Sheriff Tony Liggett
Appearances
Dateline NBC
A Walk Through the Woods
Correct. In my head at that point in time was that there may have been a gun used to control. How does a person control two girls? Well, you can do it with a gun.
Dateline NBC
A Walk Through the Woods
We just saw the bald eagle. Yeah, it's a beautiful place. And then this is the trail.
Dateline NBC
A Walk Through the Woods
Libby recorded from just off the end of the bridge, way down there.
Dateline NBC
A Walk Through the Woods
Yeah, that's what the video shows, that he was behind Abby in the video. So, yeah, I believe he followed them across, yes. Libby had the presence of mind to know something wasn't right about this person. And she secretly, I assume, was able to videotape this person approaching them.
Dateline NBC
A Walk Through the Woods
We believe that we hear a gun racking in that video, and that kind of made sense with the bullet being down between the two girls when we found it.
Dateline NBC
A Walk Through the Woods
Carroll County, Delphi, is a great place to raise your family.
Dateline NBC
A Walk Through the Woods
I grew up here, choose to be here. I want to be here myself. It's beautiful. People felt safe.
Dateline NBC
A Walk Through the Woods
My gut the entire time was, people don't know about these trails. People didn't know about High Bridge. the random person from the next town over, you would find very few people that even there knew what it was. So I always kind of figured that it was someone here or from here that was familiar with the area.
Dateline NBC
A Walk Through the Woods
Evidence would seem to be that she was saying, oh, I'm talking to this really cute guy.
Dateline NBC
A Walk Through the Woods
I believe that would have been the first ritualistic killing of two young girls.
Dateline NBC
A Walk Through the Woods
And Kegan Klein was a big, overweight, not somebody that these girls would talk to kind of person, so he changed who he was.
Dateline NBC
A Walk Through the Woods
And not just a new name, a name and a timeline in this tip that fits what we've been looking for for, at that time, five and a half years.
Dateline NBC
A Walk Through the Woods
When she would come across things throughout the years that she wasn't aware of, she would bring it to an investigator. And most of the time, that was me.
Dateline NBC
A Walk Through the Woods
A name and a timeline in this tip that fits what we've been looking for for, at that time, five and a half years.
Dateline NBC
A Walk Through the Woods
It was. It lined up with the time that Richard Allen said he was there. A few weeks later, they paid Allen a visit. Went to his house and knocked on the door and asked him to come talk to us.
Dateline NBC
A Walk Through the Woods
In the beginning, his demeanor was fine. I believe he drank a lot of water, but in the beginning, he was fine.
Dateline NBC
A Walk Through the Woods
Yes. He was abrasive about it and said, you don't know that that's my car and things like that. Did he look nervous? And he got to that point, yes.
Dateline NBC
A Walk Through the Woods
I think we initially got the call somewhere between 5 and 5.30.
Dateline NBC
A Walk Through the Woods
Were we actively looking for them? Absolutely. But there was not a real sense of urgency.
Dateline NBC
A Walk Through the Woods
What we're standing on now, this wasn't the way it was back then. This was what it all looked like, these rotting railroad ties, no railings.
Dateline NBC
A Walk Through the Woods
I believe that that would have been the first ritualistic killing of two young girls. That's not what Odinism, it's a religion. I wasn't aware of it, but it's evidently not uncommon.
Dateline NBC
A Walk Through the Woods
We found Libby's phone. She secretly was able to videotape this person approaching them.
Dateline NBC
A Walk Through the Woods
Oh, absolutely. That's just the way things work around here, yeah.
Dateline NBC
A Walk Through the Woods
So further around, you see how the creek bends upstream up that way.
Dateline NBC
A Walk Through the Woods
Abby was wearing clothes. Libby was not. Libby's wounds were just devastating. It was obvious that Libby had been moved a very, very short distance, kind of appeared there trying to conceal her behind a tree. There was a large tree next to her, and they both had some sticks on top of them. I don't know how a human being can do what they did to anybody, let alone two little girls.