LIBBY GERMAN & ABBY WILLIAMS: Indiana vs. Richard Allen for 2017 murder of two Delphi girls *GUILTY*

On February 14, 2017, the bodies of Abigail Williams and Liberty German were discovered near the Monon High Bridge Trail, which is part of the Delphi Historic Trails in Delphi, Indiana, United States, after the young girls had disappeared from the same trail the previous day. The murders have received significant media coverage because a photo and audio recording of an individual believed to be the girls' murderer was found on German's smartphone. Despite the audio and video recordings of the suspect that have been circulated and the more than 26,000 tips that police have received, no arrest in the case has been made.[1][2][3]

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Police have not publicly stated nor released details of how the girls were murdered.[6] As early as February 15, 2017, Indiana State Police began circulating a still image of an individual reportedly seen on the Monon High Bridge Trail near where the two friends were slain; the grainy photograph appearing to capture a Caucasian male, with hands in pockets, walking on the rail bridge, head down, toward the girls.[4] A few days later, the person in the photograph was named the prime suspect in the double-homicide.[5]

On February 22, law enforcement released an audio recording where the voice of the assailant,[7] though in some degree muffled, is heard to say, "Down the hill." It was at this news conference that officials credited the source of the audio and imagery to German's smartphone, and, further, regarded her as a hero for having had the uncanny foresight and fortitude to record the exchange in secret. Police indicated that additional evidence from the phone had been secured, but that they did not release it so as not to "compromise any future trial." By this time, the reward offered in the case was set at $41,000.[5]


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Judge considers adding attorneys in Richard Allen appeals case​

The State’s Public Defender is seeking permission to appoint two attorneys as appellate counsel for Richard Allen, convicted in the 2017 murders of two teenage girls in Delphi.

Allen’s defense team previously said he maintains his innocence after he was handed a 130-year sentence in the murders of 13-year-old Abigail “Abby” Williams and 14-year-old Liberty “Libby” German.

According to WTHR, during Allen’s Dec. 20 sentencing, Special Judge Fran Gull agreed to the defense’s request to allow the State Public Defender to choose lawyers for Allen’s appeal.

On Monday, State Public Defender Amy Karozos filed a motion indicating she agreed with trial attorneys that Allen would need more than one lawyer to represent him during the appeal process.

In the motion, Karozos wrote that she had consulted with several appellate attorneys and found that “the case calls for more than one attorney to represent Mr. Allen in the direct appeal to adequately and timely review the voluminous record, multiple pretrial hearings, trial proceedings, and evidence presented in this case.”

Allen and his team have 30 days to formally file his notice of appeal with the court.
 

Delphi murders: Prosecutor wants crime scene and autopsy photos, Allen’s mental health records sealed​

Judge Fran Gull ruled on Dec. 30, 2024, that all crime scene and autopsy photos – as well as medical and mental health records – be sealed and maintained as confidential.
 


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Sunday, December 29, 2024




Defense: PI does not speak on behalf of legal team​


December 23, 2024
By Amy Graham-McCarty
amy@hurdmedia.com

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“Shocking revelations” and accusations of a plot to kill an FBI agent connected to the Delphi murders were shared on a recent Court TV episode by a woman claiming to be a “family advocate” and “private investigator” for Richard Allen’s Defense team. The catch, she is not speaking on behalf of the Defense team, the Carroll County Comet learned this morning.

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ERICA MORSE
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Erica Morse spoke Friday on a podcast, as well as Delphi media coalition partner Court TV, making statements to lead listeners to believe there is a larger plot at work among investigators, law enforcement, and others to kill or harm individuals connected to the case.

One allegation Morse claims is that FBI Task Force member Greg Ferency was killed by a former prison guard from Terre Haute who was an Odinist. The defense has long claimed that Abigail Williams and Liberty German were killed as part of a ritualist killing by practicing members of a Norse pagan religion known as Ásatrú. The members of that group are called Odinists.
“He was one of the three members of the task force tasked with investigating all of the tips related, and I mean all of the tips, related to a particular group of individuals, and Greg authored the report,” Morse told Court TV.

An email to one of Allen’s defense attorneys, Jennifer Auger, shows that Morse is not speaking on behalf of the defense team.

The Comet’s Amy Graham-McCarty reached out to Auger Sunday with the following email: “This is Amy Graham-McCarty with the Carroll County Comet. I am reaching out to you as a member of the defense team to follow up on statements that have been made by Erica Morse, a private investigator who says she is employed or was employed, by your team that represented Mr. Allen.

