Delphi murders: Richard Allen sentenced to 130 years for killing Indiana teens

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Dec. 20, 2024, 10:21 AM EST
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Delphi murders: Richard Allen sentenced to 130 years for killing Indiana teens
Allen was convicted last month in the 2017 killings of best friends Abigail Williams and Liberty German in the small town of Delphi.


-- Officers escort Richard Allen out of the Carroll County Courthouse in Delphi, Ind., after a hearing in 2022.Darron Cummings / AP file

By Phil Helsel

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. 14, 2017, but their killings went unsolved for years.

Indianapolis State Police arrested Allen in October 2022. He was charged with murder after what the state police superintendent called a "long-term and complex investigation."

Prosecutors said that Allen encountered the girls on the Monon High Bridge Trail and that, armed with a gun, he forced them down a hill and cut their throats.

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