Delphi murder suspect Richard Allen, accused of murdering two teenage girls in 2017, was seen hobbling down the stairs leaving court Friday.
Allen had nothing to say after it was revealed that jurors at his trial will be selected from outside the county where the took place, a judge said Friday.
County Judge Fran Gull said in court that attorneys for Richard Allen, 50, of Delphi and the county prosecutor must decide within a week from which county that jury should come.
Allen, who was at the hearing, in the slayings of Liberty German, 14, and Abigail Williams, 13.
Delphi murder suspect Richard Allen, accused of murdering two Indiana teenage girls in 2017, was seen hobbling down the stairs leaving court Friday
Allen, who was at the hearing, was charged in October with two counts of murder in the slayings of Liberty German (pictured right), 14, and Abigail Williams (pictured left), 13
However, Gull – after the original judge recused himself – said the trial will remain in Carroll County, where Delphi is located, because friends and family members of both parties are situated in the city, which is about 60 miles (97 kilometers) northwest of Indianapolis.
Allen’s attorneys in November requested the trial location be changed, arguing it would be difficult to form an impartial jury in Carroll County because of intense public scrutiny and media attention surrounding the case.
They argued that ‘the likelihood of a tainted jury pool,’ should it be drawn from the girls’ and Allen’s home county, ‘is excessive.’
They state that the best way to ensure a fair trial is to move it at least 150 miles from Carroll County.
Carroll County Prosecutor Nicholas McLeland agreed with this evaluation on Friday.A has also been in effect since December.
On February 13, 2017, the girls, known as Libby and Abby, went hiking on a trail near the Monon High Bridge, just outside of the girls´ hometown of Delphi.The next day, their bodies were found in a rugged area near the trail.
County Judge Fran Gull said in court that attorneys for Richard Allen, 50, of Delphi and the county prosecutor must decide within a week from which county that jury should come
Allen’s attorneys in November requested the trial location be changed, arguing it would be difficult to form an impartial jury in Carroll County because of intense public scrutiny and media attention surrounding the case
An unspent bullet found between the girls’ bodies ‘had been cycled through’ a pistol owned by Allen, released in November.
Allen’s bail hearing will take place Feb.17, where discussions for a new trial date – scheduled for March – will take place, Gull said.
DailyMail.com has learned that, shortly after his arrest, one of Allen’s neighbors recalled seeing police digging in his yard.
DailyMail.com was then told they were digging up the family’s dead cat, whose hair proved a match for the samples found on one of the victims.
Carroll County Prosecutor Nicholas McLeland has openly stated that he believes ‘Allen is not the only actor involved in this.’
And while Allen has not been charged with kidnapping, prosecutors have alleged he attempted it.
Sources close to the investigation have claimed that Allen was acting with at least two other men and was involved in a child sex ring.
Kegan Kline, 강남안마방 28, was linked to the case last December
In November, pedophile Kegan Kline, 28, of Peru, Indiana, who is currently awaiting trial on a slew of child pornography charges, was cooperating with State Police and prosecutors in a bid to reduce his own charges.
Sources told DailyMail.com: ‘The girls met Kegan Kline online and he arranged to meet them that day but didn’t go.Instead, he set them up to be kidnapped for the porn ring.’
During one of several police interviews reviewed by DailyMail.com, Kline admitted to soliciting underage girls for nude pictures by catfishing them, posing as teenage girl ‘Emily Anne’ or hunky actor model, ‘Anthony Shots.’
It was as Shots that he communicated with German.
Chillingly, ‘Shots’ was one of the last people to communicate with the girls before they took their fateful walk on Delphi’s Monon High Bridge Trail.
Police interrogating Kline told him they did not believe he committed the murders but was protecting the identity of whoever did.
The source then revealed that Kline has ‘cut a deal with prosecutors.’
‘The search warrants [on Allen’s home and property] were carried out based on Kegan’s testimony,’ the source told DailyMail.com exclusively.
Indiana State Police, Carroll County spokesman Sgt.Jeremy Piers would neither confirm nor deny any of the details when put to him by DailyMail.com.
He said: ‘Law enforcement has not released any of those details or anything beyond what is in the probable cause.’
The source claimed that Kline, from whose devices police retrieved a slew of child pornography, knows Allen, and that the men met when both lived in Peru, roughly 40 miles northwest of Delphi.
The source also claimed that both men knew Ron Logan, whom police first pegged as a suspect in the killings after the girls’ bodies were found on his property, some 1,400 feet from his home.
An FBI search warrant served on Logan’s home and property dated March 17, 2017, revealed that on February 14, the day after the killings, Logan asked a relative to provide him with a false alibi.
He told a cousin to say that a friend had picked him up and taken him to a fish store between 2.00pm and 2.30pm and that he didn’t return home until 5.30pm.
