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2-minute video with straight-talking ISP spokesman explaining:

1.) The reason, “out of hundreds, thousands of tips”, the decision was made to refer to DN by name as a POI in the press release detailing LE’s trip to Colorado: “Because of social media, public interest, media interest, we felt it was appropriate to give this [press release] update.”

2.) ISP’s perspective as to the relative significance of DN as a POI, speaking in the past tense: “There were dozens of tips we looked at that were as promising or more promising than this [DN] one.”

3.) The essence of the similarities between the Colorado murder and the ones in Delphi: “Some elements of the public felt, well, there’s an Indiana connection: This happened in a park-like environment; he [DN] has a similarity to the sketch; Ah! This must be him! That’s not the way it works.”

The spokesman then sums it up: "We follow every tip to its full conclusion to determine if there's a reason to continue looking at the person. If we had this case solved, we wouldn't be asking for more tips."



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpEhE-Bgwys
 
Jax49 said:
Delphi double homicides: 'Horrible to live like this,' a year after Abby and Libby were killed

[FONT=&]ONE YEAR LATER, THE HOMICIDES OF ABBY WILLIAMS AND LIBBY GERMAN STILL HAUNT DELPHI, WHERE THE HOPE IS CATCHING THE KILLER IS JUST A MATTER OF TIME.[/FONT]

http://www.jconline.com/story/opini...ides-year-later-horrible-live-like/312413002/
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(Thanks, Jax)

Thank you Dave Bangert | Journal & Courier

"To this day, the killer remains a mystery.

To this day, Delphi – where sketches of a suspect are blown up in the windows of storefronts, and ribbons in teal and purple, the girls’ favorite colors, surround the Carroll County Courthouse square – remains confident in an investigation that brought in hundreds of local, state and federal offices but has yet to produce an arrest.

If today isn’t the day, that day is coming soon. Or so goes the hope, one year later.

“I think people have been antsy to get this case solved since Day 1,” said Shane Evans, mayor of Delphi, a town of 2,877 about 17 miles northeast of Lafayette. “I don’t think there’s a person in Delphi who hasn’t felt this.”"
 
"A GRANDFATHER: 'I CAN'T PUT MY HEAD AROUND IT'*

Mike Patty said it just doesn’t feel like a year has gone by since his granddaughter, Libby, and her friend, Abby, were found less than a mile from the Monon High Bridge trail.

A year since thousands of tips have poured in with no arrest. A year since being asked hundreds of times, yet always one more time, to tell Abby and Libby’s story in hopes that this will be the retelling that sparks one more clue that leads to a killer. A year that he’s taken calls and dropped everything to drive across the state – “North, south, east, west, it doesn’t matter,” he said – to meet someone who says they might, just maybe, have some information relevant to the unsolved case.

“I’m always hopefully optimistic that something’s about to break – waiting for my phone to ring, know what I mean, with one of the officers calling me that they have somebody,” Patty, an engineer at Caterpillar’s Lafayette plant, said last week. “We’re just about getting things out there. What other ideas are there? Tell me. I mean, I’m not done. But I don’t know what my next move’s going to be. Here we are at a year. I never thought we’d be at a year on this. Let’s face it, with information that law enforcement has, it’s hard to believe we don’t have this guy caught.”"


Delphi double homicides: 'Horrible to live like this,' a year after Abby and Libby were killed
ONE YEAR LATER, THE HOMICIDES OF ABBY WILLIAMS AND LIBBY GERMAN STILL HAUNT DELPHI, WHERE THE HOPE IS CATCHING THE KILLER IS JUST A MATTER OF TIME.
Dave Bangert | Journal & Courier
http://www.jconline.com/story/opini...ides-year-later-horrible-live-like/312413002/
 
"Finding a killer, Patty said, would finally let his family and Abby’s mom, Anna, and family finally start to grieve. (“Right now, it’s constantly open – this wound,” he said.) But he said he also feels another pressure bearing down.

