It's been a while since I've been on here, but seeing the article about the Indiana girls spurred me to come back. There's been a lot of buzz about the similarities between the two cases. However, not to offend, the similarities are pretty generic (i.e. alone on a trail, found in the woods); a lot of cases end with a deceased person or persons found in a wooded area who was alone in a desolate place prior. The dates seem significant 7/13/12 (Lizzy & Lyric) and 2/13/17 (Abby & Libby), and even read backwards the dates are palindromes. But if we were looking at a serial murderer who was into utilizing palindrome dates as his calling card, he'd be done at this point. As awful as it is to accept, I feel these two cases are completely unrelated and the Indiana case was a crime of opportunity, just as the L&L's case was. But I am glad that LE of both areas are taking the possibility into consideration.
The perp in L&L's case put forth effort to hide and conceal their crime, actually moving the girls to at least 1 other location in the commission of the crime. The L&A case, the perp committed the crime at the location and disposed at the location. Or: L&L's perp did not want to get caught and was paranoid s/he would be; L&A's perp was confident that s/he would not be caught. I would be extremely surprised if these cases were related based on the modus operandi that differs in each.
I feel like I'm being a Debby Downer, but after reading up on Libby & Abby's case, and comparing it to what we know from Lizzy & Lyrics case, then comparing it to the typical modus operandi of a single perpetrator, it just doesn't seem likely that the two are related, and just happen to be a very strange happenstance.
But we don't really know enough out of either case to say for sure. I just hope both cases are able to come to a conclusion of justice for all four girls and their families.