DELPHI, Ind. -- The families of Liberty German and Abigail Williams are cautiously hopeful as the news of a new person of interest in the girls' murders begins to spread, but they say until they get the official call from state police saying they have a suspect they're going to continue with their mission to make sure everyone in the country knows about the case.
Indiana State Police are investigating a possible connection between a man accused of threatening several hikers on a trail in Colorado and Libby and Abby's murders.
Daniel Nations was arrested Monday after police in Colorado Springs say he threatened several hikers with a hatchet near the same trail where a man was murdered two weeks ago.
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Nations has not been charged with the man's murder, but the crimes involving the trails, his Indiana connections and his sex offender status have investigators looking into any possible connection he may have to the February murders on the Delphi Historic Trails.
"At first you want to say, "Yay," said Liberty German's Grandmother, Becky Patty. "But then you realize, well, they're just looking into them. You don't want to get too excited."
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While they know the Colorado connection could be a possibility, they know it's only that, a possibility.
"Maybe we have somebody but we still need to keep moving, we still need to keep talking about it like he's still out there because we don't know," said Abigail Williams' mother, Anna Williams. "So the flyers are going to keep going out, we're still going to keep sharing it on social media... because, we're still looking"
Both families say they will continue with their mission to send out packets of flyers and get the suspect's face in every corner of the country until the man who murdered Libby and Abby is behind bars.
"Every time we send one of these packages, the thought that goes through my head is: This has made his world a little smaller," said Becky Patty. "
State police are calling Nations a “person of interest” in the case, but they have yet to find any evidence that connections him specifically to Libby and Abby's murders.
The reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for Libby and Abby's death is now over $230,000.
Police have received over 24,000 tips in the case and interviewed over 500 people, but so far no arrests have been made.
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