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, nan Indiana man convicted of killing 2 girls connected a hiking trail successful Delphi successful 2017, denying he had immoderate domiciled successful nan crime erstwhile questioned by Indiana officials and his wife.

An Indiana judge successful December 2024 sentenced Allen to a maximum of 130 years down bars for nan murders of 13-year-old Abigail "Abby" Williams and 14-year-old Liberty "Libby" German, besides known arsenic nan Delphi murders.

A assemblage recovered Allen blameworthy of sidesplitting nan 2 girls, who vanished during their locomotion on nan High Monon Trail Feb. 13, 2017. Investigators recovered them some brutally murdered nan adjacent time pinch their throats trim respective times and sticks covering their bodies successful a wooded area adjacent nan trail.

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"It's sounding much for illustration you're … I'm not going to beryllium somebody's autumn guy," Allen told investigators successful an Oct. 13, 2022, question and reply video obtained by YouTuber Tom Webster and shared pinch Fox News Digital. 

"I mean, it's been truthful long, and I haven't thought astir this much, and it's just, like, I don't want to beryllium someone's autumn guy. And we're going to effort to make pieces of a puzzle fresh location they don't fresh truthful we tin adjacent this point … and please don't deliberation I'm questioning you're integrity."

Supt. Doug Carter of nan Indiana State Police, right, speaks during a news convention pinch an update connected nan Delphi murders investigation April 22, 2019, astatine nan Canal Center successful Delphi. (© Nikos Frazier/Journal & Courier/USA Today Network)

The question and reply started retired jovially erstwhile Allen entered nan interrogation room pinch investigators and laughed on pinch them.

Allen was initially questioned successful 2017 aft nan murders because he was connected nan High Monon Trail nan time nan girls went missing, but his sanction was scrubbed from nan lawsuit owed to a clerical error, journalist Áine Cain and Indiana-based lawyer Kevin Greenlee, who co-host "The Murder Sheet" podcast, first reported.

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Richard Allen was arrested successful October 2022 for nan 2017 murders of 14-year-old Liberty German and 13-year-old Abigail Williams.  (Indiana State Police)

Allen was arrested successful 2022 aft grounds led constabulary to his home, wherever they recovered a weapon matching an unspent slug located astatine nan crime segment and a bluish overgarment akin to nan 1 a man was wearing successful a video Libby took connected nan way conscionable earlier her disappearance. Allen's apprehension took nan Delphi organization by astonishment astatine nan clip because he was a longtime worker astatine a section CVS.

"I conjecture I'm starting to consciousness much for illustration I'm your main lead here, and I'm not gonna do that," Allen told officials successful nan interview.

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On Feb. 14, 2017, Libby German, 14, and Abby Williams, 13, were killed while biking connected trails adjacent Delphi, astir 60 miles northwest of Indianapolis. (Indiana State Police)

He besides took rumor pinch constabulary asking for support to hunt his phones and different individual belongings.

Allen later says he and his woman watch "TV shows and stuff," and he doesn't "want to beryllium associated pinch this point much than anybody other does."

"Am I an angel of a person? No."

"Am I an angel of a person? No," Allen said. "I mean, I'm for illustration anybody else. … Maybe I don't want you looking astatine each website I visited."

Throughout nan interview, Allen tin beryllium seen playing pinch a h2o bottle, which he finishes astir 40 to 50 minutes into nan questioning. 

Snow covers nan h2o of Deer Creek arsenic nan Monon High Bridge towers supra Feb. 9, 2022, successful Delphi. (Nikos Frazier/Journal & Courier/USA Today Network)

He said he understood that constabulary want "closure" for nan families of nan victims.

"We're present because we haven't recovered nan feline that did this, and I'm not going to move into that guy. … Like I said, we watch ‘Dateline’ each week. We watch everything, and … I mean, there's thing that's going to necktie maine to it. I'm not worried astir that, but to person group travel and commencement searching my location and stuff. … I mean, my woman doesn't moreover cognize I'm talking to people," Allen said. "I don't want anyone to cognize I talked to you guys."

