Man behind 'anthony_shots' account charged for child *advertiser censored*; docs don't tie him to Delphi case
Timeline of events
- ''Feb. 13, 2017 – Abby and Libby are dropped off at the Monon High Bridge Trail and are not there when family comes to pick them up.
- Feb. 14, 2017 – The girls’ bodies are found.
- Feb. 15, 2017 – Police release photos of a man wanted for questioning, later considered the main suspect.
- Feb. 22, 2017 – Police release an audio file they say may contain the suspect’s voice saying “down the hill.”
- May 13, 2017 – A celebration of life is held for the girls.
- June 16, 2017 – Police reach 18,000 tips received.
- July 18, 2017 – Police add staff to analyze the high volume of tips.
- Oct. 3, 2017 – Indiana State Police visit Colorado to investigate Daniel Nations after receiving a tip.
- Nov. 11, 2017 – Carroll County Prosecutor Rob Ives announces he’s stepping down.
- Jan. 1, 2018 – New prosecutor Nicholas McLeland takes the post.
- Jan. 16, 2018 – The owner of the property where the girls’ bodies were found is ordered to home detention.
- Jan. 17, 2018 – The families of the girls give interviews with national news outlets in hopes of bringing attention to the case.
- Feb. 13, 2018 – ISP superintendent speaks on murders one year later.
- April 22, 2019 – ISP releases new sketch and video clip.
- April 24, 2019 – ISP clarifies reasons for release of second sketch.
- April 30, 2019 – The sheriff asks to stop post images of possible suspects.
- July 10, 2019 – Libby’s sister addresses rumors during a livestream.
- Jan. 8, 2020 – Delphi gets a new police chief.
- April 5, 2021 – The reward for information in the Delphi murders grows to $325,000.
- Dec. 6, 2021 – Police seek help to identify the creator of a social media account for “anthony_shots.”
I haven't followed the girl's case in a long time but I'm just confused now.
If this creep isn't connected to the girl's case, why is he being discussed as if he is connected, in some way?
What am I missing?
I haven't followed the girl's case in a long time but I'm just confused now.
If this creep isn't connected to the girl's case, why is he being discussed as if he is connected, in some way?
What am I missing?
Of all the many details known about this case, the photo of the bridge that Libby sent by SC reads to me like an announcement intended to be meaningful to someone, similar to a text msg that might say “we’ve arrived!!!”
I just can’t shake that thought, especially because BP has insisted throughout that the trip to the bridge wasn’t preplanned. Otherwise why would Libby send that SC pic, a location where the SC recipients wouldn’t even expect them to be at? I feel strongly the link to the killer can be found somewhere in her SC friends list, not saying a direct link, even an connection made unknowingly.
It just seems far too much of a coincidence to me that the sending of the bridge pic via SC is also a blatant announcement of where they could be found. How often does something like that happen to identify the location of murder victims and be totally unrelated? JMO
It depends how that contact was made. If it was made on Instagram, the data would still be held on the app until Instagram purges data - and that is if they really purge data. If there were photos exchanged, those would be in iCloud storage at least as long as the account exists and perhaps longer, if not forever.
People think that erasing and uninstalling apps wipe data permanently. It's not true. It hasn't been true since at least 2011 when the first cloud storage was created. There's a reason we say "the internet is forever".
With this new development, I'm willing to look closer at an online SM connection. The girls certainly could have been planning a secret meeting with somebody, but looking back over the details released from the beginning, I'm not willing to lean completely to that side of the fence yet.
LE said the earlier recordings were just "stuff girls talk about." It would be surprising to me that the conversation would not include the meet-up, if that was the exact reason they came.
And why would they plan to meet this person on the south end of the bridge? Supposedly it was AW's first time across, so yeah, maybe her motivation was the meet-up, but it seems a strange place to plan a meeting... unless it was the "guys" suggestion, of course. Yet this was never talked about in their recordings?
And if they planned a meet-up, DG picking them up around an hour after taking the bridge photo doesn't seem like much time.
If the bridge photo was a signal of sorts, the meet-up guy would have had to be very nearby to get the message and get to the bridge so quickly. Was that why the car was parked at CPS from noon on? LE would have cell data for sure then. But either way, if the girls weren't sure when/if they would even get a ride to the bridge, the meet-up guy would have to have been on standby. If so, I would imagine there had to be some kind of digital trail.
I guess I'm not saying this is all impossible. LE would likely have quite a bit of evidence, I would hope, even though they stated earlier on there was no SM connection known.
But considering both old information, and this new possible connection, I still feel it was unlikely a planned meet-up. However, the girls being known, peripherally, to the killer, via SM does seem possible. I always thought at some point the girls were followed to the trail, and I still feel like that.
