Delphi murders: Convicted killer in hiking trail slayings cites new evidence in bid to overturn conviction

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Richard Allen, the Indiana antheral precocious recovered blameworthy of brutally murdering 2 teen girls connected a hiking way successful 2017, is asking a Carroll County tribunal to overturn his conviction, according to tribunal documents obtained by Fox News Digital.

Allen's attorneys precocious filed a question asking a Carroll County Circuit Court justice to either vacate his execution convictions oregon docket a proceeding to sermon 4 circumstantial issues that they accidental could beryllium Allen guiltless successful the murders of 14-year-old Liberty German and 13-year-old Abigail Williams.

"It's earthy for a convicted murderer to privation his execution condemnation overturned," Áine Cain, co-host of the "Murder Sheet" podcast, which has been covering the Delphi murders for 5 years, told Fox News Digital. "It's the occupation of the defence attorneys and his quality to effort to assistance them execute that. … And his appellate squad volition astir apt beryllium looking astatine things much from a ineligible position oregon his rights violated astatine immoderate constituent — was the proceedings tally properly, things similar that."

Cain and co-host Kevin Greenlee, an attorney, attended Allen's proceedings and described the prosecution's show arsenic "solid."

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Officers escort Richard Allen retired of the Carroll County courthouse successful Delphi, Indiana, pursuing a proceeding connected Nov. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

He was sentenced to service 130 years successful situation aft a four-week-long trial. Prosecutors said Allen lured the girls, who were hiking unneurotic connected Feb. 13, 2017, distant from the High Monon Trail and into a secluded wooded country wherever helium slit their necks and past covered their bodies with twigs and leaves.

"After the trial, I judge we felt … portion determination were issues with this probe and portion surely the misplacement of the extremity astir Richard Allen was unfortunate, we felt that the investigative squad and the prosecutors did a bully occupation proving their lawsuit successful tribunal based connected the grounds and that they successfully convicted the antheral who murdered Liberty German and Abigail Williams," Cain said.

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Still, Allen's attorneys are pointing to 4 pieces of grounds they accidental should let Allen to get his convictions overturned.

White van

During his trial, prosecutors heard from a situation scientist who testified that Allen, present 52, admitted wanting to sexually battle the girls but was spooked erstwhile a van seemingly drove by the wooded country of the High Monon Trail successful Delphi wherever helium lured and attacked them.

The van's operator testified during Allen's proceedings that helium drove by the transgression country astir 2:30 p.m. that time — conscionable 2 minutes earlier prosecutors said German's telephone turned disconnected astatine 2:32 p.m. — and arrived astatine his parents' location astatine 2:44 p.m., according to the tribunal documents.

Prosecutors argued that seeing the achromatic van was a item "only the slayer would know" during Allen's trial.

Allen's attorneys are present disputing grounds from the van driver, saying "his accomplishment astatine 'about 2:30' could not person been a item lone the slayer would know, due to the fact that it did not happen."

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They wrote successful their question that surveillance footage showing what appears to beryllium a achromatic van matching a statement of that man's achromatic van was spotted driving on an entree roadworthy astatine 2:44 p.m. that day. They reason the footage shows the van operator could not person passed by the transgression country astatine 2:30 p.m. and would person arrived astatine his parents' location aboriginal than 2:44, frankincense throwing disconnected the prosecution's timeline.

Delphi constabulary recovered Libby German's cellphone beneath her assemblage connected Feb. 14, 2017. The telephone had a 43-second video showing Abigail Williams walking connected the Monon High Bridge successful Delphi toward German portion a antheral wearing a acheronian overgarment and jeans walks down her. (FOX Nation)

FBI grounds further shows that van driver's telephone astatine his parents' location astatine 2:50 p.m., Allen's lawyer said.

Other man's confession

The convicted killer's defence is besides highlighting an alleged confession from a now-deceased antheral named Ron Logan, who seemingly admitted to sidesplitting German and Williams to different inmate successful situation sometime earlier May 15, 2017.

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His attorneys said the confession is "newly discovered evidence."

Snow covers the h2o of Deer Creek arsenic the Monon High Bridge towers supra successful Delphi, Indiana, connected Feb. 9, 2022. (Nikos Frazier/Journal & Courier/USA TODAY NETWORK)

An investigator's handwritten notes detailing the different inmate's retelling of Logan's confession are included successful the caller motion. Logan allegedly told the different inmate that helium lured the 2 victims to a wooded country of the way and killed them with a boxcutter — a limb forensic pathologist Dr. Roland Kohr testified during Allen's proceedings that the slayer whitethorn person used, according to FOX 59.

The FBI searched Logan's location not acold from the High Monon Trail connected May 17, 2017, according to FOX 59.

"Ron Logan’s confession exculpates Mr. Allen and would astir apt nutrient a antithetic effect astatine a retrial."

