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Trio arrested for abducting 11-year-old Indiana girl found 350 miles away

Two men and a woman from South Dakota were arrested in Wisconsin Sunday after allegedly abducting an 11-year-old girl in Indiana the night before.

The victim was “safely” taken into the custody of authorities after she traveled some 350 miles with her alleged captors, who were reported to have been “possibly armed,” officials said.

Zachary Delozier, 27, Sara Gaudino, 23, and Isaiah Schryvers, 24 were apprehended in the town of Dodgeville after a silver alert was issued. They were all charged with kidnapping a minor, according to the Iowa County Sheriff’s Office.

A multi-state manhunt began after Wells County, Indiana officials issued a silver alert saying the missing girl had been picked up in a “white Dodge caravan” from a trailer park in Zanesville, outside Fort Wayne, at 3:30 p.m.

Dozens of Hoosier State agencies mobilized to search for the girl, deploying helicopters and drones, according to WPTA-TV.

The suspects eluded capture in Indiana and passed through Illinois before they were spotted by authorities at a gas station in Barneveld, Wisc.. They were pulled over a short time later and the girl was “safely removed,” according to officials.


Kidnapping suspects Isaiah Schryvers, Sara Gaudino and Zachary Delozier are pictured, from left to right.
Iowa County Sheriff’s Office

Police departments in Dodgeville and Mineral Point, Wisconsin Department of Justice officials and Iowa County social service and highway departments were involved in the arrest and investigation, Sheriff Michael Peterson said.

“Being out there with this great group of professionals, watching all these agencies come together, taking these three adults into custody quickly, and removing this 11-year-old female from this situation so she can return to her family is an amazing feeling,” Peterson wrote in a press release.

“Thank you for making a difference in our community.”

The relationship between the suspects and their victims was unclear, and the girl does not share a last name with any of the alleged abductors.

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Indiana Walmart shooting injures 1, suspect killed: police

Authorities responded to a shooting at a Walmart in Evansville, Indiana, on Thursday evening, where they said at least one victim was injured. The suspect was killed during a shootout with police, authorities said.

The Evansville Police Department tweeted on Thursday night about the shooting, encouraging people to avoid the area: “Active shooter inside Walmart West. EPD on scene. Avoid the area!”

Sgt. Anna Gray of the Evansville Police Department said during a press conference hours after the shooting was initially reported that the suspect ran throughout the store during the gunfight with police.

“He would shoot at officers and move,” Gray said. “He was all throughout the store.”

Gray confirmed one female victim was transported to the hospital. She also said police responded swiftly to the scene and did not wait outside of the store.

“We have been trained that if there’s an active threat, we go in – we don’t pause, we don’t take time to try to figure out what’s going on. We go in and we go where the shots are being fired,” Gray said.

After entering the store, police were met with gunfire from the suspect.
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A few minutes after the initial tweet, EPD said the suspect had been “neutralized.”

“Threat has been neutralized and is in custody,” police said.

They also said officers were tending to an undisclosed number of victims. 

Other victims reportedly fled the store as police were arriving at the scene. EPD encouraged any victims who may have been injured to go to the hospital. 

Reporter Breann Boswell of 14 News reported the male suspect fired at officers “multiple times” before officers returned fire, killing him.

One female victim was transported to a hospital.
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Wayne Hart of WEHT similarly reported the suspect was shot and killed. 

Fox News has reached out to the Evansville Police Department for additional information.

Gray has asked for witnesses to come forward with information that would assist in their investigation.

“A lot of people were fleeing,” she said Thursday night. “We do ask that any witnesses call in if they have information.”

The store is located at 335 S. Red Bank Road.



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Delphi murder suspect Richard Allen involved in 2015 incident

Before Libby German an Abby Williams were murdered in Delphi, Indiana, local sheriff’s deputies responded to the home of accused killer Richard Allen over a “domestic” incident.

Officers with the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office were sent at around 3:30 a.m. on June 18, 2015, to the home of Richard and Kathy Allen, according to records obtained by the station Fox 59.

Sheriff Tobe Leazenby said Allen, a dad-of-one CVS technician, was allegedly drunk, and his wife took him to a hospital for a medical evaluation.

According to the sheriff, responding deputies’ role during the incident was to “keep the peace,” and no arrests or charges followed.

Until his arrest last week on two counts of first-degree murder, Allen, 50, had no prior criminal record.

