WATCH: Indiana man who killed girls on hike strikes defiant tone with police in new interrogation video
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Recently released videos from 2022 show Richard Allen, the Indiana man convicted of killing two girls on a hiking trail in Delphi in 2017, denying he had any role in the crime when questioned by Indiana officials and his wife.

An Indiana judge in December 2024 sentenced Allen to a maximum of 130 years behind bars for the murders of 13-year-old Abigail “Abby” Williams and 14-year-old Liberty “Libby” German, also known as the Delphi murders.

A jury found Allen guilty of killing the two girls, who disappeared during their walk along the High Monon Trail Feb. 13, 2017. Investigators found them both brutally murdered the next day with their throats cut several times and sticks covering their bodies in a wooded area near the trail.

Richard Allen

Delphi murder suspect Richard Allen, who has a hearing in June, is living in a 6-foot by 10-foot cell “no larger than that of a dog kennel” and is sleeping on a pad on a concrete floor. (FOX 59 Indianapolis )

Allen also admitted in one of dozens of jailhouse confessions that he did order the girls “down the hill.” He repeatedly confessed to killing the girls, apparently saying he wanted to rape the girls but was spooked by a van nearby, at which point he decided to kill them.

His attorneys said his declining mental stability led him to make false statements behind bars.

More than five years after their deaths, investigators executed a search warrant at Allen’s home in Delphi Oct. 13, 2022, and they recovered a blue Carhartt jacket, a SIG Sauer P226 .40-caliber semiautomatic handgun and a .40-caliber S&W cartridge in a “wooden keepsake box” from a dresser between two closets in Allen’s bedroom, according to authorities. 

The handgun recovered at Allen’s home was consistent with a .40-caliber unspent bullet police found at the site of the murders in 2017, police said.

Fox News’ Patrick McGovern contributed to this report.

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