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we have concluded uded the first sketch released will become secondary as of today the result of the new information
and intelligence over time leads us to believe the sketch which you will see shortly is the person
responsible for the murders of these two little girls we also believe this person is
from Deli currently or has previously lived here visits Deli on a regular basis or works
here we believe this person is currently between the age range of 18 and 40 but might appear younger than his
true age D directly to the killer who may be in this room we believe you are hiding in plain
sight for more than two years you never thought we would shift gears to a different investigative strategy but we
have we likely have interviewed you or someone close to you we know that this is about power to
you and you want to know what we know and one day you will the question to you what will those closest to you think
of they find out that you brutally murdered two little girls two children only a coward would
do such a thing we are confident that you have told someone what you have done or at the very least they
know because of how different you are since the murders to the murderer I believe you have just a
little bit of a conscience left and I can assure you that how you left them in that
Woods is not it's not what they're experiencing today [Music] [Applause] this is from the Journal and Courier
here captain and I will read this to you and everybody out there in listener land
Lafayette Indiana detectives investigating the February 13th 2017 killings of Libby German and Abby
Williams have taken notice of James bran Chadwell II Tippy Canoe County Prosecutors accused Chadwell of luring a
9ye old girl into his house at 714 Park Avenue on April 19th that's April 19th of this year
2021 once inside his house Chadwell allegedly beat the girl sexually assaulted her and locked her in the
basement until police knocked on his door quote the information has obviously been shared with us and our
investigators are looking into him said Carol County Sheriff Tobe lesen he did not elaborate on any details about the
investigation into Chadwell Indiana State Police Sergeant Jeremy Pierce said they do not comment on whom detectives
might be investigating but noted that the state police works collaboratively with agencies in the district which we
know to be true specifically here captain in the deli double murders investigation that's ongoing been going
on way too long we all thought we would catch bridg guy within weeks of the case
and here we sit over four years later we know that the Carol County Sheriff's Department is working the case we know
that the deli city police are assisting Carol County Sheriff's Office MH and we also know that Indiana State Police who
have been at the kind of the front line of this at least from a media and press perspective they're working the case and
we also have the Federal Bureau of Investigation the F to the B to the I working the investigation as well well
what's really fascinating here with James bran Chadwell is he's really the First Person of Interest or suspect and
quotation marks to hit beyond the regional or local level and actually get talked about in National media sense
Daniel Nations or are we just so starved for information or starved for a real viable suspect at this point that we're
pushing it you know out of proportion here possibly prosecutors have charged Chadwell with attempted murder child
molesting attempted child molesting kidnapping criminal confinement battery resulting in serious bodily injury and
strangulation they also filed a sentence enhancing charge of being an habitual offender which if guilty could add
between six and 20 years to Chadwell sentence look this guy regardless if he's Bridge guy or in any way involved
in the deli case this guy is is one bad dude one dude that needs to be off the streets and who knows what he would have
done to this Vic victim if police had not got hip to him being the possible suspect here well he's a giant bag of
[ __ ] is what he is but it's fascinating to me that that they went around looking
it doesn't seem like he's a direct neighbor of her but in the neighborhood at some point they knock on his door he
answers he tells police oh yeah I saw her earlier right but she's not here here and that kind of makes them question as
they're going back and searching different areas they go let's go back to that guy cuz he's now the only person I
believe in that area that said oh I saw her during this time period so then when
they go back think about this from law enforcement standpoint you go back and this guy lets you into the house and as
you're walking around you see chains around the door or or some kind of lock system around the the the
basement door and you're going to go okay well now we need to go down there we need know MH but he lets them in as
as far as their records show he goes oh yeah yeah go down to the basement and search almost like he knew he was caught
and he might as well just give in but could you imagine what's going through law enforcement's head at the time on on
what they're going to see and probably what they did see is still hard for them to believe right no I I guarantee it's
it's shocking even to these officers who have seen a lot and you you try to put yourself in that mindset and the the way
that I think of this here Captain as this whole thing going down and often it is in fact like a neighbor or somebody
living in the neighborhood especially when you see someone around this age where our victim is in that age of like
