Delphi murder case prosecutors fail to have witnesses identify Richard Allen as the man in video captured by girls in their last moments alive

Jurors successful nan proceedings of Delphi execution accused Richard Allen person been fixed their first glimpse of ‘Bridge Guy’ arsenic prosecutors played nan haunting video recorded connected Libby German’s compartment phone, capturing nan past documented moments of her and champion friend Abigail Williams’s lives.

In nan footage – 41 seconds agelong – Libby, 14, who reached nan extremity of nan Monon High Bridge up of her friend, turns to movie Abby, 13, arsenic she picks her measurement cautiously complete nan structure’s rotten timbers and gaps.

Caught successful nan frame, respective feet down nan teen, is simply a man, dressed successful bluish jacket, jeans and a hat. His hands are successful his pockets, his chin tucked down truthful that his look isn’t visible beneath his hat. He is small much than a sinister blur arsenic he moves pinch intent down her.

As Abby reaches nan extremity Libby’s compartment telephone lens drops to attraction connected nan gravel astatine nan girls’ feet. She appears to formed about, taking successful nan steep slope to their near and nan way which simply disappears earlier them.

One of nan girls tin beryllium heard saying, ‘Um there’s nary way truthful we person to spell down here. See nan way ends here.’

As charismatic Nick McLeland pointed retired successful his opening statement, erstwhile nan girls were crossed nan span location was ‘no escape.’

Moments later a antheral sound tin beryllium heard uttering nan now infamous words, ‘Guys down nan hill,’ and 1 of nan girls lets retired a yelp arsenic if startled.

But if nan authorities hoped to definitively place Allen arsenic ‘Bridge Guy’ by pursuing nan footage pinch a bid of eyewitnesses their efforts fell flat.

Three abstracted eyewitnesses confidently stated that they saw ‘Bridge Guy’ and identified him from a surface changeable of nan video. But nan descriptions each gave of nan man that they saw was not only wildly different from nan video image it was wildly different from nan defendant.

Railly Voorhies, who was 16 astatine nan time, described seeing a man dressed successful achromatic boots, achromatic shirt, achromatic jeans, achromatic overgarment pinch a achromatic hoody pulled up nether his chapeau and a achromatic disguise pulled up complete his rima and nose.

She described him arsenic ‘unfriendly’ and said he made her consciousness ‘unsettled,’ arsenic their paths crossed connected nan day of February 13, 2017, erstwhile she, her sisters and a friend took a travel retired to nan Monon High Bridge way to return pictures.

She remembered nan man arsenic ‘muscular’ astir 5ft 10 and successful his 20s aliases 30s and conceded that her representation whitethorn person been altered by seeing nan consequent image of ‘Bridge Guy.’

Breann Wilber was next. She was pinch Voorhies that day. She excessively described seeing a youthful, muscular, gangly man dressed successful black, earlier saying nan infinitesimal she saw nan image of Bridge Guy she knew that was who she had seen.

Betsy Blair gave a haunting explanation of seeing a man opinionated retired connected Monon High Bridge. She was retired for her regular fittingness locomotion on nan trails erstwhile she saw him and said he appeared to beryllium waiting aliases looking for someone. She said, ‘I conscionable felt for illustration he wasn’t looking for me.’

Yet nan man Blair described was besides ‘youthful’ pinch ‘fluffy brownish hairsbreadth and successful his 20s aliases 30s.

Slight, gaunt, pinch intimately cropped hairsbreadth and hardly five-feet, 52-year-old Allen sat flanked successful tribunal by his attorneys.

Earlier successful nan time they grilled CSI serviceman Ryan Olehy who took nan guidelines to complete grounds he began connected Monday. 

Under fierce transverse introspection by Bradley Rozzi Olehy was forced to concede that contempt taking galore swabs and samples from nan crime segment and each unfortunate they recovered nary DNA grounds to nexus Allen pinch either.