An Indiana judge could rule Tuesday whether sealed court documents with evidence that led to a man’s arrest in the 2017 slayings of two teenage girls will be publicly released.
judge could rule Tuesday whether sealed court documents with evidence that led to a man’s arrest in the 2017 slayings of two teenage girls will be publicly released.with two counts of murder in the killings of Liberty German, 14, and Abigail Williams, 13, but the court documents were sealed at the request of the local prosecutor.
The brief argues in part that "the public interest is best served by public access to a prosecutor’s basis for filing criminal charges" and "to ensure government transparency and accountability — which is especially critical in criminal matters."On Oct. 31, authorities announced Allen’s arrest and that he lived in the same community where they found the girls’ bodies.
Authorities also released a sketch of the suspected killer in July 2017, and then another in April 2019 based on video released that month showing a suspect walking on the Monon High Bridge. The images and audio came from Libby’s cellphone. Authorities hailed her as a hero for recording potentially crucial evidence.
Novella Nedeff, a professor at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, said she thinks the media attention the case received — as well as the nearly six-year gap between when the murders happened and when Allen was arrested — makes revealing details in the unsolved case like "walking on eggshells."The grandparents of a teenager murdered along with her friend in Delphi, Indiana spoke out Monday after charges were officially announced against their alleged killer.
"While all cases are important, the nature of this case has some extra scrutiny with it, and so we — my office, me — felt it was important to seal those records," McLeland said.Sheryl McCullom, a crime scene investigator who is the founder and director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute, said that sealing the documents is a "viable option" likely to protect a small town where the community members know each other.
Nedeff said families could be "very supportive of the investigators and being highly motivated not to jeopardize the investigation, even if it means not knowing things that they’d like to know."
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