DELPHI
TIMELINE
A timeline establishing publicly known
movements and events.
10:00 AM
approximately
The girls sleep in because they had been up late. Libby's father, Derrick, makes them pancakes for breakfast. [42]
Derrick leaves to go take photos for Becky's business. [43]
Libby's grandmother, Becky, makes a deal with the girls. She says if the girls help with her filing work, she'll give them some spending money and maybe later on that day she'll take them out shopping to go spend the money they just earned. The girls happily help with Becky's filing. [47]
Sunday, February 12, 2017
Liberty German (14 years old) and Abigail Williams (13 years old) decide to have a sleepover at Liberty’s house knowing that they did not have school the next day (Liberty's grandparents' house). [3]
There was no school on Monday due to snow days being built into the school schedule but the winter being too mild that year for the snow days to get used. [67]
The girls do typical sleepover activities and Liberty's older sister Kelsi joins in. Kelsi said they all “had a movie night and ate pizza.” [4]
Abigail (called Abby) and Liberty (called Libby) stay up late. They paint a sign that says "Chocolate" and take videos of each other just being goofy. [29]
Monday, February 13, 2017
SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE
12:00 PM
approximately
A suspicious vehicle is parked at the abandoned CPS/DCS building on the eastside of county road 300 North next to the Hoosier Heartland highway.
1:00 PM
approximately
The girls ask Liberty’s grandmother Becky if they could go to the Monon High Bridge trail, Becky says yes, but only if they were able to arrange for a ride there and a ride back. [5]
The trail is considered to be a hangout for local teens their age. The girls were familiar with the Monon Bridge and Libby would often visit the trail with her older sister to take photos. [6]
The girls then ask Liberty’s older sister Kelsi to drive them. [7] Kelsi says she can drive them there, but she cannot drive them back because she had plans to go to a friends house and then work. [8]
Liberty called and asked her dad, Derrick if he could give them a ride back from the trail since Kelsi was unavailable. Derrick agrees to be their ride back from the trail. He said he would pick up them once he was done taking photos for Becky's appraisal business. He estimated that he would be done with this photography work in Frankfurt in 2 hours. [9]
There was no set time for the girls to return to their meeting point, the plan was that Derrick would call or text them on his drive when he was close to arriving and they would return to the trailhead to be picked up. The approximate time of when they might expect him to be there would be 3:00-3:30pm.
1:30 PM
approximately
Kelsi picks up girls to take them to the bridge.
1:38 PM
Phone records indicate Kelsi's boyfriend calls her at 1: 38 PM. Kelsi remembers already being on the phone with him when she dropped the girls off. [48] Meaning the drop off could not have been any earlier than 1:38 PM.
Around this time, Libby calls and asks her dad, Derrick if he could give them a ride back. [16] Derrick agrees to be their ride back from the trail. [46]
Derrick says he will pick up them once he is done taking photos for Becky's business. [9]
There was no set time for the girls to be picked up. [9] Derrick said he would call or text them once he was getting close to arriving and then they'd return to the trail head. [59]
DROP OFF POINT
1:40 PM
approximately
Kelsi drops them off at an entrance of Monon High Bridge trail that is across from the Mears' farm, an unofficial parking area. They were not dropped off at the Freedom Bridge parking area.
Kelsi watches the girls walk until they got onto the trail. [48] Kelsi does not notice anything unusual at the parking area before driving off. [11]
Unknown
Abby and Libby start walking down the trail.
CLOSE UP OF THIS
SECTION
Unknown
Abby and Libby reach the beginning of the bridge.
Unknown
At an unknown time after the two Snapchat uploads Liberty starts taking a video on her cell phone.
Police say the girls mostly talk about "stuff girls talk about" in the recording, but later the girls mention of a man they notice behind them on the bridge. [13]
Sheriff Leazenby says it appears the girls initially took pictures for fun but later became uncomfortable and recorded the video as precaution. [14]
In the released video, it is believed that Libby's perspective is from the south eastern side of the bridge, looking backwards towards the north western side of the bridge.
Unknown
It has been theorized that the offender pulled a weapon or found a way to make the girls comply with his orders.
According an audio snippet from the Libby's video recording
at some point the offender said to them "Guys... Down the hill." The path the girls and offender took after leaving the bridge is unknown. The arrows on map are purely an abstract approximation. They are not intended to be taken literally.
