Delphi murders trial: 'Bridge Guy' emerges as new crime scene evidence presented

An Indiana assemblage has heard a week's worthy of grounds successful the long-awaited proceedings for Delphi, Indiana, murders fishy Richard Allen.

Allen is charged with murdering 14-year-old Liberty German and 13-year-old Abigail Williams portion they were walking connected a hiking way successful Delphi connected Feb. 13, 2017. Their bodies were recovered the adjacent day, but Allen was not arrested until October 2022.

When investigators executed a hunt warrant astatine Allen's location successful Delphi connected Oct. 13, 2022, they recovered a bluish Carhartt jacket, a SIG Sauer P226 .40-caliber semiautomatic handgun and a .40-caliber S&W cartridge successful a "wooden keepsake box" from a dresser betwixt 2 closets successful Allen's bedroom, according to authorities. 

The handgun was accordant with a .40-caliber unspent slug constabulary located astatine the tract of the murders successful 2017, constabulary said astatine the time.

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

Seven years aft the girls' deaths, their families and the Delphi assemblage are learning what unfolded that day successful February 2017 erstwhile the girls went missing and however prosecutors judge Allen killed them.

"It's a precise pugnacious defence case, but they're doing a bully job," Neama Rahmani, erstwhile national authoritative and president of West Coast Trial Lawyers, told Fox News Digital of Allen's defense.

"But yet … play the cards that you're dealt. This is not a bully defence case, and I would beryllium amazed if the prosecution loses it due to the fact that there's nary wide motive. You don't needfully request a wide motive erstwhile you person each this different evidence."

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Here are the astir important takeaways from the proceedings truthful far:

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

1. Hearing from family

For the archetypal clip since a justice issued a gag bid successful the lawsuit successful 2022, Abby's and Libby's household members testified earlier the nationalist connected Oct. 18, the archetypal time of the trial.

Becky Patty, Libby's grandmother, was the archetypal to talk earlier the court, describing her granddaughter arsenic adventurous, intelligent and calm. She added that Libby "loved transgression shows" and "wanted to marque a difference," arsenic FOX 59 Indianapolis archetypal reported.

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Patty recalled the infinitesimal connected Feb. 14, 2017, erstwhile searchers located Libby's and Abby's bodies successful the woods aft they had been missing for a day.

Abby Williams' mother, Anna Williams, stands extracurricular the Carroll County Courthouse successful February 2021. (Alex Martin/Journal and Courier/USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

"A person comes moving up to me, ‘We recovered them, we recovered them,’" Patty said. "I retrieve turning astir to my sister who was sitting determination crying. And each she could accidental was, ‘I’m sorry. I’m sorry.’"

"Then I saw the coroner’s van driving by. That’s erstwhile I realized they weren’t alive."

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Other household members who testified connected Oct. 18 included Libby's sister, Kelsi German Siebert; German's father, Derrick German; and Abby's mother, Anna Williams.

2. Crime country description

During opening statements connected Oct. 18 and successful much grounds connected Oct. 21, jurors heard gruesome details astir the transgression country that had not been publically known earlier the proceedings began.

Indiana State Police Superintendent Doug Carter reacts arsenic helium speaks during a property league astir the Delphi murders investigation, April 22, 2019, astatine the Canal Center successful Delphi. (Nikos Frazier / Journal & Courier via Imagn Content Services, LLC)

Carroll County Prosecutor Nick McLeland told jurors successful his opening statements that erstwhile searchers recovered the 2 girls deceased successful a wooded country adjacent the Monon High Bridge, Libby was bare and covered successful blood. Both girls' throats had been chopped respective times, according to FOX 59.

Other articles of covering were mismatched oregon thrown into the adjacent Deer Creek, McLeland said. Abby was wearing her ain undershirt but Libby's sweatshirt. She was besides wearing jeans and shoes, but her socks were missing. One of Libby's shoes and Libby's cellphone were located beneath Abby's body.

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Additionally, idiosyncratic had placed twigs and leaves implicit the girls' bodies, which were placed betwixt 3 and 5 feet apart, but not capable to screen them completely. Their limbs were somewhat bent, according to FOX 59.

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

Jurors were shown astir 40 photos of the transgression country connected Oct. 21, the 3rd time of the trial.

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McLeland besides alleged that Allen, who has seemingly confessed to the execution assorted times successful jail, according to tribunal documents, has shared details that lone the slayer would know.

3. ‘Bridge Guy’ video

At the halfway of the Delphi murders lawsuit is simply a video that Libby happened to drawback connected her telephone astatine immoderate constituent earlier she and Abby were killed.

Sketches and video footage shows the Delphi murders fishy implicit the years. (Indiana State Police)

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 Libby and Abby walking with an chartless antheral wearing a chapeau and bluish inferior overgarment who has go known implicit the past 5 years arsenic "Bridge Guy."

