It's a sad statement that it would take money to turn somebody in that killed two kids. Today's world.
Rewards have always been offered for tips. Look at Old West wanted posters. I am responding to this only because I think a lot of perceptions about "today's world" are incorrect and even a bit dangerous. As someone who has followed true crime stories, I work very hard to remind myself that crime is at historic lows, these crimes are rare, and the world used to be even more dangerous for women and children before women fought to have crimes like sexual assault, domestic violence, and violence against children taken more seriously--regardless of the color, socio-economic status, or "behavior" of the victim, or the color or socio-economic status of the perpetrator.
I wonder if one reason so many billboards were put into play is as out reach to vagrant/homeless populations. Those groups might have far more limited access to TV, radio and paper news. Sigh. Mostly I'm trying to think of any explanation for the massive # of BB that does not lead back to the crimes being so extra awful.
Could be. However, as I mentioned earlier, I think it's far more likely they did it to keep all possibilities open in the public's mind and because many Midwesterners travel/live in warmer southern states during the winters. He may have parents, aunts and uncles, etc who don't live at home during colder months. They had the billboards, so using them made sense.
I know many people here seem to think it means the perpetrator isn't from anywhere in Delphi and surrounding areas. However, they are searching, questioning, and collecting DNA from local people and places. That indicates just the opposite. They are simply leaving all possibilities on the table, IMO.
I remember one time this woman I knew for a few months, sweet, kind, normal Indiana woman (late 20s) started joking about how this other woman we knew of the same age "couldn't handle her crack" in the same joking tone someone might say they can't handle their liquor.
Respectfully snipped for space. This is why I always argue against limiting our ideas of criminals. Too many "nice guys (or gals)" do things society condemns. It probably makes average people feel safer to think otherwise, but your anecdote was my experience growing up in Smalltown, USA in the 1970s and 1980s, too, and it hasn't changed.
I realize that at the press conference they encouraged the public to call with any tips no matter how insignificant they seemed. However, I'm pretty sure they did NOT mean to call in with wild (or even plausible) theories. Hopefully within those 10,000 plus calls and emails they received there's a few that actually qualify as TIPS, and hopefully one will actually pan out. I'm just afraid that it's going to take much longer to get to that viable tip because they have to sort through 9,999 pieces of nonsense to get to it.
Again, snipped for space. This has been my feelings all along. The encouraging of people to send in speculative theories as tips, specifically those arrived at from the few pieces of information we have, cannot be coupled with the demand or hope for a quick resolution. Logging, sorting, then following up on the tips will take a long time. I don't think they help the case at all; in fact, I think just the opposite.
I have no particular issue with the speculation and theorizing on the site itself, even when I might personally find it highly unlikely or worse. I just don't think much of it raises to the level of "tip". It is just discussion among people interested in the case. It is not going to solve the case. Identifying a UID via online research is not the same as solving a murder.
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the girls were dropped off at 1pm so when was LE notified?.... This gave the sp so much time to take off. He can be anywhere
