The two friends had been hiking the popular Monon High Bridge Trail in Delphi, Indiana, when they were brutally murdered by an unknown assailant. Kline, of Peru, Ind., is currently behind bars in Miami County, charged in August 2020 with 30 counts that included child exploitation, possession of child pornography and obstruction of justice, WXIN reports. The "anthony_shots" account isn't the only possible lead in the Delphi case; police also have photos, video and audio. 'It's probably the smallest thing but it's the one thing we are missing and that's just what we keep hoping for - that one small thing will come to light and that this will be over soon,' Abby's mother Anna Williams said. He also claimed - without naming names - that he wasn't the only person with access to the bogus social media account. Blackmer, her chief auditor, didn't even have to suggest it. There is Brown, maybe 11 years old, speaking at a podium and wearing a political button. Kegan Kline, 28, is in custody on charges of child pornography that are unrelated to the murders ofAbigail Williams, 13, and Libby German, 14, two friends who were murdered in 2017 after going for a walk on a disused train line. Brown supports LGBT groups and has a good relationship with them, but she rarely talks publicly about her sexuality. Police also publicized what they say is the suspect's voice -- a recording of him saying "guys down the hill" -- which was recovered from Libby's phone. she asked. Kegan Kline, 27, who created the "anthony_shots" profile, tied to the slayings of teens in Indiana, was arrested in 2020 on child porn charges, officials say. The identity of the man depicted remains a mystery. The head of the Indiana State Police, Doug Carter, has been tight-lipped on the "anthony_shots" investigation, telling ABC News last month that the profile has "generated a tremendous number of leads for us -- and thats as far as I can go. They used to fish there for sure but what else - Bart knows that voice! Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Kegan Kline was named by police as the suspect behind the catfish account. She was so articulate, Roberts said. Kline was not listed as a suspect in the double murder but one of his social media accounts, @anthony_shots, was allegedly in contact with Libby before she died.. That was the kind of girl Brown was, classmate Jack Ohman told the Statesman Journal. He made even more explicit comments to another. The motion was filed Wednesday and comes two days after a judge agreed to dismiss five charges against Kline. Kline allegedly made plans to meet up with German at the bridge where her body was found the next day, but he denies that he had anything to do with the girls killings and has not been charged in connection to the Delphi case. She says she doesn't think he killed the girls but wants justice. ", "The truth is," Roberts said, "she did this all herself. Kegan Kline first came to be linked with the Delphi murders in December 2021, when Indiana Police revealed that Kline was the owner of fake social media accounts featuring the image of a male model that he used to contact underage girls online. In December, Indiana State Police said in a news release that the investigation into the murders led law enforcement to the "anthony_shots" profile. He bears an eerie resemblance to the man Liberty took a photo of on her phone before she was murdered, but he insists he had no role in their murders. I would characterize our conversation with Kegan Kline as pretty brief, Cain explained. "If you can't trust the police to do their jobs and you can't trust the FBI, then what hope do we have? Footage found on the girls' phone showed a man following them down the train tracks they were walking on. The next day, I-Team 8 uncovered court documents showing a man named Kegan Kline had been connected to the "anthony_shots" account and that law enforcement had been looking into him since 2017 . Dont message me again. He had asked reporter Aine Caine and lawyerKevin Greenlee, who host the podcast, for $400 in exchange for a one-hour interview about the murders. "During Kegan's interview," the 2020 affidavit stated, "he initially denied creating fake social media . Police have never disclosed how the girls died and they say they don't intent to reveal the cause of death. Harry's chat with guru who compared Hamas terrorists to Jews who battled the Nazis has appalled Rabbis: What DOES Duke know about man who defended anti-Semites, called for ALL drugs to be legal and who will want intimate detail of his upbringing? The main thing that we took out of it was that he wants to charge people money to interview him about the Delphi case.. But after that, his attempts at bullying her stopped. As investigators continue to mysteriously search the Wabash River, Carrie German insists she isn't getting her hopes up that a breakthrough could be near or already unfolding. In 2009, she attended Basic Rights Oregon's annual auction and dinner, where Portland rock singer Storm Large was auctioning off kisses. I've told them a hundred times," he said, referring to the police. Like her friend Ohman, now an editorial cartoonist for The Sacramento Bee and formerly of The Oregonian, Brown was a smart, middle-class kid from a small town outside Minnesota's Twin Cities. Kline is the man allegedly behind the fake "anthony_shots" social media profile connected to the killings of Abby Williams and Libby German. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Everyone is making money off my name, and Im sitting in here hungry with nothing, Kline said in another message, which does not support what sources have told the podcast hosts about Kline gaining a significant amount of weight in prison. Brown often offers to carpool to events with Roberts, her mentor, who is widowed. Kegan Kline is accused of creating an account by the name of "anthony_shots" to communicate with underage girls and solicit nude images, according to a probable cause affidavit. Kate Brown speaks at press conference. He can be heard telling them 'Guys, down the hill.' When contacted for comment about the claims by The U.S. Sun, the Indianapolis division of the FBI declined to discuss any aspect of the case, citing an ongoing investigation. 