Richard Allen, the Indiana man convicted of killing two girls along a Delphi hiking trail in 2017, infamously known as the Delphi murders, was sentenced on Friday.
An Indiana judge on Friday sentenced Richard Allen, who was recently convicted for the February 2017 killings of two teen girls who had been walking on a hiking trail in Delphi, known as the Delphi murders, to a maximum of 130 years behind bars. The sentence includes 65 years for the felony murder of Abigal 'Abby' Williams and 65 years for the felony murder of Liberty 'Libby' German to be served consecutively.
Allen's defense leaned largely on expert analysis showing Allen's unhealthy mental state after his 2022 arrest, which took the Delphi community by surprise at the time. Allen had been a longtime CVS employee in the small Indiana town when police took him into custody five years after the murders.
Allen also admitted in one jailhouse confession that he did order the girls 'down the hill.' He repeatedly confessed to killing the girls, apparently saying he wanted to rape the girls but was spooked by a van driving nearby, at which point he decided to kill them.
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