Finally! JUSTICE FOR ABBY AND LIBBY
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 11 November 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
It's taken seven years, but the families of Abby Williams and Libby German sat in a courtroom today and heard Richard Allen declared guilty by a 12-person jury. Allen was convicted on all four charges, two counts of murder and two counts of murder while kidnapping the girls. The jury listened to nearly three weeks of testimony and deliberated a total of 18 hours.
The bodies of teen girls were found near the Monon High Bridge in February 2017, in Delphi. Allen, a Delphi resident and local pharmacy tech was arrested five years after the murders. Searchers found the two girls dead in a wooded area near the Monon High Bridge. Libby was unclothed and bloodied. Both girls had their throats slit.
Allen, who confessed at least 60 times, showed no emotion or reaction as the verdict was read. He was then cuffed and taken from the courtroom.
Allen’s wife, Kathy Allen, said “this isn’t over at all” to 13 News as she left the courtroom.
Sentencing will be at 9am ET on December 20.
Joining Nancy Grace today:
- Sheryl McCollum – Forensics Expert & Cold Case Investigative Research Institute Founder; Host of Podcast: “Zone 7;” X: @149Zone7s
- Susan Hendricks – Journalist, Author: “Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi’;” IG: @susan_hendricks X @SusanHendicks
- Dave Mack - CrimeOnline Investigative reporter
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:07.0 | Guilty. |
| 0:08.0 | Guilty on all counts. |
| 0:10.0 | In the Delphi double murder trial, Richard Allen, has just been found guilty in the murders |
| 0:17.0 | of Little Abbey and Libby. |
| 0:20.0 | We are at the courthouse joining us, Susan Hendricks. |
| 0:23.3 | Susan, what happened? |
| 0:24.8 | Four days of deliberations, guilty on all counts. |
| 0:28.7 | Richard Allen, it sounds guilty on all counts. |
| 0:30.9 | Cheryl McCollum joining me, who has been covering the story from the very beginning along |
| 0:35.9 | with me, along with Susan Hendricks and Dave Mack. |
| 0:38.3 | Cheryl, I understand that people poured out of the courthouse |
| 0:43.3 | and had not made it to that bottom step where you and I waited to get in |
| 0:48.3 | and yelled out guilty. |
| 0:50.3 | And then a cheer went up all around. Nancy, they could not wait to get to the first step before they were celebrating |
| 1:00.0 | guilty on all count. |
| 1:02.0 | Finally, for Abby and Libby, justice is served. |
| 1:07.0 | A jury of five men, seven women, have returned a verdict of guilty. |
| 1:12.9 | Richard Allen guilty on four charges and the murders of Abigail Abby Williams and Liberty Libby |
| 1:19.6 | German, the 52-year-old Delphi man convicted. I saw when the defense attorneys were leaving the courthouse, people were asking, |
| 1:31.1 | hey, hey, talk to us, talk to us. They got in their cars. And they took off straight out to |
| 1:37.3 | Dave Mack. Dave Mack, we've all been studying the indictment. Correct me if I'm wrong. Two charges |
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