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we have concluded the first sketch released will become secondary as of today the result of the new information and
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intelligence over time leads us to believe the sketch which you will see shortly is the person
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responsible for the murders of these two little girls we also believe this person is from
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Delphi currently or as previously lived here visits Delphi on a regular basis or works here
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we believe this person is currently between the age range of 18 and 40. but might appear younger than his true
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age directly to the Killer who may be in this room we believe you are hiding in plain sight
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for more than two years you never thought we would shift gears to a different investigative strategy
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but we have we likely have interviewed you or someone close to you we know that this is about power to you
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and you want to know what we know and one day you will the question to you what will those closest to you think of
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they find out that you brutally murdered two little girls two children only a coward would do such
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a thing we are confident that you have told someone what you have done or at the very least they know
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because of how different you are since the murders to the murderer I believe you have just a little bit of
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a conscience left and I can assure you that how you left them in that Woods is not
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it's not what they're experiencing today [Music] [Applause] this is from the Journal and Courier
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here captain and I will read this to you and everybody out there in listener and
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land Lafayette Indiana detectives investigating the February 13 2017 killings of Libby German and Abby
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Williams have taken notice of James Brian Chadwell II Tippy Canoe County Prosecutors accused
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Chadwell of lowering a nine year old girl into his house at 714 Park Avenue on April 19th that's April 19th of this
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year 2021. once inside his house Chadwell allegedly beat the girl sexually assaulted her and locked her in the
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basement until police knocked on his door quote the information has obviously been shared with us and our
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investigators are looking into him said Carroll County Sheriff Tobe lessenby he did not elaborate on any details about
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the investigation into Chadwell Indiana State Police Sergeant Jeremy Pierce said
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they do not comment on whom detectives might be investigating but noted that the state police works collaboratively
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with agencies in the district which we know to be true specifically here captain in the Delphi double murders
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investigation that's ongoing been going on way too long we all thought we would catch Bridge guy within weeks of the
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case and here we sit over four years later we know that the Carroll County Sheriff's Department is working the case
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we know that the Delphi City police are assisting Carroll County Sheriff's Office and we also know that Indiana
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State Police who have really been at the kind of the front line of this at least
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from a media and press perspective they're working the case and we also have the Federal Bureau of Investigation
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the F to the B to the I working the investigation as well well what's really fascinating here with James Brian
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Chadwell is he's really the First Person of Interest or suspect in quotation marks to hit be on the regional or local
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level and actually get talked about a national media year since Daniel Nations or are we just so starved for
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information or starved for a real viable suspect at this point that we're pushing it you know out of proportion
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here possibly prosecutors have charged Chadwell with attempted murder child molesting attempted child molesting
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kidnapping criminal confinement battery resulting in serious bodily injury and strangulation they also filed a sentence
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enhancing charge of being an habitual offender which if guilty could add between 6 and 20 years to chadwell's
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sentence look this guy regardless if he's Bridge guy or in any way involved in the Delphi case this guy is is one
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bad dude one dude that needs to be off the streets and who knows what he would have done to this victim if police had
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not got hip to him being the possible suspect here well he's a giant bag of [ __ ] is what he is but it's fascinating
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to me that that they went around looking it doesn't seem like he's a direct neighbor of her but in the neighborhood
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at some point they knock on his door he answers he tells police oh yeah I saw her
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earlier right but she's not here and that kind of makes them question as they're going back and searching
