Delphi Murders: Richard Allen & The Search For The Truth

This is the complete four-part docu-series covering the Delphi case from the bridge to the appeal. Every lead the investigation buried. Every piece of evidence the jury never heard. And the case the system built from what was left.

Part one: two girls walk onto the Monon High Bridge on February 13, 2017. Libby German's phone captures a man's voice and image. The only person who comes forward is cleared by a ghost and lost in a drawer for five years. A composite sketch runs on every billboard for two years before police reverse course. The FBI serves a warrant on the property owner — sealed and shelved. The station's recording system erases every early interview.

Part two: a catfish account communicates with Libby German and is allegedly used to arrange a meeting on the day she is killed. Police wait four years to tell the public. The defense names men with alleged confessions, crime scene connections, and a car with dried blood. The FBI's behavioral analysts allegedly point to Nordic beliefs. The trial judge excludes all of it.

Part three: the state puts Richard Allen — a CVS clerk with no criminal record — into solitary confinement for thirteen months. He descends into documented psychosis. He confesses more than sixty times. The state plays those confessions for a jury and leaves out the ones that don't help.

Part four: an appellate judge tells the prosecution "You protected him into psychosis." The trial judge excludes every alternative suspect and makes one final decision after the verdict. The pattern becomes undeniable. Every failure moved in one direction.

Allen is serving a hundred and thirty years. His appeal is pending. Three judges are reading the briefs.

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Three appellate judges are now reading the briefs, the surveillance footage, and nine years of investigative decisions in the Delphi case of Richard Allen. They will decide whether Allen received a fair trial or whether the state of Indiana built a conviction on a foundation of failures.

On September 21, 2026, those judges heard oral arguments. Defense attorney Mark Leeman argued the state put Allen — a man with depression and dependent personality disorder — into solitary confinement for thirteen months and watched him lose his mind, then walked his confessions into a courtroom.

Judge Elaine Brown responded to the prosecution with five words: "You protected him into psychosis."

The appeal rests on three grounds. First: the search warrant that produced the only physical evidence — a single unspent bullet linked to Allen's gun — was allegedly built on misrepresentations by the lead detective. Second: more than sixty confessions were made during documented psychosis after thirteen months of isolation the defense calls unconstitutional pretrial punishment. Third: the trial judge excluded every piece of alternative-suspect evidence the defense tried to present.

This episode follows the full pattern. The erased interviews. The tip in the drawer. The catfish account that went unannounced for four years. The Franks memorandum and every person it named — with alleged confessions, crime scene connections, and forensic leads — all excluded. A man put in a concrete box until his mind came apart, then convicted on the words that came out of it.

And it follows the judge who made every one of those rulings — Frances Gull — to a decision she made after the verdict and before the appeal. What she did tells the last part of this story.

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In October 2022, Richard Allen voluntarily surrendered to police in connection with the murders of Abby Williams and Libby German. He weighed roughly a hundred and eighty pounds. He was a CVS pharmacy clerk. He had no criminal record. He had told a conservation officer in 2017 that he was on the trail that afternoon.

The state placed him in Westville Correctional Facility — a state prison — in a maximum-security segregated unit. Solitary confinement. A twelve-by-eight-and-a-half-foot cell. One hour of recreation five days a week. A correctional officer stationed outside his door around the clock. The only pretrial detainee in the unit.

By April 2023, Allen's weight had dropped nearly fifty pounds. Prison records document him consuming his own waste, rolling on the ground, banging his head against concrete walls. Dr. Monica Wala noted a "grave disability" and diagnosed brief psychotic disorder.

During this period, Allen confessed more than sixty times — to guards, the warden, inmates, and his wife on recorded phone calls. The state recorded every word. Then it played those confessions for a jury and asked them to accept them as the truth.

The defense argued those confessions came from a mind destroyed by thirteen months of isolation. And there was one statement Allen made during the same period that the prosecution chose not to use — a statement that raises questions about everything else he said in that cell.

Two of three mental health experts who examined Allen's condition testified that his mind was broken by his confinement. One said he was faking. She had not conducted formal neuropsychological testing. The jury sided with her.

Allen is serving a hundred and thirty years. His appeal is pending.

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Before Richard Allen was arrested in October 2022, the Delphi investigation had already found other people the evidence pointed to. The defense's Franks memorandum — a hundred and thirty-six pages filed in September 2023 — lays out who they were and what the investigation found.

One man's son was dating Abby Williams at the time of the murders. According to the filing, he was a self-described follower of Norse pagan beliefs and posted imagery on social media that allegedly matched symbols found at the crime scene. Knowledge of those symbols was never made public. Another man allegedly confessed to his own sisters that he had been on a bridge with two girls that were killed. His sister reported the confessions and passed a polygraph. A third man's car allegedly came back from Delphi with dried blood.

The FBI's behavioral analysts allegedly examined the crime scene and concluded those responsible held "Nordic beliefs."

None of these men were charged. Every piece of evidence naming them was excluded from Allen's trial by Judge Frances Gull.

And then there is Kegan Kline. He ran a catfish account called "anthony_shots" that communicated with Libby German. Someone using his account allegedly said they were supposed to meet her that day. Police knew about the account by 2017. They told the public about it in December 2021 — nearly five years later. After failing a polygraph about the investigation, Kline searched his phone for one phrase. He pled guilty to twenty-five felony counts involving illegal material. Sentenced to decades in prison. The state says his case has nothing to do with the murders.

The only physical evidence against Richard Allen was a single unfired bullet linked to his gun through a contested forensic method.

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The Delphi investigation had forty-two thousand tips, an FBI search warrant with probable cause on the property owner, a recording of a man's voice saying three words to two girls on a bridge, and the only person who ever came forward to say he was there that day. It lost nearly all of it.

Richard Allen told a conservation officer three days after the February 2017 murders that he had been on the Monon High Bridge trail that afternoon. The tip was entered into the system. Someone wrote one word across the form in red ink. Cleared. It went into a desk drawer and disappeared for five years.

The FBI's search warrant on Ron Logan — the man who owned the property where the girls were found — stated there was probable cause he committed the murders. Logan had allegedly asked a cousin for a false alibi before the bodies were even discovered. The warrant was sealed. Logan was never charged. He died in January 2022.

In 2017, police released a composite sketch and asked the public to find that face. Two years later, they released a different face and said the first was wrong. The second sketch came from witness Betsy Blair's description — a younger man with curly brown hair who looked nothing like the first composite.

The station's DVR erased every interview conducted with early persons of interest. Then-chief Steve Mullin later testified the device had a recording problem. No one was re-interviewed. The content of those interviews was never reconstructed.

In 2022, a retired volunteer named Kathy Shank found Allen's tip while organizing old paperwork. She pulled it from a drawer. Sheriff Liggett later credited her as the reason the case moved forward. A volunteer did for free what the investigation could not do in half a decade.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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