The jury in the trial of an Indiana man charged with murder in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls who vanished during an afternoon hike near their small…
Richard Allen, 52, faces two counts of murder and two additional counts of murder while committing or attempting to commit kidnapping in the killings of Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty German, 14who vanished during an afternoon hike near their small hometown of Delphi has reportedly reached a verdict after days of deliberations.began deliberations Thursday afternoon
Allen's defense cast doubt on the confessions, putting up witnesses, including a psychiatrist who testified that Allen was delirious and psychotic after months in solitary confinement. The prosecutor also said a state trooper who had listened to more than 700 phone calls placed by Allen had identified Allen's voice on German’s cellphone video telling the teens, “ ″ after they crossed an abandoned railroad trestle called the Monon High Bridge. McLeland showed jurors a digitally enhanced version of the cellphone video and said Allen was the man recorded walking behind Williams.
Attorney Andrew Baldwin argued during trial that one or more other people must have kidnapped the teens and returned them early the next day to the spot where they were found.
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