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different areas they go let's go back to that guy because he's now the only person I believe in that area that said
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oh I saw her during this time period so then when they go back think about this from law enforcement
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standpoint you go back and this guy lets you into the house and as you're walking
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around you see chains around the door or or some kind of lock system around the the
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basement door and you're going to go okay well now we need to go down there we need to but he lets them in as as far
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as their records show he goes oh yeah yeah go down to the basement and search uh almost like he knew he was caught and
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he might as well just give in but could you imagine what's going through law enforcement's head at the time on what
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they're going to see and probably what they did see is still hard for them to believe right
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no I I guarantee it's it's shocking even to these officers who have seen a lot and you you try to put yourself in that
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mindset and the way that I think of this here Captain as this whole thing going down and often it is in fact like a
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neighbor or somebody living in the neighborhood especially when you see someone around this age where our victim
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is in that age of like the six to 12 year old range and and I I've never am surprised anymore it hit me early in my
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teens when you'd see this stuff on on news coverage we're looking for so and so you know police in in Kansas City are
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looking for a nine-year-old police in Orlando Florida are looking for an 11 year old child that was last seen in
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their neighborhood or or was presumed to have got off the bus that day but never
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came home and it's usually rather quick that they make the connection and find that the
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perpetrator was in fact living in that neighborhood so much so that now when I see the news break on a child missing of
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that age my mind immediately goes to well I hope that they're calming this neighborhood very well because it often
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ends up being someone in that neighborhood and we know the statistics tell us that specifically with these
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child cases the in the younger victims that once they are abducted a lot of times they're not going to be
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returned and it's rather quickly that they become they go from be an abduction victim to a murder victim but I think
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that's what would have happened here if law enforcement didn't go back and question James Brian Chadwell the second
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time so with Chad well I wonder a couple things here they're going around they're
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obviously canvassing the the neighborhood they're knocking on doors and you know some people are a little
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sensitive to some of the questions that might be out there in regards to how police and how detectives might conduct
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their their questioning even if it's in a casual manner searching for answers uh in whatever case it is I know in
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particular with the West Memphis Three case there are people that are sensitive and don't like the nine questions that
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the FBI put together for the detectives to ask members of those that area down there in West Memphis but these
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questions are put together in this way to really help the officers be it a b cop or a seasoned
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detective really give them a nice gauge on the honesty level or how quickly do we prioritize this person as a possible
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lead in our case or how quickly can we de-prioritize them put them lower on the list because especially in this case
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with this young girl she's missing we're we're not even to the point of worried about who did this we're not
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even worried about convicting someone of abducting this little girl our whole thought is find her right find her make
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her safe as soon as possible so you see that they crafted questions the FBI for investigators in West Memphis and I
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wonder here Captain if we have a similar situation officers going around and you know
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knocking on doors people answering the doors you're asking very quick questions have you seen along a little girl that's
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going to be your your very quick your first go-to your second question and in chadwell's case this is what I think
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they did I think they you throw out a question that you can kind of have the needle point to is he guilty of
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something is he hiding something or is this somebody we can quickly move on from and you say something to the effect
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of okay well Mr Chadwell thank you for your time today oh is there why would somebody tell us that they saw you
