The public’s “blood lust” for details in the case of an unassuming pharmacy technician accused of murdering two young girls has apparently created a situation so fraught, the county sheriff says he can’t guarantee the suspect’s safety in the local lockup.
A “toxic and harmful insistence on ‘public information’” about Richard Matthew Allen is putting his life in “imminent danger,” along with making life a waking hell for court employees, according to the judge overseeing the case.
Allen, 50, was arrested Oct. 26 over the 2017 killings of Libby German, 14, and Abby Williams, 13, on a Delphi, Indiana, hiking trail. The pair vanished while walking together on Feb. 13; their bodies were found the next day by searchers. Cops followed countless leads, and received more than 70,000 tips, before finally fingering Allen as their man.
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