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The Delphi appeal now asks the Indiana Court of Appeals to examine not only what the jury heard about Richard Allen, but what Judge Frances Gull kept out. Defense attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski for a combined look at the Brad Holder alternate-suspect argument, the unfired cartridge evidence, William Tobin’s excluded expert testimony, and Betsy Blair’s missing sketch. Holder was investigated during the original 2017 Delphi murders investigation and has never been charged. At the September 21, 2026 oral argument, Allen’s appellate lawyer Mark Leeman said police later learned of a rune-like marking Holder posted on his hand and social-media content the defense believed resembled aspects of the scene where Abby Williams and Libby German were found. Gull excluded that theory from trial under Indiana’s direct-connection rule. The State says Holder’s time records put him at a landfill about 25 miles away during the critical period and argues the defense never established a legally sufficient connection to the murders. Allen’s lawyers also say the jury received an incomplete picture of the evidence pointing toward him. A State Police examiner testified that an unfired .40-caliber cartridge recovered near the girls had been cycled through Allen’s Sig Sauer. Gull did not allow former FBI metallurgist William Tobin to testify about the reliability of that comparison. The jury also did not see the sketch created with witness Betsy Blair, who had encountered a man near the bridge shortly before the girls arrived. The State counters that Blair identified the Bridge Guy image as the man she saw and that Allen’s own 2017 statement placed him on the trail. Bob Motta breaks down which exclusions can support reversal, which can be treated as harmless, and why the appellate panel’s eventual ruling could turn on the difference. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod 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. #DelphiMurders #RichardAllen #Delphi #DelphiAppeal #BradHolder #BobMotta #BridgeGuy #AbbyAndLibby #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #TrueCrime

This Delphi Channel special is a combination of the “Before the Appeal” commentary followed by discussion of the appeal hearing with defense attorney Bob Motta. The first section lays out Richard Allen’s appellate claims before oral argument. The second returns after the September 21 hearing to examine which issues the judges themselves chose to press. Allen’s lawyers are asking the Indiana Court of Appeals for a new trial after his conviction for the 2017 murders of Abby Williams and Libby German. Their confinement argument centers on the months Allen spent in restrictive housing at Westville Correctional Facility before trial and the incriminating statements that followed. The defense says his mental condition deteriorated badly enough that the statements should not have been admitted. The State answered that Allen was placed at Westville for safety, that restrictive custody alone is not unconstitutional coercion, and that key admissions occurred outside periods of active psychosis. Judge Nancy Vaidik crystallized the dispute when she told the State: “You protected him into psychosis.” The court also questioned both sides about evidence excluded at trial and whether any error was harmless in light of the rest of the State’s case. Tony Brueski and Bob Motta walk through what the hearing revealed about the panel’s concerns without pretending questions equal votes. They examine the legal standards for involuntary statements, the right to present a defense, and what happens next. The three-judge panel took Allen’s appeal under advisement; his convictions remain in effect unless and until the court issues a decision changing them. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod 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. #DelphiMurders #RichardAllen #DelphiChannel #BobMotta #DelphiAppeal #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #Westville #AbbyAndLibby #RichardAllenAppeal #TrueCrime

The full Delphi murders appeal hearing, argued September 21, 2026, in the Supreme Court courtroom at the Indiana Statehouse, broken down clip by clip with defense attorney Bob Motta. Judges Nancy Vaidik, Elaine Brown, and Robert Altice gave each side 30 minutes and then some. What the state's lawyer called Richard Allen's thirteen months at Westville is the line that frames everything else. Mark Leeman opened for Allen by calling the proceedings unprecedented, unfair, and unconstitutional: a pretrial detainee taken straight to the hole, kept there as he lost his mind, and convicted on what he said there. Deputy Attorney General Ellen Meilaender answered that the conditions were ordinary, the placement was for Allen's safety after the sheriff said his jail couldn't protect him, and the confessions that matter were lucid. We start with the April 14, 2023 psychiatric finding and the forced Haldol, along with the 30-day rule for seriously mentally ill inmates and the state's argument that it never applied. Then Brad Holder, the never-charged man whose hand rune the defense says matches the sticks on Abby Williams, against the landfill time card the state relies on. The last stretch is the unfired cartridge, the excluded metallurgist, the second police sketch Betsy Blair helped draw that the jury never saw, and the search warrant fight the state says Allen's own 2017 statement settles. Bob walks through each legal test the judges will apply, including harmless error, which is how a court leaves a conviction standing even after finding a mistake. Allen is serving 130 years for killing Abby Williams and Libby German. The panel has not ruled, and either side can seek review at the Indiana Supreme Court afterward. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod 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. #DelphiMurders #RichardAllen #TrueCrime #DelphiAppeal #AbbyAndLibby #BridgeGuy #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #MononHighBridge

