Podcast appearances and mentions of Richard Allen

Abigail Williams i Liberty German, dues adolescents de Delphi a Indiana, van ser assassinades mentre estaves d'excursió per una zona boscosa de la seva petita ciutat. El cas va quedar sense resoldre durant 5 anys, fins que finalment Richard Allen, va ser acusat pels crims. A continuació t'ho expliquem Benvinguts a La Nit Més Fosca -- Cançó: Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota - Un Poco de Amor Francés: https://youtu.be/WlFLpKaC4_c -- Gràcies als mecenes: Marc Roig Casanovas Pau Elenuki Adrana Blanco Romero NPIk Reyes Sesma Magí Lucía Vives Jep Naila Ester Roig Luque Eva Mora Vicky Suller Ferran Ballescá López Anna Maria Rosello Joan Gavaldà Tònia P.M. Marta Solà Anna G Mercà Gallindo Colet Jordi Gibal Patri Cristina Núñez Pardo Beatriz Sequera Estefania Doñate Lorena G. Cristina Domènech Enric Lozano Pastor Sara Azidane Estefania Blanes Marta Jordi Claudia Cid Cristina Martínez García Cella Tello Sandra Joaquim Palet Ramos Joan Sabaté Ros Cristina Silvia Cubo Ana Serrano Oscar Villar lorenzo alou Maria Pilar Espinach Aida David Mataró Arnau Tordera Maria Gomez Montoya Bruno Gómez Debora Judith M Esther Neus Cortés Blay Sara Naabicha Carlos Alberto Alonso Espinosa Sergi Luria Oriol Buchaca Prats Nury Xochilt Subirachs Gonzalez Sandra Garcia Raquel Cuesta Toni Panadès Dori Galera Laura VC Jonathan Sanjuan Alzas Jo mateix Anna Piculla Vernet Jou Eulàlia Boada Jordi Armadans Peller Inga Mariona Sildavia rllado Eva Soler Gonzalo Bustamante Marta Agnès Pujol Cisco Puig Berta Novell Roser Lladó Moreno Ana Gatusa Reyes Sesma Joaquim Palet Ramos Maria Jesus Vicente Martín Susana Martos Gutierrez nons.nons Maria Adrover xandy francesc sorribes vall Gemma Garcia Serra Anònim Gemma Casas Joan Carles Ventura Martínez joan xufre Esther de la Torre Clara Pere Joan Martorell Circe Maria M. anab Carme Porras Jessica Julio Mínguez Moreno Ernesto Flecha laclua José Manuel Valeriano Luz Irene Castañeda Eva Dern Viñals gisela Marga García isabel lorena Cherokke Pagès Oldeman Beatriz Moreno Joan Marc Mahamadou Shona Anabel Fernández Albert Roig Cristina Mateos Gonzalez Lidia Avila Ialoa Historias de Melk Rosa Quiles Maria Josep Castañer Miquel Chiara y Silvana Pose Muriel.flaubert Jonan Joaquin Laia Casas Rosa Quiles José Cornellá Karuk Travel Victoria Garijo Helena Guasch Jerowrc Irene Font Pujulà Splana Laura Poveda Elisabet Loperena Serrahima Elena Pardo Lorenaspinola Carme Porras Carol Almudever Larrodé Antoinette Lopez Silvana Xabier78 Xandy Joel Inked Skull Aida Fusté Tena La Fatuocueva Podcast Reyes Sesma Fiammetta Brandajs Vicente Garcia Adriana Blanco Pablo Benito Luna

In this episode of the Experts in Sport, we explore the global role of FIFA as the world builds towards the FIFA World Cup. Host Martin Foster is joined by FIFA high-performance specialists Richard Allen and former international footballer Philippe Senderos, the discussion goes beyond the tournament itself to examine how football is developed worldwide—from grassroots talent pathways to global policy, investment, and opportunity. Blending personal insight with expert analysis, the episode offers a unique look at how the World Cup shapes the game on and off the pitch.What does a World Cup feel like? 5:54Philippe's highlights 13:14What has changed? 20:39FIFA's role 23:18Development worldwide 28:01This World Cup 49:33Who's going to win? 55:56

Moderator: Cat Burkat, MD FACS (Professor at Univ of Wisconsin-Madison) Guests · Dr. Elizabeth Bradley, Associate Professor at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester · Dr. François Codère Associate Professor from the Université de Montréal in Canada · Dr. Richard Allen, Professor at Baylor in Texas   In this Surgical Spotlight TOP podcast episode: "Myogenic Ptosis: Is It Really Any Different?", we are diving into a topic that most oculoplastic surgeons encounter—but rarely explore in depth: the surgical management of myogenic ptosis in progressive conditions such as Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy and Chronic Progressive External Ophthalmoplegia. We'll explore how the natural history of myogenic ptosis may change surgical decision-making. Should timing and the selected procedure be driven not just by the exam—but by disease trajectory? Does earlier onset signal a more aggressive course, pushing us toward more proactive surgery rather than a traditional stepwise approach? And how should we rethink concepts like recurrence, failure, and even surgical success when progression is expected? Tune in as we discuss the challenge of correcting myogenic ptosis—for today, and where the patient will be years from now.

Frågan om vem som är mannen på bron kvarstår. Polisen undersöker flera spår men fallet blir kallare och kallare. I oktober 2022 hittas dock en gammal rapport med information som aldrig följts upp. Den rapporten leder utredningen till Richard Allen. Manus av Sofie Karlsson. Klippning av Josefine Molén.Reklam. Om du gillar Mördarpodden kan du vara med och sponsra den på Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10466265 Som tack får du tillgång till förhandlyssning och alla avsnitt från Richard Chase del 1 och framåt utan reklam. För dig som sponsrar Mördarpodden via Patreon finns samtliga delar i vår serie om Delphi Murders tillgängliga redan nu helt reklamfritt!Vill du som inte redan sponsrar oss via Patreon ta del av serien om Delphi Murders helt reklamfritt så var med och sponsra podden på Patreon med ett valfritt belopp: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10466265Vill du höra ett specifikt fall i podden? Önska dina fall i det här formuläret: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfDlQxf9SgZyeGS-qFPaB4BP-L59lQhs7BbZACfwk7xSs-AFw/viewform?fbclid=IwAR0astYAY_SJLcst89FwKaPIeHHV9zlfAxEz6Cmrh37bbMwvMHGc8z5cwg4Det här är en podcast av Dan Hörning och Josefine Molén.Instagram: @mordarpoddenE-post: zimwaypodcast@gmail.comFölj Josefine Molén här:https://www.instagram.com/j.molenFölj Dan Hörning här:X: @danhorningInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dan_horning/?hl=enYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV2Qb7SmL9mejE5RCv1chwgErik SegerstedtSpotify:https://open.spotify.com/artist/63q3l3pKBpvqEjUM5Vf1TG?si=fYtdOwIvTn6noQJW6ffPwwInstagram: https://instagram.com/e Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The appellate challenge to Richard Allen's conviction in the Delphi murders rests on two primary grounds: the reliability of over sixty custodial confessions made during a period of diagnosed psychosis, and the validity of the probable cause affidavit that authorized the search warrant initiating the entire prosecution.On the confession issue, the defense filings document the following timeline. Allen was placed in solitary confinement at Westville Correctional Facility upon his arrest. IDOC policy limited such confinement for inmates with his mental health classification to thirty days. Allen remained in the most restrictive cell for approximately thirteen months. During that period, prison medical staff diagnosed him as gravely disabled and psychotic. He was forcibly administered antipsychotic medications. His weight dropped to approximately 135 pounds. He reportedly confused nightmares with reality and believed he had initiated a global conflict.Prior to solitary, during the arrest interrogation, Allen — after being subjected to what the defense characterizes as over an hour of deceptive interview techniques by Detective Holeman — stated: "I am not going to say something I did not do." The subsequent confessions, numbering over sixty, contained factual errors inconsistent with the known evidence. He confessed to shooting victims who died from blade wounds. He described acts for which no corroborating evidence exists. His initial statement to his wife was qualified: "I think I did it." Dr. Westcott's 127-page forensic evaluation ruled out malingering and attributed the psychosis to the conditions of confinement. The jury heard the confessions but was not presented with the audio of Allen's psychotic episodes or the expert testimony characterizing them as false.The warrant challenge is equally foundational. Detective Liggett's probable cause affidavit allegedly included material misrepresentations of witness testimony. Witness Betsy Blair described Bridge Guy as a young man in his twenties with distinctive brown hair — a description that does not match Allen's appearance at 44 with a crew cut. The defense alleges selective inclusion of corroborating details and omission of contradicting ones. A Franks hearing was denied. Without the warrant, no subsequent evidence in the case exists. An appellate court will determine whether these challenges constitute reversible error.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#Delphi #RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #FalseConfessions #SearchWarrant #FranksHearing #SolitaryConfinement #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #JusticeForAbbyAndLibby

