The 51-year-old man accused of killing two Delphi, Indiana, teenagers in 2017 has had new charges filed against him.
Richard Allen was charged in October 2022 with two counts of murder while committing or attempting to commit the kidnapping of 13-year-old Abby Williams and 14-year-old Libby German on a hiking trail in 2017. On Thursday, Carroll County Prosecutor Nicholas McLeland filed a request to amend the charges to include two additional counts of murder and two counts of kidnapping, WTHR reported.
McLeland said in his filing that the inclusion “more accurately aligns the charging information with the cause’s discovery and probable cause affidavit,” according to documents reviewed by WTHR.
Allen’s trial is scheduled to begin in October, and McLeland said his defense attorneys should have “adequate time to prepare to defend the amended charges.”
McLeland filed the new…
