"His name has come up through the process," Carroll County Sheriff Tobe Leazenby said when asked Friday if detectives were investigating to determine whether Etter is the killer of teenagers Libby German and Abby Williams.
Leazenby qualified his comment by noting that detectives have investigated every possible suspect, which is no different than their probe into Etter.
Etter's case has not been closed yet, Tippecanoe County sheriff's Sgt. Thad Miller said, adding that they passed on information about Etter to Carroll County investigators as part of the routine police work. But he doubted that Etter is at the top of the list of possible suspects.
"We have shared information about Etter with them, but we've done that with other suspects, too," Miller said.