The Delphi Murders: How Modern Technology Brought and Almost Derailed Justice

Libby German's ingenuity using a social media tool led to the arrest of the man convicted of her murder but creators using that same technology nearly derailed justice through misinformation

By Áine Cain, Kevin Greenlee, Alice LaCour, Brett Talley and Jayson Blair

Without the ingenuity and courage of 14-year-old Libby German, investigators still may not have solved the 2017 murders of her and her best friend, 13-year-old Abby Williams.

Libby's quick instinct to turn on her cell phone camera and record a menacing-looking man approaching her an…