Delphi murder suspect confessed to killing girls on hiking trail: prison doctor

An Indiana prison psychologist shared testimony Wednesday Delphi kills suspect Richard Allen’s alleged confessions behind bars.

Allen, 52, is accused of killing 14-year-old Liberty German and 13-year-old Abigail Williams as they walked on a street walking trail in Delphi on February 13, 2017. Their bodies were found the next day, but Allen was not arrested until October 2022.

“I killed Abby and Libby. I’m sorry,” Allen reportedly told Dr. Monica Wala have said, according to her testimony Wednesday during Allen’s double murder trial, as FOX 59 Indianapolis reported.

Wala is the chief psychologist for the Indiana Department of Correction and has spoken with Allen several times.

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The prison psychologist testified that Allen’s intentions in attacking Abby and Libby were “sexual” in nature, and he admitted to being a sex addict. Allen also told Wala that he was both an alcoholic and a victim perpetrator of sexual abuse, according to FOX59.

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Wala told the court Wednesday that Allen followed Abby and Libby on the High Monon Trail on Feb. 13, 2017, and ordered them “down the hill” where he planned to rape them.

The phrase “down the hill” comes from a video of a man taken with Libby’s phone just before they disappeared that day. Investigators would later discover the girls’ bodies and Libby’s phone under Abby’s body the next day.

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Allen allegedly told Wala that he was shocked by something – a man or a van – and at that moment he decided to do so brutally murdering the two girls, They cut their necks and covered their bodies with tree branches in a wooded area a short distance from the popular hiking trail, the psychologist said in court.

The then 44-year-old would continue to live his life normally after the murders, according to Wala’s account of Allen’s confessions.

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Allen also apparently expressed interest in apologizing to the victims’ families.

On April 13, Wala described Allen’s behavior as increasingly strange after he lay in bed and consumed his own feces. She believed he was having an “emotional breakdown due to guilt.”

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During a May phone call with his wife, Allen apparently told her, “I didn’t do everything I said I did, but I killed Abby and Libby,” after which his wife hung up on him, according to Wala’s testimony.

It was around that time that Allen started having suicidal thoughts and started talking about his last meal, Wala said.

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“I have to let my wife go,” he apparently told her at one point, according to FOX 59.

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Under cross-examination, Wala admitted to being a fan of true crime content, including podcasts and online discussions about the Delphi case, which she said she followed closely before working at the prison where Allen was being held. Wala even traveled to the scene of the crime near the High Monon Bridge at one point, she testified.

Wala also said Allen’s behavior in prison was consistent with that of someone with a serious mental illness, describing Allen as having “fatalistic delusions,” “hopelessness,” “insomnia” and “suicidal ideation.”

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Journalist Áine Cain, who co-hosts ‘The Murder Sheet’ podcast with Indiana-based attorney Kevin Greenlee, explained that, apart from Allen’s alleged confessions, much of the other evidence presented in court so far, Allen appears to have placed at the scene of the murder. the crime at the time it occurred, in a statement to Fox News Digital.

“The state has thus far built a compelling case against him simply by using its own words.”

– Aine Cain

“In some ways, Richard Allen has become the star witness for the prosecution,” Cain said. “The state has thus far built a compelling case against him simply by using its own words. Numerous women and girls saw Bridge Guy on or near the Delphi trails that day. Surveillance footage picked up a car resembling Allen’s Ford Focus driving towards the highway. trails at 1:27 p.m. Allen told police he was on the trails around 1:30 p.m. A group of teenagers saw the man captured on Libby’s phone near the Freedom Bridge. Allen told police that he had seen a group of girls around the same place around the same time.

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“A woman who was walking for exercise said she encountered Bridge Guy while he was standing on the first platform of the Monon High Bridge. Allen told police he was standing on that same platform and saw fish swimming by around the same time, Cain continued. “Allen claims he was looking at a stock quote on his phone. But his phone apparently doesn’t appear in the tower’s data. That same phone – the one he owned in 2017, when the murders occurred – is now missing, despite the fact that Allen had more than twenty other old phones lying around his house. Meanwhile, the forensic pathologist who has now performed an autopsy on the girls says a box cutter could explain some of the injuries.

Cain added that “Allen’s defense team will have to knock some of this down once they present their case.”