Delphi murders: The Ricci Davis letters

DELPHI, Ind. — Andrew Baldwin, an attorney representing convicted murderer Richard Allen, demanded that Carroll County Prosecutor Nicholas McLeland turn over letters sent by inmate Ricci Davis to the prosecutor where he confessed to knowing who was responsible for the Delphi murders.

On Friday, McLeland acquiesced and released the letters… but Baldwin might not like all of what Davis had to say.

“(Davis) does not say Richard Allen is innocent or not involved. Quite the opposite, he says Richard Allen participated in the murders and is guilty.”

Nicholas McLeland

In a letter dated Oct. 21, 2024, Davis wrote to McLeland stating that Baldwin visited him in prison and asked Davis to testify in Allen’s trial. But Davis declined.

“This ignorant lawyer was hinting me to lie for him and his client, saying ‘that I should know how it is,'” Davis wrote. “Please hear me out, no (sic) I can never relate to child killers. I don’t know what planet this attorney is on. It felt insulting in a way.”

Davis recently thrust himself into the spotlight, with the help of Allen’s defense team, due to making claims that Ron Logan confessed to killing Abby Williams and Libby German while the pair were together in prison. The girls’ bodies were found on Logan’s property in Delphi in February 2017.

But Davis, who is serving a 50-year sentence, isn’t a trustworthy source. A point McLeland digs into in his latest filing. McLeland previously argued against the details of the “confession,” including how physical evidence didn’t align with Davis’s account and how the defense team knew about the confession prior to the trial but never pursued it.

But McLeland’s latest response, supported by copies of Davis’s letters, pokes even more holes in the inmate’s credibility.

“(Ricci Davis) is an idiot, i’ve only talked to him maybe 2 times, he’s one of those guys in prison that tries to write all different prosecutors and get time cuts on peoples case. Its laughable.”

Kegan Kline

For one, Davis made claims that not only was Ron Logan involved in the Delphi murders, but so was Kegan Kline. Kline ran a catfishing account that solicited nude images from underage girls. The account was known to have contacted Libby German not long before the murders.

But Kline doesn’t match any of the “Bridge Guy” descriptions and wasn’t an official suspect in the girls’ deaths. McLeland also pointed out how there was “zero evidence” that Ron Logan and Kegan Kline even knew each other or shared child pornography.

But those names weren’t the only ones Davis pegged as being behind the girls’ murders.

Ricci Davis’s letters don’t leave out Richard Allen

On Feb. 15, FOX59 and CBS4’s Max Lewis received a letter from Ricci Davis. In the letter, the convicted criminal claimed that McLeland ignored his warnings about how he “convicted an innocent man” in Richard Allen.

Allen was found guilty in November of murdering Abby Williams and Libby German in Delphi in February 2017. Since Allen’s conviction, his defense team has rallied behind these so-called confessions in an attempt to get the guilty verdicts thrown out.

But a letter sent by Davis to McLeland in early September does not paint Allen as “an innocent man.”

In this letter, Davis included Allen among the alleged three men responsible for the murders. Davis’s original account included a “confession” from Kline that roped in Kline, Allen and Logan.

“Richard Allen set up meeting the girls with Logan, however they met at Logan’s home drinking. Logan and Kline met up with the girls as Allen was at the farm,” Davis wrote.

Davis claimed Logan and Kline attacked the girls and Allen helped “move the bodies.” But Allen’s involvement in this version didn’t end there. Davis claims he was told the “youngest girl” was kept alive for a time until Kline “made” Allen kill her.

McLeland points out how this account doesn’t match the account previously unveiled by Allen’s defense team. Nor does it match the physical evidence presented during the trial.

“(Davis) does not say Richard Allen is innocent or not involved,” McLeland said. “Quite the opposite, he says Richard Allen participated in the murders and is guilty.”

Kline says he didn’t know Ron Logan, calls Ricci Davis a joke

The inclusion of linking Logan to Kline raised many eyebrows, as the two names frequent Delphi murders conspiracy theories in online circles — a surefire way to ignite debates.

But McLeland included text messages from Kline that also took shots at Davis’s credibility.

In transcripts of text message correspondence from Kline, the convicted child sex offender is told about the Ricci Davis claims and how he has been included in the purported confession from Ron Logan.

Kline laughed at the idea.

“That dude is an idiot,” Kline wrote. “I’ve only talked to him maybe 2 times, he’s one of those guys in prison that tries to write all different prosecutors and get time cuts on peoples case. Its laughable.”

In another message, Kline reiterates the same point by claiming Davis writes to prosecutors “saying a bunch of lies” to try and cut himself deals.

“I have no clue who Ron Logan was until people told me,” Kline writes in the text message.

In other messages, Kline refers to Davis as “a joke” and thanks people for letting him know about the Davis confession.

“It’s so funny,” he writes.

McLeland scolds Baldwin for pushing ‘certain narrative’

In the state’s latest motion, McLeland didn’t hold back from scolding Allen’s lawyer and accusing them of presenting unverified information as if it were fact.

“This motion seems yet another attempt by Attorney Andrew Baldwin to push a certain narrative to the public, specifically the online world,” McLeland wrote in his latest motion. “He seems to file these types of motions with very bold allegations, that he neither verifies the information, nor does he present any evidence to back up the statements.”

“It is unfortunate that motions by the Defense in this case have come to the point where they present statements from an Inmate as fact without any legal or evidentiary support,” the prosecutor said.

McLeland also stated only three letters were received by his office from Davis, not eight as previously claimed. All were received during or near the start of Richard Allen’s trial.

Ricci Davis letters