Defense attorneys for the man accused of killing two Delphi, Indiana, teens in 2017 don’t want the suspect’s jailhouse confessions to be heard at trial.
Richard Allen, 50, has been charged with kidnapping and killing 13-year-old Abby Williams and 14-year-old Libby German, whose bodies were found off a hiking trail in Delphi, Indiana, back in 2017. His attorneys, Andrew Baldwin and Bradley Rozzi, asked Special Judge Fran Gull on Thursday to suppress statements Allen made in prison allegedly confessing to the crimes, WTHR reported.
The attorneys alleged that Allen did not make the comments voluntarily and was mentally ill at the time. Rozzi said in a motion to suppress statements filed Thursday that prison officials put inmates at Allen’s cell door and had them keep logs of everything Allen said and did. Rozzi said that some of those inmates actively questioned Allen, which Rozzi…
