Indiana 2017 Cold Case Solved -- Arrest Shocks Community

#truecrime #crime #truecrimestories On February 13, 2017, thirteen-year-old Abby Williams and fourteen-year-old Libby German set out for an afternoon hike on the Monon High Bridge Trail in Delphi, Indiana. They never came home. Their phones captured a haunting piece of evidence, a stranger's voice telling them "down the hill," but it would take five years, a genetic genealogy breakthrough, and a ballistics match to a pistol found in a quiet family home before Richard Allen, a Delphi pharmacy technician who had told police in 2017 that he'd been on the trail that day, was finally arrested. This is the full story of the Delphi murders: the disappearance, the years-long hunt for "Bridge Guy," the forensic breakthrough that cracked the case in 2022, the trial that exposed dozens of jailhouse confessions, and the sentencing that put Richard Allen behind bars for one hundred and thirty years. Timeline covered in this video: February 13, 2017: Abby Williams and Libby German vanish on the Delphi trail February 14-15, 2017: Bodies discovered, identities confirmed 2017-2022: Five years of dead ends, false leads, and a case gone cold October 2022: Genetic genealogy and a ballistics match lead to Richard Allen's arrest October-November 2024: Trial, jailhouse confessions, and a guilty verdict on all four counts December 20, 2024: Judge Fran Gull sentences Allen to 130 years in prison 2026: Allen's appeal pending before the Indiana Court of Appeals If you found this case as compelling as we did, subscribe for more cold cases that got solved.