Eyewitness News spoke with two people who said they were acquainted with Daniel Nations.

INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) - In the neighborhood around Lynhurst Dr. and Minnesota St., some residents say the face on the mugshot we’re showing them is familiar.

"I recognized him and I've seen him around the neighborhood, but other than that, that's about it," one man told us.

But another man said he recognized the person in the picture.

"Well, it made my hair rise. My hair stood up on the back of everywhere, you know," he said.

He told us he's one of the people who tried to help Daniel Nations, a man now jailed in Colorado for allegedly menacing people with a hatchet near a hiking trail.

Indiana police want to know if Nations is connected to the February murders of Abby Williams and Libby German, who were killed on a hiking trail in Delphi.

The man, who asked to not be identified, said he got to know Nations last spring. He said Nations could be polite.

"Except for the threats," he said.

The man said Nations threatened to kill him. It was a few months ago after the man evicted Nations from one of his rentals.

He said he just wanted to give the guy with the troubled past a break, but it didn't work.

"I don't like violence and following that case really makes me hurt,” he told us. “Knowing that he might be linked really hurts me a lot more because I put them under my roof, you know, around my kids. It won't be a good feeling if he is linked to that."

"He chased my uncle around with a hatchet at one point in time,” said Suella Ferrand of Bloomington.

Ferrand's family rented space to Nations and his wife and child on their Morgan County farm two years ago when the Nations were homeless.

She said he started out decent but when he didn't get his way he became violent and damaged property.

"This has got some scary, eerie tendencies that things could really go awry,” she said she remembered thinking. “And now that I look back, I feel lucky, my family is lucky," she said.

She's not passing judgment on the Delphi case but says after seeing stories about the possible link to Delphi, she took another look at the pictures released by police.

"I listened to the 'down the hill’ over and over and yes, it sounds like his voice, and the way he carries himself in the picture, that's how he carried himself. He would walk head down scuffing his feet hands in his pockets. He carried himself that way," she said.