The fate of an Indiana man charged with murder in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls who vanished during an afternoon hike near their small hometown was in the hands of a jury Thursday.

Abby Williams and Libby German were found murdered in 2017 near Monon High Bridge in Delphi, Indiana. After years of uncertainty, suspect Richard Allen is finally on trial – but questions remain about key pieces of evidence that jurors will never hear.

DELPHI — The prosecution of Richard Allen took 58 minutes to present its closing arguments in the Carroll County Courthouse Thursday morning. Allen faces four charges, including two felony murder charges for killing Abigail Williams and Liberty German near the Monon High Bridge Trail in Delphi in February 2017.

Closing arguments are finished in the trial for the man accused of killing two teenage girls in Delphi more than seven years ago.52-year-old Richard Allen is charged with the murders of 13-year-old Abby Williams and 14-year-old Libby German.

INDIANAPOLIS — A murder trial in the small Indiana town of Delphi was wrapping up Thursday after weeks of testimony and evidence surrounding the fate of two teenage girls who vanished during a winter hike in 2017. Their killings went unsolved for years before police arrested a man who lived and worked in the same town.

A jury has begun deliberating the fate of an Indiana man charged in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls who vanished during an afternoon hike near their small hometown

A jury began deliberations Thursday in the trial of Richard Allen, who is accused of killing two teenage girls and leaving their bodies near a hiking path in Delphi, Indiana, in 2017. Allen is facing two murder and two felony murder charges and has pleaded not guilty.

Following weeks of testimony, the trial of a man accused of killing two teenage girls while they were out for a hike in 2017 in a small town in Indiana is now in the hands of a jury. The case against 52-year-old Richard Allen went to the jury around 1:30 p.