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The Terrifying Case of Bridge Guy and the Delphi Murders - Coffeehouse Crime (64k) · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: What we know is what we know, and we're not
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  Speaker 1: ready to talk about that yet.
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  Speaker 2: How close are you right now at beginning this song?
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  Speaker 1: One piece away, one piece away. Eventually, somebody's gonna do
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  Speaker 1: the right thing. He has no idea what we know,
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  Speaker 1: but one day you will. If we hit year four,
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  Speaker 1: I hope our shit here again, but we will do
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  Speaker 1: everything within our power and within the parameters of law
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  Speaker 1: to find the individual that did. There's Dabby and Libby.
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  Speaker 3: Our story starts in Delphi, Indiana. Delphi is a small
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  Speaker 3: town with the meek population of just three thousand people.
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  Speaker 3: It's a relatively safe area's living, work, and it's most
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  Speaker 3: commonly known as a farming community. Not a lot goes
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  Speaker 3: on in this sleep town and was until February twenty seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: Liberty German and.
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  Speaker 3: Abi Girl Williams were two girls living in the local area.
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  Speaker 3: They were best friends and they both went to Delphi
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  Speaker 3: Community Middle School. Liberty enjoyed volleyball, softball, soccer, and swimming.
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  Speaker 3: She was a band member in her local school and
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  Speaker 3: she was a creative individual. Abby was also in the
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  Speaker 3: school band and played the saxophone. Abby loved to read
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  Speaker 3: and she enjoyed camping, swimming, and being outdoors, they were
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  Speaker 3: both inseparable together. On February thirteenth, twenty seventeen, Libby and
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  Speaker 3: Abbey were hiking on the Delphi Historic Trail just east
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  Speaker 3: of Delphi.
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  Speaker 2: On the Monan high Bridge.
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  Speaker 3: Monan high Bridge is a decommissioned railway bridge, but it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't stop locals from getting a walk under good scare
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  Speaker 3: from heights. It was an unusually warm February afternoon that
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  Speaker 3: day and would school out. The two girls are taking
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  Speaker 3: advantage of that. The area wasn't far from home, it
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  Speaker 3: was just a country roaded out of town. But despite this,
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  Speaker 3: the area was a very secluded spot and the bridge
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  Speaker 3: wasn't really a safe place.
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  Speaker 2: To be for two and supervised girls.
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  Speaker 3: A family member dropped the girls off of the plants,
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  Speaker 3: picked them up a couple hours later, and Libby and
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  Speaker 3: Abbe jumped out of the car at around about one.
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  Speaker 2: Pm to start their walk. The afternoon started off fine.
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  Speaker 3: They made their way towards modern high Bridge, and roughly
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  Speaker 3: an hour later, at two seven pm, Libby snapped this
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  Speaker 3: infamous photo of Abbey over the bridge and posted it
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  Speaker 3: to Snapchat. However, at three point fifteen pm, the girls
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  Speaker 3: will know where to be found at their pickup point.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, to Libby's mobile phone at first went unanswered
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  Speaker 3: and then eventually went straight to voicemail. At first, the
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  Speaker 3: families went too alarmed. They both decided to go down
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  Speaker 3: to the nature trail and look for Libyan Abbey. But
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  Speaker 3: as time went on and the two girls are not found,
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  Speaker 3: the two families started to get nervous. They contacted the
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  Speaker 3: local sheriff department at five point thirty pm that evening,
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  Speaker 3: as new spread. Sheriff Le's eNB told r TV six
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  Speaker 3: news that he had no reason to believe that the
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  Speaker 3: girls were in danger. At the time, Cruse believed that
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  Speaker 3: the girls simply got lost in the woods and would
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  Speaker 3: eventually find their way back. But throughout that evening, dozens
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  Speaker 3: of people volunteered to search for Libyan Abbey. The only
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  Speaker 3: clue they had of where the two were were through
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  Speaker 3: the snapchat photo. The search continued through to midnight until
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  Speaker 3: it was officially called off due to temperature and darkness,
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  Speaker 3: though some of the family members carried on looking. The
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  Speaker 3: next day, Cruz resumed their search for libyin Abbey. It
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  Speaker 3: was the morning of February fourteenth, Valentine's Day cruise widened
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  Speaker 3: their search area as soon as the sun came up,
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  Speaker 3: wandering further away from the abandoned railroad track and checking
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  Speaker 3: the wooded areas underneath the bridge and into Deer Creek.
