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Richard Allen is being held in connection with the high-profile murders of two girls, Abigail Williams and Liberty German, who were killed near Delphi, Indiana, after going for a walk on a bridge…He is 50 years old. His full name is Richard Matthew Allen.
The case is one of the most famous unsolved homicides in the Midwest. One of the girls recorded a snippet of video of the suspected killer, and he could be heard mumbling “down the hill.” The case has spawned true-crime groups and podcasts.
Two chilling photos have emerged.
In 2018, Allen’s wife posted a photo of their daughter on the same bridge. You can see it below. Allen lives on Whiteman Drive in Delphi, Indiana, in a 3-bedroom, 2-bath home, according to property records.
Richard ‘Ricky’ Allen, Held in Delphi Murders: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
originally posted by: putnam6
So it wasn't the guy a lot of people thought is was, didn't some podcasts and blogs cast a wary eye on some other guy?
originally posted by: paviabari
These poor girls, the way they were killed, posed, etc. I hope he fries. No kidding. This Richard Allen she shows pics with his wife and I do not believe he was ever a suspect. Comes out of no where. Lives only over 1 mile from the bridge. More, so much more to say. But, TODAY IS THE DAY.
“It's scary, just knowing that he was so close,” Kelsi German said. “And we had no idea. But it just goes to show that any tip could be helpful always turn in what you think may be nothing. Because ultimately, we're all searching for someone that's out there somewhere. And they could be anywhere.”
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“He would come in and we would always talk about the girls and everything,” Matlock, 75, told The Daily Beast on Monday. “We would carry on conversations about it, he would say, you know, it’s such a tragedy, and we’d say we felt sorry for the families and all that, but we tried not to talk about it too much because we all knew the families, and were friends with the families.”
Matlock, who owned JC’s from 2005 until it was shuttered in December 2021, said he has considered Allen and his wife Kathy “good friends” for nearly two decades. The couple were members of the bar’s pool league, and were active in the local community, according to Matlock, who said he spent time with them not only at JC’s but outside of work, as well. He insisted there “was never any indication” that Allen, known to his friends as Rick, would later be implicated in the dual killings that shocked the small Midwestern town.
“I just couldn’t believe it when they said they arrested him,” said Matlock. “I said, ‘Well, that can’t be the Rick we know.’ And then we come to find out it was… There wouldn’t have been any inkling to anyone that knew him that would expect him to do something like that. He just didn’t seem that type of person. But… you never know.”
In a dark twist, Allen posed for a photograph one evening in JC’s near a police sketch—meant to be a rendering of Allen’s own face—hanging on the wall behind him. In retrospect, Matlock doesn’t think the depiction was accurate at all.
“We were all sitting at the table there, we were having a pool night, and just having fun—we were snapping pictures and everything,” Matlock recalled. “Every business in town had those [sketches] up. It just happened to be, he was sitting there at the time. But to me, that did not resemble Rick… My other patrons around town [would] come in for breakfast or lunch, everybody would say, ‘Christ, that don’t look like anybody,’ or, ‘It could be anybody.’”