{"id":90361,"date":"2024-11-11T15:44:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T20:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masterzradio.net\/?p=90361"},"modified":"2024-11-11T15:44:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T20:44:24","slug":"jury-finds-richard-allen-guilty-in-2017-delphi-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masterzradio.net\/?p=90361","title":{"rendered":"Jury finds Richard Allen guilty in 2017 Delphi killings"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\t\r\njQuery(document).ready(function () {var html = '<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\" data-ad-client=\"0531879237494766\" data-ad-slot=\"5600453644\"><\/ins><script>(adsbygoogle=window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\\\/script><\/br>';\r\n    jQuery(html).insertAfter(\".elementor-widget-theme-post-content\");\r\n\t\r\n\t\r\n\t\r\n\tvar html1 = '<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\" data-ad-client=\"0531879237494766\" data-ad-slot=\"9212395598\"><\/ins><script>(adsbygoogle=window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\\\/script><\/br>';\r\n    jQuery(html1).insertBefore(\".elementor-element-156402f\");\r\n\t\r\n\t\r\n});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/\/pagead\/js\/?client=0531879237494766\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block; 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Allen is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 20. He could face up to 130 years in prison.\r\n<div id=\"tncms-region-article_instory_top\" class=\"tncms-region hidden-print\"><\/div>\r\nThe 12 jurors along with alternates were sequestered throughout\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/abby-libby-delphi-indiana-richard-allen-trial-9d9756a1e076edaa2f0694a2b54ab3da\">the trial, which began Oct. 18<\/a>\u00a0in the girls\u2019 hometown of Delphi, a small northwest Indiana city where Allen also lived and worked.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/delphi-indiana-teens-killed-richard-allen-5b7008f8c1ced3e06f6913907ff3cf96\">The seven women and five men began deliberations Thursday<\/a>\u00a0afternoon after hearing closing arguments in the weekslong murder trial.\r\n\r\nA special judge oversaw the case. Superior Court Judge Fran Gull, along with the jurors, came from northeastern Indiana\u2019s Allen County.\r\n\r\nReports that the jury had reached a verdict began to spread and drew a crowd outside the courthouse. Minutes later, a handful of people spilled outside and people on the sidewalk began to cheer.\r\n\r\nThe case has drawn outsized attention from true-crime enthusiasts, with repeated delays, a leak of evidence, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/missing-teens-killed-indiana-delphi-74f244b827f367784c7b871bef4b3e23\">withdrawal of Allen\u2019s public defenders<\/a>\u00a0and their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/missing-indiana-teens-kidnapping-charges-82e7f6b0e21a49d25e95c5cf4a7a1948\">reinstatement by the Indiana Supreme Court<\/a>. It has also been the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/arrests-indiana-indianapolis-homicide-563d16a69b36629b829a3d3127dc1478\">subject of a gag order<\/a>.\r\n\r\nCarroll County Prosecutor Nicholas McLeland told jurors in his closing arguments that Allen is the man seen following the teens in a grainy cellphone video recorded by one of the girls, known as Abby and Libby, as they crossed an abandoned railroad trestle called the Monon High Bridge.\r\n\r\n\u201cRichard Allen is Bridge Guy,\u201d McLeland told jurors. \u201cHe kidnapped them and later murdered them.\u201d\r\n\r\nMcLeland also said it was Allen\u2019s voice that was captured on German\u2019s cellphone video telling the teens, \u201c\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.in.gov\/isp\/files\/Delphi_Audio_Edited_2019x3.mp3\">Down the hill<\/a>\u00a0\u2033 after they had crossed the bridge just before vanishing on Feb. 13, 2017. Their bodies were found the next day, their throats cut, in a wooded area about a quarter-mile (less than half a kilometer) from that bridge.\r\n\r\nAn investigator testified during trial that Allen told him and another officer that on the day the teens vanished he was wearing a blue or black Carhartt jacket, jeans and a beanie \u2014 clothing that\u2019s similar to the person seen in German\u2019s cellphone video.\r\n\r\nMcLeland recapped evidence in his closing that an unspent bullet found between the teens\u2019 bodies\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/arrests-indiana-homicide-801c3fa3582387eb83ad91b6c5f267b5\">\u201chad been cycled through\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Allen\u2019s .40-caliber Sig Sauer handgun. 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