'One hundred percent not,' he said when asked if he was the man Libby took a photo of on the bridge. On her second day in office, she snapped a selfie with Republican Senate staffer Tayleranne Gillespie, simply because Gillespie asked her to. 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Members of the Indiana State Police (ISP) have spent over two weeks searching through a section of the Wabash River in Peru, combing through the shallow waters with metal detectors and scuba gear. View the last few pictures of this video. According to the transcript, which has since been sealed in the court record, Kline told police he communicated with German on the day she was killed. The podcast hosts have reported extensively on the Delphi murders and Kline, and they wanted to reach out to the suspect to give him a chance to share his side of the story. "It's extremely frustrating these people are meant to be protecting and serving yet apparently they can't even retrieve evidence properly. The following day, Indianapolis news station WISH-TV connected 27-year-old Kegan Anthony Kline with that profile. Who Is Kegan Kline, Another Suspected Lead In The Delphi Murders. Abigail and Liberty went missing on Feb. 13, 2017, after they were dropped off by their family to go for a hike on a local trail. Kline told HLN that investigators told him that the "anthony_shots" account was the last to communicate with Liberty before she was killed. No one has been arrested in the Delphi, Indiana, double murder. She was once shocked and indignant after being peppered with questions about whether she would grow out her hair, during a time when she was considering a run at a higher office, and she went to Roberts with her surprise. Brown went on to the University of Colorado and then to the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College in Portland. He was living 37 miles from Delphi, in the town of Peru. 00:55 GMT 12 Feb 2022. Her ambition was no secret, Winters said, and although they are far apart politically, Winters said Brown's experience will set her up well for the job. Kegan Anthony Kline, 27, is allegedly the man behind a fake social media account that investigators say might be connected to the 2017 murders of teens Abigail Williams and Liberty German By. The affidavit,. Anyone with information can submit a tip at abbyandlibbytip@cacoshrf.com or 765-822-3535. In a transcript of an interview with police from August 2020, Kline admitted to interacting with Libby on the account but denied any wrongdoing. Roberts sat beside her also. Police suspect he is the killer, A shot of the Monon High Bridge Trail that the girls posted on social media before their disappearance, The Indiana State Police have not confirmed that the search in the Wasbash River is related to the murders, This was the final Snapchat post Libby made on the day of her murder at 2.07pm in 2017. ABC News' Jenn Leong and Matt Knox contributed to this report. At one point, Kline told police of Libby, "I don't remember talking to her really. Kline described it as "coincidence that I happened to talk to her," according to the transcript. Kegan Kline, 27, is currently in jail on separate child pornography charges but he was free on February 14, 2017, when the girls were murdered. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Two days before she took her oath of office, a friend of Brown's from back home posted a photo of her on the Mounds View High School Class of 1978 Facebook page. Kegan Kline, an accused pedophile who was communicating with Libby through a catfish social media account, reportedly Googled the Marathon gas station in Delphi on Feb. 13, 2017 - the same day Libby, 14, and Abigail Williams, 13, were murdered near a bridge. For years, the case was unsolved but investigators are pursuing the theory the pair were talking with Kline - a known catfish who used the photos of a male model to lure young girls into meeting him for sex. Police also accused Kline of communicating with Libby on the day she was killed, according to the transcript. If you or someone you know may be the victim of child abuse, please contact the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline at 1-800-4-A-Child (1-800-422-4453) or contact their live chat services. New information on the "anthony_shots" account is now public thanks to the true crime podcast Murder Sheet, which obtained a transcript of a police interview with 27-year-old Kegan Kline, an Indiana man arrested in 2020 and charged with possession of child pornography and related charges. Sources have indicated to Murder Sheet that the search is connected to the Delphi murders, Cain told ABC7 on Thursday. Not at all. The river is roughly 40 miles away from where Libby and Abby were killed, and around two miles from Kegan Kline's family home, which was raided by police 12 days after the murders. He's next due in court on April 14 for a pretrial conference. Brown's attraction to both men and women was presented as the most interesting thing about her. ", Asked why he'd worry about his DNA in this case, Kline responded, "I wouldn't. Kegan is still being held in Miami on charges of child pornography. "I'm slightly surprised because I'd expect the local police department to fumble the ball like that, but I wouldn't have thought the FBI would," said an anguished Carrie. The photo went up on Instagram with two happy, genuine smiles. People doing interviews that don't even know me and lying all about me. According to that, he was in Vegas, not Indiana. The two girls were reported missing a day earlier after vanishing while hiking along the Delphi Historic Trails during a day off from school. Their bodies were found Feb. 14, 2017, in a wooded area about a half-mile from the bridge. Kline has neither been charged nor been named a suspect in the murders of Abigail and Liberty. Chadwell had been jailed for the killing of another girl nearby but has never been arrested over the Delphi murders. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? He neither denied his involvement nor made any form of confession, and instead complained to them that he was having a 'hard time' and was 'hungry'. She practiced family law for several years and lobbied for women's issues in Salem, the Oregon capital. The person in the photos on the account is Alaska police officer and model Vince Kowlaski. He was totally taken aback, she said. Nikos Frazier / Journal & Courier via USA TODAY Network, unsolved 2017 murders of two teenage girls in Delphi, Kegan Kline is accused of creating an account by the name of "anthony_shots", Investigators identify creator of 'anthony_shots' social media account cited in Delphi teen slayings investigation. But our Second Gentlemen is lecturing us about 'toxic masculinity'. 