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Did Richard Allen confess to killing Delphi teenagers? Live test reporting

Richard Allen's trial continues on Thursday, October 31, exactly two years later to the day multiple law enforcement agencies announced an arrest in connection with the Delphi murders.

Allen, 52, is accused of killing two teenagers who went missing on Feb. 13, 2017 and were found dead the next day. He was arrested in 2022 and faces two counts of murder and two counts of murder during kidnapping in connection with the deaths of Abigail “Abby” Williams and Liberty “Libby” German.

Reporters from the Indianapolis Star and the Lafayette Journal & Courier will cover the case as it moves through the justice system.

▶ Oct. 30, 2024: 'I Killed Abby and Libby': Jurors hear about Richard Allen's confessions and bizarre behavior

This story will be updated throughout the day.

Brian Harshman, an Indiana State Police sergeant, told jurors that he recognized the voice in the infamous “Bridge Guy” video as Allen's voice.

Harshman, whose primary job was monitoring Allen's prison calls, said he became familiar with Allen's voice after listening to 700 prison calls to his family.

As Harshman testified, prosecutors played audio recordings of calls in which Allen repeatedly confessed to his wife, Kathy Allen, that he had killed Abby and Libby. The calls spanned several months in the first half of 2023. That spring, Allen began telling his family that he had found God and later confessed to killing Abby and Libby. Kathy Allen appeared distraught and upset and refused to accept her husband's confessions. As he confessed in many calls, Richard Allen also seemed confused and thought he was losing his mind.

“Did Kathy tell you that I recently told her that I accept the Lord Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior?” Allen told his mother, Janis Allen, on April 2, 2023.

“That’s so wonderful,” Janis Allen replied.

The next day, Allen called his wife.

“I want to apologize to you,” he told her. “I did it. I killed Abby and Libby.”

“No, you didn’t,” Kathy Allen said as she cried.

“Yes, I did,” said Richard Allen. “I don't know why.”

“They screwed you over. “Why would you say that?” said Kathy Allen.

“Because maybe I did,” Richard Allen said.

“There’s something wrong,” Kathy Allen said to her husband. “That’s where they’re kidding you.”

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In another call on May 10, 2023, Richard Allen told his wife that he was “definitely losing his mind.” In another call shortly afterward, Allen discussed the possibility of receiving the death penalty.

“No, no, that's not going to happen… That's not right,” Kathy Allen told her husband. “They messed you up so much.”

Once again Richard Allen confessed.

“I did it,” he said. I did it, love.

“No, you didn’t. Stop it. Stop saying that,” Kathy Allen said. “We will be together again.”

On June 11, 2023, Richard Allen said again, “I did it.”

“You didn’t do it,” Kathy Allen said.

Later in that call, Richard Allen said, “I feel like I'm already in hell.”

Prosecutors also played enhanced audio from the “Bridge Guy” video, in which a man's voice could be heard saying “Down the Hill.” Carroll County Prosecutor Nicholas McLeland asked Harshman if he recognized the man's voice.

“The voice is Richard Allen,” Harshman said.

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