Judge Approves New Murder Charges Against Man in Case of Slain Indiana Teens

Published on March 20, 2024

INDIANAPOLIS—A judge approved two additional murder counts Monday against an Indiana man charged in the killings of two teenage girls but rejected a prosecutor’s bid to add kidnapping charges. The new charges approved against Richard Allen of Delphi are murder while committing or attempting to commit kidnapping. Mr. Allen was arrested in October 2022 and charged with murder in the 2017 slayings of 13-year-old Abigail Williams and 14-year-old Liberty German. He pleaded not guilty to the original murder charges. Carroll County Prosecutor Nicholas McLeland said when he filed the amended charges in January that it “more accurately aligns the charging information with the cause’s discovery and probable cause affidavit.”...

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