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  Speaker 3: The official search had only just resumed when two search
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  Speaker 3: members made a horrific discovery. The bodies of Liberty German
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  Speaker 3: and Abi Girl Williams were found just over a mile
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  Speaker 3: from where they were dropped off, on a private piece
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  Speaker 3: of land near the Monan Bridge. No details of how
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  Speaker 3: the girls were found or their specific cause of death
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  Speaker 3: were publicly released. In fact, to this day, they still
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  Speaker 3: haven't been. The only details of their deaths were through
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  Speaker 3: leaked messages from a search team member. These league's messages
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  Speaker 3: detailed that Abby was stabbed multiple times, including through the heart,
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  Speaker 3: and Libby's neck had been cut so deep that it
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  Speaker 3: was barely attached. The community was devastated. Law enforcement declared
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  Speaker 3: both deaths as homicide and offered a two hundred and
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  Speaker 3: fifty thousand dollars reward for information that would lead to
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  Speaker 3: the arrest of who this murderer was. But before the
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  Speaker 3: girls met their fate back on the bridge, Libby saw
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  Speaker 3: someone approaching them and felt uneasy, She felt compelled to
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  Speaker 3: take a mobile phone out of her pocket and start recording.
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  Speaker 3: In that moment of braveness and wit. What Libby recorded
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  Speaker 3: would be something that confuses an other haunts people still
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  Speaker 3: to this day.
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  Speaker 2: So things get foggy here.
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  Speaker 3: What law enforcement released to the public was only two
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  Speaker 3: seconds of the video clip, but unofficial sources believe that
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  Speaker 3: her video lasted over an entire minute. Just after these
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  Speaker 3: two seconds, Libby puts her phone in her pocket and
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  Speaker 3: leaves the video recording. The two then start to walk
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  Speaker 3: away from the unidentified suspect off the bridge, and at
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  Speaker 3: some point after both girls are off the bridge, Libby's
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  Speaker 3: concealed phone records the following audio message. And that's all
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  Speaker 3: we know. Other than an additional two mug shots. That's
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  Speaker 3: all the police have released to the public. In the
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  Speaker 3: days following the girl's murders, Libby was heralded by state
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  Speaker 3: police as a hero for having the presence of mind
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  Speaker 3: to start recording when she did. Her video and audio
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  Speaker 3: clips very quickly gave the suspect the name Bridge Guy.
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  Speaker 3: So what do we know about the released footage. Well,
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  Speaker 3: as you'd expect, this video has been very heavily analyzed
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  Speaker 3: by people online. There are, in fact, many possible theories
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  Speaker 3: and details out there, but these are.
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  Speaker 2: The ones that we know.
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  Speaker 3: The video shows the suspect walking behind and towards Libbin
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  Speaker 3: Abbey on the bridge. He's white male, roughly five foot
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  Speaker 3: nine and weighs about two hundred pounds, stocky build. He
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  Speaker 3: was wearing light blue jeans and a dark blue jacket
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  Speaker 3: over a flannel shirt, some sort of beige baseball cap,
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  Speaker 3: and he wore a fanny bag. Both of his hands
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  Speaker 3: appeared to be in his pockets, his left hand lower
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  Speaker 3: than his right hand, looking like his right hand as
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  Speaker 3: holding onto something. He was also walking in a funny way,
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  Speaker 3: but that's what you'd expect on a rickety bridge, and
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  Speaker 3: in the final fraction of a second of the video
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  Speaker 3: you can see him turn towards the girl's camera. Libby
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  Speaker 3: was just over the south side entrance of the bridge
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  Speaker 3: when she recorded the suspects. The suspect was around about
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  Speaker 3: ninety feet away from her. Abby, who was closer to
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  Speaker 3: the suspect, was walking towards Libby. Unconfirmed sources state that
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  Speaker 3: just after this video clip, Abby asked Libby if the
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  Speaker 3: man was still following them, Libby responded with the two
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  Speaker 3: knew something was wrong, and shortly after that they are
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  Speaker 3: then told to go. Law enforcements said that the video
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  Speaker 3: and audio were from the same media file and that
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  Speaker 3: it captured the man telling the girls to go down
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  Speaker 3: the hill during possible criminal activity. They have, however, never
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  Speaker 3: elaborated further than that the clip of the suspect sounds
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  Speaker 3: commanding and what he says matches the.
