DELPHI, Ind. — The unspent cartridge that helped police secure a search warrant and eventual arrest of Richard Allen is the subject of testimony in Carroll County Friday.
Richard Allen is charged with four counts of murder for the 2017 killings of teenagers Abigail Williams and Liberty German. In the original charging documents, an unspent 40-cal cartridge found near the bodies was traced to Allen’s gun.
During the morning session of Delphi trial day seven, the State of Indiana called witness Melissa Oberg. She works for a clinical asset health management company as an operations data analyst, but she previously worked for Indiana State Police as a forensic firearm examiner. She is the one responsible for testing Allen’s gun and confirming, in her opinion, that the crime scene cartridge was cycled through Allen’s gun.
Oberg spent the morning session testifying, in granular detail, the process in which she would test guns, the structure …