A jury found Richard Allen, charged in the 2017 slayings of two teen-age girls in Delphi, Indiana, guilty on all counts of murder and felony murder. Allen faces 130 years in prison. NBC News' Maggie Vespa reports.
Richard Allen, the Indiana man convicted of killing two middle school girls in 2017, was sentenced to 130 years in prison on Friday, almost eight years after the children's bodies were found near a hiking trail. Allen, 52, was convicted of murder in November after a four-week trial in the deaths of Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty German, 14, in Delphi. The bodies of the girls, who were close friends, were found near a hiking trail on Feb.
40-caliber round that came from Allen's gun was found at the scene and that a black 2016 Ford Focus was seen on security video nearby — and that Allen owned the only such car registered in Carroll County when the murders took place. Defense attorneys argued no one identified Allen as the man in the video or seen by witnesses. They also argued no forensic or DNA evidence connected him to the killings. Prosecutors played an alleged confession made last year in a recorded jail call to his wife.
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