The search warrant that initiated the prosecution of Richard Allen in the Delphi murders rested on a probable cause affidavit authored by Detective Tony Liggett. According to the appellant's brief, that affidavit allegedly contained material misrepresentations of witness testimony and strategic omissions of details that would have undermined the connection between Allen and Bridge Guy.The defense identifies specific alleged discrepancies. Witness Betsy Blair described the man on the bridge as young, in his twenties, with poofy brown hair — a description that does not match Allen, who was 44 with a crew cut. The defense alleges Liggett included Blair's jacket description while omitting her physical description of the person. Blair's sketch of the vehicle at the scene allegedly did not match Allen's Ford Focus — omitted from the affidavit. Sarah Carbaugh reportedly described a tan jacket; the affidavit allegedly characterized it as blue and added "bloody." Blair reportedly told investigators these were two different men. Allen reportedly told investigators he didn't know what he was wearing; the affidavit allegedly stated he admitted to a blue Carhartt jacket and head covering. The defense requested a Franks hearing to challenge the warrant's validity. The trial court denied the motion.The defense's position is that without this warrant, no subsequent evidence exists — no search, no firearm recovery, no bullet comparison, no arrest, no custodial confessions.The appellate filings also present the investigation's treatment of alternate suspects excluded from the jury's consideration. One suspect allegedly created artwork in 2018 depicting the exact positioning of a victim. He admitted to pagan rituals four days post-murder. He possessed a .40 caliber firearm matching the caliber found at the scene. His recorded interview was allegedly erased. The firearm was never collected. His employer's offer of alibi surveillance footage was allegedly declined. An ISP Trooper's request for further investigation was reportedly denied by superiors. Neither this suspect nor his associate has been charged. The appellate court will determine whether these exclusions and omissions constitute reversible error.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#Delphi #RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #SearchWarrant #FranksHearing #DetectiveLiggett #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #AbbyAndLibby #JusticeForAbbyAndLibby

The search warrant that launched the entire case against Richard Allen rested on a probable cause affidavit written by Detective Tony Liggett. According to the appellant's brief, that affidavit allegedly misrepresented what witnesses told investigators and omitted the details that would have undermined the connection between Allen and Bridge Guy.Betsy Blair described the man on the bridge as young, in his twenties, with poofy brown hair. Allen was 44 with a crew cut. The defense says Liggett included Blair's jacket description but left out her physical description of the person wearing it. Blair's sketch of the car at the scene didn't match Allen's Ford Focus — allegedly omitted. Sarah Carbaugh reportedly described a tan jacket. Liggett's affidavit allegedly changed it to blue and added "bloody." Blair told Liggett these were two different men. ISP said the same thing publicly. Allen reportedly said he didn't know what he was wearing. The affidavit allegedly claimed he admitted to a blue Carhartt and head covering. The defense requested a Franks hearing to challenge the warrant. Denied.Without this warrant, there's no search, no firearm, no bullet match, no arrest, no confessions. The defense argues the entire prosecution grows from a document the witnesses wouldn't recognize.The appellate filings also lay out the investigation's treatment of alternate suspects the jury never heard about. According to the defense, one suspect created a painting in 2018 depicting the exact positioning of a victim at the crime scene. He admitted to pagan rituals involving bloodletting four days after the murders. He owned a .40 caliber firearm matching the round found at the scene. Investigators recorded his interview — then erased the tape. They never collected the gun. His employer offered surveillance footage to verify his alibi. Officers declined and marked him cleared. An ISP Trooper who found "concerning similarity" to the murders pushed for further investigation. His superiors shut it down. Neither this suspect nor his associate has been charged. The jury heard none of it. An appellate court will decide whether any of it should have reached them.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#Delphi #RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #SearchWarrant #DetectiveLiggett #BridgeGuy #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #AbbyAndLibby #JusticeForAbbyAndLibby

Before solitary, Richard Allen wouldn't break. According to defense filings, Detective Holeman lied to him for over an hour during the arrest interrogation. Allen's response: "I am not going to say something I did not do." Five months in the most restrictive solitary cell in a maximum-security prison changed that.IDOC's own policy imposed a thirty-day limit for inmates with Allen's mental health diagnosis. He was held for thirteen months. By April 2023, he weighed 135 pounds. He was confusing nightmares with reality. He believed he'd started World War III. Prison doctors diagnosed him as gravely disabled and psychotic. IDOC forcibly injected him with antipsychotics. When his lawyers begged for a transfer, the prosecutor allegedly mocked their concerns on the same day IDOC designated Allen gravely disabled.Then came the confessions. Over sixty of them. He confessed to shooting Abby and Libby — they were killed with a blade. He confessed to acts there is no evidence occurred. He got basic facts of the crime wrong. His first confession to his wife wasn't "I did it." It was "I think I did it." Dr. Westcott produced a 127-page evaluation that ruled out faking and concluded the psychosis was caused by solitary confinement. The jury heard the confessions. They never heard the audio of Allen's psychotic episodes. They never heard the expert who would have called the confessions false.The appellate filings also challenge the foundation of the case itself. The search warrant rested on Detective Liggett's probable cause affidavit — which the defense alleges misrepresented witness descriptions and omitted details that would have broken the connection between Allen and Bridge Guy. Betsy Blair described a young man in his twenties with poofy brown hair. Allen was 44 with a crew cut. Blair reportedly told Liggett these were two different men. The defense requested a Franks hearing. Denied. Without this warrant, there's no search, no gun, no bullet match, no arrest, no confessions. The entire case, the defense argues, grows from a document the witnesses wouldn't recognize. An appellate court will decide.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#Delphi #RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #SolitaryConfinement #FalseConfessions #Westville #SearchWarrant #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #JusticeForAbbyAndLibby

According to the defense's appellate filings, an ISP Trooper found "concerning similarity" between the Delphi murders and a suspect who had been flagged repeatedly by tipsters for posting images of dead girls with sticks over their bodies on social media. He pushed for further investigation. His superiors said no.This same suspect, according to the filings, sat across from investigators four days after the murders and admitted to practicing pagan rituals involving bloodletting. He owned a .40 caliber firearm — the same caliber as the round recovered at the crime scene. They recorded his interview. The Delphi Police erased the tape. They never collected the gun. When officers went to verify his alibi, his employer offered surveillance footage. They declined to review it and marked him cleared. In 2018, he allegedly created a painting of Odin hanging upside down — right leg tucked behind the left — matching how one victim was positioned at the scene. His associate, a self-described pagan religious leader who reportedly knew the murder woods "very well," had his interview go unrecorded. His alibi wasn't checked for six years. Neither man has been charged.The jury that convicted Richard Allen heard none of this. The defense argued it should have been admitted as third-party suspect evidence. The trial court excluded it.On the other side of the appeal is the document that started the case against Allen. Detective Liggett's probable cause affidavit allegedly misrepresented witness descriptions to connect Allen to Bridge Guy. Betsy Blair described a young man in his twenties with poofy brown hair — not a 44-year-old with a crew cut. The defense says those physical details were omitted while her jacket description was kept. Blair reportedly told Liggett these were two different men. Without this warrant, the defense argues, there's no search, no gun, no bullet, no arrest, no confessions. A Franks hearing to challenge the warrant was denied. An appellate court will now decide whether the exclusions and the omissions matter enough to change the outcome.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#Delphi #RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #AbbyAndLibby #ISP #Odinism #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #DelphiInvestigation #JusticeForAbbyAndLibby