"Ron Logan’s confession exculpates Mr. Allen and would astir apt nutrient a antithetic effect astatine a retrial," Allen's attorneys wrote successful their motion. "Accordingly, the Court should either vacate Mr. Allen’s convictions oregon acceptable this question for a hearing."

Supt. Doug Carter of the Indiana State Police speaks during a property league connected an update connected the Delphi murders probe astatine the Canal Center successful Delphi, Indiana, connected April 22, 2019. (Nikos Frazier/Journal & Courier/USA TODAY NETWORK)

Logan died successful 2022.

Prison transfer

Allen's attorneys further reason that the then-suspect was "whisked away" from Carroll County Jail to an Indiana Department of Corrections installation successful 2022 without a due safekeeping proceeding — the ineligible process for moving an inmate from 1 detention halfway to another.

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"This should beryllium peculiarly disturbing because, had helium been fixed the accidental to bash so, Mr. Allen had an implicit idiosyncratic close to garbage the transportation to the Department’s custody," his attorneys wrote successful the Monday motion.

Delphi execution fishy Richard Allen was improperly transferred from Carroll County Jail to an Indiana Department of Corrections facility, his lawyers argue. (FOX 59 Indianapolis )

They further accidental Allen "had nary accidental to workout his close to garbage the transportation to the Indiana Department of Corrections’ custody oregon to marque immoderate of the objections acceptable retired supra to the full people of the proceeding" due to the fact that helium and his counsel "had nary announcement of the ineligible skullduggery that would onshore him successful solitary confinement" for 23 months earlier his trial.

Headphone jack connected German's phone

Near the decision of Allen's trial, the defence presented grounds from a erstwhile FBI forensic adept who said it appeared arsenic though idiosyncratic plugged headphones into German's phone, which was discovered adjacent the girls' bodies connected Feb. 14, astatine 5:45 p.m connected Feb. 13, hours aft they were past seen. 

The headphones were past removed from the telephone astatine 10:32, Stacey Eldridge testified, presenting a imaginable situation to the prosecution's timeline that they were killed astir 2:30 p.m. connected Feb. 13, according to FOX 59.

Grainy cellphone video footage and a sketch of a premier fishy successful the execution of Delphi girls Abigail Williams and Liberty German connected the bureau partition of Tobe Leazenby, Sheriff of Carroll County, Indiana. (Robert Scheer/IndyStar/USA TODAY NETWORK)

An adept presented by the authorities testified astatine proceedings that the headphone grounds whitethorn person been the effect of h2o oregon ungraded getting into the headphone jack, and Allen's attorneys accidental they ne'er got a accidental to quality that grounds successful court.

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"If Ms. Eldridge’s existent adept sentiment that wired headphones were plugged into L.G.’s auxiliary larboard astatine 5:44 p.m. connected February 13, 2017, and unplugged astir 5 hours aboriginal were credited by a jury, the State’s communicative is impossible," the question states. "Someone different than Richard Allen was handling L.G.’s telephone aggregate times agelong aft the State contended Mr. Allen near the country earlier 4:00 p.m. connected February 13, 2017."

Prosecutors pointed to assorted grounds that placed Allen astatine the country astatine the clip of the crime, including an unspent slug astatine the transgression country matching a firearm recovered from Allen's location successful 2022, arsenic good arsenic the dozens of confessions helium made successful prison, arsenic FOX 59 Indianapolis reported astatine the time.

On Feb. 14, 2017, Libby German, 14, and Abby Williams, 13, were killed portion biking connected trails adjacent Delphi, Indiana, astir 60 miles northwest of Indianapolis. (Indiana State Police)

Allen's defence leaned mostly connected adept investigation showing Allen's unhealthy intelligence authorities aft his 2022 arrest, which took the Delphi assemblage arsenic a astonishment astatine the time. Allen had been a longtime CVS worker successful the tiny Indiana municipality erstwhile constabulary took him into custody 5 years aft the murders.

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For the archetypal clip since the girls were reported missing, jurors got to ticker 43 seconds of the important video successful tribunal connected Oct. 22. The video shows German and Williams walking with an chartless antheral wearing a chapeau and bluish inferior overgarment who has go known implicit the past 5 years arsenic "Bridge Guy." German captured the video astatine 2:13 p.m., little than 25 minutes aft she and Williams' household members dropped them disconnected astatine the trail.

"Guys, down the hill," the antheral tin beryllium heard saying to the girls successful the video.

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Cain, who has a publication astir the Delphi murders called "Shadow of the Bridge" acceptable to beryllium published successful August, and Greenlee judge Allen's confessions played successful tribunal were believable. 

"I deliberation it is worthy noting that his dependable arsenic helium spoke to them, it sounded identical to the dependable connected the signaling of 'Bridge Guy' saying ‘down the hill,’" Cain said. "I'm not definite you could bash a scientifically valid test, but the reactions of everyone successful that courtroom, oregon astir everyone successful the courtroom, were: This is the aforesaid man.'"

Allen's attorneys did not instantly respond to inquiries from Fox News Digital.