This episode includes discussion of sexual assault and the murders of children.

Today, we're going to talk a bit about the Delphine murders.

To recap, on February 13, 2017, Libby German and Abigail Williams walked across the Monon High Bridge in Delphine, Indiana.

Libby even posted an image of Abby making her way along it.

A few minutes later, they ran into someone. A man.

Libby recorded at least a portion of that encounter.

But only a very few moments of it have ever been released.

The man calls them guys and tells them to go down the hill.

We don't know exactly what happened next. But police believe that the person you just heard on that snippet of audio killed Libby and Abby.

Today, nearly five years after the murders of Libby and Abby, people remained captivated by this case.

There are, of course, many reasons for this.

But one of the things we hear mentioned most often is that people find it amazing that two young people could be attacked and killed in a public place in broad daylight.

Those circumstances seem so unusual that some are tempted to draw conclusions from it. Perhaps the killer knew the girls were going to be there.

Maybe he was a local, was familiar with the area around the bridge, and so knew how to pick a time when it was likely no one else would stumble across him committing his crime.

Perhaps he was able to control the two girls at once because he was someone who was used to having a position of authority over kids.

Maybe, well, there is almost no end to the speculation.

But are those speculations valid? Can we actually draw any meaningful conclusions from what we know about the circumstances of the murders of Libby and Abby?

To try to figure that out, we decided to do something a bit different this week.

We're going to take a murder sheet approach to this case.

That means digging down and finding other homicides to share key attributes with what happened to Libby and Abby.

My name is Anya Cain.

And I'm Kevin Greenley.

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