Where Is Richard Allen Now? Oklahoma Move, Sentence, and Appeal

Richard Allen, the man convicted of murdering Abby Williams and Libby German in the 2017 Delphi killings, is now incarcerated at the Lexington Assessment and Reception Center, a maximum-security state prison in Lexington, Oklahoma. He was transferred out of Indiana in July 2025 and is serving a 130-year sentence. His appeal is pending before the Indiana Court of Appeals, with oral arguments scheduled for September 21, 2026.¹²

Why He Was Moved to Oklahoma

The transfer happened in July 2025. The Oklahoma Department of Corrections confirmed that Allen was moved under the Interstate Corrections Compact, a framework both states have belonged to since around 1980 that allows them to house each other’s inmates when it serves institutional or safety interests.¹³

The Indiana Department of Correction has not publicly explained the reason for the move. When asked, IDOC denied a public records request for the transfer documentation and cited confidentiality.⁴

Allen’s appellate attorney, Stacy Uliana, said the move makes it harder for the defense team to consult with him in person. She called face-to-face meetings “essential in a case of his size.”⁴

Before the transfer, Allen had been housed at Westville Correctional Facility in Indiana, where he was held during the roughly two years between his October 2022 arrest and his November 2024 conviction.⁵

The Sentence He Is Serving

On December 20, 2024, Special Judge Frances Gull sentenced Allen to 130 years in prison, the maximum available. She imposed 65 years for each of the two murder counts, to run consecutively. Indiana law does not permit sentencing on both the murder and felony murder convictions for the same victim, so the sentence was applied to the two murder charges.⁶⁷

A jury had found Allen guilty on all four counts on November 11, 2024, after roughly 19 hours of deliberation: two counts of murder and two counts of felony murder tied to the attempted kidnapping of the girls.⁸

At sentencing, six family members of Abby Williams and Libby German delivered impact statements. Judge Gull addressed Allen directly, saying, “I’ve spent 27 years as a judge and you rank right up there with the most heinous crimes in the state of Indiana,” and adding, “These families will deal with your carnage forever.” Allen remained silent and showed no visible reaction.⁶

His defense attorneys filed a sentencing memorandum stating that Allen maintained his innocence and intended to appeal. They cited his lack of prior criminal history, his decade of service in the National Guard, and his documented history of mental illness.⁷

The Appeal and What It Argues

Allen’s appellate team, Stacy Uliana and Mark Leeman, filed a 113-page brief with the Indiana Court of Appeals in December 2025. The defense also filed more than 1,200 pages of supplemental materials in November 2025 related to its alternative-suspect theory.⁹

The brief raises three primary arguments:

That investigators included false statements and reckless omissions in the search warrant application used to search Allen’s home before his arrest, and that the evidence obtained should have been suppressed.
That Allen’s more than 60 alleged jailhouse confessions were made while he was in a “gravely disabled” state during prolonged solitary confinement, and that admitting them violated federal due process protections and Indiana’s prohibition on “unnecessary rigor.”
That the trial court improperly prevented the defense from putting on a complete case by excluding its Odinism-based alternative-suspect theory while admitting what the defense characterizes as inadmissible hearsay for the prosecution.

The Odinism theory, which the defense had wanted to argue at trial, contended that the real killers were practitioners of a Norse religion the defense said had been “hijacked by white nationalists,” and it named four alternative suspects. Judge Gull barred that theory in a 136-page pretrial ruling, finding the defense had not produced admissible evidence tying any Odinist practitioner to the crimes.¹⁰¹¹

The confession issue rests on Allen’s mental state during pretrial detention. He spent 13 months in solitary confinement at Westville, well beyond the IDOC policy that limits isolation for people with serious mental illness to 30 days. By April 2023 he had been diagnosed with serious mental illness. Corrections officers testified that he hit his head on walls, washed his face in the toilet, refused food, ate paper, and smeared feces in his cell.⁵¹² It was during that period that he made the statements the state used against him, including a recorded phone call in which he told his wife, “I did it. I killed Abby and Libby.”¹³ A defense psychologist, Dr. Polly Westcott, testified at trial that Allen suffered from severe depression, dependent personality disorder, and stress-induced psychosis during that time.¹⁴

The state filed its response by March 2026, arguing the convictions should stand.² Oral arguments are set for September 21, 2026, at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis. A three-judge panel will hear the case, with each side receiving 30 minutes.¹⁵

The odds are steep. According to FOX59’s reporting, reversals on direct appeal in Indiana occur in fewer than 5 percent of cases.⁹

What His Wife Has Said

Kathy Allen broke her public silence in a February 2025 interview that appeared in the ABC News Studios documentary Capturing Their Killer: The Girls on the High Bridge, which premiered in August 2025. She maintained her husband’s innocence, called him a “wonderful, caring, compassionate father,” and attributed his confessions to a psychotic breakdown triggered by solitary confinement. Asked about the phone call in which he told her he had killed the girls, she said she had responded at the time: “No, you didn’t. Why would you say that? I know you didn’t. There’s something wrong.”¹⁶

She said she is holding out hope for a successful appeal, and that she and her husband still plan to “grow old together.”¹⁶

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FOX59. Richard Allen Transferred to Oklahoma Prison
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WNDU. Court Schedules Oral Arguments in Delphi Murders Appeal
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The Council of State Governments. Interstate Corrections Compact
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The Indiana Lawyer. Delphi Killer Richard Allen Transferred to Oklahoma Facility
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ABC News. Delphi Murder Suspect Spent 13 Months in Solitary Confinement
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ABC News. Delphi Murders Convicted Killer Faces Victims’ Families at Sentencing
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IU Student TV. Richard Allen to Be Sentenced in Delphi Murders Case
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FOX59. Richard Allen Files Appeal, Focuses on Ritualistic Killing Theory and Inadmissible Evidence
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Journal and Courier. No Evidence of Odinist or Ritual Killings at Delphi Suspect’s Trial
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The Independent. Delphi Murders Trial: Odinism Cult
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ABC News. Delphi Murder Suspect’s Alleged Phone Confessions to Wife Played
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FOX59. Delphi Murders Defense Expert Testifies About Richard Allen’s Mental State and Decline
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FOX59. Court of Appeals Will Hear Arguments in Delphi Murders This September
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ABC News. Wife of Convicted Delphi Murderer Breaks Silence