Richard Allen, 52, has been found guilty in the 2017 murders of two teenage girls near the small Indiana town of Delphi. A jury yesterday convicted Allen of two counts of murder and two counts of murder while kidnapping. The verdict comes more than seven years after an investigation began into one of Indiana's most high-profile cases, which has drawn national attention.
Abigail "Abby" Williams, 13, and Liberty "Libby" German, 14, went missing Feb. 13, 2017, after hiking near their hometown of 3,000 people. Their bodies were found a day later in a wooded area near the Delphi Historic Trail. Prosecutors presented evidence of Allen's voice captured on German's cellphone video instructing the girls to go "down the hill." Investigators had also seized a .40-caliber pistol from Allen's house and linked it to an unspent bullet (one that wasn't fired) found between the girls' bodies.
Allen will be sentenced Dec. 20. He faces a potential sentence of up to 130 years in prison. See a timeline of events in the case here.
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