Delphi, Indiana: A MAN photographed walking along a northern Indiana trail system around the time two teenage girls later found slain were dropped off by a relative is now considered “main suspect” in their killings, State Police said yesterday.
The unidentified man previously had been considered a person authorities wanted to speak to in their investigation of the killings of 14-year-old Liberty German and 13-year-old Abigail Williams.
“He’s not just someone we want to talk to; we consider him a suspect in these murders,” Sgt. Tony Slocum said yesterday . “We’re officially calling him a suspect versus a subject we’re looking to speak to. He’s going to be our main suspect at this time,” he said.
The girls’ bodies were found Tuesday about a quarter-mile from an abandoned railroad bridge that’s part of a trail system where the teens had planned to go hiking on during a day off school in Delphi, a community of about 3,000 people some 60 miles northwest of Indianapolis.
Their deaths have been ruled a double-homicide, but authorities have not disclosed how the girls died.
