2024-12-20 16:33:00
Richard Allen, the Indiana man convicted of the 2017 killings of two teenage girls who vanished during a winter hike, was sentenced on Friday to a maximum of 130 years in prison. The case captivated true-crime enthusiasts and haunted the small hometown of Delphi.
A special judge sentenced Allen during a hearing that began at 9 a.m. Allen, 52, was convicted on November 11 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.
Allen had faced between 45 years and 130 years in prison in the killings of the Delphi teens. He was sentenced on two of the four murder counts.
Allen also lived in Delphi and when he was arrested in October 2022, more than five years after the killings, he was employed as a pharmacy technician at a pharmacy only blocks from the county courthouse where he later stood trial.
The case, which included tantalizing evidence, has long drawn outsized attention from true-crime enthusiasts. The teens were found dead in February 2017, their throats cut, one day after they vanished while hiking during a day off school.
Allen was sentenced by Allen County Superior Court Judge Fran Gull, who along with the jurors, came from northeastern Indiana’s Allen County.
(With input from AP)
