LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A theory about the killings of two Indiana girls in Delhi won't be allowed to be heard in court, reported by FOX59.
Richard Allen, 51, was arrested in October 2022 and charged with two counts of murder in the 2017 slayings of 13-year-old Abigail Williams and 14-year-old Liberty German. The Delphi man has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Judge Fran Gull was assigned by the Indiana Supreme Court to the case after the original judge recused himself. Allen's attorneys have since tried to have Gull removed from the proceedings by accusing her of bias. The Indiana Supreme Court declined to take Gull off the case.
Gul ruled to keep Allen's defense team from presenting its alternative theory about the murders.
Allen was arrested more than five years after the killings. His attorneys said someone else killed the girls and outlined their theory that a group of Odinists, a pagan Nordic religion, co-opted by white supremacists was responsible.
"The Court will not permit the evidence submitted by the defense in support of their arguments regarding third-party perpetrators in the trial of this cause as the probative value of such evidence is greatly outweighed by confusion of the issues and its potential to mislead the jury," Gull wrote.
Allen's trial is scheduled to start in October.
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