Prosecutors also revealed in recently released documents that a knife was used in the killings of 14-year-old Libby German and 13-year-old Abby Williams.
Richard Allen, the man charged with abducting and killing two young girls in Delphi, Indiana, in 2017, admitted to the crimes “no less than 5 times” in calls he made to his wife and mother while in prison awaiting trial, the district attorney said.
Abby Williams, 13, and Libby German, 14, were found dead near an abandoned railroad bridge that they had been hiking on in 2017.The documents released Wednesday provided the first context around authorities’ claim that Allen has confessed in a case that has made national headlines.
It wasn’t until 2022 that investigators discovered a record of an interview between Allen and a conservation officer, in which he allegedly admitted being on the trail that day during the time period the girls disappeared. According to the interview, the clothes he said he was wearing that day were consistent with those worn by a man seen on the bridge, in both Libby’s video and by other witnesses. Another witness had seen a “muddy and bloody man” at 4 p.m.
In the seven months since his arrest, Allen has lost considerable weight and appeared thin in his most recent court hearings. His defense has requested that he be transferred from Westville Correctional Facility, the state prison where he is currently in its maximum security unit, to another jail near Carroll County, where he will be closer to his defense lawyers, and conditions are more typical for a person awaiting trial.
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