Oct 23, 2024
DELPHI, Ind. (WANE)— After three witnesses that were on the Monon High Bridge Trail around the time Abby Williams and Libby German went missing testified on Tuesday, another witness that was in the area gave an animated and fiery testimony on Wednesday morning. Delphi native, Sarah Carbaugh, took the witness stand for the prosecution for nearly an hour Wednesday morning. She said she saw a man matching the description of "bridge guy" the afternoon the girls went missing. "I'm as local as you can get," she said as her leg bounced up and down while sitting on the stand. Delphi: Witnesses in court recall seeing “bridge guy”; Delphi native reflects on Abby & Libby’s legacy Carbaugh said on the afternoon of Feb. 13, 2017 she kept on driving along County Rd. W. 300 N. past one of the entrances to the Monon High Bridge Trail to scope out how many people were parked there. She said on her last time driving by, around 4 o'clock that afternoon, she noticed a group of people at the entrance that looked stressed. A little further down the road, she said she "saw a man covered in mud and blood walking along the side of the road." She noted in court that she looked at the man but he didn't make eye contact with her. She acted out in the courtroom how she saw the man walking with his hands in front of his hips while hunched over. Surveillance video near the trail entrance confirmed that the last time Carbaugh's red Saturn passed by was at 3:56 p.m. At that time, Carbaugh was unaware that Abby and Libby were missing. Later, when she saw the picture of "bridge guy" on the news, she knew that was the man she saw on the road. But she didn't tell police for three weeks. "My inaction was me overthinking and panicking," she said. "I was having a moment." After her testimony, Richard Allen's defense attorney Andrew Baldwin spent about 35 minutes cross examining. Carbaugh changed her body language and crossed her arms and legs when Baldwin was asking her questions. Baldwin mostly focused on two parts of Carbaugh's testimony: the statements about seeing the man's clothes being covered in mud and blood, and her waiting three weeks to tell police what she saw. Baldwin pointed out that in Carbaugh's first two interviews in 2017, she never said the word blood. She just said he was covered in mud. Carbaugh said she told investigators both mud and blood. "Point out where you said blood in it," Baldwin said as he handed her a transcript of her June 19, 2017 interview. Carbaugh confidently responded by saying that she didn't see it in the transcripts before her, but she remembers talking to an officer about it. Then Baldwin said that in her third interview two years later in 2019, she only said he was covered in blood not mud— the opposite of what she said in 2017. "I understand that you're doing your job," Carbaugh said to Baldwin. "I saw a man on the side of the road with mud and blood and that's it." In her 2019 interview she said it looked like the man had just slaughtered a hog. Baldwin pointed out inconsistencies in her description of the clothes the man on the side of the road was wearing. Baldwin said that she originally said the jacket was tan and then switched to saying it was blue. Carbaugh said when she said tan she meant more brown and it was probably from the mud. The jury asked several questions to Carbaugh after her cross examination. They asked how she was able to tell there was blood on the clothes and how she compared mud to blood. Carbaugh said she saw clear blood spatter. They also asked how far away from the man she was from her when she drove by. She said she was about three feet away. Baldwin chimed in and said she claimed she was 20 feet away in one of her interviews. "I was driving," Carbaugh snapped. "I didn't [get] out and say, 'Hey I was 17 inches away.' No!"
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