Delphi murders: Everything we know about suspect Richard Allen as he is pictured for first time since arrest - The Independent

The 50-year-old joined antheral arrested connected Friday successful transportation with the 2017 Delphi murders has present been pictured for the archetypal clip – much than 5 years connected from the treble slaying of teenage champion friends Libby German and Abby Williams.

Richard Matthew Allen, from Delphi, Indiana, was taken into custody astatine astir midnight and booked into Carroll County Jail. He has since been moved to a authorities installation for his ain safety.

Local outlet FOX59 has present obtained a state-issued photograph of Mr Allen, with a authorities root confirming that it depicts the antheral present down bars.

The photograph bears immoderate likeness to the constabulary sketches of the fishy which were released to the nationalist implicit the people of the probe – portion the teenagers’ slayer remained astatine large.

It is presently unclear what the accusations against Mr Allen dwell of but instrumentality enforcement sources person described it arsenic a “major development” successful the high-profile lawsuit that has rocked the small, close-knit assemblage of Delphi and gone unsolved for much than fractional a decade.

Libby’s sister Kelsi German tweeted connected Friday earlier the apprehension was made nationalist that “today is the day” they had been waiting for.

“Just cognize however grateful I americium for each of you. No comments for now, immoderate questions delight notation to the Carroll region prosecutor’s office. There is tentatively a property league Monday astatine 10am. We volition accidental much then. Today is the day,” she said.

Indiana State Police and members of the victims’ families are slated to clasp a property league connected Monday greeting to supply an update connected the case.

Before his abrupt apprehension connected Friday, Mr Allen’s sanction had ne'er earlier been publically linked to the murders.

Here’s what we cognize astir him:

Who is Richard Allen?

It is not wide what accusation has led to Mr Allen’s apprehension now, much than 5 years connected from the 2017 slayings.

In August, Indiana State Police were spotted searching the Wabash River successful Peru – astir 40 minutes eastbound of Delphi – successful transportation to the case.

At the clip of the murders, Mr Allen would person been 44 years old.

The 50-year-old is simply a section nonmigratory of Delphi, wherever the teenage girls lived with their families.

According to online records, Mr Allen has lived successful Delphi since astatine slightest 2006, and successful Indiana his full big life.

He is joined and works arsenic a pharmacy technician, receiving his astir caller pharmaceutical licence successful February 2018 – 1 twelvemonth connected from the murders.

A section nonmigratory told Fox59 that Mr Allen presently works astatine the section CVS store – coming into interaction with members of the assemblage arsenic portion of his job.

“When I volition spell into CVS arsenic a lawsuit myself, helium would accidental ‘do you request immoderate help?’ I would beryllium similar ‘no’,” said Chandler Underhill, the manager of the section Brick & Mortar Pub, wherever helium said Mr Allen was a regular.

“Just similar a mean feline that I’ve seen for the past mates years, not truly reasoning anything.”

Mr Underhill said that Mr Allen ever seemed “normal” erstwhile helium would travel into the pub wherever helium works.

“I would talk; helium wouldn’t accidental much. He seems similar a mean guy,” helium said.

“One of my servers was telling maine that helium wouldn’t talk much.”

Mr Allen appears to person nary anterior transgression record.

However, the Carroll County Jail grounds lists Mr Allen arsenic besides going by the alias of Craigh Ross Rentfrow.

What happened to Libby and Abby?

Libby and Abby went missing connected 13 February 2017 aft they acceptable disconnected connected a hike on the Monon High Bridge Trail successful Delphi, Indiana.

Their bodies were discovered the adjacent time successful a wooded country astir fractional a mile disconnected the trail.

For years, constabulary person refused to accidental however the girls died and person revealed fewer details astir the transgression scene.

However, shocking caller details astir the murders came to airy successful a hunt warrant exertion obtained by podcast The Murder Sheet and shared with The Independent backmost successful May.

The warrant, filed by an FBI cause investigating the murders backmost successful 2017 and partially redacted, was to transportation retired a hunt connected the location of a section antheral Ronald Logan.

In it, the cause revealed that the girls had mislaid “a lot” of humor during their deaths and that their slayer is believed to person moved and staged their bodies, earlier taking immoderate benignant of souvenir from the scene.

For the archetypal time, the warrant besides revealed that the teenagers had been killed by immoderate benignant of weapon. The connection for the limb was redacted successful the document.

The murderer would person been covered successful the victims’ humor successful the aftermath of the slayings owed to the “large magnitude of humor was mislaid by the victims astatine the transgression scene”, it reads.

