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NZ Herald
21-05-2025
- Business
- NZ Herald
Listen to The Country: GDT Auction with Fonterra's Richard Allen
Today on The Country radio show, host Jamie Mackay catches up with Fonterra's president of global ingredients, Richard Allen, to go over the last GDT auction of the season and to find out what the co-op's up to in Shanghai. On with the show: Christopher Luxon: We ask the Prime Minister about tomorrow's Budget, but more importantly, where's the money coming from to balance the books? We talk about Mystery Creek and whether dairy conversions will be the hot topic du jour at Fieldays?
Yahoo
26-04-2025
- Yahoo
WATCH: Indiana man who killed girls on hike strikes defiant tone with police in new interrogation video
Recently released videos from 2022 show Richard Allen, the Indiana man convicted of killing two girls on a hiking trail in Delphi in 2017, denying he had any role in the crime when questioned by Indiana officials and his wife. An Indiana judge in December 2024 sentenced Allen to a maximum of 130 years behind bars for the murders of 13-year-old Abigail "Abby" Williams and 14-year-old Liberty "Libby" German, also known as the Delphi murders. A jury found Allen guilty of killing the two girls, who disappeared during their walk along the High Monon Trail Feb. 13, 2017. Investigators found them both brutally murdered the next day with their throats cut several times and sticks covering their bodies in a wooded area near the trail. Delphi Murders Trial: Jury Reaches Verdict For Suspect Richard Allen After Deliberating For 4 Days "It's sounding more like you're … I'm not going to be somebody's fall guy," Allen told investigators in an Oct. 13, 2022, interview video obtained by YouTuber Tom Webster and shared with Fox News Digital. "I mean, it's been so long, and I haven't thought about this much, and it's just, like, I don't want to be someone's fall guy. And we're going to try to make pieces of a puzzle fit somewhere they don't fit so we can close this thing … and please don't think I'm questioning you're integrity." Read On The Fox News App The interview started out jovially when Allen entered the interrogation room with investigators and laughed along with them. Allen was initially questioned in 2017 after the murders because he was on the High Monon Trail the day the girls went missing, but his name was scrubbed from the case due to a clerical error, journalist Áine Cain and Indiana-based attorney Kevin Greenlee, who co-host "The Murder Sheet" podcast, first reported. Delphi Murders Suspect's Confessions To Wife, Mother Sounded 'Calm,' Expert Says: 'Not What I Expected' Allen was arrested in 2022 after evidence led police to his home, where they found a gun matching an unspent bullet located at the crime scene and a blue jacket similar to the one a man was wearing in a video Libby took on the trail just before her disappearance. Allen's arrest took the Delphi community by surprise at the time because he was a longtime employee at a local CVS. "I guess I'm starting to feel more like I'm your main lead here, and I'm not gonna do that," Allen told officials in the interview. Delphi Murders Trial: 'Bridge Guy' Emerges As New Crime Scene Evidence Presented He also took issue with police asking for permission to search his phones and other personal belongings. Allen later says he and his wife watch "TV shows and stuff," and he doesn't "want to be associated with this thing more than anybody else does." "Am I an angel of a person? No," Allen said. "I mean, I'm like anybody else. … Maybe I don't want you looking at every website I visited." Throughout the interview, Allen can be seen playing with a water bottle, which he finishes about 40 to 50 minutes into the questioning. He said he understood that police want "closure" for the families of the victims. "We're here because we haven't found the guy that did this, and I'm not going to turn into that guy. … Like I said, we watch 'Dateline' every week. We watch everything, and … I mean, there's nothing that's going to tie me to it. I'm not worried about that, but to have people come and start searching my house and stuff. … I mean, my wife doesn't even know I'm talking to people," Allen said. "I don't want anyone to know I talked to you guys." Delphi Murders Suspect Confessed To Killing 2 Girls On Hiking Trail In Small Town, Prison Doc Says In a separate video obtained by Tom Webster and shared with Fox News Digital from Oct. 26, 2022, Allen denies the crime to his wife. "They're trying to tell me you actually believe I did it, and I just can't believe that," Allen told his wife in the video. His wife responded that he was trying to figure out how his gun was linked to a bullet at the crime scene. "I know you know I didn't do this," Allen said. "And I don't know what they're trying to do this, but I'm not going to say something that's not true, and I don't know how to explain something I don't understand. … There's no way a bullet from my gun ended up at a murder scene. I didn't murder anybody. I didn't help somebody murder anybody." Allen added that he did not see Abby and Libby on the High Monon Trail