the six to 12y old range mhm and and I I never am surprised anymore it hit me early in my teens when you'd see this
stuff on on news coverage we're looking for so and so you know police in in Kansas City are looking for 9-year-old
police in Orlando Florida are looking for an 11-year-old child that was last seen in their neighborhood or or was
presumed to have got off the bus that day but never came home and it's usually rather quick that they make the
connection and find that the perpetrator was in fact living in that neighborhood
so much so that now when I see the news break on a child missing of that age my mind immediately goes to well I hope
that they're combing this neighborhood very well because it often ends up being someone in that neighborhood and we know
the statistics tell us that specifically with these child cases the and and the younger victims that once they are
abducted a lot of times they're not going to be returned and it's rather quickly that they become they go from
being abduction victim to a murder victim well I think that's what would have happened here if law enforcement
didn't go back and question James Brian Chadwell the second time so with Chadwell I wonder a couple things here
they're going around they're obviously canvasing the the the neighborhood they're knocking on doors and you know
some people are a little sensitive to some of the questions that might be out there in regards to how police and how
detectives might conduct their their questioning even if it's in a casual manner searching for answers uh in
whatever case that it is I know in particular with the West Memphis 3 case there are people that are sensitive and
don't like the nine questions that the FBI put together for the detectives to ask members of those that area down
there in West Memphis but these questions are put together in this way to really help the officers be it A Beat
cop or a season detective really give them a nice gauge on the honesty level or how
quickly do we prioritize this person as a possible lead in our case or how quickly can we deprioritize them put
them lower on the list because especially in this case with this young girl she's
missing we're we're not even to the point of worried about who did this we're not even worried about convicting
someone of abducting this little girl our whole thought is find her right find her make her safe as soon as possible so
you see that they crafted questions the FBI for investigators in West Memphis and I wonder here Captain if we have a
similar situation officers going around and you know knocking on doors people answering
the doors you're asking very quick questions have you seen a l a little girl that's going to be your your very
quick your first go-to your second question and in chadwell's case this is what I think they did I think they you
throw out a question that you can kind of have the needle point to is he guilty of something is he hiding something or
is this somebody we can quickly move on from and you say something to the effect
of okay well Mr Chadwell thank you for your time today oh is there why would somebody tell us that they saw you
talking to a little girl earlier today M you're not saying anybody told you that
you're not saying that you saw the the victim in his you know near his house or near his property you're saying why
would someone you know just like they asked Damen EOL why would we find your fingerprints at the crime scene they
didn't right he doesn't know that but you word it in a way that you're not really truly lying to the person you're
questioning in this case I wonder if that's exactly what they did because most of the time captain guilty person
somebody with something to hide their immediate knee-jerk reaction is going to be well I have to explain this away in
an innocent Manner and then these guys if they believe me well they'll just move on to the next house and so
often they'll s they'll put themselves at the crime scene they'll say oh well I might have been seen there because I
drive by there every day or I might have been seen in this area because I think on that particular day I got lost and
turned around and so and so here why would someone tell us that they saw you talking to a little girl oh I
think she was around here earlier she came by here earlier but I haven't seen her in a while well as soon
as you hear that you're going oh crap this guy just admitted to us that he has spoke to likely spoke to our victim
and we're searching for this girl immediate thought is get this girl save this girl protect this girl this dude
too he's got a criminal history he's got a police record yeah a big one so now you're
telling this dude I don't know and we'll get into this as we go and some of this
I'm going to learn as we venture along here too Captain but my guess would be if he's on probation for
something right right you're going to bring that up uh especially if you you've called in his name he's on
probation for something when they say they came back to his house and then he let them in and they
searched you have to wonder was that coming back to his house as quickly as walking away from talking to him him
saying yeah I saw her earlier yeah and them running a background check on this dude you know we have a James bran
Chadwell II who lives at uh this address on Park Avenue tell us what you know they pull up his record oh he's on
probation let's go strong arm this guy MH he's going to very quickly likely let you into his home
whether he's hiding anything or not a lot of times that that's one thing that's interesting in a lot of these
cases you know we talk about something like like what we had last week with the Branson Perry case where the the the
