Delphi murders: Richard Allen sentenced to 130 years for killing Indiana teens

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Delphi murders: Richard Allen sentenced to 130 years for killing Indiana teens

Richard Allen, the Indiana man convicted of killing two middle school girls in 2017, was sentenced to 130 years in prison on Friday, almost eight years after the children's bodies were found near a hiking trail.

Allen, 52, was convicted of murder in November after a four-week trial in the deaths of Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty German, 14, in Delphi.

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