The defense team for accused Delphi killer, Richard Allen, plan to pursue their theory that a religious cult killed two teen girls in 2017.
As CrimeOnline previously reported, a search party discovered the bodies of Delphi teens Abby Williams and Libby German on February 14, 2017. The children were on an outing and failed to return home, prompting a search party.
Police arrested Allen and charged him with the girls’ murders more than five years later.
Police found one of the girls at the base of a tree with four branches of different sizes arranged in a deliberate pattern on her nude body, which bore traces of blood.
“She was likely murdered while naked and then dressed by the murderers after she expired,” the defense team wrote, “And after the blood had stopped spilling from her neck.”
A few feet away, police found the other victim with her arms and legs posed at a different angle, fully clothed.
The information was previously presented by Allen’s attorneys, Andrew Baldwin and Bradley Rozzi, in a memorandum presenting their alternate theory about the girls’ killer.
The defense claimed that nationalists “hijacked” a pagan Norse religion called Odinism, who made runes symbols from branches.
“You cannot prove or disprove faith,” a senior research analyst with the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center told the Courier Journal. “It is both the most wonderful thing and the most dangerous thing.”
Special Judge Frances Gull will allow the defense team to present their evidence to the court, but with restrictions that they cannot present the evidence to a jury.
Allen’s trial is scheduled to start next week and expected to last around a month. According to FOX 59, the judge ruled that the Indiana Supreme Court will oversee the case in Carroll County after jury proceedings in Allen County.
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[Feature Photo: Abby and Libby/Handout]
