The man accused of killing two teenage girls in a horrific case dubbed the ‘Delphi Murders,’ is alleged to have confessed to the killings to the prison psychologist.

Richard Allen, 52, is charged with killing Liberty German and Abigail Williams in a small Indiana community by forcing them off a hiking trail before cutting their throats, prosecutors say. The trial is a spectacle in Delphi, a town of 3,000, with people lining up in the morning chill to secure a seat in the courtroom.

The teens, known as Abby and Libby, were found dead Feb. 14, 2017. They went missing a day earlier while hiking the trail on a mild winters day off school. Within days, police released files found on Germans cellphone. Investigators also released one sketch of a suspect in July 2017 and another in April 2019, along with the bridge video.

After more years passed without a suspect identified, investigators said they went back and reviewed prior tips.

The high-profile trial is underway with the latest bombshell witness, Allen’s prison shrink – Dr Monica Wala. She discussed her daily sessions with the suspect, who was on suicide watch at Westville Correctional Facility at the time.

According to Wala, on May 3, 2023, he told her he would like to confess to his crimes.

Reading from clinical notes she said, “He said, ‘I bundled up, I went to the trail, and I lay in wait.” He remembered seeing the girls and following them [then] doing something with his gun. He stated I think thats where the bullet fell out.

“He ordered them down the hill. He wanted to rape them and thought they were older than their biological age. He saw a van and got scared. He cut their necks and wanted to make sure they were dead.

“He covered their bodies with tree branches and exited avoiding the trail so not to be seen.”

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Wala said that the suspect then returned to his car, where investigators believe a witness spotted it. But Allen then went on to live his life as normal.

Allen, a pharmacy technician, was arrested in October 2022, more than five years after the deaths of 13-year-old Abigail Williams and 14-year-old Liberty German, a case that had vexed police and inspired much speculation by true-crime enthusiasts. The outsized media attention in the small community prompted a specially appointed judge to pick jurors in Fort Wayne, nearly 100 miles (160 kilometers) away.

In his opening statement, McLeland described the crime scene: a rugged, wooded area near the Monon High Bridge Trail, just outside Delphi, the Carroll County seat.

He said an unused bullet discovered at the gruesome scene between the girls bodies came from a gun that belonged to Allen, and that his grainy image and voice were captured by German on her phone.

A short video released in 2019 that also came from Germans phone showed a suspect walking on Monon High Bridge. McLeland said that man was Allen.

Investigators searched Allens home in 2022 and seized a .40-caliber pistol. Prosecutors disclosed in court documents released several weeks after his arrest that testing determined that an unspent bullet found between Williams and German had been cycled through Allens pistol.

McLeland told jurors that in addition to the bullet evidence, they would also hear incriminating statements Allen made to correctional officers, inmates, law enforcement, and even his wife.

They had details that only the killer would know, the prosecutor said. Richard Allen is the man on the bridge.

Wala also explained a time Allen asked her to listen into a phone call in which he confessed to his wife Kathy.

“He asked whether his wife and family loved him and said he may have to spend the rest of his life in prisonhe mentioned the electric chair and told her he killed Abby and Libby,” she said.

Kathy told her husband to stop saying that and abruptly ended the call. Afterwards Allen told Wala: “She doesnt believe me. I didnt do everything that I said I did but I did kill Abby and Libby.”

Speaking in Allen’s defense, attorney Bradley Rozzi dismissed the testimony as the ravings of a true crime superfan whose interest in the Delphi case was not only a professional breach but bordered on obsession.

Under cross-examination, Wala admitted that she had followed multiple podcasts, YouTube channels, Facebook, and social media accounts discussing the Delphi murders.

She also admitted to looking up Allen on the Indiana Department of Corrections database  a violation that cost her her job.

The last thing the girls saw was Richard Allens face, Carroll County prosecutor Nicholas McLeland said.

And they heard his chilling words: Girls, down the hill, while Allen was wielding a gun, McLeland said. Out of fear the girls complied.