In between the south eastern end of the bridge and the body disposal location there is a shallow section of the creek. This shallow section varies between ankle to knee deep and can be waded through.
3:11 PM
Libby's grandmother, Becky has said call records show Derrick called Libby at 3:11pm, intending to tell them that he was getting close and they should start heading back to be picked up. [49] [59]
As a point of reference Derrick remembers he was just starting to drive over the Wilson Bridge when he makes this 3:11 pm call. [49]
Unknown
Derrick knows it is not like Liberty to ignore his texts and phone calls, especially when she was expecting him to call. He parks his car and begins walking the trails to search for the girls. [17]
3:15 PM
approximately
Derrick reaches the point where the trails intersect and he stops a man dressed in a flannel shirt who is approaching the intersection coming from the 501 trail. [2]
Derrick asks the man with the flannel shirt “Did you happen to see two girls up there?” and the man replied “No, I did not but there's as couple on the bridge.” [18] [2]
This man with a flannel shirt later becomes a key witness in this case and he is among the first to give a witness account to law enforcement. Online discussion outlets have nicknamed him "Flannel Shirt Guy", or FSG.
Because Flannel Shirt Guy did not see the girls on the 501 trail, Derrick starts walking the other trail that leads directly to the creek edge, called the 505 trail. [19] [2]
Unknown
From the trail intersection, Derrick walks down the trail leading to the Freedom Bridge. After not seeing the girls there he turns around and heads back to the intersection, passing Flannel Shirt Guy along his way back. [34]
4:00 PM
approximately
Derrick returns to his car at the parking area. [37]
At this point the family (Becky, Tara and Derrick) have been trying to get a hold of Libby for half an hour with no response. Worry sets in. Becky and Tara decide to go to the trail to help Derrick look for them. [37]
Tara drives straight to the trail while Becky makes a few calls before leaving. [50]
Becky calls her husband (Liberty's grandpa), Mike, who was at work in Lafayette, Indiana and alerts him to the situation. [50] Mike decides to take off work and drive to the trail to help search. [20]
Becky calls Kelsi and alerts her to the situation. Kelsi says she'll call her work and delay her work shift by a few hours so she could help search.[62] Kelsi leaves her boyfriend's house and starts driving to the trail. [66] [64]
Unknown
Tara drives up to the parking area and Derrick gets into her car. He explains to Tara the details of where and what he has searched on the trail so far. [51] They briefly wait in the car for Becky and Mike to arrive so they can plan out who will search where and cover more ground. [51]
Reports of seeing Derrick talking to someone in an unknown car in the parking area were at one time used to cast unfounded suspicion on him in online discussions.
Unknown
As Becky is about to leave for the trail, Libby's uncle, Cody arrives. Becky informs him of what was going on and they drive to the trail together. They theorize about which path the girls would have taken if they were trying to walk home. [52] They drive the two possible paths they girls could have taken but they do not see the girls. [60]
At this point in time the family is thinking the girls had somehow gotten hurt on the trail from a fall and Libby's phone had been damaged. [53]
Unknown
Becky and Cody arrive at the parking area but there are no available parking spots so they park in a ditch nearby. It should be noted that there were several non family vehicles and people at the trail at this time. [54]
The family members (Mike, Becky, Derrick, Tara, Cody and Kelsi) meet up and start searching the area for the girls.
3:30 PM
Derrick does not see the girls on the 505 so he returns back up to the trail intersection. Derrick calls his mother, Becky, and tells her about not being able contact or find the girls. Derrick asks Becky to try contacting them. [19]
Tara, Libby's aunt, was with Becky at the time. Both Becky and Tara start repeatedly calling and texting Libby. They receive no response. [34]
Unknown
Kelsi and Cody cross the Monon High Bridge and arrive at the south east end. [64] [63]
They can see down a hill to the private driveway. They spend 20-30 minutes yelling the girls names from there but hear no response. [63]
From this location, Kelsi calls Libby's phone. She believes the call went through because she can hear it ring on her own phone's speaker. But Kelsi does not hear it ringing in the area. [63] Kelsi's personal belief was the trail area was quiet enough that if the phone had been near where she was standing, she would have heard it ringing. [63]
It is possible that Libby's phone was set to silent or vibrate.
