Found Deceased IN - Abigail (Abby) Williams, 13, & Liberty (Libby) German, 14, The Delphi Murders 13 Feb 2017 #94

[Tricia]

Welcome back to the Delphi Murders discussion thread.

On the afternoon of Feb. 13th, 2017, best friends Abigail Williams and Liberty German were dropped off at a bridge in the town of Delphi. On Feb 14th their bodies were discovered around noon about 50 feet from the north bank of Deer Creek which is about 0.5 miles from the bridge.
The Sheriff's office gave a press conference on 4/22/19 and we have some solid information. Please take a look below

HERE IS THE NEW SKETCH FROM THE PRESS CONFERENCE ON 4/22/19

HERE IS THE NEW AUDIO. IT'S-A BIT LONGER THAN THE FIRST AUDIO:
https://www.in.gov/isp/files/Delphi_Audio_Edited_2019x3.wav

Here is the old audio in a loop:
http://www.in.gov/isp/files/Delphi_male_voice_loop.mp3

LATEST PRESS CONFERENCE 4/22/19

FOR MORE CLICK HERE FOR THE CARROL COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE FACEBOOK PAGE.

Anyone with information about this case, no matter how insignificant, is encouraged to call the Delphi Homicide Investigation Tip Line at (844) 459-5786.

Information can also be reported by calling the Indiana State Police at(800) 382-7537, or the Carroll County Sheriff's Department at (765) 564-2413.

Information can also be emailed to Abbyandlibbytip@cacoshrf.com

video of press conference from 2017 02/22/17: https://www.facebook.com/NewsCenter1...4728963476130/

Let's do this. Let's commit to getting this killer's picture and voice out there any possible way we can.

Pictures of Abby and Libby

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[Tricia]

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[dotr]

ISP: Delphi Homicide Investigation
"On Monday, February 13th, at approximately 1:00 p.m., the two young girls were let off near the Monon High Bridge, an abandoned rail bridge over Deer Creek to walk around and hang out. They were to be picked up later in the afternoon, but did not show up there at the previously arranged time. Following an extensive search, at approximately 12:15 p.m. on February 14, 2017, the bodies of the two girls were found in a wooded area near the Delphi Historic Trail, approximately one-half mile upstream from the bridge.

Delphi homicide suspect
On Wednesday, February 15th, law enforcement officers distributed a photograph of a person observed on the Delphi Historic Trail. The photograph appears to depict a white male wearing blue jeans, a blue coat/jacket, and a hoodie. During the course of the investigation, preliminary evidence has led investigators to believe the person, in the distributed photograph, is a suspect in the investigation of the homicides of Abigail Williams and Liberty German.

Additionally, investigators have released an updated voice recording and video of the suspect not previously released that was extracted from Liberty “Libby” German’s cell phone."

LISTEN: Police release audio of Delphi, Ind. murder suspect

 

[liltexans]

Please don't actively sleuth civilians. If you think something is worthy of a tip, tell LE. Speculating here can get the thread locked down even if you don't specify names.

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[CrimeDawg123]

April 22 Press Conference transcript:

<news announcer>
Doug Carter and he has taken the stand. We'll take a listen in.

<audio cuts in to Superintendent Carter>
... the Delphi community how grateful I am you inspire people you don't even understand and you don't even understand why. Information is being released today is the result of literally thousands and thousands of hours of extraordinary investigative efforts by Delphi Carroll County, the FBI, the Indiana State Police and countless other agencies. This community surrounded us some twenty six months ago and you did everything you could to support us but most importantly you surrounded the family of these two little girls. Gosh I'll never forget it. After you hear what we're going to release today I'm going to ask for your continued support, your continued understanding, your empathy and compassion as we move forward to find out who did this and we will.

We're seeking the public's help to identify the driver of a vehicle that was parked at the old CPS DCS welfare building in the city of Delphi that was abandoned on the east side of County Road 300 North next to the Hoosier Heartland highway between the hours of noon to 5:00 on February 14th 2017. If you were parked there or know who was parked there please contact the officers at the command post at the Delphi city building.

We are releasing additional portions of the audio recorded from that day. Please keep in mind the person talking is one person and is the person on the bridge with the girls. This is not two different people speaking. Please listen to it very, very carefully. We are also releasing video recovered from Libby's phone. This video has never before been previously released. The video shows a suspect walking on the bridge. When you see the video watch the watch the person's mannerisms as they walk. Watch the mannerisms as he walks. Do you recognize the mannerisms as being someone that you might know? Remember he is walking on a former railroad bridge. Because of the deteriorated condition of the bridge the suspect is not walking naturally due to the spacing between the ties.

