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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

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33:57

Richard Allen Appeal: The Other Suspect, the Bullet...

Delphi Murders: Richard Allen & The Search For The Truth ·

2026/10/04

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,

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53:24

Richard Allen's Appeal Put Westville Under the...

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2026/10/03

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

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61:11

Delphi Appeal: Three Judges Heard the State Call...

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2026/10/01

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

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14:12

Delphi Case Without Richard Allen's Confessions Comes...

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2026/09/30

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

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19:35

The Odinism Evidence Richard Allen's Jury Never Saw:...

Delphi Murders: Richard Allen & The Search For The Truth ·

2026/09/30

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

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28:03

Delphi: What Richard Allen's Prison Psychiatrist Put...

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2026/09/30

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

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25:12

A Judge Gave Indiana's 'Protection' of Richard Allen...

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2026/09/24

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

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42:13

What Did Richard Allen Actually Say In His First...

Delphi Murders: Richard Allen & The Search For The Truth ·

2026/05/31

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

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39:12

Who Were The Delphi Suspects That Richard Allen's...

Delphi Murders: Richard Allen & The Search For The Truth ·

2026/05/31

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

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21:57

Delphi: The Judge Blocked Everything That Told a...

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2026/05/29

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

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27:01

Delphi: The State of Indiana Tortured Richard Allen...

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2026/05/28

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

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15:03

Delphi: The Affidavit Allegedly Said Bloody — The...

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2026/05/27

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

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24:00

Delphi: An ISP Trooper Raised the Alarm — His...

Delphi Murders: Richard Allen & The Search For The Truth ·

2026/05/26

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

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23:24

Delphi: Five Years of Lost Evidence, Ignored Tips,...

Delphi Murders: Richard Allen & The Search For The Truth ·

2026/05/25

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

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47:25

What Happens to the Delphi Murder Weapon If the...

Delphi Murders: Richard Allen & The Search For The Truth ·

2026/05/17

The .40-caliber pistol is the centerpiece of the physical evidence against Richard Allen. The search warrant that produced it now faces de novo review at the Indiana Court of Appeals — meaning three judges owe no deference to Judge Fran Gull on that issue. If they rule the warrant was deficient, the weapon is gone. Not suppressed for this appeal. Gone from any retrial. Gone from the case permanently.Defense attorney Bob Motta walks through the de novo standard with Tony Brueski and what it means

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61:03

One Reply Brief Just Changed The Entire Delphi Case

Delphi Murders: Richard Allen & The Search For The Truth ·

2026/05/13

The Delphi appeal is now fully briefed. Three judges at the Indiana Court of Appeals are reading the full written record. The defense has formally asked to stand in front of them at oral arguments. The State of Indiana has not joined that request. Richard Allen is sitting in an Oklahoma prison for safekeeping while the courtroom that will decide his fate sits more than a thousand miles away.This is where the procedural posture sits. And this is what it actually contains.The defense's reply brief

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15:43

Three Judges. One Delphi Warrant. No Second Chance.

Delphi Murders: Richard Allen & The Search For The Truth ·

2026/05/13

Richard Allen is not sitting in an Indiana prison. He is in an Oklahoma facility, designated for safekeeping, more than a thousand miles from the courtroom that will decide his appeal. The State of Indiana moved him out of state. The State of Indiana is now also the side telling the Indiana Court of Appeals that the conditions of his pretrial confinement at Westville did not amount to coercion.That is one of the strange geographic facts sitting underneath the Delphi appeal as it heads into its

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14:27

Indiana's Own Rule Said 30 Days. Allen Did 13 Months...

Delphi Murders: Richard Allen & The Search For The Truth ·

2026/05/13

After five and a half months in solitary confinement at Westville, Richard Allen had reached a state his own defense team described as gravely disabled. He was no longer sure whether he was guilty or innocent. He was no longer sure whether he was dead or alive. According to the appellate brief, he stayed in solitary for another seven and a half months after that. He lost 45 pounds. He confessed.The Indiana Department of Correction's own written policy says inmates with serious mental illness cannot

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31:33

Indiana Filed Its Delphi Response. It Doesn't Fight A...

Delphi Murders: Richard Allen & The Search For The Truth ·

2026/05/13

The Delphi appeal is fully briefed. The defense's reply brief landed in late April. Three judges at the Indiana Court of Appeals are now reading the full written record, and what Richard Allen's appellate team has put in front of them is a record Indiana clearly does not want them to read carefully.The defense laid out the van timeline contradicted by FBI cell data and surveillance footage. They laid out a confession in which Allen told his prison psychiatrist he shot Abby Williams and Libby

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18:46

Delphi: Abby and Libby’s Families Never Got To Ask...

Delphi Murders: Richard Allen & The Search For The Truth ·

2026/05/05

Abby Williams was thirteen. Libby German was fourteen. They were best friends who went to a bridge on a February afternoon in 2017 and never came home. Their families have been living inside this nightmare for over nine years.Richard Allen was convicted. He’s serving a hundred and thirty years. And his defense team just told the Indiana Court of Appeals that the jury only heard half the story.Your questions about this case are the kind that keep people awake. You’re asking what it means that Allen

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