INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Friday is the seventh day of testimonies in the trial of Delphi Murders suspect Richard Allen at the Carroll County Courthouse in Delphi. Allen, 52, is charged with murder and murder while committing or attempting to commit kidnapping in the deaths of 13-year-old Abigail “Abby” Williams and 14-year-old Liberty “Libby” German. The girls’ bodies were found near the Monon High Bridge near Delphi on Feb. 14, 2017, a day after they went missing. Allen was first investigated in 2017 and again in October 2022. After a second police interview, he was taken into custody. The trial began Oct. 18 and was expected to continue through mid-November. Sixteen Allen County residents sit as the jury on the case. Day 7 of the Delphi Murders trial was set to begin at 9 a.m. Friday. Tune into News 8 and follow our live blog throughout the day for the latest developments. NOTE: The times listed in the blog headers are the times which the entries were added. Specific times for courtroom events will be listed in the entries if available. These notes are compiled from photographs of written notes provided by reporters in courtroom and emailed to the News 8 newsdesk. For a brief summary of Day 6 in the Delphi Murders trial (Thursday), scroll to the bottom of the page. To view all of our previous trial coverage, click here. Additional Thursday coverage from News 8 Delphi Murders judge denies defense request to call ex-prosecutor as witness Sheriff testifies in Delphi Murders trial about audio from girl’s phone 10:34 a.m. Testimony of Melissa Obergt Court was back in session at 9:01 a.m. Judge Gull shares that the jury had access to their phones last night, under supervision. At 9:05 a.m. the state called Melissa Obergt. Obergt works for a clinical asset health management company. She tells the jury she is an operations data analyst for that company. Previously Obergt worked for the Indiana State Police as a forensic firearm examiner. She resigned that position in 2013. She told the jury she looked at cartridges, did function exams on firearms and did tool mark examinations. She tells the jury she has testified 112 times. Obergt showed the jury on slides how her job works and explained what firearm and tool mark examinations are. She says a tool is “something that is a harder object that comes into contact with a softer object that leaves the softer object with a mark.” “A tool mark is features imparted on an object by the contact and force extended from a tool,” she told the jury. She says there are two kinds: impressed and striated. Obergt tells the jury that a cartridge is a single unit of ammunition, designed to go into a firearm. She says there is a casing, primer, powder, and bullet. The bullet is the projectile. Obergt shows the jury a full cartridge and explains the parts of a firearm. Slide, slide stop, sight, hammer, magazine release, grip, magazine well, magazine, trigger, trigger guard, and frame. Obergt explains the inside of a firearm and how the various components work. She tells the jury that the tools in the firearm are harder than the cartridge/bullet that they come into contact with. She explains the cycling of a cartridge and explains what a bullet looks like after it’s been cycled. She demonstrates cycling of a pistol with an actual firearm. She inserts the magazine and 40 cal. Smith and Wesson dummy cartridge, she looks down the barrel to make sure it is empty and unloaded. She inserts the magazine and cartridge and cycles the round. Obergt testifies as to different classifications of tool marks. She described to the jury how some marks are made before manufacture, some during manufacture and some after manufacture. She tells the jury that an examiner uses several factors to determine if a tool mark is made in any of those circumstances. Obergt tells the jury describes the testing of a firearm and how an analysis is performed. She tells the jury the main thing that allows an examiner to make a conclusion is test firing a firearm and comparing with two microscopes. She says she then makes one of three conclusions: identification, inconclusive or exclusion. At 10:10 a.m., the prosecution shows the jury the actual cartridge from the crime scene and photos of it from Obergt’s examination. Obergt says the cartridge was tested for DNA first and she noticed there was no biological substance on it, that it was in good condition and was a Winchester brand 40 cal. cartridge. She tells the jury that there are miscellaneous marks on the head and sides of the cartridge and she saw 3 possible ejector marks. One in one direction and 2 in another. She compared this with a Glock 22, which was also a 40 cal. firearm and compared the ejector marks. Court in recess. Court back in session at 10:50 a.m. Obergt shows the jury a powerpoint presentation that came to the conclusion that the gun collected from Allen’s home in 2022 had indeed cycled the cartridge that was found near the bodies of Libby and Abby. Obergt tested another cartridge with the gun found in Allen’s home to see if the tool marks would match. She showed the jury five images of the test cartridge compared to the cartridge at the scene. She told the jury that several marks were in agreement. Obergt testified that the cartridge at the scene had NOT been fired, but that the test cartridge HAD been fired. She told the jury there was research to back up doing it that way. Court in recess at 12 p.m. 9 a.m.: Court is set to begin News 8’s Kyla Russell is at the Carroll County Courthouse to share the latest developments in the Delphi Murders trial. 