Carroll County Circuit Court/Indiana State Police
Former pharmacy technician and accused killer Richard Allen confessed in a jailhouse phone call with his wife, during which he admitted to murdering Delphi, Indiana teens Libby German and Abby Williams on a hiking trail in 2017, investigators say.
The revelation is contained in one of more than 100 court documents released Wednesday by order of Allen County Judge Frances Gull, who is overseeing Allen’s case. The tranche of filings also specifies for the first time that autopsies found the two girls were knifed to death after Allen allegedly abducted them by brandishing a gun. Several articles of the girls’ clothing were missing from the crime scene, including a pair of underwear and a sock, the document says.
Allen, a 50-year-old father of two, was arrested last October for the shocking double homicide, which had kept the small town of Delphi, a suburb of Lafayette, on edge for years.