February 12, 2017 

Abby spent the night at Libby’s house.

February 13, 2017

• 10:00 AM Abby wake up. In morning Abby and Libby had banana pancakes for breakfast prepared by Libby’s father, Derrick German. Libby said she wanted to go to the bridge and asked her older sister Kelsi German to go with them.
  
• 1:00 PM Derrick German leaves for Frankfort to run errands
• Libby called her father to ask him to pick them up. Derrick German said he was driving to Frankfort, more than 20 miles south of Delphi, to run errands and it would take him a couple of hours to get to them.
• 1:35 PM: Kelsi German dropped Abby and Libby at the County Road 300 North, east of the Hoosier Heartland Highway. The girls were hiking on the Monon High Bridge over Deer Creek. Girls borrowed Kelsey’s sweatshirt and a jacket. Abby wore a gray zip-up hoodie, blue jeans and a messy bun. Libby wore a tie-dyed shirt.
• 2:07 PM: Libbi German shared a photo on Snapchat of the Monon High Bridge, along with an image of Abby Williams walking across the bridge structure. Photo
• 2:13 PM Libby took a video which shows a man (“Bridge Guy/BG”) walking on the bridge Audio of a man saying “guys” and “down the hill” was captured on Libby’s phone.
• 3:00 PM: Derrick German arrived at the trail and called Libby, but she didn’t answer. He looked for the girls on the trail, screaming their names and calling Libby’s phone multiple times. Nobody answered.
• 4:00 PM Libbys sister received a call from her grandmother saying the girls couldn’t be found.
• 5:00 PM Becky called AT&T to try to track Libby’s phone.
• 5:15 PM: Carroll County Sheriff’s Office who responded to a call about the missing girls.
• 6.49 PM: Anna Williams (Abbie’s mother) wrote a panicky post on Facebook for anyone who had seen the girls to “please contact myself or the sheriff’s department immediately! The girls haven’t been in contact for about three hours!!!!
• 11:45 PM Police called off the search because it was too dark.

February 14, 2017:

• 7:00 AM The search resumed with searchers mostly looking around the Monon High Bridge and farther downstream of Deer Creek, which flows from east to west south of Delphi.
• 8:30 AM. The searchers walked upstream, to the east, along the southern bank of Deer Creek. After passing the bridge, they saw a flash of yellow, pink and blue. Libby’s tie-dye shirt was caught on branches in the water near the creek’s northern bank. First Investigators found clothing hung up on tree roots in Deer Creek minutes before they discovered girls bodies on the far bank.
• 12:15 PM Girls were found murdered. The girls’ bodies were found along Deer Creek. Their throats had been slit. Libby was naked and covered in blood, Abby was wearing Libby’s sweatshirt and jeans, while the rest of the clothes were found in the nearby creek. Source ISP
  
• Libby’s shoe was found in the river and another shoe found under Abby.
• Libby’s phone was under Abby’s shoe.
• Libby’s shirt was on Abby, Libby’s other clothes were inside-out and in creek.
• Abby’s hands were inside shirt clutched on her chest, feet pointed north.
• the branches from the crime scene discussed earlier had blood on them were recovered
• an unspent bullet found at the crime scene
• 12:45 PM The Delphi Fire Chief announced that they had found Libby and Abby, calling the discovery “not good.”
• 1:50 PM Indiana State Police PIO Kim Riley, Carroll County Sheriff Tobe Leazenby and Delphi Police Chief Steve Mullins hold a joint press conference to announce two bodies were found while crews were searching for Libby and Abby. At that time the bodies were not officially identified, but search efforts were officially ‘scaled back.’
• Dan Dulin was assigned to interview and to follow up on leads. He created a lead list with “Name, contact, narrative, identifying number, who provided to, what officer should do,”
  

February 15, 2017

• 2:33 PM Autopsies were performed earlier that day in Terre Haute, and Authorities positively identify the two bodies found Tuesday as Abigail Williams and Liberty German
  
• 6:50 PM Indiana State Police release a photo of a man they believe was on the Delphi Historic Trail around the time that Abigail Williams and Liberty German were there. ISP announces they want to speak with the man pictured or anyone parked in the lot near the bridge about what they may have saw.

February 16, 2017

• A search warrant was issued at a Ron Logan home on Bicycle Bridge Road. Police spent at least two hours taking photos and collecting evidence from the scene. 
• Dan Dulin receives a lead list to reach out to everyone on the trail.

February 17, 2017.

• Dan Dulin went back to a crime scene and found sticks and branches that caught his attention. He said they had blood on them and were piled up in a 5-foot area. That was after the crime scene near the Monon High Bridge Trail had been released by authorities. Dulin called the investigation center and to go back to the scene to collect the sticks.
  

