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An affidavit tied to the 2017 Delphi Bridge double-murder has shed new light on the case, claiming that the killer took two items of clothing from the teen victims and that a suspect, who's now dead, gave his cousin an alibi to lie to police.
The news came days after local police in Delphi, Indiana, released the picture of a man walking along the bridge in relation to the murders of teens Libby German, 14, and Abby Williams, 13, in 2017.
At least 15 tips came in after that, claiming that the unidentified man was Ron Logan, a previous suspect who died in 2020, according to an affidavit for a search warrant from March 17, 2017, according to Journal & Courier.
The affidavit suggests the bodies had been staged and that the killer may have not only gotten blood on himself due to the way the killings were carried out but that he also took two pieces of clothing from the girls, which were described as 'souvenirs.'
New information on the case also reveals that the killer may have taken pictures of the crimes and that the victims did not struggle or fight with the perpetrator at the time of their deaths.
Logan also lied about his alibi to police, according to the affidavit, noting that he had told investigators on the day of the murder on February 13 that a friend had picked him up and driven him to a store between '2pm and 2:30pm.'
Police in Delphi, Indiana, recently shared the picture of a man walking along the bridge in relation to the murders. He can be heard telling them 'Guys, down the hill.' Police suspect he is the killer and at least 15 tips claim that the person is Ron Logan
Ron Logan spoke with reporters on his property days after the girls' bodies were found. In a groundbreaking affidavit from 2017, he apparently told his cousin to lie to police on the day of murders on February 13, 2017
Logan reached out to a family member the following morning on February 14 and asked them to tell police about his trip the previous day, and to say he returned home between 5pm and 5:30pm.
The family member Logan asked to lie for him told police Logan's lie on March 7, 2017, then two days later admitted he'd lied because Logan asked him to, adding that Logan 'had never asked [him] to lie in the past.'
Investigators noted that Logan appeared to have asked the family member to lie for him before the crime had even been discovered.
The warrant wrote that Logan made 'statements that were found to be factually false and intentionally designed to deceive.'
Libby Williams, 13 (left), and Abby German, 14, (right), were found bloodied and murdered after going missing on February 13, 2017, in Delphi, Indiana
Just before the girls disappeared they posted photos and video to social media showing them walking down the train tracks near the Monon High Bridge Trail (above)
A search of Logan's property in March 2017 turned up a receipt timestamped 5:21pm from a town 30 minutes away from his house, making his return home at the time he reported in his alibi doubtful.
Cellphone data also revealed Logan to be in Delphi and near the Monon High Bridge where the girls went missing on the afternoon of their disappearance.
In April of 2017 Logan was arrested after he confessed to violating a parole related to serial traffic violations.
Police have never disclosed how Williams and German, believed to have been close friends, died after being stalked by their killer on a hiking trail. Indiana State Police said in February they know who killed the girls, but say they have insufficient evidence to make an arrest.
A shot of the Monon High Bridge Trail that the girls posted on social media before their disappearance. Their bodies were found 1,400 feet from Ron Logan's home
Monon High Bridge is 63-feet long tall and is Indiana's second tallest bridge
Chillingly, FBI investigators believe the young friends' killer took a souvenir from their corpses to provide a warped memento of his appalling crimes.
The warrant offered no further detail on what the souvenir was, although it did say that 'the rest of (the girls') clothing was recovered,' implying that the killer had taken something they'd been wearing.
And sickeningly, the murderer 'staged' the girls' bodies in a particular way after killing them, although it remains unclear exactly how he did this.
Investigators believe photographs or videos were likely shot of the grotesque set-up to 'memorialize' the crime scene.
The warrant further revealed that the FBI had probable cause to search the home and property of Ron Logan.
He was the owner of the land where the girls' bloodied bodies were found. They were discovered about 1,400 feet from Logan's house.
Logan was arrested shortly after the killings, but was never charged, and died in 2020. He was a habitual traffic offender who served time behind bars for his crimes, but was not considered a suspect in the murders of Williams and German.
The 2017 murder of Abby, 13, and Libby, 14, became notorious after investigators released chilling footage the girls recorded of a man following and approaching them across the Manon High Bridge in the woods of Delphi, Indiana.
A brief snippet of audio was released, of the man saying 'Down the hill.' The full clip is 43 seconds long, but its contents are believed to be too disturbing to share in full.
The voice in the clip was described as
