Chilling footage of the Delphi murders “Bridge Guy” has been released by supporters of murderer Richard Allen months after he was sentenced for the killings of teens Abigail “Abby” Williams and Liberty “Libby” German.
The “full, raw” 43-second video was recorded on German’s Snapchat while she and Williams walked on Delphi’s Monon High Bridge on Feb. 13, 2017, before the Indiana teens were killed.
The enhanced video, released to the public for the first time by a website supporting the convicted killer, began recording at 2:13 p.m. and shows Williams, 14, on the bridge walking toward German, 13, as the “Bridge Guy” — believed to be Allen — follows the girls.
“Is he right here? “Don’t leave me!” Williams appears to whisper at German without turning to face the man.
The camera pans down and around to gravel at the end of the bridge, and German is heard saying, “See, this is the path we have to go down.”
German then appears to whisper, “That’d be a gun,” as she continues to move the camera around.
Williams runs over to and past her friend as German searches for the path.
“Um, there’s no path going there, so we have to go down here,” German says in a nervous tone, and she begins to breathe heavily.
After a few seconds, the man is heard saying, “Guys.”
“Hi,” German responds.
He then orders them to go “down the hill” before the video ends.
During Allen’s trial, prosecutors and law enforcement said that the sound of a gun racking back could be heard at the end of the video, but Allen’s defense argued it could be the sound of them walking on gravel or sticks, Fox59 reported.
The chilling footage marked the last known record of the teens before they were murdered. The girls’ bodies were found on the trail the next day.
The grisly murders rocked Delphi, Indiana, a tiny city of just 3,000 people located 70 miles northwest of Indianapolis.
The Delphi case went cold until the October 2022 arrest of Allen, who was subsequently charged with two counts of murder as well as two additional counts of murder while committing or attempting to commit kidnapping.
Allen reportedly confessed to killing the teens during a series of prison phone calls with his wife.
“I did it. I killed Abby and Libby,” Allen said in a phone call played during his trial.
When his wife, Kathy, said he couldn’t have done it, Allen responded, “Yes, I did.”
The conversation was just one of a series of confessions Allen appeared to make to his wife during phone calls from prison, and in each call, he insisted he was guilty.
Despite his confessions — which he also made to prison guards and a psychologist — Allen’s defense team argued he may have begun to lose his mind after 13 months of solitary confinement and that his claims were false.
During his trial, prosecutors said that Allen forced the pair at gunpoint off the trail and threatened to rape them — but changed his plans when a van passed by and startled him.
He then forced them down the bottom of a hill and killed the pair about a quarter mile from the trail.
Allen, a former drugstore employee, was found guilty by a 12-person jury on two counts of murder and two counts of murder while committing kidnapping after roughly 19 hours of deliberations in November.
In December, he was given the maximum sentence of 130 years in prison.
The release of the entire 43-second video comes as Allen’s attorneys filed an appeal against his conviction Tuesday, Fox 59 reported.
His defense continues to claim his innocence of the murders.
The timing of the video’s release on the website supporting Allen — that cites a lack of “strong physical evidence” and inconsistencies in testimony during his trial as their reasons — “has nothing” to do with the recent appeal, his attorney, Stacey Uliana.
“The fact that the video was posted on a website has nothing to do with the pending appeal or the fairness of the trial at the heart of that appeal,” Uliana told the outlet.
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