Although the post is not even begun yet, I decided to let my readers in on most of the new findings that will be reported in that update.
The findings deal with:
- Probable return of at least one killer to the dump site at 9 AM
- How many killers there were
- How many sets of DNA were recovered
- Whether there were any hits on the DNA in databases
- The nature of the crime scene – pristine or contaminated
- The type of attack that caused the death of Liberty and gravely injured Abbie
- Other damage that occurred to one of the girls in the process of the fatal attack
- Condition of one of the girls’ fingernails,
- The nature and length of Abbie’s most unpleasant ordeal and what crimes were probably committed against her
- Why the crime was so long and drawn-out
- How the girls were kidnapped and trapped on the bridge on which end of the bridge
- What happened to the girls at the bottom of the hill that may be the source of the screams that follow the “down the hill” order shortly after it was given
- Weapon and method used in this probable attack
- Securing of girls
- Location in the vehicle where the girls were placed to be driven to the kill site
- Disposition of vehicle in regard to the kill site
- How the girls were transported in the vehicle back to the SE corner of the cemetery where they were taken out and dragged down a trail
- How many men dragged them down this trail to the dump site
- Attempted camouflaging of girls at the dump site and whether it was successful or not
- Killer’s emotional reaction on seeing the condition of the girls
- Spearing of one of the girls in the stomach with a large pointed stick and the probable reason why this was done
- Whether or not Abbie was found to be pregnant on autopsy
- Whether Abbie had a boyfriend and if so, what his age was
That’s about it.
Now down to the nitty-gritty. As I said before, just when you thought this crime had been taken to the end of horror where it’s as bad as it gets, and we thought this crime could not possibly get worse, this crime does just that. The truth is even worse than what we have heard before.
If you are easily offended by gruesome descriptions of crimes, just quit reading right now and spare yourself the heartache.
Brief Chronology of the Delphi Murders, 2-13 to 2-14, Delphi, Indiana
They two girls dropped off, started hiking, and at some point, BG or one of his pals started following them. Libby was alarmed and posted to her friends that some scary man was following them. Abbie walked across the bridge. Libby was already at the end. He closed the gap with them very fast.
He cornered them at the end of the bridge. The photo was taken at the south end of the bridge near the end. There’s nowhere to go at the south end of the bridge. There’s nothing there. Hikers who cross the bridge always cross from north side to south side, then when they get to the south side, turn around and walk back across the bridge to the north side. So he trapped them at the end of the south side.
“Down the hill,” he said.
They went down the hill to a barely used road that used to be used by bridge workers for maintenance. A vehicle was waiting there. One or more men were in the vehicle. Once they got near the vehicle, BG probably hit them with his gun over the head. That’s probably when they started screaming. The two girls were then probably tied up and quite probably thrown in the trunk of the vehicle.
The vehicle took off and drove 5 minutes to the north side of the bridge by the cemetery and made its way across to the barn. The vehicle pulled into the barn, and the dirty deeds began. Libby was killed sometime on 2-13 possibly because she was giving them such a hard time. This was a vicious killing because her fighting back really pissed them off. Libby had several opportunities to leave, but chose to stay by her friend to the end. Libby was probably raped, abused and mutilated.
The cause of death or grievous injury was not throat-slitting with a knife as often thought, or having the necks broken as a recent good rumor said, but instead was with a method that easily wraps the two rumors together into one: garroting, probably with piano wire.
Libby was garroted early on probably because she was giving them so much trouble. The first garroting was unsuccessful, so they tried to garrot her again. This time she put her hands up to her neck to stop the garroting, but the garroting was so fierce that the garrot not only cut her neck very badly but also cut off her fingers, anywhere from 2-8 of them. The garroting was so vicious and violent that Libby was almost decapitated. It is hard to decapitate someone by garroting, as it probably hits a bone towards the back. The garrot probably hit this bone, and the garroting stopped.
No doubt Abbie witnessed that but, she may have been gagged or gagged and bound. Abbie was raped, tortured, abused and maybe finally mutilated slowly over the entire night. This was by design because the men were in all probability sexual sadists who like to prolong the assault on the victims for a long time so the victim will suffer more. Abbie was then garroted also, but this garrot was not very successful.
While several materials can be used for garroting, I have reason to believe the famous old Mafia standby, piano wire, was used in this case. This type of garrot will cut your neck for sure.
The two girls were trundled into the trunk of the vehicle. The car was then driven to the cemetery and then to the southeast side of the cemetery. The gate was opened and the trail was 10 feet away. Both men dragged the bodies down to trail to the dump site. With each man dragging a body, this scenario works a lot better. They got to the dump site and covered both girls with leaves.
One or more of the killers returned later for some odd reason and found that Abbie had crawled a ways away somehow, and she was still alive, which he determined by observation. He was enraged that she was still alive, so he grabbed the stick and speared it into her abdomen, killing the fetus and also no doubt killing Abbie very quickly.
Abbie died at 9 AM, so this spearing attack must have been in the morning in full daylight! The killer rapidly left and got to the vehicle at the SE end of the cemetery where his friend was waiting. Both men got into the vehicle and took off somewhere to points unknown, whether far away, very close to home, or anything in between.
Later the crime scene got contaminated, possibly by Ivan Brumbaugh touching the bodies, but now that that has been done, it will be hard to prosecute the case because the defense attorney will point to the contamination to try to negate the DNA evidence.
Not one but two sets of DNA were recovered from the crime scene (this would be in addition to Brumbaugh’s DNA, if present). So there were two killers. We know this because there were two sets of DNA. However there were no hits in the databases for either DNA sample, meaning that those persons have not been convicted of felonies, at least not in recent years.
Abbie was found to be pregnant on autopsy, a shocking finding. However, she did have a 16 year old boyfriend whose name is known. It is not known whether they were having sex or not, but if Abbie was pregnant, they were probably having sex.