Feb. 13, 2017, and he did not have his gun with him on the trail that day. "They're not gonna get away with this," Allen says. He repeatedly told his wife she knows him, and he knows her, and he does not understand how investigators found a bullet from his gun at the crime scene. Sign Up To Get The True Crime Newsletter Allen then goes back-and-forth with an officer who tells Allen police have evidence showing the bullet found at the scene came from his gun. One key piece of evidence presented during Allen's trial last year was a video Libby recorded on her phone at some point before she and Abby were killed. Jurors watched 43 seconds of the video, which showed Libby and Abby walking with an unknown man wearing a hat and blue utility jacket in court Oct. 22. The man in the video became known over the last five years as "Bridge Guy." Libby captured the video at 2:13 p.m., less than 25 minutes after she and Abigail's family members dropped them off at the trail. "Guys, down the hill," the man told the girls in the video. Prosecutors argued that Allen is "Bridge Guy" after witnesses who testified against Allen said they saw him on the trail around the same time the girls disappeared, and authorities recovered a similar blue utility jacket from Allen's home in 2022. Delphi Murders Suspect Confessed To Killing 2 Girls On Hiking Trail In Small Town, Prison Doc Says Allen also admitted in one of dozens of jailhouse confessions that he did order the girls "down the hill." He repeatedly confessed to killing the girls, apparently saying he wanted to rape the girls but was spooked by a van nearby, at which point he decided to kill them. His attorneys said his declining mental stability led him to make false statements behind bars. More than five years after their deaths, investigators executed a search warrant at Allen's home in Delphi Oct. 13, 2022, and they recovered a blue Carhartt jacket, a SIG Sauer P226 .40-caliber semiautomatic handgun and a .40-caliber S&W cartridge in a "wooden keepsake box" from a dresser between two closets in Allen's bedroom, according to authorities. The handgun recovered at Allen's home was consistent with a .40-caliber unspent bullet police found at the site of the murders in 2017, police said. Fox News' Patrick McGovern contributed to this article source: WATCH: Indiana man who killed girls on hike strikes defiant tone with police in new interrogation video
Fox News
26-04-2025
- Fox News
WATCH: Indiana man who killed girls on hike strikes defiant tone with police in new interrogation video
Recently released videos from 2022 show Richard Allen, the Indiana man convicted of killing two girls on a hiking trail in Delphi in 2017, denying he had any role in the crime when questioned by Indiana officials and his wife. An Indiana judge in December 2024 sentenced Allen to a maximum of 130 years behind bars for the murders of 13-year-old Abigail "Abby" Williams and 14-year-old Liberty "Libby" German, also known as the Delphi murders. A jury found Allen guilty of killing the two girls, who disappeared during their walk along the High Monon Trail Feb. 13, 2017. Investigators found them both brutally murdered the next day with their throats cut several times and sticks covering their bodies in a wooded area near the trail. "It's sounding more like you're … I'm not going to be somebody's fall guy," Allen told investigators in an Oct. 13, 2022, interview video obtained by YouTuber Tom Webster and shared with Fox News Digital. "I mean, it's been so long, and I haven't thought about this much, and it's just, like, I don't want to be someone's fall guy. And we're going to try to make pieces of a puzzle fit somewhere they don't fit so we can close this thing … and please don't think I'm questioning you're integrity." The interview started out jovially when Allen entered the interrogation room with investigators and laughed along with them. Allen was initially questioned in 2017 after the murders because he was on the High Monon Trail the day the girls went missing, but his name was scrubbed from the case due to a clerical error, journalist Áine Cain and Indiana-based attorney Kevin Greenlee, who co-host "The Murder Sheet" podcast, first reported. Allen was arrested in 2022 after evidence led police to his home, where they found a gun matching an unspent bullet located at the crime scene and a blue jacket similar to the one a man was wearing in a video Libby took on the trail just before her disappearance. Allen's arrest took the Delphi community by surprise at the time because he was a longtime employee at a local CVS. "I guess I'm starting to feel more like I'm your main lead here, and I'm not gonna do that," Allen told officials in the interview. He also took issue with police asking for permission to search his phones and other personal belongings. Allen later says he and his wife watch "TV shows and stuff," and he doesn't "want to be associated with this thing more than anybody else does." "Am I an angel of a person? No." "Am I an angel of a person? No," Allen said. "I mean, I'm like anybody else. … Maybe I don't want you looking at every website I visited." Throughout the interview, Allen can