The behavioral shift is the center of the Delphi appeal. Before solitary confinement, Richard Allen sat across from Detective Holeman during the arrest interrogation and — according to defense filings — was lied to for over an hour. Allen's answer: "I am not going to say something I did not do." That was the man who walked into Westville.Thirteen months later, he was a different person. IDOC's own policy limited solitary for inmates with his mental health diagnosis to thirty days. Allen was held in the most restrictive cell in a maximum-security prison for over a year. By April 2023, he weighed 135 pounds. He was confusing nightmares with reality. He believed he had started World War III. Prison doctors diagnosed him as gravely disabled and psychotic. He was forcibly injected with antipsychotics. His lawyers begged for a transfer. The prosecutor allegedly mocked their concerns on the same day IDOC designated him gravely disabled.Then came the confessions. More than sixty. He confessed to shooting victims who were killed with a blade. He described acts there is no evidence occurred. He got basic facts wrong. His first confession to his wife: "I think I did it." Not "I did it." Dr. Westcott's 127-page evaluation ruled out malingering and concluded the psychosis was caused by the solitary conditions themselves. The jury heard the confessions but never heard the audio of his psychotic episodes and never heard the expert who would have testified they were false.The appellate filings also attack the warrant that started the case. Detective Liggett's probable cause affidavit allegedly misrepresented what witnesses described. Betsy Blair said Bridge Guy was young, twenties, poofy brown hair — not a 44-year-old with a crew cut. The defense says Liggett kept the jacket and cut the person wearing it. Blair reportedly told him she was describing two different men. Without this warrant, the defense argues, the entire case collapses — no search, no gun, no bullet, no arrest, no confessions. An appellate court will decide whether any of it holds.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#Delphi #RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #FalseConfessions #SolitaryConfinement #BridgeGuy #AbbyAndLibby #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #JusticeForAbbyAndLibby

He didn't say "I did it." He said "I think I did it." That was Richard Allen's first confession to his wife — after five months in the most restrictive solitary cell in a maximum-security prison, after being diagnosed as gravely disabled and psychotic, after being forcibly injected with antipsychotics, after his weight dropped to 135 pounds, and after he started confusing nightmares with reality and believing he'd started World War III.Before solitary, Allen sat across from Detective Holeman during the arrest interrogation. According to defense filings, Holeman lied to him for over an hour. Allen's response: "I am not going to say something I did not do." IDOC's own policy limited solitary for inmates with his diagnosis to thirty days. He was held for thirteen months.The confessions that followed — over sixty of them — got the crime wrong. He confessed to shooting Abby and Libby. They were killed with a blade. He described acts there is no evidence occurred. Dr. Westcott's 127-page evaluation ruled out faking and concluded the psychosis was caused by the conditions of his confinement. The prosecutor allegedly mocked defense concerns about Allen's mental state on the same day IDOC designated him gravely disabled. The jury heard the confessions. They never heard the audio of his psychotic episodes. They never heard the expert who would have called every one of them false.The case didn't start with confessions. It started with a search warrant — and the defense says that warrant is built on a lie. Detective Liggett's affidavit allegedly changed what witnesses described. Betsy Blair said Bridge Guy was young, twenties, poofy brown hair. Allen was 44, crew cut. Blair reportedly told Liggett these were two different men. The affidavit allegedly said Allen admitted to wearing a blue Carhartt. Allen reportedly said he didn't know what he was wearing. Without this warrant — no search, no gun, no bullet, no arrest, no confessions. The defense argues the entire case grows from a document the witnesses wouldn't recognize and confessions a psychotic man made about a crime he described wrong. An appellate court will decide.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#Delphi #RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #FalseConfessions #SolitaryConfinement #SearchWarrant #AbbyAndLibby #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #JusticeForAbbyAndLibby

According to the defense's appellate filings, one suspect sat across from Delphi investigators four days after the murders and admitted to practicing pagan rituals involving bloodletting. He owned a .40 caliber firearm — the same caliber as the round found at the scene. They recorded his interview. The tape was erased. They never collected the gun. His employer offered surveillance footage to check his alibi. Officers declined and marked him cleared.In 2018, this suspect allegedly created a painting of Odin hanging upside down — right leg tucked behind the left. That is how one of the victims was positioned at the crime scene. Tipsters repeatedly flagged him posting images on social media of dead girls with sticks over their bodies. An ISP Trooper found "concerning similarity" to the murders and pushed for further investigation. His superiors shut it down.His associate — a self-described pagan religious leader who reportedly knew the murder woods "very well" — had his interview go unrecorded entirely. His alibi wasn't checked for six years. Neither man has ever been charged. The jury that convicted Richard Allen heard none of it. The trial court excluded it as third-party suspect evidence.Then there's the warrant. Detective Liggett's probable cause affidavit allegedly described witnesses saying things they didn't say and left out the details that would have broken the connection to Allen. Betsy Blair described a young man in his twenties with poofy brown hair. Allen was 44 with a crew cut. The defense says Liggett kept her jacket description and cut the rest. Blair reportedly told investigators these were two different men. Allen reportedly said he didn't know what he was wearing. The affidavit allegedly said he admitted to a blue Carhartt. Without this warrant — no search, no gun, no bullet match, no arrest, no confessions.The defense argues the entire case was built on a document the witnesses wouldn't recognize and a jury that was denied the full picture. An appellate court will decide.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#Delphi #RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #AbbyAndLibby #Odinism #SearchWarrant #BridgeGuy #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #JusticeForAbbyAndLibby

Jamie Mackay talks to Emma Higgins, Christopher Luxon, David Buick, Richard Allen, and Jane Smith.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The defense at Richard Allen's trial tried to introduce Blair's composite sketch of Bridge Guy — a man in his twenties with poofy hair, rated 10 out of 10 for accuracy, who looks nothing like Allen. Excluded. An expert to challenge the State's bullet methodology — excluded. Audio of Allen's psychotic episodes during solitary — excluded. Expert testimony that the confessions were false — excluded. A ritualistic crime expert to explain the crime scene — excluded. Evidence about alternative suspects connected to pagan rituals, the victim, and the crime scene symbolism — excluded. Evidence about the investigation's failures over five and a half years — excluded. The State countered phone data breaking its timeline with a witness who Googled the answer during trial. The defense objected to the hearsay. Overruled. The jury convicted on November 11, 2024, after hearing what the defense calls a fundamentally one-sided presentation. Allen was sentenced to 130 years. Every exclusion, every blocked expert, every piece of evidence the jury never saw — the State calls it all harmless error. The defense argues it was constitutional error that crippled Allen's ability to defend himself. This is the final chapter in a five-part examination of how Abby and Libby's case went from a complex crime scene to a conviction built, in my opinion, on a foundation the full truth would not support. The appeal is pending.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#Delphi #RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #RichardAllenTrial #HarmlessError #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #WrongfulConviction #ExcludedEvidence #JusticeForAbbyAndLibby

On the day of his arrest, Richard Allen sat through an aggressive interrogation. According to the defense filings, Detective Holeman lied about witnesses and evidence, even used Allen's wife as a tool. Allen said: "I am not going to say something I did not do." Then they sent him to the most restrictive solitary cell in Westville — a maximum-security unit for the "worst of the worst." He was the first pretrial safekeeper anyone remembered being placed there. His diagnosed major depressive disorder entitled him to IDOC's thirty-day solitary limit. They kept him thirteen months. By five months in, Allen weighed 135 pounds and was gravely disabled. He was claiming to have started World War III. Over sixty confessions followed. He said he shot the girls. They were killed with a blade. He expressed confusion about acts for which no evidence exists. His psychologist, who controlled his privileges, reportedly told him she "needed more consistency" after one confession. The prosecutor mocked defense concerns on the same day IDOC classified Allen as gravely disabled. A 127-page evaluation concluded the psychosis was caused by solitary. Testing found no malingering. By August, Allen couldn't remember confessing. His first words to his wife: "I think I did it." Not a statement of fact. A broken man reaching for something that might explain why his world collapsed.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#Delphi #RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #SolitaryConfinement #FalseConfessions #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #WrongfulConviction #Westville #JusticeForAbbyAndLibby