'I had to learn about the whole case overnight and am appalled to know what happened to those poor girls. Kegan Kline, 28, (pictured) was linked to the Delphi murders, but never labeled a suspect Credit: Miami County Detention Center. Last year, it was revealed that he was behind an Instagram catfish account which used the name Anthony Shots, and that Indiana State Police believed Abi and Libby communicated with the account not long before they died. Doug Carter of the Indiana State Police provides an update on the Delphi murders investigation on April 22, 2019, in Delphi, Ind. Please check out Murder Sheet Podcast. Instead, he cynically offered to share information related to the killings in exchange for $400, a deal the podcasters believed would undermine their journalistic integrity and which they flat-out refused, ending their contact with Kline. Kegan Kline, 27, of Peru, Indiana, has been jailed since 2020 for allegedly soliciting and possessing child pornography using a fake social media persona. But now, five and a half years on, with only questions and very few answers, Carrie says has lost all faith in law enforcement to bring her daughter's killer to justice. The prosecutor had requested the dismissal, claiming there was insufficient evidence to prove those five charges. He was living not far from where the girls' bodies were found in February 2017. He was linked to theDelphi murdersafter he was reportedly in contact with one of the victims, 14-year-old Libby German, the night before she was murdered, according toFOX 59 Indianapolis. Kegan Kline, 27, is currently in custody in Miami County, Indiana, for 30 counts of child pornography-related charges dating back to 2016 and 2017. They have never revealed how the girls died, nor have they revealed the full contents of a video filmed by the girls on their phone in the moments before they were killed. publicized what they say is the suspect's voice, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Kline was arrested two years ago on unrelated child pornography charges. Brown asked for a kiss, and Large bent her over backwards in an intense embrace. On Thursday,Doug Carter, Superintendent of the Indiana State Police, said told Good Morning America that they know who the killer is. They met in seventh-grade math class, back when she sported a "Nixon Now" button. It was a different time for women in politics, and Brown didn't always understand the realities of that. In 2017, authorities released a grainy image of the suspect, who they say was on the trail the day the girls went missing. But to her friends, co-workers, constituents and Brown herself, it is beside the point. 'I was unaware that the Indiana state police were going to use my photos prior to them releasing all that information. The other was Kegan Kline, an accused pedophile, who, like Allen, was an Indiana resident at the time of the murders, with an address in the city of Peru less than 40 miles from the center of Delphi. He has never been charged with the crime. He pleaded not guilty and is awaiting. The home was raided 12 days after the girls were murdered as part of the child pornography investigation. The user of the "anthony_shots" profile, which was active in 2016 and 2017, "portrayed himself as being extremely wealthy and owning numerous sports cars," police said. "Now, we must restore the public's trust.". New information on the "anthony_shots" account is now public thanks to the true crime podcast Murder Sheet, which obtained a transcript of a police interview with 27-year-old Kegan Kline, an Indiana man arrested in 2020 and charged with possession of child pornography and related charges. Police have not confirmed what it is they're searching for. She could explain any policy or any topic clearly, in a way anyone could understand. He also denied being in Delphi on the day the murders were committed. "Oregon has been in the national news for all the wrong reasons," Brown said at her inauguration Wednesday. Kate Brown speaks during a press conference on Friday, Feb. 20, 2015, at the Oregon State Capitol. That report (and the probable cause affidavit embedded within said article) revealed that Kline was on . According to a police interview obtained by the Murder Sheet podcast, Kline was linked to an incident . None of her colleagues are surprised she has become governor, although they are, of course, surprised by the circumstances. Kline's public defender attorney denied that he was in any way involved in the Delphi murders when police connected him to the case in December. Kline is a suspect in a Miami County child exploitation and child pornography case. Kline set up the anthony_shots Instagram page to solicit nude photos from underage girls which he said he would masturbate to. Produced over 60 proposals or qualifications documents per year for the Water Resources and Geotechnical Division of this consulting firm . Supt. The charges are unrelated to the murders of Abigail "Abby" Williams and Liberty "Libby" German. 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A MOTHER of one of the girls killed in the still-unsolved Delphi murders says she is "disgusted" with the FBI following reports the bureau bungled potentially crucial evidence in the case. One of the people claim that Kegan looks like and is very close with his father, he said that they're both as bad as eachother. Few updates other updates have been issued by investigators over the last five years. According to the published transcript, in Kline's interview with police in 2020, he admitted to using the "anthony_shots" profile on social media and admitted to talking to Libby. On Monday, October 31, 2022, Indiana State Police investigators and prosecutors held a press conference to announce the arrest of Richard Allen, 50, who had been charged the previous Friday with the murder of 14-year-old Libby German and 13-year-old Abby Williams in February 2017.
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