Kegan Kline is being held in jail in Miami on unrelated child porn charges – but he’s complaining about being ‘hungry’ and having a ‘hard time’ behind bars
The pedophile suspect in the Delphi murders is complaining behind bars about having a ‘hard time’, demanding cash for interviews and requesting graphic sexual favors from women who write letters to him.
Kegan Kline, 28, is in custody on charges of child pornography that are unrelated to the murders of Abigail Williams, 13, and Libby German, 14, two friends who were murdered in 2017 after going for a walk on a disused train line.
For years, the case was unsolved but investigators are pursuing the theory the pair were talking with Kline – a known catfish who used the photos of a male model to lure young girls into meeting him for sex.
He was living not far from where the girls’ bodies were found in February 2017.
In a flurry of activity this week, police in Indiana requested custody of Kline from Miami, where he was being held. They also searched a river near his home.
It’s unclear what they were looking for. Police have never disclosed exactly how the girls died but a search warrant revealed previously that they had lost ‘large amounts’ of blood.
Podcast The Murder Sheet this week revealed that Kline is now demanding cash for interviews from jail, and is asking women who write to him for sexual favors.
Abigail Williams, 13, and Libby German, 14, were murdered in 2017 after going for a walk on a disused train line
Police are now searching the Wabash River in Peru, Indiana, that is just two miles from Kline’s home
He had asked reporter Aine Caine and lawyer Kevin Greenlee, who host the podcast, for $400 in exchange for a one-hour interview about the murders.
He neither denied his involvement nor made any form of confession, and instead complained to them that he was having a ‘hard time’ and was ‘hungry’.
I’m having a hard enough time. I was advised by my lawyer to not answer questions from anyone…but I’ll answer some – just not for free
In a text, he told them: ‘I’m having a hard enough time. I was advised by my lawyer to not answer questions from anyone.’
He later acquiesced: ‘How many questions do you want to ask? I’ll answer some but not for free. Everyone is making money off of my name and I’m sitting here hungry with nothing.’
Later, he demanded ‘$300 for his commissary’ and an additional $100 to be put on his jail phone to facilitate texts.
The podcast hosts then revealed they’d heard from women who are in contact with Kline in jail and who been overtly sexual with.
Footage found on the girls’ phone showed a man following them down the train tracks they were walking on. He can be heard telling them ‘Guys, down the hill.’ Police suspect he is the killer
A shot of the Monon High Bridge Trail that the girls posted on social media before their disappearance
The Indiana State Police have not confirmed that the search in the Wasbash River is related to the murders
This was the final Snapchat post Libby made on the day of her murder at 2.07pm in 2017
He asked one if she would allow him to masturbate over FaceTime for her. He made even more explicit comments to another.
Kegan is still being held in Miami on charges of child pornography. He has never been charged in connection with Libby and Abi’s murders, which remain unsolved five years on.
Last year, it was revealed that he was behind an Instagram catfish account which used the name Anthony Shots, and that Indiana State Police believed Abi and Libby communicated with the account not long before they died.
Police have always held back key pieces of information about how the girls died in an effort to protect their investigation into finding the killer.
They have never revealed how the girls died, nor have they revealed the full contents of a video filmed by the girls on their phone in the moments before they were killed.
The only piece of detail from that video that has emerged is that the man walking towards them whispered ‘down the hill’ to them as he approached.
Indiana State Police will not be drawn on what prompted them to search the river over the last two weeks, or when the last time the girls communicated with Kline was.