Comments by "Glamdolly" (@glamdolly30) on "Indiana State Police set to announce update on Delphi murders | NewsNation Prime" video.
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Are you serious? Supt Doug Carter is a disaster - the hammiest bad-actor ever. All that melodramatic talking to the killer he did, and pretending to be holding back tears - UGH! He enjoyed the drama far too much. His strategies of holding back extended video footage of the killer for two whole years (a golden piece of evidence from courageous Libby, squandered in the crucial first stages of the investigation), putting out two starkly different artists' impressions to confuse everyone, and holding back every detail the public needed to identify the suspect and provide his name, showed exactly how useless he is!
This audacious, daytime murder of two children in a public place was the work of a highly motivated and dangerous, risk-taker. That the murderer has been walking free all this time to kill other females, is a serious public safety scandal!
What this high-profile murder case needed was a Sheriff Grady Judd at the helm. That man does the best ever media conferences and fully understands the importance of regular communication and public liaison, to solve crimes. As a senior police officer once told me (a national newspaper reporter), "The police don't solve crimes - the public do". But in order to solve crimes, the public needs the police to share some clues with them. To date, Carter hasn't even revealed the girls' cause of death. In my experience as a journalist, that information vacuum from the police is unprecedented, and inevitably resulted in an information vacuum from the public. Holding back far too many details/clues, has only helped the killer evade capture.
An inept investigation by inexperienced police officers took this high profile double homicide all the way to cold case status. What an insult to the tragic child victims of this heinous crime. Nearly SIX YEARS later and finally, at long last, there's a person of interest (note - we do not yet know if Richard Allen has been charged with these murders - unless and until he is, the Delphi killings remain unsolved).
It's more than ironic when Carter did his '...the killer could be in this room' schtick, he suggested he was a local man, quote "hiding in plain sight".
If Richard Allen is his man, he's been living within a stone's throw of the crime scene and serving the local community in a Delphi pharmacy - ie right under law enforcement's nose - the entire time! Police will have serious questions to answer, about how they failed to identify him for so long. Further evidence, were it needed, that Supt Doug Carter is as useless as tits on a bull.
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If a dodgy internet search history indicated guilt in a high profile murder, the world's prisons would be full of innocent armchair detectives! The fact Kegan Kline looked up details of the Delphi murders online says precisely nothing about him, except he had a morbid curiosity about it - like countless other people!
Kline may have had extra reason to be curious about this double child homicide, if he'd previously cat-fished/communicated with Libby online (as has been suggested). Again, that doesn't mean he had any connection with her death - the internet is full of online perverts like him, targeting young women and girls. Most of them do not murder anyone.
Why are so many YouTubers/commentators deciding the new suspect Richard Allen must have known/or be linked to the Klines? I don't see that at all. First off there's no evidence Libby and Abby had arranged to meet anyone that day. On the contrary, from the start, cops said they did NOT believe they'd arranged any rendezvous. Libby's older sister Kelsi who drive the girls there that day in her car said the same, she didn't sense they were meeting anyone, only going for a hike.
In all likelihood the girls were targeted by an opportunist predator they'd never met before. That's why Libby took secret video of him following them over the bridge - he was a scary stranger. And stranger killings are the hardest to solve. Even so, bearing in mind Supt Doug Carter always said the killer could be local man and 'hiding in plain sight', if it IS Allen it's shocking he lived a stone's thrown from the crime scene - right under law enforcement's noses - yet they didn't catch him for the best part of six years.
We shall see - but I'm not getting excited about tomorrow's police media briefing just yet. We've been led down the garden path by Supt Carter and the Keystone Cops too many times before!
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@AnzuMiruku Interesting post. Still so many unanswered questions! I hope Monday's police briefing will share some long awaited facts with us - but on police conduct so far, I doubt it!
To date, law enforcement has been ridiculously over-cautious and tight-lipped, due in my view, to their inexperience in handling a homicide investigation of this magnitude. And that information vacuum only helped the killer escape justice for nearly 6 years, and turned this into a cold case.
They should have called in the FBI from day one and deferred to their superior expertise. But Supt Doug Carter is an inflated ego on legs, who wasn't willing to surrender such a high-profile homicide - and all the publicity he personally got from it - not even to the FBI who would undoubtedly have done a far better job. IMO this was all about Carter's ego and image. If I were Libby and Abby's family, I would hold Carter personally responsible for the failed police investigation.
