The high-profile case of two murdered Indiana teens takes a stunning turn after video of the killer, taken by one of his victims shortly before their deaths, is revealed. Andrea Canning reports. Blayne Alexander and Andrea Canning go behind the scenes of the making of this episode in ‘Talking Dateline’Listen on Apple: https://apple.co/4kfiJ88Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3IKjdEvb70ZyPDVNOh6LjE
Chapter 1: What is the case discussed in this episode of Dateline?
Tonight on Dateline.
It took my breath away. Here is this young girl with her friend out on this bridge on a beautiful sunny day. They have no idea what's coming.
Got a call and said that they had found the girls.
What did they tell you?
That they're gone. Their lives were stolen from them.
Those girls matter. Were they out there to meet someone? Somebody was in contact with Libby, a fake persona. People wondered if there was some sort of a catfishing element.
There was a theory that the girls were killed in a pagan ritual in the woods.
We found Libby's phone. She secretly was able to videotape this person approaching them.
You also hear him say something.
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Chapter 2: How did the video evidence impact the investigation?
Even though not a lot of time has passed, you have a lot of people looking for these two girls.
Oh, absolutely. That's just the way things work around here, yeah.
Neighbors and police, armed with flashlights, searched for hours in the dark, around trees and brush, along unsteady paths. But yet no one saw anything around the bridge area.
Correct.
So they just vanished.
Correct.
Now that the sun is up, the search here has resumed outside Delphi and Carroll County.
Liggett was at the station the next day when the call came in. It was a little past noon. It was the worst possible news.
Got a call and said that they had found the girls' bodies.
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Chapter 3: Who are the victims in the Delphi case?
As in, he had not driven Logan to the store. Why would he lie about that?
Because he... Why? Yeah, exactly. That's what we thought.
Not only that, the cousin said Logan asked him to lie before the girls' bodies had even been found. It was time for investigators to take a closer look at Ron Logan.
All that has kind of led us back to this location.
Police were moving in. An arrest was imminent.
A lot of people, when that happened, thought, okay, well, this is the beginning, right?
You're thinking back to interviewing him and thinking, my God, did I interview the killer?
The hunt for a killer was still on, but some in town thought they already knew who it was. Ron Logan. His ex-girlfriend Connie wasn't the only person to report him. As many as 15 tips came in suggesting he was involved in the girls' murders. The investigation was nearly a month old when police arrested him, but not for the murders.
He's picked up on a probation violation. He's not supposed to be driving. He's not supposed to be driving. He's on a suspended license. And I think a lot of people, when that happened, thought, okay, well, this is the beginning, right? This is what they're getting him on now. And then there's going to be these other charges.
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Chapter 4: What theories emerged about the girls' murderer?
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.
In September 2022, as the team prepared to move to a new location, Kathy was packing up files and stumbled on a box in the bottom of a drawer. Inside was a tip from early in the investigation before Kathy joined. It involved that man whose wife had seen the story on the news and urged him to report he'd been at the trail that day.
And so now this is a new name.
Correct, yeah. To Kathy Shank, this could be their man. This could be Bridge Guy.
This is potentially huge.
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.
Back then, a conservation officer met and spoke to the man who explained he'd been out of the trails around 1.30 to 3.30. The officer's report somehow got overlooked. Until now.
So it was misfiled as cleared, so no one followed up on it.
So something fell through the cracks where this tip did not... Whoever wrote cleared on it, everybody ignored it. This man has placed himself by the bridge at the time the girls were there.
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