Prosecutors rest their case after 12 days, spending time proving that Richard Allen is the infamous “Bridge Guy” captured on Libby German’s phone.
Prosecutors believe Libby and Abby were led down the hill to be raped before their killer panicked, slashed their throats, and covered their bodies with sticks before fleeing the area. In one of Richard Allen’s 61+ confessions, he said he got scared by a white van. The prosecution found that a neighbor returned home in his white van near the scene of the murders.
The defense calls their first witness, Cheyenne Mill. She was walking the trails and bridge the day Abby and Libby vanished. She says she was there from 2:50 p.m., talked to her boyfriend on her phone at 3:12 p.m., and saw an overweight man on Freedom Bridge who did not say “hi” back to her. She describes the man as old, with a camera around his neck.
Mill tells jurors she didn’t hear or see anything unusual in the wooded area, and she spoke to police the next day after hearing about the girls. Six months later, the FBI contacted her, saying her phone pinged on High Bridge on February 13. Mill cries on the stand, talking about online vigilantes doxing her.
Joining Nancy Grace today:
Additional Guests
- Susan Hendricks – Journalist, Author: “Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi’;” IG: @susan_hendricks X @SusanHendicks
- Gray Hughes -YouTube Channel @GrayHughesInvestigates
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[Feature Photo:FILE – A makeshift memorial to Liberty German and Abigail Williams near where they were last seen and where the bodies were discovered stands along the Monon Trail leading to the Monon High Bridge Trail in Delphi, Ind., Oct. 31, 2022. Jurors for the trial of Richard Matthew Allen, an Indiana man accused of killing the two teenage girls, will be brought from Allen County, which includes the city of Fort Wayne, a judge in the case decided Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)]