Unknown
As they walk, Becky calls the cell phone company (AT&T) and asked if they could ping Libby’s phone to locate it. AT&T says they could not do that for legal reasons. [55]
Becky then asks AT&T about cell phone tracking apps like “Find my Iphone” and “Find my Droid” which would allow them to track the phone. Because of a misunderstanding, Becky ends up downloading the app herself and it takes a bit for it to become clear that because the phone that Libby had with her didn’t have the app that this method would not help. [55]
SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE
5:00 PM
approximately
The time window given by law enforcement for when the offender drives his vehicle away from the parking lot ends. However this time window should be taken as a very rough, loose estimate.
The route the offender takes to get back to the vehicle is unknown.
Whether the time when the offender returned to the vehicle is the same time that he drove it away is unknown.
5:25 PM
approximately
Becky has been unable to get a hold of Abby's mom, Anna by phone. Becky drives to Anna's house and she is told Anna is at work.
Mike calls Becky. He informs her the police requested for them both to drive to the police station (as a standard part of filing a missing persons report). [57]
Becky starts driving to Anna's work. Anna calls her, having just gotten a chance to check her phone. Becky fills her in and they decide to meet up at the police station. [57]
Unknown
Police arrive on scene and start searching quickly after the 5:20 call.
Some family members use social media to ask for volunteers to help in the search.
6:00 PM
A massive search begins.
Having heard of the missing girls through social media, concerned residents showed up and aid in the search in coordination with The Carroll County Sheriff's Department, Delphi Police Department, and Delphi Fire Department. The firestation is used as a staging ground for volunteers. Together they search the trail and surrounding area. [27]
Meanwhile, Libby's sister Kelsi, goes to the police station where they ask her about what she remembers from dropping the girls off earlier. Kelsi also shows the police the two Snapchats posted to Libby's story. [65]
Unknown
At some point Mike returns to the house to gather all electronics ("Ipads or Ipods or computers or anything electronic") and the relevant cell phone information so the police could start requesting AT&T to ping Libby's phone. [5]
10:29 PM
IndyChannel article reports "The girl's cell phones are either dead or turned off." Source for this is not given within the article.
11:59 PM
approximately
An WLFI article with an original publish date of February 13, 2017 said "Dozens of deputies, Delphi police officers and firefighters have been out searching the banks. Drones have also been out. Leazenby said the Department of Natural Resources was going to search the water Monday evening."
(There is no original upload time listed for the article, just a date so the latest possible time is used.)
12:00 AM
The officially sanctioned search is called off by law enforcement due to darkness and a concern for volunteer safety. The search is planned to resume the next morning. [61]
Carroll County Sheriff Tobe Leazenby says in a news release that there is no reason to suspect foul play or to believe the girls are in immediate danger. The biggest concern is exposure to the elements. [33]
Firefighters and civilians unofficially continued to search throughout the night. [61]
Unknown
Mike drives Becky home to get some sleep. Along their drive they observe many flashlights and "people everywhere". After dropping Becky off, Mike comes back to the trail to continue searching. [61]
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
12:59 AM
A WLFI news clip was uploaded to Youtube on February 14, 2017 at 12:59 AM. (according to this with conversion to Eastern time). It is unknown if the actual airtime was earlier or not.
4:32 AM
On the scene news reporter said people were back out searching for the girls early in the morning.
“In the meantime we’ve seen other folks come out, we’ve seen family, we just saw another group who didn’t even know the girls come out here because they heard the story and wanted to come out. They're out here with flashlights searching, doing anything they can. There’s been so much pressure to try and find these two young girls since they went missing yesterday afternoon.”
-Naomi Pescovitz, reporter at WTHR-13
6:00 AM
More on the scene reporting near the trail reported:
“Online folks are saying they are still out searching even though its dark, its early in the morning and the official crews, law enforcement, they have stopped their search for the evening and they’ll continue when the sun comes up.”
-Naomi Pescovitz, reporter at WTHR13
8:00 AM
Autopsies began in Terre Haute on the bodies that were discovered during Tuesday’s search. [40]
3:00 PM
Indiana State Police and the Carroll County Sheriff’s Department hold a news conference confirming that the bodies found Tuesday are those of Liberty and Abigail. They say the case is being investigated as a double homicide.
10:20 AM
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10:27 AM
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11:26 AM
Reportedly volunteer searchers are told to avoid the location where the girls has last been seen (east side of the bridge) to preserve the scent of the scene for search dogs. [35]
12:15 PM
approximately
Libby's sister Kelsi went on the Infamous Indy podcast, hosted by Joe Melillo and described the two search parties in the area during the discovery.
