FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Delphi murders suspect Richard Allen did not appear in an Allen County Courthouse for a hearing as expected. Allen County Judge Frances Gull announced Allen's defense attorneys quit the high profile murder case. Court records said the original purpose of the hearing “is to discuss the up coming hearing on October 31, 2023 and other matters which have recently arisen.” Allen is charged with two counts of murder in the 2017 homicides of Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty German, 14, whose bodies were found near a creek not far from the Monon High Bridge, where they were last seen alive. Although a Snapchat video taken from German’s phone showed a suspect approaching the girls before their death and police would work to identify the so-called "Bridge Guy," years would pass before police arrested a suspect. Around this time last year, Allen, 50, was taken into custody and charged with two counts of murder in the deaths of Williams and German. Thursday's status hearing will be an opportunity for Allen County Judge Frances Gull to check in with parties involved in the case. That includes representatives for the State of Indiana, who will be tasked with proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the now-51-year-old Allen ended the lives of two innocent teenagers back in 2017. It also includes Allen’s defense team, public defenders Anthony Rozzi and Andrew Baldwin, who will likewise have to prove their client did not kill the teens. Prosecutors and police have argued Allen murdered the teens after they found a bullet, recovered near one of the girls’ bodies, had been cycled through a gun investigators later found at his home. The Carroll County prosecutor, who first brought the double-murder charges against Allen last year, also cited witness testimonies that placed Allen near the Monon High Bridge the day the teens disappeared. Meanwhile, Allen’s attorneys have pointed the finger at Odinists - a white-supremacist cult they allege have ties running deep through the Westville Correctional Facility where Allen is now housed - as the ones responsible for ritualistically sacrificing the girls in 2017. In the year since Allen's arrest, the public has seen large swaths of sensitive information made public for the first time. Those possible insights into what might have happened to Williams and German were sealed for years, and made known to the public largely through court filings and motions related to Allen’s case over the last year. MORE: https://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/delphi-girls-murdered/richard-allen-trial-full-timeline-of-events-so-far-delphi-murders/531-9d47496e-b906-447a-b740-2af34a852600 FULL COVERAGE: https://www.wthr.com/section/delphi-girls-murdered