Indiana
Judge rules suspect’s reported confessions in Delphi, Indiana girls’ murders can be used
DELPHI, Ind. (CBS) — Numerous reported confessions by the Delphi, Indiana double murder suspect can be used in court, a judge ruled this week.
Richard Allen is charged with two counts of murder in the 2017 slayings of 14-year-old Liberty German and 13-year-old Abigail Williams. His trial is scheduled for October.
CBS affiliate WTTV in Indianapolis reported Special Judge Fran Gull—who was assigned to the Carroll County, Indiana case from Allen County where Fort Wayne is located—ruled Thursday that all of Allen’s statement to psychologists, inmates, guards, and family members from within jail can be used as evidence.
Allen’s defense team had tried to get these statements thrown out.
Prosecutors have said previously that Allen confessed in prison phone calls to his wife. His attorneys have blamed four other people for the murders.
Libby and Abigail were found dead in February 2017, a day after they were reported missing following a visit to a hiking trail near their hometown of Delphi, about 60 miles northwest of Indianapolis.
Liberty and Abigail were found stabbed to death on a hiking trail near an abandoned railroad bridge.
Allen, a drugstore pharmacy technician in the town of 3,000, wasn’t arrested until October 2022. He has pleaded not guilty.
Police have said Libby snapped a photo of the killer and recorded his voice on her cell phone before she died.
RIPLEY COUNTY, Ind. (WSBT) — A statewide Silver Alert has been issued for two young children in Indiana.
Police in Ripley County, southeast of Indianapolis, are looing for the children who may be siblings.
The first child is 3-year-old Aaliyah Buckingham.
She was last seen wearing a pink cat shirt and tie-dye shorts.
The younger child is 1-year-old Shane Buckingham, last seen in a red shirt and diaper.
Police think both are with 45-year-old Timothy Buckingham, who was last seen driving a brown GMC truck.
Timothy is described as a 6′ 3″ white man weighing 225 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes.
Photo of Timothy Buckingham provided by Indiana State Police
Police have not confirmed the relationship of the three, or why the children are believed to be in danger.
Anyone who sees the three are asked to contact the nearest police department.
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A firefighter for the Indianapolis Fire Department was sent to the hospital Wednesday after battling a fire at a vacant house.
According to a Facebook post made by IFD, the fire happened around 10:15 a.m. at a house on Bluff Rd. IFD says that there were several complications, including limited access to fire hydrants and “interior hoarder conditions” that IFD says was due to squatters.
The injured firefighter received “slight injury,” the Facebook post said.
It took over an hour and a half to get the fire under control, according to IFD, and another hour to put out all the remaining hot spots in the building.
According to IFD, the cause of the fire is currently unknown. Their Fire Investigations Unit is working on figuring out what caused the fire.
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