In 2017, Liberty German, 14, and Abigail Williams, 13, bodies were found on a hiking trail in Delphi, Indiana, near Monon High Bridge. For many years, there have been numerous reasons for how this could have happened. But no one was able to uncover how.

Libby and Abby, [nicknames], were dropped off by Libby’s older sister on the “Trail outside Delphi on the afternoon of Feb. 13, 2017” (NBC News), the trail just outside of Delphi, where the two friends were found.

During their walk across Freedom Bridge, A man who was later revealed to be Richard Allen

was also on that bridge. When Allen spoke with the investigators in 2017, he said he “saw three girls at the Freedom Bridge…he did not talk with the girls as he walked from the Freedom Bridge to the Monon High Bridge” (WTHR).

The girls would record a Snapchat [social media platform] video, showing, “a man wearing a brown hat and dark blue jacket approaching the girls on the bridge” (WTHR). The video was uncovered by the FBI, after the uncovering of the girls’ bodies, which first were found the Tuesday morning following the missing report that the Williams and German Families filed. After a long search, police would find the bodies, later to be identified, as Libby and Abby.

An audio would be released from the phone of Libby, with the man being heard saying, “down the hill”(WTHR), which, “was made as an apparent command to the girls before their murder” (WTHR).

Allen would be arrested five years later, on October 26, 2022, after many suspect photos and audio were released.

Allen would plead not guilty to, ” two counts of murder and two counts of felony murder” (NBC News). Allen awaited trial, in which he would be found guilty following, the jury spending, “about 19 hours deliberating before reaching a verdict” (CNN). Richard Allen was said to have a stoic look on his face following the verdict, as he faces up to 130 years in prison.