Richard Allen’s Attorneys Blame Odinist Cult For Delphi Murders

LOADING ERROR LOADING Two Indiana girls were killed in 2017 not by the man charged with their murders but in a ritual sacrifice by pagan cult members who painted a tree with one victim’s blood, his defense attorneys claimed in an explosive court filing Monday. But the defense memo claims that by saying a single person — the man in the video, whom authorities identified as Allen — was responsible, police ignored evidence that the deaths could have been the result of a “coordinated abduction and subsequent ritualistic sacrifice at the hands of a pagan religious cult,” Odinism, which the attorneys say is linked to white nationalism. Allen’s defense attorneys claimed in the document that investigators lied to obtain a search warrant for Allen’s property, withheld or ignored evidence and discounted a number of potential suspects — all of which, they claim, “merit tossing the warrant and suppressing the fruits of an illegal search.” The memo goes into graphic detail about what the attorneys describe as a “ghoulish” crime scene, claiming that “murdering Odinites” arranged sticks and tree branches on the girls’ bodies to mimic rune symbols and painted a rune shaped like an “F” — which is associated with the deity Odin — by dipping a finger or a tool in a girl’s neck wound. They use about 40 list items to describe each step involved in the alleged redressing — for example, “this man acting alone would have had to maneuver the left hand and arm in order to move it into the bottom opening of the sweatshirt.” German’s clothes were then tossed in the river, the attorneys allege, and she was naked when she was found. The attorneys allege that sticks and branches were then carefully placed on the girls’ bodies to mimic the runes and that smaller sticks were placed above Williams’ head, “crudely mimicking horns or antlers.” Allen’s attorneys have previously sought to have him removed from the maximum security prison where he is being held as he awaits trial, claiming that his physical and mental health was deteriorating and likening his conditions to those of a “prisoner of war.” A judge denied that request.