DELPHI KILLER RICHARD ALLEN CONVICTED OF GRUESOME DEATH OF TEENS LIBBY AND ABBY DEMANDS REVERSAL
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 20 June 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Richard Allen, convicted in the 2017 murders of Abigail Williams and Liberty German in Delphi, Indiana, has filed an appeal to overturn his conviction. Oral arguments will be heard September 21, 2026.
The jury took two minutes from entering the courtroom to announce the verdict: Richard Allen, guilty on all charges.
Allen was convicted of felony murder for Abby Williams and Libby German, as well as for knowingly and intentionally killing both girls. Judge Gull maintained order in the courtroom, where there were no outbursts, but outside on the streets of Delphi, shouts of "Guilty on all charges" echoed.
The jury, composed of seven women and five men, heard 17 days of testimony, including dozens of witnesses, disturbing jailhouse videos of Richard Allen, and photos of Abby and Libby as they were found at the crime scene.
They deliberated for 19 hours over parts of four days to reach a unanimous verdict. Richard Allen was found guilty of four counts: two counts of felony murder and two counts of knowingly and intentionally killing Abby Williams and Libby German.
Delphi residents tell reporters that they are still in shock after learning that local pharmacy tech Richard Allen has been charged in the 2017 murder of teens Liberty German and Abigail Williams.
Photos of Allen in a local bar with the police sketch of the murder suspect posted on the wall behind him have surfaced.
We have also learned that while at work, Allen developed photos of the girls, to be used at their funeral, for the families at no charge.
Police say Allen came forward as a witness in the early days of the investigation, but nothing at that time linked him to the crime.
Joining Nancy Grace Today:
- David Yoder - Richard Allen's former neighbor
- Fran Longwell - Former Deputy State’s Attorney (Calvert County, MD), Former Assistant State’s Attorney (Prince George’s County, MD) specializing in child abuse, sex offenses and homicides
- Caryn Stark - NYC Psychologist; Twitter: @carynpsych, Facebook: "Caryn Stark"
- Sheryl McCollum - Forensic Expert, Founder: Cold Case Investigative Research Institute in Atlanta, GA.; @ColdCaseTips
- Dr. Todd M. Barr - Board-Certified Anatomic/Clinical/Forensic Pathologist (Ohio), Featured in "Thin Places: Essays From In Between" by Jordan Kisner; Twitter: @ToddBarrME
- Max Lewis - Reporter, FOX59 (Indianapolis); Twitter/Instagram: @MaxLewisTV, Facebook.com/MaxLewisTV
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:03.4 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.8 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:12.0 | Richard Allen and his fleet of lawyers taking their case back to the appellate court in their attempt to have his conviction in the murders of two |
| 0:23.6 | little girls, Abby and Libby and Delphi, reversed. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I want to thank |
| 0:33.1 | you for being with us. That's right, the man convicted in the gruesome murders of two little girls, |
| 0:40.2 | Abby and Libby in Delphi, is demanding his case be overturned. Richard Allen, the local pharmacy |
| 0:49.7 | text, sentenced to 130 years behind bars in the murders of 13-year-old Abby and 14-year-old Libby, |
| 0:58.0 | and now demands his case is reversed. |
| 1:02.6 | I remember when their two little bodies were found in a heavily wooded area, |
| 1:07.9 | but it was about five years later that Allen was arrested hiding in plain sight. |
| 1:15.6 | While the defense team is painting an entirely different picture to the appellate court, this is what happened. |
| 1:22.1 | Convicted Delphi double killer, Richard Allen, local pharmacy tech, makes chilling statements to his own |
| 1:29.7 | mother after he murders Libby and Abby and before, long before he is arrested. |
| 1:37.6 | Of course, when the two best friends, Abby and Libby, didn't come home from the local |
| 1:43.1 | hiking trail, Delphi residents dropped everything |
| 1:48.3 | they were doing to help find the girls, and then their worst nightmares came true. |
| 1:54.7 | The girls' bodies mutilated were discovered in the woods the next day. |
| 2:03.0 | But now we learn one person, a 45-year-old pharmacy tech, a husband, a father, a son, |
| 2:12.6 | was making really weird comments about the murders and trying to talk his own relatives out of joining |
| 2:22.3 | the searches. I didn't know that at trial. This is all new. And we're learning it all from |
| 2:29.8 | shadow of the bridge, the Delphi murders, and the dark side of the American heartland. |
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