“Ms. Morse has made claims, speaking on behalf of the defense team, that Greg Ferency was killed by Shane Meehan, a former prison guard who was an Odinist. She also claims that Meehan killed Mr. Ferency 5 days after the Odin Report was released. She eludes that this was done to silence Mr. Ferency and send a message. She also claims that Mr. Todd Click was arrested because of his involvement in the Odin Report.

“My question is, does Ms. Morse speak for and on behalf of the defense team that represented Richard Allen? Are her claims true? Would you, Mr. Baldwin, or Mr. Rozzi be willing to speak with me more about these issues?”

Monday morning, Auger sent this reply: “Ms. Morse is not speaking on behalf of Mr. Allen’s attorneys or legal team. We have no knowledge of these accusations as we have been focused on providing a defense for Mr. Allen.”

A Department of Justice 2021 press release on Ferency’s death makes no mention of Odinist, Norse pagan religion, or Delphi.

In part, the 2021 release states, “According to court documents, Shane Meehan, 44, drove his pickup truck to the gate of the FBI Resident Agency building. Meehan exited his truck and threw a Molotov Cocktail toward the building. Detective Ferency walked out of the building shortly after Meehan threw the incendiary device and was confronted by Meehan, who was holding a firearm. Meehan raised the firearm and shot Detective Ferency. Detective Ferency was able to return fire to defend himself but later died.

“Shortly thereafter, an FBI Special Agent ran out of the building and engaged Meehan in a gun battle. Despite being shot twice, Meehan got into his truck and fled the scene. Meehan was located at the Vigo County Regional Hospital, where he was treated for his gunshot wounds. A firearm was recovered from Meehan’s pickup truck along with three Molotov Cocktails and additional ammunition.”

In November of this year, a judge said Meenhan “is presently suffering from a mental disease rendering him mentally incompetent to the extent that he is unable to understand the nature and the consequences of the proceedings against him or assist properly in his defense.” He was to be hospitalized for up to four months to determine if he could move forward with the trial.
Attempts to reach a representative at the U.S. Attorney General’s Office for southern Indiana were unsuccessful.

“This is one of the many details about the Delphi case that the State does not want the world to know … They don’t want the world to know about the number of people associated with this case who have died or have been charged, myself included,” Morse told Court TV. “I have to be careful, but the blood spatter expert who testified at the Delphi trial was at my home, alone inside my home, two days before he testified in the trial, and Bob can attest to that.”

Morse’s mention of “Bob” is Illinois criminal defense attorney Bob Motta, who sat with Allen’s family during the trial. Morse spoke to Motta Friday on his podcast. During that interview, she spoke of how Andrew Baldwin, one of Allen’s defense attorneys, and another individual took her out to the Monon High Bridge Trail and the area where Abby and Libby were killed and asked her to join the defense to help with the case.

Morse also told Motta on the podcast, “… now that I’ve been cleared to talk to certain individuals and you and Ali were at the top of that list, we’ve been cleared to talk to.”

Throughout her appearances on Motta’s podcast and Court TV, Morse uses words like “we” and “team’ to describe her connection with the Defense team throughout the trial.
Morse told Court TV during her interview, “Let’s go. I’m ready. I told you I was going to talk the day the gag order was lifted. Let’s do this.”

Motta spoke on Court TV against law enforcement, claiming they were “casting shade” on the defense for “doing their job.”

In Morse’s case, it seems if she’s doing her job by making statements about the case, according to Auger and Allen’s defense team, she’s not doing it for them.

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Hmmm. I dismissed this a long time ago but I will say Motta shouldn't be on talk shows or even have his own. He's a dramatic _________.

Here's one to look at and it's how both sides have conferences on new tactics but particularly the D and what we are seeing these days comes from such. Imo anyhow.

An interesting article though but she won't quite say she was on the D side would she....

What I think sucks is people who want to go down another hole, the stuff going on gives them that.

I DO NOT mean you or anyone HERE.

Internet has changed a TON of things too.

All the evidence is there on RA.

The F B I/molatov thing I dismissed a very long time ago. The O thing was not even hard. They can't even write a legal filing was the start, but a lot more. I looked into all as most of us likely did.

So people around the case are dying and it's due to that etc.?

Motta loves this kind of sh*t imo. It's all views and he loves to go to such places.

It is interesting, and you find great articles but there's no big conspiracy in this case. It's so clear RA did this. Pretty sure I also know you think that. And if anyone killed anyone it was the D with their leak.

I want to make it very clear I am not talking towards you, and I KNOW you know that.

It was interesting but I don't buy any of it and she won't even say she's with the D.