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  Speaker 2: Location of where the girls were found.
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  Speaker 3: At the end of the south side of the bridge,
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  Speaker 3: there is a hill embankment and if you go down
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  Speaker 3: this hill, it leads you towards the River Deer Creek
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  Speaker 3: just over that as where the girls were found. Five
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  Speaker 3: months into the investigation, Indiana State Police released their first
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  Speaker 3: sketch and description of the suspect. The first sketch was
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  Speaker 3: created after police received information from several witnesses who were
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  Speaker 3: in the area at the time that libyin Abbe had disappeared.
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  Speaker 3: At the time, the suspect was described similar to that
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  Speaker 3: scene in the video. The suspect was between five foot
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  Speaker 3: six inches to five foot ten inches, one hundred and
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  Speaker 3: eighty to two hundred and twenty.
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  Speaker 2: Pounds, and had reddish to brownish hair.
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  Speaker 3: However, two years later, at a press conference on April
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  Speaker 3: the twenty second, twenty nineteen, police released a second sketch.
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  Speaker 3: That sketch appears to be of an entirely different person
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  Speaker 3: and as now the person believed to be the main
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  Speaker 3: suspect in the murders of the two girls. Along with
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  Speaker 3: the new sketch, the police also updated their description of
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  Speaker 3: the man and believed it was between eighteen to forty
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  Speaker 3: years old, though we could appear to look much younger
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  Speaker 3: than he actually is. Superintendent Doug Carter shared.
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  Speaker 4: When we decided that through the information we've received, that
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  Speaker 4: we were going to to release the second sketch, I
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  Speaker 4: don't believe the individual knew we were going to do that,
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  Speaker 4: so it was really really important. I think he was
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  Speaker 4: probably there and or watching simply because he thought we
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  Speaker 4: were on the wrong path.
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  Speaker 3: Both sketches were composed from individual witnesses who were both
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  Speaker 3: there on the day that the girls went missing. Indiana
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  Speaker 3: State Police revealed that the second sketch, released more than
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  Speaker 3: two years after the girls were murdered, was actually the
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  Speaker 3: first sketch that was drawn up.
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  Speaker 2: They also said they believed.
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  Speaker 3: That the second sketch was a more accurate depiction of
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  Speaker 3: the suspect, though the suspect could actually be a mix
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  Speaker 3: between the first and the second sketches. One final key
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  Speaker 3: piece of information that investigators released was that they believed
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  Speaker 3: the man who murdered Abbu Labie either lived in Delphi
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  Speaker 3: or was familiar with the area. ISP Superintendent Doug A.
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  Speaker 3: Carter shared the following statement at a press conference.
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  Speaker 4: I've walked across that high bridge myself, at sixty five
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  Speaker 4: to seventy feet off the river deck. It hasn't had
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  Speaker 4: a train on it since nineteen twenty nine. The ties
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  Speaker 4: are starting to rot. It's ways back and forth, and
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  Speaker 4: it's not something you can just jump on and walk
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  Speaker 4: straight across if you'd never done it before. I decided
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  Speaker 4: I was going to take the riverbank going back. I didn't.
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  Speaker 4: That wasn't the first time he's been on that high bridge,
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  Speaker 4: my opinion. Again, that's my opinion. I experienced it, and
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  Speaker 4: I kept a peace of the high bridge, and I'll
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  Speaker 4: carry it with me until we find out who this is.
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  Speaker 3: During the press conference in April twenty nineteen, Indiana State
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  Speaker 3: Police also requested the public's help. They were trying to
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  Speaker 3: identify the driver of a vehicle that was parked near
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  Speaker 3: the Moaning High.
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  Speaker 2: Bridge on the day that Libyan Abbey went missing.
