Attorneys for Richard Allen, the Indiana man accused of killing 14-year-old Liberty German and 13-year-old Abigail Williams on a hiking trail in February 2017, said Tuesday that he was unable to locate the victim’s body near the victims’ bodies. He said the hair found was not a match to Allen. , according to local news.
According to FOX 59 Indianapolis, Allen’s attorney, Andrew Baldwin, first disclosed this fact during a “mini-opening statement” ahead of jury selection in Carroll County.
Mr. Allen’s attorney asked for the case to be transferred out of concern that it would not be fair to Carroll County residents due to the high profile of the case locally and nationally, so potential jurors were sent to neighboring Allen. was transferred from the county to Carroll County.
Fox News correspondent Alexis McAdams, who was on the scene at the time of the incident, said it seems like just yesterday that Liberty and Abigail were first reported missing.
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Delphi police recovered a cell phone from under Libby German’s body on February 14, 2017. The cellphone contained a 43-second video of Abigail Williams walking across the Monon High Bridge in Delphi toward Libby, with a man wearing a dark jacket and jeans walking behind her. . (FOX Nation)
“At first, I think the general feeling among the community and the journalists who were covering it was that this was going to be solved as a missing persons case, just like these little girls in this little town were put to sleep.” “I went to a friend’s house, but I didn’t tell my grandparents or my parents,” McAdams recalled. “I don’t think anyone could have imagined that this massive murder mystery would involve the entire state and the entire country.”
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Liberty and Abigail went missing while walking along the Monon High Bridge Trail on February 13, 2017, and their bodies were found the next morning. Allen, now 52, was questioned several months after authorities recovered the girls’ bodies, but was not arrested at the time.
Allen was first arrested in 2022, five years after the murder, while working at a CVS store in Delphi.
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Police officers escort Richard Allen from the Carroll County Courthouse after a hearing on November 22, 2022 in Delphi, Indiana. (AP Photo/Daron Cummings)
McAdams said Delphi was the kind of close-knit community where residents didn’t lock their doors at night before the murders.
“At first, I don’t think anyone I talked to, including the police, really thought I was from that community,” McAdams said. “So now I think everyone was surprised to find out that the main suspect was this Richard Allen who had lived in town all his life.”
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Police recovered a mobile phone from under Libby’s body on February 14, 2017. The phone contained a 43-second video of Abigail walking towards Libby on the Monon High Bridge in Delphi, with a man wearing a dark jacket and jeans walking behind her. According to the affidavit, a man could be heard ordering the girls to “get down the hill.”


Richard Allen was arrested in October 2022 for the 2017 murders of 14-year-old Liberty German and 13-year-old Abigail Williams. (Indiana State Police)
Libby shot the video at 2:13 p.m., less than 25 minutes after she and Abigail’s family dropped them off at the trail.
On October 13, 2022, more than five years after their deaths, investigators executed a search warrant at Allen’s home in Delphi and found a blue Carhartt jacket, a SIG Sauer P226 .40 semiautomatic handgun, a .40 caliber Recovered S&W. Authorities said the cartridge was found in a “wooden keepsake box” in a dresser between two closets in Allen’s bedroom.
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Indiana State Police Superintendent Doug Carter said at a press conference that Indiana man Richard Allen has been arrested on suspicion of killing Abby Williams, 13, and Libby German, 14, in 2017. announced. (Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Image/LightRocket)
Police said the handgun recovered at Allen’s home matched an unused .40 caliber bullet police found at the scene of the 2017 murder.
“The most damning evidence that state police had was a bullet left at the scene that fell from the weapon he still had in his home and had the same markings,” McAdams said.
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Libby German, 14, and Abby Williams, 13, were killed on February 14, 2017, while riding their bicycles on a trail near Delphi, about 90 miles northwest of Indianapolis. (Indiana State Police)
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She added that the victim’s family “just wants this to be over” and that “if his lawyer brings up all these different things… it will only upset (the victim’s family) more.” I think so,” he added.
This high-profile small-town murder case has been plagued by legal back-and-forth, administrative errors and the spread of misinformation through social media in the years leading up to Allen’s trial.
Journalist Ayn Kain, co-host of the podcast “The Murder Sheet,” and Indiana-based attorney Kevin Greenlee say the delay in Allen’s arrest was due to a clerical error or that the information was not handled properly. We initially reported that this was likely due to incorrect submission of information that was not submitted. 2017.
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Runners run on the snow-covered Monon Trail, February 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Daron Cummings)
Prosecutors have said in previous court filings that Allen “committed the crimes he is charged with five times while talking to his wife and mother on the public prison phone at the Indiana Department of Corrections” in June. I admitted it.” Application in 2023.
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In a 136-page memo released in September 2023, Allen’s lawyers, Andrew Baldwin and Bradley Lozzi, wrote that “the embers of Nordic paganism called Odinism have been hijacked by white supremacists. He claimed that there was “overwhelming evidence” to support the theory. , ritually sacrificed Abigail Williams and Liberty German. ”
The defense said evidence corroborating the memo’s details “was found scattered across more than a dozen hard drives and several flash drives provided by the prosecution. “It doesn’t mean we’re doing it, but it’s mainly conveying facts and information.” This is supported by the prosecution’s own findings, and even those it just provided to the defense as late as September 8, 2023. ”
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Prosecutors have dismissed the claims as outlandish, but Allen’s lawyers may argue Odinism in court during their client’s trial.
McAdams believes the trial could reignite the wounds people in the Delphi area have been trying to heal for nearly eight years after the horrific murder.