Indiana State Police have released photos of a man they are seeking to identify in connection to the deaths of two teen girls. 
 
 Abigail “Abby” Williams, 13, and Liberty “Libby” German, 14, were found dead Tuesday afternoon along Deer Creek, near their hometown of Delphi, a day after they were reported missing. The girls were hiking along the Delphi Historic Trails and the abandoned Monon High Bridge before they disappeared. 
 
 Their deaths are being investigated as a double homicide, Indiana State Police announced on Wednesday. An autopsy was completed, but the causes of their deaths have not yet been made public. Police have not said if the man in the photos is considered to be a suspect. 
 
 “We are asking help from the public to help identify him so he can be contacted regarding what he might have seen,” police said in a statement. 
 
 You can see the photos released by police below: 
 
 Indiana police release photos of man they are seeking to ID in Liberty German and Abigail Williams homicide case https://t.co/folOFC4K5r pic.twitter.com/JIaCTwNsL1 — Heavy.com (@HeavySan) February 16, 2017 
 
 “We are asking for anyone to come forward with information or were in the area of the Delphi Historic Trails or Monon High Bridge that might have seen a person or persons, vehicles parked in the area or were taking pictures. Any information may be helpful to solving this case,” police said in a press release. “You can contact the Carroll County Sheriff’s Department or the Delphi Police Department at 765-564-2413, option #1, or the Indiana State Police at 765-567-2125.” 
 
 They added, “Also, if you were parked at High Bridge Trail Head on February 13, 2017 between 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. we would like to talk to you.” 
 
 The girls, from Delphi, in Carroll County, were reported missing by their family on Monday. Hundreds of people, including police, firefighters, family, friends and residents of the surrounding community, searched for the girls into the night Monday and again Tuesday morning. The bodies were found about 12:15 p.m. Tuesday. 
 
 “Right now, we are following up on hundreds of hundreds of leads that have come in,” State Police Sergeant Kim Riley said Wednesday. “There is nobody of interest at this point in time that we can say.” 
 
 The girls were dropped off by family members at trails near the “Monon High Bridge” just east of their hometown of Delphi about 1 p.m. Monday, WTTV-TV reports. 
 
 The girls were supposed to be picked up by family later that afternoon, but did not show up, police said. They were reported missing about 5:30 p.m. 
 
 A massive search of the area began, led by local and state police. A drone was used during the search and family members and friends of the girls assisted. A K-9 and dive team were also brought in to help find the girls. 
 
 On Tuesday, police announced they found two bodies in Delphi, along Deer Creek, about a half mile from the railroad bridge where the girls had last been seen. 
 
 The girls posted an eerie final photo on Snapchat before they disappeared, according to WRTV. 
 
 The photo, which you can see above, was posted about 2 p.m. It was taken by Liberty German and shows Abigail Williams walking along the railroad bridge. Liberty posted it to her Snapchat account. 
 
 “There is someone out there that did this crime and we’re going to track them down,” Carroll County Sheriff Tobe Leazenby told reporters. “Folks should continue with business as usual but be more mindful and watch your surroundings a little closer. We’re going to get to the bottom of this, we feel confident.” 
 
 Riley said parents should keep an eye on their children. 
 
 “I think people need to be cautious and careful,” Riley said. “Parents should make sure they know where their children are and what their children are doing, and if nothing else, know what’s going on in their lives. That’s the most important thing I can say at this point in time.” 
 
 You can read more about the case at the link below: ||||| Update: Police released a photo of a man taken on the Delphi Historic Trails on Feb. 13, around the time Abigail Williams and Liberty German were walking. 
 
 Investigators want to talk with him about what he may have seen. They would also like to speak with anyone who was parked at High Bridge Trail Head on Feb. 13, between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. 
 
 Anyone who knows about the pictured man or has any information is asked to call a special tip line set up for this case: 844-459-5786. Information provided will be followed up on by officers working the case. Tips can be submitted anonymously. 
 
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 DELPHI, Ind. – Police have launched a double homicide investigation after an autopsy report confirmed the two bodies found in Delphi are the two missing teens. 
 
 A volunteer searching for the girls discovered the bodies on private property about 50 to 60 feet from the water, not far from where Liberty German, 14, and Abigail Williams, 13, were last seen. The girls were reported missing Monday. 
 
