This is a true crime in real time update from True Crime Today and the Hidden Killers podcast.

It began with an image, a man, hands tucked into his pockets, walking along an abandoned bridge.

His grainy silhouette would become infamous, plastered across screens and flyers, haunting the small town of Delphi.

He was dubbed Bridge Guy, and for five long years, he remained faceless, voiceless,

until suddenly the silence shattered.

Jurors filed into the Carroll County Courthouse with the weight of a community on their shoulders.

Inside, Richard Allen, the man

accused of brutally murdering Abby Williams and Libby German, sat in stoic silence. Outside,

townsfolk clutched signs bearing the girls' names, their hopeful eyes betraying years of grief

and unanswered questions. Friday marked the end of the jury's first full day of deliberations.

Seven hours of sifting through harrowing testimony and conflicting evidence,

yet they emerged with no verdict.

For those watching closely, it wasn't just another trial.

It was Delphi's reckoning.

What the jury wrestled with was not just Allen's fate, but the reliability of evidence presented by the prosecution. The centerpiece,

a chilling video and audio clip recovered from Libby's phone on that fateful February day in 2017.

The video shows the girls traversing the Monon High Bridge moments before their encounter with the man in the blue jacket.

His gravelly voice captured forever, commanded, guys, down the hill.

The prosecution argued that this was no ordinary voice.

It was Allen's, instructing the girls to their deaths.

But that wasn't all. Prosecutors introduced an unspent bullet found between the victim's bodies,

according to state experts, markings on the bullet matched Allen's Sig Sauer pistol,

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