Comments by "Glamdolly" (@glamdolly30) on "Investigators look at new leads in Delphi murder case | NewsNation Prime" video.
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Yet another red herring, in a police investigation so horribly bungled that 4 years on, the Delphi Murders have achieved Cold Case status. Well done Supt Doug Carter and the rest of the Keystone Cops!
This announcement is further, depressing evidence that police are no closer to identifying the killer of Abby Williams and Libby German after a 4 year investigation. Kegan Kline, the online paedo, was in detectives' sights from the very start. They searched his home straight after the murders in February 2017, but found no connection between him and the victims. If they had, he would have been arrested (and probably charged), in 2017, within weeks of the murders.
From the get-go, Supt Carter said that Libby and Abby's online activity had been forensically studied by experts, and there was no evidence of them communicating with males or arranging to meet anyone on the day they were killed. Obviously that was the first line of inquiry police explored. The findings pointed not to an online predator, but to an opportunist offender, loitering that day looking for a victim/victims, when the girls came into his sights. It was in all likelihood a classic case of 'wrong place, wrong time' for poor Abby and Libby.
Now suddenly 4 years later police do a 360 degree about-turn, and suggest there is a connection between Kline and this notorious, unsolved double child murder. The only problem is - they still haven't found any actual link! So they've launched a public fishing expedition, in hopes someone out there can give them what they can't find for themselves. Frankly I doubt Carter and Co could find their own arse with both hands, if the lights went out.
Under Supt Carter's dubious leadership, this double homicide investigation was mishandled from the start. Supt Carter's ridiculous posturing at the first big press conference (addressing the killer directly, suggesting he was in the room and telling him; "You want to know what we know, and very soon you will", yada, yada), was pointless and preposterous. It certainly didn't inspire confidence. Did he really think a sex killer would have a pang of conscience and give himself up?!
If he wanted to appeal directly to someone, he should have addressed those individuals who undoubtedly recognised the murderer from the video footage. The biggest and best clue handed to police on a plate came from one of the victims, young Libby, whose courage and quick-thinking snagged them video images and audio of the killer. What an amazing girl she was. Who knows what she would have achieved had she lived, and realised her ambition to work in forensics. Libby's brilliant cellphone footage was detectives' best asset, and elevated an already huge crime story to the lead item on every TV bulletin and news website.
Police should have exploited that huge publicity and the chilling video of the suspect to the max, by appealing to individuals out there who inevitably recognised and could identify the man on the bridge. Crucially, had Supt Carter boosted the killer's profile by sharing some additional, unique features of his MO, there was a chance at least one person would know him - and give them his name. The crime scene, and the girls' injuries, must have yielded many clues to the murderer's identity. Were footprints found indicating his shoe size? Could they say he was likely right or left handed? What behaviours did he exhibit, eg had he tied the girls up, and if so, with what? Such a detail shared could mean a light bulb moment for a friend, relative or a previous victim - and that one 911 call that provides a critical piece of the jigsaw.
But with Supt Carter at the helm, police stuck doggedly to their policy of sharing no such details of the killer or crime. Their silence created an information vacuum, and gave the public no opportunities to help identify 'bridge guy'. This policy was and remains incredibly short sighted, and is surely a big factor in this crime remaining unsolved after 4 years. Make no mistake, no crime be it a mugging or mass murder, was ever solved without the public's help! Supt Carter didn't help matters 2 years in, when he revealed a second, totally contrasting artist's impression of the killer, at a news conference so hastily arranged, Libby and Abby's loved-ones were given scant notice of it. Suddenly the suspect, so obviously a middle aged man between 40-55 on the video, was a much younger man in his late teens or twenties.
This latest so-called 'development' of an online suspect who was eliminated in 2017, is nothing of the kind. It's desperate - and only shows cops are still no closer to solving this case. Poor Abby and Libby have not had justice, and ALL women and girls are at risk while this maniac remains on the loose. He will be more emboldened and dangerous than ever, having got away with an audacious double murder, in broad daylight. You don't have to be an criminologist to know he will kill again. Sex killers are the worst recidivists of all, because they are so highly motivated to re-offend. It's not a question of if but when.
The police investigation to date. It's now high time a brand new team of detectives replaced Carter and Co, and the investigation was fully overhauled. Abby and Libby, and every woman and girl, deserve nothing less.
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