Four years is a long time in a case with audio, video, two sketches and no arrest.
I think about these girls every single day.
It's sad for me to come here each time, hopeful to see an 'ARREST' banner for this case at the top of the page and its not there. Yet.
Here are my collective thoughts after reading some of the recent posts on this thread.
I just try to keep replaying in my mind what Doug Carter said at the presser on April 22, 2019 - over two years into the case.
"Please be patient with us, please. We are just beginning. We are just now beginning, and I can tell you on behalf of The Sheriff and The Police Chief, and so many other partners that have stood with us over this period of time, that we will NOT stop! "
I have said this before in the past and I will say it again, I do not believe that this is a cold case. If it were cold, I think that LE would have had a 2020 and 2021 anniversary presser to either release another teeny tiny tidbit of info to generate new tips, or perhaps to try to rattle a cage by again talking 'directly to the killer' like they did in 2019.
We know that after almost two years, they have a different rendering that they presented to the public.
We know that they have now definitively confirmed that the person in the video is the same person that we hear in the audio, whereas previously, they had been inconclusive about stating this publicly more than once.
Something changed.
We don't know if LE was now 'just beginning' by looking at the case from a completely new perspective because they perhaps finally eliminated a suspect?
They have stated many times that when they run out of tips, they will start all over again. It is possible that
'the new information and intelligence over time' generated a strategy to go back to all of the sketches drawn the first week and to re-examine again why they were drawn and to find out again exactly what people saw that day and WHO saw the person they have depicted in that sketch.
Perhaps that 'once piece of the puzzle' that they are waiting for is hearing from the person who sat with Master Taylor Bryant to draw the sketch on February 17, 2017?
Police: Sketch of suspect in 2 girls' killings more accurate
If that person provided the details for the sketch three days after the girls were found, then immediately afterwards regretted providing their statement (and the details for the sketch) and went MIA (ie: hiding away in fear, a minor being protected, went transient, deceased etc.)
Maybe what LE needs is some additional proof from that person (that they didn't collect early on) to corroberate that persons' statement of what they witnessed in order to proceed with an arrest?
Just imagine if you were the person who was responsible for providing the details of that sketch and for two years it was ignored (at least publicly - JMO.)
What if the possiblity exists that the person (whom I will reference as a 'witness') has been hiding all along in fear of the killer?
Then one day, over two years later, he/she sees a rendering of the face they clearly remember seeing on Feb 13, 2017 on their TV screen, the sketch they provided the details for....imagine the shock you would feel knowing that LE finally believes you were right all along about what you felt 'needed to be reported'?
'New' Delphi suspect sketch was drawn days after murders of 2 Indiana girls, artist says
Could be that is why D.C. eliminated actually saying at the presser
'we have a witness' - maybe he was hoping the 'witness' was watching and he didn't want to scare them with making that statement public, (since it only appeared in the press release handouts, and then later in the April 23rd clarification that ISP released.)
https://carrollcountycalendar.com/2...-release-new-sketch-of-delphi-murder-suspect/
LE repeatedly has stated that 'someone knows who this is'....
In this article below from
Feb 12, 2020, Riley states,
"it's kind of like a poker game. You don't want to throw out all your cards at the start."
"We don't want to put out any more information than we feel the public needs to know," he said.
"When we have the person we want, we want to know what they know about the case. … That's why we've held back on the information that we've given out."
Delphi murders: After 3 years, police say case isn't cold
JMO - Kind of odd wording to use if he is referencing the killer. If he was speaking about the killer, wouldn't he say something like, 'when we have the person who did this, we will arrest him', (not just ask him about what he knows about the case?)
Just thinking out loud....
All JMO