Nearly three months after Delphi murders suspect Richard Allen allegedly confessed to killing the two girls at the center of the double-homicide case in recorded jailhouse calls, his defense team is claiming the girls' deaths were part of a ritualistic sacrifice performed by members of a pagan cult.
Authorities arrested Allen, a 50-year-old father and CVS employee, in October 2022 in the Feb. 14, 2017, killings of Liberty “Libby” German, 14, and Abigail Williams, 13, who disappeared from a popular trail in Delphi, Indiana, Feb. 13, 2017, before they turned up dead in the woods the next day.
“Overwhelming evidence in this case supports the following …
Members of a pagan Norse religion, called Odinism, hijacked by white nationalists, ritualistically sacrificed Abigail Williams and Liberty German,” Allen's attorneys, Andrew Baldwin and Bradley Rozzi, said in a 136-page memorandum.
It was filed Monday in support of a Franks hearing, or a court proceeding in which a judge must determine whether a law enforcement officer lied in an effort to obtain a search warrant.