The following issue keeps bothering me:
Apparently the "new" sketch was indeed drawn already in 2017 :
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The sketch released on Monday was drawn by Bryant on Feb. 17, 2017, a few days after the victims' bodies were found. The picture was based on the description of a person who saw something that the person felt needed to be reported".
Delphi murders: New sketch of killer, video from Libby's phone released
Looking at the video from bridge guy it seems very much that he has some form of beard/mustache/goatie, that contradicts the new sketch though. Remember it was drawn according to a witness directly in 2017 after the murders that means the witness described the (supposed) killer as he looked (in the view of the witness) on the day of the killing.
This leaves only a limited amount of conclusions:
1. The bridge guy is not the killer - obviously the police seems to think otherwise, see the video
2. The killer is the bridge guy and at some point put on a fake beard
3. The beard in the video is an optical illusion
4. The new sketch does not show the killer and the police knows this, that would imply they are causing a strategic distraction from the real culprit
5. The new sketch does not show the killer and the police is unaware of this
6. The witness didn't recognize or forgot the beard
Number 1,2,5+6 seem less probable to me.
Besides the beard issue - I keep getting irritated by the differences in the faces of old and new sketch. A lot of people see similarities. I do not.
1. The eyes - new sketch: narrow eyes, old one: wide eyes, even hanging a bit to the side (s)
2. The chin - new sketch: big chin, old one: short, small chin
3. Face shape - new sketch: oval face, old one: square face
The old sketch resembles indeed much more the bridge guy as we see it in the video, especially regarding the face shape, the rest can be misleading in such a bad quality video indeed.
Anyways, those are less reliable factors due to the vagueness of those sketches in general.
What keeps bothering me is the beard issue, see above.