Attorneys for the man accused of killing two Delphi, Indiana, teenage girls in 2017 say police “recorded over” interviews with key witnesses that took place just days after the teens were murdered.
Richard Allen’s attorneys, Andrew Baldwin and Bradley Rozzi, filed a motion this week accusing police of “destroying exculpatory evidence,” Law & Crime reported. The attorneys were referring to the recordings, which were not able to be turned over to the defense ahead of Allen’s trial.
The interviews in question occurred on February 17 and February 19, 2017. The girls’ bodies were found on February 13 of the same year.
Authorities did provide defense attorneys with memorialized summaries of the interviews, but Baldwin and Rozzi wanted the recordings so they could “listen to the exact spoken words” of the two men who were interviewed, “particularly the statements that the…
