A former drugstore employee in Delphi Indiana was convicted on Monday November 11th for the murder of two teenage girls who went missing on a hike…all the way back in 2017.
13 year old Abigail Williams and 14 year old Liberty German were found murdered in a forest outside of Delphi Indiana back in February 2017. The girls had been dropped off by a relative on a hiking trail earlier that day and eventually, communication with the girls went silent and they were soon reported missing. A grainy cell phone video of a man speaking to the girls recorded by one of the girls was the only sort of evidence for the case.
Investigators spent years in search for their murderer, tracing thousands of leads from all over the place, and the case eventually went cold. That was until September 2022, when a woman named Kathy Shank stepped in.
Shank was serving as a volunteer receptionist the day she stumbled upon a file of a man named Richard Allen. Allen had delivered a tip to the authorities saying he: “saw three girls as he walked along the Monon High Bridge Trail between 1:30 and 3:30 pm on February 13, 2017”. Shank connected the dots, realizing the time stamps Allen listed matched the time the girls were thought to have gone missing. She instantly reported the tip back to the lead detective claiming it was worth taking a deeper look into.
Allen was soon interviewed by authorities on October 13 2022. Allen claimed that he had seen “three juvenile girls” during his walk through the High Bridge Trail. Police searched his home and were able to seize a soon vital piece of evidence, a .40-caliber pistol. After further investigation, it was discovered that an unspent bullet was found on the crime scene that matched one found in Allen’s gun.
This was the extent of information that had been released openly to the public, up until just recently in November of this year.
Reports claim that Allen had openly admitted to murdering the girls on over 60 different occasions over the past 6 years. According to Carroll County Sheriff Tony Ligget, Richard Allen has just “got lost in the cracks”. Allen had never left the tiny town of Delphi Indiana, working at a CVS up until he was arrested.
Allen has been convicted of two counts of murder and two additional counts of murder while attempting to commit kidnapping. Thanks to the help of the dedicated investigators and countless other supporters for the case, this monster will finally be brought to justice. Allen is scheduled to be sentenced on December 20th of this year, facing up to 130 years in prison.
