Delphi: The Investigation That Lost Its Own Evidence Before the Victims Were Buried
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Richard Allen volunteered his name to law enforcement two days after the Delphi murders. He'd been on the trail. He came forward willingly. His report was misfiled, marked "cleared," and lost. For five and a half years, the investigation moved without it — and according to the defense's appellate filings, it moved in circles. Recorded interviews with suspects connected to pagan rituals were erased. A .40 caliber firearm belonging to a suspect who admitted to bloodletting practices was never seized. When officers were offered the chance to review surveillance video that would have confirmed a suspect's alibi, they walked away. Tips came in identifying this suspect and each was stamped "nothing further." The crime scene pointed in directions nobody followed. Multiple officers thought it required more than one perpetrator. The FBI's BAU could not rule out a ritualistic motive. Eyewitness Betsy Blair described Bridge Guy as a young man in his twenties with brown curly hair — not a 44-year-old with a crew cut. She gave her sketch a 10 out of 10 and never wavered. The jury at Richard Allen's trial never saw Blair's sketch. They were told to skip five years of history and convict based on what the court allowed them to hear. This episode launches a five-part series walking through the investigative failures, ignored leads, and institutional breakdowns that, in my opinion, produced a wrongful conviction. Abby and Libby deserved the truth. They still do.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. |
| 0:03.1 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.2 | In September of 2022, a volunteer sorting through old case files in Delphi, Indiana, pulled a tip sheet out of a box. |
| 0:16.2 | It'd been misfiled under the wrong name. |
| 0:20.6 | Stuffed away, at least that's the story. |
| 0:22.4 | Forgotten for five and a half years, |
| 0:25.2 | there's this piece of paper. |
| 0:27.4 | It sat in a box while two murdered girls |
| 0:33.1 | waited for someone to do their job. |
| 0:36.9 | The tip was from a man named Richard Allen, |
| 0:40.1 | who walked into the parking lot two days after Abby Williams |
| 0:44.6 | and Libby German were found dead |
| 0:46.8 | and told a conservation officer named Dullen |
| 0:50.6 | that he'd been on the Monon High Bridge Trail the afternoon |
| 0:54.0 | when the girls went missing. |
| 0:56.6 | He came forward voluntarily. |
| 0:58.3 | He wanted to help. |
| 1:00.3 | He answered their questions. |
| 1:03.4 | And when the interview was over, his lead was marked cleared. |
| 1:09.6 | The report was filed under the wrong name. |
| 1:13.9 | And Richard Allen went home. |
| 1:18.3 | Nobody was a wiser. |
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