Richard Allen, the man convicted of killing two teen girls in Delphi, Indiana seven years ago, was sentenced to 130 years in prison.

Special Judge Fran Gull handed Allen the maximum 65-year sentence for each murder charge on Friday morning. The sentencing hearing lasted just over an hour, according to reporters in the courtroom.

Last month, a jury found Allen, 52, guilty of four counts of murder and kidnapping in the deaths of Abigail “Abby” Williams, 13, and Liberty “Libby” German, 14. The jury deliberated over four days before reaching their decision, to which Allen did not react while his wife looked on and sobbed.

Williams and German disappeared on February 13, 2017, after going for a walk on Monon High Bridge Trail near Delphi. Their bodies were discovered near the trail the next day. Their throats had been slashed and they were covered with sticks and arranged into “pagan” symbols, court documents revealed.

Indianapolis police arrested Allen — a husband, father and CVS employee — in October 2022. He admitted to being on the trail that day but denied any involvement with the murder.

Allen pleaded not guilty. His defense argued against the prosecution’s timeline throughout the trial, highlighting the state’s “broken” murder timeline, the “bungled” ballistics, “false” confessions and digital forensics. Before the trial began, Allen’s team tried to argue the girls were killed in a ritual sacrifice by members of the Odinists, a white nationalist group who follow a pagan Norse religion, on account of the symbols identified by investigators.

However, the judge ruled against them, telling the defense they “failed to produce admissible evidence” of their argument.

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