bridge.
I believe this killer is into the thrill of seeing his crimes in the media, and the horror and pain it causes family and the public. He gets off on that, and his actual crimes do not have to have a sexual component to them. I think that's one more reason he gets away with them: No DNA, and he's been up to speed on DNA tech with regards to forensics, for some time. He might kill one person, but two gets him even more motivated to murder, a 'bonus' of sorts.
What other cases are similar to this one, which took place within maybe the last 10-15 years here in the Midwest? We know of at least one.
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