The Delphi Murders: Analyzing the Claims About Social Media in the Franks Memorandum

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🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In the Franks memorandum, Richard Allen's original defense team included extensive analysis of social media posts involving Brad Holder, Patrick Westfall, and Elvis Fields. That analysis was used to connect disparate groups of people, and bolster the idea that the crime was committed by alleged Odinists.

But do the specific claims made in the memorandum hold up to scrutiny? In this episode, The Murder Sheet interviews a researcher who did some in-depth work on the subject.

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0:00.0	Content warning. This episode contains discussion of the murder of two girls.
0:06.0	The Frank's memorandum was, in many ways, a milestone document in the case against Richard Allen,
0:11.6	who of course is accused of murdering
0:13.4	teenagers Liberty German and Abigail Williams. The Franks memo seemed to
0:17.9	seek to fulfill a few goals for Allen's original defense team. Fundamentally, it sought to discredit law enforcement and
0:25.5	explain the need for a Franks hearing in the case. But it went into a lot more than just that.
0:31.0	The memo explained in detail how the girls were murdered. It also strived to establish an entire theory of the crime involving a brand new cast of suspects, even going so far as to name names.
0:42.0	In fact, it accused Brad Holder, Patrick Westfall, Elvis Fields, and others of belonging to a statewide gang of Odinists who murdered the victims as part of a ritual.
0:54.5	If you're active in Delphi case spaces online, you might get the sense that the reception
0:59.8	to this document has been mixed or controversial to say the least.
1:03.7	A few people accepted the memo's conclusions eagerly and have wholeheartedly adopted the theory
1:09.4	that a sprawling cult of oneness sacrificed Libby German and Abigail Williams.
1:15.0	Others are quite skeptical of not only this theory, but many of the other claims of the memo.
1:20.0	They take the attack the whole thing was a last-ditch desperate effort to influence the court of public opinion with what amounts to a conspiracy theory.
1:29.0	Still others tell us they're undecided.
1:32.0	Maybe they're not sold on much of what the memo has to offer,
1:35.3	but they do find some aspects pertinent and well worth consideration.
1:40.0	Because the memo is so sprawling in scope and length, we want to drill down on one aspect of it in this episode.
1:48.0	Social media comes up again and again in the document.
1:51.0	Specifically, citations involving social media posts from Holder and
1:56.1	Fields. We recently connected with a researcher named Thomas. He's great. He did an excellent job compiling a memorandum of all the social media
2:05.7	references in the document, along with screenshots and his own analysis contextualizing
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