“I’m fearful for him to do this to another family,” Patty said. “This sucks, beyond imagination. People say, ‘Whoa, I can’t imagine what you’re going through.’ No. No, you can’t. And I don’t mean that in a derogatory way. Because, hell, I couldn’t have.

“But I can tell you one thing: This is what you wake up with every day. It’s the last thoughts before you go to bed. And some nights, I still don’t sleep. For three months, I didn’t sleep,” Patty said. “And I’m not going to sleep until I know another family won’t have to go through this, like we are right now.”

The tailgate of his pickup truck has a “wanted” sticker with information about the case, a description, photo and a sketch of the suspect, along with Abby and Libby’s faces and the FBI’s tip line: 844-459-5786. (“Listen,” Patty said, “you can’t get that number out there too often.”) The window in the back of his extended cab features a large decal someone made for him, reading, “In Memory of Libby/Abby,” in the shape of a Harley-Davidson logo."

http://www.jconline.com/story/opini...ides-year-later-horrible-live-like/312413002/
 
"Last fall, Becky Patty started “Brainstorming for Abby and Libby,” a Facebook group dedicated not to discussing the particulars of the case but to coming up with new ways to spread the word. They created the bumper stickers and sent them in bulk to trucking companies for their fleets. They sent fliers about the case to 3,142 sheriff’s offices, one for every county in the United States. They’ve been on national broadcasts with Megyn Kelly and the*“Dr. Phil Show.”*They’ve gone to festivals, fairs and trade shows across the region.

“When we go to shows, I set up this big picture (of the suspect), three-foot-by-whatever, and I’m just waiting for somebody to come up and say, ‘Hey, I know that guy,’” Patty said. “Really? Yes, I want to talk to you. Come right around here, and let’s talk.”

The year also has been a time to take stock in how Delphi has wrapped itself around the families."


http://www.jconline.com/story/opini...ides-year-later-horrible-live-like/312413002/
 
"Shortly after Abby and Libby were killed, the community held a number of fundraisers and set up tip jars at grocery store checkout lanes to support the families. Patty said he wasn’t interested in the money – “I wanted my girl back, but that’s not going to happen,” he said – but was persuaded that it was a sign of a community looking for ways to help. He met them halfway.

Patty said the idea was to fold whatever money was donated into youth programs. He figured they’d have enough to buy a $5,000 set of bleachers for a softball field. As the fund grew into six figures, the families recalibrated and created*the Libby and Abby Softball Park Fund, a nonprofit group set up through the Carroll County Community Foundation.*The goal: Build a park with three fields for softball and baseball. (Abby and Libby had pulled out their softball gear in the days before they died, getting ready for the spring practices.)

With some help from the state and land donation from a neighboring property owner, the group has 21 acres in hand near the intersection of Hoosier Heartland Highway and Indiana 218, about a mile-and-a-half north of the Freedom Bridge and the entrance to the Monon High Bridge trail. Last week, Patty bought lumber and got a permit to put up a “Coming Soon” sign on the site. He calls the project “multi-generational,” and could take up to $1 million and several stages.

Patty said he’s looking forward to a day when he can put more of his time into the softball complex project."

http://www.jconline.com/story/opini...ides-year-later-horrible-live-like/312413002/
 
"For now, Abby and Libby’s killer is still out there.

He said he wonders often whether the killer is a brash, boisterous guy or more of a quiet type. He wonders how anyone could be capable of doing what they did. He wonders what sort of lives his Libby and her friend, Abby, might have had.

And he doesn’t always sleep at night.

“I can’t put my head around it,” Patty said. “This is horrible. Horrible to live like this, know what I mean?”

Patty wasn’t looking for an answer right then. He knows you probably don’t know how horrible. And that’s why he’s working so hard today."

http://www.jconline.com/story/opini...ides-year-later-horrible-live-like/312413002/
 
THE SHERIFF: ‘WE’RE GOING TO GET IT’

"Every morning, Tobe Leazenby’s phone dings with a daily Bible verse, courtesy of what the Carroll County sheriff calls a “brother sheriff from another county.”

