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Indiana monon daily blotter police10/30/2023 Authorities redacted the name of the witness they interviewed who said she saw a man walking away from the railroad bridge at around 4:00 p.m. ![]() At one point, roughly two hours after Libby recorded the suspect on her phone ordering her and Abby “down the hill,” a hiker saw Allen covered in blood. Another said she’d said “hi” to him, but he’d just glared at her as he passed, his hands in his pockets. ![]() One juvenile witness told police she’d seen a “kind of creepy” man on the trail in a blue jacket and jeans walking toward the railroad bridge. Multiple witnesses saw a man in the area of the crime who matched Allens’ description, and that of the man in the “Down the hill” recording. Investigators believe multiple people saw Allen near the scene of the crime, at one point covered in blood On Wednesday, the county prosecutor’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the unsealing of the affidavit or its contents. On Tuesday, a judge unsealed a probable cause affidavit which reveals to the public for the first time how investigators homed in on Allen - and why they believe he was the man the girls recorded on the bridge, who they claim ultimately killed them both. “I want to have an opportunity to explain the evidence, and not have that be tarnished or tainted,” he said during a press conference. At the time, County Prosecutor Nicholas McLeland said the integrity of the case relied upon keeping the files sealed. But in late October, when authorities arrested Richard Allen and charged him with two counts of murder, they revealed nothing about what had led them to Allen as a suspect. During the nearly six-year search for a suspect, they did release a recording captured by one of the girls on her cell phone that they believed showed the murderer: a man in jeans and a blue jacket ordering the young teens, “Guys, down the hill.” The eerie video, taken as the girls encountered the man on a railroad trestle called Monon High Bridge, captured national attention and helped bring in tips. ![]() 2017 slayings of friends Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty German, 14, on a hiking trail in Delphi, Indiana, authorities have revealed little about the investigation, not even how the victims were killed. When it comes to the case of the Delphi murders, authorities have been tight-lipped from the start.
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