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THE attorneys for Delphi murders suspect Richard Allen have resigned from the case – a month after filing a bombshell document claiming Libby German and Abby Williams were killed in a sacrifice.
Judge Fran Gull made the shocking announcement on Thursday as Allen was scheduled to appear in court for a status hearing on his trial.
Gull informed the court that Allen’s attorney, Bradley Rozzi, submitted a written motion to step down from the case.
Allen’s other attorney, Andrew Baldwin, withdrew orally.
Allen did not appear in the courtroom and was returned to Westville Correctional Facility. He is now without representation.
“Without counsel, Allen’s hearing cannot precede,” Gull said, indicting the situation was out of their control.
Judge Gull set another hearing for October 31.
Allen’s January 8, 2024, trial date will also likely be pushed back.
Allen, 51, was arrested on October 28, 2022, and charged with first-degree murder for the deaths of Libby, 14, and Abby, 13.
The teenage best friends were found dead near the Monon High Bridge Trail in Delphi, Indiana, on February 14, 2017.
SHOCKING COURT FILING
A month before they stepped down from the case, Allen’s former attorneys filed a bombshell memorandum on September 18, claiming the murders of Libby and Abby had been carried out by members of a Nordic cult.
The attorneys also claimed the search on Allen’s home on October 13, 2022, was unconstitutional and that prosecutors did not include crucial information in their request for a search warrant, court documents seen by The U.S. Sun showed.
In a 136-page memorandum, the attorneys allege the most important detail left out of the warrant was a link between the murders and an Odinism cult.
They wrote in the court filings that Libby and Abby were “ritualistically sacrificed” by members of Odinism, a pagan Norse religion “hijacked” by white nationalists.
Allen’s attorneys added that no existing evidence connects their client to Odinism, pagan religions, or white nationalist groups.
“Members of a pagan Norse religion, called Odinism, hijacked by white nationalists, ritualistically sacrificed Abigail Williams and Liberty German … (N)othing, absolutely nothing, links Richard Allen to Odinism or any religious cult,” the lawyers wrote.
The court documents claim that investigators found multiple ritualistic symbols at the murder scene, from sticks arranged on the girls’ bodies to an “F” painted on a nearby tree in blood.
In the documents, the attorneys said that many of the guards at the Westville Correctional Facility are members of the “Odinite cult” and have “threatened, intimidated, and mentally abused” Allen, WLFI reported.
The documents also point to four other individuals as suspects – who police have never named as people of interest.
Among them, the documents allege, was an Odinite cult member whose son was reportedly dating Abby.
That unidentified person allegedly posted images mimicking the crime scene to social media.
Another man from a nearby town allegedly confessed the killings to his sister, according to the documents.
Two additional individuals were also involved in the killings, Allen’s attorneys claimed.
They wrote that the ongoing investigation is “an utter failure in pursuing the Odinist suspects, in spite of powerful evidence of Odinites involvement in the murders.”
The legal team claimed that the suspects were named in a 12-page “Odin Report” that was done by an Indiana State Police trooper.
The attorneys alleged that investigators ignored the report.
The documents quoted the trooper as saying: “It seemed to me to border on almost a satanic type of worshipping, sacrificing, but I couldn’t really wrap my brain around it.”
The documents also stated that another investigator’s 85-page report claimed that the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit found “the individual(s) responsible for the homicides were involved in Nordic beliefs.”
However, Indiana State Police investigators have stated that the FBI never made such a finding.
