An Indiana man charged with killing two teenage girls confessed multiple times to the murders in a phone call to his wife while in prison.
FILE - A makeshift memorial to Liberty German and Abigail Williams near where they were last seen and where the bodies were discovered stands along the Monon Trail leading to the Monon High Bridge Trail in Delphi, Ind., Oct. 31, 2022. Jury members for a high-profile trial of Richard Matthew Allen,, accused of killing two teenage girls nearly six years ago will be selected from outside the county the crime took place in, a judge said Friday, Jan. 13, 2023.
Richard Matthew Allen allegedly told his wife, Kathy Allen, in an April 3 phone call that he killed Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty German, 14. The two teenagers’ bodies were found Feb. 14, 2017, just outside of their hometown of Delphi, Indiana — about 60 miles northwest of Indianapolis, in Carroll County.after the original judge recused himself, unsealed the motion describing the confessions alongside more than 100 filings in the case on Wednesday.
“Investigators had the phone call transcribed and the transcription confirms that Richard Allen admits that he committed the murders of Abigail Williams and Liberty German,” reads the document filed by Carroll County prosecutor Nicholas McLeland. “He admits several times within the phone call that he committed the offenses as charged. His wife, Kathy Allen, ends the phone call abruptly.”Allen was arrested in October 2022 on two counts of murder.
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