31-07-2025
Richard Allen's wife proclaims her husband's innocence in new Delphi murders docuseries
A new ABC News Studios docuseries is revisiting the deaths of Delphi teens Abigail "Abby" Williams and Liberty "Libby" German, whose murders thrusted the small Indiana community and the state's criminal justice system into the international spotlight.
The three-part "Capturing Their Killer: The Girls on the High Bridge," features interviews with the girls' family members, investigators and Allen's defense attorneys. It's also the first time that Allen's wife, Kathy Allen, spoke substantively about the girls' deaths and her husband's prosecution.
"I want true justice for Abby and Libby," Kathy Allen said in a two-minute trailer shared with USA TODAY. "But it should not be at the expense of an innocent person."
The docuseries, which premieres Aug. 5 on Hulu, also includes interviews with reporters from IndyStar and the Lafayette Journal & Courier.
Abby and Libby disappeared while hiking the Monon High Bridge trail on Feb. 13, 2017. Their bloodied bodies were found the next day. The case lingered unsolved for more than five years before Allen, who worked at the local pharmacy, was arrested and charged with murder.
A jury of five men and seven women found Allen guilty of two counts of murder and two counts of murder while kidnapping the girls after a contentious, weeks-long trial in 2024. Special Judge Frances Gull sentenced Allen to 130 years in prison.
Allen, who's appealing his conviction and sentence, was moved to an Oklahoma prison earlier this month.
The gruesome deaths of the two beloved teens shook and forever changed the small Indiana community. The case is one of the state's most high-profile and controversial murders, with Allen claiming the real killers were members of an Odinist group who murdered the girls during a sacrificial ritual in the woods.
At the heart of the prosecution's case is whether Allen is the man seen in a video following the girls on the high bridge. The 43-second video, which Libby took moments before they were kidnapped, showed the man who came to be known as "Bridge Guy" walking behind Abby. Toward the end of the footage, the man told the girls to, "Go down the hill."
"We know this 'Bridge Guy' took the girls," Libby's grandmother, Becky Patty, said in the docuseries, "and they proved Richard Allen was 'Bridge Guy.'"
