DELPHI, Ind. (WANE)— Delphi's small size magnifies the effect of any event that happens in town. So, when Abby Williams and Libby German were reported missing on Feb. 13, 2017 and discovered dead the next day, shockwaves were sent through the whole community. Ann Hughes owns Sassy's Salon on N. Washington St. in the center of Delphi, just a few doors down from the Carroll County Courthouse. "I'm here early and I leave late," Hughes said as she cut her friend Amy's hair at 7:30 on a Friday night. Her salon opens at 6 a.m. and closes well after dark most nights. She said she does that to serve her community best. Delphi murders: Contentious cross examination of investigator marks Day 4 of testimony "As in most small towns, everybody knows everybody. Our families are kind of intertwined," Hughes said of the Williams and German families. Hughes said she had a particularly strong connection with Abby Williams' grandmother. She took care of Hughes' grandparents when they were in hospice and the two went to church together. "We have lots of stories together, and the Germans too," Hughes said. "They're just so loved in this community." Hughes described how safe Delphi is. She said it used to be so normal for parents to drop off their children at the Monon High Bridge Trail and let them spend the day on the trails. "You could talk to anybody," Hughes said. "It was almost like a rite of passage to go back there and hike those beautiful trails, have your senior pictures taken out there. It would be nothing to take your kids out there." Hughes said that the day the bodies of Abby and Libby were discovered, "It just changed changed everything in the whole community." She pointed out, though, the Williams and German families took this tremendous loss and turned it into something positive to share with the entire town: Abby and Libby Memorial Park. "They love that area," Hughes said. "The girls love softball. So now, that's their legacy instead of them passing away. Every time somebody goes out for a concert, a car show or a softball game that's Libby and Abby's field." Abby and Libby Memorial Park sits a little more than a mile outside the center of Delphi next to the Hoosier Heartland Highway. It features three playgrounds, three softball fields, several pavilions and plenty of open space. A blue and purple ribbon on a lamppost outside the Carroll County Courthouse. Throughout downtown Delphi purple and blue ribbons were tied to lampposts. And blue and purple flowers are left at a memorial near the Monon High Bridge. The blue and purple scattered around Delphi shows the presence of the two girls that remains throughout town more than seven years after their deaths. It was a busy fourth day of testimony inside the Carroll County courtroom as seven different people took the stand. The Video: What was called the last “user activity” on Libby German’s phone was a video taken at 2:13 pm on February 13, 2017. That video was played in court Tuesday. While some images and audio from that video had been released to the media over the years-long investigation, playing it in court was the first time the media and public saw the video in full. It was 43 seconds long and started with Abby Williams seen on the Monon High Bridge. As she walked toward the camera, which it’s presumed Libby was the one taking the video on her own cell phone, a man walking on the bridge appears behind Abby. Abby continues off the bridge and passes by Libby, at which point the phone goes sideways and points down to the ground. You can hear a female voice, presumed to be Libby’s, say “there’s no path going here, so go down here.” The video shows a gravel trail when she says that. You can then hear a male voice say “guys” and the same female voice say “hi.” While the video was played twice in court during two different witness testimonies, it was difficult to conclusively tell if a male voice spoke again or what was said. While that video was playing the first time, Libby’s mom was emotional in the courtroom gallery. The video was evidence entered by the state during testimony from Lt. Brian Bunner, who’s with the Indiana State Police digital forensic program. He now oversees the program for the entire state. He joined that department in 2009 and has been with the state police for 24 years. Bunner testified about his role in extracting information from Libby’s cell phone in 2017. The phone was found at the crime scene under Abby’s body on February 14, 2017. Bunner said that the next day, February 15, he hooked the iPhone 6S up to a computer program used by the state police that’s designed to collect data from a phone, including contacts, messages, calls, voicemails, pictures and videos. That data is in computer code and is translated with another program into a readable report. That first report for Libby’s phone was several hundred pages long. While he said he quickly turned that report over to detectives, Bunner also testified that he did look at some of the data and the camera roll showed a video had been taken in the last day or two. That video was the one on the bridge on February 13 at 2:13 pm, he testified. On February 21, 2017, detectives brought the phone back to him