The Delphi Murders: First Person: Lieutenant Jerry Holeman: Part One

Summary

Summary of "The Delphi Murders: First Person: Lieutenant Jerry Holman: Part One"

Podcast: Murder Sheet
Hosts: Áine Cain and Kevin Greenlee
Episode: The Delphi Murders: First Person: Lieutenant Jerry Holman: Part One
Release Date: December 21, 2024

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Introduction

In this gripping episode of Murder Sheet, hosts Áine Cain and Kevin Greenlee present an exclusive first-person account from Lieutenant Jerry Holman of the Indiana State Police. Holman played a pivotal role in investigating the tragic Delphi murders, where 14-year-old Liberty German and 13-year-old Abigail Williams were brutally killed in 2017. This detailed summary encapsulates Holman's experiences, the complexities of the investigation, and the relentless pursuit of justice for the young victims.

Lt. Jerry Holman's Background

Lt. Jerry Holman offers an extensive overview of his career, tracing his journey from the Marine Corps to his esteemed position in the Indiana State Police.

"After two years of Marine Corps service, I wanted to pursue law enforcement, inspired by my father's legacy in the field." [05:32]

Holman recounts his military training, deployments during the Gulf War, and subsequent transition to the State Police in 2001. His diverse training in narcotics operations, hostage negotiations, and crisis interventions equipped him with the skills necessary for complex investigations.

The Beginning of the Delphi Investigation

Initial Response

In February 2017, the disappearance and subsequent murders of Liberty German and Abigail Williams shocked the Delphi community and the nation. Holman describes his immediate response upon hearing the news.

"I was on my way to work when I heard about the missing girls. I immediately reached out to Sheriff Lesenby to understand the situation." [18:51]

Holman emphasizes the urgency and emotional weight of the case, highlighting the collaborative efforts of the Unified Command team, which included members from various law enforcement agencies and dedicated volunteers.

Formation of Unified Command

Holman explains the structure and purpose of the Unified Command team, designed to streamline the investigation by pooling resources and expertise.

"Unified Command was a team of investigators and personnel from the Indiana State Police, Carroll County Sheriff's Office, and others, all working towards a single goal: finding the perpetrators." [02:13]

This multi-agency approach was crucial in managing the influx of information and coordinating search efforts across the region.

Challenges Faced During the Investigation

Managing Public and Media Attention

The Delphi case garnered national attention, leading to an overwhelming number of tips and media scrutiny. Holman discusses the difficulties in filtering credible information from the mass of public input.

"We received over 14,000 emails and calls. Our job was to sift through every piece of information, no matter how small, to find leads." [28:35]

Geographic and Evidential Obstacles

Delphi's rural setting posed significant challenges, including limited surveillance footage and scarce physical evidence.

"We only had one video camera catching traffic near the scene. The lack of substantial evidence made the investigation incredibly tough." [26:12]

Interagency Coordination

Coordinating between multiple agencies with different protocols sometimes led to friction and inefficiencies.

"Managing various agencies was frustrating at times. Each had their own strengths and weaknesses, making it difficult to streamline our efforts." [23:15]

Despite these challenges, Holman underscores the importance of maintaining strong interagency relationships to overcome procedural hurdles.

Key Moments in the Investigation

Breakthrough: Kathy Schenck's Contribution

A turning point in the investigation was the discovery of a critical tip sheet by volunteer Kathy Schenck, which implicated Richard Allen Whiteman.

"Kathy's meticulous organization of tips led us directly to Richard Allen. Her dedication was a true blessing." [41:14]

Schenck's role in managing and analyzing the vast amount of tips was instrumental in narrowing down suspects and advancing the case.

Interaction with Richard Allen

Holman provides a candid account of his interactions with Richard Allen during the search and subsequent investigation.

"During the search warrant, Richard sat with me in the van and repeatedly said, 'It's over.' His demeanor was evasive and unsettling." [40:25-40:36]

These interactions revealed Allen's defensive nature and raised suspicions, ultimately contributing to his arrest.

The Role of Suspect Engagement Techniques

Holman discusses the strategic use of interrogation techniques, including controlling the conversation and employing psychological tactics to elicit information.

"I use a combination of calmness and controlled aggression to provoke responses that can lead to new leads or admissions." [53:01]

He emphasizes that these methods are part of a broader toolkit designed to uncover the truth without relying solely on confessions.

Key Insights and Analysis

The Importance of Public Cooperation

Holman highlights the critical role that public tips played in advancing the investigation, despite the challenges of sifting through unreliable information.

"While not all tips were helpful, the public's willingness to assist was invaluable in piecing together the puzzle of what happened that tragic day." [31:26]

Behavioral Analysis

Engaging with behavioral analysts, Holman discusses the profiling of the suspect, aiming to understand the psychological makeup of the individual responsible for the murders.

"Our behavioral analysis suggested a power-assertive individual with controlling tendencies, likely someone who harbored violent fantasies." [35:00]

This profiling helped narrow down suspect profiles and focus investigative efforts more effectively.

Legal and Procedural Considerations

Holman touches on the complexities of legal procedures, such as the use of polygraphs and the admissibility of certain evidence in court.

"Polygraphs, while not admissible in court, can be instrumental in eliciting truthful responses during investigations." [57:52]

He provides insights into how these tools aid in building a case that can stand up in court, even if the evidence is circumstantial.

Notable Quotes

• Holman on Emotional Response:
  "I was more angry about someone treating two innocent girls like that than disturbed by the brutality of the crime itself." [21:31]

• On Investigative Techniques:
  "If you bat .300 in baseball, you're in the Hall of Fame. If you get three out of ten confessions, you're doing very well in investigations." [57:52]

• Regarding Media Influence:
  "Managing media attention was a balancing act. We needed to inform the public without compromising the investigation." [26:12]

Conclusion

Lt. Jerry Holman's first-person narrative provides a profound and detailed perspective on the Delphi murders investigation. From the initial response to the complexities of interagency coordination and the strategic use of investigative techniques, Holman's account underscores the relentless dedication required to solve such a heinous crime. This episode not only sheds light on the intricacies of forensic investigation but also honors the memory of Liberty German and Abigail Williams by showcasing the unwavering pursuit of justice by law enforcement professionals.

