Hey, true crime besties, welcome back to an all- new episode of Serialessly with me, Annie Elyce,

your host of this podcast and your host of today's episode headline highlights where we are going through

everything that has gone down this week in the true crime world. And I feel like it's groundhogs day in a way

because is it ground hog day or ground hogs day? I don't know. But you get what I'm saying. I feel like every

week I always say that. Like I always say, oh my gosh, there's so much to talk about this week.

There's so much going on.

And it's kind of disheartening because it always seems to be the case, right?

There always seems to be the scum of the earth, do some sort of unspeakable act.

And that is what we're here to talk about today.

But, you know, the plural version of that, because

multiple scumbags are doing horrific things. We also have some updates in some cases. We are going to

talk about the verdict in Delphi, which I got to just say before I get into it, I am blown away

at how split this decision was, not by the jury, but by the public.

Before the verdict was read, I was looking at polls on court TV, different lawyers channels,

all different publications where people were saying, hey, based on the trial and the case

that the defense presented and the case that the state presented, what do you think?

What do you think the verdict will be?

Guilty, not guilty, hung jury.

I was expecting there to be some people who thought not guilty for sure because there is a lot of

speculation, even still, that this was not Richard Allen.

So I was thinking, okay, maybe it'll be like 70 or 75% guilty and the

balance will go between not guilty or hung jury. When I tell you, it was like 30, 30, 30, 30,

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