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Delphi murders: Richard Allen gets over 100 years in prison for 2017 killings

Delphi murders: Richard Matthew Allen, 50, is charged with two counts of murder in the Feb. 13, 2017, deaths of Abigail “Abby” Williams, top right, and Liberty “Libby” German, bottom right, who vanished on a hike in Delphi, Ind. The teens’ bodies were found on Valentine’s Day. (Indiana State Police)
(Indiana State Police)

DELPHI, Ind. — The man convicted of killing two teenage girls in Delphi, Indiana in 2017 has learned his sentence.

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Richard Allen was sentenced on Friday to 130 years, according to WPTA in Fort Wayne and WXIN in Indianapolis.

He was given 65 years for each death and his 760 days served since his arrest will count toward his sentence, CBS News reported.

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As News Center 7 previously reported, Allen was convicted of the killings of 13-year-old Abigail Williams and 14-year-old Liberty German in November.

The case has drawn outsized attention from true-crime enthusiasts, with repeated delays, a leak of evidence, the withdrawal of Allen’s public defenders and their reinstatement by the Indiana Supreme Court. It has also been the subject of a gag order.

Allen was arrested in October 2022. He became a suspect after a retired state government worker who had volunteered to help police with the investigation found paperwork in September 2022 showing that Allen had contacted authorities two days after German and Williams’ bodies were found.

That paperwork indicated that Allen had told an officer he had been on the hiking trail the afternoon the girls went missing, according to testimony.

For more than five years after the teens were killed, Allen still lived in Delphi while working at a local pharmacy.

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