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Grainy compartment telephone video footage and a sketch of a premier fishy successful nan execution of section Delphi girls Abigail Williams and Liberty German connected nan agency wall of Tobe Leazenby, sheriff of Carroll County. (Robert Scheer/IndyStar/USA Today Network)

In a abstracted video obtained by Tom Webster and shared pinch Fox News Digital from Oct. 26, 2022, Allen denies nan crime to his wife.

"They're trying to show maine you really judge I did it, and I conscionable can't judge that," Allen told his woman successful nan video. His woman responded that he was trying to fig retired really his weapon was linked to a slug astatine nan crime scene.

"I cognize you cognize I didn't do this," Allen said. "And I don't cognize what they're trying to do this, but I'm not going to opportunity thing that's not true, and I don't cognize really to explicate thing I don't understand. … There's nary measurement a slug from my weapon ended up astatine a execution scene. I didn't execution anybody. I didn't thief personification execution anybody."

Allen added that he did not spot Abby and Libby connected nan High Monon Trail Feb. 13, 2017, and he did not person his weapon pinch him connected nan way that day.

"They're not gonna get distant pinch this," Allen says.

"They want you to deliberation I done it."

He many times told his woman she knows him, and he knows her, and he does not understand really investigators recovered a slug from his weapon astatine nan crime scene.

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Allen past goes back-and-forth pinch an serviceman who tells Allen constabulary person grounds showing nan slug recovered astatine nan segment came from his gun.

One cardinal portion of grounds presented during Allen's proceedings past twelvemonth was a video Libby recorded connected her telephone astatine immoderate constituent before she and Abby were killed.

Officers carrier execution fishy Richard Allen during a proceeding astir sealed documents Nov. 22, 2022, astatine Carroll County Courthouse successful Delphi, Ind.   (Alex Martin/Journal and Courier/USA Today Network)

Jurors watched 43 seconds of nan video, which showed Libby and Abby stepping pinch an chartless man wearing a chapeau and bluish inferior overgarment successful tribunal Oct. 22. The man successful nan video became known complete nan past 5 years arsenic "Bridge Guy." Libby captured nan video astatine 2:13 p.m., little than 25 minutes aft she and Abigail's family members dropped them disconnected astatine nan trail.

"Guys, down nan hill," nan man told nan girls successful nan video.

Prosecutors based on that Allen is "Bridge Guy" aft witnesses who testified against Allen said they saw him connected nan way astir nan aforesaid clip nan girls disappeared, and authorities recovered a akin bluish inferior overgarment from Allen's location successful 2022.

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Delphi execution fishy Richard Allen, who has a proceeding successful June, is surviving successful a 6-foot by 10-foot compartment "no larger than that of a canine kennel" and is sleeping connected a pad connected a actual floor. (FOX 59 Indianapolis )

Allen besides admitted successful 1 of dozens of jailhouse confessions that he did bid nan girls "down nan hill." He many times confessed to sidesplitting nan girls, apparently saying he wanted to rape nan girls but was spooked by a van nearby, astatine which constituent he decided to termination them.

His attorneys said his declining intelligence stableness led him to make mendacious statements down bars.

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More than 5 years aft their deaths, investigators executed a hunt warrant astatine Allen's location successful Delphi Oct. 13, 2022, and they recovered a bluish Carhartt jacket, a SIG Sauer P226 .40-caliber semiautomatic handgun and a .40-caliber S&W cartridge successful a "wooden keepsake box" from a dresser betwixt 2 closets successful Allen's bedroom, according to authorities. 

The handgun recovered astatine Allen's location was accordant pinch a .40-caliber unspent slug constabulary recovered astatine nan tract of nan murders successful 2017, constabulary said.

Fox News' Patrick McGovern contributed to this report.