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🗓️ 10 October 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong dives into the murders of 14 year-old Libby German and 13 year-old Abigail Williams. After five years, Richard Allen has been arrested for the "delphi murders." Candice also speaks with journalist Susan Hendrix, who covered the case and has written a new book about it entitled, "Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi."
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0:17.5 | 14-year-old Abigail Williams and 15-year-old Liberty German were the best of friends. |
0:33.5 | So it was not unusual that they would choose to spend their day off from middle school together, doing something fun. |
0:41.5 | That Monday, February 13, 2017, was unseasonably warm for a wintery day in the rural, small town of Delphi, Indiana, where they lived. |
0:54.5 | So the teens decided to go hiking along a popular nature trail where they often went to hang out. |
1:01.5 | The path leads to one of the main attractions along the trail. |
1:06.5 | A looming abandoned railroad trestle known as Monin High Bridge. |
1:12.5 | There is no visible railing to keep anyone from falling more than 60 feet into the rocky creek bed below. |
1:21.5 | Libby's older sister Kelsey dropped the girls off around 135 that afternoon and drove away. |
1:29.5 | The two teens then walked along the bridge, taking photos and posting them on social media. |
1:36.5 | About a half an hour later, Libby posted a photo of Abby on Snapchat walking head down along the bridge, surrounded by bare-leaved trees. |
1:48.5 | She was wearing jeans, sneakers, a t-shirt and an open jacket, her hair tied on top of her head. |
1:57.5 | The girls were supposed to be picked up at 3.15 by Libby's father, but they failed to show up at the pre-planned meeting spot. |
2:07.5 | By approximately 5.30 pm that evening, police were called and the girls were reported missing. |
2:15.5 | At first, local enforcement did not think the girls were in imminent danger, but the search and rescue continued. |
2:25.5 | Around 12.15 the following day, a grisly discovery was made. |
2:31.5 | Their two bodies were found roughly half a mile upstream from the bridge, on a small piece of private property. |
2:40.5 | On February 15, police released a grainy photo Libby had taken on her cell phone the day she went missing. |
2:50.5 | The picture was of a man wearing jeans and a blue jacket. |
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