Delphi: Indiana Prosecutor Stood Behind Torture Of Disabled Man
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🗓️ 28 May 2026
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IDOC's own policy caps solitary confinement at thirty days for inmates with serious mental illness. Richard Allen had a diagnosed major depressive disorder and a history of suicidal ideation. According to the defense filings, he was held in the most restrictive solitary cell at Westville for thirteen months — the first pretrial safekeeper anyone could remember being placed there. Within two weeks, he told his wife he was broken. By five months, he weighed 135 pounds, was psychotic, gravely disabled, confusing nightmares with reality. He confessed to shooting the girls — they were killed with a blade. He confessed to acts there is no forensic evidence of. Before solitary, Allen endured a confrontational interrogation and refused to break, telling investigators: "I am not going to say something I did not do." Solitary changed that. The prosecutor waited nine days to respond to the defense's emergency transfer motion — while investigators monitored Allen's confession calls — then called the defense's concerns "colorful" on the same day IDOC found Allen gravely disabled. Dr. Wala, who controlled Allen's privileges, noted after one confession that she "needed more consistency." A 127-page forensic evaluation ruled out malingering and attributed the psychosis to solitary. The jury heard the confessions. They never heard the audio, the expert testimony, or the context.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.3 | Here now, Tony Brewski. |
| 0:06.5 | Richard Allen confessed to shooting Abby and Libby in the Delphi case. |
| 0:14.1 | That's pretty damning, isn't it? |
| 0:16.0 | Right? |
| 0:16.6 | Except they weren't shot. |
| 0:18.6 | That's not how the crime went. |
| 0:22.1 | It was a blade. |
| 0:24.4 | Then he confessed to |
| 0:26.6 | my saying them. |
| 0:30.4 | Pretty damning too, right? |
| 0:31.9 | On its surface, like, holy shit, he's confessed. |
| 0:34.5 | Except there was no evidence of that. |
| 0:36.3 | That didn't happen either. |
| 0:39.6 | He also confessed while claiming he started World War III. |
| 0:45.2 | Whoa. |
| 0:46.8 | Whoa, whoa, whoa. |
| 0:49.0 | So he shot these two girls, essayed them, and started World War III? |
| 0:54.7 | This is a pretty bad dude, except none of those things have happened, at least as to this |
| 0:59.0 | recording. |
| 1:02.7 | He confessed also, while believing he was dead. |
| 1:06.8 | So he's a zombie. |
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