A video, recently released in 2022, denied the role of the crime when he was questioned by an Indiana official and wife on a show by Richard Aunt, an Indiana man convicted of killing two girls on a hiking trail in Delphi in 2017.
An Indiana judge in December 2024 was sentenced to Allen up to 130 years behind the bar for the murder of 13-year-old Abigail “Abby” Williams and 14-year-old Liberty “Libby” Germans. Known as the Delphi murder.
Ju-dean found Allen who claimed to have killed two girls who disappeared while walking along the High Monon Trail on February 13, 2017.
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“It resonates more with you… I’m not going to be someone’s fall guy,” Allen told investigators on October 13, 2022, an interview video obtained by YouTuber Tom Webster and shared with Fox News Digital.
“I mean, it’s been such a long time and I don’t think much about this. It’s just that I don’t want to be someone else’s autumn guy, and we try to make a piece of puzzle where they don’t fit.
supt. Indiana State Police Doug Carter will be taking place at Delphi Canal Center at a press conference with an update on the investigation into the Delphi murder. (©Nikos Frazier/Journal & Courier/USA Today Network)
The interview began hilariously as Allen entered the interrogation room with investigators and laughed with them.
Allen was questioned in 2017 after the murder as he was on the High Monon Trail on the day the girls went missing, but his name was scrubbed by his office as journalist Ain Cain and journalist Ain Cain, who co-hosts the Indiana-based “Murder Sheet” podcast, and Indiana judicialist Kevin Greenley, first reported.
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Richard Allen was arrested in October 2022 for the 2017 murder of a 14-year-old Free German and 13-year-old Abigail Williams. (Indiana State Police)
Allen was arrested in 2022 after leading police to her home, where she found a bullet that was not ahead of the crime scene and a gun that fits a matching blue jacket that resembles the video that Libby wore on the trail just before her loss of disappearance. Allen’s arrest surprised the Delphi community at the time, as he was a longtime employee of the local CVS.
“I think I’m starting to feel like your main lead here, and I’m not going to do that,” Allen told officials in an interview.
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On February 14, 2017, 14-year-old Libby German and 13-year-old Abby Williams were killed while riding their bikes on a trail near Delphi, about 60 miles northwest of Indianapolis. (Indiana State Police)
He also had issues with police seeking permission to search for his cell phone and other personal belongings.
Allen later says that he and his wife are watching “television shows and more,” and that he doesn’t say he “want to be associated with this more than anyone else.”
“Am I a human angel? No?”
“Am I an angel of men? No,” Allen said. “I mean, I’m like someone else… I might not want to see every website I’ve visited.”
Throughout the interview, Allen can be seen playing with a water bottle.
The snow covers the waters of Deer Creek on February 9, 2022, as the Monon Hybridge Tower in Delphi. (Nikos Frazier/Journal & Courier/USA Today Network)
He said he understood that police wanted the victim’s family to “close.”
“We’re here because we haven’t found the guy who did this. I’m not going to change to that guy… Like I said, we look at the ‘data line’ every week. We see everything. I mean, I’m not worried about tying it. “I don’t want anyone to know what I’ve talked to you.”
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A rough cell phone video footage and sketches of the main suspects in the murder of local Delphi girls Abigail Williams and Liberty Germany at the office wall of Carroll County Sheriff Tobe Lizenby. (Robert Scheer/Indystar/USA Today Network)
In another video obtained by Tom Webster and shared with Fox News Digital from October 26, 2022, Allen denies the crime to his wife.
“They are trying to tell me I actually believe I did it, and I can’t believe it,” Allen told his wife on the video. His wife replied that she was trying to understand how his gun is linked to a crime scene bullet.
“I know I didn’t do this,” Allen said. “And I don’t know they’re trying to do this, but I’m not going to say anything that’s not true, and I don’t know how to explain something that I don’t understand… There’s no way a bullet from my gun would end up at the murder scene. I didn’t kill anyone.”
Allen added that he didn’t see Abby and Libby on the High Monon Trail on February 13, 2017, and that he didn’t have a gun with him on the trail that day.
“They don’t want to run away from this,” Allen says.
“They want you to think I did it.”
He repeatedly told his wife that she knows him, and he knows her, and he does not understand how investigators found a bullet from his gun at the crime scene.
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Allen goes back and forth with officers who tells Allen police that they have evidence that the bullets found at the scene came from his gun.
One of the key evidence presented at Allen’s trial last year was Video Libby, recorded on her phone at one point. Before she and Abby were killed.
Officers will transport Richard Allen to a suspected murder at a hearing on November 22, 2022, about sealed documents at Carroll County Courthouse in Delphi, Indiana. (Alex Martin/Journal and Courier/USA Today Network)
Ju’s judge watched the 43-second video. This showed Libby and Abby walking alongside an unknown man wearing a hat and a blue utility jacket on October 22nd. The man in the video has become known as the “Bridge Guy” over the past five years. Libby filmed the video at 2:13pm. It’s less than 25 minutes after she and Abigail’s family have dropped them down on the trail.
“Man, head down the hill,” the man told the girl in the video.
Prosecutors allegedly Allen was a “bridge guy” after witnesses who said Allen saw him around the same time the girl disappeared recovered a similar blue utility jacket from Allen’s home in 2022.
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Delphi murder suspect Richard Allen, who held the hearing in June, lives in a 6-foot-by-10-foot cell, and sleeps on pads on concrete floors “more than that in a dog kennel.” (Fox 59 Indianapolis)
Allen also admitted in one of the dozen prison confessions that he ordered the girl to “down the hill.” He repeatedly confesses to killing girls, and apparently he wants to rape them, but is scared by a nearby van, at which point he decides to kill them.
His lawyer said his poor mental stability led him to make false statements behind the bar.
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More than five years after their deaths, Investigators executed a search warrant At Allen’s house in Delphi on October 13, 2022, they recovered a blue carhartt jacket, a SIG SAUER P226 .40 caliber semi-automatic handgun, and a 0.40 caliber S&W cartridge of a “wooden memorabilia” between the dresser between the two closets in Allen’s bedroom.
The handgun recovered at Allen’s home coincided with a bullet police officer that was found at the location of the murder in 2017. Police said.
Patrick McGovern of Fox News contributed to this report.