February 18, 2017

• A public visitation for family and friends held at Delphi High School.

February 19, 2017

• The Death Certificates for Liberty German and Abigail Williams – File
  

February 22, 2017

• Indiana State Police released an audio recording of a male voice saying, ” Down the hill.” Audio downloads:
  

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February 23, 2017

• FBI’s Major Case Contract Center in Washington, D.C took over Delphi Murder Tip Line because of the sheer number of calls they were receiving. The tip line number 1-844-459-5786.
  

February 25, 2017:

• ISP said the moved to a larger headquarters to accommodate the city of Delphi, who had to use their building to conduct everyday business.
• ISP and FBI investigators executed a search warrant linked to the “anthony_shots” social media account, which led to Kegan Anthony Kline in Miami County. Kline admitted to using social media to communicate with underage girls, including Libby German. Kegan Kline Affidavit
  

February 27, 2017

• Law enforcement announced a reward of $100,000 for information related to the homicide.

March 1, 2017

• Former Indianapolis Colts punter Pat McAfee and team owner Jim Irsay donated $97,000 to the reward fund to find the person who killed Abigail Williams and Libby German.

March 8, 2017

• Trail Safety Task Force formed to help improve the safety along the Delphi Historic Trails

March 17, 2017

• ISP, FBI, and Carroll County served a search warrant at home and property of Ron Logan. Ron Logan, has been in custody since the week before on an unrelated probation violation for a previous DUI conviction. – SP Sgt. Tony Slocum said “It’s just a normal course of this investigation, We’ve served multiple search warrants so far. They can either exonerate a person or maybe require law enforcement to take a closer look.”
  

July 17, 2017:

• Police released the first sketch of a potential suspect in the case.

February 13, 2018

• Media Advisory on Delphi Homicide Investigation. Media Advisory
  

September 28, 2017

• Indiana State Police were contacted by a sheriff’s department in Colorado about similarities in their case against Daniel Nations and the Delphi murders. Daniel Nations was officially declared a ‘person of interest’ in the case.
• Nations had a lengthy criminal record, including petty offenses and domestic violence, as well as being a registered sex offender after being charged with indecent exposure. He had masturbated in front of a young girl in South Carolina. He had connections to Indiana, claiming to be homeless and “living under an Indiana 67 bridge” in Morgan County since January 31, 2017.
  

September 29, 2017

• Detectives working the Delphi investigation travel to Colorado to interview Daniel Nations to try to determine if he has any connection with the Delphi murders. State Police, obtained his DNA.
  

January 24, 2018

• An extraditable warrant was served on Daniel Nations for unrelated felony charges in Johnson County Indiana.

February 4, 2018

• Daniel Nations extradited to Indiana on a warrant for failing to register as a sex offender. The charge is not related to the Delphi investigation

April 22, 2019:

• A new sketch of the suspect was released, along with video and extended audio. Police clarified that the new sketch was of a different individual than the first.

July 10, 2019

• Kelsi German held a live chat debunking rumors circulating on social media about her family and the girls’ murders.

For a complete timeline and court records, please visit the page created by SleuthieGoosie.

August 2020:

• Kline was charged with 30 felonies, including child pornography and child exploitation. Kegan Kline Affidavit

September 2020:

• Kathy Shank CPS worker and volunteer clerk started digitizing records, which took two years to complete.
  

April 27, 2021

• Investigators begin “looking into” James Chadwell II after he was arrested and accused of kidnapping and beating a young girl in Lafayette.

December 6, 2021: 

• Indiana State Police made an appeal for information related to a social media account tied to the investigation, later revealing that the profile had communicated with German.
• Kegan Anthony Kline told police he’d used social media accounts to talk to underage girls, contacting both people he knew and didn’t know. He told police he would find girls on Instagram and then ask them to talk to him on Snapchat. According to Kline, he exchanged messages with more than a dozen underage girls and received pictures from them. Kline said he had about 100 pictures from underage girls that were sexual in nature, in addition to about 20 sexually explicit videos. 

As part of the investigation, authorities seized numerous electronics:

• Apple iPhone 4, Apple iPhone 3, Samsung Galaxy S5, Samsung Galaxy S4, a Nextbook Tablet and an iPad Touch. They also examined an iPhone 5c that Kline turned in later. 
• Police found videos and photos showing underage girls posing nude/partially nude or engaging in sex acts. Some of the files were saved on electronic devices while others were shared in a Dropbox account. 

