This is a true crime in real time update from True Crime Today and the Hidden Killers podcast.

What do you do when a confession slips from the lips of a man unraveling at the seams?

Not once, not twice, but repeatedly. But then right in the middle of it all, while the words are right there,

he eats a Bible, spreads filth on himself, and mumbles

incoherent thoughts. This is the trial of Richard Allen. I'm Tony Brewski, and today we're

diving headfirst into the most unsettling testimonies yet. The courtroom in Delphi sat in stunned

silence as Dr. Monica Walla, a prison psychologist, took the stand.

Day 11 of the trial promised to bring some clarity, but instead it blurred the lines between confession and breakdown.

Willa told the court that Allen, seven months into his stay at Westville Correctional Facility, confessed in agonizing detail to the murders of Abby Williams and Libby German.

But this wasn't your average confession.

It was delivered between bouts of sobbing, headbanging, and toilet flushing.

According to Walla, Alan asked to provide a narrative of what

happened that day, February 13th, the 2017. He described buying beer, lying in wait on the

Monon High Bridge Trail, and following the girls. Then he faltered. I was going to rape them,

he allegedly said, but I got spooked by a van.

And so instead he slashed their throats and buried their bodies beneath branches.

He said he'd been living his life normally after the crime, slipping back into routine

without suspicion.

But the words seemed weightless, rehearsed. And just when the

courtroom started to settle into the gravity of it, defense attorney Bradley Rossi pounced. Under

cross-examination, Walla admitted that her obsession with the Delphi case stretched far beyond

the professional. Social media accounts, podcasts, comment, threads. Well, I wasn't just

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