Allen’s attorneys try third time to suppress evidence in Delphi murder case

Defense raises questions about ‘geofencing’ map of 3 phones in area where Abby Williams and Libby German were killed in 2017. Motions fly this week in Delphi murder case, ahead of a contempt hearing

Attorneys for Richard Allen, the Delphi man charged in the 2017 murders of teens Abby Williams and Libby German, are taking a third run at ditching key evidence in the case, arguing that investigators didn’t disclose information about alternate theories about the killings that could have prevented a judge from signing off on a search warrant for Allen’s home in October 2022.

It’s been quite a week in the case, with more than a dozen filings ahead of a hearing scheduled Monday in Fort Wayne on contempt allegations against Allen’s attorneys. (Even a protest about the location of that hearing made it into the pile of filings.)

Richard Allen is escorted from a Carroll County courtroom after a hearing Oct. 31, 2023. (Photo: Dave Bangert)

Here’s where some things stood, as of noon Friday, less than a week after Judge Fran Gull granted Allen’s motion for a speedy trial, moving jury selection from mid-October to May 13.