Holeman’s Testimony EXPOSES How Badly Delphi Was Investigated-WEEK IN REVIEW
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 23 November 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Holeman was positioned as one of the state’s anchors — a senior Indiana State Police investigator expected to bring clarity and confidence to a deeply complex double-homicide case. Instead, his testimony exposes just how shaky the investigative foundation really was. Sticks placed on the bodies of Abby and Libby were dismissed as “camouflage,” even though they concealed nothing. Then, suddenly, the state floated a psychological term — “undoing” — that had never appeared in the investigative record, and Holman endorsed it without hesitation.
His certainty about a “single offender” wasn’t based on forensic proof. It came from a belief he stated on the stand: that in multi-offender crimes, “someone usually talks.” Yet the case file contains exactly that — a suspect making disturbing comments investigators inexplicably labeled “no further action.”
We dive into everything Holman didn’t explain: why symbolic elements were barely analyzed, why alternative suspects weren’t vetted, why forensic opportunities were missed, why the bullet lacked field documentation, why major investigative questions were replaced with assumptions, and why his testimony often stood in open conflict with other investigators on essential questions like the FBI’s role.
This isn’t about guilt or innocence. It’s about whether the investigation that shaped the entire Delphi narrative was thorough, consistent, or grounded in evidence. And Holman’s testimony makes it undeniably clear: the holes aren’t small. They’re foundational.
If you care about the truth in Delphi, this breakdown matters.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Week in review. |
| 0:02.4 | I look back at the most prolific stories of the week. |
| 0:05.3 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. |
| 0:08.0 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:12.1 | From the outside, the Delphi case has always looked deceptively simple. |
| 0:24.7 | Two young girls vanish on a February afternoon. |
| 0:30.1 | A grainy image from a cell phone captures a man walking on a bridge, a muffled voice says down the hill, and for years investigators insist they are closing in. People assume the |
| 0:36.3 | machinery is working. |
| 0:38.9 | The process is functioning. |
| 0:41.9 | Somewhere behind the curtain are meticulous detectives mapping timelines, |
| 0:47.0 | comparing evidence and pulling threads until the truth emerges. |
| 0:52.6 | People want to believe that. |
| 0:55.2 | People need to believe that. People need to believe that. |
| 0:57.6 | Because the alternative, the possibility that an investigation of this magnitude |
| 1:01.3 | was just not flawed, but fractured, |
| 1:09.3 | is almost too unsettling to consider. |
| 1:12.1 | But the depositions have now ripped the curtain away. |
| 1:17.5 | And once you read them, once you sit with the contradictions, |
| 1:20.4 | once you hear investigators contradicting each other, |
| 1:24.4 | contradicting themselves, |
| 1:26.1 | contradicting the very documents they wrote and swore by. |
| 1:30.1 | Once you understand how much was withheld, how much was minimized, how much was simply ignored, |
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