December 20, 2021: Kline appeared in court for a pretrial hearing on the charges. He was never charged in connection with the Delphi murders.

February 10, 2022 Supt. Doug Carter talked to WRTV and said he believes the case could be solved before he retires in less than three years. “Three years, two years 11 months,” Carter said. “It could be today. We continue to move in a positive direction.”

September, 2022:

• During the move Kathy Shank found a box in a desk drawer that contained a lead sheet from February 16, 2017. It was labeled “Richard Allen Whiteman.” The tip indicated Allen had been on the trail on February 13, 2017 and the file had the word “CLEARED” written on it. The file revealed that Allen self-reported he was on the trail the last day family members saw the girls. Shank took the tip to Tony Liggett, the lead investigator on the case.

September 21, 2022:

• The name of the file was changed from Richard Allen Whiteman to Richard Allen. – Whiteman was the name of the street where Allen lived.
• Dulin received a call from Delphi Police Chief Steve Mullin asking if he had ever talked with Richard Allen.

October 13, 2022:

• Investigators executed a search warrant of Richard Allen ‘s residence at 1967 North Whiteman Drive, Delphi, Carroll County, Indiana. They collected 12 phones, including outdated models, two pagers, knives and two SD cards were taken from the Allen home as evidence.

Evidence Did not link to the crime scene:

• the jacket, car, and knives were examined and tested by authorities, but nothing came back to link those items to the crime scene.
• The pair of underwear and a sock missing from the crime scene were not found in Allen’s house.

October 28, 2022: Richard Matthew Allen was booked into the Carroll County Jail in connection with the Delphi investigation. A probable cause affidavit in Allen’s 2022 arrest links him to the crime scene. It said an ejected .40-caliber shell casing matched a pistol owned by Allen. He had told police in 2017 that he’d been on the trails the afternoon the girls were killed. Richard Allen Affidavit – Complete Timeline by SleuthieGoosie

Richard Matthew Allen born on September 7, 1972

1989

• Joined Indiana National Guard – Alpha Company 2nd Battalion 58th Industry.

1991

• Married Kathy Walker in Mexico, Indiana
  

1998

• Honorable discharge as a Sergeant of Indiana National Guard Records

2006

• Richard Allen relocated to Delphi from Mexico, Indiana in December of 2006. He bought the home.

2017

• October 3, 2017 Richard Allen received his pharmacy technician license 99082246A. Allen worked in Delphi as a pharmacy technician at a local CVS.

February 15, 2017

• 1:30 PM He arrived to the trail, he parked at the old Farm Bureau Building and walked a to the new Freedom Bridge.
• 3:30 PM He walked from the Freedom Bridge to the High Bridge and drove away
  

Detectives Interviewed Richard Allen:

• Richard Allen told detectives he was on the trail between 1:30 PM and 3:30 PM, he parked at the old Farm Bureau Building and walked a to the new Freedom Bridge. and walked to the new Freedom Bridge. While at the Freedom Bridge he saw three females. He noted one was taller and had brown or black hair. He did not remember description nor did he speak with them. He walked from the Freedom Bridge to the High Bridge. He did not see anybody, although he stated he was watching a stock ticker on his phone as he walked. He stated there were vehicles parked at the High Bridge trail head, however did not pay attention to them. He did not take any photos or video.

Richard Allen cell phone did not list an IMEI but did have the following:

• MEID-256 691463100153 495
• MEmHEX-9900247025797

October 13, 2022 

• Richard Allen was interviewed again by investigators. He advised_ he was on the trails on February 13th, 2017. He stated he saw juvenile girls on the trails east of Freedom Bridge and that he went onto the Monon High Bridge. Richard Allen further stated he went out onto the Monon High Bridge to watch the fish. Later in his statement, he said he walked out to the first platform on the bridge. f!e stated he then walked back, sat on a bench on the trail and then left He stated he parked his car on the side of an old building. He told investigators that he was wearing blue Jeans and a blue or black Carhartt jacket with a hood. He advised he may have been wearing some type of head covering as well. He further claimed he saw no one else except/or the juvenile girls he saw east of the Freedom Bridge. He told investigators that he owns firearms and they are at his home.
• Richard M. Allen wife, Kathy Allen, also spoke to investigators. She confirmed that Richard did have guns and knives at the residence. She also stated thaJ Richard still owns a blue Carhartt jacket.
• Investigators executed a search warrant of Richard Allen’s residence at 1967 North Whiteman Drive, Delphi, Carroll County, Indiana, officers located: jackets, boots, knives and firearms, including a Sig Sauer, Model P226, 40 caliber pistol with serial number U-625 627

October 26, 2022

• Richard Allen spoke with Investigators and stated that he never allowed anyone to use or borrow the Sig Sauer Model P226 firearm. Richard Matthew Allen, from Delphi, Indiana, was taken into custody on Wednesday, October 26, 2022, and booked into Carroll County Jail.
  

