Delphi Indiana Suspect Analyzed

[Ginger]

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/INPOLICE/bulletins/23f9c52

Indiana State Police are making an announcement Monday.

Delphi Homicide Investigation Moves in New Direction

The public is welcome to attend the below media briefing about the new direction of the Delphi homicide investigation.

What: Public and Media Statement on Delphi Murder Investigation

When: Monday, April 22, 2019 at 12:00 noon

Where: The Canal Center, 1030 North Washington Street, Delphi, IN 46923

Who: Indiana State Police Superintendent Doug Carter will make the announcement on behalf of the Multi-Agency Taskforce

Why: To share information with the media and public about the new direction of the Delphi homicide investigation

"New direction" seems an interesting phrase. I wonder if this is going to be something like "we know who did it, but he died already".

[Ginger]

I always thought they had DNA of the killer. I take it that's not the case?

I must beg your pardon. There is a DNA sample. https://www.yourtango.com/2018317190...rders-evidence

[gallicrow]

Mugshot

He certainly looks like the mugshot:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/police-investigate-accused-child-molester-in-connection-to-murder-of-two-teenage-girls

[Ginger]

I always thought they had DNA of the killer. I take it that's not the case?

Not so far as I'm aware. If they do, I've missed it. They've been very tight-lipped, though.

There was a bit of a foofaraw very early on when the man who actually found the bodies admitted to having touched each girl to see if they were alive (regrettable, but entirely understandable, IMHO), and some excitable person accused him of being the murderer, and trying to conceal that his DNA was already on the bodies.

[Harry D]

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/loca...504659041.html

A new suspect. While his antecedents are definitely of the very worst sort, it seems that he was able to satisfactorily account for his whereabouts at the time of the murders.

I always thought they had DNA of the killer. I take it that's not the case?

[Ginger]

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Police-Update-on-Delphi-Murder-Case-After-Tips-Involving-Indiana-Mans-Mugshot-504659041.html

A new suspect. While his antecedents are definitely of the very worst sort, it seems that he was able to satisfactorily account for his whereabouts at the time of the murders.

[Harry D]

I keep wondering why they're so very stinting in their release of video and audio? A movie with sound of the murderer approaching his victims seems to me to be pretty much the gold standard of 'have you seen this man?" And yet, they release only two stills and a sound bite, and stick to their policy when it's obvious that's not enough. Considering the enormous profile of the case and the resulting pressure to solve it, I have to think that they have some extremely good reason for keeping that from view. I have difficulty imagining what it might be, though.

It's standard for police to withhold information that could be crucial when interviewing a suspect. Maybe the killer said something that could give himself away? But you're right, it's probably time they released more footage from the video if they harbour any hopes of catching this guy.

[Ginger]

Same here. Very shocked that this guy hasn't been identified yet.

I wonder if the police should release more of the video?

I keep wondering why they're so very stinting in their release of video and audio? A movie with sound of the murderer approaching his victims seems to me to be pretty much the gold standard of 'have you seen this man?" And yet, they release only two stills and a sound bite, and stick to their policy when it's obvious that's not enough. Considering the enormous profile of the case and the resulting pressure to solve it, I have to think that they have some extremely good reason for keeping that from view. I have difficulty imagining what it might be, though.

[Harry D]

And it has been a year, now, and the trail seems to have gone completely cold. I'm disappointed. I honestly thought, when I first heard about this, that it would be over in a few days at most.

Same here. Very shocked that this guy hasn't been identified yet.

I wonder if the police should release more of the video?

[Pcdunn]

Last I heard, at the beginning of this month, was that Nations had been sent back to IN to answer questions.

Apparently the authorities there now say he's "no longer" of any interest? That's a bummer. Hope the girls' murders don't end up in the cold case files, they deserve so much better.

[Ginger]

And it has been a year, now, and the trail seems to have gone completely cold. I'm disappointed. I honestly thought, when I first heard about this, that it would be over in a few days at most.

[Ginger]

http://www.9news.com/news/menacing-s...ders/479695003

The above links to a Sept 29th story at my local Colorado news station about a suspect named Daniel Nations who is accused of threatening hikers with a hatchet. They are looking at him in the shooting death of a bicyclist.

Apparently they are also investigating him for the death of the two girls in Delphi, IN.

I heard about this again tonight, and it reminded me to post the information for those of us interested in the murders.

Thanks for posting that! I'd not been aware.

[Pcdunn]

http://www.9news.com/news/menacing-s...ders/479695003

The above links to a Sept 29th story at my local Colorado news station about a suspect named Daniel Nations who is accused of threatening hikers with a hatchet. They are looking at him in the shooting death of a bicyclist.

Apparently they are also investigating him for the death of the two girls in Delphi, IN.

I heard about this again tonight, and it reminded me to post the information for those of us interested in the murders.

[Ginger]

I'm very much beginning to fear that this won't be solved. I'm a little surprised by how upsetting that idea is to me, partly from moral outrage at the murders, but even moreso because of the violence that it does to my sense of rural Indiana, the rural midwest, really, as a safe and civilized place. I find myself wanting the murderer to be an illegal alien, or a Syrian refugee - some sort of outsider, in much the same way, and, I suspect, for much the same reasons that Londoners in 1888 speculated that Jack must be 'foreign', or otherwise outside the normal bounds of society.

The crime reminds me as well of the Ripper by the absolute brazenness of it. The girls were kidnapped from a public trail, in broad daylight. The crime had to have started on the bridge, where he was in plain view, and with few options to escape if some other trailwalkers appeared. He was obviously very sure of himself, but was he careless and got away with it, or did he know just exactly how much he could get away with, and how? That dichotomy - lucky, or skilled? - is strongly present in the Ripper murders as well.

[dantheman]

From earlier this afternoon:

http://fox59.com/2017/03/17/authorit...i-murder-case/

Last I heard the property owner Ron Logan was released from police custody. It's hard to tell if suspect was wearing a hat/hoodie in the two still shots. If guy in the picture is not wearing a hat and that's his hair, then that would eliminate Ron Logan as he has shorter gray/white hair. With the exception of the hair Mr. Logan looks like the suspect in the picture.

I read that both victims had scarfs around their necks during the funerals which leads me to think they either had their throats cut or strangled. Probably strangled as Abby survived the attack and died of hypothermia a few hours before the search party located the bodies. As BTK confirmed it can be difficult to kill someone from strangulation and I doubt he intended to leave Abby alive.


I've been over at Webslueths discussing this case and not really much is going on, great site though. Police are not releasing much and probably for good reason.

The more time goes on the more I think the killer must have been a local.

-Dan