IDOC's own policy caps solitary confinement at thirty days for inmates with serious mental illness. Richard Allen had a diagnosed major depressive disorder and a history of suicidal ideation. According to the defense filings, he was held in the most restrictive solitary cell at Westville for thirteen months — the first pretrial safekeeper anyone could remember being placed there. Within two weeks, he told his wife he was broken. By five months, he weighed 135 pounds, was psychotic, gravely disabled, confusing nightmares with reality. He confessed to shooting the girls — they were killed with a blade. He confessed to acts there is no forensic evidence of. Before solitary, Allen endured a confrontational interrogation and refused to break, telling investigators: "I am not going to say something I did not do." Solitary changed that. The prosecutor waited nine days to respond to the defense's emergency transfer motion — while investigators monitored Allen's confession calls — then called the defense's concerns "colorful" on the same day IDOC found Allen gravely disabled. Dr. Wala, who controlled Allen's privileges, noted after one confession that she "needed more consistency." A 127-page forensic evaluation ruled out malingering and attributed the psychosis to solitary. The jury heard the confessions. They never heard the audio, the expert testimony, or the context.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#Delphi #RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #SolitaryConfinement #FalseConfessions #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #WrongfulConviction #Westville #JusticeForAbbyAndLibby

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Before solitary confinement, Richard Allen told investigators he didn't do it. Said it repeatedly under pressure. Said it to his wife. Said it emphatically: "I am not going to say something I did not do." Five months later, his words to his wife had changed: "I think I did it." According to the defense filings, Allen had been held in the most restrictive solitary cell in Westville for thirteen months despite IDOC's thirty-day policy for inmates with his mental health diagnosis. He weighed 135 pounds. He was gravely disabled, psychotic, forcibly injected with antipsychotics. He confessed to shooting the girls — they were killed with a blade. Confessed to acts for which no forensic evidence exists. Made over sixty confessions while prison doctors documented psychosis, paranoia, delusional thinking, and memory loss. His psychologist controlled his privileges. The prosecutor monitored his calls and collected confessions while delaying the defense's emergency transfer motion. A 127-page forensic evaluation found no malingering and attributed the psychosis to the well-documented effects of solitary. By August 2023, Allen couldn't remember weeks of his own life. The jury heard the confessions but never the audio of his psychotic state, never the expert who would have explained them as false. This episode documents how thirteen months in the hole turned a defiant denial into sixty broken confessions.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#Delphi #RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #SolitaryConfinement #FalseConfessions #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #WrongfulConviction #Westville #JusticeForAbbyAndLibby

The search warrant for Richard Allen's home, car, and electronics is the foundation of the State's case. Without it, there is no gun, no bullet comparison, no arrest, and no confessions from solitary confinement. According to the appellant's brief, the affidavit that secured that warrant contained statements and omissions that painted a misleading picture. Betsy Blair — the only witness who saw Bridge Guy face-to-face — described him as a young man in his twenties with poofy brown hair. Detective Liggett's affidavit reportedly mentioned her blue jacket description but omitted the rest. Blair also described the car at the scene as something resembling a 1965 Comet — nothing like Allen's black Ford Focus. That was allegedly left out too. Witness Sarah Carbaugh reportedly said "tan jacket" and "muddy" in her 2017 interview. The affidavit allegedly read "blue jacket" and "muddy and bloody." Blair told Liggett those were two different men. ISP said the same thing in a public statement. The defense also argues Allen never admitted to wearing a blue Carhartt as the affidavit claimed. The defense requested a Franks hearing to challenge whether the affidavit contained deliberate falsehoods. The trial court denied it. The State maintains probable cause was sufficient regardless. The appellate court will weigh in. But if the defense is right, the judge who signed the warrant was given a picture with the most important details removed.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#Delphi #RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #DetectiveLiggett #SearchWarrant #BridgeGuy #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #WrongfulConviction #JusticeForAbbyAndLibby

Every piece of evidence used to convict Richard Allen traces back to one document: Detective Liggett's probable cause affidavit. According to the defense's appellate filings, that document told the judge a version of events the witnesses themselves would not recognize. Betsy Blair saw Bridge Guy up close and described a man in his twenties with poofy brown hair. The affidavit allegedly included her jacket description and omitted everything else. Her sketch of the car at the scene didn't match Allen's vehicle — allegedly omitted. Sarah Carbaugh reportedly told investigators the man she saw wore a tan jacket and was muddy. The affidavit allegedly changed it to blue jacket, muddy and bloody. Blair and ISP both said Carbaugh's man and Bridge Guy were different people — allegedly omitted. Allen reportedly said he didn't know what he wore that day. The affidavit allegedly attributed a blue Carhartt admission to him. The defense argued every alleged misstatement served one purpose: making Allen look like Bridge Guy. They requested a Franks hearing. The court said no. Without this warrant, the State has no gun, no bullet comparison, no arrest, and no confessions from solitary. The defense's position is direct: the entire case is fruit of this document, and the document, they argue, is built on half-truths. The appeal will settle it. But the facts Liggett allegedly kept from the judge are the facts that would have mattered most.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#Delphi #RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #DetectiveLiggett #SearchWarrant #BridgeGuy #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #WrongfulConviction #JusticeForAbbyAndLibby

According to the appellant's brief, Detective Tony Liggett secured the search warrant against Richard Allen with an affidavit that allegedly omitted and altered key witness statements. Blair described Bridge Guy as a young man in his twenties with brown poofy hair and sketched a car that looked nothing like Allen's Ford Focus — details Liggett allegedly left out. Carbaugh reportedly said tan jacket and muddy; the affidavit allegedly read blue jacket, muddy and bloody. Blair and ISP both said on the record these were two different men. And Allen, according to the defense, never admitted to wearing a blue Carhartt as the affidavit claimed. Without the search that followed, there is no gun, no Oberg bullet opinion, no arrest, no confessions. The defense calls the entire case fruit of this warrant. They supported their Franks motion with depositions, police interviews, and reports — and the trial court denied both the suppression and the hearing. The defense points out the court had been willing to schedule a Franks hearing under different defense attorneys but reversed course when the original team was reinstated. The State maintains probable cause survives even with the omitted information. An appellate court will decide. But the central question remains: if the judge had known that the one witness who saw Bridge Guy up close described someone who looks nothing like Richard Allen, would the warrant have been signed?Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#Delphi #RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #DetectiveLiggett #SearchWarrant #BridgeGuy #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #WrongfulConviction #JusticeForAbbyAndLibby

Imagine an officer investigating a suspect in a double child homicide is invited to review surveillance footage that would prove whether the suspect was at work or not. Now imagine the officer declines. According to the defense's appellate filings in the Richard Allen case, that is what happened with one of the most documented alternative suspects in the Delphi murders investigation. This man admitted to pagan rituals involving bloodletting, owned a .40 caliber weapon matching the round found at the crime scene, and had a direct connection to victim Abby Williams. His interview was recorded and then erased. The weapon stayed in his home. Tipsters repeatedly identified him, citing social media posts that, according to the defense, depicted dead girls with sticks over their bodies. An ISP Trooper flagged it and pushed for action. His superiors declined. The suspect's associate told officers he knew the murder woods "very well" and led a local pagan group. That interview wasn't even recorded. His alibi went unchecked for six years. Neither man has ever been charged. The jury never learned they existed. According to the defense filings, the first suspect told his wife his associate had killed Abby "with others." That statement is in the court record. The judge excluded it. This episode documents the alternative suspects, the alibis that fell apart, and the investigative choices that let them walk while Richard Allen was convicted.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#Delphi #RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #AbbyAndLibby #Odinism #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #WrongfulConviction #DelphiInvestigation #JusticeForAbbyAndLibby