For listeners seeking a comprehensive understanding of the Delphi case and the intricacies involved in high-profile criminal investigations, this episode of Murder Sheet offers invaluable insights through the experienced lens of Lt. Jerry Holman.

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Today we will be hearing directly from one of the lead investigators in the Delphi murders case, Lt. Jerry Holman of the Indiana State Police. He was on this investigation from the beginning and played a crucial role working within Unified Command to seek a resolution. The members of Unified Command were tasked with solving the brutal murders of 14 year old Liberty German and 13 year old Abigail Williams. Two best friends were abducted and murdered in Delphi, Indiana in 2017.

[Kevin Greenlee]

Unified Command was a team of investigators and personnel made up of individuals from the Indiana State Police, the Carroll County Sheriff's Office, the Carroll County Prosecutor's Office and several volunteers who all worked on the case. They ran down lead after lead for years until volunteer Kathy Schenck found the crucial tip sheet about Richard Allen and the whole thing broke open.

[Anya Cain]

After that, it fell to Lieutenant Holman and the others to investigate Allen. They did so putting together a case that resulted in a successful conviction. This past November with the lifting of the gag order, Lieutenant Holman is now free to speak with us about the experience of investigating the case. Some background Lt. Holman graduated from the 61st Indiana State Police Recruit Academy and has worked for the State Police since 2001. He was promoted to become a detective in 2009. This past year he was promoted to Lieutenant. He has undergone trainings around narcotics operations, drug intelligence, informant development and management, undercover techniques, hostage negotiations, crisis interventions, assessing criminal behavior, and the Reed Interview School, and he also graduated from the Federal Bureau of Investigations National Academy. In this interview, he will discuss the challenges of this investigation, the lead involving Keg and Klein, and Lt. Holman's own interactions with Allen. This will be the first of two episodes featuring Lieutenant Holman.

[Kevin Greenlee]

This marks the beginning of our first person interview series. We will seek to interview as many of the individuals with firsthand experience in this case as possible in the coming weeks and months. If you had a direct role in the case and are open to speaking with us, please email [e-mail] this is part of our ongoing efforts to report on the Delphi murders. For years we have not gotten the chance to hear directly from some of the principal figures in the case. That all changes now.

[Anya Cain]

My name is Anya Cain.

[Kevin Greenlee]

I'm a journalist and I'm Kevin Greenlee.

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I'm an attorney and this is the Murder Sheet.

[Kevin Greenlee]

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[Anya Cain]

We're the Murder Sheet and this is The Deli Murders. First Person Lieutenant Jerry Holman Part 1.

[Kevin Greenlee]

Can you tell us a little bit about your background?

[Lt. Jerry Holman]

Sure. Well, I grew up in the White county area. I lived in most of my teenage years in Reynolds, Indiana and Monon. I graduated in 1989 from North White High School, which is located up in Monon. After that I joined the Marine Corps. Shortly after that, probably in the fall of 1989, I went to Marine Corps boot camp out in San Diego, California. After that I did some more training in California and then went to Fort Sill, Oklahoma for field artillery training. I was a 08 11.

[Kevin Greenlee]

What's an 08 11?

[Lt. Jerry Holman]

Spilled artillery cannoneer. So I've basically shot howitzers, loaded them, things like that. Cannons basically, if people don't know what howitzers are. From there I went to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, where I spent a majority of my time. I was first assigned to Fox Battery, 2nd Marine 10th Division. In that time I got married. Probably a year, year and a half after I joined the Marine Corps. My wife was three months pregnant when I went on my first deployment, was supposed to be for six months. We were going to, we call them pumps, where we fly to Okinawa and we train over there. Spent very little time in Okinawa, Went to the Philippines for a little bit, went back to Okinawa. And the day that we were supposed to fly home, we flew to Saudi Arabia because that was 1991, into 1990, beginning of 91, when the Gulf War, the, the ground war kicked off. So they needed more artillery support. So we went over there, flew to Saudi Arabia, ended up moving up into Kuwait and I believe just into Iraq. And that was during January, December, January, February of night, end of 91st of 91. After that, came home, stayed in North Carolina and I went on two Mediterranean floats. We call em Med floats. You're on a US Vessel and you float around the Mediterranean. We go train with different countries like Turkey, Italy, Greece, Albania, Spain, just to name a few. I can't remember all of them, but I did two MED floats. One was on the USS Gunston hall, that was my first one. And the second one, I was aboard the USS Saipan. And I, I reenlisted and then it was honorably discharged in 1997. After that, I wanted to be a state trooper. I wanted to get into law enforcement. My father was in law enforcement. He was a town marshal of Reynolds and also corrections officer at White county and ended up becoming the director of Community corrections when they started that and when they first started that in White County. So I kind of had an idea after being in the Marine Corps and what my dad did, I wanted to get into law enforcement. But I didn't, I didn't really want to go city or county. I did apply for a few, but I really wanted to be a state trooper. I had some people retired. Lieutenant Jay Janky, Sergeant Kim Riley, some of those people Al Strange, those are some troopers that I knew growing up that my dad would hang around. And I always thought that's what I want to be. I want to be like those guys. But at the time I got out of the Marine Corps, you had to have 40 credit hours. And I didn't have any college at the time. So I went to work at Wabash national, which is a trailer factory in Lafayette. My father in law at the time was a supervisor over the used trailer department. And they would hire a bunch of people through the temporary services. And I went through the temporary service and I worked there for him for six months. And I got hired on full time at Wabash went and worked a line and ended up in Metal Fab. But I just, I didn't enjoy it. I didn't feel like it was rewarding. I was doing the same thing. Just coming out of the Marine Corps where you're doing all kinds of traffic, traveling and doing all kinds of exciting things and serving your country. It was kind of a drop off. So then I really knew I wanted to get into law enforcement. So I went back to Purdue for a little while. I kind of thought, well, if I don't want to be a police officer, maybe I'll be a school teacher. So I went for education. At first. I did a couple semesters at Purdue. It was extremely difficult because I was working 11pm to 7am and then not every day, but I would go substitute teaching from like 8 to 3:30, take a nap. And then I had night classes. I had two night classes. So I go to my night classes which usually started 7 or 8 and ended at 9 or 10. And then I go right to work and try to get a nap in here or there. But at some point around 2000, I think it was the summer of 2000, I call him my neighbor, but we live out in the middle of nowhere. So Kim Riley lived about a mile and a half, maybe three corn fields over. And then my wife, where she grew up, we, they were neighbors. So my wife would babysit Kim Riley's kids when he was younger and he'd always stop by or see me mowing the roadsides and ask if I was still interested in being a state trooper. And I said, yeah, I'm still working on it. You know, I'm working full time, job going back to school part time. And he said that the state police was going to use, if you had a certain amount of time in the military, you could use that in lieu of the 40 credit hours. And I said, well, if that happens, bring me an application, I'll apply right away. And he did one day pulled out a, you know, this is before Internet and laptops and everything in 2000, they're, you know, kicking off. But he brought me a written application and I filled it out and went, started the process of like June, I believe June of 2000 and got hired with the state police in January of 2001 is when I started Tis the.