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talking to a little girl earlier today you're not saying anybody told you that you're not saying that you saw the the
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victim in his you know near his house or near his property you're saying why would someone you know just like they
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asked Damien Eckles why would we find your fingerprints at the crime scene they didn't
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right he doesn't know that but you word it in a way that you're not really truly lying to the person you're
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questioning in this case I wonder if that's exactly what they did because most the time Captain a guilty person
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somebody with something to hide their immediate knee-jerk reaction is going to be well I have to explain this away in
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an innocent Manner and then these guys if they believe me well they'll just move on to the next house
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and so often they'll sit they'll put themselves at the crime scene they'll say oh well I
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might have been seen there because I drive by there every day or I might have been seen in this area because I think
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on that particular day I got lost and turned around and so and so here why would someone tell us that they saw
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you talking to a little girl oh I think she was around here earlier she came by here earlier but I haven't
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seen her in a while well as soon as you hear that you're going oh crap this guy just admitted to
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us that he has spoke to likely spoke to our victim and we're searching for this girl
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immediate thought is get this girl save this girl protect this girl this dude too he's got a
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criminal history he's got a police record yeah a big one so now you're telling this dude I don't
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know and we'll get into this as we go and some of this I'm going to learn as we venture along here too Captain but my
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guess would be if he's on probation for something right you're going to bring that up uh
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especially if you you've called in his name he's on probation for something when
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they say they came back to his house and then he let him in and they searched you have to wonder was that coming back
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to his house as quickly as walking away from talking to him him saying yeah I saw her earlier yeah and them running a
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background check on this dude you know we have a James Brian Chadwell II who lives at uh this address on Park
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Avenue tell us what you know they pull up his record oh he's on probation let's go
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strong arm this guy he's going to very quickly likely lets you into his home whether
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he's hiding anything or not a lot of times that that's one thing that's interesting in a lot of these cases you
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know we talk about something like like what we had last week with uh Branson Perry case where the the the
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cables the jumper cables were returned to the shed mysteriously they weren't there before when he went missing and
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then two weeks go by and they appear well if an innocent person replaced them and
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the police put out to the public we want to know who had those jumper cables where did they come from the innocent
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person comes forward and even if the person has a past I I get it you know hey I don't want to be I
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don't want to be turned into some kind of frame job for this case because I got a lengthy
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criminal background here but a lot of times what you will see especially when it comes to sex
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offenders and to people on probation as soon as they're asked we talk about the Pervert
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Roundup all the time in these cases a lot of these sexual offenders will come forward they don't even have to go and
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knock on their door they come forward and they want to tell you this is where I was that day I'm innocent I had
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nothing to do with this I do not want to be locked up for 15 years right so they
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probably strong-armed him he's you know we said he's got a background he's probably on probation you know you
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should probably let us in here's the other thing in a lot of States I don't know about Indiana The Goods the Hoosier
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State but in a lot of States they don't necessarily have to have a search warrant to force their way into a home
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of an individual that's on probation no because what they can do is they can call your PO right your PO can go in
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there so it's not a matter of us getting a search warrant Mr Chadwell it's a matter of your PO is Officer so and so
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well it's only it's a a matter of how long it takes them to drive over here and they just walk into your home but
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this is one of the reasons why I'm not a detective or a cop I mean because if you
