That is totally at least one vehicle! I see the chrome wheel. I've never noticed it before - probably because of viewing cropped photos. Please look again folks. I'm terrible with photo enhancements.
The issue I have with a knife is that it is more difficult to control 2 with a knife. If he planned to meet the 2 of them there and has any level of sophistication, I don't think he would have chanced them being able to split up and run from him.The totality of the evidence and circumstances leads me to believe a knife.
He definitely had something that he used to gain control.
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My first thoughts when I hear the audio; it is a middle aged male, he conjoins "the hill" which to me speaks to a rural hillbilly dialect, and his tone reminds me of giving a dog orders.
I agree. He bum rushed them. This way they had no time to form appropriate reactions. I imagine many encounters begin this way. They are young enough to be overpowered, yet old enough to be just polite enough to not run at his initial approach. Probably by the time they both were done processing their immediate danger it was too late.That's what I have been thinking almost from the start....but then why would Libby record it secretly?
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Still a new poster here, but this isn't just an Indiana accent, it could also be an Illinois accent, which is just 30 or 40 miles to the east. I'm from Chicago where we all say "dese dose and dem" but chicago folk know that south of I-80 people start talking with that southern twang; and the farther south you go in IL the more twangy it gets. Maybe it's not truly 'southern', I'm sure many disagree that it's southern because up here anyone that talks like that is considered Southern, even if it's only 50 miles south of Chicago. Western IL doesn't talk like that interestingly enough.
I would bet the police will slowly release more and more info as the case grows cold.I clearly hear "Down The Hill"
Sounds like a middle aged male. Would coincide with his appearance in the good quality photos of suspect.
Not sure about accent. I definitely don't hear northeastern or southeastern. Likely middle American? Suspect likely from Indiana IMO.
THAT SOUND CLIP IS SO CREEPY.
I think they are releasing it in hopes that someone who suspects him will hear it and it will be the straw that breaks the camel's back to push an informant to go to LE. PLEASE LET SOMEONE WHO KNOWS THIS MONSTER HEAR THIS CLIP AND SEE THE PHOTO!!
Someone lives or lived, worked or worked, served time with or served coffee to this guy. Someone sold him cigarettes, a hat, gloves, something. "If today you hear his voice, call the tipline." (Or audio tape him)
Aside, Thank you to Tokyo, who brought me to the dark side. Now I can imagine.
Finally found the old post. A quote from LE on Primetime Justice with Ashleigh Banfield
RILEY: We have looked at it. We`ve blown it up. As a matter of fact, that was done right after we got the picture -- we had access to the picture. And if you look at the far end of the tracks, it looks like there`s two people actually standing there. But if you blow the picture up, you`ll notice that there`s actually three poles there to keep cars from being -- trying to drive across the bridge. So that`s the marks that you see at the end of the tracks.
Transcript here: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1702/16/ptab.01.html
Edit: Was clarified in Thread 3 by "Considering" (thank you), in case anyone wants to go back.
Totally agree! I'd have been out there all night looking for my kid!! Does anyone know WHERE the girls were suppose to be picked UP and by who??
Blown up portion of the image.
As others have said...this could be the guy.
Some is based in the assumption that the stills came from the video of him first approaching them on the bridge. Based on the shadowing and that from the photo of Libby, he is moving south on the bridge. He is between them and the high side of the bridge in the photo, at least of the Libby because she had to be holding the phone. I just think he could have walked past them as if he was just out there and then once he got below them on the bridge, stopped and confronted them to direct them back to the side where they were found. Sorry if that isn't clear.
- the photo of the suspect is of him moving south on the bridge.
- the photo is taken from the bridge meaning that libby(and assumably, abby) was on the bridge at the same time he was.
- the photo shared of the suspect would place him between Libby and the North side of the bridge.
- They were found on the North side of the bridge to the East.
- I figure if he directed them, he would have likely done so with them between him and where he wanted them to go and that is why I feel walked past them before he began directing them.
This all makes me feel it is very possible that it is a gun in his jacket or at least he had one somewhere. My theory is that they saw him coming on the bridge and that made them uneasy as there is nowhere to go. I think he walked past them or right to them and then pulled a gun and forced them back to the North side where he then lead them East. At some point, while walking East, he ordered them "down the hill."
Adding this up, I believe they have video/audio of everything from the bridge to the end of the ordeal.
The possibility of an additional perp is really unsettling.
I agree. He bum rushed them. This way they had no time to form appropriate reactions. I imagine many encounters begin this way. They are young enough to be overpowered, yet old enough to be just polite enough to not run at his initial approach. Probably by the time they both were done processing their immediate danger it was too late.
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