Delphi murder case: Prison guards and their Odin patches

Prosecutor says prison officers wore Odin patches, but that didn’t mean they did it to intimidate Delphi murder suspect Richard Allen. Plus, reckless homicide arrest 3 weeks after double fatal crash

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Delphi murder case: Prison guards and their Odin patches

In a flurry of court filings Tuesday, the Carroll County prosecutor batted down claims by attorneys for Richard Allen, accused in the 2017 murders of Delphi teens Abby Williams and Libby German, that investigators were chasing new leads brought up in a recent narrative pushed by the defense that suggested a group of Odin-worshippers killed the girls.

Prosecutor Nick McLeland rejected claims, lodged by Allen’s attorneys a week earlier, that his office was intentionally holding back evidence that could help clear the 50-year-old Delphi man charged in the case.

From a Westville Correctional Facility officer, explaining patches worn on his uniform, via a court affidavit filed Tuesday.

McLeland agreed to set a deadline to give attorneys Brad Rozzi and Andrew Baldwin all discovery – or evidence, witness statements and other information the prosecution has in the case against Allen – as the defense attorneys had requested last week.

Judge Fran Gull, the Allen County Superior Court judge assigned to the high-profile case, granted that motion Tuesday afternoon, putting the trade of discovery from both sides at no later than Nov. 1.

But in a Tuesday filing, McLeland disputed Allen’s attorneys when they contended prosecutors were busy tracking leads laid out in a 136-page memorandum in September that named a group of men they say were tied to the murders as part of a ritualistic sacrifice in pagan ceremony devoted to the Norse god Odin.