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ever watch True Detective season one and how what you know Woody Harrelson's character handles Justice Midway through
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is probably what would happen in this case I mean once they go down to the basement they see this nine-year-old has
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been raped there's different reports of bruising on her legs bite marks from the
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dog on her legs and the rumor was that there was blood coming out of her eyes because of how
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badly he strangled her you see that on a nine-year-old and I'm holding a gun it'd be very hard not to just pull the
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trigger and get it over with well there's bad cops that do that and they get locked up and there's good cops that
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that I don't know if we should classify them as a bad well I I would prefer that the
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that my officers are making arrests and not just shooting people vigilante Style
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but the the good cops focus on making the arrest and making it in a lawful way that you will secure secure a conviction
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later because that's their job is to arrest not to not not to carry out the the sentence themselves yeah I understand
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that that's why I'm saying I'm not a cop right so I just want to have it in me I
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I wouldn't have it in me like maybe you don't shoot the guy but I don't have it in me not to beat the living [ __ ] out of
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the guy and so that's why I'm I'm not a police officer your application has been denied
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Mr Captain there they go if this happened what would you do really I would beat the [ __ ] out of the guy well
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you got a lot of things going on here once you enter the premises so you're it's you and one other officer at this
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time and what you have in this situation is you have a dog to concern yourself with dogs for whatever reason they don't
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like the mailman and they don't like police it might be the uniform I don't know
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but you have a dog to contend with and you have this individual that you know has a criminal record and you're now
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you're now playing an away game it's his home turf you don't know what's inside that house
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and so you're going to have one officer who is going to focus on the individual Mr Chadwell
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and the other officer is going to be observing everything looking for a reason why
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this girl may have either been in the premises at some point or was still inside
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and so one of them is going to notice that there's some type of Lock and we'll get into that and then when you do when
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you notice that there's some kind of contraption locking up the basement door you're going to send one officer down
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there and the other is going to stay up there with upstairs with Mr Chadwell so he doesn't uh give you the old sneak
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attack and as you pointed out here earlier Captain Chadwell is just the latest among
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what's being a growing list of suspects as far as the public and the media is concerned and the Journal and Courier
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goes on to say chadwell's not the first person accused of an abduction crime who
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has been investigated as a person of interest in the Delphi murders none of the other people of Interest turned out
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to be a suspect this again according to this this outlayer right but what I was also stating is we've had so many people
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that have come on the radar as far as social media and maybe they get a blimp in the in the actual media
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but this is one of the first individuals that there's National coverage of him and multiple National coverage people
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following up on the story there was a lot of coverage on Daniel Nations yes there was I mean but that's what I'm
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saying is but but between daily Nations and and Chadwell we've had how many individuals that
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people have been comparing side by sides to we couldn't even count the number you know the as far as the major ones go
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there's been a good handful but uh yeah there's been hundreds if not a thousand or more that people online
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have have done right side by sides and so on and so forth so to go on with this article here they say on April 19th the
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nine-year-old girl's parents reported her missing about 7 PM she'd been gone for about 30 minutes so the parents uh
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God bless them were and very smartfully so uh were quick to act here chadwell's next door neighbor Jason Walling told
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the Journal Courier last week that he was driving home from work turned into his alley and noticed Chadwell speaking
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with a woman in the alley it was after that the girl was reported he says this was after the girl was reported missing
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because a few minutes later police cars were parked in front of his house and officers were focused on chadwell's