Delphi murder suspect Richard Allen, 50, was involved in a domestic incident in June 2015, less than two years before the Feb. 2017 killings.
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Libby German, 14, and Abby Williams, 13, were killed while taking a walk on Feb. 13, 2017.
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He has now been charged with two counts of murder related to the deaths of German, 14, and her friend Williams, 13, on Feb. 13, 2017, while the girls were taking a walk along the Monon High Bridge Train in Delphi.

Allen — who is being held with no bond — has pleaded not guilty ot the charges and will go to trial in 2023.

The girls’ bodies were discovered the following day half a mile from the trail. Their causes of death have never never been made public and prosecutors have deliberately withheld details of the case from the public to aid their investigation.

A video captured by Libby German on the day she and Williams were killed showed a man walking near them along a trail.
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Allen, right, is pictured posing in front of a police sketch depicting the wanted Delphi suspect.
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A grainy video recovered from Libby German’s phone showed a man in a blue jacket walking along the railroad bridge. In the audio accompanying the footage that was released by cops, a man’s voice is heard saying: “down the hill”. Only nine seconds of the 43 second video were released by cops.

Evidence against Allen worker has also been temporarily sealed to avoid jeopardizing the case, according to the police.

The Post reported Wednesday that plainclothes officers conducted a day-long search of Allen’s property about 10 days before his arrest, which came as a shock to those who knew him.

A fire pit in Richard Allen’s backyard in Delphi, Indiana, attracted the attention of law enforcement searching the property.
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Neighbors said the officers spent about 12 hours scouring the property and paying an especially close attention to a fire pit located next to a shed in the yard.

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Indiana child porn suspect Kegan Kline tied to Delphi murders soliciting sexual favors from prison

A suspect accused of possessing child pornography who is tied to the 2017 murders of two teenage girls in Delphi, Indiana, has been soliciting sexual favors from women who write him in prison, according to two podcast hosts.

“In addition to wanting money, women have been contacting him, and he is trying to exploit them sexually in order to give them information about the case,” podcast host and attorney Kevin Greenlee told Fox News Digital. “There was a particularly striking exchange where a … young woman was asking about the case and talking about church, and he responded very quickly by turning it into a sexual conversation.”

Kegan Kline, 27, is currently in custody in Miami County, Indiana, for 30 counts of child pornography-related charges dating back to 2016 and 2017. He was linked to the Delphi murders after he was reportedly in contact with one of the victims, 14-year-old Libby German, the night before she was murdered, according to FOX 59 Indianapolis. 

German and Abigail Williams, 13, were found murdered on the morning of Feb. 13, 2017, after German’s sister dropped the pair off at the entrance of a hiking trail the day prior.

Kline allegedly made plans to meet up with German at the bridge where her body was found the next day, but he denies that he had anything to do with the girls’ killings and has not been charged in connection to the Delphi case.

Kegan Kline was reportedly in contact with 14-year-old Libby German.
Indiana State Police

Greenlee and journalist Áine Cain who host “The Murder Sheet” podcast and have been following the Delphi murder case, were recently in contact with Kline via a messaging platform that Kline can use to communicate with others outside prison.

One woman who wrote to Kline told the podcast hosts that the suspect offered to give her information if she allowed him to masturbate in front of her via FaceTime. He also reportedly attempted to get the adult women who have contacted him in prison to perform sexual favors in exchange for information, which Greenlee noted in the latest episode of “The Murder Sheet” podcast is particularly disturbing given the crimes Kline is accused of.

In addition, Kline repeatedly told Cain and Greenlee that he would not divulge any information without payment, which the podcast hosts declined to do as journalists.

“Don’t message me again. You have put out so much bulls*t against me. I get you have a podcast and want money from this, but it’s wrong what you’re doing, Aine,” Kline said in one message to Cain that she and Greenlee discussed in their latest podcast episode.

“There is a lot of misinformation. People doing interviews that don’t even know me, Aine, and lying all about me. I’m very upset about it. I’m having a hard enough time,” another message from Kline read.

“How many questions are you wanting to ask? I’ll answer some, but not for free. Everyone is making money off my name, and I’m sitting in here hungry with nothing,” Kline said in another message, which does not support what sources have told the podcast hosts about Kline gaining a significant amount of weight in prison.

The podcast hosts have reported extensively on the Delphi murders and Kline, and they wanted to reach out to the suspect to give him a chance to share his side of the story. When Cain and Greenlee asked Kline what they got wrong in their reporting, he evaded the question and said he would only provide answers in exchange for $400.

