DELPHI, Ind. – Attorneys for Delphi murders fishy Richard Allen made different effort to person grounds linked to their alternate execution mentation presented to the jury.

In a question filed Wednesday, attorneys Andrew Baldwin, Bradley Rozzi and Jennifer Auger asked the tribunal to “admit definite evidence” that the defence has been prevented from presenting successful the beingness of jurors.

In a September 2023 filing supporting its petition for a Franks hearing, the defence outlined a mentation that followers of Odinism, a Norse pagan religion coopted by achromatic supremacists, killed Abby Williams and Libby German arsenic portion of a ritual.

Gull ruled successful aboriginal September 2024 that the defence could not contiguous grounds tied to the mentation to jurors during Allen’s trial.

In its caller motion, the defence cited the grounds of transgression country researcher Brian Olehy, who discussed branches and sticks recovered connected the victims’ bodies.

Olehy told the tribunal helium believed the branches and sticks were laid connected the girls in bid to conceal their bodies.

The defence believes that grounds opens the doorway to contiguous astatine slightest immoderate of its findings regarding the Odinism theory. In August 2024, a defence adept testified that the killings bore signs of being ritualistic successful nature.

Some of those signs included positioning sticks and utilizing humor to make runes connected trees. The question besides noted that investigators explored the Odinism space arsenic aboriginal arsenic 2 days aft the girls were recovered dead.

Jurors and tribunal observers saw the sticks and branches connected the girls’ bodies during grounds astir the transgression country earlier this week. While the authorities offered its explanation, the defence argued that Allen has a close to contiguous an alternate explanation.

“Additionally, the sticks connected the girls look to beryllium arranged successful a pattern/arrangement oregon (at a minimum) utilizing a person’s ain eyeballs, communal sense, logic and crushed could origin a tenable idiosyncratic to judge that the sticks were formed into immoderate pattern/arrangement and weren’t being utilized to conceal the bodies,” the defence wrote successful the motion.

The defence besides pointed to humor recovered connected a tree. The authorities employed a humor spatter grounds 7 years aft the execution to attest connected the matter. The defence argued that Allen has a law close to telephone his ain adept to antagonistic that testimony.

The defence is asking the tribunal for the accidental to rebut the state’s grounds connected the sticks and branches, antagonistic grounds from the state’s humor spatter adept and connection an alternate mentation to “any confused juror” who whitethorn question the layout of the sticks and branches.