During the course of this investigation we have concluded the first sketch released will become secondary as of today. The result of the new information and intelligence over time leads us to believe the sketch which you will see shortly is the person responsible for the murders of these two little girls. We also believe this person is from Delphi. Currently or has previously lived here, visits Delphi on a regular basis or works here. We believe this person is currently between the age range of 18 and 40 but might appear younger than its true age.

Directly to the killer who may be in this room. We believe you are hiding in plain sight. For more than two years you never thought we would shift gears to a different investigative strategy but we have. We likely have interviewed you or someone close to you. We know that this is about power to you and you want to know what we know. And one day you will.

The question to you: what will those closest to you think of they find out that you brutally murdered two little girls, two children? Only a coward would do such a thing.

We are confident that you have told someone what you have done or at the very least they know because how different you are since the murders. We try so hard to understand how a person could do something like this to to two chil to two children. I recently watched a movie called The Shack and there's also a book that talks so well about evil, about death and about eternity. To the murderer I believe you have just a little bit of a conscience left and I can assure you that how you left them in that woods is not, is not what they are experiencing today.

The family. I hope that you all will give them some time because we're going to be asking that there's no media inquiry or no media response for at least the next two weeks and I hope you understand why. The family found out about this about this information this morning. I just want the family to know that when I take my last breath on this earth I'll be thinking of them. There's going to be a tremendous amount of <unintelligble> I know that. I know that. Never in my career have I stood in front of something like this. Please be patient with us. Please. We're just beginning. We are we are just now beginning. That I can tell you on behalf of the sheriff and the police chief so many other partners that have stood with us over this period of time that we will not stop.

-- Other officer ..
I just unveiled the person that we believe responsible for the murder of these two little girls so I invite media to take a look at that now. Kim.

We're also going to show you a video not previously released that superintendent spoke to and also the audio that's additional to what's been previously released. It's only a slight change in it. So give Sergeant Riley just a second as he gets that up and ready.
<plays audio>
Stand by for the video please. There is no sound of the video.
<plays video> As Superintendent Carter mentioned. He is on the railway bridge. You have to take different steps to get to it. This information later this afternoon will be on the state police website. For the community that's here we have 100 copies of the news release. If you put in that URL you'll be able to get to that site to play it. And we also have that same release for you in the media and the rest of the state we'll get that released in about 15 minutes. So we appreciate those of you that came here. This concludes our announcement. Thank you for your time patience and courtesy.
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[Onaliv]

Carrying over from prior thread for further discussion: I think there’s a pretty good chance BG saw the girls get dropped off and knew they’d be alone for awhile, which played right into his favor. Otherwise it would have been a great risk to do this not knowing if they had other friends/family waiting elsewhere on the trail. Tonight’s big question for me... if the new and improved BG sketch is from someone who saw him leave the trail, does that infer he had already killed the girls and then just walked out normal? Because I thought there was some discussion that the spot where the girls were ultimately found had been searched that night but they weren’t found until the next day; if that’s true then where were the girls when BG was seen leaving the trail? Sorry if this has been covered it’s just something I’m stuck on.

 

[MassGuy]

So the fact that they made everyone attending the press conference sign in and give a phone number must be meaningful right? Especially with the comments about the killer possibly being in the room.

This isn’t all that unusual, especially in cases like this.

They do the same thing for search parties as well.

Some of these guys like to insert themselves into the investigation. They want to know what law enforcement knows.

And some of them get a thrill out of being in the same place as investigators.

“All these people looking for me, and I’m right here.”

Just because this happens though, doesn’t mean that it happens most of the time.

Just often enough that law enforcement is on the lookout for it.

 

[Gardener1850]

Saw link to this user-friendly map of the bridge & surrounding area - I think the “former social services building” on the upper right was the location of the parked / abandoned car mentioned at the press conf. I appreciate a kiddie map like this so thought I’d post - HTH someone else too

https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/newsbug.info/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/d/eb/deb60c4e-acf9-11e5-9ce2-bbc779333205/568082db42bb4.image.jpg?resize=1200,1553

Thank you for this map! I have not been able to keep up with these threads but looking at this map I wondered how BG knew that was a good place to park. Could he have frequented the social services building for some reason (i.e. Unemployment, disability benefits, food stamps, etc) when it was still open?

Then I googled that building and found that it was used for a parking lot in 2015 for the
A Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for the Delphi Freedom Bridge and a Dedication Ceremony for the Veterans Memorial Plaza: City of Delphi - Archived News
So that made me think he is someone who may have attended that event so he knew the way to the trail from there. MOO.