“A comfort, really,” Leazenby said. “And at a time I can use it. I’m blessed.”

The search for Abby and Libby’s killer didn’t take long to expand beyond Leazenby’s department of 11 sworn officers. Enough investigators descended on Delphi – from Indiana State Police to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources to the Federal Bureau of Investigations, with regular briefings reaching*Gov. Eric Holcomb’s*desk – that for months they commandeered a former REMC building at one corner of the Carroll County Courthouse square, equipped with a dedicated tip line. The team, much smaller at the one-year mark, has since moved to Delphi City Hall."


http://www.jconline.com/story/opini...ides-year-later-horrible-live-like/312413002/
 
"But Leazenby, who still considers his office the lead agency in the case, said he understands that his name and his face are among those best known to those in town waiting for answers. The fact that the killer remains a mystery is among the reasons he filed to run for re-election in November 2018. (So far, he has no challenger.)

Leazenby said he has faith.

Faith in God.

And faith in the years of law enforcement experience attached to the case.

“I’m a huge believer that there is a plan and that it’s God’s plan,” Leazenby said. “There is a time for this to be resolved. … When people ask, ‘Why is it taking so long?’, I’m confident when I say that I know one day we’ll end up in that courthouse and someone will be standing there being prosecuted.”


http://www.jconline.com/story/opini...ides-year-later-horrible-live-like/312413002/
 
"Leazenby admits there have been moments he believed the team was closing in. (“A few of them, we got us wound up,” he said.) He doesn’t allow what those moments were. He assumes the stance investigators have taken nearly from the start – that of tight lips.

And he preaches patience in a case he initially thought would be solved in the first 24 to 48 hours.

“It’s not that I jump into a defensive mindset,” Leazenby said. “But I fall back into the fact that when we get that one piece of evidence – and we’re going to get it – we’re only going to get one shot at a conviction. For the most part, I think there’s an understanding about that.”

Until then, the daily scriptures in the face of the pressure help.

“Experience tells me there will be justice,” Leazenby said. “I have faith.”"

http://www.jconline.com/story/opini...ides-year-later-horrible-live-like/312413002/
 
"THE 911 DISPATCHER: KILLER’S WORLD GETTING SMALLER EVERY DAY*

Cassi Lane said she knew that finding Abby and Libby’s killer wasn’t going to be easy two days after the girls were found, when investigators installed a phone bank at the Delphi Police Department.

“The moment we set up a tip line with 10 phones with 10 lines each, I knew we were in for the long haul,” said Lane, lead communicator for Carroll County 911.

In those first days, dispatchers and Indiana State Police troopers from the region were called in to field tips around the clock.

A year and more than 11,000 leads later – collected through a separate FBI tip line established a week after the homicides or through the Carroll County 911 dispatch center – Lane said her office still gets at least one tip a day, either by phone or email, coming from across the country."


http://www.jconline.com/story/opini...ides-year-later-horrible-live-like/312413002/
 
"That number spikes every time a national media outlet retells the story, police release a sketch or bit of audio, or there is some other sort of jolt in the case – such as when police considered Daniel Nations a person of interest. (Nations, bearing some resemblance to a composite sketch of the suspect, was wanted in Indiana and had been arrested for making threats on a Colorado trail in September. Police have not said he’s considered a suspect in the double homicide, though Indiana police last week brought him back to Johnson County, where he was jailed for failure to register as a sex offender.)

“We get a lot of the same sorts of things,” Lane said. “Things like, ‘We’ve seen a person who looks like that.’ ‘We know this person who wears clothes like in that picture.’ When the audio came out, it was, ‘I know that person’s voice.’”

Still, she said: “We don’t have a bad guy.”

Have there been moments when she gets a tip and just feels it’s the one that could close the case? Lane said she hasn’t let that thought cloud her judgment or her job. She said she’s logged tips and let investigators decide what information fits into the puzzle.

