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🗓️ 22 December 2024
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Lauren Matthias was inside the courtroom in Delphi, Indiana for the trial and sentencing of Richard Allen, and is bringing us the very latest from Carroll County there was no audio or video recording. Richard Allen was convicted of murdering 13-year-old Abigail Williams and 14-year-old Liberty German in 2017.
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0:00.0 | Today was a very, very big day when it comes to the Delphi trial and hidden true crimes coverage of the Delphi trial. |
0:09.0 | I am in Delphi, Indiana right now, and I attended the sentencing of Richard Allen this morning. |
0:15.5 | It is December 20th, 24, nearly eight years since Richard Allen brutally murdered two best friends, |
0:25.3 | Libby German and Abby Williams, 13 and 14 years old as they walked across the Monon High Bridge |
0:31.8 | on a fun afternoon off of school. Richard Allen was sentenced today, and his sentencing was two consecutive |
0:40.0 | 35-year sentences. So, in other words, he has a hundred and, excuse me, to 65, forgive me, he has |
0:52.3 | 130 years total to 65, forgive me. He has 130 years total to 65 year sentences in prison. So, |
1:00.2 | 130 total years behind bars. We, I'm going to take you, as I've always done throughout this |
1:07.2 | trial, I'm going to take you throughout every detail. And I want to let you know that I |
1:14.2 | have the majority of all the victim impact statements in front of me right now. I have been given |
1:20.9 | them. And we are going to read them all. So you won't just have my notes and what I was able to scribe from trial. I have the |
1:32.0 | victim impact statements with me now and we are going to read them and you're going to hear |
1:38.6 | what the families of Abby and Libby shared with Richard Allen and with the courtroom today. |
1:46.8 | Before we get there, let's start at the beginning. |
1:50.6 | And Richard Allen sentencing, I went in. |
1:54.2 | I was number one in line. |
1:55.9 | It's never happened before in my life. |
1:58.9 | But today I was number one. |
2:00.4 | And I walked in and I was able to get, |
2:04.4 | uh, take a seat on the second row, uh, which is usually reserved for media. But today, |
2:10.8 | there were a few seats on the second row available and I, I took that one. I could hear well today. |
2:16.2 | I could hear very well today. |
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