{"id":822200,"date":"2025-01-26T11:12:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T17:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/richard-allen-sentenced-in-delphi-murders-case\/"},"modified":"2025-01-26T11:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T17:12:06","slug":"richard-allen-sentenced-in-delphi-murders-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/richard-allen-sentenced-in-delphi-murders-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Allen sentenced in Delphi murders case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<article id=\"post-133410\" role=\"article\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\">\n<header>\n<div>\n<p><span>Posted at 10:31 AM, December 20, 2024 <\/span>\n                                                                                    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>DELPHI (Scripps News Indianapolis) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courttv.com\/tag\/richard-allen\/\">Richard Allen<\/a> was sentenced to 130 years in prison Friday morning for the 2017 murders of Abigail Williams and Liberty German.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_130548\">\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130548\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/www-courttv-uploads\/2024\/10\/a3351c93-richard-allen_allen-count-600x338.jpg\" alt=\"mugshot of Richard Allen\" width=\"351\" height=\"198\"  ><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-130548\">This Oct. 2024 booking photo shows Richard Allen. (Allen County)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Allen was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courttv.com\/title\/richard-allen-guilty-of-all-charges\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\">found guilty<\/a>\u00a0of the murders of the two girls by a jury on November 11. He was convicted of two counts of murder and two counts of felony murder.<\/p>\n<p>Allen was sentenced to 65 years for each murder. He will serve the sentences consecutively. He has credit for time served of 786 days.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, 13, and German, 14, disappeared on the afternoon of February 13, 2017, near the Monon High Bridge in Delphi.. Their bodies were found the next day not far from the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of sentencing, lawyers for Allen said they are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrtv.com\/news\/delphi\/richard-allens-lawyers-ask-for-appropriate-sentencing-as-he-prepares-for-appeal\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\">preparing for the appellate process<\/a> as he maintains his innocence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRichard Allen maintains his innocence and is hopeful that the appellate process will provide him with an opportunity to present a full defense at a second trial,\u201d they said in a memorandum filing.<\/p>\n<p>Allen\u2019s lawyers have 30 days from his sentencing to file an appeal.<\/p>\n<p><em>This story was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrtv.com\/news\/delphi\/richard-allen-faces-life-sentence-friday-for-2017-murders-of-two-teenage-girls-in-delphi\">originally published<\/a> by Scripps News Indianapolis, an E.W. Scripps Company.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courttv.com\/news\/richard-allen-to-be-sentenced-in-delphi-murders-case\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted at 10:31 AM, December 20, 2024 DELPHI (Scripps News Indianapolis) \u2014 Richard Allen was sentenced to 130 years in prison Friday morning for the 2017 murders of Abigail Williams and Liberty German. This Oct. 2024 booking photo shows Richard Allen. (Allen County) Allen was found guilty\u00a0of the murders of the two girls by a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":822201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2104,670],"tags":[11580,8519],"class_list":{"0":"post-822200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allen","8":"category-richard","9":"tag-allen","10":"tag-richard"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}