Delphi kills suspect’s confessions ‘not what I expected,’ says expert

An Indiana-based journalist and podcaster, who has covered the Murders of two girls in 2017, known as the Delphi murders, said suspect Richard Allen’s several confessions to his wife, which were played aloud in court, were not what she “expected.”

Allen, 52, who 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, apparently made more than 60 incriminating statements to a prison psychologist and made more confessions to his wife and mother during recorded prison conversations.

“Richard Allen’s recorded confessions to his wife and mother were not what I expected. He did not sound hysterical or agitated as he repeatedly confessed. He sounded calm, jovial and determined to convince his family that he had murdered two children,” said journalist Áine. Cain, who co-hosts the podcast “The Murder Sheet” with Indiana-based attorney Kevin Greenlee, told Fox News Digital in a statement. “He seemed particularly interested in reassuring family members that they would love him no matter what.”

Among the confessions Allen made between 2022 and 2023, Allen said the following to his wife Kathy: according to FOX 59 Indianapolis.

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Richard Allen was arrested in October 2022 for the 2017 murders of 14-year-old Liberty German and 13-year-old Abigail Williams. (Indiana State Police)

“I’m sorry, honey. There’s one more thing I’ll think of for you.’

“I killed Abby and Libby.”

‘I think I did it.

‘I think so. Don’t know. I wish they would kill me and make me apologize to the families.”

–Richard Allen

‘I have to tell you something. You should know I did this.”

‘I did it. Kathy, I did it. Do you still love me?’

Officers transport murder suspect Richard Allen, November 22, 2022, to Carroll County Courthouse in Delphi, Indiana. (Alex Martin/Journal and Courier/USA Today Network)

Kathy often responded by telling her husband that he “didn’t” kill the two girls, and in one conversation told Allen, “They’re messing with your mind.”

“You can’t call me and talk like that,” she told Allen on another phone call.

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Former federal prosecutor and president of West Coast Trial Lawyers Neama Rahmani said Allen’s confessions were “the most damning” evidence in his case.

“I think the most difficult piece of evidence in the case for the defense is the words of Richard Allen himself.”

– Neama Rahmani

“There wasn’t just one. We’re talking about 60 confessions over a period of time. And while Allen may have confessed to things he didn’t do, like abusing his daughter, he did confess to his wife at some point.” that even though he made some false confessions, the murders of Libby and Abby were real,” Rahmani said.

Delphi police recovered Libby’s cell phone under her body on February 14, 2017. The phone contained a 43-second video of Abigail walking along the Monon High Bridge Trail in Delphi toward Libby as a man wearing a dark jacket and jeans stood behind her walked on. (FOX Nation)

The recorded confessions were played in a Carroll County courtroom the following October 31 the court heard witness statements about his other confessions to Dr. Monica Wala on October 30.

“I killed Abby and Libby. I’m sorry,” Allen allegedly told Wala leading psychologist for the Indiana Department of Correction — in prison, according to her testimony Wednesday during Allen’s double murder trial, as FOX 59 Indianapolis reported.

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 an alcoholic, but also both a victim and perpetrator of sexual assault, according to FOX 59.

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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.

Indiana State Police Capt. Doug Carter speaks during a press conference on the Delphi murder investigation, April 22, 2019, at the Canal Center in Delphi. (© Nikos Frazier/Journal & Courier/USA Today Network)

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

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.

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“The confession to Dr. Monica Wala is of particular interest because of the level of detail and the fact that Allen claims he was interrupted by a van,” Cain told Fox News Digital of Wala’s testimony. “Resident Brad Weber, who lives near the bridge, testified that he would have been riding home in a van that day around the time of the kidnapping.”

Snow covers the waters of Deer Creek as the Monon High Bridge towers above, Feb. 9, 2022, in Delphi. (© Nikos Frazier/Journal & Courier/USA Today Network)

Cain said she was also “impressed by how similar” Allen’s voice is to the voice that ordered Abby and Libby “down the hill” on the High Monon Bridge Trail, also known as “Bridge Guy.”

“That said, that’s not admissible evidence. Experts need more than four words to do any analysis. And Bridge Guy was only recorded saying ‘Guys, down the hill,'” Cain added.

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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.

“When Allen confessed to killing the two girls, he confessed that he was the person in the Snapchat video and said, ‘Down the hill,’” Rahmani said. “In addition, he also said that he intended to rape the girls, but was startled by the white van. That was not public information and information that may have been known only to the killer.”

Sketches and video footage of the suspect in the Delphi murders through the years. (Indiana State Police)

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

“Probably the best evidence the defense has is that Allen’s confessions were either coerced, false, or actually Allen’s own actions – eating feces, taking off his clothes, being naked, washing his face in the toilet, eating paper and all those other things. strange behavior,” Rahmani explained. ‘It is also clear that he has lost a significant amount of weight during his time in prison. So maybe the judges think this is all due to mental health or some other psychiatric problem. They can brush aside those confessions, but it will be so. very difficult because there are so many different confessions over such a long period of time.”

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This week, jurors heard more from experts about Allen’s declining mental health in prison since his arrest in 2022, including video evidence showing Allen sitting in the jail completely naked or wearing a cloth or hood over his face. according to FOX59.