October 28, 2022:

• Richard Matthew Allen was was charged with two counts of murder, in connection with the Delphi investigation. A probable cause affidavit in Allen’s 2022 arrest links him to the crime scene. It said an ejected .40-caliber shell casing matched a pistol owned by Allen. He had told police in 2017 that he’d been on the trails the afternoon the girls were killed and video from Hoosier Harvestore shows a vehicle that matches the description of Richard Allen’s vehicle passing at 1:27 p.m. toward the former CPS building.· Richard Allen Affidavit

October 31, 2022:

• Allen was officially arrested in connection with the killings of German and Williams.
• Richard Allen pleaded not guilty and remained at the White County Jail, where he was detained without bond. For more detailed information, please visit the

November 1, 2022:

• Libby German’s grandmother Becky said Allen worked at CVS and had printed photos for the girls’ funerals.

November 22, 2022:

• Allen was granted a bail hearing, and a prosecutor said in court that Allen may not be the sole suspect.

November 29, 2022:

• Unsealed court records detailed how a cellphone video and an unspent bullet led officers to arrest a man they interviewed five years earlier in connection with the deaths.

March 30, 2023: Kline pleaded guilty to child exploitation charges.

July 27, 2023: Kline was sentenced to 40 years in prison.

April 6, 2023: Allen’s legal team, attorneys Andrew Baldwin and Bradley Rozzi, filed an emergency motion to modify his safekeeping order, claiming the suspected killer was not being treated like other detainees.

June 13, 2023: Allen’s defense team filed a motion to suppress certain evidence from the case. At the time, the motion was under seal, but the court revealed it involved ballistics.

June 15, 2023: Allen appeared in court for what was supposed to be a bail hearing. Ultimately, the judge heard arguments over covering several issues, including a motion filed by Allen’s attorney to keep certain evidence from coming out at trial.

June 16, 2023: Allen’s defense team claimed the suspect’s mental and physical state was getting worse in isolation.

June 29, 2023: Allen County Judge Frances Gull unsealed 118 documents in the case against Allen. Allen allegedly told his wife and mother “no less than five times” that he was responsible for killing German and Williams. The records also revealed that investigators believed a knife was used in the killings.

For a complete timeline and court records, please visit the page created by SleuthieGoosie.

September 18, 2023: Allen’s defense introduced an alternative theory involving an Odinist cult, Baldwin and Rozzi pointed out that investigators spoke with key suspects whom the defense team believed were at the center of the cult theory. Which was later dismissed as unsupported by evidence.

October 3, 2023: Allen’s defense claimed the investigation into the theory of a ritualistic killing had been reopened.

October 5, 2023: Crime scene photos were leaked online, prompting an investigation.

October 9, 2023: Mitch Westerman, a friend of one of Allen’s attorneys, reportedly contacted Baldwin and admitted to being behind the leak, taking photos of the evidence and sharing those with a man who later shared them with another person from Texas who in turn sent them to various YouTube and podcast creators. The man Westerman initially shared the photos with killed himself after being questioned by police.

October 19, 2023: Allen’s attorneys, Baldwin and Rozzi, were forced to withdraw from the case due to the evidence leak.

October 26, 2023: Baldwin and Rozzi contested their removal from the case in the Indiana Supreme Court.

November 6, 2023: Baldwin and Rozzi’s attorneys asked the Indiana Supreme Court to remove Gull from the case.

November 22, 2023: Mitchell Westerman, was arrested and charged with one count of conversion, a Class A misdemeanor.

January 18, 2024: The Indiana Supreme Court reinstated Allen’s original defense team after they were removed from his case last fall. Lebrato and Scremin later filed a motion to remove themselves from Allen’s case. The justices also denied a motion to remove Gull from the case.

January 28, 2024: Allen’s attorneys filed a new motion seeking to remove Gull from the case, arguing she should be replaced or recuse herself from the proceedings in favor of a different judge.

January 29, 2024: McLeland pushed the court to hold Baldwin and Rozzi in contempt, accusing them of mishandling evidence and making public statements about the case as the court weighed a gag order.

February 7, 2024: Allen’s defense sought to have the charges dismissed, claiming key evidence had been destroyed.

May 7, 2024: Allen’s trial was rescheduled for October 2024.

