The Delphi Appeal They Don't Want You to See | Richard Allen's Defense Exposed EVERYTHING
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we break down the five categories of Allen's appeal and what each one reveals about how this conviction was built. From the alternative suspects the jury never heard about—including a man who allegedly confessed to the killings months after they happened—to the 1,200 pages of evidence that was blocked from trial. From the sixty-one confessions made by a man who was also confessing to crimes that provably never happened, to the thirteen months of solitary confinement that the defense says broke his mind.
No DNA linked Richard Allen to the crime scene. The state's own forensic scientist testified to that. The single piece of physical evidence—an unspent bullet—relies on contested toolmark analysis that the defense wasn't fully allowed to challenge. A volunteer clerk caught a filing error that investigators missed for five years. And a judge blocked the jury from hearing about other suspects, erased interview recordings, and an Odinism theory that law enforcement themselves investigated before dropping it without explanation.
This isn't about declaring Richard Allen innocent. It's about asking whether the state proved their case—or just closed it. Whether the jury heard what they needed to hear. Whether this was a constitutional trial or a conviction built on broken confessions and blocked evidence.
The families of Abby and Libby deserve justice. But justice isn't just an ending. It's the right ending.
Full case breakdown. Every appeal issue explained. No speculation—just the facts the defense is putting before the Indiana Court of Appeals.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. Here now, Tony Brucey. |
| 0:06.8 | Richard Allen's defense team just asked the Indiana Court of Appeals for |
| 0:10.7 | permission to file a brief, almost double the normal size. 24,000 words instead of 14,000. |
| 0:19.6 | Why does this matter? They need an extra week past their December 10th deadline. |
| 0:23.9 | They've identified 10 separate issues for appeal, nine of them constitutional claims, at both the |
| 0:29.3 | federal and Indiana state level. When defense team tells a court, they literally cannot fit their |
| 0:35.8 | argument into the standard brief. That's not padding. |
| 0:38.6 | That's not legal theatrics. That's a signal. Something went wrong here. And it's bigger than one or two |
| 0:46.8 | procedural hiccups. So let's talk about what they're arguing, because buried in those 10 issues |
| 0:53.4 | in the five categories of constitutional |
| 0:55.8 | claims is a roadmap of everything that should make you uncomfortable about how Richard Allen |
| 1:01.7 | ended up serving 130 years in Oklahoma prison for the murders of Abby Williams and Libby German. |
| 1:07.5 | The defense has organized their appeal into five categories. And I'm going to walk through |
| 1:12.4 | each one. And as I do, pay attention to what starts to emerge, not just individual problems, |
| 1:20.1 | but a pattern. And while we're doing that, I got a request for you. Please hit subscribe, |
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| 1:44.9 | cases. So if you could do that, I'd love it. Thank you so much. All right, category one is the right |
| 1:51.0 | to present a defense. This includes alternative explanations for the crime scene, other suspects, |
| 1:57.0 | and the ability to impeach the quality of the investigation itself. It sounds basic, right? |
| 2:02.0 | Sixth Amendment stuff. You get to defend yourself. You get to point at someone else and say, |
| 2:06.8 | maybe they did it. Except Richard Allen's defense wasn't allowed to do that. Judge Francis Gull ruled in |
| 2:14.4 | September 2024 that the defense could not present evidence related to their alternative theory. |
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