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Delphi Murders: Richard Allen & The Search For The Truth

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Injustice isn’t just a possibility—it’s a reality. Delphi Murders: Richard Allen & The Search For The Truth dives deep into the shocking failures of the investigation into the brutal murders of Abby Williams and Liberty German. Hosted by Tony Brueski, this podcast unpacks the glaring inconsistencies, the ignored evidence, and the disturbing judicial process that led to the conviction of a man who may very well be innocent. Why did investigators shift focus away from Ron Logan, the man whose property was the crime scene? Why was Richard Allen, with no direct physical evidence linking him to the crime, put on trial in what many are calling a sham? And how did law enforcement and prosecutors seemingly manipulate the narrative to fit a conclusion they needed rather than the truth? We explore every angle, every lead that was dismissed, and every questionable move made by those in charge. Featuring exclusive interviews, expert analysis, and in-depth reporting, Delphi Murders: Richard Allen & The Search For The Truth is dedicated to uncovering what really happened—and holding those responsible accountable. If you believe in justice, if you believe in truth, then you need to listen.

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    1 min
  2. What Did Richard Allen Actually Say In His First Delphi Confession?

    May 31

    What Did Richard Allen Actually Say In His First Delphi Confession?

    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

    42 min
  3. Who Were The Delphi Suspects That Richard Allen's Jury Never Heard About?

    May 31

    Who Were The Delphi Suspects That Richard Allen's Jury Never Heard About?

    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

    39 min
  4. Delphi: The Judge Blocked Everything That Told a Different Story Than the State's

    May 29

    Delphi: The Judge Blocked Everything That Told a Different Story Than the State's

    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

    22 min
  5. Delphi: The State of Indiana Tortured Richard Allen For 13th Months To Force Confession

    May 28

    Delphi: The State of Indiana Tortured Richard Allen For 13th Months To Force Confession

    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

    27 min
  6. Delphi: The Affidavit Allegedly Said Bloody — The Witness Never Used That Word

    May 27

    Delphi: The Affidavit Allegedly Said Bloody — The Witness Never Used That Word

    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

    15 min
  7. Delphi: An ISP Trooper Raised the Alarm — His Superiors Shut It Down

    May 26

    Delphi: An ISP Trooper Raised the Alarm — His Superiors Shut It Down

    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

    24 min
  8. Delphi: Five Years of Lost Evidence, Ignored Tips, and Cleared Suspects

    May 25

    Delphi: Five Years of Lost Evidence, Ignored Tips, and Cleared Suspects

    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

    23 min
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Injustice isn’t just a possibility—it’s a reality. Delphi Murders: Richard Allen & The Search For The Truth dives deep into the shocking failures of the investigation into the brutal murders of Abby Williams and Liberty German. Hosted by Tony Brueski, this podcast unpacks the glaring inconsistencies, the ignored evidence, and the disturbing judicial process that led to the conviction of a man who may very well be innocent. Why did investigators shift focus away from Ron Logan, the man whose property was the crime scene? Why was Richard Allen, with no direct physical evidence linking him to the crime, put on trial in what many are calling a sham? And how did law enforcement and prosecutors seemingly manipulate the narrative to fit a conclusion they needed rather than the truth? We explore every angle, every lead that was dismissed, and every questionable move made by those in charge. Featuring exclusive interviews, expert analysis, and in-depth reporting, Delphi Murders: Richard Allen & The Search For The Truth is dedicated to uncovering what really happened—and holding those responsible accountable. If you believe in justice, if you believe in truth, then you need to listen.

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