Opening statements have been made in the trial of Richard Allen, who is accused of killing two teenage girls on a Delphi, Indiana, hiking trail back in 2017.
Richard Allen, 50, is charged with the kidnapping and murder of 13-year-old Abby Williams and 14-year-old Libby German. Prosecutors, in their opening statements, alleged that Allen is the man seen in a video taken by Libby telling the girls to go “down the hill.”
The video was recorded as the girls crossed the Monon High Bridge. Their bodies were found nearby the day after they went missing.
Carroll County Prosecutor Nicholas McLeland said during opening statements on Friday that Allen forced the girls down the hill by gunpoint. He described the crime scene to the jury.
“You’re going to see the crime scene,” he said, according to ABC News. “It was a gruesome scene. Libby was completely naked. Her throat was cut, blood all over. Abby’s throat was also cut.”
Defense attorney Andrew Baldwin argued that the state’s investigation was botched and that cell phone evidence shows Allen couldn’t have been the one to kill the girls. Baldwin said the prosecution claimed the girls were killed by 4 p.m. on February 13, 2017, and their bodies were not moved prior to their discovery the next day. Allen, who admitted to being on the trail the day the girls were killed, left the area by 2:15 p.m., according to his legal team citing phone records.
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