Falling Down
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My opinion, a suspect possibly sighted on the highway led to the first sketch and the more or less national manhunt with FBI billboards everywhere. As that didn’t pan out, the focus changed to the second sketch of a suspect, somebody with local ties.
Feb 20, 2017
“We are asking people that were driving through the Hoosier heartland that might have seen a hitchhiker or saw somebody walking. We are asking people in Logansport all the way to Lafayette if they saw somebody around that late afternoon on February 13 walking down the roadway. We would like to know about that person,” said Indiana State Police Sgt. Kim Riley....”
All-out manhunt underway for main suspect in murders of two Delphi teens | Fox 59
Which kind of confuses me, especially considering the time of year, despite the fact it was the 2nd mild Winter we had in a row in northern IN. I just don't picture IN 25 being a road where drifters and hitch hikers hang out or are even allowed to. It's much like an interstate, and a hitch hiker would stick out like a sore thumb on that road.
IIRC, it's 65 mph through most of it, and it bypasses those little towns and hamlets from around Warsaw and Lafayette, so there are no truck stops or other places which would give any commercial or non-commercial drivers to stop along there, along the road. No rest stops, etc.
So even a commercial truck, pick up truck. or car stopped along there would stand out some, it's really not all that well-traveled of a road. It's a quick way to bypass those small towns between roughly where Warsaw is, and Lafayette/I-65. There is a lot of commercial truck activity for sure, however I'd imagine much of it is passing through. In and around Delphi there's IP, the gravel pit, and the grain complex, not too many other reasons large commercial trucks would be getting off of IN 25 at C.R. 300 or the exit for Delphi south of there.
JMO