cables the jumper cables were returned turn to the shed mysteriously they weren't there before when he went
missing and then two weeks go by and they appear well if an innocent person replaced them and the police put out to
the public we want to know who had those jumper cables where did they come from the innocent person comes forward and
even if the person has a past I I get it you know hey I don't want to be I don't
want to be turned into some kind of frame job for this case because I got a lengthy criminal background here but a
lot of times what you will see especially when it comes to sex offenders and to people on probation as
soon as they're asked we talk about the Pervert Roundup all the time in these cases a lot of these sexual offenders
will come forward they don't even have to go and knock on their door they come forward and they want to tell you this
is where I was that day I'm innocent I had nothing to do with this I do not want to be locked up for 15 years right
so they probably strong armed him he's you know we said he's got a background he's probably on probation you know you
should probably let us in here's the other thing in a lot of States I don't know about Indiana The Good the hooer
state but in a lot of States they don't necessarily have to have a search warrant to force their way into a home
of an individual that's on probation no cuz what they can do is they can call your PO right your PO can go in there so
it's not a matter of us getting a search warrant Mr Chadwell it's a matter of your PO is Officer so and so well it's
only it's a matter of how long it takes them to drive over here and they just walk into your home well and this is one
of the reasons why I'm not a detective or a cop I mean because if you ever watch True Detective season 1 and how W
you know Woody Harrelson's character handles Justice Midway through is probably what would happen in this this
case I mean once they go down to the basement they see this 9-year-old has been raped there's different reports of
bruising on her legs uh bite marks from the dog on her legs and the Rumor was that there was blood coming out of her
eyes because of how badly he strangled her you see that on a 99-year-old and I'm holding a gun it'd be very hard not
to just pull the trigger and get it over with well there's bad cops that do that
and they get locked up and there's good cops that that I don't know if we should
classify them as a bad well I I would prefer that the that my officers are making arrest and not just shooting
people vigilante style but the the good cops focus on making the arrest and making it in a lawful way that you will
SEC secure a conviction later because that's their job is to arrest not to to not not to carry out the the sentence
themselves yeah I understand that that's why I'm saying I'm not a cop right so I
just wouldn't have it in me I I wouldn't have it in me like maybe you don't shoot
the guy but I don't have it in me not to beat the living [ __ ] out of the guy and
so that's why I'm I'm not a police officer your application has been denied Mr Captain yeah they go if this happened
what would you do i' be like I would beat the [ __ ] out of the guy well you got a lot of things going on here once
you enter the premises so you're it's you and one other officer at this time and what you have in this situation is
you have a dog to concern yourself with dogs for whatever reason they don't like
the mailman and they don't like police it might be the uniform I don't know but you have a dog to contend with and you
have this individual that you know has a criminal record and you're now you're now playing an away game it's his home
turf you don't know what's inside that house and so you're going to have one officer who is going to focus on the
individual Mr Chadwell and the other officer is going to be observing everything looking for a reason why this
girl may have either been in the premises at some point or was still inside and so one of them is going to
notice that there's some type of Lock and we'll get into that and then when you do when you notice that there's some
kind of contraption locking up the basement door you're going to send one officer down there and the other's going
to stay up there with upstairs with Mr Chadwell so he doesn't uh give you the old sneak attack and as you pointed out
here earlier Captain Chadwell is just the latest among what's being a growing list of suspects as far as the public
and the media is concerned and the Journal and Courier goes on to say Chadwell is not the first person accused
of an abduction crime who has been investigated as a person of interest in the deli murders none of the other
people of Interest turned out to be a suspect this again according to this this Outlet here right but what I was
also stating is we've had so many people that have come on the radar as far as social media and maybe they get a blimp
in the in the actual media but this is one of the first individuals that there National coverage of him and multiple
National coverage people following up on the story there was a lot of coverage on
Daniel Nations yes there was but that's what I'm saying is but but between Daniel Nations and and uh
Chadwell we've had how many individuals that people have been comparing side by sides to oh we couldn't even count the
number you know the as far as the major ones go there's been a good handful but uh yeah there's been hundreds if not a
thousand or more that people online have have done side by sides and so on and so
forth so to go on with this article here they say on April 19th the 9-year-old girl's parents reported her missing
about 700 p.m. she' had been gone for about 30 minutes so the parents uh God bless them were and and very smart F so
