Mike Patty

It was overwhelming how many people showed up to show their support.

Didn't know if they were walking amongst us or not.

They had to be scared out of their minds. Play the clip, please.

We always had hope that we were going to get to the end of this.

We got a voice recording. We got a picture. Albeit as grainy, we got a sketch from eyewitnesses that saw the guy. How do we not have him in today's world?

Through strength of the Lord, you know, prayer, and this faith that the good Lord's going to see this thing through.

You know, and you start to ride up that roller coaster because of the connections made, right? We talked to Libby the day of or day before.

Yeah, seems like a suspect. It seemed like it had the most potential up to that point.

That's how we said we were going to operate, and we stuck to that.

Of course, it's getting cold. It is February. It was warm out during the day. So we're all thinking, all right, eventually we're going to find him here, right?

Yes.

It needed to be investigated.

We're going to keep pushing all the way.

It needed to be investigated. They investigated that Odinism.

Those photos should have been protected. Should have never got to that point. I'm sorry, I'll call it out. The defense team has culpability in that.

I didn't care about any of that. I cared about the 12 jurors in there and what they thought and how the information and facts are going to be presented to them.

You know, that maybe something happened, they got hurt or... Well, that's what was going through my mind was, okay, now either they fell off the bridge or they got down one of the ravines out there.

Yeah, 100%. And it's like, oh, yeah, yeah, by the way, I did kill those Delphi girls, you know.

Something we've been working so hard to get to this day, now this hour, this moment, this minute.

I mean, there was a couple of gasps we could hear.

We have three ball fields on it, and we host tournaments. We have an amphitheater where you can hold concerts, musicals, and car shows.

Yeah.

Keep your faith. In your deepest, darkest times, sometimes a good prayer or somebody say they're saying a prayer for you, it does help. Don't ever take for granted what you have today. Hug those kids. Tell them all you love them.

They had to be scared out of their minds.

Two girls who had so much to offer. We weren't going to let up until we found this guy.

From that point on, a lot of things are really glazed over or a daze. Because you're like, this isn't really happening, you know, type thing. But... They'd made an announcement that they'd found two girls, but they couldn't confirm the identity.

Well, yeah. Small community. Two girls missing, two girls found.

I want to say through a course of life events, right, it presented an opportunity. And we had spare bedrooms, and they came to us and gladly welcomed it and took it on and made the best of it.

No, not at all. We did it again.

Their lives were stolen from them.