You may have heard of this sensational horrid case...
I remember this case when it first broke, but then forgot all about it over the years till I noticed some armchair cold case detective was recently posting about it. And that peaked my curiosity in some twisted strange way as some "true crime" stories are in fact captivating and I guess in part to that time of spooky season is once again nearly upon us.
Backstory::
On February 14, 2017, the bodies of Abigail Williams (June 23, 2003 – February 13, 2017) and Liberty German (December 27, 2002 – February 13, 2017) were discovered near the Monon High Bridge Trail, part of the Delphi Historic Trails in Delphi, Indiana, after the girls had disappeared from that trail the previous day. The murders have received extensive media coverage, in part due to video and audio recordings released by law enforcement that came from German's smartphone, which recorded an individual believed to be the killer.
WARNING: some excerpts below may distress you. This is not a Halloween horror story, though it reads like one.
Fox 59
Kline reminds me of that sick child killer in "Black Bird" (2022) series.
Odinists? White nationalists?? Victims: Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty German, 14. The name "Liberty German"???
Note: Not a horror movie script. After reading through this 136 page Court filing doc (lamestream media deleted) my jaw did drop to the floor.
Found a copy:
STATE OF INDIANA v. RICHARD ALLEN
Reading the detailed Crime Scene description gave me chills up my spine and a flashback to the "True Detective" season 1 show.
The state troopers involved in the Abigail Williams/Liberty German case supposedly dismissed the crime's overt ties to ritual murder/Odinism early on due to the expertise of a Purdue professor. The defense asked them to name the prof or his department; they literally cannot do so:
Odinite Brad Holder, the father of Abby Williams’ boyfriend before her death, posted images on his FB alluding to both the confidential crime scene and the ritual murder it seems to depict. The concern was brought to state troopers by a private citizen and then dismissed.
Many of these disturbing allusions posted by Holder to the crime scene were NOT turned over to the defense. Then, even worse, AFTER dismissing Holder as a suspect, his fellow Odinite associate, Elvis Fields, expressed concern to LE that his spit would be found on one of the girls.
These are just 1/4 of the the tasks that the man indicted, would’ve had to perform "alone" in, generously, just under an hour and a half, but likely less. At his deposition, Sheriff Liggett testified under oath he believes it is possible. However, off the record, he thinks it’s not possible.
The girls were ritualistically posed with *PRE-CUT* branches, one nude and blood-spattered, one re-clothed and bloodless. A symbol resembling the rune "Ansuz," meaning Odin, had been painted on a nearby tree with the blood of Libby, the victim left nude and bloodied. This filing is one of the most stomach-churning accounts of ritual'ist murder and "lone wolf" obfuscation I have read about in recent times, if it is all true (it's a defense brief so-grain of salt). The crime scene alone is horrific. The details are crazy wild symbolic ritual murder scene like out of a crime horror movie.
The correctional guards in Richard Allen’s prison were wearing these patches. Literally wearing them. What do you even say to that?
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I remember this case when it first broke, but then forgot all about it over the years till I noticed some armchair cold case detective was recently posting about it. And that peaked my curiosity in some twisted strange way as some "true crime" stories are in fact captivating and I guess in part to that time of spooky season is once again nearly upon us.
Backstory::
On February 14, 2017, the bodies of Abigail Williams (June 23, 2003 – February 13, 2017) and Liberty German (December 27, 2002 – February 13, 2017) were discovered near the Monon High Bridge Trail, part of the Delphi Historic Trails in Delphi, Indiana, after the girls had disappeared from that trail the previous day. The murders have received extensive media coverage, in part due to video and audio recordings released by law enforcement that came from German's smartphone, which recorded an individual believed to be the killer.
WARNING: some excerpts below may distress you. This is not a Halloween horror story, though it reads like one.
Quote:Attorneys representing Richard Allen, the man charged with killing Abigail Williams and Liberty German in Delphi, Indiana, in 2017, filed court documents on Monday asserting the girls died in a "ritualistic sacrifice" by white nationalists who practice a Norse pagan religion.Delphi murders victims died in ritual sacrifice by white nationalists practicing Odinism
Defense attorneys Andrew J. Baldwin and Bradley A. Rozzi revealed the shocking claims in a 136-page memorandum, obtained by USA Today, which they said supports Allen's request for a hearing to contest the validity of a search warrant. The filing asserted that several white nationalists practicing the religion Odinism "ritualistically sacrificed" the girls, and nothing liked Allen to Odinism or any religious cult.
Odinisim, according to the Anti-Defamation League, is a term frequently given to a racist variant of the Norse pagan religion known as Asatru -- a religious sect that attempts to revive ancient Norse religious beliefs and practices of pre-Christian Europe.
Evidence found at the crime scene consisted of symbols in the form of runes made up of sticks and fashioned with tree branches, which defense attorneys said were obvious signatures left behind by Odinites.
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Allen, 52, a drugstore worker who had been living in the same small community where the teens resided, was arrested on murder charges in Oct. 2022. Insisting their client is innocent, the defense attorneys stated that it wasn't plausible that one person was responsible for the murders of Libby and Abby, listing 92 reasons in support of their claim.
Fox 59
Kline reminds me of that sick child killer in "Black Bird" (2022) series.
Odinists? White nationalists?? Victims: Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty German, 14. The name "Liberty German"???
Note: Not a horror movie script. After reading through this 136 page Court filing doc (lamestream media deleted) my jaw did drop to the floor.
Found a copy:
STATE OF INDIANA v. RICHARD ALLEN
Reading the detailed Crime Scene description gave me chills up my spine and a flashback to the "True Detective" season 1 show.
The state troopers involved in the Abigail Williams/Liberty German case supposedly dismissed the crime's overt ties to ritual murder/Odinism early on due to the expertise of a Purdue professor. The defense asked them to name the prof or his department; they literally cannot do so:
Odinite Brad Holder, the father of Abby Williams’ boyfriend before her death, posted images on his FB alluding to both the confidential crime scene and the ritual murder it seems to depict. The concern was brought to state troopers by a private citizen and then dismissed.
Many of these disturbing allusions posted by Holder to the crime scene were NOT turned over to the defense. Then, even worse, AFTER dismissing Holder as a suspect, his fellow Odinite associate, Elvis Fields, expressed concern to LE that his spit would be found on one of the girls.
These are just 1/4 of the the tasks that the man indicted, would’ve had to perform "alone" in, generously, just under an hour and a half, but likely less. At his deposition, Sheriff Liggett testified under oath he believes it is possible. However, off the record, he thinks it’s not possible.
The girls were ritualistically posed with *PRE-CUT* branches, one nude and blood-spattered, one re-clothed and bloodless. A symbol resembling the rune "Ansuz," meaning Odin, had been painted on a nearby tree with the blood of Libby, the victim left nude and bloodied. This filing is one of the most stomach-churning accounts of ritual'ist murder and "lone wolf" obfuscation I have read about in recent times, if it is all true (it's a defense brief so-grain of salt). The crime scene alone is horrific. The details are crazy wild symbolic ritual murder scene like out of a crime horror movie.
The correctional guards in Richard Allen’s prison were wearing these patches. Literally wearing them. What do you even say to that?
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One of the most dangerous trends of our times is making the truth socially unacceptable, or even illegal, with "hate speech" laws. — Thomas Sowell