Indiana prosecutors say unspent bullet, video provide proof of man's guilt in horrific Delphi murders

A antheral accused of killing 2 teenage girls adjacent an Indiana hiking way chopped their throats, prosecutors told a assemblage Friday. 

Richard Allen, 52, is charged with 2 counts of execution and 2 counts of execution portion committing oregon attempting to perpetrate kidnapping successful the February 2017 deaths of Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty German, 14, successful the tiny municipality of Delphi.

"The past happening the girls saw was Richard Allen's face," Carroll County authoritative Nicholas McLeland said successful his opening statement.

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Officers escort Richard Allen from the Carroll County Courthouse aft a hearing, Nov. 22, 2022, successful Delphi, Ind. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

An unused slug discovered astatine the execution country betwixt the girls' bodies came from a weapon that belonged to Allen, and a grainy representation of a antheral and his dependable were captured by German connected her phone. A abbreviated video released successful 2019 that besides came from German's telephone showed a fishy walking connected Monon High Bridge. 

McLeland said that antheral was Allen. The girls vanished portion walking on the Monon High Bridge Trail Feb. 13, 2017. They were recovered dormant the adjacent morning. 

Allen, a pharmacy technician, was questioned months aft authorities recovered the girls' bodies, but helium was not arrested astatine the time. He was arrested connected suspicion of the slayings 5 years later. 

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Richard Allen's defence attorneys, Andrew Baldwin and Bradley Rozzi, alleged successful September that the Feb. 14, 2017, killings of 14-year-old Liberty "Libby" German and 13-year-old Abigail "Abby" Williams were carried retired by members of a pagan cult dedicated to Odin, a warfare deity successful Norse mythology. They contend Allen was framed by instrumentality enforcement arsenic the main fishy successful the girls' murders. (Indiana State Police/AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)

In tribunal documents, prosecutors said that investigating revealed the unspent slug recovered betwixt Williams and German "had been cycled through" Allen’s pistol, which was recovered during a hunt of his home. 

"They had details that lone the slayer would know," McLeland said, noting that Allen made incriminating statements to instrumentality enforcement. "Richard Allen is the antheral connected the bridge."

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Defense attorney Andrew Baldwin argued to jurors that determination was plentifulness of tenable uncertainty astir the murder. He argued that his client's statements were made nether duress.

"Richard Allen is innocent," Baldwin told the jury. "He is genuinely innocent." 

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

Prosecutors person alleged successful erstwhile tribunal filings that Allen "admitted that helium committed the offenses that helium is charged with nary little than 5 times portion talking to his woman and his parent connected the nationalist jailhouse phones disposable astatine the Indiana Department of Corrections."

Allen allegedly told authorities helium had been walking connected the way the time Williams and German went missing and had seen 3 "females" astatine the Freedom Bridge but didn't talk to them.

Indiana State Police Superintendent Doug Carter announced astatine a property league that constabulary had arrested Richard Allen for the murders of eighth graders Abby Williams, 13, and Libby German, 14, successful 2017. (Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket)

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At earlier hearings, defence attorneys alleged determination was "overwhelming evidence" to enactment the communicative that "[m]embers of a pagan Norse religion, called Odinism, hijacked by achromatic nationalists, ritualistically sacrificed Abigail Williams and Liberty German."

Fox News Digital's Audrey Conklin arsenic good arsenic The Associated Press contributed to this report.