Kelsi: The fire department split us all up into groups and we went to different places. Some of them were in town Delphi, some of them were like way out in the country near the High Bridge but nowhere my sister would have went, voluntarily. My group, that went to High Bridge, and another group that was also at High Bridge on the other side of the bridge.
- Infamous Indy podcast Episode 2, Timestamp 18:10
- Infamous Indy podcast Episode 2, Timestamp 18:36
Listen above to hear Libby's sister recount the discovery of the bodies on the and below is a transcript of the above audio:
Kelsi: Three of us chose to cross the bridge, to look underneath the bridge, on the opposite side. And that's where I ended up hearing that we found the bodies.
Joe Melillo: When you were there, do you remember what you saw?
Kelsi: At High Bridge?
Joe Melillo: [clarifying] Right when they found the bodies.
Kelsi: Mhmm. Ok, well first off, I was standing on the trail that's right under the bridge, looking out into the woods. And somebody yelled up that they had found a shoe. And when they had found the shoe they had asked what kind of shoes the girls were wearing. And they yelled out the type of shoe that Libby was wearing. So I yelled down and told them that.
Actually then the person that had asked that had put up their phone and saw two deer in the ground moving and so he was looking to see what it might be and he saw two deer standing up there. And when he saw them he moved the camera down and there when we found them.
Joe Melillo: Did you ever actually go and see them up close at that point?
Kelsi: At that point I had not. I wanted to. I wanted to run towards them but the girl that was with me in my group had held me down and told me that ‘We don't know who they are yet. We don’t know that it's them. We don’t know what they look like. We don’t know. We don’t know anything that's happening right now so you can’t go to them.’ And so she kinda held me and made sure that I stayed there. So I wouldn’t go towards it.
In a Fox59 article, Becky Patty recounts the discovery:
“ ‘He saw something. He could not figure out what it was. There were two deer standing up there. But as he looked up to see what that was, that is when he saw them,’ said Libby’s grandma, Becky Patty. It was a volunteer searcher who discovered the bodies of the Delphi teens, lying in the grass between a group of trees deep in the woods.
‘He called his wife who was with us and said we found them. My sister came up and she was crying and she said I’m so sorry,’ said Patty.”
TheIndyChannel wrote an article describing the location as:
The bodies were found on private property, about 50 feet from the shore of Deer Creek. A set of footprints are what led volunteers to the area the bodies were found.
2:00 PM
A joint press conference is held by law enforcement with Indiana State Police PIO Kim Riley, Carroll County Sheriff Tobe Leazenby and Delphi Police Chief Steve Mullins. [39]
They announced that two bodies had been found but they do not confirm the identities of the bodies as Abby and Libby. [39]
They said search efforts will now be scaled back. They said the matter is now being investigated as a crime scene and that they suspect foul play. [39]
When asked by a reporter "Why do you believe there is foul play?"
Kim Riley responded "Just the way the bodies were found. That's about all I can say at this point in time."
And when asked "Were they in the water?"
He responded "They were on the edge of the water, from what I understand. That's about the best that I can tell you."
