An Indiana court heard Wednesday that Richard Allen, the man suspected of killing the two teenage girls at Delphi, told his doctor that he was addicted to sex and planned to rape them before killing them.
Allen, 52, is on trial for killing Abigail “Abby” Williams and Liberty “Libby” German. The two women went missing on February 13, 2017, and their bodies were found the next day near the Monon High Bridge trail, where they had been walking. Allen was caught in 2022 after a mistake in a report showed that he had told police before that he was on the trail the day the girls went missing.
This week in a Carroll County courtroom, a jury watched video of Allen’s interviews with police and heard testimony about how strongly the suspect denied confessing to the killings. Watch the video here. TV cameras are not allowed in the courtroom, and pictures and videos are not being shown outside of court.
Allen’s psychologist at the Westville Correctional Facility was Dr. Monica Wala. On Wednesday, Wala said that Allen told her that he killed Abby and Libby during one of their meetings in 2023.
Allen saw Wala every day while he was on suicide watch at the hospital. He told her more than once that he had killed them because he didn’t want them to suffer.
Wala says Allen told her that he planned to kill the people because they were “sexual in nature.” Allen said he was an alcoholic and a sex junkie. She told the court that he talked in great detail about how he killed the girls by cutting their throats and putting twigs over their bodies.
Wala told the judge that Allen also told him he wanted to say sorry to the families of the girls.
But he had mood swings, she told the court, and he often went off on tangents that were accompanied by strange behavior like drinking from the toilet and eating human waste. Allen told Wala, “Because I’m crazy,” when asked why he did what he did.
Wala said that Allen didn’t seem as desperate to her and that he “could not kill himself because he was too much of a coward.”
Before she testified, the jury watched video of Allen being questioned by police in October 2022, which led to his arrest.
One interrogation started out politely but quickly got heated when Allen told investigators that he “did not murder two little girls.” At the end, Allen and an Indiana State Police agent named Jerry Holeman were swearing at each other as Allen told them to just arrest him.
In court, the warden of the Westville Correctional Facility and a number of correctional guards said that Allen had admitted to killing the girls while he was in jail.
They testified that Allen had told them at one point that he killed the girls with a box cutter and threw the body parts in a CVS dumpster. At the same time, guards told the jury about Allen’s strange behavior while he was in jail.
Allen has been charged with two counts of murder and two more counts of murder while taking or trying to kidnap someone.
Authorities say Allen is the person known as “Bridge guy” who was seen on video footage taken on Libby’s cell phone. One of the few pictures of the man that was shown to the public after the killings while police looked for a suspect was grainy. People who are interested in true crimes loved the case, and it took years to catch Allen.
During a search of Allen’s home, police found a.40-caliber pistol. In court papers released a few weeks after his arrest, prosecutors said that tests showed that the pistol had “been cycled through” by an unspent bullet found between the girls’ bodies.
But last week, Dr. Roland Kohr, the pathologist who did the autopsies, said that both girls died from deep cuts on their necks. There were no signs of harm from sexual attack.
Seven women and five men will decide what will happen to Allen. They are being locked up for a hearing that could last a month. They are not allowed to watch the news and can only use their phones to call family while being watched.
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