 Officials said the bodies were transported to Terre Haute where a coroner conducted the autopsies that confirmed their identities. They can't release the girls' cause or manner of death at this time. 
 
 Police said they do not have any suspects in custody at this time, but they do not believe there is a threat to the community. 
 
 "There is someone out there that did this crime and we’re going to track them down," Sheriff Tobe Leazenby said. “Folks should continue with business as usual but be more mindful and watch your surroundings a little closer.” 
 
 Officials believe this is the first double homicide investigation in Carroll County. 
 
 Sgt. Kim Riley said parents should keep a close eye on their children. "I think people need to be cautious and careful," Riley said. "Parents should make sure they know where their children are and what their children are doing, and if nothing else, know what's going on in their lives. That's the most important thing I can say at this point in time." 
 
 The bodies were discovered along the edge of Deer Creek in Delphi which is about a half-mile away from the Monon High Bridge, the last place the two girls were seen Monday afternoon. They were supposed to meet with family members later Monday evening, but when the teens didn’t show up, and that’s when their family called police. 
 
 Their disappearance led to a large search involving numerous volunteers and several law enforcement agencies. Riley said police all the way from Lowell, Indiana to Fort Wayne, Indiana have helped with the investigation. 
 
 Officers are asking anyone who may have taken pictures in the area or was just on the trail to contact authorities immediately. You can call the Carroll County Sheriff's Department at 765-564-2413 or Indiana State Police at 765-567-2125. 
 
 Delphi Community Schools Superintendent Gregory Briles said counselors will be available for students and staff Wednesday. All after school activities have been canceled for the remainder of the week at Delphi Community Middle School. 
 
 “It is a small community and the community is going to wrap its arms around these families and is going to take very good care of them,” Briles said. 
 
 Administrators also plan to step up security until police release more details about the investigation. ||||| DELPHI, Ind. -- Two bodies found along a northern Indiana stream are those of two teenage girls who went missing Monday and their deaths are being investigated as homicides, authorities said on Wednesday. 
 
 
 
 State Police Sgt. Kim Riley said autopsies performed Wednesday determined that the bodies are those of Liberty German, 14, and Abigail Williams, 13, both of Delphi. 
 
 
 
 Their bodies were found Tuesday afternoon along Deer Creek near Delphi, about 60 miles northwest of Indianapolis. Police said the girls’ bodies were about three-quarters of a mile from an abandoned railroad bridge where they were dropped off Monday to go hiking. 
 
 Police released a photo of a man taken on the Delphi Historic Trails on Feb. 13, around the time Abigail Williams and Liberty German were walking, CBS affiliate WTTV reports. 
 
 Riley said an FBI team remains at the crime scene collecting evidence. 
 
 
 
 Riley said authorities are not yet releasing the girls’ cause or manner of deaths, citing the ongoing double homicide investigation. 
 
 
 
 “The investigation is still in its baby steps, so to speak, and we don’t want to put that information out yet,” he said during a news conference in Delphi. 
 
 
 
 Carroll County Sheriff Tobe Leazenby said authorities do not yet have a suspect or suspects in the girls’ slayings. 
 
 
 
 Delphi is known for its historic courthouse square and a restored section of the historic Wabash & Erie Canal that offers trips on a replica 19th century canal boat. 
 
 
 
 News of the girls’ deaths shook the community of 3,000 residents, where the teens were both eighth-graders at Delphi Community Middle School. 
 
 
 
 Greg Briles, the superintendent of Delphi Community School Corporation, called their deaths a “senseless tragedy” in a Wednesday afternoon tweet. “Our worst fears were confirmed today in the senseless loss of our 2 DCMS students,” he wrote on Twitter. 
 
 
 
 Delphi resident Richard Gardiner said Wednesday after the police announcement that the girls’ killings had left him and other residents stunned. 
 
 
 
 “I’ve lived around this town for 50-plus years and things like this are happening every day in bigger cities, like Chicago and Indianapolis and what not,” he told WLFI-TV. “And in a small community when it happens, everybody goes berserk.” 
 
 
 
 A local publication, the Carroll County Comet, reported in January that German and Williams were both honor roll students in the fall semester. 
 