uh were quick to act here chadwells nextdoor neighbor Jason Walling told the Journal Courier last week that he was
driving home from work turned into his alley and noticed Chadwell speaking with a woman in the alley it was after that
the girl was reported he says this was after the girl was reported missing because a few minutes later
police cars were parked in front of his house and officers were focused on chadwell's house right the police
officers knocked on Chad Well's door the Journal Courier says this might have saved the little girl's life prosecutor
said the girl told police she believed Chadwell was going to kill her the knock forced James Chadwell to stop his sexual
assault quickly dress and answer the door according to the prosecutor's probable cause affidavit mhm
Chadwell allowed officers to search his house and they found the girl locked in the basement she had been beaten
strangled attacked by chadwell's dog and sexually assaulted according to police and prosecutors meanwhile anyone with
information about Libby and aby's killings is encouraged to contact law enforcement by email at Abby and Libby
tip at CAC sf.com and um of course you can find that information as well at the the uh
Indiana State police's website well and I think once this individual comes on their radar and they have him in custody
for this crime now what we do know is is this individual is this individual capable of murder well from all accounts
of this crime he was in the process of murdering a 9-year-old and then you go a step further and go well is it possible
he was in the area well this area is roughly what 15 mil from Deli so that puts him roughly in the area now we have
to figure out is he actually a person of interest or a likely [Music] [Applause]
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James briyan Chad well II is a 42-year-old Lafayette Indiana man who is accused of attempted murder after police
found an injured missing 9-year-old girl in his basement on April 19th of this year and as you pointed out the
authorities in nearby Deli only 15 miles away said they are investigating him as
a possible suspect in the notorious unsolved 2017 murders of Deli teens Abigail Williams in Liberty German the
detectives told ABC news that there quote might air quotes might be a connection but stress that
there is no specific link as of yet connecting Chadwell to the deli case well like I said I think the first
connection is distance I think everybody could agree that is not that big of a distance to cover
no 15 miles not not big at all and that I think would go along with a lot of speculation that's come from people that
listen to this show and posted on our blog that a lot of people seem to think that the guy would have some kind of
local ties to the deli area maybe was once from there and hasn't lived there in years or returned for whatever reason
or like in chadwell's case it's somebody that could simply hop in a vehicle and have drove down there on that day this
here Captain is from the probable cause affidavit for chadwell's arrest so this will give us the legal speak of what the
police found it says on April 19th 2021 officers were dispatched regarding a missing child report near Park Avenue
in Lafayette Indiana upon arrival officers took a report stating victim one a female child approximately 10
years old had left her residence at approximately 6:30 p.m. and could not be found while officers were searching the
neighborhood they made contact with James Chadwell who told officers victim one had been at his residence earlier
but had left the residence after being unable to locate victim one officers return to chadwell's Residence and asked
him for permission to check his residence for victim one Chadwell allowed officers into his residence and
officer Tate and CYS I hope I'm saying his last name right checked the basement which was secured with a chain lock most
people I wouldn't I know at my house no chain lock on the Colonel's basement uh in the basement Tate found a young girl
who said Chadwell tried to kill her that's that's the thing you you you point it out is this individual is this
James Chadwell capable of murder and you said yes based off this crime you think
that's what was going to happen I agree 100% but we don't even have to give our opinions here we have this child victim
tells the officers this guy was he was trying to kill me yeah and I and I don't again I don't know if it's just rumor or
here say that there was blood coming out of her eyes but that's what I'm saying you see something like that as a police
officer you're going to want you're going to want to take justice into your own hands oh yeah you have to be a very
special individual to hold back and say nope I got to do my due diligence collect all the information do
it as uh professional as I can so we can make sure that this animal is behind bars and never does this again well my
right hand that's the one that I draw my gun with and that's when it starts getting that shake going mhm start where
you go go okay brain brain and heart control this hand because it's starting to get a mind of its own okay so from
this article it says he allowed them into the home they found the basement was secured with a chain lock and it
goes into a little more detail here says they found a young girl who is visibly distraught and crying with her clothing
on the floor beside her again she was in the basement she was identified as the missing girl and said Chadwell tried to
kill her she was injured and taken to the hospital for treatment the girl described going into chadwell's
