Newly released videos from 2022 reveal Richard Allen, the man from Indiana who was found guilty of murdering two young girls on a hiking trail in Delphi in 2017, claiming he played no part in the crime when questioned by Indiana authorities and his spouse.
In December 2024, an Indiana judge sentenced Allen to a maximum of 130 years in prison for the killings of Abigail “Abby” Williams, 13, and Liberty “Libby” German, 14, also known as the Delphi murders.
A jury convicted Allen of the murder of the two girls, who went missing while walking along the High Monon Trail on February 13, 2017. The investigators discovered their bodies the following day in a wooded area near the trail, brutally murdered with multiple throat slashes and their corpses concealed with sticks.
Delphi murder suspect Richard Allen, who has a hearing in June, is living in a 6-foot by 10-foot cell “no larger than that of a dog kennel” and is sleeping on a pad on a concrete floor. (FOX 59 Indianapolis )
Allen also admitted in one of dozens of jailhouse confessions that he did order the girls “down the hill.” He repeatedly confessed to killing the girls, apparently saying he wanted to rape the girls but was spooked by a van nearby, at which point he decided to kill them.
His attorneys said his declining mental stability led him to make false statements behind bars.
More than five years after their deaths, investigators executed a search warrant at Allen’s home in Delphi Oct. 13, 2022, and they recovered a blue Carhartt jacket, a SIG Sauer P226 .40-caliber semiautomatic handgun and a .40-caliber S&W cartridge in a “wooden keepsake box” from a dresser between two closets in Allen’s bedroom, according to authorities.
The handgun recovered at Allen’s home was consistent with a .40-caliber unspent bullet police found at the site of the murders in 2017, police said.
Fox News’ Patrick McGovern contributed to this report.
