The jurors heard confessions from Murder at Delphi suspect as prosecutors made a last-ditch effort during closing arguments Thursday to convince the panel that Richard Allen is the “Bridge guy” who allegedly killed two teenagers in 2017.

After three weeks of testimony in the long-awaited double murder trial, Allen’s fate is now in the hands of the jury. He could be sentenced to up to 130 years in prison if convicted on all charges.

Allen, 52, faces two counts of murder and two additional counts of murder while committing or attempting to commit kidnapping in the murders of Abigail “Abby” Williams, 13, and Liberty “Libby” German, 14, who disappeared on February 13, 2017. , after taking a walk along the Monon High Bridge Trail in Delphi, Indiana.

Their bodies were discovered with both throats slit near the trail the next day. It would take five years for Allen to be arrested in October 2022. A grainy image of “bridge boy” was one of the few pieces released by investigators searching for the suspect.

During closing arguments Thursday, Carroll County Prosecutor Nicholas McLeland insisted that Allen was the “bridge boy” seen in a Snapchat video Libby recorded on her cellphone just before they were killed.

McLeland said Allen had repeatedly confessed to the murders in recorded phone calls, which were played for the jury, including one in which Allen could be heard telling his wife: “I did it. I killed Abby and Libby.”

He also argued that some of Allen’s incriminating statements contained information that only the killer could know.

“Now all the pieces are clear,” McLeland said. “All the pieces are together.”

But defense attorney Bradley Rozzi argued that Allen’s confessions are unreliable because he suffered a serious mental health crisis while under the stress of being locked in solitary confinement.

A psychiatrist who testified at the trial supported the argument, stating that months of solitary confinement could cause a person to become delusional and psychotic.

Rozzi also criticized the prosecution’s timeline and told jurors that Allen was not the killer, while highlighting four points that included the state’s “broken” murder timeline, “sloppy” ballistics, “false” confessions and analysis digital forensics.

“Over and over again we had to do their job,” Rozzi said of the investigators in the case.

He said the state’s timeline doesn’t match the evidence, arguing that one or more people must have kidnapped the teens and returned them early the next day to the place where they were found. Fox 59 reported.

Rozzi also focused on witness Brad Weber, who in previous police interviews made conflicting statements about whether he went directly home after work on the day of the murders. He stated that at 2:30 p.m. on February 13, 2017, he drove his white pickup truck along the stretch of Deer Creek where the girls’ bodies were discovered.

The timeline appears to match the case presented by the prosecution that claims the killer took the girls down the hill at 2:31 p.m., according to pings from Libby’s phone. The last ping from the phone was at 2:32 p.m.

Last week, the court heard from psychologist Dr. Monica Wala, who told jurors how Allen confessed the crimes to her in detail while at the Westville Correctional Center.

He claimed Allen told him his intention was to rape the girls, but said he was “scared” by a white van. He then forced them into the forest and cut their throats before covering the girls with sticks, a detail that matched the crime scene.

Perhaps the defense’s biggest revelation in court was a digital forensics expert who said a headset or auxiliary cable was connected to Libby’s cell phone for nearly five hours after she and Abby disappeared. Their testimony cast doubt on investigators’ belief that the girls were killed and abandoned in the woods around 2:32 p.m.

During the trial, prosecutors showed the court grainy cellphone video that they said shows Allen walking behind Abby as they crossed the Monon High Bridge.

McLeland said a state trooper who had listened to more than 700 phone calls made by Allen had identified Allen’s voice on the video telling the teens to go “down the hill.”

An “unspent bullet” found among the girls’ bodies at the crime scene came from Allen’s Sig Sauer, a .40-caliber pistol, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors have said the bullet “had passed through” Allen’s gun, while a firearms expert called by the defense during the trial questioned the state police’s analysis of that unused bullet.

The defense concluded its closing by referring to the “magic bullet” as the “tragic bullet” and said the totality of the evidence “makes it impossible for Richard Allen to be the killer,” Fox 59 reported.

No one identified Allen as “Bridge Guy,” Rozzi told jurors, adding that there is no DNA or digital evidence linking him to the crime scene or any link between Allen and the girls.

He ended his closing with a photo of a medieval torture device and showed photos of Allen’s cell that included some of him lying naked with a hood.

Allen was held in “conditions that no man or woman should endure,” Rozzi said.

“We have asked you to release Richard Allen and declare him innocent,” he added.

Before the trial began, Allen’s lawyers had tried to argue that the girls were killed in a ritual sacrifice by members of a white nationalist group known as the Odinists who follow a Norse pagan religion, but the judge ruled against that. , saying the defense “failed.” present admissible evidence” of such a connection.

The strange case that has caught the attention of true crime enthusiasts and has also been shrouded in mystery and plagued by delays, shifting narratives, controversies, chaotic developments and evidence leaks is now in the hands of the jury.