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
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DELPHI CASE
DELPHI CASE
CITATIONS
1. "What has been disclosed is that sometime between 2:07 p.m., when Libby shared on Snapchat the photograph of Abby crossing the bridge." Indianapolis Monthly article Halfway Across: The Delphi murders
2. "So at that point she didn’t answer so he started up towards the trailhead. He stood there for a little bit, he looked around and didn’t see anybody or anything so he thinks he started walking towards the High Bridge, he was just about to where it forks and he ran into an older gentleman that was coming from the High Bridge and he asks him ‘Did you see a couple of girls there?’ and he said ‘No, but there's a couple down underneath.’ " - Mike Patty, Timestamp 22:47, Interview with Mike and Becky Patty by Gray Hughes
3. TheIndyChannel article Delphi Daughters
4. According to Kelsi in the Dr. Phil Interview Timestamp 3:35
5. That's when I ended up going back to the police station so we could get them phone information so they could start pinging, Becky was already there, Anna was already there, and it was a long night of coming up with anything we could do with phones. You know I ran back out to the house here and I got any Ipads or Ipods or computers or anything electronic gadgetry that I could come across to take back in so that they could review through all that. -Mike Patty, Timestamp 32:00, Interview with Mike and Becky Patty by Gray Hughes
6. "Abby and Libby were familiar with the hike, Patty says, ...considered a hangout for local teens. According to her grandmother, Libby would often visit the trail with her older sister to take pictures of the scenic area." People Magazine article Slain Indiana Teens article
7. According to Kelsi in the Dr. Phil Interview Timestamp 3:37
8. “We’re seeking the public’s help to identify the driver of a vehicle that was parked at the old CPS/DCS welfare building in the city of Delphi that was abandoned on the eastside of county road 300 North next to the Hoosier Heartland highway between the hours of noon to five pm on February [13th] 2017.” -ISP Superintendent Carter, Timestamp 5:48, Press Conference on April 22, 2019
9. "But he told her when he got done taking some pictures for me that he’d pick them up on his way back." - Becky Patty, Timestamp 14:10, Round Table- with Becky Patty by Gray Hughes
10. “They left here right around, give or take a couple minutes, they left here right around 1:30.”- Becky Patty, Timestamp 21:15, Interview with Mike and Becky Patty by Gray Hughes
11. According to Kelsi in the Dr. Phil Interview Timestamp 12:30
12. “The first photo was of the Monon High Bridge. The second photo was of Abby on the bridge.” DailyMail article Grandfather of one of murdered Indiana teens
13. “State police say more audio from Libby German's cell phone was played for the victims' families, including a mention of a man they noticed behind them. Police say the girls mostly talk about ‘stuff girls talk about’ in the recording, but they also mention the man.” WTHR article Police: Delphi Murder Victims Spoke article
14. “Leazenby says the image is a still from a video taken by Libby moments before her death.” “Sheriff Leazenby says it appears the girls initially took pictures for fun but later became uncomfortable and recorded the video as a way of ensuring evidence.” People Magazine article Slain Indiana Teens article
15. “Her dad called Libby at 3:11 to tell them that he was getting close to the pickup point. And she didn’t answer” - Becky Patty, Timestamp 3:52, Dr. Phil Interview
16. “Kelsi dropped them off. She got a phone call from her boyfriend which was about 1:38. I found out later that Libby didn’t call her Dad till about that time.” - Becky Patty, Timestamp 13:48, Round Table- with Becky Patty by Gray Hughes
17. “He got there and he called them again and she did not answer so he walked down towards the bridge,” - Becky Patty, Timestamp 4:02, Dr. Phil Interview
18. “He got there and nobody was there. He ran into a guy and he was coming from the bridge. He said ‘did you happen to see two girls up there?’ He said ‘no I did not.’“ Fox59 article Families of Abby and Libby article
19. “So Derrick instead of going to the High Bridge took the trail that went down to the creek to where he said the couple was there. I don’t even remember if he said the couple was there or what but he come walking back up and he called me. That is when he called me. It was about 3:30 and said Libby’s not answering her phone and I-I don’t see her.” - Becky Patty, Timestamp 23:25, Interview with Mike and Becky Patty by Gray Hughes
20. “By 3:30, he [Derrick] called me and said ‘Libby is not answering, could you guys try getting a hold of her?’ I called Mike at work and said we have a problem and he said ‘I’ll meet you there.’,” -Becky Patty, Timestamp 4:08, Dr. Phil Interview
21. Mike Patty on the podcast Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, Timestamp 12:00, Episode: Live from CrimeCon: Little Abby & Libby's families
22. “Like, ok, maybe they dropped their phone, because there's water there, there's a creek.” - Mike Patty on the podcast Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, Episode: Live from CrimeCon: Little Abby & Libby's families Timestamp 14:15
