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Man, 50, arrested in connection with Delphi murders: Indiana police gasp in cold 2017 case gripping nation
- Richard Allen, 50, has been arrested in connection with the 2017 murders
- It is the first time his name has ever appeared in connection with the murders
- Libby German and Abigail Williams, 14, were both murdered in September 2017
- Their bodies were found near a hiking trail; the girls had made a video of a man walking up to them and recorded him saying ‘down the hill’
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A 50-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the Delphi murders of Libby German and Abigail Williams.
Richard Allen, 50, was arrested Friday in Indiana. It is not yet clear what exactly he is accused of.
The girls were murdered in 2017 after meeting a man on abandoned train tracks in the city of Delphi.
Their murders went unsolved for five years.
Allen’s arrest marks the first time his name has been publicly associated with the case.
Abigail Williams, left, and Liberty German, right, were murdered in February 2017 after walking. No one has ever been arrested for the murders of 14-year-old girls
This is the suspect that Libby filmed on her Snapchat account before she was killed. She also recorded a man who said ‘down the hill’
A police reconstruction of the latest snapchat images sent by Libby German and Abigail Williams on the day of their deaths
Allen’s connection to the girls remains unclear and police say they will not hold a press conference until Monday.
He was initially placed in the county jail, but was soon transferred to a state facility for fear for his own safety.
In December, there was a flurry of excitement over the case after officers linked a fake Instagram profile of Anthony Shots to the investigation into the murders.
The person behind the account was Kegan Kline, who was 22 at the time of the murders and was arrested a month after them on suspicion of possession of child pornography.
He lived not far from where the girls were murdered, and many drew similarities between him and the man photographing the girls on the bridge.
However, Kline insisted he was innocent.
The only other man previously associated with the case was James Chadwell, who was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping another young girl in the same area.
Delphi police have always kept quiet about crucial parts of the investigation, including how the girls died or what condition their bodies were in when they were found.
They have not yet revealed what kind of evidence they have against Allen.
The families of the two girls have not yet publicly commented on the news of Allen’s arrest.
The only two people previously associated with the murders were Kegan Kline, left, who was arrested a month after the murders for possession of child pornography, and James Chadwell, right, who was arrested for kidnapping another girl in the same area. area