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house right the police officers knocked on Chad Wells door the Journal Courier says this might have saved the little
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girl's life prosecutors said the girl told police she believed Chadwell was going to kill
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her the knock forced James Chadwell to stop his sexual assault quickly dress and answer the
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door according to the prosecutor's probable cause affidavit Chadwell allowed officers to search his house and
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they found the girl locked in the basement she had been beaten strangled attacked by chadwell's dog and sexually
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assaulted according to police and prosecutors meanwhile anyone with information about Libby and Abby's
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killings is encouraged to contact law enforcement by email at Abby and Libby tip at caco
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shrf.com and of course you can find that information as well at the Indiana State
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police's website but I think once this individual comes on their radar and they have him in custody for this crime now
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what we do know is is this individual is this individual capable of murder well from all accounts of this crime he was
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in the process of murdering a nine-year-old and then you go a step further and go well well is it possible
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he was in the area well this area is roughly what 15 miles from Delphi so that puts him roughly in the area
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now we have to figure out is he actually a person of interest or a likely suspect
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to you Colonel cheers to you captain and backing up some of the stuff you were saying before the break here heavy.com
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Captain says James Brian Chadwell II is a 42 year old Lafayette Indiana man who is accused of attempted murder after
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police found an injured missing nine-year-old girl in his basement on April 19th of this year and as you
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pointed out the authorities in nearby Delphi only 15 miles away said they are investigating him as a possible suspect
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in the notorious unsolved 2017 murders of Delphi teens Abigail Williams in Liberty German
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the detectives told ABC news that their quote might air quotes might be a connection but
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stress that there is no specific link as of yet connecting Chadwell to the Delphi
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case well like I said I think the first connection is distance I think everybody
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could agree that is not that big of a distance to cover no 15 miles not not big at all and that
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I think would go along with a lot of speculation that's come from people that listen to this show and posted on our
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blog that a lot of people seem to think that the guy would have some kind of local ties to the Delphi area right
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maybe was once from there and hasn't lived there in years or returned for whatever reason or like in chadwell's
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case it's somebody that could simply hop in a vehicle and have drove down there on that day
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this here Captain is from the probable cause affidavit for chadwell's arrest so this will give us the legal speak of
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what the police found it says on April 19 2021 officers were dispatched regarding a missing child report near
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Park Avenue in Lafayette Indiana upon arrival officers took a report stating victim one a female child
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approximately 10 years old had left her residence at approximately 6 30 pm and could not be found while officers were
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searching the neighborhood they made contact with James Chadwell who told officers victim one had been at his
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residence earlier but had left the residence after being unable to locate victim one officers returned to
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chadwell's Residence and asked him for permission to check his residence for victim one Chadwell allowed officers
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into his residence and officer Tate and surveys I hope I'm saying his last name right checked the basement which was
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secured with a chain lock most people I wouldn't I know at my house no chain lock on the Colonel's basement
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uh in the basement Tate found a young girl who said Chadwell tried to kill her that's
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that's the thing you you pointed out is this individual is this James Chadwell capable of murder and you said yes based
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off this crime you think that's what was going to happen I agree 100 percent but we don't even have to give our
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opinions here we have this child victim tells the officers this guy he was trying to kill me yeah and I and I don't
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again I don't know if it's just rumor here say that there was blood coming out of her eyes
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but that's why I'm saying you see something like that as a police officer You're Gonna Want You're Gonna Want to
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take justice into your own hands oh yeah you have to be a very special individual
