DELPHI, Ind. (WLS) — There were new developments Thursday in the Delphi double murder.
Recently, the complete video captured on Libby German’s phone just before her and Abby Williams’ tragic deaths in 2017 has surfaced online for the first time.
Meanwhile, Richard Allen’s attorneys have officially filed an appeal of his conviction in the murders.
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The video was released online on a site that supports Allen, who was convicted last year in the teens’ murders.
The 43-second clip was shown in court, but police only released stills of the so-called “bridge guy” and audio of his voice saying “down the hill.”
The video depicts Williams walking on a rural trail with German followed by a man. This recording captures the final moments the girls were seen or heard alive.
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The video was released one day after Allen’s attorneys officially filed an appeal of his conviction.
Days before Christmas, a judge sentenced Allen to 130 years in prison for killing German and Williams.
In response, Allen’s defense team has taken action by filing a motion outlining claims of legal errors. They assert that vital third-party evidence was omitted from the trial.
ABC7 Chief Legal Analyst Gil Soffer said that will be a difficult argument to prove to an appellate judge.
“The odds are against them and largely because if the arguments are that the judge wrongly excluded evidence or should have admitted evidence that she didn’t admit, a lot of discretion is given to trial judges by the appellate court, so they would really have to find that she made serious errors, errors that affected the outcome of the trial before they grant the appeal,” Soffer said.
ABC7 spoke to German’s grandmother Thursday morning about the appeal, and she would only say “the family was expecting this”.
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