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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Delphi Murders: Suspect's Confession to Shrink Reveals Details Only Killer Knew

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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4.2 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Richard Allen's confessions have been a focus for testimony this week in the Delphi Murders Trial. Prosecutors have noted that Allen confessed 61 times. 

John Galipeau, the former warden of the Westville Correctional Facility, testified that Allen wrote him a note in 2023 that read,   "I am ready to officially for confess killing Abby and Libby. I hope I get the opportunity to tell the families I’m sorry."   Galipeau said Allen admitted to getting rid of a box cutter in a dumpster behind his work place. 

 A clinical psychologist who examined Richard Allen, told a jury that Allen said his intentions were "sexual,"  and that Allen called himself  “too much of a coward” to kill himself.  During some of his confessions,  Dr. Monica Wala said Allen gave specific details about the crime, which only the suspect would know.

Joining Nancy Grace today: 

  • Philip DubĂ© - Court-Appointed Counsel, Los Angeles County Public Defenders: Criminal & Constitutional Law, Forensics & Mental Health Advocacy
  • Sheryl McCullum - Cold Case Investigative Research Institute Founder, ColdCaseCrimes.org, Host : Zone 7, Twitter: @ColdCaseTips
  • Jeffrey Gentry - Forensics-Certified Bloodstain Pattern Analyst, Senior Crime Scene Analyst and Death investigator, Former Toxicology Lab Analyst, Author: "Forensic Science: Applications to Death and Crime Scene Investigations" ; "Bloodstain Pattern Analysis" ; "Death Investigation: Information to Obtain During a Forensic Death Investigation” ; TikTok: @jeffreygentryBPA, FB: Jeff Gentry Bloodstain Pattern Analyst 
  • Dr. Mark Mirabello  - Former Professor of History at Shawnee State University, Author: “The Odin Brotherhood” ;https://www.markmirabello.com
  • Dr. William Morrone - Medical Examiner, Toxicologist, Pathologist, Opioid Treatment Expert, Author: “American Narcan: Naloxone & Heroin-Fentanyl Associated Mortality”
  • Susan Hendricks - Journalist, Author: “Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi’, IG @susan_hendricks X @SusanHendicks  

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Crime stories with Nancy Grace.

0:05.0

I have just come out of the courthouse here at Delphi and I've got to tell you it's nothing like you would ever imagine.

0:15.3

Richard Allen comes in the room, assesses the entire situation flanked by his lawyers,

0:21.1

and then in comes the jury. In the last hours I have heard testimony that I

0:26.9

believe will render a verdict one way or the other. I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories. Thank you for being with us.

0:36.8

To the killer who may be in this room. We believe you are hiding in plain sight.

0:42.4

You never thought we would shift gears to a

0:44.5

different investigative strategy, but we have. We know that this is about power to

0:50.6

you and you want to know what we know and one day you will.

0:57.0

While Abbey Williams blood is in one spot of the crime scene, Major Pat Cicero says

1:01.8

Libby German's blood is found in multiple spots of the crime scene.

1:05.2

Cicero says Libby was likely attacked close by, but at one point was actually moving and basically

1:11.0

walking in blood.

1:12.8

Based on a large amount of Libby's blood being found in one spot,

1:16.2

it is determined that Libby bled to death a short distance away

1:19.4

from where she was first attacked.

1:21.2

Also, after Libby was dead, her body was later dragged a short distance and placed close to a large tree.

1:27.0

These are some of the facts that the jury has already heard about the way these girls' were found but I can tell you from

1:35.1

being in the courtroom it gets much worse. In the last hours we have heard testimony

1:40.7

from a psychologist who saw Richard Allen practically jaw just working the worse it got the worst it got I am

1:58.7

telling you I would stay everything that I have ever done in court, everything I know about the law on this.

2:07.0

Richard Allen is not insane.

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