 
 
 German’s Facebook page includes several photos of her clowning around with friends, including one from November showing her and another girl flashing the peace sign, prompting one Facebook friend to comment, “You goofy girls.” 
 
 
 
 Leazenby and Riley urged the public, particularly people who were hiking Monday in the area where the girls went missing, to contact police with any tips they might have to help authorities in the investigation. Authorities also released two photos of a male who was seen on hiking trails around the time the girls were there and asked the public to help identify him so he could be questioned about what he might have seen. 
 
 
 
 “We’re going to get to the bottom of this. We feel confident. And we’re going to do everything within our resources to reach justice in this situation,” Leazenby said. 
 
 
 
 Riley said the girls’ bodies were found in a wooded area about 50 feet from the banks of Deer Creek in an area less than a mile upstream from the railroad bridge that’s known locally as the Monon High Bridge. 
 
 
 
 He thanked volunteers who helped search the base of the bridge and surrounding trails for the girls, whose bodies were found by one of those volunteers. 
 
 
 
 The girls were reported missing Monday evening after they failed to appear at a predetermined meeting place. Riley said a relative of one of the girls dropped them off Monday near the bridge and another relative had agreed to pick them up later. He said the girls went hiking Monday because the school they attended did not have classes that day. 
 
 
 
 Riley said the girls planned to hike a local trail, and authorities have received no information suggesting they planned to meet anyone else on that trail. 
 
 
 
 He said authorities are urging local residents to use caution, keep track of their children and report anything unusual to authorities while the criminal investigation continues. 
 
 
 
 “There’s somebody out there, somewhere. We don’t know if it’s a person who came in and left, or if it’s somebody in the neighborhood,” Riley said. ||||| CLOSE Police confirmed that two bodies found Tuesday were the missing teens from Carroll County: Liberty German, 14, and Abigail Williams, 13. A search was called off Tuesday afternoon, when the bodies were found near Delphi. Dave Bangert and Dwight Adams/ Journal & Courier 
 
 Indiana State Police say this man was walking near High Bridge in Delphi about the time that Liberty German and Abigail Williams were. If anyone recognizes this man, please call police. (Photo: Provided/Indiana State Police) 
 
 DELPHI, Ind. - Police confirmed the horror and fear that hung in the air around Delphi since Tuesday afternoon — the two bodies found were 14-year-old Liberty German and 13-year-old Abigail Williams. 
 
 "This is considered a double homicide investigation, and no further information will be released at this time," Indiana State Police Sgt. Kim Riley said during a news conference . Wednesday afternoon outside Delphi City Hall. 
 
 Riley and Carroll County Sheriff Tobe Leazenby had no words of comfort to offer the community. They said they wanted to protect the details of the investigation in hopes of catching the killer. 
 
 Admittedly, there is a killer — or killers — on the loose and no suspects in name or in custody, Riley and Leazenby said. They didn't comment whether this was a random act or whether the girls were targeted. 
 
 "Yes, there is somebody out there who did this, and we're going to track them down," Riley said. 
 
 That dogged determination was of little comfort to a city of 3,000 people with more questions than answers. 
 
 "It's pretty scary to think somebody is running around loose up there capable of doing that," Verlin Bohnert said late Wednesday morning as he and about 10 other retired friends discussed the killing of the two girls over coffee at McDonald's. "I hope they catch the guy because if I was a parent, I'd be scared to death up here right now." 
 
 Later Wednesday night, Indiana State Police published two photos of a man who had been photographed Monday near High Bridge about the same time the girls were walking in the area. They asked anyone who recognized the man to call the Carroll County Sheriff's Office and Delphi police at 765-564-2413. Indiana State Police can be reached at 765-567-2125. 
 
 If the topic of a killer on the streets was uncomfortable for Bohnert and his friends, who live in eastern Tippecanoe County, imagine how Tuesday's news about finding the missing girls dead hit Ron Logan. He owns the land behind the cemetery where the girls were found. 
 
 "To have anyone murdered on your property … I don't know what my feelings are right now. It caught me by surprise,” Logan said, recalling how the past two days have been filled with people — first the police, then the reporters — asking him questions upon questions. 
 
