Delphi: The State Called Every Investigative Failure in the Allen Case Harmless Error
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Blair's sketch showing Bridge Guy looks nothing like Allen — excluded. The expert who would have challenged the bullet science — excluded. The audio showing Allen's psychotic state when he confessed — excluded. The expert who would have called those confessions false — excluded. The ritual killing expert who could explain the crime scene — excluded. Every piece of evidence about alternative suspects connected to the victim, to pagan rituals, and to the crime scene symbolism — excluded. The phone data showing activity on Libby's phone hours after Allen allegedly left the scene — countered by a Google search the State's witness conducted during trial. The five and a half years of investigative failures — hidden behind a "fast forward." According to the defense, the trial court created a fundamentally one-sided proceeding where the prosecution could present its theory unopposed and the defense was stripped of virtually every tool to challenge it. Allen was convicted on November 11, 2024, and sentenced to 130 years. His appeal argues arbitrary rulings crippled his ability to present a complete defense. The State responds to every exclusion with two words: harmless error. This episode documents what the jury never heard, what the judge kept out, and why the defense believes this trial produced a conviction that cannot stand. Abby and Libby deserved better than a trial where the full truth was not allowed into the room.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.4 | Here now, Tony Brewski. |
| 0:06.9 | The jury that convicted Richard Allen never saw Betsy Blair's composite sketch, |
| 0:10.9 | the one she rated 10 out of 10 for accuracy in 2017, and 9 out of 10. |
| 0:16.6 | Two years later, it held up, her opinion held up. |
| 0:19.5 | The one that depicts a man in his 20s with brown poofy hair who looks nothing like Richard Allen. |
| 0:24.7 | The state's entire timeline depended on Blair seeing Alan on that bridge. |
| 0:29.5 | Her own sketch proved that she did not see him on that bridge. |
| 0:33.5 | The same sketch that, according to the defense, Detective Liggett left out of the warrant application. |
| 0:37.7 | The judge also excluded that from the trial, too. |
| 0:41.0 | The jury never had a chance to weigh the single most important piece of identification evidence in the case. |
| 0:49.7 | A piece of evidence that really got the whole ball rolling. |
| 0:53.0 | Wasn't important enough to show to a jury |
| 0:54.8 | hmm how does it happen why does it happen well it happens when your evidence is shit and you |
| 1:01.8 | get someone convicted on lies that's how that happens and it was just the beginning of what |
| 1:09.5 | that jury never saw. |
| 1:12.5 | Welcome to part five in our series this week as we're breaking down the case against Richard Allen, the Delphi murders, the miscarriage of justice, the abomination of justice, the sad excuse for law enforcement that exists in Delphi, Indiana. |
| 1:34.1 | The trial of Richard Allen lasted 25 days in November of 24. The jury heard the state's theory. |
| 1:39.9 | Allen was on the trail that afternoon. A bullet from his gun was found at the scene, and he confessed. |
| 1:46.3 | That's what they were told. |
| 1:47.9 | The state walked the jury through the initial investigation in February 2017, |
| 1:52.2 | covered Allen's contact with the conservation officer, |
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