to see if he could use additional programs to extract any more data from the phone. The phone was then extracted two more times in the fall of 2017. Bunner said a newer version of his software had come out so he wanted to try to see if it would improve the data collection. A third version, and the newest, was also out at the time, but Homeland Security had to do the data extraction. The phone was sent to Washington D.C. for that data collection. Bunner said. When he got that report back, he then compiled a new report with the results and new data from both the more recent extractions. The phone was then examined again in 2019 by a different forensics examiner because Bunner had been promoted to a different position within the digital forensics department. When defense attorney Jennifer Auger asked Bunner questions, she asked if the extraction data can show when a phone is powered on and its battery life, to which he said, “it can.” But, one of her two main points focused on the latitude and longitude associated with the video on the bridge. When put on a map, Auger said the coordinate don’t land on the bridge. She had Bunner circle and initial a map showing the coordinate point not exactly on the bridge. Bunner later further testified that the GPS data is within a mile radius of the bridge and GSP locators will start at a larger radius and the longer an application run, it will hone in a closer pinpoint. He testified that in 2017 GPS was accurate “within a reasonable area” and the phone data put that video in Delphi. Auger also argued that every time a phone is plugged into programs to be extracted, some data is lost, saying some is overwritten and some falls off over time. So, she said, data was lost every time Libby’s phone was powered on and off for phone extractions. That’s “data the jury will never know” she said. Bunner said at the time, the digital forensics industry didn’t know data was lost every time a phone was powered on or off or it was run through a program. To which Auger said, just because they didn’t know about it, didn’t mean it wasn’t happening. When Prosecutor Nick McLeland questioned Bunner again, he asked if you could tell what data was lost and Bunner said “not to my knowledge.” The jury also asked Bunner nine questions. Several were about the KnowledgeC database on an iPhone and what it can contain. Bunner said it can be a variety of user information like health data, frequent locations, elevation data and power logs. But, he said, in 2017, he was unaware of that database. He didn’t learn about it until 2018 or 2019. The jury also asked if the iPad associated with the iCloud on Libby’s iPhone could have pulled the GPS location for the video. Bunner answered that while the iPad did have the same accounts on it, it would not have affected the video’s GPS. The pictures and the audio While some audio was difficult to hear when the video on Libby’s phone was played, an enhanced audio clip from the video was entered into evidence  during Jeremey Chapman’s testimony. Chapman is retired from the Indiana State Police and in 2017 worked for the department as a forensic audio and visual technician enhancing images and audio. “All the data is here, it’s my job to turn the light on so you can see it all,” he said when asked to describe his job. Chapman testified that three freezeframes from the video on Libby’s phone were good candidates to be enhanced to get a better look at the man on the bridge. He described who he rotated, cropped, sharpened the light levels and deblurred the images. (Photo provided by Indiana State Police) He also said he enhanced the audio at the end of the video by taking ambient, outside noises out. That audio clip was entered into evidence and played for the jury. It’s the same audio clip that had been released to them media to help look for a suspect several years ago. A male says “guys” then the female voice says “hi” and then the male speaks again. McLeland asked Chapman what he thinks the man said. Chapman testified that, “In my opinion, it is “down the hill.” That’s my opinion.” Defense attorney Auger emphasized that the images and the audio were no longer originals. “You changed it,” she said. The “bridge guy” sightings As the state continued it’s case, four people’s testimony started lining up a timeline of when and where the man on the bridge, who’s become known as “bridge guy,” was on the trail system on February 13, 2017. Railly Voorhies was 16 and a sophomore at Delphi High School in 2017. She knew of Libby and Abby, but wasn’t close friends with them. She testified that she would often take trips to the High Bridge to take photos and because there was no school on February 13 and the weather was nice, she decided to take a trip to the bridge that day. Voorhies said she walked from her dad’s house in Delphi with her half-sister, picking up her friend, Bre Wilber, from her house and then getting her sister from her mom’s house on the way to the trails. The four girls went to the bridge, took photos and then walked back home. It was on their walk back home that Voorhies testified that she saw “bridge guy” walking on the trail. She said the encounter stood out to her because the