Content warning. This episode contains discussion of the brutal murder of two girls.

Okay, so it is December 19th, 2024. We are on the eve of the sentencing hearing in the Delphi murders case, where, of course, convicted murderer Richard Allen will be sentenced for murdering Liberty German and Abigail Williams to Delphi, Indiana teenagers

who he killed in 2017.

And a line is already formed.

Actually, we record this on Thursday morning a little less than 24 hours before the sentencing

takes place. A line started forming yesterday afternoon,

believe it or not. So we are taking time away from that line to talk about the defense's

sentencing memorandum, which came out this morning. Yes, indeed. It was filed yesterday, but we only saw it today.

My name is Anya Kane. I'm a journalist. And I'm Kevin Greenlee. I'm an attorney. And this is the

murder sheet. We're a true crime podcast focused on original reported, interviews, and deep dives into murder cases.

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And this is The Delphi Murders, the Defences Sentencing Memorandum. The

The I'm going to talk I'm going to be able to

I'm going to

I'm going to I think before we get really into the meat of this memorandum, it might be worth taking a few moments to talk a little bit about process.

So after a person is convicted by a jury,

and prior to the sentencing, there is a pre-sentence investigation that is done. What is that,

Anya? The pre-sentence investigation and report is done typically by a probation office in a county. And what it entails is the investigators or I guess the probation officers will go through and compile a very

comprehensive report on various factors of a convict convicts life, you know, so that could mean things like

history of mental illness, history of abuse that they faced as a child. It could mean, you know,

whether or not in jail they are behaving in a remorseful way or a nonremorseful way or, you know,

I mean, one thing that came up in Kagan-Klein's sentencing, pre-sentencing report in that, you know, related case was, you know, he had been convicted or he had pled guilty to basically charges around child sexual abuse materials.

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