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[Anya Cain]

So tell us a bit about your career with the State Police and how you sort of rose up the ranks with that.

[Lt. Jerry Holman]

Sure. Like I said, I went to the I was selected to go to the Academy in January of 2001. Graduated in June of 2001. I was appointed to the Lafayette District as a Road trooper. So everybody that comes through the State police, no matter where they are now starts as enforcement or road trooper. And I did that for about five years. I worked White and Carroll counties. I worked mid shift and night shift. So mid shift would back then would have been like 2p to 10:30 and then night shift would have been 10pm to or late shift would have been 10pm to 6:30am So I worked those shifts a lot. So I got a lot of experience with OWI investigations, drug investigations, things like that. And then in 2004 or five I was sent to meth methamphetamine clandestine lab training. And I was able to identify meth labs and dismantle them. And that at that time we had a part time team. And I think sometime in 05 or 06 the law changed to where you had to sign for the pseudo Fedrine. And if you bought too much then that was a crime. But it also was a, a lead for us to find out who was manufacturing methamphetamine illegally in the communities. So in 06 I was a full time mass suppression guy for the Lafayette Post. And I did that for about three years. Did a lot of training, a lot of investigative experience, interviews, following up on people that basically were buying pseudoephedrine for people to make methamphetamine. And so I, I worked with, hand in hand with the drug enforcement section. And like I said, I did that till 2009. I really enjoyed that job. It was just nobody wanted to deal drugs or make meth, you know, nine to five. So it was always inconvenient, you know, two in the morning or on your birthday or your wedding anniversary or Christmas. And so after three years of doing that, I just kind of thought my services would be better and better enjoyed regular investigation. So I put in for a promotion to district detective is what we call them. And I got that promotion in 2009. So I was a district detective. District detectives work a little bit of everything, you know, child molest cases, bank robberies, homicides, officer involved shootings, financial crimes, Internet crimes. So I did that for about five years. And then in 2014 I was promoted to sergeant and I was assigned as the investigative squad leader. The investigative squad leader does a lot of the day to day supervision of the detectives. And we, back then I think we had between four and six detectives at a time. And you're just responsible for reviewing their reports, making sure that they have the training and resources available to do their job. And as a sergeant you still worked a lot of cases with them as well, and only did that for two years. And then I was promoted to the district investigative commander, the rank of first sergeant. And the first sergeant basically oversees the sergeant, but he also oversees all other investigations that even troopers do. So you have the ISL that you're responsible for. You work with the road sergeants and their troopers to make sure that they're doing the reports correctly in a timely manner and getting to the prosecutor for the review and also making sure they have any resources they need to, to do a thorough investigation. And I did that from 2016 to 2024, where in March of 24 I was promoted to the rank of lieutenant and I was an Area 1 investigative commander. The Area 1 investigative commander covers Area 1, which is the Peru Post, the Lafayette Post and the Lowell Post. And basically I supervise the district investigative commanders and make sure. Same thing you do as a district investigative commander, but you just have a bigger area and just make sure that they have the resources, training and other logistic such as travel. If they're going to travel out of state, you, you organize that. Just make sure that they have the tools necessary to be able to do their job. And that's what I've been doing since March of 2024.

[Kevin Greenlee]

Let's go back a minute to 2017. Of course, in February of that year, Libby German and Abigail Williams were murdered. And you became involved in that investigation. How did you happen to become involved in that case?

[Lt. Jerry Holman]

I was in charge of all district investigations, actually was on my way to work at an office at the Lafayette Post and I heard on the radio that there was a miss two missing girls in Deli. So I immediately called Sheriff Lesenby at the time and asked him what was going on. And he basically said that two young females went missing. They were supposed to be on a trail and picked up on the 13th. And I think I. He said that pretty much had a bunch of volunteers over there and didn't really need any assistance at that time. That was probably 8 in the morning. On my way to the post later, I was contacted by a retired Captain Dave Kirkham. He was the area captain and he asked me if I knew what was going on. I said yeah, I heard there was two girls missing in Deli. I reached out to the sheriff at this, at this time, he said he had enough help. He said, well, they're requesting a helicopter so we need boots on the ground, so to speak. We need you to go over there and give us some feedback what's going on. So I went over there. I was familiar with Sheriff Lenby, worked some cases, worked with him when he worked the road. Same thing with, with Tony Liggett. I knew of Tony and Kevin Hammond. So I saw all three of them. I met with them and we discussed what was going on. They Had a large amount of people there volunteering to go search. And they were. They had nothing to do with that. They were organizing, having people sign in and things like that. So I probably got there between 11, 11:30. Shortly after that, around 12, 12pm we were notified that two girls were located in the woods near the Monon High Bridge. So I went. Actually, my car was blocked in, so I rode out with a FBI agent at that time named Rich Davies, and we went to the scene. There was already some police officers there, not very many, but I went down to the bottom of the hill and later Sergeant Buckley, he was, took over as the Islamic for me when I got promoted to dic. And him and I met with. At some point, we met with Tony Leggett and Kevin Hammond, and we were asking, you know, do you want to work? You want to be the lead in this, or do you want us to be the lead in it? And things like that. So we worked out the logistics of that and got some crime scene tape up and started the investigation from there.

