The Delphi Murders: A Seven-Year Summary of the Case

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🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Seven years ago, on February 13, 2017, 13-year-old Abigail "Abby" Williams and 14-year-old Liberty "Libby" German went out for a walk on the trails of Delphi, Indiana. They never came back.

In this episode, we'll explain all the major twists and turns that the Delphi murders case has taken over the years.

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0:00.0	Content warning. This episode contains discussion of the murder of two children.
0:05.0	This episode also contains discussion of suicide and child sexual abuse.
0:10.0	One request that we frequently get here at the murder sheet is that we do an
0:15.8	episode that sort of functions as a cliff's notes for the Delphi case. The Delphi
0:20.6	case is of course a very, very complicated series of events involving multiple suspects, many years of investigation, and quite a bit of legal drama recently.
0:33.0	So we thought that this was a great idea and a great suggestion by some of our listeners.
0:37.5	We hope that this episode can essentially function as a primer
0:41.0	for those of you who may not feel as familiar with the cases you want to be
0:44.5	who want to get caught up or who just want a boiled down summary of a lot of the
0:49.2	important things that have happened in the seven years since these two young girls, Abby Williams and Liberty
0:55.2	German, were murdered in Delphi. And we thought that this would be good to release on the seventh anniversary since these tragic
1:04.3	slangs. My name is Anya Kane. I'm a journalist. And I'm Kevin Greenlee. I'm an
1:10.3	attorney. And this is the Murder Sheet.
1:13.0	We're a true crime podcast focused on original reporting, interviews, and deep dives into
1:18.2	murder cases.
1:19.2	We're the Murder Sheet.
1:22.0	And this is the Delphi murders, a seven-year summary of the case. Thank you. Oh, So, In order to talk about the Delphi case, we have to go back to the very beginning.
2:17.6	And that of course is February 13, 2017. One thing that we've said a lot recently with all of the legal drama is that we feel oftentimes that these two girls who were murdered get lost in a lot of the noise.
2:31.0	And that is true. Frankly, it's been true for years with a lot of the noise and that is true frankly it's been true for years with a lot of the online
2:35.1	noise and it's very disheartening to see but ultimately the story goes back to two
2:40.1	young girls two good friends who did a very normal thing by going for a walk on a warm
2:46.4	February day that they had off from school and we're talking of course about
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