113 Pages of Bombshells: Breaking Down Richard Allen's Full Appeal
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
The defense claims Detective Liggett's warrant affidavit changed witness descriptions to fit Allen. Betsy Blair described Bridge Guy as young, early twenties, with poofy brown hair — and rated her sketch 10 out of 10 for accuracy. Allen was 44 with short hair. The jury never saw that sketch. Sarah Carbaugh originally said the man wore a tan jacket and was muddy. Liggett wrote "blue jacket" and "muddy and bloody." Blair told investigators directly that she and Carbaugh saw different people. The ISP agreed publicly in 2019. Then Allen got arrested and the story changed.
The confessions came after thirteen months of maximum-security solitary confinement — in violation of IDOC's own 30-day policy for mentally ill inmates. Allen lost 45 pounds, ate feces, drank toilet water, banged his head until he had black eyes, and was declared "gravely disabled." He confessed while psychotic — and got basic facts wrong. Said he shot the girls. They weren't shot. Said a van scared him off at a time that doesn't match when the van actually arrived. The state had security footage and FBI data proving their own witness's timeline was false.
The jury never heard about the ritual killing investigation that law enforcement pursued for years. Never heard expert testimony on the Norse pagan symbolism at the scene. Never heard about Brad Holder and Patrick Westfall — suspects connected to Odinism whose interviews were lost or destroyed, whose alibis were never properly verified, and whose social media showed disturbing parallels to the crime scene.
This episode breaks down every major claim in the appeal and what it means for this case.
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| 0:00.0 | is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.7 | The appellate brief is in, and we are about to go through all of it. Three days after Abby Williams and Libby German were found murdered in the woods near Delphi, Indiana. |
| 0:22.0 | A woman named Betsy Blair sat down with a sketch artist. |
| 0:25.6 | Blair had been on the trails that day. |
| 0:28.3 | She'd seen a man standing on the first platform of the Monon High Bridge. |
| 0:33.4 | She believed that man was bridge guy, the figure captured on Libby's phone moments before both girls disappeared. |
| 0:42.3 | So she described him. White male, early 20s, medium-built, brown, curly, poofy hair. The artist drew what she described. When Blair looked at it, she rated it a 10 out of 10 for accuracy. |
| 0:55.3 | Two years later in 2019, law enforcement interviewed her again, and she stood by her description, gave the sketch a 9 out of 10. |
| 1:03.7 | A little bit, a little bit less. |
| 1:05.6 | She said she could identify a bridge guy if she ever saw him again. |
| 1:11.1 | Nine out of 10, 10 out of 10. It's pretty good. |
| 1:15.5 | Richard Allen in February, 2017 was a 44-year-old 5-6 man. |
| 1:22.5 | Closely cropped hair. He looks nothing like the sketch. |
| 1:31.9 | And the jury never saw it. That sketch, |
| 1:39.4 | the one the eyewitness the state relied on to place someone on that bridge rated as near-perfect was excluded from trial. That jury never knew any of that existed. |
| 1:46.3 | They never got to compare it to the man sitting at the defense table. |
| 1:51.8 | This isn't a minor detail. |
| 1:53.7 | This isn't a technicality. |
| 1:55.6 | According to the appeal that just dropped, |
| 1:58.5 | this is the tip of an iceberg. |
| 2:01.6 | Now, before I go any further, and we're going to go on a trip today, what I'm about to walk you through comes from Richard Allen's appellant's brief. |
| 2:12.5 | These are the defendant's allegations. |
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