Posted on 11/11/2024 11:52:55 AM PST by Phoenix8
An Indiana jury on Monday afternoon reached a verdict for double murder suspect Richard Allen for the February 2017 killings of two girls who had been walking on a hiking trial in Delphi, known as the Delphi murders.
The verdict will be announced in a Carroll County courtroom.
The case had been more than seven years in the making since Abigail (Abby) Williams, 13, and Liberty "Libby" German, 14, disappeared during their walk on Feb. 13, 2017, and investigators found them both brutally murdered the next day, with sticks covering their bodies in a wooded area near the High Monon Trail.
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Multiple “life” sentences affect parole, pardon, and commutation decisions, and if one conviction is overturned the other may stand.
Thank God ... a guilty verdict on all counts. I have followed the trial closely (daily accounts) & didn’t see how the jury could reach any other verdict, but these days, you just don’t know.
I’d like to see multiple dead sentenced, administered consecutively.
Seems like some local radio stations were commenting daily how weak the State’s case was. But I wasn’t following it myself.
I always think of Richard Pryor’s routine...
“How do you do ‘Triple Life’, that means if he die and come back, he gotta go to penitentiary.”
“____ Kindergarten, get your ass back to the penitentiary....You know what you did last time you was here!”
The entire case seems to have hinged on the "confession" and people sadly do confess to things they did not do.
Not sure if it is the case here but he did confess to at least two crimes that he did not commit. Which would lead to reasonable doubt on my part.
Now this is the only article I have read, there undoubtedly a lot of stuff not included and the writers have a bias.
So I could be wrong.
ROFL!!!!
The state’s case was VERY strong - a few of their points:
Allen confessed a total of 62 times (wife, mother, jailers, warden, psychiatrist, etc)
A shell that ballistically matched his gun was found at the murder scene. In an interview, he was asked if he had loaned his gun to anyone or if anyone else had access to his gun .... answer was ‘no’.
He disclosed details of the crimes that only the murderer would know (a white van went by on the road near where he had the girls- he had planned to rape them, but after the van went by, he was spooked & just killed them - van & timing checked out)
He put himself at the park during the relevant time period (voluntarily spoke with a ranger after girls found)
Multiple witnesses who were in the park that day ID’d him as “Bridge Guy”
He had clothes that matched Bridge Guy’s
He admitted killing the girls by cutting their throats with a box cutter & throwing it away in a dumpster at work (CVS - pharmacy tech)
I’m sure I forgot a few things. The defense was what was ‘weak’.
It is my I understanding that he made several confessions under differing circumstances.
So , yes, I think the direct evidence was weak. But I don’t know how the jury can just write off these confessions.
Bottom line, if he's truly guilty, then I'm glad they got their man, but if he's not, then years down the line someone is going to have a lot of regrets.
I know nothing about guns, as will soon be evident, but it is my understanding that the bullet was not fired from his gun, but merely cycled through the chamber.
Would that leave enough markings to definitely prove it came for his gun, or just enough to prove it came for a similar gun?
I stopped following the news about this, in case they had to move the trial, and maybe I would be selected for the jury. I didn’t want to be swayed by news reports. It’s been a long time coming for justice for Abby and Libby.
“””Read the article and honestly not enough evidence to have made me vote guilty and certainly not the death penalty.”””
I have watched the entire proceedings of some high profile cases and when I read the media reports of the trial there seems to be a bias in favor of the defendant.
I’m amazed they even had a video of the killer with sound and STILL had trouble finding him.
Shows how important a clear image is. As a side note they say dozens if not hundred of serious crimes are unsolved because so many store owners buy the cheapest and low quality security cameras.
Well, there was the OJ case.
Just cycled through, as you said, & evidently “Melissa Oberg, an Indiana State Police firearms examiner, testified that she found through her analysis that the unspent cartridge, more commonly known as a round, had been cycled through the same Sig Sauer, Model P226, .40-caliber handgun that Allen owns. Oberg, who’s been analyzing firearms for 17 years, was the only witness in a long day of tedious and technical testimony that delved into the minutiae of firearm cartridges and what causes markings on them.”
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