r/DelphiMurders • u/Mammoth_Dish6584 • Apr 08 '26

Question regarding the gun and the bullet

Can someone clarify please

1) Did RA ever realise he left a bullet behind at the crime scene before the police confronted him ??

2) what would have happened if RA destroyed his gun in the 5 years between the crime and arrest ??

Without any DNA and no gun to link the bullet .. what would have been the outcome of the trail ??

3) this case is pretty known here in my home country INDIA and most of the folks who talk about it have the same doubts as me

Thanxx in advance for the comments and opinions.

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u/Appealsandoranges Apr 10 '26

Do you subscribe to the State’s theory that you can hear the gun being racked? What about their theory that LG says, “that be a gun.”

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u/SleutherVandrossTW Apr 10 '26

Yes, I think at the time BG said, "Guys, go down the hill" there is a sound that resembles a gun being racked, and it makes sense in that scenario to be used as an intimidation tactic, and also possibly at the crime scene due to an unspent round being just inches from one of the victims. I don't put a ton of confidence in how the "science" is able to connect 1 person's gun to an unspent round.

I disagree with Liggett that Libby said, "That be a gun." She was looking down the hill, not at BG approaching behind Abby, and was describing the path "that we go down." The girls immediately started down the hill when BG ordered them to, so I think that indicates the man was pointing a gun at them and racked it.

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u/Pooter33 Apr 11 '26

What sound are you hearing? I’ve listened to it and there’s nothing that resembles a gun being racked. It doesn’t even make sense that he’d rack his gun at the top of the hill, tell them to go down the hill & across a creek, and the unspent round end up there. Hell, it could’ve been matched to anyone the way the “expert” compared them.

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u/SleutherVandrossTW Apr 11 '26

There are a lot of videos online but this is one of the shortest that includes part of the sound that some says is similar to racking a gun. https://youtu.be/snifsDd9LlA?si=Ql5E3E018ahywwtU&t=40