Editor’s note: The video in the player above is from a previous report on the Delphi murders.
Richard Allen, the man convicted in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls who vanished during a winter hike near Delphi, Indiana, was transferred to a prison out of state, according to a corrections’ website.
Allen, who had been lodged at the Pendleton Correctional Facility in Madison County, Indiana, was moved to the Lexington Assessment and Reception Center in Cleveland County, Oklahoma, on Thursday, according to the Oklahoma Corrections offender search.
A reason for the transfer remained unclear.
In December, Allen was sentenced to a maximum of 130 years in prison, one month after he was convicted in the killings of Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty German, 14, known as Abby and Libby. A jury found him guilty of two counts of murder and two counts of murder while committing or attempting to commit kidnapping.
The special judge in the case, Allen County Superior Court Judge Fran Gull sentenced Allen on two of the four murder counts and imposed the maximum of 65 years for each count, to be served consecutively. The sentencing hearing, which included victim impact statements from six relatives of the teens, lasted less than two hours.
One of Allen’s attorneys said they plan to appeal and seek a new trial.
Allen, who has maintained his innocence, had faced between 45 years and 130 years in prison in the killings of the Delphi teens, who were found dead in February 2017, their throats cut, one day after they vanished while hiking during a day off from school.
Allen’s trial came after repeated delays, a leak of evidence, the withdrawal of his public defenders and their reinstatement by the Indiana Supreme Court.
The case, which included tantalizing evidence, has long drawn outsized attention from true-crime enthusiasts.
A relative dropped the teens off at a hiking trail just outside Delphi on Feb. 13, 2017. The eighth graders didn’t arrive at the agreed pickup location and were reported missing that evening. Their bodies were found the next day in a wooded area near an abandoned railroad trestle they had crossed.
In his closing arguments at Allen’s trial, Carroll County Prosecutor Nicholas McLeland told jurors that Allen, armed with a gun, forced the youths off the hiking trail and had planned to rape them before a passing van made him change his plans and he cut their throats. McLeland said an unspent bullet found between the teens’ bodies “had been cycled through” Allen’s .40-caliber Sig Sauer handgun.
An Indiana State Police firearms expert told the jury her analysis tied the round to Allen’s handgun.
McLeland also noted that Allen had repeatedly confessed to the killings — in person, on the phone and in writing. In one of the recordings he replayed for the jury, Allen could be heard telling his wife, “I did it. I killed Abby and Libby.”
Allen’s defense argued that his confessions were unreliable because he was facing a severe mental health crisis while under the pressure and stress of being locked up in isolation, watched 24 hours a day and taunted by people incarcerated with him. A psychiatrist called by the defense testified that months in solitary confinement could make a person delirious and psychotic.
Defense attorney Bradley Rozzi said in his closing trial arguments that no witness explicitly identified Allen as the man seen on the hiking trail or the bridge the afternoon the girls went missing. He also said no fingerprint, DNA or forensic evidence links Allen to the murder scene.
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