Richard Allen was armed with a gun when he came across teenage friends Abigail “Abby” Williams and Liberty “Libby” German near a hiking trail in Delphi, Indiana, in February 2017, then used “power and the fear” to force them “down the hill” before slitting their throats, prosecutors said in their opening statement Friday in his double murder trial.
When the girls’ bodies were found the next day after they were reported missing, Libby, 14, was naked and covered in blood, while Abby, 13, was clothed in Libby’s sweatshirt and jeans, with other clothing dumped in a creek, Carroll County Prosecutor Nick McLeland told jurors. He choked up while describing the scene to the jury of seven women and five men.
The “last face the girls saw” was Allen’s, McLeland said.
He said that Allen would later admit to police to walking along the trail that day, and that an unspent bullet found at the scene and confessions he allegedly gave, including to his wife, would prove he is guilty in the teens’ deaths. The prosecution also plans to call witnesses who said they saw Allen at the trail…