Richard Allen trial begins in Delphi, Indiana killings [Video]

DELPHI, Ind. –

A man charged with killing two teenage girls in a small Indiana community forced them off a hiking trail before cutting their throats, a prosecutor said Friday, telling jurors that the evidence includes images and audio recorded on a victim’s phone.

“The last thing the girls saw was Richard Allen’s face,” Carroll County prosecutor Nicholas McLeland said.

And they heard his “chilling words: ‘Girls, down the hill,’ ” McLeland said. “Out of fear the girls complied.”

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Richard Allen, 52, who lived in Delphi, population 3,000, is charged with two counts of murder as well as two additional counts of murder while committing or attempting to commit kidnapping.

The pharmacy technician was arrested in 2022, five years after the deaths of 13-year-old Abigail Williams and 14-year-old Liberty German, a case that had vexed local police and …