IMHO the D should be disbarred, both of them.
 
What these families have been through and will continue to go through.

The right man is in prison imo.

The Holeman interview on HTC is really worth a watch. She gained a step up for me. It explained a lot.

Seems to me the families, LE, prosecutors are so relieved to be able to talk because as Carter said, imo a bit angrily, THEY abided and lived by the gag order.

The D attys seriously imo should be disbarred. All a game, all a show, leaking to YTers who are so glad for some special new thing to post online and be first. SO clear what was really going on imo. I actually suspect a few still that maybe bailed to save their arses that probably got the info.

I'll give it to Gull in that she made it through all the b.s. where the male just bailed immediately, and she was attacked to no end. I sis NOT like her gag order but I do agree with sealing things like the autopsy photos and crime scene ones. It is so past time that victims' families get considered. I mean if someone wants to be some detective and use them, I don't know, but they should not be able to be reprinted, at least imo, not on a page of a book or anything else. It's ONE of the many absolute worst times for the families at trial. I made the decision, a long with one sister to stay in, she watched, I kept my head down but I wanted to hear every word said at trial, that was my reason.

I will likely be back but guess this is kind of an ending post.

What these defense attys did is truly out there and taught. Same in Read. Imo It can be found although I am not going to go find it but i've seen it.

In both cases the person was actually there, both pretty much admitted to most and no one could remove them, not an atty, not anyone.

Where I stand, is I think something I've said before, just because let's just say some officers help themselves or their own does not necessarily negate the case.

I'll agree any day they are stupid to be inept or not do things well because that's what goes on now, the tearing of it apart. They need training, they through decades at least in small areas hired cronies, no doubt.

This case again without the blizzard effect, has it all there. The right man is in jail, and Holeman even admits there may have been some way, KK even, that he may have known the girls would be there, it was a pretty good watch.

If you strip sh*t away one can see it. Imo.

Not talking to a soul, jmo.

Kind of seems like nowadays people want conspiracies. And things to be something more than they really are.

I feel so sorry for the girls' families. I can think of a few, but not too many, that have been through such a mill and back and it's only going to continue.

Not in good times but saying it. One last thing is we may get numb but families never do to theirs. NEVER.

Kick at me. Don't care.
 
What these families have been through and will continue to go through.

The right man is in prison imo.

The Holeman interview on HTC is really worth a watch. She gained a step up for me. It explained a lot.

Seems to me the families, LE, prosecutors are so relieved to be able to talk because as Carter said, imo a bit angrily, THEY abided and lived by the gag order.

The D attys seriously imo should be disbarred. All a game, all a show, leaking to YTers who are so glad for some special new thing to post online and be first. SO clear what was really going on imo. I actually suspect a few still that maybe bailed to save their arses that probably got the info.

I'll give it to Gull in that she made it through all the b.s. where the male just bailed immediately, and she was attacked to no end. I sis NOT like her gag order but I do agree with sealing things like the autopsy photos and crime scene ones. It is so past time that victims' families get considered. I mean if someone wants to be some detective and use them, I don't know, but they should not be able to be reprinted, at least imo, not on a page of a book or anything else. It's ONE of the many absolute worst times for the families at trial. I made the decision, a long with one sister to stay in, she watched, I kept my head down but I wanted to hear every word said at trial, that was my reason.

I will likely be back but guess this is kind of an ending post.

What these defense attys did is truly out there and taught. Same in Read. Imo It can be found although I am not going to go find it but i've seen it.

In both cases the person was actually there, both pretty much admitted to most and no one could remove them, not an atty, not anyone.

Where I stand, is I think something I've said before, just because let's just say some officers help themselves or their own does not necessarily negate the case.

I'll agree any day they are stupid to be inept or not do things well because that's what goes on now, the tearing of it apart. They need training, they through decades at least in small areas hired cronies, no doubt.

This case again without the blizzard effect, has it all there. The right man is in jail, and Holeman even admits there may have been some way, KK even, that he may have known the girls would be there, it was a pretty good watch.

If you strip sh*t away one can see it. Imo.

Not talking to a soul, jmo.

Kind of seems like nowadays people want conspiracies. And things to be something more than they really are.

I feel so sorry for the girls' families. I can think of a few, but not too many, that have been through such a mill and back and it's only going to continue.

Not in good times but saying it. One last thing is we may get numb but families never do to theirs. NEVER.

Kick at me. Don't care.
So are you not going to follow the appeal?

If LE had not misfiled that tip, this would have been over years ago.

I still don't understand how anyone could forget interviewing a guy who actually admitted being there.
 

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