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Speaker 1: Crime Alert hourly update, breaking crime news Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Parton. Richard Allen's murder trial is underway for

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Speaker 2: the murders of two Delphi, Indiana teens. The girls went

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Speaker 2: missing after taking a hike along the Monan high Bridge.

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Speaker 2: Even though the case of Libby Jerman and Abby Williams

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Speaker 2: murders has been in the news for years, police have

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Speaker 2: never said how the two girls were killed until now

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Speaker 3: Even though the case of Libby German and Abby Williams

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Speaker 3: murders has been in the news for years, police have

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Speaker 3: never said how the girls were killed. During his opening statement,

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Speaker 3: Prosecutor Nick mclealand told the jury, you're going to see

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Speaker 3: the crime scene. It was a gruesome scene. Libby was

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Speaker 3: completely naked, her throat was cut, blood all over. Abby's

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Speaker 3: throat was also cut.

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Speaker 2: Putting together a timeline, Prosecutor Nick mcleland says, Libby post

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Speaker 2: a photo of Abby on Snapchat. While the girls are

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Speaker 2: crossing over the high bridge, they see it man behind them,

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Speaker 2: so Libby starts a recording on her phone. At two

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Speaker 2: thirteen pm February thirteen, twenty seventeen. Mcleland says the man

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Speaker 2: pulls out a gun and orders the girls down the heel.

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Speaker 2: The girls complied, and then the video on the cell

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Speaker 2: phone stopped recording crime on lines. Dave mack says Alan

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Speaker 2: used a gun to scare Abby Williams and Libby Jerman

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Speaker 2: into following his directions.

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Speaker 4: Richard Allen uses a gun to scare Abby Williams and

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Speaker 4: Libby German into following his directions when he says girls

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Speaker 4: down the hill. Prosecutor mclealand states for the jurors, the

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Speaker 4: last thing the girls saw was Richard Allen's face. The

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Speaker 4: prosecutor says an unused bullet discovered at what he calls

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Speaker 4: a gruesome scene came from a gun that belongs to

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Speaker 4: Richard Allen. In a surge of Allen's home, officer seized

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Speaker 4: a forty caliber pistol and determined the unspent bullet found

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Speaker 4: between Abby and Libby had been cycled through Allen's pistol.

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Speaker 2: Mcleland says Richard Allen testified that he was on the

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Speaker 2: trail that day. Investigators found a gun in his house,

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Speaker 2: and testing shows that an unspent round found between the

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Speaker 2: girls at the crime scene had been cycled through that gun.

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Speaker 2: Mclealand also says that Richard Allen confessed to committing the

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Speaker 2: crime to his wife and mother voluntarily while in jail,

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Speaker 2: telling them details that only the killer would know. Once again,

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Speaker 2: Dave Mack.

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Speaker 4: Speaking about reasonable doubt, Defense attorney Andrew Baldwin says Richard

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Speaker 4: Allen is an innocent man ensnared in an investigation that

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Speaker 4: he says was messed up from the beginning. Challenging the

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Speaker 4: state's timeline, Baldwin says Abby's phone connected to a cell

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Speaker 4: phone tower after Allan had left the trail on February thirteen,

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Speaker 4: twenty seventeen, claiming after four pm, human hands handled that phone.

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Speaker 4: Richard Allen was at home and never came back.

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Speaker 2: Patrick Brown and Jake Johns were helping search for libbyan Abbey.

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Speaker 2: John says they walked upstream for nearly four hours before

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Speaker 2: reaching the high Bridge. After passing the bridge, John's caught

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Speaker 2: a flash of yellow, pink, and blue. It was Libby's

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Speaker 2: tied dice shirt caught on branches in the water near

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Speaker 2: the north bank of Deer Creek. Jake Johns said, looking

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Speaker 2: toward the high bridge, he could see where the rocks

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Speaker 2: and dirt had been disturbed as well as shoe prints.

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Speaker 4: Jake john says he heard Patrick Brown's voice from the

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Speaker 4: other side of Deer Creek yelling out, we just found

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Speaker 4: the bodies. Brown says after stumbling on the bodies, at

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Speaker 4: first he thought they were mannequins. The soft spoken older

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Speaker 4: man Brown choked up on the witness stand with his

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Speaker 4: voice trembling. Says he turned around and yelled out, we

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Speaker 4: found them. Brown then stood five feet away from the

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Speaker 4: girls with his back to the bodies. The girl's throats

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Speaker 4: were slid. Libby's body was found naked and covered in blood.

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Speaker 4: Abbey was wearing some of Libby's clothes.

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Speaker 2: For more of the Delphi investigation, tune into crime Stories

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Speaker 1: After this, fern Bear takes a weekend road trip to

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Speaker 1: catch them Idaho from her home, Park City, Utah. One

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Speaker 1: seventeen pm. Ferns signs the Prairie Creek trailhead log book,

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Speaker 1: writing to the Lake and back, that's a ten mile

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Speaker 1: loop when she misses check out. The next day, Fern's

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Speaker 1: hotel reports her missing. Her car is found still parked

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Speaker 1: at the trailhead. Blank County Sheriff searts the trail for

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Speaker 1: six days, they come up empty handed. Her family says

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Speaker 1: while she's an experienced hiker, she usually doesn't leave the

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Speaker 1: trail or try shortcuts. There's been no activity on her

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Speaker 1: bank account, credit cards, or cell phone since she left

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Speaker 1: for the high Fern Baird sixty three five five, one

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Speaker 1: hundred fifteen pounds, grayish brown hair, brown eyes. Last scene

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Speaker 1: wearing a light gray jacket, dark pants with a dark

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Speaker 1: colored bandanna, face mask, and fanny pack. If you have

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Speaker 1: info on Fern Baird, now missing four years, called Blaine County,

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Speaker 1: Idaho Sheriffs two zero eight seven eight eight five five

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Speaker 1: five five.

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