Delphi: Police Destroyed the Only Recording and Never Collected the .40 Cal
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🗓️ 26 May 2026
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Summary
According to the defense's appellate filings, a man connected to Abby Williams admitted in a police interview to practicing pagan rituals that included animal sacrifice and human bloodletting. He told them he owned a .40 caliber firearm. Officers never collected the weapon. The Delphi Police erased the only recording of his interview. His work alibi was based on a badge swipe that officers refused to confirm with video his employer offered to share. He was marked "cleared." For years afterward, tipsters called in reporting his social media posts — images of young girls appearing deceased with sticks over their bodies. An ISP Trooper found alarming similarities to the Delphi crime scene and urged his superiors to investigate further. They refused. The suspect's associate, a self-described leader of a local pagan group, told officers he knew the murder woods "very well." That interview was never recorded. His alibi went entirely unchecked for over six years. According to the defense filings, the first suspect told his wife in 2018 that his associate killed Abby "with others" and told her to keep quiet. Neither man has been charged with any crime connected to these murders. The trial court excluded all of this from the jury. This episode walks through every ignored lead, every destroyed record, and every decision that waved these suspects through while Abby and Libby waited for someone to do the work.
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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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