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Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

Richard Allen’s Conviction Under Fire — The Evidence That Didn’t Add Up-WEEK IN REVIEW

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

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3791 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I sit down with defense attorney and trial analyst Bob Motta to examine two major developments shaking the foundation of the Delphi case: the collapse of the timeline investigators built around the murders of Abby Williams and Libby German, and the sweeping appeal just filed on behalf of Richard Allen.

For years, the investigative timeline was treated as immutable. But in deposition after deposition, the structure starts to buckle. Bob and I dissect how key witness descriptions were reframed, how the search-warrant affidavit selectively emphasized certain statements, and how critical timestamps shifted depending on which investigator documented them. One witness described a young man and an older car — yet was later framed as having seen something “consistent” with Richard Allen. FBI involvement remains inconsistent depending on who you ask. Even the time of death varies across sworn testimony.

Then we turn to Allen’s new 130-page appeal brief — nearly double the usual size — outlining ten issues and nine constitutional claims. The defense argues the jury never heard about alternative suspects, including one who allegedly confessed. They challenge the exclusion of more than 1,200 pages of evidence, the handling of 61 unreliable confessions, the thirteen months Allen spent in solitary confinement, and the toolmark analysis behind the unspent bullet that prosecutors say ties his gun to the crime.

No DNA linked Allen to the scene. A volunteer clerk found an error that went unnoticed for five years. And a judge blocked jurors from hearing evidence that law enforcement themselves investigated early on.

This episode isn’t about guilt or innocence — it’s about whether the system followed its own rules, and whether the conviction can stand on the foundation the state built.

Full breakdown. Every issue explained. No speculation — just the record.

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0:00.0

This is the big breakdown.

0:02.2

A long look back at some of the biggest stories we're covering for you at the Hidden

0:05.9

Killers podcast and True Crime Today.

0:09.2

This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske.

0:12.3

Here now, Tony Bruske.

0:15.8

Richard Allen's defense team just asked the Indiana Court of Appeals for permission to file a brief,

0:21.5

almost double the normal size.

0:24.4

24,000 words instead of 14,000.

0:28.9

Why does this matter?

0:30.1

They need an extra week past their December 10th deadline.

0:33.1

They've identified 10 separate issues for appeal, nine of them constitutional claims, at both the federal and Indiana state level.

0:41.4

When defense team tells a court, they literally cannot fit their argument into the standard brief.

0:46.9

That's not padding. That's not legal theatrics. That's a signal.

0:51.0

Something went wrong here. And it's bigger than one or two procedural hiccups. So let's talk

0:59.1

about what they're arguing, because buried in those 10 issues in the five categories of constitutional

1:04.9

claims is a roadmap of everything that should make you uncomfortable about how Richard Allen ended up serving

1:11.6

130 years in Oklahoma prison for the murders of Abby Williams and Libby German.

1:16.6

The defense has organized their appeal into five categories, and I'm going to walk through

1:21.5

each one, and as I do, pay attention to what starts to emerge, not just individual problems, but a pattern.

1:30.9

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1:34.9

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