Delphi: Officers Were Offered the Surveillance Tape to Verify the Alibi — They Declined
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Imagine an officer investigating a suspect in a double child homicide is invited to review surveillance footage that would prove whether the suspect was at work or not. Now imagine the officer declines. According to the defense's appellate filings in the Richard Allen case, that is what happened with one of the most documented alternative suspects in the Delphi murders investigation. This man admitted to pagan rituals involving bloodletting, owned a .40 caliber weapon matching the round found at the crime scene, and had a direct connection to victim Abby Williams. His interview was recorded and then erased. The weapon stayed in his home. Tipsters repeatedly identified him, citing social media posts that, according to the defense, depicted dead girls with sticks over their bodies. An ISP Trooper flagged it and pushed for action. His superiors declined. The suspect's associate told officers he knew the murder woods "very well" and led a local pagan group. That interview wasn't even recorded. His alibi went unchecked for six years. Neither man has ever been charged. The jury never learned they existed. According to the defense filings, the first suspect told his wife his associate had killed Abby "with others." That statement is in the court record. The judge excluded it. This episode documents the alternative suspects, the alibis that fell apart, and the investigative choices that let them walk while Richard Allen was convicted.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.9 | Brad Holder told law enforcement he owned a 40 caliber firearm. They never collected it. |
| 0:13.5 | He told him he spent every weekend in Delphi conducting pagan rituals with a group that included animal sacrifice and human bloodletting. |
| 0:23.3 | Allegedly, they recorded his interview. |
| 0:26.1 | And then the Delphi Police recorded over their only copy of said interview, permanently destroying it. |
| 0:34.3 | When tipsters called in reporting that Holder was posting pictures on social media of young girls appearing deceased with sticks placed around or over their bodies, I've seen the pictures myself, you can too if you do a little digging on the Internet. |
| 0:51.6 | The Delphi Police who had since come up with a really exciting name for themselves called Unified Command. |
| 0:59.8 | I know. |
| 1:00.2 | I wonder if they got like hats or coffee mugs or something made up. |
| 1:04.8 | If we start calling ourselves this, we feel more official. |
| 1:08.6 | I mean, it's like, it's so juvenile empathetic. |
| 1:12.7 | Unified command marked each tip cleared. |
| 1:16.9 | Nothing further or alibi confirmed. |
| 1:19.0 | The alibi they never actually verified. |
| 1:21.7 | Brad Holder was never charged with any crime related to these murders, |
| 1:24.8 | and I'm not here to tell you that he did anything with the girls. I'm just laying out the facts of the case. Let you connect the dots where you'd like to |
| 1:34.7 | connect them. So I want to be clear about what this episode is and what this episode is, and this is |
| 1:39.6 | and this is not about accusing anyone. Every person I'm going to discuss is presumed innocent. What this is about |
| 1:46.6 | is the investigative decisions, the ones made by the people whose job it was to follow every lead |
| 1:54.0 | and who chose not to. Because you can't understand what happened to Richard Allen without first understanding the suspects who were waived through the system |
| 2:04.3 | before anyone ever looked his way. |
| 2:11.4 | So, understand that going forward. |
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