Girls in Snapchat murders filmed ‘stalker’ suspect before being killed and dumped in creek as DNA evidence is found at scene
Liberty German had grown so uneasy about a creepy 'stalker' in jeans and hat that she filmed him separately
A GIRL of 13 walks over a railway bridge minutes before being killed in a case dubbed The Snapchat Murders that is gripping the US.
Abigail Williams’s 14- year-old pal Liberty German, who took the picture for the image-sharing app, was also slain.
Their bodies were found in a creek half a mile from the abandoned wooden bridge.
Liberty had grown so uneasy about a creepy “stalker” in jeans and hat that she filmed him separately. Police released that picture at first without saying where it came from.
Now they have explained it — and released a brief audio clip of a gruff voice telling the girls: “Down the hill.”
Cops are not saying if they think the man in the picture is definitely the one recorded talking and add that more than one killer may be involved.
But Capt David Bursten told The Sun: “Liberty is a hero. Apparently something didn’t seem right to her and she turned on her camera.”
Friends speculated on social media the suspect is the dark shape lurking deep in the background of the railway shot.
The pals had been driven close to a hiking trail which takes in Monon High Bridge among woodland in remote Delphi, Indiana, at 1pm on February 13.
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The town of around 3,000 people lies in what used to be called the Factory Belt because of its industry.
The recession silenced the buzz of car production and the area is now part of what is dubbed the Rust Belt.
Liberty, known as Libby, had been happily posting on the Snapchat. The last was timed at 2.07pm.
Their worried families raised the alarm at 5.30pm when the girls failed to arrive at a meeting point. They were found the following day. Police have not revealed how they died.
They revealed they had more clips from Liberty’s phone, but said they were holding them back because they don’t want to “poison” the quality of any tips they receive.
They also said they had found DNA evidence at the scene but refused to elaborate.
Meanwhile the pals’ parents were too shocked to talk.
But Liberty’s grandfather Mike Patty, 60, said: “She had a love for music and played saxophone and would often pick at a guitar in her room. What we would give to hear some of those off-key notes today.
“Our minds at this stage are stirred in the deepest sorrow you can imagine.”