![]() The girls took photos while strolling across the bridge, but as time passed and their family didn’t hear from them, police were called for assistance. On February 13, 2017, Libby and Abby took a hiking trip at the abandoned Monon High Bridge, in an outing that was only meant to be for a few hours. The Murders of Abby and Libby & Ronald Logan Kegan Kline (left) used a random stranger’s photo (right) to lure in underage girls, police say. He has not been charged in the Delphi case. The investigation continued, and Kline was arrested in 2020 on charges unrelated to the Delphi murders. When investigators got that device, they found that many files had been deleted and social media apps uninstalled. Investigators seized several devices, but Kline contacted them a few days later about a device they hadn’t seized. That is when they discovered the fake “anthony_shots” profile, soliciting minor girls online.Ī subpoena for an IP address led to another address in Peru, Indiana, and a second search warrant found Kline and his father there. Heavily redacted court documents say that state police and the FBI encountered Kline in 2017 while conducting a search warrant in Peru, Indiana. She was being potentially catfished by this person, who, of course, looked nothing like and was nothing like what he portrayed online.” “Libby was apparently enthralled by this profile,” Cain said. ![]() Meanwhile, Kegan Kline, an Indiana man accused of child exploitation and child pornography, says police told him he was the last person to communicate with one of the girls.Īccording to Business Insider senior reporter and co-founder of The Murder Sheet podcast, Áine Cain, Libby had an interaction with Kline on Instagram but thought she was interacting with the person in a photo Kline posted as himself, in an attempt to “catfish” young girls into sending nude photos. Posed, which I believe is what this scene is, that is for the offender’s gratification.” Kegan Kline So you try to make it look like there’s an accident. “If a perpetrator staged the scene, they did that for their benefit. “There is a difference between a scene that is staged and a scene that is posed,” McCollum said. ![]() The victims, according to the warrant, didn’t have any defense wounds, but some articles of clothing were taken from them and removed from the scene, while the killer placed the victims’ bodies in what investigators called a staged manner.ĭirector of Atlanta’s Cold Case Research Institute and Atlanta metro-area CSI, Sheryl McCollum, said she believes the killer likely “posed” the victims’ bodies, instead of staging, for a form of gratification. You’re not necessarily going to get that so much with a blunt type of weapon,” Morgan said. “Because of the nature of the victim’s wounds, it is nearly certain the perpetrator of the crime would have gotten blood on his person/clothing.”Īlthough the exact murder weapon is redacted in the warrant, “Body Bags” host and forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan told Grace that the killer likely used an edged weapon, given the amount of blood found at the crime scene. “A large amount of blood was lost by the victims at the crime scene,” an agent wrote in the warrant. Investigators have been mostly mum on many case details but a redacted warrant provides a glimpse into information surrounding the murder scene, suspect, and victims. ![]() Investigators think the bodies of slain Delphi girls, Abby Williams and Libby German, were staged and moved at the crime scene, court documents obtained by The Murder Sheet podcast revealed the show’s founders joined Nancy Grace and her expert guests on Wednesday’s “Crime Stories” to discuss the case.Īs CrimeOnline previously reported, 13-year-old Abby and 14-year-old Libby were murdered in 2017, but the killer remains elusive. ![]()
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