[Anya Cain]

Can you tell us a little bit about how brutal this crime was against these two young girls?

[Lt. Jerry Holman]

Yeah, I would say it's. It was very brutal. Two young girls had their throat slit. You know, Abby, one, one time, Libby, depending on how you look at it, at least three or four times, but several times, and then they were just treated like animals. They were left in the woods with sticks on them. Libby was completely naked. Abby was naked at some point, or had some of her clothes off. She had some of Liberty's clothes on. Like I said, he. Richard Allen treated these two like animals. You just. You don't treat humans like that. He embarrassed them. He controlled them with a gun, you know, so it was brutal. I think with my background as a Marine, I've become compartmentalized a little bit, and scenes like that don't really bother me as much. So I wasn't like, oh, my God. I was more like angry that someone would treat two human beings, two innocent young girls like that. I just. I'll never be able to understand how somebody could treat two people like that. So I was more angry about that than in all of the brutal, horrific crime that it was just because I become a little bit callous to it. With eight years in the Marine Corps, and at that time, 2015, 20 years as a state trooper, you just unfortunately get used to that.

[Anya Cain]

So you mentioned that, you know, from the get go, you guys were working this with the Carroll County Sheriff's Office and there were other agencies involved as well, and I'm just wondering, you know, you worked it for so many years. What was working in the beginning like, and how did that change over time? Sort of what sort of. What did the workflow look like for you?

[Lt. Jerry Holman]

Right. I think, like I said, we established early on that it was. Is going to be the county's case. Initially, ISP agreed to assist with the FBI. Steve Mullins was the chief of Delphi. And I remember standing at the bottom of the hill talking to Kevin and Tony and asking them, like I said earlier, you know, you. Do you guys want to be the lead on this or do you want us to? And I can't remember which one, but one of them said, you guys should probably take it. And the other one's like, well, let's talk to the sheriff. Sheriff come down and said, hey, I think we're going to take it, but will you support us and give us all the resources that we need that the state police have that we don't have? And I said, absolutely. I said, we're not going to leave you hanging on this. We're going to be in this with you from day one until the end. So we did, you know, and initially, like I said, it was a small group, but within days, every surrounding county, every seemed like every county, every agency wanted to help. I mean, they're just. It just hit the media, hit social media, and everybody wanted, you know, they had good intentions and they wanted to help, and they did help. And it just become a managerial nightmare at times because you don't. As a state trooper, yeah, I have authority over them, but I don't have authority over the county or the FBI or, you know, so when you ask for reports or you ask somebody to do something, you don't know their strengths and weaknesses. So it just got a little bit frustrating at how. How difficult it was at times to manage. But again, how are you going to tell people not to help you find the killer of two innocent young girls? So after a few years, it started calming down a little bit. A lot of people had to get back to, you can only hit the pause button so long. So other agencies had to start pulling back the resources that they were given, including the FBI. The FBI had some turnover rate where I know Mike Peasley was transferred. Rich Davies had retired. We got a few other people in and out of there, but, you know, they had other things to do as well. But anytime we'd ask them, anytime we asked the FBI, you know, we were. We were able to get assistance if needed. And I can still call Those guys today. And I just had Mike Peasley call me a couple weeks ago asking for a couple troopers to help the FBI service search warrant. And. And we did so. And Rich Davies ended up coming back after he retired as a special deputy to assist with, with the investigation. So we still have good rapport with most of the agencies that we worked with, including the FBI. I know there's some misconceptions there, but we, you know, everybody wanted to help and we wanted everybody's help, but it was just turned into a little bit more than what we anticipated.

[Anya Cain]

What unique challenges did you guys face in this case?

[Lt. Jerry Holman]

Well, I think when people think about the case, they don't realize how far out in the middle of nowhere it occurred. So we only had one video camera that was catching a little bit of traffic on a road near the scene. There's very little evidence, you know, and I think that people get caught up with that. But there's many crimes where you don't have DNA or you have insufficient amount of DNA. That's not uncommon, but it is a challenge when you don't have that evidence. And it became a very high profile case amongst the media nationwide. I mean, we were getting calls from everywhere, media outlets from Chicago, California, you know, talk shows. So that, that's one of the things where it became challenging because you're trying to manage this and all the agencies involved made it somewhat challenging as well. And not to mention that we had to move our command center three or four times. We started just above the Delphi police department, moved to a better facility where Remc building, the old RMC building, which was nice of them to let us use. Then we moved back to the Delphi building and then we moved to another location. You know, and, and that, that was a challenge. And just having a lot of people wanting to help. You know, we mentioned it, we talk about it all the time. Amongst us is you had a lot of people with good intentions, but you can't have an electrician do a plumber's job. So that got a little bit chaotic there. I always say, you know, it started out as chaos. We got it to be controlled chaos. And then as soon as we could, it was more manageable chaos. It was still chaotic, but we were able to manage it. The other thing that was challenging was the enormous number of tips. Tips and leads. We had well over 14,000 emails, calls, and our job was to leave notes unturned. And we didn't. So we would not only address those tips as they come in, but go back over and review it, have other agencies do a peer review. And by doing that, we cleared a lot of people. We also made a lot of unrelated arrests, too. So that was helpful.

