(Delphi, IND.) — Richard Allen, a murder suspect in Delphi, Indiana, allegedly confessed to the crime in multiple jailhouse phone calls to his wife, which were played for the jury Thursday.

In one call, Allen told his wife Kathy: “I made it. I killed Abby and Libby.”

“No, you didn’t,” he said. Allen responded, “Yes, I did.”

“Why do you say that?” Kathy said. “I know you didn’t do it. There is something wrong.”

In another call, Allen told his wife: “I think maybe I’ve lost my mind. … I need you to know that I did this.”

She replied: “No, you haven’t. “You’re not feeling well.”

Allen is accused of killing Libby German, 14, and Abby Williams, 13, on a hiking trail in February 2017. He has pleaded not guilty to murder.

In another call, Allen told his wife: “If I get the electric chair or the death penalty, will you be there to help me? I killed Abby and Libby.”

In another call, Allen said, “I made it, Kathy. I did it. Do you still love me?

She replied: “Yes, I do. But you didn’t.”

“I don’t want to bother you. “I’m sorry,” Allen told his wife. “I don’t know what I’m doing. “I don’t know if I’ve lost my mind.”

“I feel like I’m already in hell,” he told her later in the call. “I don’t understand what’s going on.”

Allen also allegedly confessed to prison officials and a prison psychologist, according to their testimony. But Allen’s mental state while in custody has been questioned.

A psychologist testified this week that Allen could be classified as having a serious mental illness. Allen was in solitary confinement for 13 months, which she said can be detrimental to a person’s mental health.

The psychologist said she believed Allen suffered from “situational psychosis” in prison. He said Allen would have episodes of psychosis and then go into remission.

Allen’s bizarre behavior in custody included banging his head against the wall, washing his face in the bathroom, refusing to eat, eating paper, smearing himself with feces in his cell and putting feces on his face for two hours, according to testimony from the suspects. penitentiary agents.

On the day of the murders, Libby and Abby saw a man behind them on the bridge and Libby began recording on her phone, prosecutors said. The man, known as “the guy on the bridge” because of the video of his voice made public, pulled out a gun and ordered the girls to go “downhill,” prosecutors said.

Indiana State Police Trooper Brian Harshman, who said he listened to 700 of Allen’s calls and monitored his text messages and video chats, testified Thursday that after listening to the calls, he believes Allen is the voice in the Libby’s “bridge boy” video.

The psychologist testified that Allen told her that he had ordered the girls “downhill” and that he intended to rape them, but then he saw something, either a person or a van, and was startled.

Harshman told jurors he believed Allen was surprised to see a pickup truck belonging to resident Brad Weber. Weber, who lives near the crime scene, owns a 2000 Ford Econoline pickup truck. Harshman said the time it would have taken Weber to drive home from work fits with the timing of the murders.

Defense attorney Brad Rozzi said police never investigated how many pickup trucks were registered to the county at the time of the murders. Rozzi also noted that numerous people were suspected of being the man in the “bridge boy” video, including Weber.

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