man was “overdressed for the weather” with what looked like a heavy coat, hooded sweatshirt and hat. She said he had his hands in his pockets and had a mask over the tip of his nose and mouth. She also recalled saying hi to him. “He did not say hi back. He glared at me a little bit, but he didn’t seem to be a happy person,” she said on the witness stand. When she first heard Abby and Libby were missing from the bridge area, she testified: “I thought it could have something to do with the man I saw. It was unsettling.” On February 15, the day after the girls were found, Voorhies gave police a statement while she was at the high school. When police then released the photo of the man on the bridge that they took from the video on Libby’s phone, Voorhies first saw it on Facebook. “I realized that was the man I saw on the trail that did not respond to me when I waved at him,” she testified. When Auger questioned Voorhies, she called into question the timing of when Voorhies said she saw the man on the trail. Voorhies recalled that it was around 2:15 pm when she saw the man in the wooded area of the trail near the Freedom Bridge. That wouldn’t line up with the same man being in the girls’ video on the bridge at 2:13 pm. WANE 15 put in the walking distance from the start of the Monon High Bridge on the west end to the start of the east side of the Freedom Bridge, which goes over the Hoosier Heartland Highway, and Google maps said the distance is 0.7 miles. Auger also questioned Voorhies about her descriptions of the man she saw to police. Voorhies was also questioned on February 17. Auger said Voorhies description of the man she waved to was wearing all black and was in his 20s or 30s with a bigger build and dirty blond hair sicking out of his hoodie. “I don’t recall saying that,” Voorhies said.   The description in the second interview was that them an had curly hair, a square jaw and brown eyes. “I do think my memory has been impacted by the imagery,” she said when pressed by Auger. Prosecuting attorney Stacy Deiner asked her if she’s ever given a statement to police before or had to estimate height or weight or age or distance before. Voorhies said no all of that. She also didn’t have a timestamp of a photo to verify her recollection that the encounter with the man on the trail was at 2:15 pm. She did say she had to be home to her dad’s house in Delphi by 2:30 pm. But, when she first saw the picture police released of “bridge guy” she said, “ I can say with confidence that the person in the picture is the person I passed.” Testimony from Breann Wilber, Voorhies friend who was with her on the trails on February 13, has a similar recollection. Wilber was also friends with Kelsi German, Libby’s older sister, and was friends with Libby on Snapchat. Wilber was 16 years old and a sophomore in high school in 2017. Wilber said while at the High Bridge on February 13, she posted a picture of herself standing at the bridge’s start on her Snapchat story. When she and her friends were walking back home from the High Bridge, Libby messaged Wilber on Snapchat in response to the photo on her story asking if Wilber was still at the bridge. She told Libby they had left the bridge about ten minutes prior. Snapchat stories can be seen by other people who are friends with the user within the Snapchat app. Those friends can message and respond to a photo on a person’s story. Photos posted on a story disappear in 24 hours. Photos and messages can also be sent directly from one Snapchat friend to another. Photos sent in a direct message disappear after around ten seconds. Photos taken in Snapchat, whether posted on a story or sent in a direct message, would not automatically save to the phone’s camera roll. A user could, however, choose to save a photo they took in Snapchat to their camera roll. Some of the setting options have changed since 2017. On the way back to the Freedom Bridge, Wilber testified that she also took a picture with her friends on a bench on the trail and posted it on Snapchat. She saved the photo with a timestamp and gave it to police. That photo’s time stamp was 1:26 pm on February 13, 2017. She said they continued walking back toward the Freedom Bridge after the photo and that’s when they passed the man in question. “It was a warmer day and they were dressed in many layers and a heavy jacket. He was walking with a purpose like he knew where he was going. When Railly said hi to him, there was no hesitation. It was weird vibes,” Wilber testified. Later that same day, Wilber was with Libby’s sister Kelsi when Kelsi’s grandma called saying Libby and Abby were missing. Wilber talked to police the night of February 13 and described the man she saw on the trail. She said the man had a blue or black jacket and had his head down. When she later saw the photo of “bridge guy” on the news, Wilber thought, “That’s the person we saw on the trail.” Defense attorney Andrew Baldwin called Wilber’s description to police of the man she saw and it not matching the man in the photo from Libby’s video. “You described the man’s height as that you were as high as his forearm. He was a tall guy,” Baldwin said. “Correct,” Wilber said. “Did you see a guy