Delphi murders: Police seek information about online profile

MIAMI COUNTY — Court documents of a 2020 apprehension successful Miami County amusement a antheral utilized the aforesaid username connected societal media arsenic the 1 Indiana State Police announced they were seeking accusation connected Monday night.

On Monday, state constabulary announced they were looking for accusation astir the idiosyncratic who created the societal media accounts with the username "anthony_shots" and was utilizing pictures of idiosyncratic else. The idiosyncratic successful those pictures utilized by the relationship is not a idiosyncratic of involvement successful transportation with the deaths of Abby Williams and Libby German successful 2017 successful Delphi, according to authorities police.

While ceremonial charges person been filed successful transportation with the 2020 arrest, Scripps presumption WRTV is not naming the antheral due to the fact that it has learned the lawsuit is unrelated to the ongoing probe successful Abby and Libby's deaths.

When asked by WRTV Investigates if the antheral was ever questioned by investigators successful transportation with the Delphi case, sources said they did not person immoderate comment.

Indiana State Police Sgt. Jeremy Piers, the nationalist accusation serviceman for the Lafayette Post, told WRTV authorities constabulary were not making immoderate further comments astatine this clip connected the ongoing investigation.

The man, arrested successful August 2020, is facing 30 charges, according to online tribunal records. The charges see kid exploitation, possession of kid pornography, obstruction of justice, and synthetic individuality deception.

According to a probable origin affidavit, the antheral was interviewed by a authorities constabulary researcher and an FBI peculiar cause aft an probe recovered helium was utilizing an Instagram and Snapchat relationship with the username "anthony_shots."

The antheral told investigators helium was utilizing the Instagram relationship to find girls to speech to and told them to speech to him connected Snapchat, according to the affidavit.

Some accusation successful the affidavit is redacted, including immoderate of the accusation recovered connected physics devices examined by investigators. None of the unredacted accusation successful the affidavit mentions immoderate transportation to the probe successful Delphi.

WRTV has reached retired to the man’s lawyer for a remark by telephone and email and is awaiting a response.

The lawsuit is inactive pending successful the Miami County Circuit Court and a pretrial league is scheduled for Dec. 16, according to online tribunal records.

Anyone who communicated, met oregon attempted to conscionable with the creator of the “Anthony_shots” illustration is asked to interaction investigators astatine 765-822-3535 oregon astatine abbyandlibbytip@cacoshrf.com. In the property merchandise Monday, authorities constabulary said a extremity should see arsenic overmuch accusation arsenic possible, including however you communicated with the profile, what societal media exertion you used, if the relationship attempted to conscionable you oregon get your code and immoderate saved images oregon conversations with the account.

This communicative was primitively reported by Andrew Smith and Rafael Sánchez connected wrtv.com.