Suspect in Delphi murders admits killing girls on footpath: Jail dock

An Indiana prison psychologist shared testimony Wednesday about Suspect in the Delphi murders Alleged confessions of Richard Allen behind bars.

Allen, 52, is accused of killing 14-year-old Liberty German and 13-year-old Abigail Williams as they walked along the road. walking path in Delphi February 13, 2017. Their bodies were found the next day, but Allen was not arrested until October 2022.

“I killed Abby and Libby. I’m sorry,” Allen allegedly told Dr. Monica Vala in jail, according to her testimony Wednesday during Allen’s double-murder trial. FOX 59 Indianapolis reports.

Vala is the lead psychologist for the Indiana Department of Corrections and has spoken to Allen on multiple occasions.

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A prison psychologist testified that Allen’s intentions toward Abby and Libby were “sexual” in nature, and he admitted to being a sex addict. Allen also told Vali that he was an alcoholic and also a victim and perpetrator of sexual violence, according to FOX 59.

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Vala told the court Wednesday that on Feb. 13, 2017, Allen followed Abby and Libby on the High Monon Trail and told them to “go down,” where he intended to rape them.

The phrase “down the hill” comes from a video the man took on Libby’s phone before they disappeared that day. The next day, investigators found the girls’ bodies and Libby’s phone under Abby’s body.

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Allen allegedly told Vali that something scared him — either the man or the van — and that’s when he made up his mind brutally kill two girls slitting their necks and covering their bodies with tree branches in a forest near a popular hiking trail, a psychologist told the court.

The then 44-year-old continued to live his normal life after the murders, according to Vala’s account of Allen’s confession.

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Allen also apparently expressed a desire to apologize to the families of the victims.

On April 13, Vala described Allen’s behavior as increasingly strange after he lay down and consumed his own feces. She believed he had an “emotional breakdown due to guilt.”

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During a phone call with his wife in May, Allen apparently told her, “I didn’t do everything I said I did, but I killed Abby and Libby,” after which his wife hung up on him, according to Vala’s testimony.

Around that time, Allen began experiencing suicidal thoughts and began talking about his last meal, Vala said.

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“I need to let my wife go,” he apparently told her at one point, FOX 59 reported.

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Under cross-examination, Vala admitted to being a fan of true crime content, including podcasts and online discussions about the Delphi case, which she said she followed closely before she started working at the prison where Allen was held. She testified that once Vala even drove to the crime scene near the High Monon Bridge.

Vala also said Allen’s behavior in prison was consistent with someone suffering from a serious mental illness, describing Allen as having “fatalistic delusions”, “hopelessness”, “insomnia” and “suicidal ideation”.

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Journalist Aine Kane, who co-hosts “The Murder Sheet” podcast with Indiana attorney Kevin Greenlee, explained that in addition to Allen’s confession, much of the other evidence presented in court appears to put Allen at the scene. the crime at the time of its commission, Fox News Digital said in a statement.

“The State built a compelling case against him simply by using his own words.”

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“In a way, Richard Allen became the prosecution’s star witness,” Kane said. “The state made a compelling case against him simply by using his own words. Bridge Guy was seen by numerous women and girls on or near the paths of Delphi that day. Surveillance footage showed a vehicle similar to Allen’s Ford Focus driving toward the trails at 1:27 p.m. Allen told police he was at the trails around 1:30 p.m. A group of teenagers saw a man, recorded on Libby’s phone, near the Liberty Bridge, that he saw a group of girls around the same time in the same place.

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“A woman walking to exercise said she met Bridge Guy as he stood on the first platform of the high Monon Bridge. Allen told police he was standing on the same platform watching the fish swim by around the same time,” Kane continued. “Allen claims he was looking at the stock ticker on his phone. But his phone apparently doesn’t appear in any tower data. That same phone — the one he owned in 2017 when the murders occurred — is now missing, despite Allen keeping more than 20 other old phones in his home, and a medical examiner who was currently performing autopsies on the girls says that the box cutter seems to be piling up.

Kane added that “Allen’s defense team will need to break it down a little bit when they present their case.”