The Delphi Murders

By: Jayden Fay 

October 25, 2024

Liberty German,14, and Abigail Williams, 13. Both were walking down the Monon High Bridge in Carroll County, Indiana. While walking Libby’s cell phone was recording, while recording it caught a man in a dark jacket and jeans walking behind her and could be heard ordering the girls to go “down the hill” according to an affidavit.

Police recovered Libby’s cellphone under her body on Feb 14, 2017. The video was captured at 2:13 P.M. less than 25 minutes after she and Abigail’s family members dropped them off at the trail. About after 5 years after their death a search warrant was insured to search Richard Allen’s home 

Richard Allen, an Indiana man who is currently accused of killing 14 year old Liberty German. After the warrant was set they eventually recovered a blue Carhart jacket, a SIG sauer P226. 40-caliber semi auto handgun and a .40 caliber S&W cartridge in a “Wooden keepsake box. It was found to be consistent with the 40-caliber unspent bullet police located at the site of the murders in 2017, police said.

Allen was initially arrested in 2022 when he was currently working at a CVS store, five years after the killings.He is currently charged with two counts of murder and 2 counts of muder while committing or attempting to commit kidnapping. If connected he could face up to 130 years in prison and is not going to face the death penalty. His time in court was originally scheduled for early January 2024 but was rescheduled for October 14 through November 15. The jury selection started October 14.

His defense team claims that “The girl's death was part of a ritualistic sacrifice performed by members of a pagan cult.” Andrew Baldwin and Bradley Rozzi said in a -136 page memorandum “overwhelming evidence in this case supports the following… Members of a pagan Norse religion called odinism, hijacked by white nationalists ritualistically sacrificed Abigail Williams and Liberty German.” 

The jurors have been transported into Carroll county from neighboring Allen country after Allen attorneys asked the case be moved out of fear that Carroll county residents may not be impartial due to the high profiling nature of this case.