Delphi murder victims were ‘sacrificed’ by racist cult: suspect’s attorneys

Attorneys for Delphi murder suspect Richard Allen now claim the two teenage girls he is charged with killing were actually “ritualistically sacrificed” by a racist pagan cult.

“Members of a pagan Norse religion, called Odinism, hijacked by white nationalists, ritualistically sacrificed Abigail Williams and Liberty German,” the new filing Monday said of the 2017 victims, aged 13 and 15 respectively.

“Nothing, absolutely nothing, links Richard Allen to Odinism or any religious cult,” claimed the filing obtained by CBS News.

The 136-page filing claims that two groups of Odinists — one local to Delphi and another more than 120 miles away in Rushville, also Indiana — were investigated over the February 2017 murders, Scripps News said.

The white nationalist cult could have targeted the girls because one of their parents was in a mixed-race relationship, Allen’s attorneys Andrew Baldwin and Brad Rozzi claimed in the filing.

Several pagan symbols were also left at the crime scene, including the way Libby German’s body was positioned, Allen’s attorneys alleged.

The defense highlighted 92 reasons why the murder could not have been carried out by one man, and pointed to alleged sightings of Allen before the killings, which would have given him only an hour and 17 minutes for the murders to happen, noted 21 Alive News.

“Law enforcement’s failure to actively pursue the obvious links between the crime scene and Odinism is confounding,” the defense team wrote in the filing.

The two teens had disappeared while hiking the Monon High Bridge Trail on Feb. 13, 2017. Their bodies were discovered off the trail a day later.

Allen, 50, was charged in October 2022 after an analysis concluded a 40-caliber round that was found between Abby and Libby’s bodies had come from a gun he owned.

He confessed multiple times to the murders in prison phone calls to his wife and mother, according to earlier court documents.

However, Allen’s attorneys claim he was “monitored, intimidated, and mentally abused” at Westville Correctional Facility by corrections officers who were Odinists — including one allegedly wearing a patch saying, “In Odin We Trust.”

The court documents also allege the Carroll County sheriff lied about the timeline of the killings and other details in order to obtain a search warrant for Allen’s home.

The attorneys requested an Indiana judge to toss evidence collected during the search, claiming the search warrant was based on fault probable cause.

Allen has pleaded not guilty to both murder charges. His lawyers are trying to get the ballistics excluded from the trial, which is scheduled to start on Jan. 8, 2024.

The Carroll County prosecutor’s office did not respond to messages about the filing, CBS News said.