I haven't made it here for a while, but I had a thought I wanted to share. In the beginning, I was fairly sure there were two people involved, but after LE said there was only one, I believed that for a couple years. Now I'm starting to lean back toward there being a second one. My reasons are: LE believes the guy is local because he appears to have known the area. They believe the man on the bridge and in the sketch/es was at least partially responsible for the deaths. In spite of being presumed local, no locals seem to recognize him. My reasoning is that all of the statements are more-or-less true, but the reason no locals seem to know him is that the man caught on camera isn't a local, but he was with someone else who is/was. If that were the case, the local person may not look anything at all like the man in the video or in the sketch, and the man on the bridge could have stayed with that person for a day or more and then left discretely when it felt safe. I have no idea if there is a second person involved, but it does seem likely to me. MOO
I think there were two involved.
About recognizing him - why do we assume that they knew everyone in Delphi?
we live on a long street. For almost 20 years. In the beginning, people would organize a get-together once a year, so we knew some of them. Now? Hardly anyone. People moved, and the new ones are more closed. So if I met someone from my street, I might not recognize the person. The street that takes off from mine at an angle? Never in life! My husband knows more people, he walks on the street, but still, too few.
Now consider that I am not a young girl, and take in different age groups. Young girls would pay attention to cute kids and their parents, maybe, and that is all.
I can imagine BG living there and A&L, paying no attention to him, ever. Imagine RL (whom i don’t suspect, but view as the victim). Old man, drinking. Would Abby or Libby ever pay attention to him? Nada.
There was a person I knew from other place, and she once invited me and husband to her house, and I found out that she lived in a new one behind us! I knew her for two years, but never saw in the neighborhood.
ETA: several changes. We don't live in a metropolis, to me it looks like a perfect "village", but our city is rather densely populated. A farmer's area has more land around, I assume.
In any small townlet, I'd expect people to know each other as "parents" from kids' schools. But Libby and Abby were middle-schoolers. They probably knew cute boys from HS, but what if boys were not cute or not athletic? They might have never noticed them, or their parents. Church is the place where people go to in their neighborhood. But they attended youth groups. Unless they were very religious, they might have never known adults from Church. And if the person lives somewhere in Logansport, close but not precisely Delphi, and is an average-looking adult, there is a high chance that they would not know him.