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A judge has delayed until October the murder trial of an Indiana man charged in the killings of two teenage girls after the man's attorneys expressed concerns they would not have adequate time to present their case.

The trial for an Indiana man charged in the killings of two teenage girls slain in 2017 during a hiking trip has been moved from January to next October.

The Carroll County prosecutor commented in a document filed Monday that the theory is a “fanciful defense for social media to devour.”

Richard Allen's attorneys say in a 136-page document filed Monday that Abigail Williams and Liberty German were killed by members of a religious and white nationalist group known as Odinists.

Special Judge Fran Gull denied a request from attorneys for Richard Allen to relocate him from the Indiana Department of Correction’s Westville Correctional Facility.

Allen’s lawyers said his “incriminating” statements were the result of this stressful environment.

Attorneys for the man accused of killing two teenage girls six years ago says that the man has been mistreated at the prison he is housed in, requesting relocation to a different facility.

A judge has ordered a man charged with killing two teenage girls in Indiana transferred to a different state correctional facility after the suspect’s attorneys argued that his physical and mental health is deteriorating after months in isolation.

Allen County Judge Fran Gull said in court that attorneys for Richard Matthew Allen, 50, of Delphi and the county prosecutor must decide within a week from which county that jury should come.

The deaths of the teens, known as Libby and Abby, were ruled homicides, but police have never disclosed how they died or described what evidence they gathered.