Richard Allen volunteered his name to law enforcement two days after the Delphi murders. He'd been on the trail. He came forward willingly. His report was misfiled, marked "cleared," and lost. For five and a half years, the investigation moved without it — and according to the defense's appellate filings, it moved in circles. Recorded interviews with suspects connected to pagan rituals were erased. A .40 caliber firearm belonging to a suspect who admitted to bloodletting practices was never seized. When officers were offered the chance to review surveillance video that would have confirmed a suspect's alibi, they walked away. Tips came in identifying this suspect and each was stamped "nothing further." The crime scene pointed in directions nobody followed. Multiple officers thought it required more than one perpetrator. The FBI's BAU could not rule out a ritualistic motive. Eyewitness Betsy Blair described Bridge Guy as a young man in his twenties with brown curly hair — not a 44-year-old with a crew cut. She gave her sketch a 10 out of 10 and never wavered. The jury at Richard Allen's trial never saw Blair's sketch. They were told to skip five years of history and convict based on what the court allowed them to hear. This episode launches a five-part series walking through the investigative failures, ignored leads, and institutional breakdowns that, in my opinion, produced a wrongful conviction. Abby and Libby deserved the truth. They still do.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#Delphi #RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #AbbyAndLibby #BridgeGuy #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #WrongfulConviction #DelphiCase #JusticeForAbbyAndLibby

A conservation officer interviewed Richard Allen two days after Abby Williams and Libby German were found murdered. Allen said he'd been on the trail. He gave his name. He answered every question. And then his report was misfiled under the wrong name and sat in a box for five and a half years. That one clerical failure cost the investigation half a decade — time that was spent, according to the defense's appellate filings, losing interviews with suspects who admitted to pagan rituals and owned .40 caliber firearms, declining invitations to review surveillance footage, and marking tips as "cleared" without follow-through. The crime scene itself should have driven the investigation in a different direction. Officers on the ground believed it was too complex for a single perpetrator. The FBI's BAU found elements that couldn't exclude a ritualistic motive. And the only eyewitness who saw Bridge Guy up close described someone who looked nothing like Richard Allen — a young man in his twenties with poofy brown hair. She rated her sketch a perfect 10 for accuracy. The jury that convicted Allen never saw that sketch. They were asked to "fast forward" five years and convict on what remained after the court stripped away every piece of evidence that told a different story. This is the opening chapter of a five-part investigation into the decisions, failures, and institutional breakdowns that produced a conviction built, in my opinion, on a foundation that cannot hold.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#Delphi #RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #AbbyAndLibby #BridgeGuy #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #WrongfulConviction #DelphiCase #JusticeForAbbyAndLibby

The Court of Appeals of Indiana has scheduled oral arguments in the case of Richard Allen, who was convicted of murdering Liberty German and Abigail Williams.Listen to our past discussion of oral arguments with attorney George W. Hicks: https://art19.com/shows/murder-sheet/episodes/45360e81-5ebc-439a-bf17-789b8c5b4879Listen to our past discussion of the oral arguments in this case: https://art19.com/shows/murder-sheet/episodes/d787e682-57e2-4c7c-87da-b1ebcfafc8baCheck out our upcoming book events and get links to buy tickets here: https://murdersheetpodcast.com/eventsPre-order our book on Delphi here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/shadow-of-the-bridge-the-delphi-murders-and-the-dark-side-of-the-american-heartland-aine-cain/21866881?ean=9781639369232Or here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Shadow-of-the-Bridge/Aine-Cain/9781639369232Or here: https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Bridge-Murders-American-Heartland/dp/1639369236Join our Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/c/murdersheetSupport The Murder Sheet by buying a t-shirt here: https://www.murdersheetshop.com/Check out more inclusive sizing and t-shirt and merchandising options here: https://themurdersheet.dashery.com/Send tips to murdersheet@gmail.com.The Murder Sheet is a production of Mystery Sheet LLC.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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In a recorded jailhouse call, Richard Allen asked his own father how much longer he could stay lucid. That call was excluded from trial. The jury that convicted him on a 130-year sentence never heard it. But three judges at the Indiana Court of Appeals are now reading the full record — including the calls the jury didn't get and the confessions that don't match the forensic evidence.Allen told a prison psychiatrist he shot Abby Williams and Libby German. The medical examiner determined they were killed with a blade. The State played one jailhouse call for the jury and excluded two others. The voluntariness of Allen's statements is now a question three judges have to answer, and the excluded calls speak directly to his mental state when those statements were made.Defense attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski to walk through what the selective admission of Allen's calls means at the appellate level. He also addresses the alternative suspect whose interview was allegedly recorded over by investigators — weapon never collected, phone never searched — and the van timeline the defense says FBI cell data and surveillance footage contradict.Indiana's response brief met most of these challenges with procedural objections rather than factual engagement. Filed wrong. Argued too late. Harmless error. The defense has formally requested oral arguments. Indiana has not. Meanwhile, the search warrant that produced the .40-caliber pistol faces de novo review — no deference owed to the trial judge. If it fails, the weapon is gone from any future proceeding.Allen sits in an Oklahoma prison more than a thousand miles from Indiana. Three judges are reading. A decision is coming.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #DelphiAppeal #AbbyAndLibby #BobMotta #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #JailhouseCalls #HarmlessError

The defense raised FBI cell data that contradicted the van timeline. They raised a confession that named the wrong method. They raised an alternative suspect whose interview was allegedly recorded over by investigators. Indiana's answer: procedural default, waiver, harmless error. When a prosecution holding a 130-year conviction won't engage with the underlying record, three appeals judges have to ask themselves why.Defense attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski to break down what Indiana's procedural strategy actually tells you about the strength of what went to the jury. He walks through the selective admission of Richard Allen's jailhouse calls — one played for the jury, two excluded. One of the excluded calls is Allen asking his own father how much longer he can stay lucid. That call speaks directly to the voluntariness of the confessions the State is relying on, and the jury never heard it.Motta also addresses the search warrant now facing de novo review — the one issue where the Court of Appeals owes no deference to Judge Fran Gull. If three judges rule the warrant was deficient, the .40-caliber pistol is gone. Not just from this case. From any retrial. The defense has formally requested oral arguments. Indiana has not joined that request. Who wants to stand in front of three judges and answer questions, and who would rather the panel stay in the file room — that asymmetry is the loudest signal in the docket about where this appeal actually stands.Allen remains in an Oklahoma prison more than a thousand miles from Indiana, designated for safekeeping. Three judges are reading. A decision is coming.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #DelphiAppeal #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #AbbyAndLibby #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #SearchWarrant #OralArguments

The Delphi defense identified an alternative suspect. According to the appeal, that suspect's interview was recorded over by investigators. His weapon was never collected. His phone was never searched. Those aren't things that happen by accident in a case where two girls were found dead and a community spent years waiting for answers. And now three judges at the Indiana Court of Appeals are looking at the full record — including what investigators did and didn't do with the leads that didn't point toward Richard Allen.Defense attorney Bob Motta walks through the significance of the recorded-over interview with Tony Brueski. He explains why it lands harder in an appeal than it did at trial — because the appellate standard asks whether the outcome was reliable, and investigative gaps that were hand-waved in front of a jury look different when judges are reading transcripts and measuring the record against constitutional standards.Motta also gets into the confession problem. Allen told a prison psychiatrist he shot the victims. The medical examiner said they were killed with a blade. The State is relying on confessions that don't match the forensic evidence, from a man whose own jailhouse call to his father — asking how much longer he could stay lucid — was excluded from the jury.Indiana's response brief answered most of the defense's factual challenges with procedural objections, not substantive ones. Filed wrong. Argued too late. The defense has now requested oral arguments. Indiana hasn't. If the search warrant fails under the de novo review, the .40-caliber pistol is gone from the case permanently. Three judges are sitting on the full record. A decision is coming.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #DelphiAppeal #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #AbbyAndLibby #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #AlternativeSuspect #SearchWarrant