residence to pet his dogs while inside the home Chadwell attacked her she said the girl said Chadwell quote hit her in
the head multiple times because she was fighting back victim one said Chadwell was also choking her with his hands on
her neck and also using his arm in a headlock to the point where she passed out okay just a quick aside here this
Chadwell guy and there's there's plenty of pictures of him online but he's he he's not a small dude I found a couple
pictures where he's rather looks rather built or rather to be in rather good shape no that's not good shape I don't
know what pictures you're seeing well I'll show you one when these mics aren't on and I I think you'll agree with me
but um no I've whatever pictures I've seen of him this guy is trash that just likes to take his shirt off and show his
trash tattoos right well regardless I'm just pointing out here captain that this is
this is a a full-size grown man grown man attacking a a small girl and so when I would say he's overweight for his
height which would make him look a little bit larger right I mean again there's there's plenty of pictures out
out there and I'm sure he's probably varied in size depending on what picture you're looking at but he's 5'8 right
he used her hold on she he used his hands on her neck and also using his arm and a headlock to the point where she
passed out victim one said most of her clothes were off when she regained Consciousness so he choked her out and
then she wakes up you know she was fighting him back he chokes her out she wakes up most of her clothes are off
when she comes too and says that Chadwell took her into the basement he attempted to have sexual
intercourse with her and then made her perform oral sex on him the affidavit alleges at one point Chadwell got
dressed to go answer the door this we now know is when police knock on the door right uh across her neck it says
when police found her found the victim in his basement across her neck were lateral
strangulation marks and she had broken blood vessels with black eyes anybody that has seen you know MMA or or you
know street fights where someone gets choked out they have those broken blood vessels in their eyes and often black
almost you know raccoon looking marks around their their eyes on the outside of the skin and then on the inside
that's where you get the the bloodshot and I'm not talking about a morning after a night of tequila bloodshot eyes
I'm talking about red where the where where there was once white there is now red uh they found bruising to her head
arms and legs and bite marks according to the court document this would be the um at least one dog bite that she
suffered during this horrific horrific incident and you wonder if this is not so much a him sick and the dog on
her but just these two are fighting each other some dogs are going to react when
they see that court records show that Chadwell faces the following charges attempted murder attempted intentional
killing of another child molesting uh where the defendant is this means Chadwell the the suspect is at least 21
years of age kidnapping where the victim is less than 14 years of age because the
reason why they Define it that way is there will be a different sentencing protocol different penalties for this
type of specific crime criminal confinement resulting in serious bodily injury battery resulting in serious
bodily injury and strangulation a post on Facebook from a woman who said she was related to the
9-year-old victim claimed Chadwell quote strangled her so bad blood came out of her eyes her traia
is damaged to where all she can do is eat through a straw if it hadn't been for the speed of the Lafayette Police
Department arriving on the scene she would be dead she was only nine he's punching her and his Pitbull is biting
her and this woman goes on to pray the First Responders yeah and this really makes
you think here Captain we've had some stories that we've told over the years some true crime stories that we've told
over the years where some police at certain you know some of these cases go back decades and and we always try to
get better hopefully we're doing things better today than we did 30 years ago but we've had these cases that we've
discussed where police are not quick to act and you wonder could things have turned out
different in that case and and thank God they they were quick to act in this case
they saved this little girl's life the the parents and the police acting quickly and very
intelligently saved this little girl's life but obviously as this story blows up and I think really also catches some
legs catches some traction is because one it's so close to these murders that took place four years prior similar type
victim and you could also say that this murderer or attempted murderer looks similar to the sketch to the first
sketch that was released by law enforcement and the deli murders the first sk I actually think he looks more
like the second sketch that was released the the younger version yeah I mean I mean I I've seen people compare both
yeah um yeah I guess you're right well I mean sketch one and two don't look crazy
I mean they look like different people but yeah but again you and I have said and questioned this over the years could
you Invision you know when we finally do make an arrest that you could take sketch one and two and overlap them and
that's what the guy will end up looking like right I mean that's certainly believable you're right Captain I see
features on on this uh guy um that do appear to look similar to sketch one and also sketch two as well he we said he's
42 years old I don't know what your perception is here captain or what everybody else's is but you know
