Breaking Down Delphi - Richard Allen False Confession Jail Calls Part 3
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🗓️ 16 April 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Episode 3:
In this powerful and troubling episode, listeners hear the disturbing progression of Richard Allen’s mental health collapse during his unjust imprisonment in solitary confinement. Without a conviction and isolated from human contact, Allen became increasingly vulnerable, ultimately reaching a point where he made desperate, confused confessions on recorded jail calls. These haunting conversations depict a broken man openly stating he'd confess to anything if it would bring relief from his living nightmare.
Allen’s chilling admissions, adamantly rejected as false by his family, highlight the shocking power of psychological torture to induce false confessions. His voice, increasingly lifeless and defeated, exposes how prolonged isolation and mistreatment systematically destroyed his mental health, reducing him to a state where reality and hallucination blurred tragically.
This emotionally charged episode is an urgent examination of how solitary confinement and abusive prison conditions can break a person's spirit and corrupt the pursuit of justice. Richard Allen’s harrowing story illustrates a critical truth: when mental anguish becomes unbearable, anyone can be manipulated into admitting guilt, no matter their innocence.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. |
| 0:03.2 | Here now, Tony Brewski. |
| 0:06.8 | Welcome back as we continue to break down the Richard Allen prison phone calls with the false confessions on. |
| 0:16.5 | And if you've been listening in order, which I would highly suggest going to the beginning of the series and doing that, |
| 0:22.6 | because it's a, it's a breakdown. |
| 0:25.2 | You're going on a spectrum here of, uh, on the edge of, uh, of breaking. |
| 0:33.8 | I made the analogy in the last video. |
| 0:35.3 | It's like a vase that tips over on a table and starts rolling. |
| 0:39.4 | It already has some cracks in it because it, you know, it tipped over hard. |
| 0:43.1 | And it's rolling and rolling to the edge. |
| 0:44.8 | And either it's just going to disintegrate as it goes or it's going to go over that edge and shatter into a million pieces. |
| 0:51.4 | We started with Richard being the vase tipped over. |
| 0:55.0 | And now I feel like it just fell off the edge. |
| 1:00.9 | How many pieces is it going to go into? |
| 1:04.6 | Here's the next call in the comments. |
| 1:07.4 | Let us know what you think is going on here. |
| 1:11.4 | The humanity of this |
| 1:12.8 | is heart-wrenching. |
| 1:15.3 | When you think of |
| 1:16.5 | if you believe |
| 1:18.5 | he didn't do it. |
| 1:20.9 | And again, I don't know how anybody objectively looks |
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