The Delphi Murders: Case Refresher as Jury Selection Starts | Susan Hendricks
Zone 7 with Sheryl McCollum
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🗓️ 16 October 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
On February 14, 2017, Abigail Williams and Liberty German are discovered near the Monon High Bridge Trail, part of the Delphi Historic Trails in Delphi, Indiana.
In this episode of Zone 7, Crime Scene Investigator, Sheryl McCollum, is joined by Susan Hendricks to update the listeners on the latest news on The Delphi murders involving victims Abby Williams and Libby German, who were killed in February 2017. Sheryl and Susan recount the day's events, discuss the ongoing investigation, and consider recent updates. They also discuss the case's timeline, witness testimonies, suspect sketches, and the significant emotional toll on the victims' families. Lastly, they examine Richard Allen's possible actions and incriminating statements, courtroom strategies, the jury's visit to the crime scene, and courtroom deliberations, including debates on evidence admissibility and potential ritualistic motives.
Susan Hendricks is a journalist and author. She has worked with CNN and HLN, known for her compassionate reporting style. She deeply connects to the Delphi case, having authored the book "Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi"
Listeners can connect more with Susan on IG @susan_hendricks or X @SusanHendricks
Previous Zone 7 Episodes Covering The Delphi Case -
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Previous Zone 7 episode about Delphi murders: The Delphi Murders: The Quest for Justice with Barbara MacDonald
Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi written by: Susan Hendricks
Show Notes:
- (0:00) Welcome back to Zone 7 with Crime Scene Investigator, Sheryl McCollum
- (1:00) Background of The Delphi Murders
- (2:00) Sheryl welcomes returning guest, Susan Hendricks to Zone 7
- (2:30) The Day of the Disappearance
- (5:00) Timeline Analysis
- (8:00) Eyewitness Accounts and Sketches
- (11:00) The Scene of the Crime and the Cell Phone
- (15:30) Speculations and Theories
- (24:30) Childhood Memories and Fearlessness
- (26:45) Witness Testimonies and Alibis
- (30:00) Richard Allen's 61 Incriminating Statements
- (35:30) The Role of Jury Selection
- (41:00) Reflections and Gratitude
- (45:00) “I do have faith in the system. I believe they can find jurors who will look at the evidence. I don't think we know all the evidence, but I think the jury will be able to look at it and make a decision.” -S.H
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Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is an Emmy Award winning CSI, a writer for CrimeOnLine, Forensic and Crime Scene Expert for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, and a CSI for a metro Atlanta Police Department. She is the co-author of the textbook., Cold Case: Pathways to Justice. Sheryl is also the founder and director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute, a collaboration between universities and colleges that brings researchers, practitioners, students and the criminal justice community together to advance techniques in solving cold cases and assist families and law enforcement with solvability factors for unsolved homicides, missing persons, and kidnapping cases.
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| 0:00.0 | Y'all tonight we're going to get an update on Delphi. |
| 0:14.8 | And those of you that may not know this case, I'm just going to briefly, and I mean briefly, |
| 0:20.5 | because there's a lot over the last |
| 0:22.3 | seven years, but it was February the 13th, 2017, when 13-year-old Abby Williams and 14-year-old |
| 0:33.0 | Libby German, they had a day off of school, and they just wanted to go to the high bridge and |
| 0:38.7 | hang out and take pictures and just do what friends do. Hang out. Libby's sister, who then was 17, |
| 0:48.4 | Kelsey, dropped them off right at the head of the trail, waved by to them, reminded them, |
| 0:55.4 | hey, Dad's going to pick y'all up around 3 o'clock. When dad gets there, he cannot find them anywhere. He starts |
| 1:02.6 | calling other family members, have they walked home? Did they get a ride? Has anybody seen them? |
| 1:08.8 | Nobody had seen them. The family all comes to the high bridge. |
| 1:13.6 | They take different trails looking for them. |
| 1:15.6 | They ask people that are walking around, have you seen two girls together? |
| 1:19.6 | Nothing, not a sight of them anywhere. |
| 1:23.6 | The search goes on through the night, even though the sheriff tried to call it off because |
| 1:27.9 | he thought it was too dangerous for people to be out there in the dark, friends and family |
| 1:31.7 | would not leave. |
| 1:33.3 | In less than 24 hours, their bodies were found north of Deer Creek. |
| 1:39.3 | Libby heroically had taken a video of a man that she captured on the high bridge, a video. |
| 1:47.9 | So we know what he looks like. |
| 1:50.7 | That video also captured his voice. |
| 1:54.4 | A suspect was arrested October of 2022. |
| 1:58.7 | So now I'm going to bring in our friend Susan Hendricks. Y'all know her. She literally |
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