Listen to "The Delphi Murders" on Spreaker. With the active criminal investigation, law enforcement has not released additional facts to the family or the public. Killed and ran. He said Delphi investigators are following up like they have on several other potential leads over the years. In August, Indiana State Police were spotted searching the Wabash River in Peru around 40 minutes east of Delphi in connection to the case. Dru Moorhouse is the copy chief for BuzzFeed News and is based in Los Angeles. In fact, if this case ever gets solved, many credit 14-year old Libby German for preemptively helping solve her own murder. However, the Carroll County Jail record lists Mr Allen as also going by the alias of Craigh Ross Rentfrow. Press J to jump to the feed. I think its a good possibility myself. The FBI has released a description for the suspect, which is that he is a white In his basement -- which was secured with a chain lock -- officers found the missing girl, who was "visibly distraught and crying, with her clothing on the floor beside her," the document said. The reward is now up to $325,000. Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? But - allegedly - there was a woman near the region of the crime, who encountered a young man in a truck near one of the Monon High Bridge trail-heads. Investigators recovered other evidence from the girl's phone that is also not being released, Bursten said. Sign up for PEOPLE's free True Crime newsletter for breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases. Within days, police had identified a suspect in the Catholic Supply shooting: a 53-year old named Thomas Bruce. WebJustice has eluded best friends Libby German and Abby Williams for more than four years now, as the person who abducted and murdered the Delphi, Ind., teens has never been Subscribe to our new podcast, PEOPLE Every Day, to get the essential celebrity, entertainment and human interest news stories Monday through Friday - and tune in to Monday's episode when it goes live this afternoon for even more about the Delphi Murders. Kline was arrested in 2020 and was charged with child pornography and child exploitation in another case and has pleaded not guilty to both charges. He allegedly admitted to investigators that he groomed underage girls online. More than five years on from the murders, news that an arrest has finally been made has raised hopes among the Delphi community that there can finally be closure in the case. Police called the bomb threat and the subsequent raid "totally unrelated to the homicide investigation," but that did not stop those in the region - and those following the case - from speculating endlessly. I sent my daughter to college. Up until last night we were all under the impression that there was no indication and even now, as far as Im aware, there is no indication that the girls had any plans to meet anyone out there [on the trail], she said. Hagen Jacobs, a family friend, recalled: "[She] had the best personality. The implication that an alleged clerical error by an FBI employee caused years of delay in identifying this defendant is misleading. Finally having a breakthrough in the case was a positive day for the community, she said. This not only honors the slain girls, but reminds the public that their killer remains at-large and until he is captured, none can rest easy. This bridge - aptly named the Monon High Bridge - lives up to its namesake: it's roughly 60 feet tall, making it the 2nd highest bridge in all of Indiana. We are very happy. In particular, they were looking for anyone that had been at or around the Monon High Bridge between 2:30 and 5:30 PM on February 13th, 2017. This had followed a similar incident from 2007, which had seemingly kicked off his criminal career. In the video, a man wearing jeans, a blue jacket, and a hoodie can be seen approaching the girls and saying something to them. In fact, between 1974 and 2012, the FBI had recorded only 15 of these incidents, meaning that the likelihood of two similar abduction-murders taking place in the same geographic region - a handful of years apart - has to be very small. (An exclusive clip is shown below.). Earlier in the day, a private ceremony had been attended by the girls' friends and family. A woman driving on a street that parallels the Monon High Bridge trail said she saw a man who was muddy and bloody, wearing a blue jacket and blue jeans, walking toward her on the road, according to the affidavit. In Lafayette -- about 20 miles away from Delphi -- No arrests have been made, and no suspect has been identified. "What we're hearing from sources indicates that this is connected," co-host of The Murder Sheet, Aine Cain said on the podcast. We will say more then. In the year leading up to this point, Abby and Libby had become incredibly close; as had their families. They did everything together. Where Will This High Altitude Balloon Land? But once she did, she had a reputation for being fiercely loyal and loving and incredibly rambunctious. WebAs reported by ABC News, the child told police that she was bitten, bruised, sexually assaulted, and even blacked out at one point. The audio is muffled, but a male voice can be heard saying the words guys and down the hill.. Officials said the affidavit is currently under seal and declined to provide additional details about the bombshell development in the high-profile case that has rocked the small, close-knit community of Delphi and gone unsolved for more than half a decade. For the first time, police publicly stated that the killer was likely familiar with Delphi itself, meaning that they no longer believed this was an outsider. The individual in this sketch is also noticeably younger than the original. Sign up here. In February of this year, the two-year anniversary of the girls' death came and went, and with it, came a renewed sense of optimism that the killer - of whom so many details are public knowledge - will be brought to justice. The family members of Abby and Libby - who were unaware of the information that would be shared - met with police just a short time before the press conference on Monday, April 22nd. In addition to the number of useless leads being called in to officials, it is believed that officials had to deal with a number of individuals