23. “She leaves at that time to go find Anna.” Mike Patty on the podcast Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, Episode: Live from CrimeCon: Little Abby & Libby's families Timestamp 12:45
24. “She leaves at that time to go find Anna.” -Mike Patty on the podcast Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, Timestamp 12:45, Episode: Live from CrimeCon: Little Abby & Libby's families
25. "She finally got a hold of me. We missed each other’s phone calls, because I didn’t even have her, that name, in this new phone that I had. And I was like eh, I finally got a hold of her and said ‘what's up?’ and she said ‘we’re heading to the sheriff's department, the girls went on a walk this afternoon.” -Anna on the podcast Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, Timestamp 14:53, Episode: Live from CrimeCon: Little Abby & Libby's families
26. “When did you call in the cops?” “It was about 20 after 5….It’s gonna get dark real soon. We’ve got to call the police. We’ve got to get them here looking for them before dark.” -Becky on the podcast Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, Timestamp 17:00, Episode: Live from CrimeCon: Little Abby & Libby's families
27. TheIndyChannel article Delphi Timeline: Disappearance and Murders of Liberty German and Abigail Williams
28. WishTV article Delphi Community Comes Together
29. “Well Abby spent the night with Libby on Sunday night. And they had stayed up late through the night, painting their chocolate painting and messing around. We actually have a couple of videos that they had taken of each other that night, kinda goofin around.” -Becky Patty, Timestamp 16:53, Interview with Mike and Becky Patty by Gray Hughes
30. WLFI article Delphi Teen Records Suspect
31. "Police were not only able to release still frames of the suspect but an audio clip too.” WLFI article Delphi Teen Records Suspect
32. Fox 59 article Officials give updates
33. WLFI article Community Continues
34. "So we [meaning her and Tara] told him that-Tara works with me- so I started calling her [Libby] and Tara called and messaged. We sent several messages, we would take turns calling, Derrick did walk down to the Freedom bridge and walked back, he past that older gentleman again." - Becky Patty, Timestamp 23:54, Interview with Mike and Becky Patty by Gray Hughes
35. FlyerGroup article Foul Play suspected after bodies found in Delphi
36. Journal and Courier article Two bodies found; foul play suspected
37. TheIndyChannel article Delphi Timeline
38. TheIndyChannel article Indiana State Police identify two bodies
39. Journal and Courier article Search Continues Missing Carroll Co Girls
40. Fox 59 article Disappearance and Deaths of Liberty and Abigail Williams
41. WNDU article Autopsies Confirm Bodies are Those of 2 Missing Indiana Girls
42. "They slept in because they were up late. When they got up it was I dunno, probably 10am. And Derrick made them pancakes." - Becky Patty, Timestamp 17:17, Interview with Mike and Becky Patty by Gray Hughes
43. "Derrick took off to go take some pictures for me." -Becky Patty, Timestamp 17:45, Interview with Mike and Becky Patty by Gray Hughes
44. "And Kelsi came out. See I don’t know the exact time of that. Why would we have paid attention to that? But she came out, it was probably close to 1. And said 'Hey, I work at 4 and I wanna go to a friend’s house for a little bit and then I’m going on the work.'" - Becky Patty, Timestamp 18:20, Interview with Mike and Becky Patty by Gray Hughes
45. "Well as soon as Libby heard that, Libby jumped up and said 'hey will you take us to the bridge?' And Kelsi said 'I don’t care.' then she looked at me and said 'Grandma, can I go?' and I said 'Well, you’ve got to have a ride home because I am working, I can’t stop to pick you up.' you know until quitting time and I just don’t have the time to do it." - Becky Patty, Timestamp 18:43, Interview with Mike and Becky Patty by Gray Hughes
46. "So she said 'Well, I’ll just call my dad.' Well, I assumed that she just called her dad. Um. I didn’t specifically say 'Libby, did you call your dad?' I assumed it was done. And another thing that I automatically tell kids when they have a friend over, when they ask if they can do something, one of the things that I automatically say is 'Is it ok with their parents?'. I assumed that everything was ok when she said hey, we’re leaving. I found out she called her dad on the way. " - Becky Patty, Timestamp 19:05, Interview with Mike and Becky Patty by Gray Hughes
47. "So I told Libby, she’d kinda gotten into shopping recently, she enjoyed shopping which was new for her because I used to have to drag her to go buy school clothes. But because Libby had started enjoying shopping I told her that I have some filing to do and if you girls want to do some filing for me, I’ll pay you and maybe later on today or tonight we can go. So they came out and were doing some filing. They were out with the file cabinets, doing some filing and stuff. " -Becky Patty, Timestamp 17:48, Interview with Mike and Becky Patty by Gray Hughes