[Kevin Greenlee]

How do the tips lead to arrests and unrelated cases?

[Lt. Jerry Holman]

You know, I always said that the public has an eye for bad people. They know this person's bad. Doesn't necessarily make him be. Be the child murderer or whatever. But we did help clear a cold case of murder. We had a tip on a guy from the peru area. We passed that information on over to peru district. Bob burgess took it. And they were able to make an arrest from that. Just going to people's houses. We would stumble upon meth labs, People wanted on warrants, People doing things they shouldn't be doing at the time when we went to interview them. So those kind of some examples of how we. We made some arrests.

[Kevin Greenlee]

So some of the tips were obviously helpful, you know, Even in ways they may not have been intended to be. Were all of the tips helpful?

[Lt. Jerry Holman]

Not all of them. Not all of them. We did get a lot of unorthodox tips. And some tips just didn't have enough information. You know, we'd get a call saying, looks like the guy, Sounds like the guy, but they wouldn't tell us where or who, or, you know, he's at the walmart. Well, what walmart? We didn't know if it was the state of indiana or north north carolina. So those were often not helpful. We would get some just, like I said, off the. Off the wall type tips about the sasquatches living under the bridge. We should interview the sasquatches and potawatomi indians that live out there. They. They observed this crime. So you need to interview them. Just things like that that just weren't helpful. And then we got a lot of what I would refer to as investigative suggestions. Like, you should do this, you should do that. And a lot of them we'd already done. I can't remember any. Anybody giving us a suggestion that we didn't think of. Like, some of them were good. Like, check all the sex offender register list in the area. Check all the cameras around the. The crime scene. Interview everybody that lives out there. Things like that that, you know, we'd already done multiple times. But some of them were just a little bit crazy. Like, we should polygraph the guy on the bridge. Well, use sodium pentothal on the guy on the bridge to make him tell the truth. And just some. Just some things like that. And you know, we definitely. You take the good with the bad. But we appreciated how much the public wanted to help. It was just not locally, but nationwide. We were getting tips all over now. It was duly noted and very appreciated.

[Anya Cain]

You mentioned bridge guy, and I'm wondering, you know, can you speak a bit about the video found on Libby's phone and how integral that ended up being to the case?

[Lt. Jerry Holman]

We were really confident that that guy on the bridge was the one person that murdered the girls or had significant involvement in it. And our main focus the whole time was trying to locate that. That person. So it was very important for us to identify him. And unfortunately, it took us a long time to do that, but we did.

[Kevin Greenlee]

One thing I always wondered about was a couple of years into the case, there was this press conference where it was announced that a new direction was being taken. What was that about and what inspired it?

[Lt. Jerry Holman]

Well, like I said earlier, we had a lot of different agencies reviewing the case, and we had people giving their input. And we were at the point where we weren't really getting any new information. So we wanted to try a different approach. And some of the suggestions were to speak directly to the killer and tell him that we thought he was hiding in plain sight and trying to generate better tips. I think a couple times during press conferences, we put a poster board up saying, this is what we need for a tip. And I don't remember exactly what it was, but, you know, give us more information than just, sounds like my cousin, looks like my cousin. You know, where's your cousin live? Is he tied to Delphi? Do you. Do you know? And. And we understand that some people don't know all that information, but we were just requesting more information to do. And then. And then also we. We did the new sketch. I and others always thought it was the same person, but because different witnesses saw Richard Allen from different angles and different locations, different lighting, the sketches were different. So we thought putting out this new sketch may give someone the same perception that the witness had that day, so we thought that that might help. And I always thought it was just a younger version. You know, if an older person sees someone a little younger, they're going to describe them as a lot younger. If a younger person sees somebody that's older than them, they may perceive him as older. You know, I'm not a huge fan of the sketches. I know that they're not always reliable, and witness statements sometimes get a little messy. And just because people aren't trained to be witnesses, they're out there, they don't know a crime's about to occur, or crime just occurred. They're just out there enjoying the day. So then when it comes down to seeing that, you know, kind of like, you know, a bank robbery, you have four tellers, you're going to get four different descriptions. But once they see that still photo from the surveillance video, they're really up, that's the guy. And they get angry at them themselves for giving sometimes a poor description of that. So I think that that's common with witnesses. But again, we weren't going to leave any stone unturned. We're going to try every avenue, approach to. Approach to this and try to find out who did it. And at the end of the day, we're focused on that photo that lebby provided off her video. That was who we were saying. You know, the superintendent said multiple times, don't focus on the sketches, you know, focus on the video, you know, the clothing, the anything. That that's the guy we want to talk to. So that was kind of the gist of the. The new direction.

[Anya Cain]

You mentioned that you wanted to kind of confront this guy or speak directly to him through that press conference. Behind the scenes, what sort of things were you guys, as investigators talking about when you were thinking about, you know, what kind of person did this in terms of characteristics that he might have?

[Lt. Jerry Holman]

Sure. I think through our investigation and some, some of the outside peer reviews, we thought it was somebody that was a power assertive or control person. Some of the bau and some of these other agencies that kind of reviewed it said that it more than likely was someone with limited or no criminal history. Some people said it was somebody that was introverted and didn't get out or lived in their parents basement. But it was somebody that had that controlling demeanor of him, that wanted to be in control. So that's kind of what we were thinking at the time of this press conference conference. We did not have any indication or any evidence leading us to believe that it was richard allen. Not at that time. We just didn't. So we were just kind of working off of what the behavioral analysis units were telling us from the FBI. Can't remember if the u. S. Marshals were involved at that time yet or not, but their bau did analysis on the information. And then we had another group from the sherry black foundation, a couple former former psychiatrists and a former pennsylvania state trooper that gave us an analysis. So we were going off all that information and trying to figure out what type of person, and that's what we come out with is it was a power assertive control freak, probably someone who had his fantasies about sexually assaulting two young girls as well.

