Delphi murder suspect confesses to killing girls on hiking trails: Doc. prison

An Indiana prison psychologist shared testimony Wednesday about Delphi kills the suspect Richard Allen’s alleged confessions behind bars.

Allen, 52, is accused of killing Liberty German, 14, and Abigail Williams, 13, while they were walking on a hiking trail in Delphi on 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 Wala in jail, according to her testimony Wednesday during Allen’s double-murder trial, as FOX 59 Indianapolis reported.

Wala is the lead psychologist for the Indiana Department of Corrections and has spoken with Allen several times.

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The prison psychologist testified that Allen’s intentions in targeting Abby and Libby were “sexual” in nature, and he admitted to being a sex addict. Allen also told Wala that he was an alcoholic as well as a victim and perpetrator of sexual assault, according to FOX 59.

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

The phrase “down the hill” comes from a video of a man filmed on Libby’s phone just before they disappeared that day. Investigators would later discover the girls’ bodies the next day and Libby’s phone under Abby’s body.

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Allen allegedly told Wala that he was scared by something – either a man or a van – at which point he decided to brutally kills the two girls, slitting their throats and covering their bodies with tree branches in a wooded area a short distance from the popular hiking trail, the psychologist told the court.

The then-44-year-old would live life as normal after the murders, according to Wala’s account of Allen’s confessions.

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Allen also reportedly expressed interest in apologizing to the victims’ families.

On April 13, Wala described Allen’s behavior as increasingly strange after he went to bed and consumed his own feces. She believed she was having an “emotional breakdown due to guilt”.

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In a May phone call with his wife, Allen reportedly told her, “I didn’t do everything I said I did, but I killed Abby and Libby,” at which point his wife hung up , according to Wala’s testimony.

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

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“I have to let my wife go,” he reportedly told her at one point, according to FOX 59.

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On cross-examination, Wala admitted to being a fan of true crime content, including podcasts and online discussions about the Delphi case, which he said he watched closely before working at the prison where Allen was held. Wala even drove to the crime scene near the Monon High Bridge at one point, she testified.

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

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Journalist Áine Cain, who co-hosts “The Murder Sheet” podcast with Indiana attorney Kevin Greenlee, explained that in addition to Allen’s alleged confessions, plenty of other evidence that has been presented in court so far seem to put Allen at the scene. the crime at the time it occurred, in a statement to Fox News Digital.

“The state has built a compelling case against him so far simply by using his own words.”

— Áine Cain

“In some ways, Richard Allen became the prosecution’s star witness,” Cain said. “The state has built a compelling case against him so far, simply using his own words. Numerous women and girls saw the Bridge Guy on or near the Delphi trails that day. Surveillance footage picked up what appeared to be Allen’s Ford Focus driving toward the trails at 1:27 p.m. Allen told police he was on the trails around 1:30 p.m. A group of teenagers saw the man captured on Libby’s phone near the Liberty Bridge. Allen told police he saw a group of girls around the same time in the same place.

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“A woman walking for exercise said she met the Bridge Guy while he was standing on the first platform of the Monon High Bridge. Allen told police he was standing on the same platform watching fish swim by at the same time,” Cain continued. “Allen claims he was looking at a stock ticker on his phone. But it seems his phone doesn’t appear in any tower information. That same phone — the one he had in 2017 when the murders took place — is now missing, despite Allen. kept another 20 old phones in his home, the coroner who performed the girls’ autopsies now says a box cutter would explain some of the injuries.

Cain added that “Allen’s defense team will have to knock some of that down once they present their case.”