48. "What I do know is Kelsi had said she was talking on the phone with her boyfriend when she dropped them off. And I looked at phone records and it shows she called, or the called came in from from her boyfriend at 1:38. So she was talking to her boyfriend at 1:38, when she dropped them off, that's when the phone call started. So I don't know long she talked to him and I don’t know how many minutes it took us to get there. But she dropped them off and she watched them until they got into the trailhead and then she pulled on out and went on to her friends house." - Becky Patty, Timestamp 21:22, Interview with Mike and Becky Patty by Gray Hughes
49. So when Derrick got done taking his pictures in Frankfurt. He came back to pick Libby up. He came up 75 and came across the country roads to pick Libby up, cause its the easy way, that's the way, we always go that direction, that's just how you do here. So there's a bridge, it's called Wilson Bridge, he said as he was crossing that bridge he called her. Again we checked phone records and it was at 3:11 that he called her to tell her, he was going to tell her ‘hey, start heading towards the trailhead, I’ll be there in a minute or two, you know?’ -Becky Patty, Timestamp 22:02, Interview with Mike and Becky Patty by Gray Hughes
50. Tara and I were here [meaning at their house]. Tara went ahead and took off. I had to let the dogs out and I called Mike at that time and said ‘hey, uh, Libby’s not answering her phone, she’s at the trails, we’re gonna go and look. And he said ‘ok, I’m on my way, I’ll leave work, I’ll be there as soon as I can get there.’ - Becky Patty, Timestamp 24:38, Interview with Mike and Becky Patty by Gray Hughes
51. "So as I was walking out of the house to leave, so I was maybe five minutes, ten minutes behind Tara leaving. She went ahead and went and when she got there, Derrick got in the car with her. And I know there are some people who said ‘I know I saw Derrick in a car with somebody.’ And they did, they saw Derrick sitting with Tara for a little bit, he was explaining to her and they were waiting for the rest of us to get there so they could figure out who was going to go where to search." - Becky Patty, Timestamp 25:01, Interview with Mike and Becky Patty by Gray Hughes
52. "And as I was walking out of the house, Cody come pulling in, he had just gotten off of work and he asked me what I was doing so I told him what was going on. So Cody got in the car with me and we decided that there was two different ways that those girls could have walked home, had they decided to walk home so we drove both routes to see if maybe they decided to walk home, maybe something happened to her phone. The only thing we could figure at that time was maybe they had fallen down a hill. Maybe they were hurt, maybe they-because she always has her phone in her hand most of the time." - Becky Patty, Timestamp 25:33, Interview with Mike and Becky Patty by Gray Hughes
53. “Maybe they had fallen down a hill. Maybe they were hurt, maybe they-because she always has her phone in her hand most of the time. And maybe the phone dropped or something, that's what we were expecting, they were down a ravine somewhere and couldn't get out. ” - Becky Patty, Timestamp 26:00, Interview with Mike and Becky Patty by Gray Hughes
54. "And then by the time we got there, there were other vehicles there, uh, several of them. To the point that I had to park across the road. I pulled into the ditch across the road because there were so many vehicles. Some of those weren’t ours, there were several, at this point in time there were several people there that was not family so we started looking for the girls." - Becky Patty, Timestamp 26:20, Interview with Mike and Becky Patty by Gray Hughes
55. Now I, I don’t remember a lot of the walking because at that point in time I called AT&T. Um, because Libby had recently reset her phone, the week before because it kept glitching, it kept freezing up on her so she reset the phone to a factory reset but when she did that she didn’t reset some of the different apps. So I called At&T to ask them if they could ping or trace her phone. Because if you have, you know, that thing ‘Trace my phone’ or whatever it is as an app you can do it. So I know that you probably could trace her phone. And I got the runaround. We kept telling them she was lost, we couldn't find her, I needed somebody to trace her phone so that we could maybe find her but they told me they couldn't do it. And then she told me there was this app I could do and I could do it. So I download this app and everything and I say ‘Ok, what do I do to do it?’ She says ‘Well you gotta download her app on her phone.’ I said ‘Don’t you understand, I don’t have her phone.’ So I was on the phone with them quite a while, arguing with them that this was very important, that is was urgent and I wasn’t getting any help from them." - Becky Patty, Timestamp 26:42, Interview with Mike and Becky Patty by Gray Hughes
56. "So when we check the phone records, the police call was about 5:20” - Becky Patty, Timestamp 29:00, Interview with Mike and Becky Patty by Gray Hughes