be seen playing with a water bottle, which he finishes about 40 to 50 minutes into the questioning. He said he understood that police want "closure" for the families of the victims. "We're here because we haven't found the guy that did this, and I'm not going to turn into that guy. … Like I said, we watch 'Dateline' every week. We watch everything, and … I mean, there's nothing that's going to tie me to it. I'm not worried about that, but to have people come and start searching my house and stuff. … I mean, my wife doesn't even know I'm talking to people," Allen said. "I don't want anyone to know I talked to you guys." In a separate video obtained by Tom Webster and shared with Fox News Digital from Oct. 26, 2022, Allen denies the crime to his wife. "They're trying to tell me you actually believe I did it, and I just can't believe that," Allen told his wife in the video. His wife responded that he was trying to figure out how his gun was linked to a bullet at the crime scene. "I know you know I didn't do this," Allen said. "And I don't know what they're trying to do this, but I'm not going to say something that's not true, and I don't know how to explain something I don't understand. … There's no way a bullet from my gun ended up at a murder scene. I didn't murder anybody. I didn't help somebody murder anybody." Allen added that he did not see Abby and Libby on the High Monon Trail Feb. 13, 2017, and he did not have his gun with him on the trail that day. "They're not gonna get away with this," Allen says. "They want you to think I done it." He repeatedly told his wife she knows him, and he knows her, and he does not understand how investigators found a bullet from his gun at the crime scene. Allen then goes back-and-forth with an officer who tells Allen police have evidence showing the bullet found at the scene came from his gun. One key piece of evidence presented during Allen's trial last year was a video Libby recorded on her phone at some point before she and Abby were killed. Jurors watched 43 seconds of the video, which showed Libby and Abby walking with an unknown man wearing a hat and blue utility jacket in court Oct. 22. The man in the video became known over the last five years as "Bridge Guy." Libby captured the video at 2:13 p.m., less than 25 minutes after she and Abigail's family members dropped them off at the trail. "Guys, down the hill," the man told the girls in the video. Prosecutors argued that Allen is "Bridge Guy" after witnesses who testified against Allen said they saw him on the trail around the same time the girls disappeared, and authorities recovered a similar blue utility jacket from Allen's home in 2022. Allen also admitted in one of dozens of jailhouse confessions that he did order the girls "down the hill." He repeatedly confessed to killing the girls, apparently saying he wanted to rape the girls but was spooked by a van nearby, at which point he decided to kill them. His attorneys said his declining mental stability led him to make false statements behind bars. More than five years after their deaths, investigators executed a search warrant at Allen's home in Delphi Oct. 13, 2022, and they recovered a blue Carhartt jacket, a SIG Sauer P226 .40-caliber semiautomatic handgun and a .40-caliber S&W cartridge in a "wooden keepsake box" from a dresser between two closets in Allen's bedroom, according to authorities. The handgun recovered at Allen's home was consistent with a .40-caliber unspent bullet police found at the site of the murders in 2017, police said.
CBS News
13-03-2025
- CBS News
Richard Allen's attorneys appeal Delphi murder conviction after full "Bridge Guy" video leaked
Attorneys for convicted Delphi murderer Richard Allen have filed to appeal his conviction, CBS 4 in Indianapolis reported. On Nov. 11, a jury convicted Allen of the murders of 13-year-old Abby Williams and 14-year-old Libby German near the Monon High Bridge in Delphi, Indiana. Allen was sentenced to 130 years in prison in December. According to CBS 4, online records show the appeal was filed on Tuesday, a day after the full 43-second "Bridge Guy" video was leaked online. Libby recorded a short Snapchat video of a man who police believed was the killer that was used in the trial. The video shows the girls walking on the bridge before their murders. A man's voice can be heard saying, "Guys, down the hill." Police circulated the photo and audio just days after the killings, but the case ran cold for more than five years until Allen was arrested in 2022. His appeal comes after multiple legal objections already filed by his attorneys in the wake of Allen's conviction. In January, his attorneys filed a motion with the trial judge, seeking to get his conviction overturned. They filed a 24-page motion outlining errors they claim were made at his trial last year. His attorneys questioned the timeline of the murder. During the trial, the jury spent about 19 hours deliberating over three days before finding Allen, 52, guilty of all counts. Police spent years searching for a suspect, investigating thousands of leads, and releasing multiple composite sketches of the suspect based on eyewitness accounts.
