“I did it. I killed Abby and Libby.”

This is what jurors heard Richard Allen say in an audio recording of a phone call he made to his wife from prison.

The call from Allen, an Indiana man on trial for the murder of two teenagers in 2017, is just one of five to his wife in which he apparently confessed to the murders from prison, according to CNN affiliate WTHR.

Prosecutors say Allen actually confessed more than 60 times to the murders in prison, his wife, his mother, his relatives, the prison director, the psychologist who treated him in prison, other prison employees and other inmates. Jurors have spent more than two full weeks in the trial. Prosecutors dismissed their case Thursday after presenting 40 witnesses.

Abigail “Abby” Williams, 13, and Liberty “Libby” German, 14, disappeared on February 13, 2017, after hiking the Monon High Bridge Trail in Delphi, Indiana. Their bodies were discovered with both throats slit near the trail the next day.

Despite the confessions, many questions remain about the case, including Allen’s mental state and the lack of DNA evidence linking him to the crimes. Allen was arrested in October 2022 after long ignored advice was discovered placing it at the crime scene.

The jury heard recordings Thursday of seven prison phone calls Allen made to his wife and mother, according to WTHR.

In a call to his wife on April 3, 2023, he told her: “Honey, I made it. I killed Abby and Libby.” His wife told him not to say that, but he continued to repeat the statement, WTHR reported. Then, in a call on May 10, 2023, according to the affiliate, he told his wife, “I need you to know that I did this.” He also told his wife: “I think I’ve lost my mind.”

Here’s what we’ve learned about the murders in the second full week of the trial.

‘I just want to sign my confession’

The confessions constitute one piece of evidence presented by the state in its case against Allen, who worked at a CVS pharmacy in the small town of Delphi. Prosecutors have built their case without DNA evidence or a weapon linking Allen to the crimes.

Jurors heard testimony that an unspent bullet was found at the crime scene. A firearms examiner testified that he tested the same type of bullet with Allen’s gun and the results showed that the bullet found at the scene came from Allen’s gun. Defense attorneys questioned the science of trying to match an unfired bullet with a fired one.

Monica Wala, the prison psychologist who treated Allen at Westville Correctional Facility, testified for prosecutors that he confessed to the crimes several times, once in great detail. according to WTHR.

“I killed Abby and Libby. “I’m sorry,” he told her during an April 5, 2023 session, WTHR reported.

“I just want to sign my confession,” he said, according to Wala, during another session on May 9, 2023. He also talked about wanting to go back and change his actions and apologize to the families, Wala testified.

On May 2, 2023, he confessed to the murders again, telling Wala, “I killed Abby and Libby. I will kill everyone,” he testified, according to WTHR.

Allen told Wala that he cut the girls’ necks and covered their bodies with branches, he said. She diagnosed him after the May 3 meeting with a brief psychotic disorder with disorganized speech and behaviors, but no delusions or catatonic behavior, according to WTHR.

Additionally, Wala testified that at times he thought Allen was faking some of the mental health behaviors he exhibited in prison, describing his behaviors at times as “defiant” rather than “psychotic.” according to CNN affiliate WRTV. Some of his symptoms seemed to increase – and he began to confess – after receiving information about the evidence the prosecution would present against him at trial, Wala testified.

Prosecutors also called former Westville Correctional Facility warden John Galipeau, who testified that Allen sent him a request to speak with him about confessing to the murders. according to WTHR. Galipeau testified that Allen said he killed the girls with a box cutter and threw it in a dumpster at CVS.

Several prison guards also testified on behalf of the state about murder confessions made by Allen during his incarceration. A corrections officer, Michael Clemons, who served as Allen’s suicide watch partner, showed records in which he noted that Allen said: “I, Richard Matthew Allen, killed Abby and Libby by myself. Nobody helped me.”

Defense highlights Allen’s ‘serious’ mental health

While the prosecution has highlighted Allen’s repeated confessions, the defense has drawn attention during cross-examination to his fragile mental health during the time he confessed to the murders.

Allen had been held in solitary confinement for a total of 13 months, and the defense has sought to place the confessions in the context of Allen’s mental health crisis while incarcerated. He was placed on suicide watch several times, exhibited strange behavior and at one point was diagnosed with “a brief psychotic disorder,” according to testimony from Wala, the psychologist who treated Allen.

On Friday, the defense called Deanna Dwenger, a clinical psychologist who worked for the Indiana Department of Corrections Behavioral Health, according to CNN affiliate WRTV. She testified that she was diagnosed with a serious mental illness in April 2023 and that a team of mental health professionals concluded that she was “severely disabled.”

Defense attorney Brad Rozzi repeatedly asked Wala about the difficult conditions Allen endured during solitary confinement and his mental health diagnoses. according to WTHR. He had a history of serious mental health and had experienced both a major depressive disorder and an anxiety disorder, Wala testified during cross-examination.

Allen was placed on suicide watch in November 2022 and April 2023. He engaged in some strange behavior in prison, such as refusing to wear clothes, hitting his head and eating his own feces, Wala said.

The same day Allen made one of his confessions, he also made nonsensical statements, including telling Wala that “I killed myself, my family and my best friend,” WTHR reported.

In a blow to the defense, Judge Frances Gull ruled Friday that Allen’s defense team cannot present its theory of Odinism. according to WTHRthat followers of odinisma Norse pagan religion with ties to white supremacist groups, committed the murders. Gull ruled that the defense team had not shown a sufficient connection between other possible suspects and the murders.

The defense hoped to use both a blood mark on a tree near where the bodies were found and the sticks placed on the girls’ bodies as evidence that followers of Odinism were behind the murders.

The defense also called witnesses whose testimonies contradicted elements of the state’s narrative about the murders. On Friday, former Carroll County Sheriff Tobe Leazenby testified that he believed until August 2023 that at least two people had killed the girls. WTHR reported. And former Delphi Fire Chief Darrell Sterrett testified for the defense that he saw no clothing in the creek during an initial search. according to WTHR. Abby’s jeans and jacket and Libby’s T-shirt were later discovered in the nearby river, according to WRTV.

None of Allen’s DNA was found at the crime scene.

A state DNA expert testified Oct. 28 that no DNA from Allen was found at the crime scene. according to WTHR.

Stacy Bozinovski told jurors she analyzed items from the crime scene, including Abby and Libby’s clothing, skin cells under their fingertips, blood from the crime scene and the unspent bullet found between the bodies. of the victims. While he found DNA from both girls in most of the crime scene samples, there was no DNA from Allen.

DNA from an unknown man was found at the crime scene, but Bozinovski testified that this was not unusual and could have come from the girls’ environment. There was no DNA evidence of sexual assault, he testified, according to WTHR.

He also tested items from Allen’s home and vehicle, including a blue Carhartt jacket, a rug from his car and knives. No DNA from Abby or Libby was found on any of the items taken from Allen’s home, WTHR reported.

When asked about hair samples found at the crime scene, Bozinovski said the state was not analyzing them at this time.

“But this is the time,” defense attorney Jennifer Auger responded. “Richard Allen is on trial now!”

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