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to hold back and say nope I gotta do my due diligence collect all the information do it
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as a professional as I can so we can make sure that this animal is behind bars and never does this again well my
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right hand that's the one that I draw my gun with and that's when it starts getting that shake going so where you go
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okay brain brain and heart control this hand because it's starting to get a mind
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of its own okay so from this article it says he allowed them into the home they found the basement was secured with
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a chain lock and it goes into a little more detail here says they found a young girl who
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was visibly distraught and crying with her clothing on the floor beside her again she was in the basement she was
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identified as the missing girl and said that Chadwell tried to kill her she was injured and taken to the hospital for
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treatment the girl described going into chadwell's residence to pet his dogs while inside the home Chadwell attacked
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her she said the girl said Chadwell quote hit her in the head multiple times because she was fighting back victim one
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said Chadwell was also choking her with his hands on her neck and also using his
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arm in a headlock to the point where she passed out okay just a quick aside here
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this Chadwell guy and there's there's plenty of pictures of him online but he's he he's not a small dude I found a
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couple pictures where he's rather looks rather built or rather to be in rather good shape no that's not good
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shape I don't know what pictures you're seeing well I'll show you one when these
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mics aren't on and I think you'll agree with me but um no I've whatever pictures I've seen
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of them this guy is trash that just likes to take his shirt off and show his trash tattoos right well
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regardless I'm just pointing out here captain that this is this is a a full-size grown man attacking a a small
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girl and so when I would say he's overweight for his height which would make him look a little bit
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larger right I mean again there's there's plenty of pictures out there and I'm sure he's probably varied in size
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depending on what picture you're looking at but he's five eight right he used her hold on she he used his hands
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on her neck and also using his arm and a headlock to the point where she passed out victim once said most of her clothes
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were off when she regained Consciousness so he choked her out and then she wakes up you know she was
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fighting back he chokes her out she wakes up most of her clothes are off when she comes too
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and says that Chadwell took her into the basement he attempted to have sexual intercourse
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with her and then made her perform oral sex on him the affidavit alleges at one point Chadwell got dressed to go answer
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the door this we now know is when police knock on the door right uh across her neck it says when police found her found
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the victim in his basement across her neck were lateral strangulation marks and she had broken blood vessels with
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black eyes anybody that has seen you know MMA or or you know street fights where
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someone gets choked out they have those broken blood vessels in their eyes and often black almost you know raccoon
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looking marks around their their eyes on the outside of the skin and then on the
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inside that's where you get the the bloodshot and I'm not talking about a morning after a night of tequila
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bloodshot eyes I'm talking about red where the where where there was once white there is now red
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they found bruising to her head arms and legs and bite marks according to the court document this would be the um
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at least one dog bite that she suffered during this horrific horrific incident and you
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wonder if this is a not so much a him sicking the dog on her but just these two are fighting each
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other and some dogs are going to react when they see that court records show that
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Chadwell faces the following charges attempted murder attempted intentional killing of another
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child molesting where the defendant is this means Chadwell the the suspect is at least 21 years of age kidnapping
00:35:53
where the victim is less than 14 years of age because the reason why they Define it that way is there will be a
00:36:01
different sentencing protocol different penalties for this type of specific crime criminal confinement resulting in
00:36:10
serious bodily injury battery resulting in serious bodily injury and strangulation
00:36:17
a post on Facebook from a woman who said she was related to the nine-year-old victim claimed
00:36:26
