The Bullet Test FAILED. So They Changed The Test. Richard Allen Appeal EXPOSED
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
ISP firearms analyst Melissa Oberg cycled six cartridges through Allen's gun and compared the marks to the crime scene round. According to trial testimony documented in the appeal, she found no match. The direct comparison—cycling to cycling—failed to connect Allen's weapon to the murders.
So she ran a different test. She fired cartridges from the gun, then compared those spent casings to the unspent round from the scene. Different mechanical processes. Different marks. And suddenly, she had her match.
Defense expert Eric Warren called this comparison "apples to oranges." But it gets worse.
The defense had William Tobin ready to testify—a forensic metallurgist recognized by state high courts, with 297 cases under his belt, prepared to explain why the scientific community has serious problems with toolmark methodology. The President's own science advisors issued a report questioning whether this evidence is reliable at all.
Judge Gull excluded him. The jury never heard the criticism. They never learned the first test failed. They only heard the prosecutor say Oberg had "never been wrong."
In this episode, I break down exactly what happened with the bullet evidence, why the methodology is under fire from the scientific community, and what it means that the expert who could have explained all of this was silenced.
Richard Allen is serving 130 years based partly on a match that didn't exist until they changed how they tested it. The appeals court now has to decide if that's science—or something else entirely.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.3 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:07.4 | Here's something most people didn't know about the Delphi case or don't know about the Delphi case. |
| 0:13.4 | The state's firearms analysis that tested Richard Allen's gun against the bullet found at the crime scene. |
| 0:22.9 | It didn't match. |
| 0:25.3 | I know. |
| 0:26.1 | You're like, wait a second. |
| 0:27.1 | Wasn't that part of the big... |
| 0:28.9 | We're going to walk through exactly what happened and what was presented in court versus what reality is. |
| 0:34.9 | Because in this case, there's a lot of things where if it didn't quite |
| 0:39.0 | match what one wanted well that be damned we're going to say it this way anyhow so let me say |
| 0:48.4 | this again she ran the test the direct comparison and came back negative. That is according to trial testimony |
| 0:56.9 | documented in the appeal of Richard Allen. So everybody's like, see the bullet matched? No, it didn't. |
| 1:04.3 | No, it did it until it was manipulated. Fifty ways to Tuesday did it match. And I guess if you're |
| 1:09.7 | going to say that's some sort of scientific breakthrough, |
| 1:12.8 | I got a big old vat of snake oil to sell you. |
| 1:20.5 | Nearly be Germans' body, investigators found an unspent 40-cali-Rour |
| 1:23.9 | not fired, just cycled through a weapon and ejected. |
| 1:28.2 | When police seized Alan Sig Sauer, ISP analyst Melissa Oberg, ran what should have been the |
| 1:34.4 | definitive comparison. |
| 1:35.6 | She cycled six cartridges through his gun and compared those marks to the crime scene |
| 1:41.7 | round. |
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