Brown, a friend of Libby’s grandfather who was out looking for the teens along Deer Creek, came across their bodies the next day and defeatedly called out to the other searchers, “We found ’em.” “I thought they were mannequins,” he told the court, his voice cracking, according to local news outlet FOX59.

Witnesses have started to take the stand in a high-profile murder trial that has engulfed a small town in Indiana for years.

On Saturday, jurors were back to the courtroom in Carroll County to hear testimony from the man who was Delphi police chief when the girls were killed and from two men who played key parts in the following day's search for the girls — including one who found their bodies in the woods.