Armchair sleuths asked to stop posting images of 'killer'
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Armchair sleuths asked to stop posting images of 'killer'

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For the second time in recent months, Indiana state police on Friday asked ‘armchair investigators’ on social media to stop posting pictures of men who they think fit the description of a suspect in a high-profile murder case. ‘As we continue the investigation into the deaths of Abby and Libby, please refrain from posting pictures on social media sites of innocent people set side by side with the sketch and picture of the alleged suspect,’ Indiana State Police wrote Friday on its Facebook page. For the second time in recent months, Indiana state police on Friday asked ‘armchair investigators’ on social media to stop posting pictures of men who they think fit the description of a suspect in a high-profile murder case In July, ISP released a composite sketch of the main suspect in the killings of two teenage girls who disappeared from a hiking trail in February. The bodies of Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty German, 14, were found about three-quarters of a mile from an abandoned railroad bridge on the Monon High Bridge Trail in Delphi, Indiana in February Shortly after publicizing the sketch, ISP detectives reprimanded the public for posting images on social media of potential suspects matching the description.

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