Yahoo
26-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Philadelphia continues long history of Black-led protest meetings aimed at fighting racial inequity and prejudice
A meeting in Philadelphia, held at a senior center on a bitter cold Saturday afternoon in late January 2025, drew nearly 300 people. They came for two key reasons. One was to voice outrage at the upsurge in policies and proposals nationwide that attack the advances of African Americans – many of which were secured in part through 1960s-era civil rights protests. The other was to begin to develop a 'Black agenda' to counter those attacks in Philadelphia. In gathering communally to voice their concerns, attendees continued a legacy of Black-led protest meetings that spans over two centuries in the city. I am a professor of journalism at Temple University and a reporter who has covered racial inequities in America and abroad for 50 years. I was invited to attend the Philadelphia meeting to talk about the history of protest meetings in the city. That's a history of successes and shortfalls that helped shape both Philadelphia and the nation. Over 200 years ago, what is considered the first mass protest meeting ever held in the United States by African Americans took place in Philadelphia. That little-known meeting, held in January 1817, drew 3,000 African Americans to Philadelphia's historic Mother Bethel AME Church. The attendees came to denounce efforts by the American Colonization Society to relocate free Black Americans to a colony in West Africa. That group, with a predominately white membership that included prominent politicians and preachers, believed free Blacks could not be integrated into white America. The attendees at Mother Bethel in 1817 saw relocation as a forced removal of Black Americans from the homeland they supported as patriotically as white Americans. The unanimous opposition that attendees expressed helped change the stance of local Black leaders, such as Mother Bethel founder Richard Allen, from lukewarm supporters of relocation to opponents. The tradition of mass meetings to address the adversity impacting Philadelphia's African American community continued from the 19th century into the 20th and now the 21st century. The results have been mixed. For example, after members of the Pennsylvania state legislature proposed inserting a white-males-only voting restriction into the state's constitution in 1838, denying voting rights for free Black men, Black Philadelphians held mass meetings to demand the provision be deleted. But those demands failed. Pennsylvania restricted voting to white men until 1870 when ratification of the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted African American men the right to vote. However, mass meetings during the 1860s that had an agenda to desegregate trolleys in Philadelphia were successful. A law signed in 1867 banned segregated seating on public transit statewide. Renowned scholar and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois credited 'public meetings and repeated agitation' for that statewide ban in his seminal 1899 book 'The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study.' Demands to end police brutality have been the focus of mass meetings in the city at least since the 1918 formation of Philadelphia's now-defunct Association for the Protection of Colored People. Abusive policing practices that continue in Philadelphia to this day point to a shortfall in fulfilling those demands. And yet, momentum from the key agenda item of mass meetings in the early 1970s – to increase political power – ultimately led to the election of the city's first Black mayor, Wilson Goode, in 1983. Since 1817, Black-led protest meetings in Philadelphia have sought to end discrimination against African Americans. That consistent goal remains unrealized. The first national political conventions that African Americans staged in the U.S., beginning in September 1830, castigated discrimination. Convention attendees in 1831 sought an end to cruel and oppressive laws devised to disadvantage free Blacks. Nearly 150 years later, the 'Human Rights Agenda' developed during a Philadelphia mass meeting in December 1978 and later the report from Philadelphia's 2015 Black Political Summit Coalition both decried racial prejudice against African Americans. An observation that Du Bois made in 'The Philadelphia Negro' about discrimination against African Americans in the so-called City of Brotherly Love retains contemporary relevance. Race prejudice 'is a far more powerful social force than most Philadelphians realize,' Du Bois wrote. Most white Philadelphians, he noted, 'are quite unconscious' regarding the prejudice that impacts Black residents. Their impulse is emphatically to deny such discrimination. Such denial allowed prejudice to persist then – and today. To begin to develop a new Black agenda, the organizers of the meeting at the senior center collected suggestions that attendees filed on note cards. They promised to publicly announce an action plan that is expected to involve economic boycotts and actions to strengthen the economic infrastructure in Philadelphia's African American community. Defending rights and progress aroused attendees at that January meeting in 2025 as strongly as denouncing forced colonization aroused attendees at the mass meeting 208 years earlier. Read more of our stories about Philadelphia. This article is republished from The Conversation, a nonprofit, independent news organization bringing you facts and trustworthy analysis to help you make sense of our complex world. It was written by: Linn Washington, Jr., Temple University Read more: W.E.B. Du Bois' study 'The Philadelphia Negro' at 125 still explains roots of the urban Black experience – sociologist Elijah Anderson tells why it should be on more reading lists Philly's Chinatown has a rich tradition of activism – the Sixers arena fight was just one of many to preserve the neighborhood We interviewed 30 Black public school teachers in Philadelphia to understand why so many are leaving the profession Linn Washington, Jr. does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