8:15 a.m.: Crowds wait for courthouse to open A line has formed outside the front door of the Carroll County Courthouse. The number of people allowed inside the courtroom is limited, meaning some people waiting in line might not be able to watch the proceedings. Brief summary of Day 6 in the Delphi murders trial Thursday began with testimony from Kathy Shank, who acted as a “secretary” for the investigation. Shank said she took down tipster’s names and information, but that her job was not to decide if a tip should be followed up on. Shank eventually created a filing system and organized the reports — more than 14,000 of them — into five filing cabinets. She told the court that in 2020, she was asked to scan every file into an electronic database — a process that took two years. Shank said that in September 2022, she found a handwritten tip that said a “Richard Allen Whiteman” had “self-reported being on the trails and girls had seen him at the same time.” Shank realized the tip was mislabeled. “Richard Allen Whiteman” wasn’t a name — it was a person named Richard Allen, who lived on Whiteland Drive. The jury asked, “How did you determine the name was incorrect on the file?” Shank replied that being from the area, she knew there was a Whiteman Drive. Under cross-examination, Shank said the mistake on Allen’s name was made before she joined the investigation. Defense attorney Andrew Baldwin asked Shank, “There was no other tip, to your knowledge, that involved Richard Allen?” Shank replied, “To my knowledge, no.” The second person to take the stand was Carroll County Sheriff Tony Liggett. One of the most notable moments of his testimony, according to News 8’s Kyla Russell, was when he played the 43-second “Bridge Guy” video and shared what he thinks was said: Abby: “Is he right here? Don’t leave me up here.” Libby: “This is the path…that be a gun…there’s no path here.” Bridge Guy: “Guys.” One of the girls: “Hi.” Bridge Guy: “Down the hill.” Liggett said Kathy Shank brought his concerns to her, and he contacted former Delphi police chief Steve Mullin. Steve Mullin was the next person to testify. Mullin told the court he discovered Allen drove a black Ford Focus and that he found a car matching that description passing by the Hoosier Harvestore in security video from Feb. 13, 2017. The jury was shown a 9-second video of the vehicle passing from east to west, followed by close-ups of the car . Mullin said he and Liggett went to Richard Allen’s house to talk about the investigation and Allen agreed to go with them to the police station. Allen told police what he was wearing that day, and gave a timeline of events that included time at his mother’s house in Peru, a stop in Delphi for a jacket, and parking his car at the old DCS building in Delphi. Mullin said Allen told them he arrived at the trails at noon — which was different than what he’d said previously — and that he went on the Monon High Bridge to look at fish and saw three girls near there. Allen told and Liggett they could look in his phone, but then changed his mind. They showed Allen a photo of “Bridge Guy,” according to Mullin, and Allen said that if one of the girls took the photo on their phone, there was “no way” it could be him. Allen left the interview after that. Defense attorney Andrew Baldwin started cross-examination by telling Mullin he had “lied to the jury” because he was “so desperate for Richard Allen to be going west” on 300 North. If he was traveling that direction, the security camera footage would have caught him. After some back-and-forth, Mullin ended up agreeing with Baldwin that Allen had said he was driving through the town to get to the trails, meaning he was traveling east. The video shared earlier as evidence showed the vehicle passing from east to west. Carroll County Sheriff Tony Liggett returned to the stand Thursday afternoon. He testified to finding out about the tip involving Allen and contacting Mullin. He told the jury he went to CVS to take a photo of Allen’s Ford Focus. Similarly to Mullin, talked about interviewing Allen at the police station in October 2022. Liggett also told the jury about what was found in the search of Allen’s home, including guns and ammunition. He said he found another .40-caliber Winchester cartridge as well as more .40-caliber ammunition from a different brand. They also found a Carhartt jacket in a closet — Allen told Liggett and Mullin he was wearing Carhartt jacket on Feb. 13, 2017 — and over two dozen knives or box cutters. Liggett says none of the physical evidence or digital evidence tied Allen to the scene. Dave Vido from Indiana State Police was the next to testify. He helped carry out the search at Allen’s home in the fall of 2022. Vido showed photos from the search to the jury. The photos included a workbench at Allen’s home that contained knives and box cutters, guns and ammunition, coats (including a blue jacket), and a closet gun case. Some items, including two dozen box-cutter knives, were taken to a state police post. Vido told the court that he wasn’t aware of any connections found between Allen and the victims. State Police Lt. Jerry Holeman testified after Vido. He said he did an initial walk-through of the home, then sat inside a car with Allen while the search was underway. Holeman said that while they were in the car, he asked if Allen wanted to fill out a form for items damaged in the search. He said Allen responded, “It doesn’t matter. It’s over.” Instagram will load in the frontend.