DELPHI, Ind. — The first of the defense team's witnesses took the stand late Thursday afternoon after the prosecution came to a rest in the highly publicized Delphi murders case. Richard Allen is currently on trial and facing multiple counts of murder for the gruesome killings of Abby Williams and Libby German near the Monon High Bridge on Feb. 13, 2017. Allen was arrested five years after the girls’ bodies were found. For 12 days, the prosecution has called dozens of witnesses to the stand to present their case and lay out their belief that Richard Allen is the infamous “Bridge Guy” captured in cell phone footage from Libby German’s phone. Prosecutors believe the girls encountered a man while out walking the bridge and were led down a hill to be raped before their killer panicked, decided to slash their throats and covered their bodies with sticks before fleeing the area. An unspent round found between the girls’ bodies has been one of the main pieces of evidence against Allen. A firearm expert said the cartridge came from Allen’s gun. Jurors also heard about dozens of confessions made by Allen, including one where he allegedly detailed how he led the girls down the hill intending to rape them before being spooked by a van and deciding to kill them. A neighbor told jurors how he was returning home around that same time near the crime scene – driving a white van. With the prosecution resting on Thursday, testimony now shifts to witnesses called by the defense team as they begin to lay out – in the weeks ahead – why they believe Allen isn’t “Bridge Guy” and did not commit these heinous murders. The first witnesses called by the defense Cheyenne Mill was the first witness called by Allen’s attorneys. Mill was out walking the trails and the Monon High Bridge on the day Abby and Libby vanished. Mill told jurors how she arrived at the Delphi trails at around 2:50 p.m. She talked to her boyfriend on her phone at 3:12 p.m. She told jurors how she was walking near Freedom Bridge when she spotted an overweight man who didn’t say hi back. She later described this man as an “old man” who had a camera around his neck. Mill then walked to the Monon High Bridge and crossed the bridge. She took some photos around 3:50 p.m. During her time in the area, she told jurors she didn’t hear anything unusual and didn’t see anyone in the wooded area. She left a little after 4 p.m. and told police the next day that she had been in the area after hearing about the girls. She met police at Indiana Beach and gave them her account. She said six months later the FBI contacted her and notified her that her phone was pinged as being at the high bridge on Feb. 13. Mill began crying on the stand when she talked about how she’s experienced doxing from online vigilantes who follow the case. The next witness was Theresa Liebert who lives near the murder scene and is a neighbor of Brad Weber, who testified to driving home in a van at around 2:30 p.m. on the day the girls vanished. Liebert said that she saw a man standing near her mailboxes on the day the girls vanished from the trails. She said she saw this man around 8:30 a.m. and said he walked down 625 North in the general direction of the high bridge. Liebert told prosecutors she’d never seen this man since and had never seen a photo of the man she saw by the mailboxes. Court ended for the day after Liebert left the stand. It will resume on Friday with more defense witnesses called for testimony.