I still can’t imagine that it was a CS. We always read, “Libby got the worst”, or, “she gave him hard time”.
And then we read that there were people around the bridge, someone was attentive enough to see the suspect, they say.
Can you imagine two people being killed, and at least one of the girls giving someone “hard time”, and no.one.hearing.nothing?
Maybe there were no people around, or the witnesses are lying, all of them? They could have come later. One put the time on the post one hour later, maybe it was not a mistake? But still, there are dwellings around, a private drive, the house where Libby had trespassed... witnesses, anyone?
OK, maybe they all just heard something they mistook for a different kind of a noise..,but at 5-PM-ish, when the police was called, and the search started, was there no one around able to testify about the occurrences, the sounds, the sightings, cap with short bill, and all that jazz?
Even the person that allegedly saw BG coming back...look...in half an hour, dad comes, starts asking around, then other relatives emerge, there must have been some activity, some commotion, calling the girls, at least, and this person, that witness, what, disappears? Only to re-emerge as a witness several days later? What kind of a human would do it?
And if the witnesses saw BG, a scary man not looking familiar, walking around, and his description was known to the police by the evening of the 13th, how come the search was called off? An angry weirdo giving kids bad looks is ambling around, then two teenagers disappear in that area, and the police calls off the search, knowing all of this? Or vise versa, the police doesn’t know, because none of the witnesses bothers to tell them about the guy on the 13th?
And if this information was not known to the police on the 13th - why did not the witnesses report about the scary guy on the same day? At least one?
Who speaks about it only on the next day? Where was that person when the search groups were taking off?
When LE was suspecting DN or some other criminals, they were looking even in another state. But that was way postfactum. And in the beginning, the girls are gone, some evil weirdo is seen next to the bridge, some mystery car is parked at the CPS building, and the police -unaware at all?
I can not believe that someone is being brutally killed right in the area, in winter, amidst bare trees, in daytime, perfectly visible from at least some vantage points, and no one even notices it. No, no, and no. People notice movement in the corner of their eye. OK, maybe no one looked, but LE say, the whole CS was shocking, and no one saw it, till the dusk fell? What about the next morning?
Something doesn’t fit.
I can think of three versions.
1) the girls were killed somewhere else, and even this fact, three years later, LE can’t disclose.
2) or, they were killed at the CS, within that short span of time, but then, everyone being in the vicinity of the bridge from 12-5, all people living in the houses on the S side, everyone, known or unknown to girls, including all witnesses - are major suspects. And I mean, everyone... Everyone who was roaming around at daytime, or searching at night.
3) or, maybe somehow, by the evening of the 13th, it got known to everyone in Delphi that the girls were already dead. So the search was cancelled because 1) useless, 2) maybe to give someone enough time to clean and arrange?
And this is the strangest version of all, and I hope and think it is wrong. but I’d rather believe this, than the fact that by 3:30 everything was over, and no one noticed, or didn’t raise hell when it got known that the girls disappeared.
P. S. Sorry for the long-winded post. I can imagine how in real life the fathers of Delphi kids would grab their guns and be running around trying to grab this pedophile. This is the normal world. What was so different in Delphi?