confessing to the murders but not knowing any of the intimate details of the crime itself. This is the sketch that would be widely-circulated in the aftermath of the crime, but - as we'll soon learn - this may not have been accurate or even helpful. Another lightning rod for speculation is a meat processing plant, which is roughly 2.5 miles away from the Monon High Bridge. This year an anonymous donor added $100,000 to the reward fund in Abby and Libby's case, Leazenby said. Thats a very viable theory. The car had apparently been parked on County Road 300 North, near the entrance to the bridge trail, close to the Hoosier Heartland Highway. She said the support she got from other teams was 'overwhelming. "And we know that the Anthony Shots account was actually in communication with Liberty German, who was one of the victims in this case.". As you'll hear, they were very vague about any details, and seemed unwilling to admit that the discovery pertained to the two missing girls. Their means of death dont match, Steven Goncalves said on Fox News Lawrence Jones Cross Country on Dec. 3. Later that afternoon, a brief press conference was held with officials for the Delphi Police Department, Carroll County Sheriff's Department, and Indiana State Police speaking to the media. When Williams and German failed to meet their parents at the pre-arranged pickup location at 5.15pm that evening, they called the police to report the girls missing. However, based on this image, we can make out several details of this individual. This search only last a couple of hours, however, as a discovery was made by the Delphi Fire Department shortly after noon. Cain said: "A lot of technology comes up in this case of devices that are being used to store child sexual abuse materials or communications with underage girls. The girl said "Chadwell was also choking her with his hands on her neck and also using his arm in a headlock, to the point where she passed out," according to the affidavit. This sketch features an individual with a narrow nose, thin lips, no facial hair, thick curly-looking hair, and a stronger, more pronounced jaw (which may or may not suggest an under-bite). Their bodies were discovered the next day in a wooded area around half a mile off the trail. Following the release of this image, authorities lauded Liberty German, one of the two victims, who had managed to capture not only an image of this man before her death, but also video and audio. The search lasted for several hours, expanding out from the girl's last known location: the Monon High Bridge they posted photos of on Snapchat. So while Delphi itself has the reputation for being a small town - you know, the kind where "everybody knows everybody," that whole thing - it is really just part of a larger grid, connected to dozens of other cities and towns. Video of her car passing the Hoosier Harvestore, an agriculture company, narrows the time she would have seen him to 3:57 p.m. An unspent bullet found between the girls bodies allegedly matches a gun owned by Allen. feel i need to declare my position on that. The man dressed in blue jeans, a blue jacket and a hoodie was photographed on a nature trial around the same time the two girls disappeared. WebRichard Allen, a 50-year-old married Delphi man, was taken into custody on Wednesday (26 October) and booked into Carroll County Jail. Hard to control two victims. Abby and Libby are believed to have been killed in another location, before their murderer then moved their bodies to where they were found, the surfaced documents show. The search for the two girls - which set off early that evening - was conducted by the aforementioned sheriff's department, as well as by members of the Delphi Police Department, the Delphi Fire Department, and the Department of Natural Resources. In a written statement directed at this unknown killer, which was released later in the day, ISP Superintendent Doug Carter wrote: "We have a witness. She had even started taking classes over in Lafayette; most specifically, at Purdue University. A rumored encounter was reported by an eyewitness the day after the murders, in an incident that I can only describe as bizarre. The entrance to the trail - known as Freedom Bridge - was located along County Road West 300 North, near the Hoosier Heartland Highway, a wooded area a couple of miles away from downtown Delphi. Furthermore, the most recent press conference seemed pretty brazen to many, with ISP Superintendent Doug Carter openly calling the culprit a "coward" and making vague statements about his religious beliefs. His home had been searched on suspicion of child porn charges just two weeks after the 2017 murders. Additionally, while he may have looked like the composite image released by police, he didn't really look like the image of the figure captured on Libby's cell phone. I just didn't believe it. Flowers sit by a bridge near Delphi, Ind. some just savor the moment, take mementos from the crime scene and masturbate to the thought of it over and over. However, later in 2017, several family members would appear on an episode of Dr. Phil, where they tried to rekindle some public interest in the investigation. In the case of Lyric Cook and Elizabeth Collins, their bodies were actually discovered by hunters. It is widely believed that they do, but that it might be a partial-sample: which would be enough to eliminate suspects, but perhaps not enough to find him through DNA databases. However, even if the development does bring some closure to the case, the families of Libby and Abby will never have closure from what happened, she said. The following day - after she learned about the two murdered girls not too far away from where she had been - she reported the incident to police. Roughly one week after the shooting in the Catholic Supply store, Bruce was arraigned on first-degree murder charges, as well as additional charges of sodomy, armed criminal action, burglary, and tampering with evidence. Will Marjorie Taylor Greene Be Donald Trumps Running M Mitt Romney Confronts George Santos at State of the Uni Donald Trump Kicks Off His 2024 Presidential Campaign, Bodycam Footage Shows Hammer Attack on Paul Pelosi. And maybe that's the one thing that gets this guy.". 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