What happened this week in the Delphi murder trial: ‘Bridge Guy’ video shown, timeline

During the Richard Allen murder trial, jurors spent a week hearing testimony and reviewing new evidence presented in the case. Allen is charged with the 2017 murders of 13-year-old Abigail Williams and 14-year-old Liberty German in Delphi, Indiana.

The teenagers, known as Abby and Libby, were found dead on February 14, 2017. The girls went missing the day before while hiking a trail on a mild winter weekend.

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Allen is charged with two counts of murder and two additional counts of murder while committing or attempting to commit kidnapping. The 52-year-old pharmacist was arrested in October 2022, more than five years after the deaths of Williams and Herman.

In 2022, authorities searched Allen’s home and seized a blue Carhartt jacket, a .40-caliber SIG Sauer P226 semiautomatic pistol, and a .40-caliber S&W cartridge in a “wooden keepsake box” from a dresser between two closets in his bedroom.

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This is reported by FOX News the gun was consistent Police said they found an unfired .40 caliber bullet at the scene of the 2017 murders.

According to the Associated Press, prosecutors indicated in court documents released weeks after Allen’s arrest that testing showed an unexpended bullet found between Williams and Herman “passed through” Allen’s gun.

What are the key points in the trial of the Delphi murders?

The families of the victims speak

Family members of Abby and Libby gave public testimony on October 18, 2024, the first day of the trial. FOX News reported that a judge issued an order in the case in 2022.

Libby’s grandmother, Becky Petty, was the first to appear in court, describing her granddaughter as adventurous, intelligent and calm. Patty recalled the moment on February 14, 2017, when searchers found the bodies of Libby and Abby in the woods after they had been missing for the day.

Other family members who testified Oct. 18 included Libby’s sister, Kelsey Herman Siebert; Libby’s father, Derrick Herman; and Abby’s mother, Anna Williams.

The crime scene is described

Jurors heard gruesome details about the crime scene during opening statements on Oct. 18 and during testimony on Oct. 21.

Prosecutor Nick McLeland said in his opening statement that when searchers found the two girls dead in a wooded area near the Monon High Bridge, Libby was naked and covered in blood. Both girls had their throats cut several times, FOX 59 in Indianapolis reported

McClelland told the jury that the clothes were either misfitted or thrown into the creek. Abby was wearing her own undershirt, but Libby’s sweatshirt. She was also wearing jeans and shoes, but no socks. One of Libby’s shoes and Libby’s cell phone were found under Abby’s body.

FOX 59 reported that a person placed branches and leaves over the girls’ bodies, which were placed a few feet apart, but not enough to cover them completely, and the teenagers’ limbs were slightly bent. During the third day of the trial on October 21, jurors viewed about 40 photographs of the crime scene.

Citing court documents, FOX News noted that McClelland claimed that Allen, who allegedly confessed to the killing several times in prison, shared details that only a killer would know.

“Bridge Guy” video posted.

A key piece of evidence in Delphi’s murder case is a video Libby took on her cell phone before she and Abby were killed.

Jurors watched 43 seconds of the video in court on October 22, 2024. The footage shows Libby and Abby walking with an unidentified man in a hat and blue service jacket who has become known as “The City Boy” over the past five years. FOX News reported

“Guys, get off the hill,” the man can be heard telling the girls in the video. One of the girls, believed by experts to be Libby, can be heard replying: “There is no trail here. We have to get down here.”

According to FOX 59, video then shows the girls walking to Deer Creek. The next morning, searchers found the bodies of the victims on the other side of the same stream. Indiana State Police Digital Forensics Expert Brian Banner said he pulled the same video from Libby’s phone for analysis four times between 2017 and 2019.

Witness “Bridge Guy”.

On October 23, 2024, Sarah Carbo, a witness, testified at the trial and placed Allen at the crime scene on the afternoon of February 13, 2017.

Carbo said she saw the same man in Libby’s video, known as “Bridge Guy,” walking down the road around 4 p.m. the day the girls disappeared. The man kept his hands in his pockets and lowered his head. Karbo testified that she and her husband did not make eye contact.

According to FOX 59, Carbo also shared with jurors that Allen’s clothing had mud and blood on it, making it look like he had fallen into a muddy creek.

Carbo did not call the police for three weeks, explaining that she delayed providing information because she had “changed her mind” about the traumatic situation.

The woman also testified that her video recording of the interview was lost due to a technical error. The state previously acknowledged that some interviews were lost due to errors in their system, FOX 59 reported.

According to FOX News, Richard Allen’s defense attorney, Andrew Baldwin, disputed Carbo’s testimony, saying she described Allen’s clothes as dirty, not bloody, in her 2017 testimony to investigators. Carbo claims, noting that she remembers Allen being bloodied for a while.

Richard Allen’s 2017 police interview

Richard Allen went to police with information on February 17, 2017, days after the girls were killed.

FOX 59 reported that Allen agreed to meet with Indiana Department of Natural Resources Capt. Dan Doolin in the store’s parking lot after Allen refused to invite Doolin to his home or meet him at the local police station.

The paper said Allen apparently wanted to “self-report” that he was on the Monon High bridge the day the girls disappeared and saw the three young women as he walked along the trail, Doolin said.

At the time, Allen said he wasn’t paying much attention to his surroundings because he was checking the stock ticker on his phone.

Doolin also testified that Allen changed his schedule while he was on the trail, initially saying he was there from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., but later changed his schedule to 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

According to FOX59, the sergeant said he didn’t think much of the interview, which lasted only about 10 minutes, until Allen was arrested in 2022.

Doolin put his notes from the 2017 interview into a Microsoft Word document that was stored on his agency’s computer system.

But due to a clerical error, the interview was filed under the wrong name, Richard Allen Whiteman (“Whiteman” is the name of the street Allen lived on), and marked “unblocked” by Kathy Shank, a DCS retiree who volunteered to help with administrative duties. Carroll County Sheriff’s Office told FOX 59. Allen was not officially named a suspect in the 2017 murders until October 2022.