The Delphi Murders - ATC International

February 26, 2026·54 min·5 clips

Becky's hope shatters as she hears a firefighter whisper they found the girls, then sees her sister's face.

The 13th of February starts quietly. Abby Williams and Libby German are dropped near a popular hiking trail outside Delphi, Indiana, and within an hour everything has shifted. Libby leaves something behind. A Snapchat photo of Abby on the bridge becomes part of the public story. Then the video gives police an image and audio, but barely enough to hold onto: a grainy still, a few seconds, the order to move down the hill. The episode is good at sitting in how maddening that is. Delphi is small. Under 3,000 people should have made recognition feel possible, yet the families are left waiting for years. The pressure on them comes through plainly, especially as media outlets keep circling the changed sketches, the lack of an arrest, and the question of how a place that small can still have no answer. The episode also notes that Richard Allen was later taken into custody and stood trial. Social media then pulls the story back into another kind of dread. The Anthony Schatz account, described here as a catfishing account, brings back the fear that online contact might have mattered. Becky takes that thought hard. When investigators ask people who interacted with the handle to come forward, she wonders whether she failed Libby. That part lands because it is such a cruel parental reflex: replaying the past and imagining one different conversation could have saved everything. There is frustration here, too, mostly at investigators who are described as keeping back what drew their attention and leaving everyone else with scraps. The ending softens without getting neat. The family wants Abby and Libby remembered as wonderful girls, not only as sketches, clips, and case details. Their absence asks for goodness, even now.

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A careful Delphi murders episode that balances the public evidence with the families' grief and remembrance.

Australian True Crime revisits the Delphi murders with a steady focus on Abby Williams and Libby German: the February 2017 drop-off near the Monon High Bridge, Libby's Snapchat photo of Abby, the missing persons search, and the release of the grainy image and short video that…

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