The Confessions of a Broken Mind: Richard Allen's Statements Were Made During Psychotic Episodes | Delphi Appeal
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🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
That's when the confessions started. And Indiana used every single one of them to convict him.
According to the Appellant's Brief filed in Richard Allen's appeal, the man who sat through two police interrogations without breaking—who told detectives "I did not murder two little girls" despite hours of pressure and lies about evidence—collapsed after five months in maximum-security solitary confinement. A confinement that violated Indiana's own 30-day policy for mentally ill inmates.
The prosecution told the jury his confessions were "logical and organized." The jury never heard the audio. Judge Gull ordered it muted. They never heard Allen screaming for his father. Never heard him rambling about World War III. Never heard him say "Rocky Balboa is my favorite actor" and "clap on, clap off" in the same breath he confessed.
He said he shot the girls. They were stabbed. He confessed to molesting family members who denied it happened. He gave details that don't match the actual timeline. Days after confessing, he asked if he had confessed—he couldn't remember.
Dr. Grassian, a psychiatrist specializing in solitary confinement, testified these are hallmarks of false memory: beliefs that evolve into perceived recollections in a mind that can no longer distinguish reality from delusion.
Today we examine what the confessions actually looked like, what Allen got provably wrong, and whether Indiana manufactured guilt by breaking a mentally ill man in a box.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. Here now, Tony Brewski. |
| 0:07.0 | Richard Allen confessed to murdering Abby Williams and Libby German while smearing feces on himself. |
| 0:16.6 | He confessed while drinking toilet water, while banging his head against his cell door until his face was black and blue, while asking guards if he was already dead, while claiming he started World War III and while saying Rocky Belboa is my favorite actor and rambling, clap on, clap off. |
| 0:40.3 | He confessed to shooting the girls. |
| 0:44.3 | Problem is they weren't shot. |
| 0:46.1 | They were stabbed. |
| 0:47.6 | He confessed to essaying his sister. |
| 0:51.4 | She denies that ever happened. |
| 0:52.9 | He confessed to doing that to his daughter. |
| 0:55.2 | She denied that too. He said he saw a van that scared him off mid-attack, and according to the |
| 1:00.1 | fence, the van arrived 25 minutes after the timeline suggests the attack ended. Days after |
| 1:06.4 | confessing to the prison psychologist, he asked her if he had confessed. |
| 1:11.8 | He couldn't remember. |
| 1:13.4 | The state of Indiana used these statements of the man they knew was suffering from mental illness to convict him. |
| 1:23.7 | The prosecutor called them logical and organized. |
| 1:27.7 | The jury never heard what he actually sounded like when he made them. |
| 1:31.8 | They never heard the audio. |
| 1:33.4 | Judge Gull ordered it muted. |
| 1:35.3 | They also never heard everything I just talked about right there. |
| 1:39.9 | All they heard was logical and organized as if he sat down, clear mind, |
| 1:46.4 | you know what, guys, I did it. |
| 1:49.4 | That's not at all how it went. |
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