Assuming he IS the killer, Richard Allen obviously felt safe to remain in Delphi after committing such a massively publicised and shocking, double child homicide. He was a 'respectable' husband and father, with a responsible job as a licensed pharmacist. Local people would have trusted him due to his personal and professional circumstances - and he was the classic, upstanding white, middle class, middle aged male, who automatically commands respect above all other profiles.
The assumption is generally that murderers like this are loners and oddball losers, Allen would not fit the bill of what people expect. But in truth these sorts of crimes require immense narcissism and let's not forget, confidence too - the killer abducted, assaulted and murdered two children in a public place in broad daylight. He was obviously pretty certain he'd succeed in his sinister plan and escape justice, outwitting the various witnesses and the police, Narcissists always believe they are smarter than everyone else.
That said, I feel there has to be something strange and unsettling about Richard Allen, if he was capable of plotting and carrying out a sick, sexually-motivated crime like the Delphi murders. And living in the community, locals surely must have noticed some odd quirks and qualities in him they felt uncomfortable around, though they couldn't quite put their finger on why. He likely made women in particular feel unsettled around him. He may even have behaved in inappropriate ways sexually, in the presence of women and girls. I believe some locals will say they are shocked if he is charged with these murders - but equally, others will say they never liked or trusted him.
I'm desperate to know what evidence prompted police to arrest Richard Allen now. His name has been mentioned on social media in the past in connection with the murders, so he's NOT new to police. I keep reading that dog hairs were found on the victims' bodies (no idea if that's true) - have they finally been matched to a pet belonging to Allen? And whatever the evidence, why the hell has it taken so damn long to put him behind bars? Women and girls' lives have been in danger while Libby and Abby's killer walked free. Whatever we learn on Monday, police have some serious questions to answer!
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True, it's crazy how people are saying there has to be a connection of some kind between Kegan Kline the pervert who cat-fished Libby online, and Richard Allen the alleged predator who murdered her and Abby. Why? There are perverts and abusers everywhere!
Even the late Ron Logan who owned the land the girls were killed on had a history of violence against women. Depending on your exact location, wherever you reside in America, chances are you have at least 200 registered sex offenders living within 5 miles of your home. And that's before you consider all the perverts and abusers who've never been charged with any crime, and exist under the radar as supposedly 'respectable citizens' (Richard Allen is in this category). There are at least as many, if not more, of them!
In all likelihood Libby and Abby were in the wrong place at the wrong time, targeted by a total stranger in an opportunist attack. Their killer was looking for a vulnerable, lone female to attack. When he saw the girls, he calculated they were young enough to scare and subdue with threats of a weapon.
So-called 'Stranger murders, in which the only link between victim and perpetrator is the crime, are notoriously the hardest to solve. That fact will no doubt be used by police to excuse their near-six years of failure to catch the man. However, the police said from the start they thought the killer was local and quote: '...hiding in plain sight'. Which only makes their bungled search for him even harder to understand!
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I agree, sadly those poor children probably froze with fear. Even adults will comply with a dangerous perpetrator's demands, in hopes if they do as he says he will let them go afterwards.
But everything the perpetrator says is for HIS benefit, not the victim's. So it makes more sense to do the OPPOSITE of what he says, and constantly defy and resist him. And yes, this story shocks on many levels, and one is that it took place in a public location in broad daylight where you would think the girls could have got help from passers by. Screaming and making as much noise as possible was their best bet. But in their sudden shock, fear and confusion at their changed circumstances, it's totally understandable if they did not.
Libby and Abby are believed to have made a break for freedom and tried to run away from this man (hence all three crossed the brook and got wet, which was not his intention), but were quickly overpowered and subdued by him. They did try, bless them, but innocent children are no physical or mental match for an adult male with evil intentions.
I feel kids should be taught personal safety tips, and some physical self defence moves at school. As parents, we should tell our children to scream "NO!", run, fight, tantrum - do everything they can to resist, attract attention and not go with an abductor to the second location - where he is more likely to kill you than in the first.
Sadly we still raise kids to be respectful, obedient and polite to adults - but as this tragedy shows, that is not always in their best interests. I feel kids should carry a personal alarm that emits a piercing shriek for such a situation. Why don't cellphone manufacturers fit them with such a feature, so that pressing a combination of numbers turns the phone into a deafening alarm, emitting a mega-loud siren call to scare off an attacker and alert help? It's possible such an alarm feature on the girls' phones might just have saved their lives that day.
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