“Because of the quality of the victim’s wounds, it is astir definite the perpetrator of the transgression would person gotten humor connected his person/clothing.”

Chilling footage of suspect

On the time the girls went missing, Libby had posted photos connected Snapchat of her and Abby walking on the trail.

The blessed representation of the 2 champion friends is believed to beryllium the past photograph of them earlier they died.

In a determination that propelled the probe forward, Libby besides captured a grainy video connected her telephone of a antheral dressed successful bluish jeans, a bluish overgarment and a headdress walking on the abandoned railroad bridge.

Investigators released a grainy representation from the video and a chilling audio of the antheral telling the 2 girls: “Go down the hill.”

Investigators person agelong suspected that this antheral is the girls’ slayer and person praised the girls for documenting the video arsenic evidence.

Up until now, the antheral has ne'er been identified.

Police gave the statement of the antheral arsenic a achromatic antheral aged betwixt 16 and 40 years old, betwixt 5’ 6” and 5’ 10” successful tallness and weighing betwixt 180 and 200 pounds.

Multiple constabulary sketches were circulated of a antheral matching the statement of the antheral successful the footage.

Other names tied to the case

The apprehension of Mr Allen marks the precise archetypal clip his sanction has been publically tied to the unsolved murders.

Over the years, authorities person honed successful connected respective different men.

A 27-year-old Indiana antheral fell nether the spotlight past twelvemonth erstwhile the online relationship helium utilized to groom underage girls online was tied to the teenage victims. His location had been searched connected suspicion of kid porn charges conscionable 2 weeks aft the 2017 murders.

In December 2021, Indiana State Police announced that officials had “uncovered” a fake online illustration called anthony_shots.

The illustration was utilized from 2016 to 2017 connected platforms including Snapchat and Instagram and utilized photos of a known antheral model, portraying him arsenic being highly affluent and owning galore sports cars.

Investigators said the idiosyncratic down the relationship was Kegan Anthony Kline, 27-year-old antheral with addresses successful Kokomo and Peru, adjacent to Delphi.

According to an affidavit, Kline posed arsenic the exemplary successful bid to groom underage girls and get them to nonstop nude photos and their addresses and effort to get them to conscionable him. The antheral exemplary whose photos were utilized had nary transportation to the case.

Kline was arrested connected charges of kid intersexual maltreatment images and kid exploitation tied to the relationship successful 2020.

He allegedly admitted to investigators that helium groomed underage girls online.

The affidavit said that Indiana State Police and the FBI carried retired a hunt warrant connected 25 February 2017 - little than 2 weeks aft Abby and Libby were murdered - astatine Kline’s location successful Peru aft tracking down the idiosyncratic of the anthony_shots illustration to the property.

Kline allegedly told investigators helium would usage societal media accounts to speech to underage girls and had exchanged messages with and received astir 100 intersexual photos and astir 20 sexually explicit videos from astir 15 underage girls.

However, helium denied immoderate cognition oregon engagement successful the 2 teenagers’ deaths.

Kline was charged with 30 felonies successful 2020 implicit the case.

The documents, filed successful 2020 and heavy redacted, bash not notation the murders of Libby and Abby and helium was not accused of engagement successful their deaths.

Libby’s grandma Becky Patty told The Independent successful December that the teen had ne'er mentioned speaking to anyone online anterior to her decease and that determination had ne'er been immoderate denotation that the 2 girls had arranged to conscionable anyone online the time they were killed.

Investigators urged anyone who had communicated with, met, oregon attempted to conscionable the idiosyncratic posing arsenic anthony_shots to travel guardant with information.

Prior to this, Ronald Logan had antecedently been connected constabulary radar, according to the 2017 hunt warrant application.

Mr Logan owned the onshore connected which Libby and Abby’s bodies were recovered and his location was conscionable 1,400 feet from the transgression scene.

The warrant exertion cites aggregate complaints that helium was convulsive towards women and that helium owned aggregate weapons, including handguns and knives.

Mr Logan besides allegedly lied astir wherever helium was astatine the clip that the teenagers disappeared, claiming helium was retired of the country with a person connected the day of 13 February erstwhile cellphone determination information really placed him successful the country astir the trail.

The papers besides says that his dependable was “not inconsistent” with the antheral captured successful the video by Libby.

Mr Logan was ne'er charged and helium died successful 2020, earlier the lawsuit was solved.

It is presently unclear if Mr Allen has immoderate transportation to Mr Logan oregon Kline oregon to the anthony_shots account.