[Kevin Greenlee]

I'm sure throughout this entire investigation, there were times when names came up and they were looked at and then maybe dismissed or the public didn't even know about it. But one name that the public did find out about was Kagan Klein. Can you talk a little bit about him?

[Lt. Jerry Holman]

Sure. I can't remember exactly how we got the tip, but I know it came through our icac Indiana Crimes Against Children. They started working that case as somebody who was a child predator and was soliciting young girls for to meet them and get pictures. And at some point, we found out that he was communicating with Libby and some of her friends. What we learned about Kagan is he was a pathological liar. He was using a fake Persona named Anthony Schatz to lure these girls in. And we investigated him very thoroughly. We spent countless hours, manpower and resources on him, and at the end of the day, we just were not able to establish probable cause in this case. Do I think he was communicating with the girls and that may be one of the reasons why they showed up on the bridge? Absolutely. But that doesn't mean that he's responsible for murdering them. We. We've exhausted every investigative technique we could and just couldn't establish that probable cause that he's involved. And I think he kind of to get jailhouse cred or whatever, took, took his opportunity and tried to get his 15 minutes of fame by doing some interviews and saying some things that weren't necessarily true. But that's my take on Kagan Klein. I think other people might have a different perception of that.

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[Anya Cain]

The red Jeep that he traveled to the crime scene in, you know, that you guys were not able to find on any footage. Like you have to go where the evidence is, right?

[Lt. Jerry Holman]

And we did find the red Jeep and we did, we had it for a while and tested it and didn't, you know, didn't find any evidence indicating that was used. But yeah, the red Jeep was not on Use your Harvest store video, which the, the indication was he would have drove right past it. We went and picked him up from the jail and said hey, how'd you get there? And he took us right past the Use your Harvest store and there was no red Jeep on, on that video. So we could prove a lot of his lies and we can prove that, that he was communicating with the girls and we can definitely prove that he lied to us multiple times in the investigation. And I don't know why. My, my best assumption is he was trying to get street cred, which is stupid because that's not, not so that's not the way to do it.

[Kevin Greenlee]

But of course, one of the key moments in the investigation involves a discovery made by Kathy Shank. Can you tell us about that?

[Lt. Jerry Holman]

Well, first of all, Kathy's amazing. She is a heart of gold. Retired for years and came back to volunteer to help help with investigation. And we, and we had a few retired people do that, but not at the level that she was. I mean she first started out at the front desk. When I first remember her being involved was after we moved to the RMC building. She would be down at the front desk. Anybody come in with a tip or lead, she'd write it down, come and get a detect Detective. Just amazing what she did. And she was there a lot. And then, you know, she was asking to help even more. So Steve Mullen knew her very well, worked with her when she was with the dcs, or cps, whatever it was called back then, but Department of Child Services. So he knew her, he trusted her. We all trusted in her. And when she started organizing the filing cabinets, it made the investigation a lot better because we were getting a lot of multiple tips on multiple or multiple tips on one person. And what we were finding out that Orion wouldn't put it together. So if you got a tip on Kevin Greenlee and then Kevin Jerry Greenlee or Jerry Kevin Greenlee, it wouldn't put that together. So we were giving these tips out and investigators were going out and they're like, yeah, I interviewed him. He said he's already been interviewed four times. So once we got the interviews and hard copies and put them in a folder, if you got a tip on a guy, if you got a tip on Jerry Holman, you would go to the H's in the filing cabinet, look and be like, okay, yeah, he's already been talked to. Is there anything in this tip that's new that we need to talk to him about now, or is this the same tip or same information? If there's something new, then, yeah, we would go interview him multiple times if we needed to. So that was very helpful. When, when she would do that. And then later in the investigation, she was going through and making sure that Orion was matched up with the filing cabinet information. And she would always bring tips to investigators saying, hey, I don't, I don't see a report on this. And we're like, ah, we're pretty sure it was done. And we'd contact investigator and maybe he didn't have his report done quite yet. And we would get the reports or maybe they didn't remember, and we, we'd have to go back and, and redo the follow up on the tip. So that was common for her to do. And then, you know, the day, and late, I believe, September, she took the tip of Richard Allen Whiteman and found that. And that was a true blessing and definitely got us in the right direction. And ironically, it happened on her deceased husband's birthday. So that's why I believe that was a true blessing from Powers a lot higher than us. And then we, when we got to tip, we just, we worked it like any other tip, like we would get. And we just thoroughly and investigated and exhausted every resource and manpower that we could to either eliminate him as a suspect or establish probable cause. That's what we do with everybody we'd get the tip, we'd either eliminate you or we'd establish probable cause. And the only time we were able to establish probable cause was on Richard Allen. So thank God for Kathy. She's an amazing lady. She's always going to have a special place in my heart and many, many others. She's awesome.

[Anya Cain]

So you yourself had a number of interactions with Richard Allen after he came on the radar and this lead really started running. Can you tell us a bit about that and what he was like?

[Lt. Jerry Holman]

