How Police Misled Abby & Libby’s Families in the Delphi Murders Case

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

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🗓️ 19 March 2025

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For five years, the families of Abby Williams and Libby German waited for justice. When police finally arrested Richard Allen in 2022, it seemed like they had their answer. But what if everything they were told was a lie? In this episode, we expose the shocking failures of law enforcement in the Delphi Murders case—how crucial evidence was ignored, how investigators misled the victims’ families, and how their desperate need to close the case may have led to the conviction of the wrong man.
We break down the flawed evidence that put Richard Allen behind bars—an unspent bullet with questionable forensic analysis, a grainy video that doesn’t definitively prove his involvement, and a series of confessions made under duress after months of solitary confinement. Meanwhile, other suspects, including known predators with stronger connections to the crime, were brushed aside. Was this a case of justice, or just a cover-up for police mistakes?

The truth is darker than you think. Law enforcement’s rush to convict someone—anyone—may have cost the families of Abby and Libby the real justice they deserve. And if Richard Allen isn’t the killer, that means the real murderer is still out there. This is the story of an investigation that went off the rails—and how the people who were supposed to find the truth may have buried it instead.
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0:00.0	This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske.
0:04.5	It took five years to find the so-called killer of Abby Williams and Libby German.
0:12.9	Five years.
0:16.9	It's a long amount of time when you're trying to figure out who the perpetrator is in a small town of killing two of your youngest.
0:30.1	Five years of silence, speculation, and frustration.
0:34.6	And yet, when Richard Allen was arrested in 2022, it felt less like a
0:38.5	breakthrough and more like a plot twist nobody saw coming.
0:42.8	Not because Alan was some criminal mastermind who evaded justice, but because the case against
0:50.5	him, when you actually look at it, barely exists. It is what it is. But here we are.
1:01.2	A 50-year-old CVS worker from Delphi, Indiana, convicted of a crime so horrific, it shattered
1:10.1	an entire community., sentenced to 130 years in prison for the brutal murders of two young girls.
1:20.4	And the families of those girls, they believe they have their answer.
1:25.6	They believe Richard Allen is the monster who took their daughters.
1:32.0	Maybe for them, that's enough. I'm not going to profess to know what it feels like to be in that
1:40.9	situation. I hope to God, I'm never, ever, ever in that situation.
1:47.6	And I have a ton of empathy and sympathy for those families. I can't imagine how you process
1:56.6	something like that. And if coming to a conclusion and hoping that the people you entrusted your faith in
2:09.6	to find this killer results in justice or you believe resulted in justice,
2:18.4	I get it.
2:26.5	You can't keep reliving this nightmare over and over in your mind every single day,
2:29.1	even though I'm sure you do.
2:45.2	The thing is about this case is justice doesn't have opinions about feelings.
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