The man prosecuting Richard Allen, who is accused of killing two teenagers in Delphi, Indiana, in 2017, said interviews with the two men that were deleted after the killings were not useful to the defense. He said it was not “useful evidence.”
Carroll County Prosecutor Nicholas McClelland on Thursday responded to the defense’s accusation that Delphi police were “recording” interviews with key witnesses who could help Allen’s case, Fox 59 reported. McCleland said the interview “provides no evidence whatsoever relating to this case.”
He acknowledged that the interview, which took place days after the bodies of 13-year-old Abby Williams and 14-year-old Libby German were discovered, was recorded, but added: “I didn’t destroy it maliciously,” he admitted. faith. “
Although no recording exists, a commemorative summary of the interview does exist, and defense attorneys Andrew Baldwin and Bradley Lozzi say they made the recording to “hear the exact words spoken” by the two men interviewed. I wanted it. “There is no statement in the document that the author of the document would acknowledge,” the attorneys said in a filing last week.
In his response, McCleland argued that the interview was “not evidence relevant to this case.”
“The evidence at issue is not exculpatory evidence, nor is it potentially useful evidence,” McCleland wrote, according to FOX 59.
Prosecutors added that the recorded interrogation was just a way for the defense to further “wild theories about this case that have no supporting evidence.”
Baldwin and Lozzi have claimed in previous filings that the teenage girls were murdered by “.”[m]The embers of Scandinavian paganism called Odinism have been hijacked by white supremacists. ”
Lawyers said in their filing that two Odinist groups, one in Delphi and one in Rushville, Indiana, are being investigated for possible involvement in the murder. Lawyers point to alleged ritual symbols found at the crime scene, including the strange way young Libby’s body was placed, as evidence that the girls were murdered as part of a ritual sacrifice.
A March 2017 search warrant request from the FBI noted that the girls’ bodies appeared to have been “moved and staged.”
The filing also states that investigators will not be able to further investigate alleged ritual symbols left at the crime scene, such as a stick or tree branch placed on the girl’s body that imitates certain Norse runes. It also points out that there was no such thing. At least one branch appeared to have been cut with an electronic device, suggesting premeditation, the defense says. They added that Libby’s blood was also used to draw runes on the tree, which were identified as calling cards for pagan cults.
Without the recordings, it could be more difficult for Allen’s attorneys to “point out inconsistencies or raise questions about other witnesses or other information relevant to an impartial investigation.”
In one example provided by the defense, one of the men questioned in 2017 said he had “never met” Abby Williams, but six years later told investigators he had never met her. He stated that he “barely knew” about the incident and that he had “met him once.”
“Therefore, there are likely more inconsistencies on the defense’s part, other than that the state intentionally or negligently failed to preserve all evidence,” the defense attorneys wrote. “Such negligent and intentional conduct on the part of the police also resulted in the lack of important evidence that could essentially be exculpatory.”
Last month, Allen was charged with additional charges of murder and kidnapping.