Yeah, I mean, my, my interactions were brief. So as a supervisor, you don't get to do all the fun stuff sometimes. So during the search warrant, I was there just to make sure that we did everything as best as we could and didn't tear anything up. That's kind of when you do a search warrant, you don't want to be responsible for having to financially replace any property that was unduly destroyed. So when I first got to the Allen's residence, I saw Richard and Kathy sitting in a vehicle, I think it was like a van. And I went over and they got out and I walked over towards the CSI and Richard Allen kind of followed me over. I said, we have a search warrant for your house. Our intentions are not to tear up anything. So if we do, there's a process and I'll give you the tort claim and you can file for any damages. And he, I remember him making a comment, it doesn't matter, it's over. I did the walkthrough. I went back over to him again and said something similar like, hey, I didn't see anything. I don't think we're going to tear anything up. If we have a locked container or locked cabinet or something like that and you have the key, would you be willing to let us open it? He said, yeah, but again, it doesn't matter, it's over. So they started the search. I again, the old guy supervisor, we get to set out back and not. Not do the real police work. At the time, I was setting out my car and Richard Allen was with his wife in the van. And at some point he came over and asked if he could sit with me because Kathy had to use the restroom. And I said, yeah. I said, no problem. So he sat in there with me. We didn't really talk much at all. He would get out and smoke cigarettes quite a bit. After, I want to say, 15, 20 minutes, he asked me, did you guys detain my wife or arrest my wife? And I said, no, why would we? He's like, Well, I don't know, but she's been gone a long time. And I said, well, I could take you over to her place of employment if you want. And he said, no, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It's over. He said that at least three or four times to me. And shortly after that, we were about done with the search. Kathy came back with one of her friends, and she was crying and Richard was trying to console her. And I said, hey, we're done. I'm gonna. You want to walk through with me real quick? And I can. I said, I already walked through. I don't see any damages, but if there are and, you know, we can take care of them again. And he said, no, it's over, it's over. It's. Don't worry about it. It's already over. Damage is done. Something like that. So that was my first interaction with him. The second was when I interviewed him at the state police post. His demeanor was kind of odd to me because we told him that he was coming to get his proper. Some of his property back. He was coming to get his car. When I went out to the lobby to get him, he handed his coat and emptied his pockets and gave his wife all of his belongings, which. Unless you think you're going to jail, you usually don't do that. I've had people where in the interview, I said, hey, you know, I don't know what's going to happen. I'm going to forward this report to the prosecutor. If the prosecutor decides to file charges and I get a warrant, will you. You want me to call you and you can turn yourself in? Absolutely. And they would cooperate and they would show up just like that. Sweatpants, T shirt, no articles. Because they know. I think the average person knows that you don't want to bring things to jail with you because they're probably going to get lost or thrown away or you can't have. You can't bring your own things to jail. You have to get the items you need while you're in jail. So that was a little weird to me when he did that, just talking to him early on, he seemed to be coherent. He seemed to be a little bit agitated, but not at first. And at first, I was just building rapport with him, talking to him about the Marine Corps and the army guns and giving him some scenarios about if somebody had your property for a long period of time, you know, their DNA would be on it. Just giving him an out, basically giving him a chance to explain how his Round got next to Liberty, and between Liberty and. And Abby's deceased bodies. So at some point, I could tell he's becoming agitated with me. But for the most part, I felt like he was just fishing, trying to get me to tell him what. What we had. But he made some odd comments. Like, I said something about, you know, I don't think you're a bad person, and Kathy doesn't think you're a bad person. And he said, well, what kind of bad person kills two girls? That was a little disturbing to me. And the time that he met with his wife, I allowed his wife to come in and talk to him. I allowed him to take a smoke break. I allowed him to use the restroom. I got him water. But when his wife was in there, he was telling her, hey, all you got to do is tell him you need an attorney and they have to let you leave. Don't worry about me like I'm guilty. Just let me deal with it was what was going through my head. And then he would hold his hands out when he get frustrated with me and says, just arrest me. Just arrest me. He did that a few times, and I've never had an innocent person do that. I've never. I don't think I've ever had anybody hold their hands out that many times at all. Tell me to arrest him. And then I told him he had a warrant for his DNA, but before I could get that out, he said, yeah, I knew you had a warrant. I knew you're gonna arrest me. I'm like, that's odd. We didn't even know we were gonna arrest you today. We were gonna get your DNA. We were gonna talk to you about this round, and if you could tell us that. I loaned this out to Jerry Holman, and he go talk to him. He had my gun at that time. And, you know, we were looking. We were following every lead we could to. To either eliminate him or establish probable costs. So those behaviors were odd to me. And then just observing videos and phone calls and. And his behavior while he was in jail, and he obviously had some mental health issues. I won't argue that. But I think he also played that to get what he wanted.

[Kevin Greenlee]

People talk sometimes since the trial about how certain things were not shared with the jury. And I like to ask you about a couple of those things that I am quite a bit curious about. You just mentioned this interview you had with Richard Allen. The jury was played a recording of most of that, but not all of that. There were some edits here and there throughout It. And I think the most significant, most noticeable, most jarring edit was there was a time when everybody was just sitting in the room very quiet. I think Richard Allen is looking down, and then there was like, a jump cut. And suddenly everybody seems to be yelling and upset, and it was very bizarre to watch. And so can you tell us what was cut out? What happened in that moment that the jury did not get to see?

[Lt. Jerry Holman]

Yeah, and I would like to add, too, on, you know, how mean I was, but there was maybe 20 seconds of me yelling and screaming. And, you know, I have a rule of thumb when I interview people. I try to speak their language. So if they're not cussing to me or cussing while talking to me, I try not to curse at them or use curse words. And if you watch that first part of that interview, the first hour and whatever, I. I never said a curse word. So that. That kind of was important because I know everybody's like, oh, Jerry Holman's so mean. And, you know, I was using. Using tactics to try to elicit information from him.

[Anya Cain]

Why is it important to match somebody's behavior when you're interviewing them?

[Lt. Jerry Holman]

