Richard Allen, the man charged in the Delphi murders case, is at the Carroll County Courthouse for a pretrial hearing. He was wearing a bulletproof vest when police escorted him into the building.
UPDATE: Judge Gull will deal only with a safekeeping motion during Thursday’s hearing, according to I-Team 8 investigative reporter Richard Essex. Allen’s attorneys want him moved to a new correctional facility because of his treatment in prison. Gull and the attorneys are also discussing...
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6.15.2023
DELPHI, Ind. (WISH) — Richard Allen,
the suspect accused in the Delphi murders, is at the Carroll County Courthouse for a pretrial hearing.
News 8 cameras captured Allen being transported to the courthouse and escorted inside. He was wearing a bulletproof vest over his shirt.
Allen, a resident of Delphi,
was arrested in October for the February 2017 murders of 13-year-old Abigail “Abby” Williams and 14-year-old Liberty “Libby” German near the Monon High Bridge in Delphi.
Lawyers for Allen want Judge Frances Gull, a special judge from Allen County,
to block at least some ballistics evidence from the trial, according to a motion filed Tuesday. The full motion remains under seal and out of public view.
An unfired bullet was found near the Delphi crime scene, which investigators say links back to a gun owned by Allen.
“An unspent .40 caliber round between the bodies of Victim 1 and Victim 2 was forensically identified to have been cycled through Richard Allen’s Sig Sauer Model P226,” a probable cause affidavit reads.
The Sig Sauer Model P226 was found at Allen’s home, court papers say, and he admitted to owning it.