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Indiana jury finds man guilty of high-profile 2017 murder of two teenage girls

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Indiana jury finds man guilty of high-profile 2017 murder of two teenage girls

Richard Allen, 52, could face up to 130 years in prison for killings on a hiking trail in Delphi, a small Indiana town

A jury in the small Indiana town of Delphi convicted a man of murder on Monday in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls who vanished during an afternoon hike.

Deliberations stretched into a fourth day before jurors found Richard Allen guilty of the killings of 13-year-old Abigail Williams and 14-year-old Liberty German. The former drugstore worker was convicted of two counts of murder and two additional counts of murder while committing or attempting to commit kidnapping. Allen, 52, could now face up to 130 years in prison.

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