Man denies teen double murder who he claims were ritualistically sacrificed
A man charged with the murder of two teenage girls has insisted on his innocence and claimed the teens were instead “ritualistically sacrificed.”
14-year-old Liberty German and 13-year-old Abigail Williams were murdered on 13th February 2017, while hiking through Indiana’s Delphi Historic Trails.
No arrests were made after their bodies were tragically found dead in a wooded area near the walking trail one day later and the case subsequently went cold for five years. Footage of a mysterious man - known as ‘bridge guy’ - telling the girls to walk down a hill had been found on Libby’s phone at the time but gave no promising leads.
Then, in 2022, police arrested Richard Allen, 50, who is thought to be ‘bridge guy’. He was arrested under suspicion of murdering the girls and later charged. Since his arrest, Allen confessed to the 2017 murders multiple times in jail phone calls to his wife. However, in official pleas, he has always maintained his innocence.
Richard Allen was arrested in 2022, 5 years after the murders (Indiana State Police)Now, Allen’s attorneys have filed claims that the girls were actually sacrificed as part of a pagan ritual by a Norse religion and white nationalist cult called ‘Odinism’ in an unprecedented twist in the case.
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Bradley Rozzi and Andrew Baldwin, Allen’s attorneys, are insisting County Judge Frances Gull throws out the evidence collected in the search of Allen’s home before his arrest last year. During the search, investigators found Allen’s gun, forensically linking him to the case and the bullet found near the bodies of the girls.
The lawyers are arguing authorities either withheld information from a judge or intentionally lied in order to get the warrant used to search Allen’s home. They claim investigators neglected to include important information linking the case to Odinism in their request.
In 2022 Indiana State Police Superintendent Doug Carter announced Allen's arrest (Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock)In the bombshell court filings, the defence team states: “Members of a pagan Norse religion, called Odinism, hijacked by white nationalists, ritualistically sacrificed Abigail Williams and Liberty German.”
The 130-page document highlights evidence supposedly linking the murders to a cult killing, claiming ‘runes’ - letters from the ancient Germanic alphabet, apparently indicative of a ritualistic killing - made out of sticks had been left around the girls’ bodies. It also states Abby had sticks in her hair, which “crudely mimicked horns or antlers.”
“Evidence supports that at the crime scene, these murdering Odinites left behind obvious signatures, symbols in the form of runes,” the filings say.
The lawyers point to evidence that a local man posted social media images mimicking runes found at the scene in weeks after the killings.
“The Defense believes that the Court will be shocked at the number of clues or 'easter eggs', both before and after the murders, that he openly posted on his Facebook page that pointed the finger to his involvement in the murders,” the filings state.
Undermining the validity of the search warrant, the report also claims the FBI were convinced that “individual(s) responsible for the homicides were involved in Nordic beliefs.”
The document also accuses four other men of being involved with the murders, with one having allegedly confessed to murdering the girls to his sister.
The official investigation is 'an utter failure in pursuing the Odinist suspects, in spite of powerful evidence of Odinites involvement in the murders,' Allen's attorneys say.
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The defence lawyers adamantly deny Allen’s involvement and say he has no links to Odinism, or any other pagan religions or white nationalist groups.
According to the filings, Rushville's ex-Assistant Police Chief Todd Click told prosecutors there were men who practised Odinism in or near Delphi with another group in Rushville in a letter.
The cop, who has now retired, said in the letter that he and two other officers had “connected both groups of men to the murders.”
Nicholas McLeland, Carroll County Prosecutor, has openly stated that he believes “Allen is not the only actor involved in this,” but still insists he was involved.
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