DELPHI, Ind. — It has taken more than seven years for prosecutors to bring evidence regarding the murders of Abby Williams, 13, and Libby German, 14, before a jury.
For eight days, seven women and five men have sat in the jury box of a Carroll County courtroom and listened to the accounts of family members, witnesses, experts and police officers in the State’s pursuit of Richard Allen, 52.
They’ve been told that for five-and-a-half years, after a burst of tips and slight initial progress, the investigation into the murders went cold, save for video captured on Libby’s cell phone of Bridge Guy, the suspected killer, stalking the girls on the Monon High Bridge and then ordering them, “Guys…down the hill,” toward the south bank of Deer Creek followed the next day, February 14, 2017, with the discovery of the bodies and a single unfired bullet buried nose first into the ground at the crime scene, at least twenty yards up the opposite creek bank on private property…