Tag: Richard
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What happened this week in Richard Allen’s trial?
Five years before he was charged with killing two middle school students near an Indiana trail, Richard Allen reached out to authorities about the double murder: He’d been in the area the day the girls were killed, he told an investigator at the time. That information, contained in a “lead sheet” maintained by law enforcement,…
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Richard Allen used power and fear to kill teen victims, prosecutors say
Richard Allen was armed with a gun when he came across teenage friends Abigail “Abby” Williams and Liberty “Libby” German near a hiking trail in Delphi, Indiana, in February 2017, then used “power and the fear” to force them “down the hill” before slitting their throats, prosecutors said in an opening statement Friday in his…
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What to know ahead of the Richard Allen case
Seven years ago, the bodies of two teenage girls were discovered near a hiking trail outside the small Indiana town of Delphi. The case remained unsolved for years, and authorities have offered few details publicly about why Richard Allen, a onetime pharmacy employee charged in the murders of Liberty German and Abigail Williams, is believed…
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Richard Allen’s trial is set to open after a cellphone video kindled a mystery
The deaths of Indiana teenagers Abigail “Abby” Williams and Liberty “Libby” German while strolling and taking pictures on a trail in early 2017 went without an arrest for more than five years. That was, until late 2022, when a pharmacy technician and married father named Richard Allen was charged in the crime that rattled the…
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Richard Branson champions dyslexic education with new university
Richard Branson, the billionaire founder of Virgin Group, has turned his money and focus toward a very personal new project: DyslexicU, the first free online university for dyslexic thinkers. The inspiration? Branson himself has lived with dyslexia. “I quit school at 15 because I was dyslexic. I didn’t know I was dyslexic. It hadn’t really…