Recently released videos from 2022 show Richard Allen, the Indiana man convicted of killing two girls on a Delphi hiking trail in 2017, denying any involvement in the crime when questioned by Indiana officials and his wife.
In December 2024, an Indiana judge sentenced Allen to up to 130 years in prison for the murders of 13-year-old Abigail “Abby” Williams and 14-year-old Liberty “Libby” German, also known as the Delphi murders.
A jury found Allen guilty of murdering the two girls, who went missing while walking along the High Monon Trail on February 13, 2017. The next day, investigators discovered them both brutally murdered, their throats slashed several times and their bodies covered in sticks in a wooded area near the trail.
“It’s sounding more like you’re … I’m not going to be somebody’s fall guy,” Allen told investigators in an Oct. 13, 2022, interview video obtained by YouTuber Tom Webster and shared with Fox News Digital.
“I mean, it’s been so long, and I haven’t thought about this much, and it’s just, like, I don’t want to be someone’s fall guy. And we’re going to try to make pieces of a puzzle fit somewhere they don’t fit so we can close this thing … and please don’t think I’m questioning you’re integrity.”
The interview began lightheartedly when Allen entered the interrogation room with the investigators and laughed alongside them.
Allen was initially questioned in 2017 after the murders because he was on the High Monon Trail the day the girls went missing, but his name was scrubbed from the case due to a clerical error, as reported by journalist Áine Cain and Indiana-based attorney Kevin Greenlee, who co-host “The Murder Sheet” podcast.
Allen was arrested in 2022 after evidence led police to his home, where they found a gun matching an unspent bullet located at the crime scene and a blue jacket similar to the one a man was wearing in a video Libby took on the trail just before her disappearance. Allen’s arrest took the Delphi community by surprise at the time because he was a longtime employee at a local CVS.
“I guess I’m starting to feel more like I’m your main lead here, and I’m not gonna do that,” Allen told officials in the interview.
He also complained about police asking for permission to search his phones and other personal belongings.
Allen later explains that he and his wife watch “TV shows and stuff,” and that he does not “want to be associated with this thing more than anybody else does.”
“Am I an angel of a person? No.”
— Richard Allen
“Am I an angel of a person?” “No,” Allen replied. “I’m just like everyone else.” Maybe I don’t want you to look at every website I visit.
Allen is seen playing with a water bottle throughout the interview, which he finishes around 40 to 50 minutes in.
He said he understood police wanted “closure” for the victims’ families.
“We’re here because we can’t find the guy who did this, and I’m not going to become that guy. … As I previously stated, we watch ‘Dateline’ every week. We monitor everything, and… I mean, there is nothing that will bind me to it. I’m not worried about that, but about people searching my house and belongings. “My wife doesn’t even know I’m talking to people,” Allen explained. “I don’t want anyone to know I talked to you guys.”
In a separate video obtained by Tom Webster and shared with Fox News Digital from Oct. 26, 2022, Allen denies the crime to his wife.
“They’re trying to tell me you actually believe I did it, and I just can’t believe that,” Allen told his wife in the video. His wife responded that he was trying to figure out how his gun was linked to a bullet at the crime scene.
“I’m sure you know I didn’t do this,” Allen said. “And I’m not sure what they’re trying to accomplish here, but I’m not going to say anything false, and I’m not sure how to explain something I don’t understand. … There’s no way a bullet from my gun wound up at a murder scene. I didn’t murder anyone. I didn’t help anyone commit murder.”
Allen also stated that he did not see Abby or Libby on the High Monon Trail on February 13, 2017, and that he was not carrying his gun on the trail that day.
“They’re not gonna get away with this,” Allen says.
“They want you to think I done it.”
—Richard Allen
He repeatedly told his wife that she and he know each other, and he doesn’t understand how investigators discovered a bullet from his gun at the crime scene.
Allen then talks back and forth with an officer, who informs him that police have evidence that the bullet found at the scene came from his gun.
A video Libby recorded on her phone shortly before she and Abby were killed was one of the key pieces of evidence presented during Allen’s trial last year.
On October 22, jurors watched 43 seconds of video showing Libby and Abby walking with an unknown man wearing a hat and a blue utility jacket in court. Over the past five years, the man in the video has become known as “Bridge Guy.” Libby recorded the video at 2:13 p.m., less than 25 minutes after she and Abigail were dropped off at the trail by family members.
“Guys, down the hill,” the man says to the girls in the video.
Prosecutors argued that Allen is “Bridge Guy” after witnesses who testified against him said they saw him on the trail around the same time the girls vanished, and authorities discovered a similar blue utility jacket at Allen’s home in 2022.
Allen also admitted in one of dozens of jailhouse confessions that he had ordered the girls “down the hill.” He repeatedly confessed to killing the girls, claiming that he intended to rape them but was thwarted by a nearby van, prompting him to kill them.
His attorneys claimed that his declining mental stability caused him to make false statements while incarcerated.
More than five years after their deaths, investigators executed a search warrant at Allen’s home in Delphi on October 13, 2022, and discovered a blue Carhartt jacket, a SIG Sauer P226.40-caliber semiautomatic handgun, and a.40-caliber S&W cartridge in a “wooden keepsake box” from a dresser between two closets in Allen’s bedroom.
The handgun found at Allen’s home was consistent with a.40-caliber unspent bullet discovered at the murder scene in 2017, according to police.