57. "And when he did that, I wasn’t able to get a hold of Anna earlier so I tried calling her, I couldn’t get a hold of her so I told him, I said ‘I’m leaving, if you’re calling the police I’m leaving and I’m going to Anna’s house. I’ve got to get ahold of Anna. So I left there and I went to their house and there was a family member that answered the door and Anna wasn’t there and they said that Anna was at work. So I left a message there so that if she happened to come home. So I left and started towards where Anna works and by the time I got through town she called me, she had gotten, she had finally gotten my message. She was at work and she didn’t see it and so I told her what was going on. And Mike had called me at some point in time or something and told me that they told us to go to the police station. So at that point in time Anna and I met at the police station." - Becky Patty, Timestamp 29:06 , Interview with Mike and Becky Patty by Gray Hughes
58. That's when I ended up going back to the police station so we could get them phone information so they could start pinging, Becky was already there, Anna was already there, and it was a long night of coming up with anything we could do with phones. You know I ran back out to the house here and I got any Ipads or Ipods or computers or anything electronic gadgetry that I could come across to take back in so that they could review through all that. -Mike Patty, Timestamp 32:00, GrayHughes' Interview with Mike And Becky Patty
59. "At 3:11 Derrick was on his way back and he made his first phone call to em to tell em that he was just down the road and there was no answer. And when he got to the trailhead, where he was to pick them up, he called them again. That was at 3:14. Still no answer." - Becky Patty, Timestamp 14:24, Round Table- with Becky Patty by Gray Hughes
60. "We didn’t go straight there. We knew that if Abby and Libby were going to walk home there were two ways that they could have walked so we took both ways that they could have potentially walked to just see if maybe for some reason they were walking home. They weren’t there so. So we got there."- Becky Patty, Timestamp 16:05, Round Table- with Becky Patty by Gray Hughes
61. "And about midnight, it was right at midnight, they called me back and said that they had to call the search off because of weather and the terrain out there. So they officially called it off but a lot of the fire department and a lot of civilians met up at the fire department. People were out. People were out looking all night. When Mike and I left the police station we drove around and you could see the flashlights everywhere. There were people everywhere. He took me home first and then was out. He searched through most of the night." - Becky Patty, Timestamp 17:50, Round Table- with Becky Patty by Gray Hughes
62. "She asked me if I had heard from the girls and I said ‘No, I haven’t seen them since 1:30 ish when I dropped them off.’ ‘Ok well, Libby’s not answering her phone and her Dad’s there to pick her up. And it’s 4’o’clock so he’d been there already for probably an hour. So I said ‘Okay, do you want me to come down there?’ And she said ‘Yeah, that would be awesome.’ So I called work and told them that my sister was missing and I needed to go help find her.’ They were totally fine with it." - Kelsi German, Timestamp 11:10, Infamous Indy Episode 2
63. "So while I was there searching, me and my uncle went across the bridge and we were looking down on the trails-on the driveway really-that’s down there so see if maybe they’d gone off the bridge and were on the trail that’s down there. We yelled her name for maybe 20-30 minutes and we’re like, we’re not finding her anywhere. We called her phone to see if we could hear it ring but we didn’t hear anything. It’s not like we’re in town so there wasn’t any noise so if it were there-somewhere that was in our distance-we would have heard her phone ringing." - Kelsi German, Timestamp 15:18, Infamous Indy Episode 2
64. "So we got there. The whole family. We were looking. Cody and Kelsi went to look on the bridge. And I went on up to the houses on the other side, there was somebody out in the yard. They started asking people up there if they had seen the girls." - Becky Patty, Timestamp 16:30, Round Table- with Becky Patty by Gray Hughes
65. Kelsi: "We hadn’t found them and it was like 6:00. So I went there to talk to the police about what I remembered of that day after I dropped them off and if ’d gotten any of the Snapchats that were on her story and any of that."
Joe: "Did you?"
Kelsi: "I did not, she posted them directly to her story so whether or not she sent them to someone is really hard telling. But they were on her story."
Joe: "But they were there and you were actually able to look."
Kelsi: "Mhmm"
Timestamp 16:08, Infamous Indy Episode 2
66. "While we were there, Chase had finished getting ready and he had to go to work an hour before me and since his house was closer to work I just stayed there and waited. I sat there with his Dad before work and I got a call from my grandma, she actually called me twice but I didn’t hear my phone ring since I was on the other side of the room on a charger." - Kelsi German, Timestamp 10:40, Infamous Indy Episode 2
67. “We have what they call built in snow makeup days. But because it was such a mild winter they didn’t need those snow days. So they make a call at the beginning of February ‘Ok, we didn’t use those so we’ve been to school more than what we had anticipated so these are the days you get off.’ So we had two of them. Two makeup days. They were out of school Friday and they were out of school Monday.” - Becky Patty, Timestamp 39:54, Interview with Mike and Becky Patty by Gray Hughes