An unspent .40 caliber bullet found at the crime scene in February and a second-chance interview with Richard Allen more than five years after Abby Williams and Libby German were killed led to two counts of murder against the 50-year-old Delphi man, according to charging documents unsealed Tuesday.
Judge Fran Gull, an Allen Superior Court judge appointed to the case, on Tuesday ordered the release of a probable cause affidavit connected to murder charges filed in October against Allen. Gull ruled that Carroll County Prosecutor Nick McLeland hadn’t made a sufficient case for keeping the reason for Allen’s arrest under wraps to, as the prosecutor argued in court Nov. 22, protect the integrity of an ongoing investigation.
In the eight-page document, redacted to hide the names of witnesses and investigators, the prosecutor puts Allen on the Monon High Bridge, wearing clothes similar to those of a man captured on Libby German’s phone, on Feb. 13, 2017, the day the pair of Delphi eighth-graders were killed – something Allen apparently told an investigator was the case in 2017.