“But I think (Libby’s) family says it best,” Lane said. “Whoever the killer is, his world is getting smaller every day. With every tip, with every phone call, his world gets smaller. … There’s still that one tip out there. It’s just a matter of the right tip.”"

http://www.jconline.com/story/opini...ides-year-later-horrible-live-like/312413002/
 
"“What happened is always right there, right at the surface,” said Angela Bieghler, the middle school’s counselor. “Whatever the conversation is, it comes back to Abby and Libby. Every conversation – which has been totally understandable.”

The past year, Gustin said, has been a matter of protecting kids as much as possible in the school of 360, spread across sixth-, seventh- and eighth grades.

The past year also has been 12 months of firsts.

The first time a community of counselors and pastors felt compelled to ring the buzzer at the middle school’s main entrance, streaming in around lunchtime that Wednesday after police confirmed that Abby and Libby had been killed. (“They just knew to come,” Bieghler, the middle school’s lone counselor, said. “And we were glad they did.”)

The first time FBI agents came to the school to gently call grieving friends aside to find out all the eighth-graders could tell about the girls.

The first time kids brought cellphones to the principal’s office to show Snapchat feeds that might help in the investigation. (“Our kids were doing everything they knew how to do,” Gustin said. “They wanted to catch this guy.”)

More recently, the first swim meet without Libby racing with the team. Last weekend, the first state solo and ensemble band competitions. (Both girls played saxophone.)

The last of those firsts will come this week in the anniversary for a school small enough that Gustin calls it a family.

“At the beginning of the year we said it’s OK to not be OK,” Bieghler said.

Still, they saw students who wanted teachers to know they were angry and didn’t know why.

Bieghler set up a system so students could email her from their classrooms when they were feeling stressed or overwhelmed, and she could quietly ask them to report to the office to talk things out. And Gustin said teachers tried to emphasize just how much support the school had received from surrounding communities, including cards, visits, volunteers and even comfort dogs from schools in surrounding counties.

“Look at all the kindness from people who don’t really know us,” Gustin said. “The community’s been amazing, and that’s what we try to stress to the kids.”

There won’t be assemblies or memorials at the school Tuesday or Wednesday for the anniversary. Teachers will be on point just the same, Gustin said. Same goes for the day when police say they’ve caught the killer and all those emotions flow again. Whenever that is.

“We’re thinking about that all the time, too,” Bieghler said.

“I get that it’s ‘a case’ for a lot of people,” Gustin said. “This is our family. It’s not just something on the news. These are our girls.”"

http://www.jconline.com/story/opini...ides-year-later-horrible-live-like/312413002/
 
"On Feb. 13, Delphi United Methodist Church will hold a candlelight vigil for the girls. This one won’t be a police update. And it won’t have the media circus. (Ladd says the church will ask media to give everyone space that night.)

“We’re going to talk about how the girls lived and how we’re touched by their life and how we want to live and honor their life,” Ladd said. “So, this anniversary is less about the death as it is about the life. …

“I totally believe we’ll have justice for these girls,” Ladd said. “Whether that justice is on this side of eternity or on the opposite side of eternity, I do not know. But I do believe justice will be served.”"

http://www.jconline.com/story/opini...ides-year-later-horrible-live-like/312413002/
 
"THE TRAILS ADVOCATE: ‘COMMUNITY NEEDS SOME TIME, YET’*

The trail Abby and Libby hiked to the Monon High Bridge the day they disappeared ends abruptly at a chain link fence that stretches into the woods and marked, “Temporarily closed for bridge repair and trail expansion.”

“I’m not sure how much good that does, but it’s there,” said Dan McCain, president of Delphi Historic Trails and president of the Wabash & Erie Canal Association. “There’s something about the bridge. There probably always will be.”"

http://www.jconline.com/story/opini...ides-year-later-horrible-live-like/312413002/
 
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