 "I haven’t really had a chance to let it soak in," Logan said after a brief pause to think about the day's events. "I know the families.” 
 
 Logan confirmed Riley's comments that the only way back to the hilly terrain between the cemetery and the creek is by foot. He also said schools were out Thursday, Friday and Monday for winter break, which explains why German and Williams were free to roam the trails. 
 
 Logan shared happy memories of his son playing along the creek behind his house. 
 
 "My kids grew up in this area," Logan said. "He went back there with his schoolmates. 
 
 "They went back there fishing and playing in the creek. Grace of God, it didn’t happen to them.” 
 
 He paused for a second then said, "It is a different time." 
 
 Riley and Leazenby refused to elaborate Wednesday about the girls' deaths or any injuries discovered to the girls' bodies during the autopsies in Terre Haute. This is the first double homicide since the 1990s, and the first child homicide in Carroll County that Leazenby can remember — and he's been a deputy since 1986. 
 
 Police asked for the community's help. Anyone who was on the trail on Monday afternoon or took pictures while on the trails is asked to contact police and shared their photographs, Riley said. 
 
 During Wednesday morning's news conference, Riley said this tight-knit community flooded police with leads about the deaths of two people found near Deer Creek on Tuesday, police said. 
 
 "Right now, we are following up on hundreds of hundreds of leads that have come in," Riley said. 
 
 People from the community here created a Facebook page to discuss the disturbing turn of events. 
 
 One photo posted on the Facebook page shows what appears to be German or Williams walking across High Bridge and has two circles indicating that there are people following the girl in the photo. It is not clear when the picture was taken, although it appears to be recent since there are no leaves on the trees. 
 
 German and Williams were dropped off near the High Bridge about 1 p.m. Monday, but they didn't return when family members planned to pick them up. The girls were reported missing at 5:30 p.m. Monday. 
 
 This is the trail head sign where the girls were dropped off to hike Monday afternoon. Their bodies were found about 12:15 p.m. Tuesday about 50 feet from the shore of Deer Creek. (Photo: Ron Wilkins/Journal & Courier) 
 
 This is the trail that Liberty German, 14, and Abigail Williams, 13, started out on Monday afternoon. They were killed while on their hike, according to police. (Photo: Ron Wilkins/Journal & Courier) 
 
 Search parties combed the area Monday until dark and resumed Tuesday morning. About 12:15 p.m., volunteer searchers found two bodies about 50 feet north of the Deer Creek upstream from the High Bridge, Riley said. 
 
 Asked why an Amber Alert was not issued, Riley said this particular case did not fit the criteria for an alert. 
 
 "Even if we would have put an Amber Alert out, it wouldn't have done this case any good," Riley said. 
 
 "The short period of time and the location where the bodies were found, it would not have helped us in finding them," he explained. 
 
 Investigators were back at the crime scene Wednesday east of the cemetery on Carroll County Road 300 North. People in dive suits could be seen from the road, and police dogs were visible from the road, too. 
 
 Riley and Leazenby declined to elaborate on what they were doing, other than to say they were gathering evidence. 
 
 J&C breaking news reporter Ron Wilkins can be reached at 765-420-5231; follow on Twitter @RonWilkins2 
 
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– Indiana State Police are trying to track down a man photographed at the Delphi Historic Trails on Monday around the time two teenage girls were killed there. Liberty German, 14, and Abigail Williams, 13, were dropped off at the popular hiking spot by a family member around 1pm Monday. Their bodies were found Tuesday about 50 feet from the shore of Deer Creek on a section of private property only accessible by foot, reports the Indianapolis Star. A man seen in the area at the time was wearing jeans, a dark blue jacket, and a hood. "We are asking help from the public to help identify him so he can be contacted regarding what he might have seen," police say, per Heavy.com. Police are also asking anyone who was in the area on Monday to contact police with possible tips. "There is somebody out there who did this, and we're going to track them down," says an Indiana State Police rep, noting police are already "following up on hundreds of hundreds of leads." Adds a sheriff, per CBS News, "We're going to get to the bottom of this. We feel confident. And we’re going to do everything within our resources to reach justice in this situation." Officials tell Fox 59 that autopsies on both girls have been conducted but the results are not being released at this time.