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  Speaker 3: However, no details were released to the public, not the make,
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  Speaker 3: the model, the cars color, or the license plate.
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  Speaker 2: Really keeping us deprived here, guys? Come on?
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  Speaker 3: So far, no additional information has been released by Indiana
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  Speaker 3: State Police and they still haven't identified the vehicle or
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  Speaker 3: the driver of the vehicle.
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  Speaker 2: So the question now is who is Bridge Guy?
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  Speaker 3: Since Abbez and Leaby's deaths, any one person has been
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  Speaker 3: named as a suspect by Indiana State Police. The name
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  Speaker 3: of this suspect is Daniel Nations, but during a press
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  Speaker 3: conference marking one year after their deaths, Indiana State Police
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  Speaker 3: shared that Daniel Nations was not someone they cared a
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  Speaker 3: whole lot about anymore. Another person of interest was Charles Eldridge.
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  Speaker 3: Charles Eldridge was arrested on January eighth, twenty nineteen, in
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  Speaker 3: Union City, Indiana, on charges of child mother station and
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  Speaker 3: child solicitation. Those who know Charles have described him as
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  Speaker 3: being a violent widow obsessed with hiding in the woods.
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  Speaker 3: Police in Randolph County alerted the FBI to potential link
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  Speaker 3: between Eldridge and the Delphi murders on account of his
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  Speaker 3: strong resemblance to the suspect sketch, though this was before
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  Speaker 3: the updated sketch composite had come out, and most recently
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  Speaker 3: authorities have shared that they're looking into a suspect by
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  Speaker 3: the name of Paul Etta. He had been accused of
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  Speaker 3: abducting and sexually assaulting a twenty six year older woman,
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  Speaker 3: and following these allegations, he killed himself during a police
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  Speaker 3: stand off in June twenty nineteen. Despite these ongoing investigations,
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  Speaker 3: no one's been arrested. So what's the coffee hol's verdict?
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  Speaker 3: My personal opinion, I don't know. Abigail and Liberty were
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  Speaker 3: two young girls just starting her life in a small town.
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  Speaker 3: It's scary to think that the two young girls were
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  Speaker 3: murdered in broad daylight, but what must have been more
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  Speaker 3: terrifying for them is that they knew something was wrong
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  Speaker 3: in their final moments. Liberty was brave and smart in
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  Speaker 3: her actions. What she recorded is nothing short of remarkable.
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  Speaker 3: You would think that in today's times, the video and
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  Speaker 3: audio of a killer would be enough to eventually find them,
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  Speaker 3: one way or another. That's why this case is so
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  Speaker 3: frustrating no one's been arrested. I don't know if the
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  Speaker 3: current suspects have any connection to the murders. I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: if there's enough evidence, they'd be arrested already. And what's
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  Speaker 3: just as frustrating is law enforcement's hush hush strategy. I
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  Speaker 3: understand that withholding information from the public is done to
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  Speaker 3: prevent any tip offs of current evidence to the suspect,
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  Speaker 3: But Liberty recorded her murderer so the world could see
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  Speaker 3: and listen, and that's not something the world can currently do.
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  Speaker 3: Law enforcements sketches also totally contradict each other. This could
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  Speaker 3: have easily confused day valuable witness already. The first sketch
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  Speaker 3: release to the public resembles the video much better, and
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  Speaker 3: it even resembles Charles Eldridge and Paul Letter. But their
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  Speaker 3: updated sketch in twenty nineteen seems to discredit both suspects.
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  Speaker 2: The video and audio for what we know is terrifying.
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  Speaker 3: I hope that one day we will find their killer,
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  Speaker 3: but who knows? Hi there, and thank you so much
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  Speaker 3: for watching another video of mine. What do you think
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  Speaker 3: happened to Liberty German and Abigil Williams? Do you think
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  Speaker 3: we already know the suspect or do you think it's
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  Speaker 3: someone else entirely? Tell me what you think in the
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  Speaker 3: comments below. I'd love to hear them. If you enjoyed
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  Speaker 3: this case, please like this video, subscribe and hang around
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  Speaker 3: for more and I've seen the next video. Thank you
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  Speaker 3: and look after each other.
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  Speaker 2: Goodbye,