Delphi murders: What happened this week in Richard Allen's trial?

Five years before he was charged with killing two middle school students near an Indiana trail, Richard Allen reached out to authorities about the double murder: He’d been in the area the day the girls were killed, he told an investigator at the time.

Five years before he was charged with killing two middle school students near an Indiana trail, Richard Allen reached out to authorities about the double murder: He’d been in the area the day the girls were killed, he told an investigator at the time.

That information, contained in a “lead sheet” maintained by law enforcement, was inadvertently marked clear, and it wasn’t until 2022 when a volunteer clerk tasked with helping organize thousands of tips in the investigation discovered it and set into motion the events that led to Allen’s arrest.

The revelation emerged in a Carroll County courtroom this week, where law enforcement officers, witnesses and others detailed their involvement in the case during the first full week of testimony about the Feb. 13, 2017, killings of Liberty German, 14, and Abigail Williams, 13.

Liberty German and Abigail Williams. NBC ChicagoLawyers for Allen, a 52-year-old former CVS employee, have said he is “truly innocent.” 

In court filings, Allen's legal team has said the killings could have been part of a ritual sacrifice, and at trial, they’ve challenged the prosecution’s timeline as well as accounts from witnesses that, in one instance, placed a man “covered in mud and blood” near the area where the teens’ bodies were found.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/delphi-murders-richard-allen-trial-rcna177392

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