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.
were found Feb. 14, 2017, just outside of their hometown of Delphi, Indiana - about 60 miles northwest of Indianapolis, in Carroll County."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 a motion filed April 20 by Carroll County prosecutor Nicholas McLeland."He admits several times within the phone call that he committed the offenses as charged.
Gull's order stated she withheld releasing the unredacted probable cause affidavit filed by prosecutors outlining the allegations against Allen because it includes the names of juvenile witnesses. The girls' injuries were"caused by a sharp object," according to another unsealed document released Wednesday. Also included in the list of items police seized from Allen's home in the October 2022 search were about a dozen knives, some described as double-edged or folding knives.
McLeland alluded to Allen's confession in a June 15 hearing in Delphi, but Allen's defense attorneys, alleging abuse at the correctional facility he has been housed at since November 2022, attributed the admissions to his declining mental state.
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