Delphi: An FBI Expert Testified — The State Countered with a Google Search
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The defense tried to show the jury Blair's 10-out-of-10 sketch of a man who looked nothing like Allen. Excluded. Tried to call an expert to challenge the bullet science the State told the jury was never wrong. Excluded. Tried to play the audio that would show what Allen sounded like while confessing in psychosis. Excluded. Tried to present an expert who would have explained the crime scene as a pagan ritual rather than a lone attack. Excluded. Tried to introduce evidence about suspects who practiced those rituals, were connected to the victim, and whose interviews were lost or destroyed. Excluded. The defense even tried to present evidence about the quality of the investigation itself. Excluded. What the jury did hear: a State phone expert who Googled whether water damage could mimic headphones during the trial and was allowed to testify about what he found on anonymous forums — over the defense's hearsay objection. According to the defense's appellate filings, every meaningful avenue for challenging the prosecution's narrative was closed by the trial court. Allen was convicted in November 2024 and sentenced to 130 years. The State's position on every exclusion is the same: harmless error. The appeal is pending.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.4 | Here now, Tony Brewski. |
| 0:06.9 | The jury that convicted Richard Allen never saw Betsy Blair's composite sketch, |
| 0:10.9 | the one she rated 10 out of 10 for accuracy in 2017, and 9 out of 10. |
| 0:16.6 | Two years later, it held up, her opinion held up. |
| 0:19.5 | The one that depicts a man in his 20s with brown poofy hair who looks nothing like Richard Allen. |
| 0:24.7 | The state's entire timeline depended on Blair seeing Alan on that bridge. |
| 0:29.5 | Her own sketch proved that she did not see him on that bridge. |
| 0:33.5 | The same sketch that, according to the defense, Detective Liggett left out of the warrant application. |
| 0:37.7 | The judge also excluded that from the trial, too. |
| 0:41.0 | The jury never had a chance to weigh the single most important piece of identification evidence in the case. |
| 0:49.7 | A piece of evidence that really got the whole ball rolling. |
| 0:53.0 | Wasn't important enough to show to a jury |
| 0:54.8 | hmm how does it happen why does it happen well it happens when your evidence is shit and you |
| 1:01.8 | get someone convicted on lies that's how that happens and it was just the beginning of what |
| 1:09.5 | that jury never saw. |
| 1:12.5 | Welcome to part five in our series this week as we're breaking down the case against Richard Allen, the Delphi murders, the miscarriage of justice, the abomination of justice, the sad excuse for law enforcement that exists in Delphi, Indiana. |
| 1:34.1 | The trial of Richard Allen lasted 25 days in November of 24. The jury heard the state's theory. |
| 1:39.9 | Allen was on the trail that afternoon. A bullet from his gun was found at the scene, and he confessed. |
| 1:46.3 | That's what they were told. |
| 1:47.9 | The state walked the jury through the initial investigation in February 2017, |
| 1:52.2 | covered Allen's contact with the conservation officer, |
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