Prosecutor: Inmate’s letters on alleged Delphi murders confession implicate Allen, too

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PROSECUTOR: INMATE’S LETTERS ON ALLEGED DELPHI MURDERS CONFESSION IMPLICATE RICHARD ALLEN, TOO

In the latest filing leading up to a likely appeal in the Delphi murders, Carroll County Prosecutor Nick McLeland turned over letters Richard Allen’s attorneys asked to see from a prison inmate who claimed he heard another Delphi man confess to the 2017 killings of Abby Williams and Libby German.

But McLeland asked the court to reject a motion to produce and preserve the evidence, accusing Andrew Baldwin, Allen’s attorney, of lobbing unverified allegations, attempting “to push a certain narrative to the public, specifically the online world” about the case.

Carroll County Prosecutor Nick McLeland discusses the Delphi murders trial in December, the day Richard Allen was sentenced to 130 years for the deaths of Delphi teens Abby Williams and Libby German. (Photo: Dave Bangert)

Besides, McLeland wrote in a response filed Friday afternoon, beyond the details outlined in the letters being unsupported by evidence at the crime scene near the Monon High Bridge Trail, the inmate’s recounting of an alleged confession included Allen as part of the plot. And one of the letters attached to the prosecutor’s filing had Ricci Davis – serving a 50-year sentence at for dealing methamphetamine – writing that he’d been asked to testify at Allen’s October 2024 trial but had declined because he felt hints that he’d be encouraged to lie.