around 20 with brown, curly hair by chance?” Baldwin said. “I don’t recall,” Wilber said. Betsy Blair was also on the trails on February 13, 2017. She testified that she would walk the same route three times for exercise on a regular basis. After parking at the then trail entrance off W 300 N, known as the Mears entrance, she’d walk to the start of the Monon High Bridge, turn around and go back to the connection and then go partway down another trail, turn around back to the connection and then turn left again to walk to the Freedom Bridge. She’d turn around and go back and then do that loop again. On February 13 in 2017, Blair said she did two loops then took a break to drive to the Delphi Public Library to use the restroom and then drove back to the trails to do the third loop. It was on that third loop that Blair testified seeing a man on the High Bridge, standing on a platform on the right side of the bridge. “He looked at me like he was expecting someone. I felt like he wasn’t looking for me, so I turned around and left,” Blair testified. On her way back toward the Freedom Bridge, but before reaching the Mears entrance connection, Blair also testified that she passed two girls who she later learned were Abby Williams and Libby German. She didn’t see anyone else on her walk to the Freedom Bridge and back to her car. Later that day on February 13, her husband told her that two girls were missing from the trails. Blair said she called the sheriff’s department and told them she had seen the girls and a man on the bridge. Photos she saw in the news of Abby and Libby matched the girls she had seen on the trail, she testified. Before police called her for another statement, she saw a picture of the “bridge guy” on the news. “I recognized him as the one I had seen on the trail,” Blair said in court. Her walk on the trails on the 13th was timestamped with her Fitbit. Data from that fitness tracking device showed she was walking from 12 pm to 1 pm. That would be the first two laps. There’s a drop in activity and then it shows the third loop. Blair did not state the time of the increased activity level in court, however WANE 15 was able to view the exhibit up close after court on Tuesday. The two green lines indicating activity were observed to be around 1:30 pm to 2 pm. In court, Blair confirmed that she would have seen the man on the bridge toward the beginning of her third walking loop. She estimated he was about 15 feet away from her. Andrew Baldwin also called into question the description of the man Blair said she saw on the bridge not aligning with the “bridge guy” in the photo. Baldwin said Blair told police the man was in his 20s or 30s with brown poofy hair and called the man “boyish looking.” Blair said she didn’t see any facial hair or a hat and that her best guess was the man was average height, not short. Prosecutor Deiner pointed out Blair was interviewed by police multiple times and each time she was asked to give more details. Police also asked Blair to do a sketch with a sketch artist. “Back when I was making that description it was for two different sketches,” she said in court. Despite her descriptions to police, she maintained the photo she saw before talking with law enforcement matches who she saw on the bridge. “I immediately knew when I saw the photo that’s who I saw on the bridge,” she said at the end of her testimony. The jury asked her three questions, including how far she was from the man on the bridge and how she could tell he was looking for someone. Blair said his posture indicated that and he turned toward her when she walked up. Another juror asked if she could have mistaken a hat for “brown, poofy hair.” She said, “I could have.” The surveillance video Steve Mullin took the stand again Tuesday. He first testified on Saturday, October 19. Mullin is an investigator with the Carroll County Prosecutor’s Office. Delphi murders: Day 2 testimony includes former Delphi police chief, members of search party Tuesday, he testified about the surveillance video he viewed from the Hoosier Harvestore on W 300 N. That address now is listed as a self-storage facility. On February 14, 2017, Mullin looked at the video from 8 am to 5:30 pm on February 13. He was specifically looking for vehicles that he had descriptions for. They were the vehicles of Betsy Blair, Kelsi German and Sarah Carbaugh. From the position of the surveillance camera on the building, a vehicle traveling east would be heading toward the trail entrance and a vehicle heading west would be heading away from the trail entrance and going toward the city of Delphi. The cameras captured: Betsy Blair traveling east on 300 N at 12:02 pm Betsy Blair traveling west on 300 N at 1:15 pm Betsy Blair traveling east on 300 N again at 1:46 pm Kelsi German traveling west on 300 N at 1:49 pm (previous testimony said Kelsi drove Libby and Abby to the trail and dropped them off at the Mears entrance off 300 N) Betsy Blair traveling west on 300 N at 2:18 pm Sarah Carbaugh traveling east on 300 N at 3:56 pm Previous court documents and WANE 15 reporting show Sarah Carbaugh reported seeing a man with a blue jacket and blue jeans walking on 300 N. She said his clothes