The man prosecuting Richard Allen for the murders of two teenage girls in Delphi, Indiana, back in 2017 is now investigating a former police chief who investigated alternate suspects for the crime.
Carroll County Prosecutor Nicholas McLeland filed a motion on Tuesday indicating he believes that former Rushville Police Chief Todd Click’s personnel files will present credibility questions and discredit his theory of the murders of 13-year-old Abby Williams and 14-year-old Libby German, the Journal & Courier reported. Click’s investigation forms the basis of Allen’s defense, pointing to alternate suspects the defense team believes actually committed the crime.
McLeland is looking to obtain Click’s employee records, implying they will show Click has a history of credibility issues. His motion includes a subpoena for Rushville’s current police chief to hand over the records, but so far, Special Judge Fran Gull has not signed the subpoena.
Click’s investigation focused on three individuals who may have been involved in the teens’ murders, including one man who allegedly told his sister that he was at the crime scene and described details not released to the public.
Click’s investigation was summarized in a 136-page memorandum filed by Allen’s attorneys in September, which argues the three men were Odinists, a pagan Norse religion taken over by white nationalists.
While such a claim sounds outrageous, Click was so concerned about the information used to arrest Allen that he obtained an attorney to help him draft a letter to McLeland. This letter was only shared with defense attorneys after it became clear they would most likely talk to Click – more than four months after the letter was sent to the prosecutor.
In addition to not turning over the letter, law enforcement also allegedly withheld an 85-page compilation of reports from Click and the other officers who investigated the white supremacist angle and several videotaped statements that all supported Allen’s innocence.
Through Click’s investigation, names of alternate suspects were given to Delphi law enforcement no later than February 2018, the attorneys wrote in September.
The defense attorneys pointed to members of the cult as alleged suspects, whom The Daily Wire will not be naming since they have not been charged with any crimes. One of these named individuals’ social media posts contained images that mimicked the runes found at the crime scene, even though such images have never been released to the public, according to the defense. The individual allegedly also posted numerous “easter eggs” on social media that pointed to his involvement in the crime, including a recreation of the crime scene involving two women posing as dead with sticks over their bodies, just like the actual crime scene. This same individual also seemingly taunted police on social media, the defense claims.
One further tie to the victims is that this man’s son was allegedly “dating” the young victim, Abby.
Police cleared this individual as a suspect within 30 days of the murders, even with this evidence, the defense argues.
This individual’s ex-wife also allegedly told police that he and another man in the Odinists had a falling out in February 2017 after conducting a ritual in the woods, near a river. The main alternate suspect lived very near to where the girls’ bodies were found, according to the defense’s filing. This ex-wife also allegedly told police that her ex-husband and “his people” killed the girls because one of their mothers was “mixing” with people who weren’t of the same race.
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This individual was also tied to others who allegedly confessed to the crime. One of these individuals allegedly told his sister that he was involved in the crime and included details of the crime scene that were never released to the public. According to the court documents, this man was also questioned but denied involvement. According to a state trooper who dropped him off at his home, this individual allegedly returned to the trooper’s vehicle and asked if he would still be in trouble if his spit was found on one of the victims, saying he could explain it away. This individual also told another one of his sisters that he spit on one of the victims, according to the defense.
This individual and a fourth man provided shaky alibis to police for their whereabouts at the time of the murder, with contradictory stories, Allen’s defense attorneys contend.
