Decide orders man charged with killing 2 teenage ladies to stay at northern Indiana jail

DELPHI, Ind. — A person charged with killing two teenage ladies will stay held at a northern Indiana jail after a choose concluded Wednesday he is being handled higher there than different inmates.

Particular Decide Fran Gull denied a request from attorneys for Richard Allen to relocate him from the Indiana Division of Correction’s Westville Correctional Facility due to what they stated had been his deteriorating well being and poor residing circumstances on the jail the place he has been held since final November.

His legal professionals argued, amongst different issues, that Allen sleeps on a pad on a concrete ground; should put on the identical garments together with underwear for days which can be dirty, stained, tattered and torn; and has had no probability to go to his spouse or different members of the family prior to now 5 months. His attorneys have described his residing circumstances as “akin to these of a prisoner of struggle.”

However the choose dominated, with out going into specifics, that “the proof offered demonstrated that the Defendant is handled extra favorably than different inmates housed on the Westville Correctional Facility,” on-line courtroom information stated.

Allen faces two homicide counts killings of Liberty German, 14, and Abigail Williams, 13, in 2017.

In February of that 12 months, a relative dropped them off at a mountain climbing path close to the Monon Excessive Bridge simply exterior their hometown of Delphi, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) northwest of Indianapolis. Their our bodies had been discovered the subsequent day in a rugged, closely wooded space close to the path.

The deaths had been dominated a double murder, however police have by no means disclosed how they died or described what proof they gathered.

Allen has pleaded not responsible to the killings.

The killings have haunted Delphi, a metropolis of about 3,000, the place Allen lived and labored at an area drug retailer.