 

[MassGuy]

Carrying over from prior thread for further discussion: I think there’s a pretty good chance BG saw the girls get dropped off and knew they’d be alone for awhile, which played right into his favor. Otherwise it would have been a great risk to do this not knowing if they had other friends/family waiting elsewhere on the trail. Tonight’s big question for me... if the new and improved BG sketch is from someone who saw him leave the trail, does that infer he had already killed the girls and then just walked out normal? Because I thought there was some discussion that the spot where the girls were ultimately found had been searched that night but they weren’t found until the next day; if that’s true then where were the girls when BG was seen leaving the trail? Sorry if this has been covered it’s just something I’m stuck on.

I too think he saw them being dropped off, and followed them in.

If not, I think he spotted them fairly quickly.

The issue with guessing when this witness encountered BG, is that it’s just that, a guess.

It could have happened when he went in, when he came out, or at some other location connected to this crime (where he parked).

As for the girls not being found on the evening they disappeared, I think the searchers simply missed them.

 

[Boxer]

Carrying over from prior thread for further discussion: I think there’s a pretty good chance BG saw the girls get dropped off and knew they’d be alone for awhile, which played right into his favor. Otherwise it would have been a great risk to do this not knowing if they had other friends/family waiting elsewhere on the trail. Tonight’s big question for me... if the new and improved BG sketch is from someone who saw him leave the trail, does that infer he had already killed the girls and then just walked out normal? Because I thought there was some discussion that the spot where the girls were ultimately found had been searched that night but they weren’t found until the next day; if that’s true then where were the girls when BG was seen leaving the trail? Sorry if this has been covered it’s just something I’m stuck on.

MOO they were missed first search, the searchers were calling looking for living girls. The bodies were hidden under leaves.

 

[margarita25]

Gray Hughes Video

Thank you @grayhuze

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My dog was disturbed by the audio-the sounds are awful. Couldn’t they have edited those sounds out before releasing to the public?

 

[ParadoxyOddity]

Carrying over from prior thread for further discussion: I think there’s a pretty good chance BG saw the girls get dropped off and knew they’d be alone for awhile, which played right into his favor. Otherwise it would have been a great risk to do this not knowing if they had other friends/family waiting elsewhere on the trail. Tonight’s big question for me... if the new and improved BG sketch is from someone who saw him leave the trail, does that infer he had already killed the girls and then just walked out normal? Because I thought there was some discussion that the spot where the girls were ultimately found had been searched that night but they weren’t found until the next day; if that’s true then where were the girls when BG was seen leaving the trail? Sorry if this has been covered it’s just something I’m stuck on.

IMO he was in the area looking for someone to attack (not necessarily kill) and the girls just happened to stumble into his hunting ground. I still believe if it wasn’t there girls, someone else would have been attacked that day.

 

[heartgoesout]

From press conference
“Directly to the killer who may be in this room. We believe you are hiding in plain sight. For more than two years you never thought we would shift gears to a different investigative strategy but we have. We likely have interviewed you or someone close to you. We know that this is about power to you and you want to know what we know. And one day you will.”

 

[tmar]

I’m going to chime in here. I think people are making too much of it in terms of details, particularly when it is just a police sketch. By “too much,” I mean things like determining he has a lazy eye. If LE thought that, it would surely be worth noting in the description of the suspect.

At this point, a report to LE on what WSers think we’re looking for would be really insane - A mentally impaired amputee with a lazy eye and puppies in his pockets.

JaneEyre,

But Jane, how could you forget about the little goat.

 

[heartgoesout]

IMO he was in the area looking for someone to attack (not necessarily kill) and the girls just happened to stumble into his hunting ground. I still believe if it wasn’t there girls, someone else would have been attacked that day.

If this man is from Delphi as the press conference conveyed and is this violent, one would think he could be tied to several other crimes in the area.

 

[ab01]

I too think he saw them being dropped off, and followed them in.

If not, I think he spotted them fairly quickly.

The issue with guessing when this witness encountered BG, is that it’s just that, a guess.

It could have happened when he went in, when he came out, or at some other location connected to this crime (where he parked).

As for the girls not being found on the evening they disappeared, I think the searchers simply missed them.

I think it may be as simple as they hadn't expanded their search out that far yet JMO

 

[LadyL]

Gray Hughes Video

Thank you @grayhuze

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My dog was disturbed by the audio-the sounds are awful. Couldn’t they have edited those sounds out before releasing to the public?

can you describe them so I donèt have to play it