Carter Indiana State Police Officer Doug Carter who did the press conferences for
the deli murders and I I just I love listening to that man speak I love hearing the passion in his his voice and
his words when he's talking about the the community the families and getting and catching Bridge guy Carter said it
himself that you know this is this is the age range this is kind of our physical profile of this dude of bridge
guy he falls within this age group but Carter says he he may appear he may look younger than his actual age and my
general perception here my general thoughts as far as James Brian Chadwell go is I think he looks younger than 42
to me yeah and I don't know if it's the trash tattoos or or or what but but I look at him and my first guess would not
be 42 well I I just want to be clear I'm all for tattoos I love tattoos just don't get bad tattoos don't get shitty
tattoos no uh right away when you when you see this guy I was thinking mid-30s right so even though it seems
like he he's kind of had a um a rough go of Life probably most brought on by himself right uh he he
seems and I think some of it too is the style of clothes and and stuff he's still into but yeah right away it's like
okay maybe 30 35 or so so he puts us uh so that's another thing so we have a individual
that uh is roughly the same age as our suspect we also know he was in the area or could have been in the area and he is
capable of the crimes that were committed that day in Deli so we have three things going for him that
definitely make the the cops have to say hey we have to look into the this individual now what I wonder is was this
guy ever on their Radar Radar before and because the story got some traction did
they feel like they had to come out and say hey hey yeah yeah we're going to look into this guy and is it just uh a
dog and pony show or is this a guy that um that they actually think could be a a
very good suspect I suspect we won't hear much unless they decide to charge him with
something right because with all of the other quote unquote good suspects that they've had so let's review those real
quick we had Daniel Nations who we already mentioned he's the guy that was swinging hatchets at people out in
Woodland Park Colorado and they arrested him he looked somewhat like the sketch he had a criminal history uh I believe
he was a sex offender register sex offender in the Indiana State they looked at him he was one of the first
Paul Eder who in 2019 was wanted for kidnapping and raping a 26-year-old woman in Tippy Canoe County
Indiana 5 days later he was the one that was surrounded by police and after a long standoff he ends up killing himself
in his car then we have Thomas Bruce this was the guy that this guy this guy completely Bizarro case to me
formerly worked as a pastor was charged with fatally shooting one woman and sexually assaulting two others this is
the guy that went into that uh that store in the in the strip mall and he pulls a gun on these people orders them
into the back room assaults them in the back room and later he's identified as the Killer and the person that attacked
these poor people in that store thankfully he's abducted Charles Eldridge he's the big giant ogre looking
dude that many of you will recall that was arrested in Union City Indiana and charged with multiple charges of child
molestation and child soliciting and he gets thrown onto the radar by the public
and by the media and social media because he looks a lot or similar to the first
sketch of bridg guy and that leads us to the most recent James Bryan Chadwell II
and a lot of people have been looking up this guy as you said Captain this seems
to be bigger news than some of the other suspects it looks to me like on most of
his social media that James Brian Chadwell the second was going by Brian Chadwell and you can see I mean I don't
know exactly every account that he was on I know people were able to look at pictures that he had on Facebook Avid
like hiker seemed to be into Bridges I don't know if he was essentially into Bridges or if he was just into nature in
general but seem to have somewhat of a fascination with Bridges so then you go okay well now got this guy he kind of
matches the the sketch lives roughly in the area he has a he has priors is capable of committing these crimes and
all by the way he likes to be outdoors he likes to go to Parks he likes to take pictures of bridges seems to be
fascinated by by them well and speaking of criminal history this is again from heavy.com says Chadwell has a
lengthy assaultive criminal history in the states of Indiana and South Dakota and they go on to say that the probable
cause Avid davit shows that Chadwell has an extensive criminal history he was once convicted of criminal recklessness
with a deadly weapon which was a felony in that county in Miami County he was convicted in 2000 in
Pennington County South Dakota of assault aggravated a felony and was convicted of stolen property he was
convicted in US District Court in South Dakota of being a felon in possession of
a firearm that was in 2001 he was convicted in minihaha County South Dakota of assault
aggravated this again a felony and this was in 2003 this is a list man he was convicted
in Cass County Indiana for receiving stolen property in 2016 he was convicted of OWI with a
prior this was in 2020 and then again in 2020 he was convicted of Criminal Trespass and
criminal mischief and while he was still on probation well I don't know what information is in there or what you can
find I'd like to know more about the these trespassing charges that he has because
when you look at the park in Deli that bridge is closed off you're you're not supposed to go across that
