What the Delphi Jury Never Heard — Evidence the Judge Kept Out
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
They didn’t see the eyewitness sketch rated “10 out of 10” by the witness who helped create it — a sketch that looked nothing like Allen. They didn’t hear expert testimony challenging the reliability of the State’s bullet-matching evidence. They didn’t hear about alternative suspects, unverified alibis, or investigative paths involving ritualistic elements that were explored and then excluded.
The jury also never heard audio from Allen’s confinement — only muted video — even as prosecutors described his confessions as “logical and organized.” Timeline evidence that allegedly contradicts the State’s “detail only the killer would know” theory was also kept out.
Bob Motta explains what defendants are constitutionally entitled to present, when exclusion of defense evidence becomes reversible error, and whether this trial crossed that line.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:08.5 | There's so many insane elements to this case. |
| 0:13.1 | Another one is what the jury never heard. |
| 0:16.7 | Let's talk about that. |
| 0:17.8 | A jury convicted Richard Allen of murdering Abby Williams and Libby German, but according |
| 0:22.5 | to the appeal, that jury was operating with one hand tied behind its back. |
| 0:27.6 | They never saw Betsy Blair's sketch, the one that she rated 10 out of 10 for accuracy |
| 0:33.4 | that looked nothing like Allen. |
| 0:35.2 | They never heard expert testimony challenging the reliability of the state's bullet-matching |
| 0:40.3 | methodology. |
| 0:41.0 | They never learned that the state's detail only the killer would know was actually contradicted |
| 0:49.6 | by the state's own defense. |
| 0:51.1 | They never heard the audio of Alan screaming incoherently in solitary, while the |
| 0:56.0 | state claimed his confessions were logical and organized. And they never heard a word about Brad |
| 1:01.8 | Holder, Patrick West follower, the extensive investigation into whether this was a ritualistic |
| 1:07.0 | killing connected to Norse paganism. The trial court excluded all of it. |
| 1:12.9 | Bob Mata is with us to talk about this other ball of shit in this case that makes the |
| 1:20.0 | case just as outrageous as it's getting more outrageous as we learn more, I think, over |
| 1:27.0 | time, especially with the new |
| 1:28.6 | appellate briefs that are out. |
| 1:30.5 | Let's start with that, the sketch. |
| 1:33.0 | This is a big one. |
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