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Mental Collapse or Delphi Murder Admission? Richard Allen Jail Calls Exposed

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews

Tony Brueski

True Crime, News Commentary, News

4.2612 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This second segment dives into the devastating mental deterioration of Richard Allen during his 13-month pretrial incarceration in solitary confinement—what the state called a “safekeeping order.” Tony, Stacy, Todd, and Bob break down how Allen was isolated, broken down, and allegedly manipulated into confessing to the Delphi murders—not through force, but through psychological collapse.

Bob takes us inside the jailhouse calls, including one made at 3:15 AM where Allen desperately tells his stepfather he’s losing his mind and feels like he’s in Guantanamo. Hours later, in a fog of confusion, he tells his wife, “I did it”—then follows with, “Evidently I did.” Is that a confession? Or the ramblings of a man pushed to the brink?

We discuss how labeling solitary as a “single-person cell” let the state sidestep human rights standards, why the court excluded a jail call where Allen professes his innocence, and how this system, by design or dysfunction, weaponizes mental illness to build a case. If this was strategy, not oversight, it’s one of the most ethically disturbing chapters in modern true crime.

This segment lays bare the line between confession and coercion—and forces us to ask: is it justice if you have to destroy a man’s mind to convict him?

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1:08.0

We're talking with Bob Mottor right now about the case in Delphi, Richard Allen, of course, spending the rest of his life in prison right now.

1:16.4

But the appeals process underway, the appeals process does not go fast.

1:21.0

It does not go quickly and it's not super efficient in any way, shape, or form.

1:26.2

But we're breaking all of that down right now. And if you

1:30.1

have comments or questions, be sure to drop them in the comments section. Let's go way back a little

1:38.1

bit because there... Wait, before you do that, Stacey, did you say the thing that you wanted to say?

1:43.2

I talk so much that I tend

1:44.4

to forget whether or not you actually asked your question. I asked one of them. There was another

1:48.9

one I wanted to throw out there from our comment section. People have just been on fire with

1:55.2

this. Somebody had asked, Karen asked, is there a time limit for the post-conviction?

2:02.5

No, there isn't.

2:03.7

No, there is it.

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