(CBS) – Authorities in Colorado reportedly are trying to determine whether an Indiana sex offender detained this week near Colorado Springs is linked with the February murder of two teen girls on a nature trail in New Delphi, Ind.
Daniel Nations, 31, was arrested Monday in connection with reports a man threatened people with a hatchet at a trail in Monument, Colo. earlier this month. A bicyclist was fatally shot in that area around the same time.
Nations is being held in the Teller County jail. He’s been charged with possession of a weapon by a previous offender. Other charges are pending, reports CBS Denver.
Daniel Nations (Teller County, Colo. Sheriff)
The CBS station reports authorities are considering Nations’ possible connection to the bicyclist’s death, as well as to the murders of Abigail J. “Abby” Williams, 13, and 14-year-old Liberty Rose Lynn “Libby” German.
The teen girls were killed in February while hiking in Delphi, Ind., a community of about 3,000 people, some 60 miles northwest of Indianapolis.
The girls’ bodies were found about a quarter-mile from an abandoned railroad bridge that’s part of a trail system where the teens had planned to go hiking during a day off from school.
Nations is a convicted sex offender, CBS Denver reports (a Daniel S. Nations is listed on sex offender registries in Indiana). Nations was arrested this week in Woodland Park, Colo. driving a vehicle with expired Indiana license plates. Police found a hatchet and a .22-caliber rifle in the vehicle, according to an affidavit.
An official with the El Paso County Sheriff’s office tells CBS Denver there are “many similarities” in the cases but she says police in Indiana have requested no further information be released to the public.
“They have asked us not to speak on their case. So I’m not at liberty to elaborate on anything that’s related to what happened in Indiana,” the official said.
A reward in excess of $230,000 has been offered for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the murders of the Indiana teens.
from CBS Chicago http://ift.tt/2fyHoJi
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