The superintendent, Douglas Carter,
is here from the Indiana State Place,
and when this happened
and these girls went missing,
law enforcement really sprung into action here
and started searching for these girls immediately, correct?
They did.
And when you look at the area around there,
what's the most likely way for this person
to have gotten away?
Would he have gotten away by car, by foot?
What's the most likely way for him to have gotten away?
Dr. Phil, right now, it'd be speculative of us
to try and figure out how he got there
or where he went after this occurred,
but I certainly hope, in my lifetime,
I can look him in the eyes and ask him that same question.
Sometime between 2:07,
when that last Snapchat post was put up,
and by the time family members started showing up,
and everybody started showing up,
there's a window in there between, probably,
around 2:30 and 4:00, 5:00, somewhere in there,
this man had to be making his departure,
and, hopefully, somebody think about that,
think about that time on February 13, 2017,
between 2:30 and 4:00-ish,
if you're anywhere in that vicinity,
if you saw anything, anything, anything
on foot, in a car, whatever,
you wanna know it, right?
I so appreciate you saying that that way,
because that is actually what happened afterwards.
We started to canvass the city of Delphi
and the areas on the same day that the crime occurred,
and we stopped cars and asked them,
"Please tell us if you saw anything suspicious,
anything at all."
But please remember:
this is not unlike any other rural community anywhere
in America.
It's not a typical trailhead, where there's a great,
big parking area, where people come and go
from a central place.
It's accessible from multiple areas, multiple places
in a very rural area,
so it does set it apart.
It makes it a little bit different.
Yeah.
I grew up in small towns like y'all are living in,
and if somebody showed up that didn't belong,
you stuck out like a sore thumb,
'cause you knew everybody,
and everybody, everybody knew,
and then, if some transient showed up,
they just stuck out like a sore thumb.
Did anybody in town see this person before
in the week leading up to or any time?
We believe that the sketch
that you see behind you was a face-to-face encounter
with a citizen of Delphi.
Okay, so you think that that, actually,
somebody interacted with him,
talked to him, saw him in a store, street,
something somewhere, somehow.
We do.
The person we believe to be the killer
on the high bridge has been enhanced
as best it can be enhanced.
That's him.
What I believe is there's somebody
that knows who that person is,
even though they can't see their face.
I think I could identify a family member
if I couldn't see their face,
based upon the way they were standing,
the way his hands are in his pocket,
the untucked shirt, the gait, whatever that might be,
and that's who we're looking for today.
What is the theory about what is
in the pocket here, superintendent?
What do you suppose?
It would be speculative.
It's subjective at best.
There's no way for us to be able to tell.
It does appear that there's a shirttail out,
though, doesn't it?
And there's speculation about what that might be,
even with that,
but somebody knows who this person is
that caused such evil in a wonderful place.