This is a great point. I believe that there’s a high chance that Libby pre-planned this meeting (with the catfish - BG) and lied to those around her, or, she might have been messaging with BG in an indirect way in which she was telling him where she was going to be without explicitly asking him to meet her there. It is a bit embarrassing for me to admit, but back when I was 12, I was catfished. I never ended up meeting with the person in real life, but there were lots of hypothetical plans made, and, if the person had lived closer to me, I easily could’ve seen myself telling them where I was secretly hoping to meet up with them. Nobody in my life knew I was talking to this catfish (parents, friends) until something came in the mail for me. I had never given them my home address — but they figured it out with other info I gave them. I think Libby might have had similar communications with BG, and it breaks my heart. (Please note — this is all just my opinion)
This is the type of situation that i have always imagined might have occurred with the murder of the girls, even as far as wondering if the perp live-streamed the crime or at the very least, took pics and posted/sold them to like minded creeps.This may not be related at all in the slightest, but I just read about a guy who was arrested recently in the UK who was doing a similar thing to KK, but had thousands of victims across the world, even in the US.
He was making compilation videos of the abuse he had manipulated kids & adults into sending and then selling those to other gross pedos. These videos were his SOLE source of income, that's how much money he made from it. Timing of that arrest interesting too.
Abdul Elahi: Blackmailer sold abuse 'box sets' to paedophiles
It's not a stretch to think this is what KK was doing/was trying to do. This was announced yesterday.
This is a great point. I believe that there’s a high chance that Libby pre-planned this meeting (with the catfish - BG) and lied to those around her, or, she might have been messaging with BG in an indirect way in which she was telling him where she was going to be without explicitly asking him to meet her there. It is a bit embarrassing for me to admit, but back when I was 12, I was catfished. I never ended up meeting with the person in real life, but there were lots of hypothetical plans made, and, if the person had lived closer to me, I easily could’ve seen myself telling them where I was secretly hoping to meet up with them. Nobody in my life knew I was talking to this catfish (parents, friends) until something came in the mail for me. I had never given them my home address — but they figured it out with other info I gave them. I think Libby might have had similar communications with BG, and it breaks my heart. (Please note — this is all just my opinion)
This is a great point. I believe that there’s a high chance that Libby pre-planned this meeting (with the catfish - BG) and lied to those around her, or, she might have been messaging with BG in an indirect way in which she was telling him where she was going to be without explicitly asking him to meet her there. It is a bit embarrassing for me to admit, but back when I was 12, I was catfished. I never ended up meeting with the person in real life, but there were lots of hypothetical plans made, and, if the person had lived closer to me, I easily could’ve seen myself telling them where I was secretly hoping to meet up with them. Nobody in my life knew I was talking to this catfish (parents, friends) until something came in the mail for me. I had never given them my home address — but they figured it out with other info I gave them. I think Libby might have had similar communications with BG, and it breaks my heart. (Please note — this is all just my opinion)
Am I wrong to imply that Monticello is a posher version of Delphi? This would somehow fit…It is possible. Monticello, Indiana is just 20 minutes north of Delphi and is the home of the Indiana Beach Amusement Park, campground, and two lakes, Shafer and Freeman. Many Illinoisans have lake cottages in Monticello and visit this area in the summer months due to it's proximity to Chicago (about 100 miles south).
I wouldn’t necessarily call Monticello “posh.” I would say it is like Delphi on a lake.Am I wrong to imply that Monticello is a posher version of Delphi? This would somehow fit…
Forgive if this is an ignorant question, but might one presume (going by the names) that Delphi has a Greek'' flavour ''and Monticello, an Italian one? speculation, imo.Am I wrong to imply that Monticello is a posher version of Delphi? This would somehow fit…
Pez, 100% with you on that. The whole time I've been following this case, I have felt certain that law enforcement people were seriously working on the case, all the time. I was sure that the people with badges would *not* let this case be forgotten, that the girls' murders would be solved if it were humanly possible. And the anthony_shots news makes me sure that was the case. The LE people were working nonstop, though we didn't see it, and that's how the KAK link was exposed. Whatever that link actually may be.... Man, LE have been working hard! They’ve been so committed to this case! Fingers crossed this will be solved very soon!
Another thought could be since LE states the anthony_shots profile was getting addresses of where girls lived, he or someone connected to the profile could have been watching one of the girls. After being dropped off at the bridge alone, the perp acted.
Maybe one of the girls had communicated online with him, but became uncomfortable and ended the communication. This rejection took obsession to the next level.
(Pure speculation)
Wow! They searched KAK's place TWO WEEKS after the murders?!?!?! I've often speculated that LE had the tip they need and got it early on, but for one reason or another it was buried in that massive pile of tips. (They 18K in tips by the start of the summer in 2017 and many unsolved crimes don't have that in 10+ years.) But they actually executed a search warrant very early on and are now circling back around.Grandfather of Libby German speaks to NewsNation about new information on the case | NewsNation Prime