Big Breakdown: The Failures Of The Delphi Murder Investigation
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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3 • 791 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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In this episode, we dissect one of the most troubling investigative missteps in recent American true crime: the Delphi, Indiana murders of Abby Williams and Liberty German in February 2017. We’ll start by walking through the facts—the teenagers disappeared while hiking the Monon High Bridge Trail, and despite early video and audio evidence (famously, the “Bridge Guy” recording), the case remained unsolved for five years . We’ll dive into the allegations of mishandled evidence: from misfiled reports to photographs never taken at the crime scene, all culminating in a flawed forensic timeline that veered investigators off course .
The episode explores how a lack of prosecutorial transparency—highlighted by the late release of the arrest affidavit in October 2022—shrouded the process in secrecy . We’ll analyze the arrest of Richard Allen in 2022, uncovering why his detention raised eyebrows—he reportedly told law enforcement of being on the bridge in 2017, matched the clothing in the video, and had a bullet casing traced to his gun . But the defense pushed back, pointing out selective pursuit of suspects, suppression of alternative leads, and inconsistent ballistics analysis .
Finally, we consider whether justice served is true justice—or merely the product of a case rushed to completion. With minimal direct evidence and lingering unanswered questions, this episode asks: have investigators delivered closure, or simply a convenient conclusion?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the big breakdown. |
| 0:02.2 | A long look back at some of the biggest stories we're covering for you at the Hidden Killers podcast and True Crime Today. |
| 0:09.6 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:14.4 | The bridge guy, that's been a big piece of the Delphi murder case against Richard Allen from the beginning, despite |
| 0:23.7 | it doesn't really look like Richard Allen at all, but it's been presented in a very ominous |
| 0:29.8 | way, all of this time, in a way where we hear and see on the screen this bridge guy ominously saying down the hill while he is behind |
| 0:42.3 | the girls on the bridge. The reality is that never happened. He didn't say that ominously behind |
| 0:52.4 | the girls as he was walking along the bridge. No, he actually |
| 0:56.0 | said it in passing as the girls had already talked about wanting to go down the hill. |
| 1:01.7 | This is a crazy, crazy video. Now we've seen it in its entirety. I know you saw it in court, |
| 1:07.8 | Bob. They played the whole thing, correct, in court? |
| 1:12.0 | They did. |
| 1:12.4 | Okay. |
| 1:12.9 | So that at least was there. |
| 1:14.6 | But leading up to this, all we saw was this six-second edited version that was played |
| 1:19.7 | over and over and over. |
| 1:21.2 | And they said, this is the bridge guy is the killer. |
| 1:24.3 | I got questions about how we even came to that conclusion, too. |
| 1:27.1 | Before we dive into it, |
| 1:28.2 | let's play the bridge guy video in its entirety and then we will discuss. We're going to put it down |
| 1:33.8 | over here to a full screen and let's watch it. Here we go. And listen. So there's the girl on the bridge. |
| 1:50.1 | There's bridge guy way back. |
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