That's a great message gregrichards.
This is excellent local information to have thanks and thanks (at a great distance) for your warm words to the family and le I mostly agree though of course they may have missed something obvious we will hopefully know in hindsight.
Ravenmoons transcript of Greg Richards would explain the slight feeling many have had there the added word 'guys' is slighty separate - so the gun cocking and the mmm is taken out. I personally think he says go down the hill with go and down elided...not that it matters much.
Speaking of family Kelsey's comment that it is someone they know is important. In a very cold case recently solved by ancestral DNA (a young girl Christine Jessop) following a wrongful conviction it turned out that the perp had been in her house the day before she went missing, was interviewed I think once he just didn't come up in anyone's mind something like the husband of someone closer to the family not living in town. Her brother was on WS and he vaguely remembered the guy but had a different poi in his own mind. As some recent posts have been saying it could be something like that...
This is what I was thinking, that between one of the relatives’ families and the killer, there is one more person.
From Christina Jessop’s brother:
“There were three people my mother told that morning we went to visit my dad in jail and that Christine wasn’t coming,” he said, adding he had forgotten that his mother had told Hoover’s wife.”
‘It had to be someone we knew well’: Christine Jessop’s family speaks after 1984 murder solved | Globalnews.ca
In Jessop’s case, besides a neighbor being accused and found guilty and later exonerated, 300 people were interviewed, but her killer Calvin Hoover was never under suspicion. What I think might have happened is that Christine’s mom might have told her friend Heather (then Calvin Hoover’s wife), and then Heather told it to Calvin (about Christine being left at home that day), but either both women forgot, or Heather forgot. To her, that it was her ex- husband, came as a total shock in 2020, although later in their life together he became very abusive, was diagnosed with a mental illness and in 2015, killed himself. But his attitude to Heather attending Christine’s grave, for example, was supportive. Interesting: he changed later in life (not necessarily after the murder), but his outward response to the murder seemed humane.
In the Delphi girls’ situation, they invited people to join them MHB on Snapchat, so who else could have heard about it, besides the addressees, is hard to understand. It could have been someone’s mom commenting of the girls going to MHB unattended, and someone else in the room could have overheard it. What if that someone is now an ex-bf? Who would remember it?
I think that whoever he was, if he was close to Delphi inhabitants, he now disappeared from their lives (e.g, broke up with someone, moved on), or, worse, the person from whom he heard it disappeared (died, OD’ed). Somehow, one of the links is now missing. hence the guy is off the radar.
Another thing, like it often happens, Calvin Hoover had an alibi for that fateful day (was at work). The police never checked his alibi. Maybe in Delphi as well, the person is definitely in the “alibied” group (known to live elsewhere, not being close to Delphi). Either someone provided the alibi, or, more likely, it was never checked. JMO.