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Richard Allen's appeal is fully briefed. The reply brief landed at the end of April. The motion for oral arguments was filed behind it. The State of Indiana has not joined that motion. Three judges at the Indiana Court of Appeals are now reading the full record with no further paper coming.This is the procedural posture that determines whether the Delphi conviction survives. Not a press conference. Not a public statement. Three judges, the written record, and a decision waiting to be made.The defense is asking to be in the room. The State would clearly rather the panel decide on paper alone. That is the first signal. The second is the de novo review on the search warrant — the one issue in the appeal where the appellate panel owes no deference to Judge Fran Gull, and where a ruling against the State would erase the .40-caliber pistol from this case and any retrial forever.Defense attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski for Part Three of a three-part panel on the Delphi appeal. They walk through the strategic geometry of a fully briefed case. They examine what it means that Richard Allen is sitting in an Oklahoma prison for safekeeping while three judges in Indianapolis read the record that put him there. They sit with the forced choice in front of the panel — rule narrowly and let the State retry the case with all of its evidence intact, or rule broadly on the warrant and take the State's strongest piece of physical evidence off the board forever.Three judges. No more paper. A decision waiting to happen. This is the room where Delphi gets decided.LINKS:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMER:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS:#RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #DelphiAppeal #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #BobMotta #TrueCrimeToday #OralArguments #AbbyAndLibby #SearchWarrant #TrueCrime

According to Richard Allen's reply brief, Indiana investigators interviewed an alternative suspect in the Delphi murders, then allegedly recorded over the tape of that interview. His weapon was never collected. His phone was never searched. And at trial, the judge ruled that presenting him as an alternative suspect was speculative.The defense's response to that ruling is a question. How is anything speculative if nobody bothered to investigate it?That is one of three factual problems sitting inside the appellate record that Indiana's response brief refuses to engage with directly. The other two are a van timeline contradicted by FBI cell data and surveillance footage, and a confession in which Allen told his prison psychiatrist he shot Abby Williams and Libby German — when the medical examiner concluded the girls were killed with a blade.Defense attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski for Part One of a three-part panel on the procedural-versus-factual collision driving the Delphi appeal. They walk through why Indiana built its appellate strategy around harmless error and procedural waiver instead of disputing the underlying record. They explain why the recorded-over interview is more dangerous in an appeal than it was at trial. They get into the selective admission of Allen's jailhouse calls — one heard by the jury, two excluded, including the call in which Allen asks his own father how much longer he can stay lucid.Three judges are reading the full record now. The State spent the appellate brief telling them not to look too closely. Whether three judges with the power to ask any question take that suggestion is the entire ballgame.LINKS:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMER:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS:#RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #DelphiAppeal #AlternativeSuspect #AbbyAndLibby #BobMotta #TrueCrimeToday #BridgeGuy #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #TrueCrime

The Richard Allen appeal has moved into its final procedural stretch. The defense filed its reply brief at the end of April. The motion for oral arguments was filed alongside it. The case is now fully briefed. Three judges at the Indiana Court of Appeals are reading the record. A decision is coming.This is what is actually on the table.The defense's reply brief identifies a van timeline contradicted by FBI cell data and surveillance footage. It identifies a confession in which Allen told his prison psychiatrist he shot Abby Williams and Libby German — when the medical examiner concluded the girls were killed with a blade. It identifies an alternative suspect whose interview was allegedly recorded over by Indiana investigators, whose weapon was never collected, whose phone was never searched. Indiana's response brief leans on waiver, harmless error, and procedural default rather than rebutting any of it.The reply brief also walks through the 13 months Allen spent in solitary confinement at Westville — under an Indiana Department of Correction policy that caps such confinement at 30 days for inmates with serious mental illness. He lost 45 pounds. He stopped knowing whether he was alive. He asked his father how much longer he was going to be lucid. Then he confessed. The State's theory now is religious conversion.Defense attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski for a three-part panel on all of it — the procedural-versus-factual collision, the solitary confinement collision, and the strategic oral-arguments collision now sitting in front of three judges with the power to ask any question.Three judges. No more paper. Everything new in the Delphi appeal, in one place.LINKS:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMER:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS:#RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #DelphiAppeal #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #AbbyAndLibby #BobMotta #TrueCrimeToday #BridgeGuy #SolitaryConfinement #TrueCrime

Indiana has a theory for why Richard Allen confessed to the Delphi murders while sitting in solitary confinement at Westville. According to the State's appellate brief, Richard Allen found religion in his cell. He had a spiritual awakening. He decided to come clean.What the defense has documented is something else entirely. A man who lost 45 pounds in solitary. A man who tore up his legal mail. A man who ate his Bible. A man who drank from the toilet. A man who asked his own father, on a recorded phone call, how much longer he was going to be lucid. A man whose Major Depressive Disorder was documented before he ever entered Westville — and whose decline was so visible that the defense team described him as psychotic and gravely disabled.The Indiana Department of Correction's own written policy says inmates with serious mental illness cannot be kept in solitary for more than 30 days. Allen was kept there for 13 months.Defense attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski for Part Two of a three-part panel on the Richard Allen appeal. They put the State's religious-conversion narrative next to the contemporaneous medical and behavioral record. They walk through what an appellate panel actually does when a confession is extracted from a man in that condition. They examine the institutional knowledge the State had before placing Allen in solitary, the policy the State broke by holding him there, and the confession the State is now trying to protect.Three judges at the Court of Appeals are reading both stories. Only one of them is going to survive review.LINKS:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMER:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS:#RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #DelphiAppeal #ReligiousConversion #BobMotta #TrueCrimeToday #AbbyAndLibby #SolitaryConfinement #CoercedConfession #TrueCrime

Indiana's response brief in the Richard Allen appeal does not read like the work of a State that's confident in its conviction. It reads like the work of a State that's worried about its record.The defense brought specifics. A van timeline contradicted by FBI cell data and surveillance footage. A confession from Richard Allen claiming he shot Abby Williams and Libby German, when the medical examiner concluded the girls were killed with a blade. An alternative suspect whose interview was allegedly recorded over by Indiana investigators, whose firearm was never collected, whose phone was never searched.The State did not rebut those points on their merits. The State argued procedure. Harmless error. Waiver. Default. The defense filed the paperwork wrong. The defense argued the wrong way. The defense forfeited the issue.That isn't a defense of the trial. That's an attempt to keep an appellate panel from ever reaching the trial.Defense attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski for Part One of a three-part panel on the procedural-versus-factual collision at the center of this appeal. They unpack why a State holding a conviction would build its strategy around stopping the panel at the courthouse door instead of inviting them in. They examine what the recorded-over interview means now that three judges are reading the same record the jury never saw. They get into the cause-of-death mismatch and why a confession to the wrong method of murder is harder to brush off in an appellate brief than it ever was in a closing argument.Three judges. No more paper. The State's procedural firewall is the only thing standing between the panel and the underlying record.LINKS:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMER:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS:#RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #DelphiAppeal #IndianaAttorneyGeneral #AbbyAndLibby #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #HarmlessError #BridgeGuy #TrueCrime

Richard Allen walked into Westville Correctional Facility weighing 180 pounds. By April 2023, he weighed 135 pounds. He had been in solitary confinement the entire time. He was not under sentence. He had not yet been to trial. He was a pretrial detainee in a maximum-security prison's most restrictive housing — and the documented evidence is that he was losing his mind.He tore up his legal mail. He drank from the toilet. He ate his Bible. He hit his head against the cell door. He asked his own father, on a phone call, how much longer he could stay lucid. And then he confessed to the Delphi murders.The Indiana Department of Correction has a written policy. Inmates with serious mental illness — and Allen had a documented diagnosis of Major Depressive Disorder before he ever arrived at Westville — cannot be held in solitary for more than 30 days. Richard Allen was held there for 13 months. The Indiana Attorney General is now asking three judges at the Court of Appeals to call all of that constitutionally fine.Defense attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski for Part Two of a three-part panel on the Richard Allen appeal. They walk through what the documented decline at Westville actually looked like in real time. They examine the religious-conversion theory the State has offered to explain why Allen confessed, and they put it next to the contemporaneous behavioral record. They get into the jailhouse calls — one heard by the jury, two excluded — and what selective admission of evidence around a confession does to the voluntariness question three judges now have to answer.The State broke its own rule by more than twelve months. Three judges are reading.LINKS:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMER:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS:#RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #DelphiAppeal #SolitaryConfinement #Westville #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #AbbyAndLibby #IndianaDepartmentOfCorrection #TrueCrime