Chadwell quote strangled her so bad blood came out of her eyes her trachea is damaged to where all she can do is
00:36:37
eat through a straw if it hadn't been for the speed of the Lafayette Police Department arriving on
00:36:44
the scene she would be dead she was only nine he's punching her and his Pit Bull
00:36:51
is biting her and this woman goes on to praise the First Responders yeah and this really makes you think
00:37:00
here captain we've had some stories that we've told over the years some true crime stories
00:37:05
that we've told over the years where some police at certain you know some of these cases go back decades and and we
00:37:14
always try to get better hopefully we're doing things better today than we did 30
00:37:18
years ago but we've had these cases that we've discussed where police are not quick to
00:37:24
act and you wonder could things have turned out different in that case and and thank God they they
00:37:32
were quick to act in this case they saved this little girl's life the the parents and the police acting quickly
00:37:40
and very intelligently saved this little girl's life but obviously as this story blows up
00:37:49
and I think really also catches some legs catches some traction is because one it's so close to these murders that
00:37:58
took place for years prior similar type victim and you could also say that this murderer or attempted murderer
00:38:09
looks similar to the sketch to the first sketch that was released by law enforcement and the Delphi
00:38:18
murders the first I actually think he looks more like the second sketch that was released the the younger version
00:38:24
yeah I mean I've seen people compare both yeah um yeah I guess you're right well I mean
00:38:30
sketch one and two don't look great I mean they look like different people but yeah but again you and I have said and
00:38:38
questioned this over the years could you envision you know when we finally do make an
00:38:44
arrest that you could take sketch one and two and overlap them and that's what the guy will end up
00:38:51
looking like right I mean that's certainly believable you're right Captain I can see features on on this uh
00:38:57
guy um that do appear to look similar to sketch one and also sketch two as well he we said he's 42 years old I don't
00:39:10
know what your perception is here captain or what everybody else is is but you know
00:39:16
Carter Indiana State Police Officer Doug Carter who did the press conferences for the
00:39:25
Delphi murders and I I just I love listening to that man speak I love hearing the passion in his his voice and
00:39:33
his words when he's talking about the the community the families and getting and catching Bridge guy
00:39:42
Carter said it himself that you know this this is the age range this is kind of our physical profile of this dude of
00:39:51
bridge guy he falls within this age group but Carter says he he may appear he may look younger than his actual age
00:40:01
and my general perception here my general thoughts as far as James Brian Chadwell go is I think he looks younger
00:40:10
than 42 to me yeah and I don't know if it's the trash tattoos or or or what but but I look at him and my first guess
00:40:18
would not be 42. well I just want to be clear I'm all for tattoos I love tattoos
00:40:24
just don't get bad tattoos don't get shitty tattoos no uh right away when you when you see this guy
00:40:32
I was thinking mid-30s right so even though it seems like he he's kind of had a uh a rough go of Life probably mostly
00:40:43
brought on by himself right uh he he seems and I I think some of it too is the style of clothes and stuff he's
00:40:51
still into but yeah right away it's like okay maybe 30 35 or so so he puts us uh
00:40:58
so that's another thing so we have a individual that uh is roughly the same age as our suspect
00:41:07
we also know Hughes in the area or could have been in the area and he is capable of the crimes that
00:41:16
were committed that day in Delphi so we have three things going for him that definitely make the the cops have to say
00:41:23
hey we have to look into this individual now what I wonder is was this guy ever on their radio radar before
00:41:32
and because the story got some traction did they feel like they had to come out and say hey hey yeah yeah we're going to
00:41:38
look into this guy and is it just uh a dog and pony show or is this a guy that uh that they
00:41:47
actually think could be a very good suspect I suspect we won't hear much unless they decide to charge him with
00:41:57
something right because with all of the other quote-unquote good suspects that they've
00:42:03
had so let's review those real quick we had Daniel Nations who we already mentioned he's the
00:42:09
guy that was swinging hatchets at people out in Woodland Park Colorado and they arrested him he looked somewhat like the
00:42:18
sketch he had a criminal history I believe he was a sex offender registered sex offender in the Indiana State
00:42:27
they looked at him he was one of the first Paul Etter who in 2019 was wanted for kidnapping
00:42:37
and raping a 26 year old woman in Tippy Canoe County Indiana five days later he was the one that was
00:42:46
surrounded by police and after a long standoff he ends up killing himself in his car then we have
00:42:54
Thomas Bruce this was the guy that this guy this guy completely Bizarro case to me formally
00:43:03
worked as a pastor was charged with fatally shooting one woman and sexually assaulting two others this is the guy
00:43:10
that went into that uh that store in the in the strip mall and he pulls a gun on these people
00:43:20
orders them into the back room assaults them in the back room and later he's identified as
00:43:27
the Killer and the person that attacked these poor people in that store thankfully he's abducted Charles
00:43:33
Eldridge he's the big giant ogre looking dude that many of you will recall that was arrested in Union City Indiana and
00:43:42
charged with multiple charges of child molestation and child soliciting and he gets thrown onto the radar by the public
00:43:51
and by the media and social media because he looks a lot or similar to the first
00:43:58
sketch of bridge guy and that leads us to the most recent James Brian Chadwell II and a lot of people have been looking
00:44:06
up this guy as you said Captain this seems to be a bigger news than some of the other suspects it looks to me like
00:44:13
on most of his social media that James Brian Chadwell II was going by Brian Chadwell and you can see I mean
00:44:22
