EXPOSED: Richard Allen Confessed to Crimes He Didn't Commit—While Declared "Gravely Disabled" | Delphi Update
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 6 January 2026
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And those are the confessions Indiana used to convict him of murder.
According to the 113-page Appellant's Brief now before the Indiana Court of Appeals, Richard Allen's confessions came after five months in maximum-security solitary confinement—a placement that violated Indiana's own 30-day policy for mentally ill inmates. By the time he started confessing, state doctors had declared him "gravely disabled." He'd dropped from 180 to 135 pounds. He was eating his own feces, drinking toilet water, and couldn't remember confessing days after he did it.
Before solitary, Allen never broke. Two interrogations. Hours of pressure. Detectives lying about evidence. His own wife brought in as leverage. His response stayed consistent: "I did not murder two little girls. I don't care how stressed out I get, I am not going to admit to something I had nothing to do with."
Five months later, he was asking guards if he was already dead.
The prosecution called these confessions "logical and organized." They presented them as the unburdening of a guilty soul. But the jury never heard the audio—Judge Gull ordered it muted. They never heard Allen screaming incoherently, rambling about World War III, saying "Rocky Balboa is my favorite actor."
They got silence. They got the state's narrative. And Richard Allen got 130 years.
Today we break down what these confessions actually looked like—and why the details Allen got wrong may matter more than anything he got right.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. Here now, Tony Brewski. |
| 0:07.0 | Richard Allen confessed to murdering Abby Williams and Libby German while smearing feces on himself. |
| 0:16.6 | He confessed while drinking toilet water, while banging his head against his cell door until his face was black and blue, while asking guards if he was already dead, while claiming he started World War III and while saying Rocky Belboa is my favorite actor and rambling, clap on, clap off. |
| 0:40.3 | He confessed to shooting the girls. |
| 0:44.3 | Problem is they weren't shot. |
| 0:46.1 | They were stabbed. |
| 0:47.6 | He confessed to essaying his sister. |
| 0:51.4 | She denies that ever happened. |
| 0:52.9 | He confessed to doing that to his daughter. |
| 0:55.2 | She denied that too. He said he saw a van that scared him off mid-attack, and according to the |
| 1:00.1 | fence, the van arrived 25 minutes after the timeline suggests the attack ended. Days after |
| 1:06.4 | confessing to the prison psychologist, he asked her if he had confessed. |
| 1:11.8 | He couldn't remember. |
| 1:13.4 | The state of Indiana used these statements of the man they knew was suffering from mental illness to convict him. |
| 1:23.7 | The prosecutor called them logical and organized. |
| 1:27.7 | The jury never heard what he actually sounded like when he made them. |
| 1:31.8 | They never heard the audio. |
| 1:33.4 | Judge Gull ordered it muted. |
| 1:35.3 | They also never heard everything I just talked about right there. |
| 1:39.9 | All they heard was logical and organized as if he sat down, clear mind, |
| 1:46.4 | you know what, guys, I did it. |
| 1:49.4 | That's not at all how it went. |
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