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Richard Allen is facing over a century behind bars.
After the 52-year-old was charged and convicted of killing two middle school girls, Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty German, 14, in a gruesome 2017 double murder, he has been sentenced to 130 years in prison, per NBC News.
Arrested for the crime in 2022, Allen was convicted following a four-week trial last month. His sentence is the maximum legal amount, with Judge Frances C. Gull telling Allen his act ranks “right up there with the most hideous crimes.”
Gull also expressed empathy for Williams’ and German’s loved ones, adding, “These families will deal with your carnage forever.”
Attorneys for Allen—who had pleaded not guilty in the case—noted that their client plans to appeal the conviction, saying in a sentencing memo obtained by NBC, “Richard Allen maintains his innocence.”
The initial arrest of Allen, for which authorities said at the time they found “probable cause,” occurred five years after the murders of Williams and German took place in the small Indiana town of Delphi. The 13-year-old and 14-year-old—who had been close friends—were found slain off the path of Monon High Bridge Trail after their parents reported them missing.
