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I like this theory quite a bit. I've heard that the area was sort of a teenage hangout where kids could get away with "stuff", as well as being a scenic area for everyone. I can't recall exactly where I heard this but if there is any interest I'll try to dig it up.What if the Delphi murders were not sexually motivated and were the actions of a person that was trying to protect himself from being outed for some illegal behavior like drug use?
Maybe the girls saw this guy using drugs along the trail and they knew who he was but were not close friends with him and he was worried that they would tell his parents that they saw him using drugs when they were out on the trail?
The guy could have been out on Deer Creek to go target shooting and get high and they happened to run into him. He could have been angry and frustrated for other things in his life and took his anger out on the girls.
I tend to believe these were not sexually motivated murders at this point only because they seem not to have any significant DNA to work with. If they did have good DNA, they would have gone the familial DNA route well before now.
Maybe someone can comment if the area along Deer Creek is used for target shooting at times by locals.
What's always bothered me is that the "down the hill" recording never sounded very intimidating or explicitly threatening. IMO it sounds a little, hesitant/matter of fact, if anything. Obviously there is a lot of horror on the tape, but I can only speak to that line.
So it's feasible to me that the girls could have caught someone they know (an older friend? community figure? friend's parent?) in the midst of some sordid behaviour (drugs, etc - something that'd hurt/ruin his reputation/life) that left him with only one option in his mind: to kill them.
That would explain why, to me at least, the "down the hill" tape doesn't sound like you'd expect from a man about to commit such an atrocity.
(This is a bit of a reach- but it could also explain why any DNA (hair, fibres, etc) found on the girls could have been ruled out as someone they knew and were in contact with?)
EDIT: Just want to clear that this is absolutely just my opinions and ideas, I'm not trying to implicate anyone - only going off the previous post's ideas.