Richard Allen, the man convicted of killing two teen girls in Delphi, Indiana seven years ago, was sentenced to 130 years in prison.
Special Judge Fran Gull handed Allen the maximum 65-year sentence for each murder charge on Friday morning. The sentencing hearing lasted just over an hour.
Last month, a jury found Allen, 52, guilty of four counts of murder and kidnapping in the deaths of Abigail “Abby” Williams, 13, and Liberty “Libby” German, 14. The jury deliberated over four days before reaching their decision, to which Allen reportedly did not react while his wife looked on and sobbed.
Williams and German disappeared on February 13, 2017, after going for a walk on Monon High Bridge Trail near Delphi. Their bodies were discovered near the trail the next day. Their throats had been slashed and they were covered with sticks and arranged into “pagan” symbols, court documents revealed.
Police did not arrest Allen — a husband, father and CVS employee — until October 2022. When they first questioned him, he admitted to being on the trail that day but denied any involvement with the murder.
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