Richard Allen was arrested and charged with the murders of Libby German and Abigail Williams in late October. German and Williams were found dead in 2017 in Delphi, Indiana. Today, the judge overseeing the trial “issued an order to unseal the probable cause affidavit relating to his arrest.”
The newly unsealed documents state that Allen was among the dozens of people interviewed by police in the early stages of the investigation in 2017.
During that initial interview, Allen told police he was on the Manon High Bridge Trail – where Libby and Abby were last seen alive – on Feb. 13 between 1.30pm and 3.30pm.
According to the documents, Allen said he saw three females on the trail but didn’t remember what they looked like and said he didn’t speak with them.
Police spoke with three juveniles who said they were also on the trail that same day. They recalled seeing a “creepy” man on the bridge who was wearing blue jeans and a light blue jacket.
The description given to authorities matches the suspect that was caught on videos by German shortly before their deaths. The victims encountered the suspect in the video at 2:13 PM, so Allen was in the same area at the time of their deaths. Witnesses also reported seeing a man wearing a blue jacket and blue jeans walking away from the bridge covered in mud and blood, they said it looked as if he had just been in a fight.
Additionally, the documents revealed for the first time that police found a .40 caliber unspent round between the girls’ bodies that had extraction marks on it.
Investigators analyzed the bullet and determined it had been cycled through a pistol belonging to Richard Allen, a Sig Sauer handgun he’d purchased in 2001.
During an interview that Allen voluntarily agreed to on Oct. 26, he told police he has never allowed anyone to use or borrow the firearm in the past.
When quizzed about the unspent bullet, Allen “did not have an explanation of why the bullet was found between the bodies” of Libby and Abby, the documents say.
Investigators think that Allen was the man that witnesses saw on the bridge and the man that was in the video captured by German. They also think no one saw him on the trail after 2:13 PM “because he was in the woods murdering Libby and Abby.”
Source The Sun