Abby Williams was 13 years old.
Indiana State Police

“I would characterize our conversation with Kegan Kline as pretty brief,” Cain explained. “… He expressed disapproval of some of our reporting on him. We asked him for clarification. He didn’t provide it. The main thing that we took out of it was that he wants to charge people money to interview him about the Delphi case.”

Indiana court documents obtained by Cain and Greenlee in May and August also indicate possible developments in the case involving Kline.

Cain and Greenlee recently received an anonymous tip that led them to the Wabash River in Peru, Indiana, — not far from Kline’s home that was raided in 2017 after the Delphi murders — on Aug. 23, where they witnessed and photographed authorities searching the water with various tools.

On Aug. 19, the Indiana State Police petitioned the Miami County Circuit Court for custody of Kline, though he currently remains in Miami County. 

In March, Cain and Greenlee obtained a 2020 transcript of an ISP interview with Kline that was accidentally posted online.

According to the transcript, which has since been sealed in the court record, Kline told police he communicated with German on the day she was killed. The transcript also revealed that Kline searched “How long does DNA last” on his computer and failed a police polygraph.

In December 2021, ISP said in a Facebook post that it had uncovered a fictitious Instagram account under the username “Anthony_Shots” during its investigation into the murders. The transcript indicates that Kline had access to the account, which had been in contact with German. Kline told investigators, however, that he gave the account password to “a lot of people,” according to the document.

“This profile was being used from 2016 to 2017 on social media applications, including but not limited to, Snapchat and Instagram,” Indiana police said in the Facebook post. “The fictitious anthony_shots profile used images of a known male model and portrayed himself as being extremely wealthy and owning numerous sports cars. The creator of the fictitious profile used this information while communicating with juvenile females to solicit nude images, obtain their addresses, and attempt to meet them. Pictured below, you’ll see images of the known male model and images the fictitious anthony_shots profile sent to underage females.”

Police say German used her cellphone to snap images of a man walking across the railroad bridge shortly before she and Williams were killed on Feb. 13, 2017. German also recorded the man believed to be the killer ordering the friends “down the hill.”

Authorities are asking anyone who may know something about the Instagram profile or anything about the case to contact law enforcement at abbyandlibbytip@cacoshrf.com or 765-822-3535.

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Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb leads delegation to Taiwan

​Indiana’s Republican governor became the latest US lawmaker to lead a delegation to Taiwan following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip earlier this month that sparked condemnation and military threats from China. 

Gov. Eric Holcomb met with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday,​ part of a four-day visit to Taiwan and South Korea that is intended to “further strengthen Indiana’s economic, academic and cultural connections with Taiwan and South Korea​,” his office said in a statement. ​

His arrival comes at a time of heightened tensions between Washington and Beijing after Pelosi’s visit ​to self-governed Taiwan, which China believes is part of its territory and has threatened to reunify. 

The governor’s trip is intended to “further strengthen Indiana’s economic, academic and cultural connections with Taiwan and South Korea​.”
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Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb noted that his state is the home to 10 businesses from Taiwan.
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China responded to Pelosi’s travel to the island by extending military exercises and firing missiles into the Strait of Taiwan.​

Beijing has also been sending warplanes and ships into the area around the median strip in the waterway that serves as a buffer between the island and the Chinese mainland.  

Tsai remarked on the unease in the area during her meeting with Holcomb. 

“In the midst of this, Taiwan has been confronted by military threats from China, in and around the Taiwan Strait. At this moment, democratic allies must stand together and boost cooperation in all areas,” Tsai said. 

“Building on our existing foundation of collaboration, I look forward to our supporting one another, and advancing hand in hand, forging closer relations and creating even deeper cooperation​,” she said. 

Holcomb, the first Indiana governor to travel to Taiwan in 17 years, noted that his state is the home to 10 businesses from Taiwan and said he and his delegation will be discussing the latest developments in the technological chip industry, including the passing of the CHIPS Act by Congress. 

“We both seek to deepen and enhance our already excellent cooperation that we’ve established over the years,” he said.​

The Indiana delegation includes Secretary of Commerce Brad Chambers, ​staff of the state’s Economic Development Corporation and educators with Purdue University’s College of Engineering. 

A contingent of Democratic lawmakers, led by Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, traveled to Taiwan two weeks after Pelosi’s visit. 

With Post wires

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