I think several reasons. Control. Tell them, you know, try to, you know, the old. I'm asking the questions here. You know, it's like, I'm in control here. You don't want to let them be in control. Sometimes you do, and you can play off of that. But, you know, we use that deceptive behavior because, number one, it's upheld in the Supreme Court. But number two, it's. It elicits responses that lead you to other statements that they may make that would indicate that they're involved. That's. That's one reason. But, yeah, I mean, it's. It's definitely something that we use. But back to the interview, I had offered Richard Allen an out. I said, if you're innocent, take a polygraph. And he said, no. He. He first said that he's done helping us, and he's already helped us as much, and he wasn't going to, you know, give it. Give us any more help. And then he said, well, because I. I'm on anxiety meds. And I said, you know, we. Our polygraph examiners deal with that all the time. They'll establish a baseline, and they'll be able to rule that out. And if you're innocent and you have nothing to hide, you take a polygraph. And during the time that Kathy Allen was in there, I asked her, I said, hey, if I was trying to help you prove your Innocence. Would you want my help? And would you, if you were innocent, would you take a polygraph? And she said, yes, absolutely I would. And I said, well, Richard Allen won't, as your husband won't or something like that. And then he got angry and said, I'm not helping you anymore. And I said, well, you can only help yourself. And then came out or, you know, he wanted his wife out of there. And I'm like, you know, Kathy, tell him to do the right thing here. And yelling and screaming a little bit. So that was the basis of it. And then he also tried to put it on me. He said, you're going to pay for this and that. I said, no, I'm not paying for this. You pay for what, what you've done. And it was obvious I was angry, but again it was tactic. I came back calm, put handcuffs on him, made sure they were double locked for his comfort and safety and they didn't tighten up and took him out, took him to the sheriff's department. And we didn't have any interactions, heated or not. So yeah, it was just some tactics that we use. It's similar to kind of what you as a parent you use with your kids. I mean, trying to get them to tell the truth. You try to be deceptive and tell them, you know, more than what you do or yell and scream at him. It just depends on the kid, you know, how they're going to react. So it's, it's not, it's not anything that outrageous or not used on a daily basis.

[Anya Cain]

So, so, so things like anger, raised voices and deception can be part of a toolkit in an interview that you can deploy strategically to see if you can elicit the reaction. You, you know, a reaction or some answer.

[Lt. Jerry Holman]

Yeah, I think so and I think is taught in interviewing schools and read technique and, but you have to, you have to use something that's going to work for your personality too. You know, I don't think Kevin can come in and just start yelling at people and people might not respond on you. On the other hand, you might be able to definitely come and yell and scream at people and they would respond but. And everybody's different. So you have to find a technique that you, that your personality is going to work well with and you also have to read the person, you know, yelling and screaming at people. Some people aren't going to work, they're going to shut down and you know, but being super nice to people isn't going to work either. So you got to find that button to Push for lack of better terms. And. And again, it's not always about getting a confession. It's about getting a response. Yeah, we want confessions, but, you know, that didn't happen very often. I make the baseball analogy. You know, if you bat.300 in baseball, you're in a Hall of Fame. If you get three out of 10 people to confess, you're doing really well. I mean, I think that's. You can kind of relate that to people just don't confess the stuff they don't want people to know about. Well, if you can get a confession, great. And these are ways that we try to elicit those. But a lot of times it's just to get more information to be able to go follow up and get the, you know, circumstantial evidence or physical evidence you need to prove that they're guilty.

[Anya Cain]

I wanted to also ask you about polygraphs. Obviously, they're not admissible in court. Why can they be a tool used investigatively, though? Like what? What can they help with in that sense?

[Lt. Jerry Holman]

On rare occasions they can be used, you know, if they're stipulated, you can use them in court. But that didn't happen very often. But, yeah, it's just another interview process. It's another tool that you can use to, again, elicit responses. I'm not a polygraph examiner by any means, but we've, you know, successful, successfully used polygraphs to get people to give us information that we need to establish the evidence to be able to get probable cause to get that arrest warrant. So, yeah, they're very helpful.

[Kevin Greenlee]

I'd like to ask about something else that wasn't shared with the jury. There was a video of Richard Allen at Cass County Jail that the prosecution seemed to really want to share with the jury, and the defense really did not want the jury to see this video. What can you tell us about this video and what it showed?

[Lt. Jerry Holman]

I'm not sure why they wanted it or didn't want it, but I think what it would show. They were trying to establish that Richard Allen was this fragile egg, I think what the term was used. And we were trying to establish that they. That he was not. And in this particular video that we were trying to get in, you know, Richard Allen was sitting there, calm on his bed, and then just from 0 to 100 snapped and just went ballistic. Verbally and physically abusive to anybody and everybody around, punching the door, banging his head, yelling and screaming, doing a throat slashing motion and just terrible behavior. And then. But in a nutshell, and 10 seconds after he calmed down. Oh, no, I'm fine. I'll sit over here and read my Bible. And I think that just shows pro, you know, the kind of person he is and the ability that he has to go, you know, off the wall. And I think that's what probably happened on February 13th is he got angry and just snapped and wanted to be in control and power and, and killed two innocent girls. So I think that was important, but it was too prejudicial to the jury. And I think that's why the judge ruled on it, which is probably the right thing to do. I don't know. I'm pretty confident that she did it a lot of the right things. So. But that's why I think that's what was what it was about.

[Anya Cain]

We would like to thank Lieutenant Holman for speaking with us about his experience with the case. We very much appreciate it. Check out the next episode for the rest of our conversation.

[Kevin Greenlee]

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[Anya Cain]

Shuts them down. No, but, but, but truly this is, I mean, and, and it's not just, you know, anxiety or sleep. They've got stuff for all kinds of things. You can, you know, experiment with microdosing. Some of them just, you know, boost your mood. It just like whatever you can think of, they probably have it. So go to their website, check it out. And see if there's anything that might be interesting for you and let them.

[Kevin Greenlee]

Know we sent you.

[Anya Cain]

Yeah, please do let them know we sent you. And just know that I think this ships legally to most states and it's, you know, very much, you know, by the book in that sense. And it'll ship in, like, discrete packaging. So in case you're worried, case your anxiety is getting the best of you, that's something to note. And, yeah, I guess that kind of wraps it up. But we just want to thank VI again for. For sponsoring us. This really helps us. And when you support our sponsors, you're directly supporting us, especially if you're using our code, because that lets the sponsor know that you know that we sent you. So again, this holiday season, gift yourself some peace of mind. If you're 21 and older, head to via hemp.com and use the code M sheet to receive 15% off. That's V I I A hemp.com and use code msheet at checkout. Please support our show and tell them we sent you. And this holiday season, enhance your every.

[Kevin Greenlee]

Day with via and put that on your list of things to do tomorrow.

[Lt. Jerry Holman]

Yes.