A 52-year-old man who prosecutors said was “hiding in plain sight” was found guilty on Monday of the brutal murders of two girls in the small town of Delphi, Indiana, more than seven years ago. The 2022 arrest of Richard Allen, 52, a married Delphi resident who worked at a local CVS, had been a surprising development in what for years had been an unsolved case. Libby German, 14, and her best friend, Abby Williams, 13, disappeared from a hiking trail on Feb.
13, 2017, and their bodies were found the next day beside a creek about half a mile away. Allen confessed to the killings more than 60 times while he was being held in prison before the trial, prosecutors said. But his defense attorneys argued he was innocent, discounting the confessions as brought on by his poor mental health under the conditions of incarceration.
Allen was found guilty of two counts of murder and two counts of murder while kidnapping. The jury of seven women and five men — who were selected in another county and were sequestered for the duration of the trial — deliberated for about 18 hours after hearing 17 days of testimony. The case had drawn the attention of true crime fans and online sleuths for the many questions that surrounded what happened to the girls, even as a video from Libby’s phone seemed to capture the moment their killer approached them on an abandoned railroad bridge.
Prosecutors said Allen was the man — dubbed by online sleuths as “Bridge Guy” — glimpsed and heard in t.