bridge and then once they're across the bridge we know that the murderer takes these
two takes these two girls down the hill across the stream over to land that is now not the park land but this is
private property that that would be trespassing as well so would this individual know this area because he
would have been cutting through and using this as an entrance and an exit his own entrance and exit to this park
well and then getting into the specifics on where he may have been living at the
time of the deli homicides it says that Chadwell had an ongoing court case in 2017 this for
receiving stolen property and the probation violation and there were no hearings for that court case in February
when the girls were killed of 2017 but it says however there were hearings in that case in the months after that time
frame and at that time he was listing his address as cooko Indiana and it's pointed out that that's 34 miles from
Deli so again local but not local uh he was he was sentenced in June of 2016 for probation violation yeah these
are I'm with you captain and I would like to know some more of the specifics of some of these charges and I'm sure
there's people out there digging this information up but I think we should point out here too that he was he
received a 365 day jail sentence so he was locked up for this would have been sounds like he was
locked up for most if not all of 2020 right and then at some point he says that he lived in Peru Indiana this
is around that 2020 time frame and his father actually filed a notice of claim to evict him from that address so he
must have been living with his father in Peru Indiana and then uh evicted from there
in 2020 so for a portion of this in investigation in the deli case at least this guy was locked
up and that brings us to a really good question I think it's a burning question for everyone out there and has been
since February of 2017 when the girls were killed because we all looked at that case Captain we
all examined that case and thought there's there's a couple possibilities here Bridge guy is either
a serial killer who has acted before mhm or he's a serial killer and this might be his first attempt or his first
his first actual killing in what would then be a series so you have to wonder on either of those
regards if either are true you wonder would bridg guy act again would he act again eventually yeah
and I that's always been my thought and belief that eventually he would he his compulsion would be to it would control
him well and I think they that's what these these this crime is about the deli murders about power control
manipulation sex I think it has a lot to do with all those uh things and so there for Killers
like that once they kill they'll kill again there's just a cooling off period right and we've said it often on this
show that it's almost for some of these guys the serial rapists or serial killers it's that's their drug of choice
or maybe even not their choice again it controls them it's their addiction eventually they will have to give into
this compulsion the urge will be too strong the Temptation will be too great right that no matter the risk level that
they will re offend because isn't that the other shoe right we're all waiting for the other
shoe to drop in the deli case there's a lot that can't be agreed upon out there in the uh Twitter sphere in the
internets it's it's difficult and a lot there's a lot of opinions out there a lot of varying opinions but it seems to
me that the majority of the people Captain seem to believe that yes this is a Serial offense or the person that did
the deli homicides certainly has the makeup of a serial offender and so here we are waiting for unfortunately the
other shoe to drop and that he will at some point reoffend and then we will be on to him
for sure because that's what we've seen time and time again with the media and with speculation about bridg guy and
about Deli that anytime one of these guys goes out and commits some horrible horrible crime that now we're boom put
his face on a poster this is a guy that we've been looking for the whole [Music]
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This week we continue our coverage of the Delphi Double Homicide investigation. Recently it was announced that the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office (who is the lead in this case) has investigators looking into James Brian Chadwell ii. Chadwell is a 42 year old Indiana man with a criminal history who is now on the radar due to his recent arrest in Lafayette. Chadwell was charged with an unrelated kidnapping and attempted murder of a young girl in April 2021.

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Brief Summary

James Chadwell's arrest for attempted murder raises questions about his connection to the Delphi murders of Libby German and Abby Williams.

Key points

New Sketch Released. A new sketch of the suspect is revealed, believed to be responsible for the murders.
Investigation Update. The ongoing investigation into the deli murders continues with multiple agencies involved.
Chadwell's Dark Past. James Bran Chadwell II is identified as a person of interest in the investigation.
Missing Girl Found in Basement. On April 19th, police found a 9-year-old girl in Chadwell's basement, who had been assaulted.
Connection to Unsolved Murders. Authorities are investigating Chadwell as a possible suspect in the unsolved murders of two teens.
Chadwell's Criminal History. James Brian Chadwell II has a lengthy history of violent crimes, raising concerns about his potential involvement in other cases.

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