Forget the sketches. LE has muddled them both up so badly they mean nothing. Who knows if even they ever meant anything.
July 2017 sketch was from multiple people who saw this guy on the trails that day including a woman who came forward belatedly who supposedly got a real good look at him. The guy wore a hat, but not like the one in the sketch. He did not have blue eyes. This sketch was put out on thousands of flyers nationwide.
April 2019 sketch was made approx three days after the murders from someone who came to police to “report something they felt needed reporting”. No idea what that was. LE at the time said the 2017 sketch was now secondary...whatever that means. Later LE deemed 2019 sketch as the killer and who they were looking for, saying forget the 2017 sketch. LE over the next few months, tried to explain the sketches suggesting we should sorta kinda think of maybe perhaps they were both a little bit possibly correct. As LE sank farther into this swamp, for me at least, their credibility and the sketches’ merit completely disappeared.
More important I think than the sketches LE released at the April 2019 presser was the two second video. If you look at it frame by frame it becomes pretty apparent that BG is much younger and much thinner than the middle aged or older pot bellied guy we were led to believe he was. The question then is why LE allowed the public for two years to believe that.
Edit: typo
Post of the year!!
And you are correct, why after two years did LE change the sketch? They didn't get a clearer picture, that had already been done as best as it was gonna get. A new witness didn't come forward or there would have been arrest.
Carter said "the new sketch is the result of new information and intelligence". What if, (speculating) that intelligence was someone's phone pinging there when they said they had left? Maybe something like this was what he meant by changing direction of the investigation, ie; new information. Someone is lying.
Carter was very emotional at that presser. IMO it was because they had realized from the new information and intelligence they were misled not only with the first sketch but alibis, timelines etc..which changed everything. When Carter said he "may be in this room", IMO it was to remind people not all killers look or act like killers.
So then the question begs who would mislead? Someone who would totally be able to corroborate because they were there to know the 5 W's, yet disagree politely enough.
Tobe said someone could have been interviewed as a witness instead of a POI.
"The Sheriff speculated that a perpetrator has probably been interviewed by investigators about the crime, but was not immediately recognized as a offender.
"We are still evaluating and looking at various pieces of all facets whether it be statements from witnesses to physical evidence."
Lots of tips, no arrest in 2017 double homicide | Carroll County Comet
IMO they were talking to, exactly how Carter said it, ..."directly to the killer" "you want to know what we know" indicates they talk to BG". BG has asked questions.
Carter said that he "believes that since the killer's image and voice were publicized, and they have not been able to identify a suspect, someone knows who he is but is keeping quiet because of "extreme fear." "Please, please, come forward and let us know what you know," Carter pleaded.
"There is obviously someone withholding information," added Carroll County Sheriff Tobe Leazenby. "It could very well be somewhere along the lines someone was even threatened not to reveal the identity of the killer."
They just need that one tip.
It is JMO but every article I read now this all makes sense.