OAN Staff James Myers
9:58am – Friday, December 20, 2024
Delphi murderer Richard Allen, convicted in the gruesome 2017 murders of Indiana teens Abigail Williams and Liberty German, was sentenced Friday to 130 years in prison.
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Allen was found guilty last month of murdering two eighth-graders, ages 13 and 14, nearly eight years after their bodies were found with their throats slit near a hiking trail.
The jury of seven women and five men deliberated about 19 hours over three days before finding Allen, 52, guilty on all charges.
The verdict took less than an hour.
The 52-year-old met the girls, who became close friends, on the Monon High Bridge Trail in February 2017.
Prosecutors said Allen forced the two men off the road at gunpoint and threatened to rape them, but changed his plans when a van drove by.
The deranged killer then forced them down a hill and slit their necks about 400 meters away from the path, where they were found the next day.
The disturbing murders that devastated the small city of Delphi, Indiana, remained unsolved until October 2022, when Allen admitted to killing the girls.
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