looked bloody or muddy as if he had been in a fight. She has not testified in the trial as of yet. 45 pieces of evidence Tuesday’s testimony started with finishing up a witness from Monday. Indiana State Police Crime Scene Investigator Brian Olehy, who was the lead CSI on this investigation, took the stand. Delphi trial: Crime scene photos show evidence collected day girls were found The state had at least two big boxes filled with sealed envelops that contained evidence collected for this case. There were 33 items collected at the scene and 12 items collected at the autopsy. For each of the 45 items of evidence entered into the court record, Olehy described how it was sealed by himself or another officer. Some of the evidence from the autopsy included the clothes that were on Abby. Olehy said they were still wet and had to be taken to the Putnamville State Police post to be dried properly. He said there was a water line on the tank top Abby had on indicating there was moisture on the lower part of the top. When defense attorney Brad Rozzi questioned Olehy about the water levels of the creek. Olehy testified that he talked to the dive team back in 2017 and the creek could vary from one to two inches deep to about three feet. Olehy continued that the depth can constantly change in different areas in the creek as the rock and silt on the creek bed move. “Did you find any place on the shore where one or more people came up the shore,” Rozzi asked. “Conclusively, no,” Olehy testified. Rozzi asked if any of the swabs taken at the scene or at the autopsy are linked to Richard Allen. Olehy respond with “not that I’m aware of” each time. The state objected to the line of questioning saying Olehy doesn’t process the evidence and is not the right witness to ask that question. Rozzi then asked if Olehy had talked to any involved with the analysis of the evidence about the results. That drew another objection. Judge Fran Gull said, “perhaps for another witness. Sustained.” Rozzi then sat down emphatically. Rozzi continued his questioning asking if Olehy was aware of photos of the crime scene taken by a member of the public or of the search party. Olehy said he wasn’t aware of that. The time of death was brought up again, with Rozzi asking if animals or insects would have impacted the bodies if they were on the ground overnight. Olehy testified that time of death is “a very imprecise science.” He added that at that time of year, February, insect activity is “non-existent” and the insect activity is what usually attracts other critters to a body. He said the condition the bodies were in is what he’d expect to see if they were there overnight. Rozzi also questioned Olehy about the unspent round found at the crime scene and what Rozzi argues is a lack of photos of it. During that line of questioning, Rozzi phrased questions by starting “would you agree that … “ and he drew several objections again. “It’s improper to ask if he agrees. Objection,” prosecuting attorney James Luttrell said. “Would you agree with me you di da poor job of collecting,” Rozzi then said in his next question. Olehy also testified that he did not find any defensive wounds on Abby’s body.  Luttrell then asked if how many items of ammunition Olehy found at “ground zero” near the bodies, in the larger crime scene or that he packaged. Olehy answered each question with, “one.” The jury asked Olehy five questions, including if the undergrowth under Abby’s body was disrupted indicating she was dressed as she lay on the ground. Olehy said it wasn’t really disturbed. There were also questions about how evidence is logged and resealed at the lab after it’s examined by a lab tech and if the bullet was collected in an envelope or a pill box. Olehy said it was placed in an envelope at the scene and not moved to keep the integrity of the evidence. During Rozzi’s questioning of Sgt. Jason Page on Monday, Rozzi had said the bullet was “put into a pill box.” Viewing the court exhibits At the conclusion of court each day, credentialed media are allowed to view the exhibits submitted that day up close. Judge Fran Gull is there to supervise and no pictures or video are allowed to be taken. WANE 15's Alyssa Ivanson closely looked at the pictures submitted that showed Abby on the bridge with the man behind her. She estimated the man was ten to 12 rail trestles behind Abby. The picture is difficult to determine exact distance with the perspective. Alyssa also observed Abby's face. She was not smiling and looked more concerned or distressed in the photos that were freezeframes from the video on Libby's phone. Alyssa also looked at Betsy Blair's Fitbit data page to see the times it showed her taking her third loop on her walk. It appeared to be around 1:30 pm - 2 pm. Looking closely at the blown up picture of "bridge guy" on a large poster board, Alyssa could see how the jacket could be considered a heavy coat or a windbreaker. Baldwin had said one of the witnesses described the jacket as a windbreaker, not a winter coat. In the image, the jacket seems bunched up on the right arm, as if it's too big for the man, and a hooded sweatshirt under a windbreaker jacket could appear like a bulky coat.