Anyone who follows the Delphi murders case knows the two pillars: the unspent round and Bridge Guy. On September 21, 2026, both were argued in front of the Indiana Court of Appeals, and Richard Allen's lawyer told the judges that without the confessions, that's all the state has. The round first. An unfired .40-caliber cartridge was found in the ground between Abby Williams and Libby German, and Indiana State Police examiner Melissa Oberg testified it had been cycled through Allen's Sig Sauer P226. The defense wanted William Tobin, a former FBI metallurgist, to tell the jury the science behind that match is contested. Judge Frances Gull excluded him as a witness who isn't a firearms examiner and hadn't examined the evidence. Mark Leeman's summary of Tobin's message: a casing found in the ground in the middle of nowhere is about as useful as astrology. One judge pointed out that Virginia's highest court reversed a conviction over excluding the same man; the state's lawyer wasn't familiar with the case. Then Bridge Guy. Betsy Blair, who saw a man on the first platform from about 50 feet away, helped produce the second police sketch, and the jury never saw it. Leeman held it up and told the judges Blair saw the killer and did not see Richard Allen. The state's answer is that Blair identified the Bridge Guy photo at trial, mostly from the clothing, and that composites are investigative tools that can't identify or exclude anyone. The state's real anchor is Allen's own statement to a conservation officer in 2017 that he was on the trail. Deputy Attorney General Ellen Meilaender argued it gave police probable cause and outweighs anything the defense wants suppressed. Defense attorney Bob Motta and I go through the clips and the harmless-error question that could decide this appeal. Allen is serving 130 years, and the panel has not ruled. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod 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. #DelphiMurders #RichardAllen #TrueCrime #DelphiAppeal #AbbyAndLibby #BridgeGuy #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #MononHighBridge

For everyone who has followed the Delphi murders case since the Franks memo, this is the segment. On September 21, 2026, Richard Allen's appeal lawyer put the Odinism theory in front of the Indiana Court of Appeals, and the state had to answer it out loud. Mark Leeman told Judges Nancy Vaidik, Elaine Brown, and Robert Altice that Brad Holder was identified in two March 2017 tips and cleared on a landfill time card. Indiana State Police later learned, Leeman said, that Holder had published a bind rune drawn on his hand. In Leeman's telling, the rune combines two symbols into a shape that matches the sticks arranged on Abby Williams, a girl he says Holder knew, and Holder's page carried images of girls posed as if dead under sticks. An officer asked to reopen, and was told they'd cleared him. Holder has never been charged. The state's rebuttal came in two parts. First, the scene: there was no bloody F on the tree once the chemical test was applied, no one called the upside-down L a rune, the FBI's analyst found no clear runes in the sticks, and even Dr. Perlmutter, the defense's ritual expert, could only say the sticks meant something to the offender. Second, the alibi: Holder was at work 25 miles away in Buffalo, Indiana, at 2:13 and at 2:32, and a landfill clerk testified a missing driver would have been noticed. Judge Vaidik asked Leeman whether he was asking the court to reweigh evidence. His answer was that the jury should have been the one to weigh it. Defense attorney Bob Motta and I go clip by clip through the tattoo, the alibi, and the crime scene Leeman says no one takes a walk and decides to stage. Allen is serving 130 years. The panel has not ruled. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod 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. #DelphiMurders #RichardAllen #TrueCrime #DelphiAppeal #AbbyAndLibby #Odinism #BridgeGuy #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #BobMotta #HiddenKillers

The Delphi murders appeal of Richard Allen reached oral argument on September 21, 2026, and one document from Westville Correctional Facility did more work in that courtroom than any other: the psychiatrist's April 14, 2023 order. Judges Nancy Vaidik, Elaine Brown, and Robert Altice heard Mark Leeman describe what that order records. A prison psychiatrist who had not seen Allen for months came to his cell, found a man who could not communicate and had feces coming out of his mouth, and wrote that he was seriously mentally ill and gravely disabled. To medicate him by force, the doctor had to document when the symptoms began, and he put that date at April 4. Over the following months, Allen received a standard course of Haldol injections plus an emergency dose. That matters because of a rule the state wrote for itself. Indiana's Department of Correction generally keeps seriously mentally ill prisoners out of restrictive housing, and caps exceptions at 30 days. Allen was there thirteen months. The state's answer at the hearing was that he wasn't classified as seriously mentally ill until the psychosis, and that the diagnosis he received, a brief psychotic disorder, by definition lasts less than 30 days. Judge Brown asked how that squares with a man who was constantly on suicide watch. Leeman's answer was that it can't be squared. The state's broader position is that the confessions were voluntary because no one interrogated Allen and the conditions were ordinary custody. Defense attorney Bob Motta joins me to explain why the defense says a cell can coerce as surely as a detective, and what the judges' questions signal about where they may land. Allen is serving 130 years for the murders of Abby Williams and Libby German. The Court of Appeals has not ruled, and a decision can be appealed to the state's highest court. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod 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. #DelphiMurders #RichardAllen #TrueCrime #DelphiAppeal #AbbyAndLibby #BridgeGuy #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #MononHighBridge

