How ‘Delphi murders’ catfish has been jailed for over a YEAR after being arrested at girlfriend’s home for child porn
THE creator of a catfish social media account linked to the Delphi 'Snapchat murders' has been behind bars for more than a year after being arrested in a child porn sting following a raid of his home.
Kegan Anthony Kline, 27, was arrested and charged in August last year with 30 felonies, including possession of child porn, exploitation of children, and soliciting minors for sex, police records observed by The Sun show.
Those charges stem from a search of his home in Peru, Indiana that he shared with his father, Tony Kline, on February 25th, 2017 - just 11 days after the bodies of Abigail Williams and Liberty German were found in a Delphi woods.
The FBI, Indiana State Police, and Peru Police Department all participated in serving the search warrant.
According to an affidavit, Kline admitted to investigators that he used a series of fake social media profiles on Instagram and Snapchat to contact underage girls and solicit nude images from them.
One of those accounts, called anthony_shots, was this week linked to the unsolved deaths of Abby and Libby, though police have so far declined to offer specifics.
Kline allegedly told investigators that he'd set the account up some six months prior to police raiding his home.
As outlined in the affidavit, he reportedly used the bogus account to contact girls he knew and girls he didn't, aged between 12 and 17. Kline would typically first contact them on Instagram before telling them to message him on Snapchat.
The anthony_shots profile used images of a known male model and portrayed himself as immensely wealthy, appearing to splash thousands of dollars on luxury clothing brands and driving an array of flashy sports cars.
The creator of the profile, police said, communicated with “juvenile females to solicit nude images, obtain their addresses, and attempt to meet them.”
SICKENING DISCOVERIES
Kline is said to have admitted to receiving sexual images and videos from a number of the young girls he spoke to and saving them to various different devices.
Six of his devices were seized by detectives during the raid. They consisted of a number of smartphones, a tablet, and an iPod touch.
According to the affidavit, the iPod touch had last been used in May 2015 and contained explicit images of children.
An iPhone, which had also last been used around the same time, contained sexual images of children around the age of 14, the document states.
Additionally, a Samsung Galaxy phone was found to contain images of children aged between 12 and 17.
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On a second iPhone, investigators reportedly found sexual images of children between 12 and 17, adults involved in sexual acts with children between the ages of three and 11, and images of drugs and Kline holding a black handgun.
The seized tablet, meanwhile, had conversations on Facebook Messenger, showing the user speaking to young girls and asking them to continue the conversation on Kik or Snapchat.
A second Samsung Galaxy phone recovered was factory reset on Feb. 23, 2017 – nine days after the Delphi murders.
While a factory reset essentially wipes all of a user's data, investigators did manage to recover some information from the device, including discussions about meeting people in Las Vegas and prostitution.
'I'M F**KED'
When police raided his home, Kline reportedly told officers "I'm f**ked" and said he should've left. He said he had planned to flee his father's home later that day once his dad had gone to sleep.
Two days later, Kline contacted police to say he had found his iPhone 5 which police had hunted for during the search but failed to find.
Investigators said they found images of females posing nude, but investigators could not determine their ages. Most of the data from Facebook, Instagram, MeetMe, Snapchat, and Twitter had also been deleted, police claim.
The data deletion reportedly took place just hours after Kline was interviewed by police on Feb. 25. Both Snapchat and Instagram had been physically removed from the phone the same day.
The next day, Kline allegedly deleted MeetMe before wiping his browser history on the morning he turned the phone in.
Kegan Kline has not been charged in relation to the Delphi murders. The potential link between his bogus social media profile and the murders of Abby and Libby remains unclear at this time.
His dad Tony Kline has not yet returned a request for comment from The Sun.
ATTORNEY DENIES TIES
The 27-year-old's court-appointed attorney, Andrew Achey, denied his client's involvement in the case on Thursday and sent his condolences to the victims' families.
Sgt. Jeremy Piers, a spokesman with Indiana State Police, declined to discuss whether or not Kline was being considered as a potential suspect in the Delphi murders.
"My client had nothing to do with the unexpected, untimely and unfortunate passing of the girls in Delphi," Achey said in a statement.
"Please keep in mind that Mr. Kline is innocent unless he is proven guilty. And after reviewing the social media posts about Mr. Kline, I would also like to remind people to refrain from jumping to conclusions about Mr. Kline, as Mr. Kline has not been charged with a crime relating to the recent reports."
Kline has been in custody at Miami County Jail since August 2020. He was arrested at his girlfriend's home in Kokomo, Florida.
He entered a preliminary plea of not guilty on Aug. 21, 2021. Three days later, his bond was set at $265,000.
He's expected to appear in court on December 16 for a pre-trial conference.
UNSOLVED KILLINGS
Abigail and Liberty vanished while walking along the Monon High Bridge Trail in Delphi on Feb. 13, 2017.
Their bodies were found the following day near a river. Police have never disclosed how the girls were killed.
Within days of the killings, investigators released two grainy photos of a suspect walking on the abandoned railroad bridge the girls had visited.
They also released an audio recording of a man believed to be the suspect saying “down the hill.”
Then, in April 2019, a video was released which shows the man suspected of killing the teens walking on the abandoned railroad bridge the girls had visited.
Relatively few updates have been shared by investigators in the years since.
But reacting to the latest development in the case, Abby's grandfather Eric Erksin told The Sun that he was "thankful" for the potential breakthrough in the probe.
"I'm thankful for that [news release] because it proves that law enforcement are still working," he said.
"That's all we can ask. And as difficult as it all is, we just have to leave them to it and let them do their jobs."
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