If three judges at the Indiana Court of Appeals rule the search of Richard Allen's home was unconstitutional, Indiana cannot use the .40-caliber pistol again. Not in this case. Not in a retrial. Not ever.That is the consequence sitting underneath the search warrant issue in the Delphi appeal. It is also the reason the de novo standard of review on that issue matters so much. De novo means the appellate panel owes no deference to Special Judge Fran Gull. They review the warrant afresh, as if no court had ever looked at it before. That is one of the few flaws in this case that cannot be cured by deference, by waiver, or by the harmless error framework the State has built its appellate brief around.And that is the forced choice three judges now have in front of them. Rule on the warrant and collapse the State's most important piece of physical evidence. Rule on a narrower ground and dodge that landmine, knowing the State will use any narrower ruling to walk Allen straight back into a retrial where the pistol still gets to come in.Defense attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski for Part Three of a three-part panel on where the Richard Allen appeal actually stands. They walk through the strategic geometry sitting in front of the panel. They get into the motion for oral arguments — filed by the defense, not joined by the State — and what that asymmetry says about which side feels good about its written record. They sit with the practical reality of an appellate panel that has all the power it needs to take this conviction apart at a structural level.Three judges. One warrant. A decision that could rewrite the entire case.LINKS:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMER:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS:#RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #DelphiAppeal #SearchWarrant #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #DeNovoReview #AbbyAndLibby #TrueCrime

Indiana's response brief in the Richard Allen appeal does not read like the work of a State that's confident in its conviction. It reads like the work of a State trying to keep three judges from ever opening the trial record.The defense brought specifics. The van timeline contradicted by FBI cell data. The confession that doesn't match the cause of death. The alternative suspect whose interview was allegedly recorded over by investigators. The 13 months Richard Allen spent in solitary confinement at Westville while the Indiana Department of Correction violated its own written policy by more than a year. The .40-caliber pistol recovered from a search warrant that the defense argues was based on omitted and altered facts.The State's response across all of it: harmless error, waiver, procedural default. Not rebuttal. Not engagement. Just a procedural firewall built tall enough that an appellate panel can affirm the conviction without ever having to look at what's underneath.Defense attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski for a three-part panel on where the Delphi appeal actually stands. Three collision points. The procedural-versus-factual fight. The 13 months Allen spent in a cell built for 30 days. The strategic asymmetry of one side asking for oral arguments while the other side stays silent and prays the panel decides on paper.Three judges. No more paper. A conviction the State doesn't seem to want to defend on the merits.LINKS:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMER:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS:#RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #DelphiAppeal #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #AbbyAndLibby #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #HarmlessError #SolitaryConfinement #TrueCrime

The .40-caliber pistol prosecutors leaned on at the Delphi trial came out of the search of Richard Allen's home. If three judges at the Indiana Court of Appeals rule that search was unconstitutional, the gun is gone. Permanently. The State cannot go back in time and undo it. The fruits of an illegal search are inadmissible by law — in this case and in any retrial.That single appellate ruling has the power to take the State's central piece of physical evidence out of this case for good.And the search warrant is the one issue in the appeal that gets de novo review. The appellate panel owes no deference to the trial court on it. No deference to Judge Fran Gull. No deference to anyone. They look at the warrant fresh. They look at whether investigators omitted or altered key facts in the probable cause affidavit. They look at whether eyewitness Betsy Blair's description of the man on the bridge actually matched Richard Allen — and whether a reasonable judge being asked to sign that warrant would have signed it knowing the full picture.Defense attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski for Part Three of a three-part panel on the Delphi appeal. They walk through the de novo geometry sitting in front of the panel. They get into the motion for oral arguments — filed by the defense, ignored by the State — and what that says about confidence on the written record. And they sit with the strategic landmine: if the panel agrees with the defense on the warrant, the State's strongest piece of physical evidence ceases to exist as legal evidence in any future proceeding.Three judges. One warrant. The gun in the balance.LINKS:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMER:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS:#RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #DelphiAppeal #SearchWarrant #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #BridgeGuy #BetsyBlair #TrueCrime

According to Richard Allen's appellate brief, the Indiana Department of Correction knew. They knew that solitary confinement could worsen Allen's Major Depressive Disorder. They knew it could cause psychosis. Their own written policy restricts inmates with serious mental illness to 30 days in solitary for exactly that reason.They held Richard Allen in solitary for 13 months.By April 2023, the man who would later confess to the Delphi murders weighed 45 pounds less than when he arrived at Westville. He was, in the defense's own words, gravely disabled. He was eating his Bible. He was drinking from the toilet. He was asking his own father how much longer he could stay lucid.The Indiana Attorney General now argues that none of this rises to coercion. The State offered a religious-conversion theory to explain Allen's confessions instead. The defense has documented a psychiatric collapse.Defense attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski for Part Two of a three-part panel on the Delphi appeal. They sit with the institutional knowledge the State had before it ever put Richard Allen in that cell, and the decision the State made to leave him there anyway. They get into what an appeals court does when a state agency violates its own written rule by more than a year and then asks a panel of judges to call the resulting confession voluntary. They walk through the religious-conversion narrative the State is selling and the medical record sitting underneath it.Three judges. Indiana's own rulebook. The State's own warning. A pretrial detainee who lost his mind in a cell he was never supposed to be in.LINKS:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMER:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS:#RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #DelphiAppeal #SolitaryConfinement #Psychosis #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #AbbyAndLibby #IndianaDepartmentOfCorrection #TrueCrime

Read Indiana's response brief in the Richard Allen appeal cover to cover and one thing becomes clear. The State of Indiana has stopped defending the trial. The State is defending a procedural firewall.Every excluded piece of evidence — harmless. Every blocked witness — harmless. Every claim of confession coerced from 13 months in solitary — waived, defaulted, or harmless. Every alternative suspect theory — speculative. Every procedural argument the State could file — filed. What is conspicuously missing is engagement with the underlying facts.That matters now because the case is fully briefed. The defense's reply brief landed at the end of April. The motion for oral arguments was filed alongside it. The State has not joined the request. Three judges at the Indiana Court of Appeals are now sitting on the full written record and one side is asking to stand in the room and answer questions while the other side stays silent.Defense attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski for a three-part panel on where the Delphi appeal actually stands. Three collision points. The procedural-versus-factual fight, including the cause-of-death mismatch and the alternative suspect interview allegedly recorded over by investigators. The 13 months Allen spent in solitary under IDOC's own 30-day limit, and the religious-conversion narrative the State has offered to explain his confessions. The strategic asymmetry of the oral arguments motion, the de novo review on the search warrant, and the .40-caliber pistol that vanishes from any retrial if the panel agrees with the defense on that single issue.Three judges. No more paper. The State is hoping they don't read the record too closely.LINKS:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMER:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS:#RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #DelphiAppeal #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #AbbyAndLibby #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #BridgeGuy #OralArguments #TrueCrime