The Indiana Court of Appeals asked the state on September 21, 2026, what would be left of the Delphi murders case without Richard Allen's confessions. Deputy Attorney General Ellen Meilaender had an answer ready: the most powerful evidence, she said, was Allen's own statement to police that he was on the trail walking toward the bridge on February 13, 2017. That is the case the state is prepared to defend if the confessions fall. The search warrant is the other pillar. Detective Tony Liggett's affidavit produced the Sig Sauer P226 from Allen's nightstand and, the state says, the match to the unfired round found between the girls. The defense says the affidavit left out the eyewitness description of a man in his 20s and claimed Allen admitted to a blue jacket he'd said he couldn't remember. The state says nothing was false and Allen's own admission was enough for a warrant. If the warrant falls, the gun goes with it. Then the cell. Allen was sent to Westville under a safekeeping order eight days after his arrest, the only pretrial detainee the warden could recall in that unit. The state's lawyer told the judges he was held longer than policy allows because he wasn't safe anywhere else. The state's proof he was treated well included a replacement tablet and two visits with his wife. The judges pressed both sides: they asked the state repeatedly about harmless error and told the defense they don't re-weigh a jury's evidence. Judge Elaine Brown said the only question is whether Allen got a fair trial. No ruling has been issued, the loser can ask the Indiana Supreme Court to take it, and Allen waits in an Oklahoma prison. Fran Gull retires December 31, 2026. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod 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. #DelphiMurders #RichardAllen #TrueCrime #AbbyWilliams #LibbyGerman #DelphiAppeal #SearchWarrant #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #HiddenKillers #MononHighBridge

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=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/TrueCrimePod 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. #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=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/TrueCrimePod 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. #Delphi #RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #AbbyAndLibby #Odinism #SearchWarrant #BridgeGuy #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #JusticeForAbbyAndLibby

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=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/TrueCrimePod 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. #Delphi #RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #RichardAllenTrial #HarmlessError #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #WrongfulConviction #ExcludedEvidence #JusticeForAbbyAndLibby

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=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/TrueCrimePod 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. #Delphi #RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #SolitaryConfinement #FalseConfessions #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #WrongfulConviction #Westville #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=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/TrueCrimePod 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. #Delphi #RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #DetectiveLiggett #SearchWarrant #BridgeGuy #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #WrongfulConviction #JusticeForAbbyAndLibby

The defense's appellate filings lay out what may be one of the most troubling chapters in the Delphi investigation: two men with documented connections to the victim, to pagan rituals, and to the symbolism at the crime scene — investigated so poorly that the evidence trail was destroyed before it could lead anywhere. One admitted to bloodletting rituals and owned a .40 caliber firearm matching the round at the scene. His interview was taped over. His gun was never collected. His alibi was based on a badge swipe that officers refused to verify with video that was offered to them. The other told officers he knew the murder woods "very well," led a local pagan group, and reported knowing the victims. His interview was never recorded at all. His alibi went unchecked until 2023. According to the defense filings, the first suspect's social media depicted dead girls with sticks. An ISP Trooper who found the similarities "concerning" was overruled when he pushed for further investigation. In 2018, according to the defense, this suspect told his wife his associate killed Abby "with others." Neither man has been charged. The trial court blocked the defense from presenting any of this to the jury. This episode documents every failure, every ignored tip, every lost interview — the full picture of what the investigation chose not to pursue. 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/TrueCrimePod 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. #Delphi #RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #AbbyAndLibby #Odinism #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #WrongfulConviction #DelphiInvestigation #JusticeForAbbyAndLibby

When Richard Allen came forward voluntarily in February 2017, he told law enforcement he'd walked the Monon High Bridge Trail the same afternoon Abby and Libby disappeared. He answered their questions. He wasn't hiding. And then his report was filed under the wrong name and buried in a box until a volunteer found it in September 2022. According to the appellant's brief, that wasn't the only thing the investigation lost. A recorded interview with a suspect who admitted to practicing pagan bloodletting rituals and owning a .40 caliber firearm was taped over by Delphi Police. The weapon was never collected. The phone was never searched. Officers investigating the suspect's alibi were invited to review workplace surveillance video and declined. The scene where the girls were found troubled officers from the start — sticks arranged in patterns that didn't conceal anything, injuries possibly caused by different weapons, a crime multiple investigators believed was too complex for a single person. The FBI's BAU evaluated whether it could be ritualistic and declined to rule it out. Eyewitness Betsy Blair described Bridge Guy as a man in his twenties with poofy hair and rated her sketch 10 out of 10. Allen was 44 with short hair. The jury never saw the sketch. This five-part series documents every failure, every ignored suspect, and every decision that built the path from a misfiled report to a conviction that, in my opinion, was wrongful. 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/TrueCrimePod 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. #Delphi #RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #AbbyAndLibby #BridgeGuy #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #WrongfulConviction #DelphiCase #JusticeForAbbyAndLibby