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

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One of the girls, who experts judge to beryllium Libby, tin beryllium heard responding, "There’s nary way down here. We’ve got to spell down here."

The video past shows the girls walking down toward Deer Creek. Searchers located their bodies connected the different broadside of the aforesaid creek the adjacent morning, arsenic FOX 59 reported.

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Indiana State Police integer forensic expert Brian Bunner said helium extracted the aforesaid video from Libby's telephone for investigation 4 abstracted times betwixt 2017 and 2019.

4. ‘Bridge Guy’ witness

A witnesser who testified connected Oct. 23 placed Allen not acold from the country of the transgression connected the precocious day of Feb. 13, 2017.

Indiana State Police Superintendent Doug Carter speaks during a property league astir the Delphi murders investigation, April 22, 2019, astatine the Canal Center successful Delphi. (Nikos Frazier/Journal & Courier/USA TODAY NETWORK)

Sarah Carbaugh said she saw the aforesaid antheral shown successful Libby's video, known arsenic "Bridge Guy," walking down County Road 300 North astir 4 p.m. connected the time the girls went missing. He had his hands successful his pockets and his caput was down. They did not marque oculus contact, Carbaugh said.

She besides told jurors that Allen had mud and humor connected his clothing, looking similar helium had fallen successful a muddy creek, FOX 59 reported.

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Carbaugh did not telephone her extremity into constabulary for 3 weeks, telling the courtroom that she delayed sharing the accusation due to the fact that she was "overthinking" a traumatic situation.

Members of the media cod footage of the Carroll County Circuit Court. (Alex Martin/Journal and Courier/USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

Allen's defence attorney, Andrew Baldwin, pushed backmost against Carbaugh's testimony, saying she had described Allen's covering arsenic muddy, not bloody, successful her deposition with investigators successful 2017. Carbaugh doubled down, saying she remembered saying Allen was bloody astatine the time.

"I recognize you’re doing your job," she told Baldwin, according to FOX 59. "I saw a antheral connected the broadside of the roadworthy with mud and blood, and that’s that."

Carbaugh besides testified that her videotaped interrogation was mislaid owed to a method error. The authorities has antecedently admitted that immoderate interviews were mislaid owed to errors with their system, FOX 59 reported.

Rahmani believes Carbaugh's grounds is important for prosecutors.

"Now we person an eyewitness that puts Allen connected the trail."

"The defence is arguing that Allen was connected the trail, that helium had near earlier, and his cellphone volition amusement that helium was gone by the time. But it's inactive important grounds that puts him there," Rahmani said. "Obviously, Allen himself admitted to being connected the trail, truthful the timing truly matters. But I would accidental arsenic acold arsenic what's new, an eyewitness is surely … thing that had not been discussed anterior to trial."

5. Allen's interrogation with constabulary successful 2017

Just days aft the murders, connected Feb. 18, 2017, Allen reached retired to constabulary with information, astatine which constituent helium agreed to conscionable Indiana Department of Natural Resources Capt. Dan Dulin successful a store parking lot, aft Allen refused to person Dulin implicit astatine his location oregon conscionable him astatine the section constabulary station, according to FOX 59.

Allen seemingly wanted to "self-report" that helium had been connected the Monon High Bridge the time the girls went missing and saw 3 young girls arsenic helium was walking the trail, Dulin said. Allen noted astatine the clip that helium was not paying overmuch attraction to his surroundings due to the fact that helium was checking a banal ticker connected his phone.

Richard Allen was arrested successful October 2022 for the 2017 murders of 14-year-old Liberty German and 13-year-old Abigail Williams. (Indiana State Police)

Dulin besides testified that Allen had changed the timeline of erstwhile helium had been connected the trail, initially saying helium had been determination from 1 to 3 p.m. but aboriginal changing his timeline to 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

The sergeant said helium did not deliberation overmuch of the interview, which lone lasted astir 10 minutes, aboriginal connected until Allen was arrested successful 2022.

Dulin filed his notes from the 2017 interrogation successful a Microsoft Word papers that was saved into his agency's system. Due to a clerical error, however, the interrogation was stashed distant nether the incorrect name, Richard Allen Whiteman – "Whiteman" being the sanction of the thoroughfare Allen lived connected – and labeled arsenic "cleared," according to Kathy Shank, a retired DCS idiosyncratic who volunteered to assistance with administrative duties for Carroll County, according to FOX 59.

Allen was not officially named a fishy successful the 2017 murders until October 2022.

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Rahmani believes this clerical mistake whitethorn springiness Allen's defence "something to enactment with."

"I'm a erstwhile prosecutor. I respect instrumentality enforcement. But astir of the time, the champion defence is simply a bully offense," Rahmani explained. "And it's to spell aft the constabulary and accidental it was a unreserved to judgement and a shoddy investigation. … When you person an admittance that 1 of the suspect's interviews was misplaced … it conscionable gives the defence thing to enactment with."