I don’t know if it is a serial killer, or, like one LEO said, the case is more “person-specific”, but I am positive that the person is connected to Delphi and not a mere transient.
I remember how in the very beginning, TL mentioned “the twist” of the plot. It tell me that somehow, from the start, they were more sure of the POI, and thought they knew. Why?
The same TL, I think (or some other LE, sorry, 4 years is quite a time) said that the community would be (surprised? Shocked?) when people find out. I don’t care in what way surprised, but obviously, the perp had to be someone well-known to them.
And then very early into the case, LE searched the house.
Regardless of what exactly they thought, one thing is obvious - they thought they would have enough to solve this case.
They are looking for a very specific weapon, and hone in on a guy who was homeless in Indiana at that time. His wife is not sure, agrees that he looks like the sketch but here is what she says:
Wife of person of interest in Delphi murders says Daniel Nations watched news coverage
LE is obviously eager to wrap up the case.
And then there is silence, but it doesn’t feel hopeless. Like in other well-known cases, there is a certain hiatus of silence, but usually it is not a bad sign.
In the beginning of 2019, the talks come back to the DNA. There are even questions why not use GSK approach. Paul Holes is consulted. It is sent to Quantico.
And then this PC of 2019. Curtain closes. That’s it. A new suspect, we are following the new leads, read the shack. (But with this phrase, “we were onto something in the beginning” - what does that mean? That they had a lead? What happened to it?).
And this is when the internet explodes. DN is cleared, other possible poi’s are cleared, LE’s comments are confusing, but personally, at this stage, I don’t believe they are clueless. I feel LE took the scent, but it was lost for some reason unrelated to them.
3 years unsolved: A look back at the Delphi murder case
So today, I have questions. All those clues indicating it was someone known to the community. What happened to those clues? Were they planted? But planting a clue pointing at someone still means, having certain local experience. What happened to the knowledge accrued during the first months of the investigation? Are some alibis unshakeable?
Periodically, I wonder if something totally random happened. Perhaps certain evidence disappeared, or was lost? It happens. From time to time, in different states, the whole cases have to be thrown out of court because something was not done right, some procedure not abided by, or material lost. So I think, maybe there was some mess in some lab, and Delphi got into that pack of cases affected? But this is just one idea.
And I also think of several cases, high-profile ones, JBR and Moxley’s ones come to mind, probably because they are so messed up that we shall never know the truth, but the lives of all potentially involved are ruined anyhow. Some weird cases of comeuppance, the cases that would suddenly pop up and down, but never go down in history? Is Delphi going that route?
And also...There were many people around the case in the beginning. Some being close friends of the girls, some living close to the bridge, witnesses, some hearing from them on that day. Now, four years later, witnesses move away, friends grow up and move on in life, there is more and more difficult to get the information. Where is this all going?
