Convicted murderer Richard Allen of Delphi, Indiana, was sentenced Friday to 130 years in prison for the 2017 murders of two teenage girls, as the victims’ families spoke in court.

For each murder, Allen was given 65 years in prison, which he could serve consecutively.

Allen, wearing an orange jumpsuit, gray sweatshirt and ankle bracelets, looked over at the court seats reserved for his family, which were empty. None of his relatives were present at the sentencing.

Allen showed no reaction to his verdict.

Last month, a jury found Allen guilty of all counts of double murder: aggravated murder for the killing of 13-year-old Abigail “Abby” Williams in a kidnapping attempt; Felony murder for killing 14-year-old Liberty “Libby” German in a kidnapping attempt; Murder for knowingly killing Abby; and murder for knowingly killing Libby.

A silence order prevented Abby and Libby’s families from commenting during or after Allen’s trial.

Libby’s grandmother, Becky Patty, broke her silence Friday and said at the sentencing, “I can never change my decision to let Libby and Abby go to the trails that day.”

“I hope he lives with the same fear that he caused Abby and Libby in the last hour of their lives,” she said.

Libby’s mother, Carrie Timmons, said Allen’s decisions created a “path of destruction.”

“I was blind that something so evil existed,” she said.

Timmons said she suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, guilt and anxiety.

She said Libby was now 22 years old, but the family had stopped celebrating her birthday because it was too difficult.

“You could have taken responsibility,” Libby’s grandfather, Mike Patty, told Allen. “You have to stand up and not appeal.”

Abby’s grandmother Diane Erskin said: “This is a day of great sadness for our family. We won’t go home to celebrate with champagne.”

Nearly eight years after her granddaughter’s murder, Erskin said, “I watched her friends graduate and wonder how many great-grandchildren were also murdered that day.”

Erskin said Abby’s last words on Libby’s phone were “Don’t leave me up here,” which is why the grieving grandmother didn’t allow herself to leave the trial, even during tough testimony.

The families, law enforcement and prosecutors are expected to address the public at a post-sentence news conference on Friday.

Indiana State Police Lt. Jerry Holeman called the crime “brutal” and told the judge that Abby and Libby were stalked, kidnapped, humiliated and “treated like animals.”

“I can’t imagine their fear,” he said.

He called Allen “manipulative and persuasive” and said he lacked remorse.

Judge Fran Gull told Allen, “I have been a judge for 27 years and you are at the top of the list of the most heinous crimes in the state of Indiana.”

“In terms of the extraordinary impact on the family, including the intergenerational impact, you are at the top,” she said. “These families will forever have to deal with your carnage.”

“You sit here and roll your eyes, just like you’ve rolled your eyes throughout this process,” she said.

Abby and Libby were walking along a trail in Delphi on February 13, 2017, when they were attacked. Their throats were slit and their bodies were dumped in the nearby woods.

Shortly before the murders, Libby posted a photo on Snapchat of Abby on the Monon High Bridge. After crossing the bridge, the girls saw a man behind them – who became known as the “bridge guy” – and Libby started a recording on her phone, according to prosecutors.

As police searched for the suspect, they released footage from Libby’s phone to the public: a grainy image of “Bridge Guy” and an audio clip of him telling the girls to go “down the hill.”

Allen, a husband and father who worked at the local CVS, was arrested in 2022.

“He took photos without remorse and didn’t bat an eyelid,” Becky Patty said in court Friday.

Allen admitted to police that he was on the trail that day but denied being involved in the crime.

The prosecution’s key physical evidence was an unspent .40-caliber cartridge discovered in the girls’ bodies. Police analysis determined that the unspent cartridge passed through Allen’s Sig Sauer Model P226, prosecutors said.

Another focus of the trial was Allen’s multiple confessions in prison and his mental health at the time. The defense argued that Allen was in a psychotic state as he made multiple confessions to his psychologist, correctional officers and his wife.

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