Anyone with information is requested to contact the Delphi Homicide Tipline at 844-459-5786. All information will be taken and followed up on by investigators. All callers may remain anonymous. Tips can also be submitted online via [email protected].
You may also contact your local FBI office or the nearest American Embassy or Consulate.
HLN’s Ashleigh Banfield moderates an emotional discussion with family members of two young girls who were murdered in Delphi, Indiana in early 2017.
]]>Memorial video dedicated to Abigail Williams and Liberty German. Published on February 27, 2018 by Anna Williams
When Indiana teenagers Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty German, 14, vanished while hiking on public trails in a wooded area near their hometown of Delphi on Feb. 13, 2017, their families say the girls, who were best friends, had only been gone a few hours.
When Liberty failed to answer calls to her smartphone from her father, who was on his way to pick them up from the trailhead near Monson High Bridge, Liberty’s family immediately began to look for the pair.
Liberty’s grandmother, Becky Patty, says at first, they thought maybe the girls had been hurt or just lost their phone, “So we were just looking for them laying somewhere.”
When, after an hour, they failed to find the teenagers, they alerted the local authorities. “And they immediately came out in full force; started walking the trails with us; started looking for the girls,” says Mike Patty, Liberty’s grandfather.
Community members soon joined in the search, he says. “Most of the town was out. People were out all over the streets of Delphi; flashlights – walking,” he says. “Hundreds of people seemed to be coming out to help us look.”
“People spread out and went through each finger of that trail system,” adds Abigail’s mother, Anna Williams.
The murdered teenagers’ bodies were found side-by-side at the bottom of a hill the next afternoon.
“The girls stuck together right up ‘til the end,” says Mike.
Ten months following their deaths, the identity of Abigail and Liberty’s killer remains a mystery. However, investigators have recovered critical photographic and audio evidence from Liberty’s smartphone that they say with the public’s help could lead to his capture.
Anyone with information that might assist police in their investigation into the murders of Abigail Williams and Liberty German is asked to call the Delphi Tipline at (844) 459-5786.
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DELPHI, Ind.—The disappearance and murders of two young teens in Delphi continue to haunt the small, close-knit community one year later.
Posters bearing photos of Liberty German, 14, and Abigail Williams, 13, remain displayed on storefronts and businesses throughout Delphi–reminders of an unsolved double homicide and an unidentified killer still at large.
February 2017:
On Feb. 13, 2017, best friends Libby and Abby went for a walk along the Delphi Historic Trails on a Monday afternoon. Police say the girls were last seen at around 1 p.m. near the Monon High Bridge, an abandoned railroad bridge just east of Delphi.