INDIANAPOLIS — Libby German and Abby Williams and their families were honored as “Crimefighters of the Year” at CrimeCon 2025 in Denver, an annual conference devoted to true crime, this past weekend.

Also on stage were Indiana State Police Lieutenant Jerry Holeman, who led the investigation against Richard Allen and Carroll County Prosecutor Nicholas McLeland who successfully convinced jurors to convict Allen for the 2017 killings and then a judge to sentence him to 130 years in prison.

”It’s a new experience. Never been to anything like this before,” McLeland told a breakout audience. “It's been nice to meet a lot of folks out here and kind of walk around and see the different content creators, different genres of, I guess, the true crime world that are out there.”

Throughout the case,

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