I don't know exactly every account that he was on I know people were able to look at pictures
00:44:28
that he had on Facebook Avid like hiker seemed to be into Bridges I don't know if he was essentially into Bridges or if
00:44:38
he was just into nature in general but seemed to have somewhat of a fascination with Bridges so then you go
00:44:45
okay well now I've got this guy he kind of matches the sketch lives roughly in the area
00:44:52
he has a he has priors he's capable of committing these crimes and oh by the way he likes
00:45:00
to be outdoors he likes to go to Parks he likes to take pictures of bridges seems to be fascinated by by them well
00:45:10
and speaking of criminal history this again from heavy.com says Chadwell has a lengthy
00:45:19
assaultive criminal history in the states of Indiana and South Dakota and they go on to say that the probable
00:45:27
cause affidavit shows that Chadwell has an extensive criminal history he was once convicted of criminal recklessness
00:45:35
with a deadly weapon which was a felony in that county in Miami County he was convicted in 2000 in Pennington
00:45:45
County South Dakota of assault aggravated a felony and was convicted of stolen property he was convicted in U.S
00:45:55
District Court in South Dakota of being a felon in possession of a firearm that was in 2001. he was convicted in many
00:46:06
haha County South Dakota of assault aggravated this again a felony and this was in 2003. and this is a list man he
00:46:17
was convicted in Cass County Indiana for receiving stolen property in 2016 he was convicted of OWI with a
00:46:26
prior this was in 2020. and then again in 2020 he was convicted of Criminal Trespass and criminal
00:46:35
mischief and while he was still on probation well I don't know what information is in
00:46:41
there or what you can find out I'd like to know more about the these trespassing
00:46:46
charges that he has because when you look at the park in Delphi that bridge is closed off you're you're not supposed
00:46:55
to go across that bridge and then once they're across the bridge we know that the murderer takes these two
00:47:07
takes these two girls down the hill across the stream over to land that is now not the Parkland but this is private
00:47:17
property that that would be trespassing as well so would this individual know this area because he would have been
00:47:25
cutting through and using this as an entrance and exit his own entrance and exit to this park well and then getting
00:47:34
into the specifics on where he may have been living at the time of the Delphi homicides it says that Chadwell had an
00:47:42
ongoing court case in 2017 this for receiving stolen property and the probation violation and there were no
00:47:50
hearings for that court case in February when the girls were killed of 2017 but it says however there were hearings in
00:47:59
that case in the months after that time frame and at that time he was listing his address as Kokomo Indiana and it's
00:48:08
pointed out that that's 34 miles from Delphi so again local but not local uh he was he was sentenced in June of
00:48:18
2016 for probation violation and these are I'm with you Captain I would like to know some more of the specifics of some
00:48:28
of these charges and I'm sure there's people out there digging this information up but I think we should
00:48:36
point out here too that he was he received a 365 day jail sentence so he was locked up for this would have
00:48:52
been sounds like he was locked up for most if not all of 2020. right and then at some point he says
00:49:02
that he lived in Peru Indiana this is around that 2020 time frame and his father actually filed a notice of claim
00:49:11
to evict him from that address so he must have been living with his father in Peru Indiana
00:49:17
and then uh evicted from there in 2020. so for a portion of this investigation in the Delphi case at least
00:49:26
this guy was locked up and that brings us to a really good question I think it's a burning question
00:49:34
for everyone out there and has been since February of 2017 when the girls were killed because we all looked at
00:49:43
that case Captain we all examined that case and thought there's there's a couple possibilities
00:49:49
here Bridge guy is either a serial killer who has acted before he's a serial killer and this might be
00:49:58
his first attempt or his first his first actual killing in what would then be a series
00:50:06
so you have to wonder on either of those regards if either are true you wonder Woodbridge guy act again
00:50:18
would he act again eventually yeah and I that's always been my thought and belief
00:50:24
that eventually he would he his compulsion would be to it would control him well and I think that's what
00:50:32
the these this crime is about the Delphi murders about power control manipulation
00:50:40
sex I think it has a lot to do with all those uh things and so therefore Killers
00:50:49
like that once they kill they'll kill again there's just a cooling off period right and we've said it often on this
00:50:55
show that it's almost for some of these guys the serial rapists or serial killers
00:51:02
it's that's their drug of choice or maybe even not their choice again it controls them it's their addiction
00:51:11
eventually they will have to give in to this compulsion the urge will be too strong
00:51:17
where the Temptation will be too great right that no matter the risk level that they will re-offend
00:51:25
because isn't that the other shoe right we're all waiting for the other shoe to drop
00:51:31
in the Delphi case there's a lot that can't be agreed upon out there in the uh Twitter sphere in
00:51:39
the internets it's it's difficult and a lot there's a lot of opinions out there a lot of varying opinions but it
00:51:46
seems to me that the majority of the people Captain seem to believe that yes this is a Serial offender or the person
00:51:54
that did the Delphi homicides certainly has the makeup of a serial offender and so here we are waiting for unfortunately
00:52:03
the other shoe to drop and that he will at some point re-offend and then we will be on to him for sure
00:52:13
because that's what we've seen time and time again with the media and with speculation about Bridge guy and about
00:52:19
Delphi that anytime one of these guys goes out and commits some horrible horrible crime
00:52:26
that now we're boom put his face on a poster this is the guy that we've been looking for the whole time
00:52:32
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