March 11, 2024: Gull granted the defense team’s request to move up Allen’s murder trial, scheduling court to begin on May 13. Gull blocked off May 13 through May 31 in her motion.

March 18, 2024: The judge dismissed two counts of kidnapping, and Allen waived an initial hearing to dispute the amended charges, which include murder.

April 25, 2024: Gull declared no cameras will be allowed in the courtroom for Allen’s trial.

April 30, 2024: Prosecutors asked the court to prevent the defense from presenting its “Odinism” murder theory in court. The request applies to jury selection, opening arguments, presentation of evidence at trial and closing arguments.

May 2, 2024: Gull found Allen’s defense lawyers “sloppy, negligent, and incompetent” but declined to hold the pair in contempt.

May 7, 2024: Gull reset Allen’s trial dates for the murders of German and Williams for Oct. 14 through Nov. 15 in Carroll County.

June 19, 2024: Allan’s Defense attorneys claimed the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office lied about the circumstances surrounding the transportation of a Westville Correctional Facility inmate for a June 2023 hearing — and that Gull contradicted the sheriff’s office report about the matter.

August 16, 2024: A defense request to dismiss Allen’s case was denied.

August 29, 2024: Gull ruled that reported confessions from Allen are admissible in court, including statements he made to police, guards, family members and other inmates.

September 4, 2024: A judge ruled against allowing the Odinism defense at trial.

September 9, 2024: Allen’s attorneys signaled their intention for an interlocutory appeal challenging the decision to the Indiana Court of Appeals. The defense contended that Gull’s decision has effectively hamstrung their defense and violated their client’s constitutional rights.

September 11, 2024: McLeland filed an objection to the defense’s call for an appeal and cited the potential for another trial delay. Gull denied the defense’s request for an appeal and said the trial would proceed as scheduled in October.

September 23, 2024: Allen’s defense team filed a motion seeking to have the jury visit the crime scene. The motion requested that jurors go to the Freedom Bridge, the Monon High Bridge and the old CPS building. The state objected to the request, citing safety and practicality concerns, while Judge Gull took the motion under advisement.

October 14, 2024: The jury has been selected for the Delphi murders trial. Jurors will be transported to Carroll County for the proceedings.

October 16, 2024: The state filed a motion this week seeking to prohibit the use of the two widely circulated sketches from the early years of the investigation.

October 18, 2024 The Defense:

• Allen did go to the trail, on February 13, 2017, but he left by 1:30 p.m., more than a half-hour before the girls were believed to have been kidnapped.
• By 2:15 p.m., Allen’s car was no longer in the nearby parking lot where prosecutors alleged he had parked, Baldwin said. “Richard Allen was never on the trail with those girls … There is reasonable doubt in this case,” Baldwin said.
• Libby’s phone, which was found under Abby’s leg, somehow connected to a cellphone tower at 4:33 a.m. on Feb. 14. This means, Baldwin alleges, that “human hands handled that phone” after 4 p.m. on Feb. 13, when Allen was home and did not go back to the trail.
• Baldwin offered another theory: The girls were taken somewhere in a vehicle. Sometime after 4:33 a.m., someone brought them back to where they were found.

During closing argument:

Pros:

Carroll County Prosecutor Nick McLeland identified Allen as “the bridge guy” — a man seen in a Snapchat video walking on a then-abandoned bridge along the trail. The video was captured on Liberty’s cellphone the day of her death and later released by authorities in an effort to identify the man. “Now all the pieces are clear,” McLeland said,“Richard Allen is the ‘bridge guy.’ He kidnapped them and later murdered them. He slit their throats. He stole the youth and life away from Abby and Libby.”  prosecutors pointed to an unspent .40 cartridge that was found near the girls’ bodies and which authorities said came from Allen’s gun.

Defense:

Defense attorney Brad Rozzi challenged that conclusion, saying witnesses who testified that they saw “the bridge guy” gave physical descriptions that did not match Allen. The defense called the markings on the cartridge “insufficient” to link the bullet to Allen’s gun. Rozzi referred to the cartridge as “a magic bullet. Rozzi also described Allen’s repeated confessions to the murder as “false,” After his arrest, Allen was held in solitary confinement in a maximum security prison while awaiting trial. Defense Attorney Rozzi attributed the confessions to a mental health crisis. “When the dust settled, he was there for 13 months,” “How much can one human endure?” 

November 11, 2024 Delphi murders Verdict:

• Richard Allen is found guilty of killing Indiana teens in 2017 on all four counts.
• A spokesperson for Indiana State Police said they couldn’t comment because a gag order remained in effect after the verdict.

For more detailed information, please visit the Court Records and Timeline page created by SleuthieGoosie.