At a June 15 court hearing, Allen’s defense attorney Brad Rozzi said that any allegedly “incriminating” statements that his client makes should be deemed unreliable due to his declining mental health since being incarcerated in the Westville Correctional Facility, the AP reports. Allen’s lawyers also requested he be transferred to another facility.
The girls’ bodies were found nearly 60 feet from the edge of a creek on private property — less than a mile from where they were last seen alive. Police declared they were investigating their deaths as a double homicide.
Days after the girls’ deaths, Indiana State Police released two photos taken from Liberty’s cell phone that showed a man on the trail at around the same time the pair were there.
They also released a brief audio clip of his voice — also pulled from Liberty’s phone — as well as a police sketch of the unknown man, who was later named as the main suspect in the girls' murders.
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“Justice for Abigail Williams and Liberty German is what this is about at the end of the day. Don’t let his name be heard more than theirs today or ever.”
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