Richard Allen told his prison psychiatrist he shot Abby Williams and Libby German. The medical examiner concluded the girls were killed with a blade. That is not a minor inconsistency. That is a confession that does not describe the murders.It is also one of the factual problems Indiana's response brief never directly answers in the Delphi appeal. The State leans on harmless error. The State leans on procedural waiver. The State leans on the trial court's discretion. What the State does not do, across nearly a hundred pages, is explain how a man who confessed to the wrong method of killing can be the killer.Defense attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski for Part One of a three-part panel on where the Richard Allen appeal actually stands. They sit with that cause-of-death mismatch and what an appellate panel actually does with it. They walk through the van timeline contradicted by FBI cell data and surveillance footage. They get into the alternative suspect whose interview was allegedly recorded over by investigators, whose weapon was never collected, whose phone was never searched.And they take apart the selective admission of Allen's jailhouse calls. The jury heard one. Within five hours that same day Allen made two more. The defense was barred from playing either. In one of them, Allen asks his own father how much longer he's going to be lucid. The jury was not allowed to hear the man's mind coming apart in the hours surrounding the only call they did hear.Three judges in Indianapolis are now reading the full record. The State is hoping they don't read it too carefully.LINKS:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMER:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS:#RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #DelphiAppeal #AbbyAndLibby #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #BridgeGuy #VanTimeline #WrongfulConviction #TrueCrime

Richard Allen's appellate defense team filed a reply brief and motion for oral arguments before the Indiana Court of Appeals, characterizing the State's case as “superficial inference stacking” built on “tunnel vision into the wrong man.” Attorneys Stacy Uliana and Mark Leeman wrote that “the State's case was a paper tiger, and the trial court systematically barred Allen from lighting a match.”The defense's reply responds to the State's brief filed in March, which argued Allen's conviction should stand and characterized each alleged error as “harmless.” The defense counters that the cumulative effect of the exclusions denied Allen his Sixth Amendment right to present a complete defense.Key procedural issues include the admissibility of Allen's confessions, made during conditions the defense describes as producing psychosis. In one statement, Allen described shooting the victims, who were never shot. The defense was allowed to show video of Allen in solitary confinement but was required to mute the audio. The State's expert characterized the confessions as logical while jurors could not hear what the defense describes as confused ramblings.The defense also challenges the exclusion of alternative suspect evidence, including an individual whose interview was allegedly recorded over and whose weapon was never collected. Kegan Kline's catfish account — the last to contact one of the victims — was ruled a separate investigation.The motion for oral arguments is procedurally significant. The three-judge panel will decide whether to hear the case in person.Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski take listener questions on the legal standards governing this appeal, the implications of the defense's “paper tiger” characterization, and the appellate court's range of options.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#DelphiMurders #RichardAllen #TrueCrimeToday #Appeal #ReplyBrief #OralArguments #IndianaCourt #ConstitutionalLaw #ListenerQA #LegalAnalysis

Three cases at distinct stages of the legal process raise overlapping questions about evidentiary standards, investigative procedure, and institutional accountability.In Los Angeles, David Anthony Burke faces first-degree murder charges with special circumstance allegations of lying in wait, financial gain, and murder of a witness in connection with the death of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. The charges carry the possibility of the death penalty, though the DA's office has not yet made that determination. Burke has pleaded not guilty, and his defense team maintains he did not cause Celeste's death. The People's Brief filed by prosecutors outlines allegations of a sexual relationship beginning when she was thirteen, a killing allegedly motivated by career preservation, and months of alleged evidence destruction.In Idaho, Bryan Kohberger's guilty plea to four counts of first-degree murder foreclosed any judicial evaluation of the chain of custody dispute now raised publicly by a former defense expert. The Ka-Bar knife sheath carrying Kohberger's DNA allegedly had documentation that was retroactive and legally insufficient. The victims' families have filed a civil lawsuit against Washington State University.In Indiana, Richard Allen's defense team filed a reply brief and requested oral arguments before the Court of Appeals, arguing the trial court committed constitutional error by excluding alternative suspect evidence, admitting involuntary confessions, and blocking the defense from presenting a complete case.Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski take listener questions on the legal standards at stake in each case, the procedural distinctions between pre-trial, post-plea, and appellate proceedings, and what these cases collectively reveal about the American criminal justice system.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#D4VD #BryanKohberger #DelphiMurders #TrueCrimeToday #RichardAllen #CelesteRivasHernandez #LegalAnalysis #ListenerQA #TrueCrime #CriminalJustice

The evidentiary landscape across these three cases reveals patterns that your questions have been tracking with precision. From forensic trace analysis in the D4VD case to chain of custody disputes in Idaho to excluded alternative suspect evidence in Delphi, the investigative details expose alleged systemic gaps at every level.In the D4VD case, prosecutors say LAPD's Trace Analysis Unit found plastic from an inflatable pool lodged in wounds on Celeste Rivas Hernandez's remains. Amazon and Postmates records allegedly tie the purchase of that pool, along with chainsaws, a body bag, and a burn cage, to David Anthony Burke under the alias Victoria Mendez. Burke has pleaded not guilty and maintains he did not cause Celeste's death.In Idaho, the defense forensic scientist who reviewed the Ka-Bar knife sheath alleges the evidence bag was documented retroactively and that the chain of custody was legally insufficient. The FBI confirmed that a hair found near one of the victims does not belong to Bryan Kohberger. It has reportedly never been fully processed.In Delphi, Richard Allen's reply brief details what the defense says the jury was denied: the composite sketch, testimony challenging bullet-matching evidence, audio from Allen's solitary confinement, the Kegan Kline catfish connection, and evidence pointing to alternative suspects whose interviews were allegedly recorded over and whose weapons were never collected.Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski take listener questions across all three cases, connecting the forensic, investigative, and procedural threads your messages keep pulling.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#D4VD #BryanKohberger #DelphiMurders #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #ForensicEvidence #ChainOfCustody #ListenerQA #CelesteRivasHernandez #RichardAllen

Áine Cain and Kevin Greenlee from The Murder Sheet join us again today to break down the appeal of Richard Allen. What is the basis of the appeals? How did the State of Indiana respond? What happens next? What does "baby's first metaphor" mean? All your questions will be answered! Follow Murder Sheet! Web: https://murdersheetpodcast.com/ Facebook: facebook.com/MSheetPodcast Instagram: @murdersheet Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/murdersheet X/Twitter: @murdersheet YouTube: @themurdersheet Get your book signed and meet Áine and Kevin: https://murdersheetpodcast.com/events --For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The Indiana Attorney General filed its response to Richard Allen's appeal on March 25, 2026 — a ninety-four-page brief arguing that Allen's conviction for the murders of Abby Williams and Libby German should stand. Allen was convicted in November 2024 and sentenced to 130 years. His appellate attorneys raised three constitutional issues: an unconstitutional search warrant built on alleged omissions and altered witness statements, confessions they contend were extracted under coercive conditions during more than thirteen months of pretrial solitary confinement, and the systematic exclusion of defense evidence at trial.The AG's brief responds with a consistent framework. On the search warrant, the State argues that the probable cause affidavit establishes sufficient basis for the search even if challenged statements are excluded. On the confessions, the State argues that conditions of confinement did not constitute coercion and that Allen confessed both before and after his documented period of psychosis — offering a religious conversion as an alternative explanation. On excluded evidence, the State characterizes the alternative suspect theories as speculative and argues that the trial court properly exercised discretion in keeping them from the jury.Defense attorney Bob Motta identifies what the AG's brief does not address. Allen's confession to his prison psychiatrist described killing the victims by shooting. The victims were not shot — they were killed with a blade. The AG's response does not reconcile this discrepancy. Additionally, the defense obtained surveillance footage and FBI cell phone data suggesting the van placed by prosecutors near the Monon High Bridge arrived after Libby German's phone had stopped moving. The AG's response addresses this not on the merits of the data but on procedural grounds — arguing the defense did not properly preserve the issue.The evidentiary record underlying the conviction contains no DNA linking Allen to the crime scene, no recovered murder weapon, and no direct eyewitness identification placing him with the victims. The confessions constitute the primary evidence. The defense argues those confessions were the product of unconstitutional detention and contain factual errors that undermine their reliability.Allen's appellate attorneys have filed their reply brief and requested oral arguments before the Court of Appeals. No timeline for a decision has been established. The case is before a three-judge panel.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #DelphiAppeal #TrueCrimeToday #AbbyAndLibby #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #HarmlessError #BobMotta