The Delphi Murders: Did They Get the Wrong Guy?
Serialously with Annie Elise
Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios
4.7 • 10.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today is not a day to celebrate, but the arrest of Richard M. Allen of Delphi on two counts of murder is sure a major step and leading to the conclusion of this long-term and complex investigation. |
| 0:16.0 | In that phone call, Richard M. Allen admits several times that he killed Abby and Libby. |
| 0:21.6 | Talking on the phone and just saying, I was shocked. |
| 0:25.6 | It's not me, you're not going to make me believe it's me. |
| 0:32.6 | You're not going to find anything that ties me to those murders. |
| 0:35.6 | So I'm not really that concern. You know, you went not going to find anything that ties me to those murders. So I'm not really that concern. |
| 0:37.9 | You know, you went from trying to, I don't know, what you want to say, |
| 0:42.9 | get my trust and then slowly lure me into telling you I killed somebody and I'm not going to do it. |
| 0:48.9 | Of all of the cases that we've covered, there are very few that are more publicized, |
| 0:54.0 | more controversial, or more |
| 0:55.8 | heartbreaking than the case we're talking about today. And it is the case of the brutal murders |
| 1:01.1 | of Abby Williams and Libby German. Abby and Libby, they were best friends, and they were only |
| 1:06.7 | 13 and 14 years old when their lives were viciously taken from them. |
| 1:12.2 | Taken from them when they were out on what should have just been a normal happy walk |
| 1:16.6 | along the trails in Delphi, Indiana. And one of the most shocking things about this case is |
| 1:21.5 | how long it took for an arrest to even happen. Despite massive searches and despite intense public attention, I mean, it took |
| 1:29.5 | five years before anybody was arrested. Five years. I mean, that is a lot of time for rumors to spread, |
| 1:36.8 | for people to start questioning the investigation, and also for some extremely sketchy characters |
| 1:42.5 | to just like crawl out of the woodwork. Now the last time that |
| 1:45.8 | we covered this case, it was back in 2023 when a suspect was finally arrested. But since then, |
| 1:52.3 | this case has literally exploded. There has not only been a huge trial, but a huge country or, |
| 1:59.4 | you know, world divided. Because yes, many people believe that justice has |
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